Whoosh! Flames consumed an unidentified skull.
"You once made outstanding contributions to the Akatsuki. If you want to blame someone, blame Naruto. He's the one who made you a threat to me..."
With those words, Obito Uchiha turned and entered the Nest behind him.
He had decided to join forces with Madara Uchiha to take down Naruto Uzumaki!
Seated beside the candelabrum, Madara Uchiha propped his cheek on one hand and watched Obito with his head turned forty-five degrees, tapping his fingers idly against the desk.
"Since he already has your blood and such a convenient technique, I'd have killed you immediately in his place. As for the Demonic Statue and the tailed beasts, he could simply release them after taking your eye..."
Swish!
Obito Uchiha flicked the hem of his robes and slowly sat down. Gazing at the flickering candlelight, he said in a low voice, "Yeah... That's why I can't figure out what Naruto is up to..."
In truth, doubts lingered in Madara's mind as well.
In my first battle with Naruto, he pinned me beneath the sea with a super-heavy Planetary Devastation and thought he could rest easy. That much made sense.
But in our second battle, he successfully sealed my chakra points with black receivers, then absorbed my chakra with the Preta Path. He could easily have used the Human Path to extract my soul while he was at it. Yet instead, he warned me about Black Zetsu...
He said Black Zetsu... was Kaguya's will. He also said Black Zetsu... had altered the stone tablet left by the Sage of Six Paths!
Crack!
At that thought, Madara clenched his fist tightly.
*If that's true, wouldn't the path to salvation through Infinite Tsukuyomi, revealed by the Six Paths stone tablet, be fabricated too? Wouldn't that mean I