Somewhere underground…
In an unknown location, an old ghastly looking man with long white hair wearing plain grey overalls sat on a wooden throne, with a huge wooden statue lurking behind him in the shadows. Weird tubes were attached to his back as he sat, his left eye not covered by hair showing the deep scarlet of a 3 tomoe Sharingan that bore into the figures before him.
Both of them were extremely similar, looking like humanoids. One was completely white, with his face swirling into a hole where his eye would be as his face otherwise was featureless. The other was more human-like, having eyes, a mouth, a nose and even green hair. But it was only half his face, the other half of his body was made up of a weird black shadow that seemed to attach itself to the body. The white of its eye was disturbing, and hinted at a separate entity in its entirety.
A voice deep and commanding came from the old figure, "How is the boy?" He asked at the Spiral White Zetsu.
"Lord Madara. The plan is proceeding as planned! We managed to leak the intel to the Iwa shinobi and they are in a precarious situation. Some mischief was enough to orchestrate everything! Hehe, it's great we can use wood style, I could guide them to exactly where we wanted!"
The other White Zetsu with green hair also chimed it, with only half his mouth moving. "He has already managed to awaken his Sharingan Lord Madara."
The Ghost of the Uchiha, a man thought long dead, replied, "That boy… he loves deeply even for an Uchiha. But it is impossible for his Mangekyo to awaken this soon. Zetsu, black Zetsu, make sure he doesn't die, he will be my successor who will enact my will."
The spiral Zetsu spoke again in his usually jolly voice, "But Master, will he even be a good fit? He seems far too weak and will he even go ahead with the plan?"
"He will understand soon. He will see that where there is light, there will also be shadows as well. Once his rose tinted glasses have been removed, he will see that there is only pain, suffering and futility in this accursed world. And once he has seen that he will see the value in my vision and have the strength to carry it out as well."
"Wow! Lord Madara, no wonder!" As the Spiral Zetsu was once again in awe, the black Zestu spoke for the first time.
"Aren't you going to tell Lord Madara about what happened?"
At this the Spiral Zetsu looked like he would begin sweating, growing visibly nervous while stuttering and moving his arms erratically. "erm.. . yeah…erm…"
"Speak Zetsu." Madara commanded.
"You see… I made a tiny incy weeny mistake. I think two people sensed my presence."
"Hmmm, even if you made a mistake, your Hiding in Surface Technique with your natural makeup should have made it almost impossible for you to be noticed. Whoever did it must have exceptional senses and be quite attuned to nature."
"Uhm, yeah it was that young Shinobi who was recently becoming famous, Namikaze Minato. And the other was Senju Katsuro."
"That Namikaze child is even more talented than I thought, his genius would have been hard to come by even in our era, but that Senju boy I expected."
"Lord Madara, Minato Namikaze at his age is already at the strength of the Raikage, who without you or Lord Hashirama, was the peak of the Shinobi world. He may become an obstacle to our plans. But more importantly, his teacher, Senju Katsuro. He was strong before, his genius with ninjutsu only seen in the likes of Tobirama, but now he has shown he has wood style. And it is on a whole different level than the likes of White Zetsu can use." Black Zetsu said.
"Hey!" The spiral Zetsu protested.
But Black Zetsu continued like he hadn't heard it, "should we have him taken out? I fear he may become a significant obstacle."
"His Wood Style seems to remind me of Hashirama. And his strength is surprising, reaching levels only we touched. But it doesn't matter right now."
Madara grew more serious and hostile, tensing with his eye beginning to swirl. If he could, it looked like it would have transformed into the legendary Mangekyo and even beyond to the legendary eyes. But unfortunately, they were with a certain red haired boy. "In my current state, nothing can be done, but when I'm back, if he gets in the way of my perfect world I will show him just how deep the waters are."
On the battlefield…
Obito turned to Kakashi and Rin, panting, but very much energetic. Thanks to his sudden awakening of the Sharingan, he was able to protect his teammates. While Kakashi had still lost his left eye, he was now brought to a stable condition thanks to Rin's healing.
"I told you, I'd protect you guys," Obito grinned.
"Obito! You did it!" Rin exclaimed, hugging him.
Rin… I'm so glad you're safe
"More like, reborn," Kakashi groaned, pushing himself up from the ground, "I'm surprised, Obito, I guess you're not as weak as I thought you were." The Uchiha boy was left in shock.
Kakashi… complimented me?
Kakashi looked away, but Obito, overcoming his moment of surprise, smiled.
"That's right, Kakashi, and I'm only going to keep getting stronger," he firmly said.
"I'd hope so," the white-haired boy nodded.
Rin smiled, seeing the two, who were usually bickering like an old couple, able to share a genuine conversation.
"Let's keep going, seems like you finished up here, Obito," Rin smiled.
"Right, that is if Kakashi's fine now!" Obito returned with a grin, looking at Kakashi, who sighed, taking off ahead of the two.
"Hey!" Obito cried out, irritated, while he and Rin sped forward to catch up with their teammate.
A while later…
"We're still in unknown territory," Obito warned.
"I know, we have to stay careful," Kakashi nodded, "we still haven't found Minato Sensei, Guy's dad or even Kaito."
"Come to think of it, that is weird, we've barely come across anyone." Rin stated.
"You're right, I swear the branches were moving. It's like the forest is guiding us somewhere." Obito agreed.
"Regardless, Sensei had a mission to complete, we might have been a hindrance to him if we had stayed with him," Kakashi replied, "This is another opportunity to prove ourselves, let's carry out the mission." The other two nodded, as the trio jumped through the branches quietly on alert in case there were any enemies nearby.
A few minutes passed, until Kakashi, who had been leading the three, silently signalled with his hands to a clearing in the middle of the silent forest. The squad stopped in the trees that towered over the area.
Below them, another group of enemy shinobi stood around the clearing, clearly waiting for an imminent attack.
They're strong, stronger than the previous shinobi, Kakashi signalled with his hands. They looked down at the enemy, thinking of a plan to deal with them, however, instead of the three taking the fight to them, a strong, sharp, somewhat gleeful voice shot towards them, directly:
"It was about time you reached us," as a blur of Jutsu shot towards the trio.
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The white Zetsu attached to the black Zetsu used the Mayfly technique to gather information from other Zetsus back in the underground.
He looked up at his master, "It is beginning."
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