"I'm back! You lonely Uchiha, did you miss me?"
Tetsuya kicked open the front door of the wooden villa in the Chiba Estate and shouted at the top of his lungs.
His only response was a cold roll of the eyes and Kakuzu stifling a laugh.
"Pfft, hahaha! Boss, what on earth are you doing?"
Unable to hold it in any longer, Kakuzu burst out laughing.
He couldn't help it. To Kakuzu, seeing someone of Tetsuya's standing act so childishly was simply hilarious.
Tetsuya ignored Izuna's eye roll, which was practically giving the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan a run for its money, and walked straight over to sit beside them. He shoved aside the chessboard with their game still half-finished, then spread out a map.
"I've come up with a pretty interesting plan. Come help me work out the details, you two."
Looking at the ruined game, even the proud, aloof Uchiha couldn't stop a vein from throbbing in irritation.
"Your plan had better actually be interesting. Otherwise, even if I can't beat you, I'll still have to give you a proper sparring session."
"Relax. This plan is definitely interesting."
Tetsuya pointed to the Land of Grass on the map.
"I'm planning to take over the Land of Grass and become its daimyo myself."
The moment he said that, Izuna's angry expression turned into one of utter bewilderment.
Kakuzu, meanwhile, looked as though question marks were floating all around his head.
"Boss, are you sure you've got this right? Take over the Land of Grass? Now? Just the three of us?
"Well, with our strength, taking over the Land of Grass probably wouldn't be a problem. But if we did that, we'd likely face an attack from the entire shinobi world afterward.
"So, Boss, are you planning to make an enemy