Chapter 320: Let's Go Grave Robbing Together
Konoha Village, Hokage's Office.
Hiruzen browsed through the documents in front of him and casually picked up a pen to make a mark.
Snap! Before he could even put pen to paper, a sudden palpitation struck his heart. His hand trembled, snapping the wooden pen in two.
After a brief silence, Hiruzen frowned deeply. "Did something happen?"
Hesitating for a moment, he grabbed the crystal ball on his desk and formed hand seals: "Telescope Technique!"
He peered into every corner of Konoha through this ninjutsu but found nothing amiss.
"Did something happen to someone? Danzo..." Just as he thought of Danzo, his heart palpitated again. His hand trembled once more, and the crystal ball slipped from his grasp.
This time, Hiruzen reacted in time and caught the crystal ball with a 'scooping the moon from the bottom of the sea' maneuver.
"Is it really Danzo?"
Knock knock knock... A hurried knocking sound rang out, and Sakumo pushed the door open with a serious expression.
"Who happened to what?" Hiruzen clutched the crystal ball tightly.
Sakumo was startled. "Shinnosuke, he..."
Crash! The crystal ball shattered into pieces.
"Is it Shinnosuke...?"
"Lord Hokage, what's wrong? Shinnosuke was merely ambushed on the battlefield and suffered some injuries."
Hiruzen's mouth twitched. All that emotional buildup was for nothing, and my crystal ball...
...
Meanwhile, overseas, on a small deserted island.
At some unknown time, a tall tower had been built, standing tall in the center of the island.
Inside the tower, a young man with his hair tied in two buns hovered his right hand over the head of the deceased Danzo. He pulled a transparent soul into his hand, closed his eyes, and perceived.
After a long while, he opened his eyes, revealing eyes with concentric circles—Madara's Rinnegan.
Glancing at Danzo's corpse before him, he revealed an expression of sighing. "Truly stubborn. For two whole months, you refused to yield, forcing me to resort to this. If I had your kind of courage back then... Good thing my luck was good enough, and I got the memories I needed. I will accept this Edo Tensei (Edo Tensei)."
Closing his eyes to digest the information for a moment, he formed hand seals: "Edo Tensei!"
...
The Underworld.
The Sage of Six Paths, hovering cross-legged in the air, suddenly frowned.
"Someone is summoning Indra's reincarnation again. It's been a bit too frequent lately."
Perhaps out of heartache for his son's reincarnation, he raised his sage staff to stop it, but traced the chakra to sense the caster.
"How could it be..." The Sage of Six Paths revealed a surprised expression.
With a slight hesitation, Madara Uchiha's soul was summoned up.
"To think such a thing could happen?!"
...
In the tall tower, the young man smiled. "Good, it succeeded."
A coffin gradually rose from the ground in front of him, but after leaving the ground, the coffin lid remained tightly shut.
"Did it fail?"
The young man muttered. Suddenly, he saw a small opening on the right side of the coffin, and it seemed a pair of eyes peered at him from inside for a second.
Next, a large hand reached out from the side of the coffin, pushed open the lid, and revealed Madara Uchiha inside.
"It's you, huh. You learned this annoying ninjutsu too?" Madara Uchiha spoke loudly, then noticed Danzo's corpse in front of him. "Did you get it from this guy?"
"...That's right."
"How is the plan progressing? Why did you summon me through this method?"
"The plan is progressing smoothly," the young man spoke slowly. "The candidate to revive you has been chosen. Now we just need to quietly wait for his growth."
"As for the reason I summoned you..." The young man smiled. "Can't you guess?"
Madara's face darkened. "It's because of that damn old geezer, isn't it?"
"That's right. Masahiko Uzumaki is too strong; I need your help."
"That old geezer..." Madara gritted his teeth. "My help... before I recover my strength from when I was alive, I'm afraid I'm no match for him either."
The young man didn't expose Madara's boasting, but simply shook his head. "The help I'm talking about refers to the Uchiha clan's divine artifact."
"The Gunbai? That kind of thing..."
"No, the Sword of Nunoboko. The legendary creation artifact of Hagoromo... the Sage of Six Paths. You know where it is, right?"
Madara paused, revealing an expression of disdain. "You think you can use it? Even when I was alive, I couldn't invoke the power of that weapon."
"I will get stronger and stronger. Compared to when I first met you, I have already become several times stronger."
Madara looked at the other party carefully. "I hope so..."
Bang bang bang!
Halfway through Madara's sentence, a banging sound suddenly came from the next room, accompanied by a man's shouting: "Big Brother Minato! Big Brother Minato!"
Madara frowned tightly. "Why is there a madman here too?"
The young man smiled. "This is another trump card. The possessor of the Jashin cult's cursed immortal body. At a crucial moment, he can be used to delay Masahiko Uzumaki for a while."
"Immortal?" Madara sneered. "Isn't Edo Tensei also immortal? Why use him to delay the old geezer?"
"It's exactly his immortal body that is being used as the vessel for the Edo Tensei," the young man explained indifferently.
Madara gave him a deep look. "I can take you to find the Sword of Nunoboko."
"Take me? Are you afraid I might release your reincarnation?" The young man smiled.
Madara's face sank. "Are you really not related to that damn old geezer? This annoying tone is exactly the same!"
The young man fell silent for a moment. "Perhaps I was influenced by him."
Madara took a deep breath. "Let's go. I'll take you to retrieve the divine artifact. If there's anything else, say it all at once."
The young man smiled. "There is indeed something else. Since I obtained the Edo Tensei, I must put it to good use. We lack combat power."
"You know where the Uchiha clan's ancestral tombs are, right? And if there are other clans', even better. Let's go grave robbing together."
Madara Uchiha: "..."
When I revive and become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, I must tie this guy and that damn old geezer together and beat them.
...
Land of Whirlpools.
Kushina looked astonished: "You're saying that right when I said Danzo deserves to die, he actually died?"
Masahiko nodded: "Your curse took effect."
Kushina was stunned for a long time, then suddenly laughed out loud. "Don't joke around, Great-Grandpa. How is that possible? No one knows where Danzo is wandering; how would you know if he's dead or alive?"
Masahiko was startled. This truly couldn't be explained.
"If I said Danzo and I have a telepathic connection, would you believe me?"
Kushina didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "I believe you."
Masahiko sighed. "Actually, the last time I beat him up, I left a sensory formation on him, and it just vanished."
Kushina finally nodded. "So that's how it is. But that doesn't necessarily mean he's dead. He might have discovered it and undone your seal... No, your seal, he shouldn't be able to undo it, right?"
Masahiko looked helpless. "Danzo is dead, truly dead. It's impossible for him to still be alive."
"Dead..." Kushina patted little Naruto's head in her arms. "Good riddance."
Masahiko didn't feel any sadness or joy over Danzo's death; he was just puzzled as to how exactly he died.
"Who saved him back then? If it was Orochimaru, did Orochimaru dismantle Danzo?"
"If it wasn't Orochimaru..."
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