"You can't make the stone tablet public too."
Black Zetsu crawled out beside the cave entrance, half his face emerging from the rock wall. His voice had lost its earlier composure.
Sasuke turned around. The scroll was still on display in the water mirror, with the names of the Third Hokage and Danzo hanging above every Wartime Channel.
"You know what was changed on the tablet?"
Black Zetsu did not answer.
Sasuke raised his hand. A Black Receiver pierced the ground and embedded itself in front of Black Zetsu. Chakra shook the rock apart, forcing half of Black Zetsu's body out of the wall.
"You're in such a hurry to stop me. That means it's more important than the massacre order."
"Sasuke Uchiha, you don't understand what you're meddling with."
"And you don't understand what you've already exposed."
Sasuke took two steps closer and straightened his collar.
"You've never appeared in public, yet you know the tablet's contents and Itachi's massacre records. Your connection to the Uchiha is already enough to become a new lead for investigation."
Black Zetsu stared at him, the mouth on his face slowly splitting open.
"I'm only stopping a madman from dragging the Shinobi World into an even greater disaster."
"Save that for the investigator."
Sasuke raised his hand, and Black Flames burned across the ground toward the cave entrance.
Black Zetsu immediately sank into the rock wall, leaving a whisper before half his face vanished.
"You'll regret letting the dead speak."
As his words faded, the Impure World Reincarnation runes on Itachi's chest lit up.
By the time Sasuke turned back, Itachi had already pulled the Black Receiver out of his shoulder.
The Black Receiver hit the ground, scattering stone fragments. Itachi raised his hands to form hand seals, and the chakra beneath his