Uncle Madara danced

The next day.

"Dave, what huge favor do you need from us this time? You're not making us be Laborers again, are you?" Hiruzen and Danzo had received a call from Dave that morning saying he needed another huge favor. Just hearing those two words gave them a headache.

"Hey, it really is a huge favor." Dave paused, then chuckled.

"Hey, Uncle Madara, just bring those girls with the lovely voices to the third granary at the farm west of Konoha. Brother Roku's waiting for them there," Dave said over the phone.

"Mm." Madara gave a brief reply and hung up.

Then Dave headed over as well, taking the two buddies with him.

At Orochiroku's place.

"Lord Madara." Orochi Roku wiped the cold sweat from his face and respectfully greeted Madara Uchiha, who stood before him.

This man was seriously ruthless... If Hashirama was known around the village as a nice guy, then Madara was known as a ruthless one. Anyone who saw him would start shaking at the knees.

"Mm. What do we do next?" Madara Uchiha nodded. He paid no mind to Orochiroku's nervousness; he was long used to it.

"You must be the ladies from the Uchiha Clan. Please follow me," Orochiroku said with a smile, looking at the women behind Madara Uchiha.

Madara Uchiha followed them too. Yes, he still had his sights set on being the center of a boy band.

Orochiroku led them into his granary laboratory. The granary was quite large, though a little messy now. All sorts of metal lay scattered across the floor, and the tables were piled with experimental equipment and blueprints. There was even a bed in the corner. Whenever he got caught up in his research, he would often work for days without sleeping. Worried that he might drop dead one day if he kept this up, Sister Tamaki and Dave had brought him a bed. Sister Tamaki came by every day to make sure he got some sleep.

Orochi Roku had previously asked some villagers to dig out a sizable underground space behind the granary. It housed the machines used to manufacture phones, along with the workers they had recruited. The villagers quite liked this sort of work. All they had to do each day was keep an eye on the machines and check the finished phones, picking out any that failed to meet the standards. To them, it was astonishing that such an easy job paid five thousand silver taels a month.

Orochi Roku then led everyone downstairs. The workers greeted him as their second boss, and he smiled in response.

The underground space was quite large, and their current output easily met demand. They did not need that many production machines. In one corner stood an enclosure, not particularly large, but big enough to accommodate a dozen or so people.

"Ladies of the Uchiha Clan, just follow my instructions from here." Orochi Roku led everyone into the enclosure, which was a recording studio filled with recording equipment.

Then Orochiroku handed out the lyrics and musical scores Dave had prepared for various hit girl-group songs from his previous life. There were five songs in total. Dave had also made plenty of adjustments to the lyrics. After all, they were singing in Japanese, so a lot of things needed changing, or the songs would sound very strange.

Half an hour later, Dave, Hiruzen, and Danzo arrived as well. Madara Uchiha came out from inside with the women from his clan.

Madara Uchiha's face was flushed, and his eyes shone brightly. Dave shuddered hard... Anyone who did not know better might have thought Madara Uchiha had been doing something with those girls in there...

"Uncle Madara, leave the rest to me!"

Inside Konoha.

"Tobirama, aren't you going to your laboratory to do research today?" Hashirama asked in puzzlement, looking at Tobirama, who was sitting beside him and helping him handle official paperwork.

Normally, aside from teaching students at the Ninja Academy, Tobirama spent whatever free time he had in his Laboratory researching ninjutsu and the like. Why had he come here today?

"Brother, I... well, I developed a New Technique."

"Is it Water Release?"

"No..."

"Write it down in the Scroll of Seals."

"..." Tobirama felt dejected... He had been hoping to make this technique widely available...

Of course Hashirama would not agree. He knew exactly what his younger brother was like. Apart from Water Release, practically every technique his brother possessed was forbidden. Hashirama had looked through those forbidden techniques himself. He had once been naive too, until his brother taught one to a Genin as an experiment. That Genin still could not mold Chakra and had been left crippled.

That was why the Scroll of Seals existed. It contained forbidden techniques, including Hashirama's own Wood Release. Seventy percent of its forbidden techniques came from his younger brother, twenty percent consisted of the Sarutobi Clan's S-rank forbidden techniques across the five elements, and the remaining ten percent were forbidden techniques other clans had collected over hundreds of years, excluding their own secret techniques.

"What's going on down there?" Just then, a series of noises rose from below the Hokage Building. Hashirama and Tobirama exchanged a glance, then used the Body Flicker Technique to appear atop the building.

"..."

"...Gulp... Is... is... is that... is that... M-M-Madara...?" Utterly dumbfounded, Hashirama slowly pointed toward a figure below, his hands trembling.

"I don't know him." Tobirama swallowed too, then turned his head to look away...

Below the Hokage Building, Danzo, Hiruzen, Dave, and several of Madara Uchiha's Shadow Clones were pushing a rather large wagon, with several horses pulling it from the front. At its center was a huge, thick wooden platform mounted on four tires.

On the platform, several Uchiha girls wore bunny-girl outfits. In front of them stood Madara Uchiha, dressed in the suit Dave had custom-made for him, with a gigantic Sound System beside him. Madara Uchiha danced away to the music, leading the girls behind him...

His icy gaze, the wicked smile at the corner of his mouth, his convincing Dance moves, and the electrifying atmosphere created by the music—every last detail struck the villagers right in the heart...

It was the kind of scene that had Dave shouting, "Fucking awesome!" while Hashirama watched with heartache and tears. It pained him to think that he had given up his best buddy back then and married Mito Uzumaki instead.

Pushing the wagon from behind, Dave felt pretty damn conflicted too... It's over. Everything's completely ruined now... If anyone tells me that handsome Uchiha guy dancing up there with that wicked smile is going to turn evil someday, I'll smack them across the face... You're telling me that bastard up there is going to turn evil? Ha! Right now, I think Hashirama's more likely to turn evil than Madara...

Oh, Black Zetsu, you might have to wait another thousand years before you can save your mother...

Originally, he had never intended to include Madara. He had only wanted the girls to Dance along to the music. Who could have guessed that Madara would want in too? Dave had been dumbstruck... Left with no choice, he had hastily thrown together a set of Dance moves for Madara and let him get up there and go wild too...

Uncle Madara... you've changed...

Up front, Madara Uchiha was thrilled and excited too, as though he had found a second spring. His first had belonged to Hashirama... and this second spring belonged to Dance! It was as though Madara Uchiha had once again found a reason to live... World peace? Turning evil? All of you can fuck right off...