Madara Uchiha certainly had a motive. Since he couldn't get his hands on the Rinnegan yet, he could simply turn around and collect the tailed beasts first. Wild tailed beasts would fall to a single glare from his eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
But the problem was, how much time had even passed?
Had Madara recovered that quickly and gone straight out to round up the tailed beasts? Was he really that decisive? That efficient?
Besides, the Land of Fire was a long way from the Land of Water. Without knowing Isobu's location, capturing him in such a short time seemed unrealistic no matter how Chinatsu looked at it.
That left the other possibility.
The Otsutsuki aliens had landed... ahead of schedule...
The Otsutsuki boss in Naruto Shippuden was Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
The Otsutsuki boss in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations was Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
The Otsutsuki bosses in The Last: Naruto the Movie were Kinshiki and Momoshiki.
According to the setting, Isshiki had already been around during Naruto Shippuden, quietly building his strength and biding his time. Although Kinshiki and Momoshiki had been searching for Kaguya all along, they shouldn't have found the Shinobi World for another ten or twenty years. Right now, they should still have been flying around in space.
What was going on...? Even if those two weren't as powerful as Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, they were still members of the Otsutsuki alien race. This was going to be a pain.
Chinatsu couldn't help pressing a hand to her head and sighing. In an instant, she looked as though she had aged twenty years.
Chinatsu: Who the hell brought those two bastards here?
Zetsu: That's right. It was yours truly.
While Obito Uchiha was preparing to resurrect Madara with Impure World Reincarnation to salvage the chaos before him, Zetsu believed that Madara and