Chapter 456: Two Uchiha Madaras
Bang.
Madara was dragged in by the original members of the Akatsuki and thrown onto a stone bed.
Madara did not resist when they carried him toward the room where Obito had been—of course, he couldn't resist anyway.
"You've got the wrong person. The one who fought you wasn't me. That person is in the room inside. You'll know once you check for yourselves."
"I am Uchiha Madara. I never hide my name or deny what I've done. I would never cover my face and skulk around like some rat underground."
"You can ask anyone who knows me. They'll tell you the same thing. I understand your desire for revenge. That man is my enemy as well. He stole my name and stole my power, leaving me in this weak and miserable state."
Even while being carried, Madara never stopped trying to talk his way out of the situation.
He could already feel the hatred and hostility from them. None of them bothered hiding it in their eyes or words.
Madara figured that once they discovered Obito in the room, even if they didn't completely shift their target, they would at least attack both of them together.
And as the only living person there, Obito would definitely suffer severe injuries.
At that point, the final victor would still be him, Uchiha Madara!
But...
Only after being thrown onto the stone bed did Madara suddenly realize—Where was Obito?
How had he disappeared?
There was only one exit. How could Obito vanish into thin air?
Could it be...
That Obito had somehow broken free of the chakra restraints and escaped cleanly with Kamui?
"What nonsense are you babbling about? There's nobody else in this room."
Kyūsuke looked at Uchiha Madara with annoyance.
"What do we do now?"
Daibutsu asked.
"This guy's body is also an Impure World Reincarnation body. But he can still feel things, so he was probably implanted with that technique."
Kie took out a kunai and stabbed it through Madara's palm, pinning him to the stone bed. Then he looked toward Daibutsu.
Daibutsu immediately understood what he meant and used the same method to pin Madara's other hand.
That way, they no longer needed to keep holding him down and could free up their hands.
They had already experienced Madara's strength earlier.
He was weak to the point of being laughable.
There was no way he could break free from the kunai restraints.
"Can he endure pain that well? As expected of the legendary Uchiha Madara."
Seeing Madara's palm pierced through, aside from the instinctive twitch caused by pain, he showed no reaction at all. He didn't make a sound.
The group felt somewhat defeated.
How were they supposed to take revenge against someone who feared no pain and couldn't even be killed because of Impure World Reincarnation?
"Why aren't you turning intangible anymore? Don't tell me you just don't feel like using it?"
Unable to do anything else, Kyūsuke started mocking him verbally.
But verbal attacks were exactly what Madara feared least.
"I already told you. You've mistaken me for someone else. Intangibility is not my Sharingan ability. That is Uchiha Obito's Mangekyo ability."
"His other eye possesses the same power. It's currently with Hatake Kakashi in Konoha. You can verify that yourselves. It was Uchiha Obito who stole my name and committed evil acts throughout the ninja world."
Uchiha Madara continued defending himself.
"Could he actually be telling the truth?"
Hearing him repeat it so confidently over and over, the group began to doubt themselves.
Still, Konan had told them their enemy was here, and they absolutely believed she would never deceive them.
And right now, Uchiha Madara was the only person present.
"I've got it. Isn't Megue outside? We can have her investigate it for us."
"Yeah, let's do that."
After discussing it, one of them went to the cave entrance and explained the situation to Megue, who was standing guard outside. After receiving the task, she immediately returned to Amegakure to gather information.
Honestly, in a situation like this, they could have simply gone and asked Konan directly.
But the original Akatsuki members were surprisingly self-aware.
They knew their own strength was nowhere near Konan and Nagato's level. They didn't want to bother people working toward peace for Amegakure and even the entire ninja world just for their own personal vendettas.
Before long, Megue gathered a large amount of information and returned to the cave to report back to everyone.
Inside the cave, the original Akatsuki members behaved very politely and did absolutely nothing improper to Uchiha Madara.
Madara secretly let out a huge sigh of relief.
Who would've thought these people were average in strength but had such high moral standards?
They completely lacked the "better to kill the wrong person than let one escape" mentality.
For him, that was a good thing.
After all, the thing Uchiha Madara excelled at most was taking advantage of other people's kindness.
Since Obito loved helping old people so much, he should help this old Uchiha too...
"Megue's intelligence report is here, but..."
Kusuke walked in holding a freshly written scroll, the ink not even dry yet. His expression was hesitant.
"But what? Let us see it."
Without another word, Kyūsuke opened the scroll and spread it across the large stone bed.
At the very beginning of the scroll was Megue's own summary and analysis.
"According to the intelligence, there really are two Uchiha Madaras. That's what Megue wrote here."
Kyūsuke read aloud from the scroll.
"Don't rush. Let's look at the details first."
"According to the information, one of the Uchiha Madaras has an old-lady fetish. Some time ago, he went to Sunagakure to pursue Granny Chiyo and fought for her affection against multiple ninja, including Tsuchikage Onoki and Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen."
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"..."
"The other Uchiha Madara has a poop fetish. He once brutally killed a group of bandits using rapidly spinning feces. And recently, he stole Amegakure's sewage pit to take revenge on Konoha, allowing countless Konoha villagers to fully enjoy swimming through rivers of filth."
"..."
"There isn't a single normal one among them?"
"So which one are you? The old-lady fetishist or the poop fetishist?"
After a long silence, everyone turned toward Uchiha Madara and asked the soul-crushing question.
"...The first one."
Uchiha Madara disdained pretending to be someone else, and he disdained lying about such things too. Even though it was humiliating, he still admitted it.
"So, an old-lady fetish huh? Didn't you say that Uchiha Obito was using your name to commit evil? Why do I feel like your own reputation isn't exactly clean either?"
Kie asked another soul-crushing question.
"You misunderstand. Think carefully about the era I lived in, then think about Granny Chiyo's birth year. I'm not into old women at all..."
"So you're into younger women?!"
"Kusuke, hit him with some Lightning Release!"
Bzzzt—!
The original Akatsuki members still had a strong sense of justice.
Before, they hadn't attacked Madara because they were afraid of taking revenge on the wrong person.
But now things were different. Even if Madara wasn't their revenge target, he was still clearly a pervert. Punishing him a little was completely justified.
"Let's keep reading. The information regarding Uchiha Obito..."
(End of this chapter)