"So the old geezer really did speed things up?"
Hearing Tagitsuhime's answer, Obito narrowed his eyes slightly, tapping his fingers lightly against the stone tabletop.
Obito had gotten the news about Izuna from White Zetsu.
To be honest, he was skeptical about it.
Still, skepticism was at least better than outright disbelief.
With so many old geezers crawling out of the ground now, one more Izuna hardly seemed all that surprising.
But according to what White Zetsu had uncovered, the other party's physical condition was very strange.
He felt like one of White Zetsu's own kind, yet was different from Impure World Reincarnation.
"Yes, Lord Obito. Lord Madara seems... very angry?"
Obito's lips twitched slightly at Tagitsuhime's words.
"Don't worry. That's normal."
He was just obsessed with his little brother. Had Obito seen any shortage of Uchiha obsessed with their younger or older brothers over the years?
Generally, if there were two Uchiha brothers, there was an eighty percent chance they would become close, and then a sixty percent chance they would develop an obsession with each other.
Obito had little to say about that. He was alone and had no brothers anyway.
But it was precisely because he had no brothers that he could not awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. That was quite a loss.
"Send White Zetsu to speak with this 'Izuna' and arrange a time to meet."
Obito spoke to Tagitsuhime.
Tagitsuhime nodded, then turned to speak with White Zetsu.
One day later.
As Obito rested with his eyes closed, refining his Sage Mode, he suddenly sensed an even more powerful presence appear in his little underground base.
He opened his lowered eyes, one red and one purple, and looked in Madara's direction.
Wait, why hadn't he heard that familiar wild laughter yet?
Five minutes later, Orochimaru