Chapter 187: Hokage is a Bi*ch

The frozen sky, the sinisterly smiling dark shadow shattered like fragments around Sarutobi Hiruzen.

At the same time, Sarutobi Hiruzen, gasping heavily, finally escaped the predicament of the genjutsu. Behind him, Uchiha Itachi had also activated the Mangekyō Sharingan, with a light sheen of sweat on his forehead.

"Thank you, Itachi…", Sarutobi Hiruzen knew that if Uchiha Itachi hadn't awakened him just now, he might have truly been injured within the genjutsu.

'What a terrifying Sharingan…'

"Why? Why did you clearly promise not to come to Konoha again, yet now you appear here?", Uchiha Itachi looked at the masked man in front of him. Seeing that the other's outfit was exactly the same as that of the masked man from the Akatsuki, even the Mangekyō Sharingan pattern was identical, he immediately confirmed the other was "Tobi."

"I don't remember anything like that."

Whether it was tone or manner of speech, Uchiha Kage had now thoroughly mastered impersonating Tobi.

"Itachi, who is this person? Why does he also have a Mangekyō Sharingan?", At the side, Uchiha Shisui was very puzzled by this masked man who had suddenly barged in.

"I don't know his true identity either," Uchiha Itachi shook his head.

For some reason, the masked man before him gave him a far more dangerous feeling than before.

"But he was also involved in the Uchiha clan's massacre," In any case, pulling Shisui back onto the same front line came first.

Uchiha Itachi discreetly revealed the identity of the enemy to Shisui.

"Is that so?", Upon hearing this, Uchiha Shisui indeed developed hostility toward the newcomer.

"What, you don't dare to attack Itachi, not even willing to strike at the Third Hokage, and only plan to go after an outsider like me and that corpse over there?", Uchiha Kage found this little interlude with Uchiha Shisui somewhat interesting.

The Uchiha clan's three most conflicted shinobi: Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Fugaku, and Uchiha Shisui.

Among them, Uchiha Shisui was the most naive.

Him going dark now wasn't surprising.

"You just said Senju Tobirama was shameless and double-standarded, but you don't seem much better yourself?"

"You!", Uchiha Shisui's expression instantly changed.

The person he now hated the most was Senju Tobirama, who labeled the Uchiha with "evil."

"You know? Birds like to perch on the treetop, but they never worry about the branch breaking and falling, because what they believe in is never the branch, but their own wings," Uchiha Kage was not just talking to Uchiha Shisui but was also expressing his view to everyone else.

"Whatever anyone promises you doesn't count. Only the things you decide yourself matter. The Uchiha clan perished because they handed their lives completely over to the Hokage."

One willingly revealed Kotoamatsukami, another willingly became the executioner.

One, as the clan leader, only knew how to seek compromise.

If even one of the three could see reality clearly, the Uchiha clan wouldn't have ended up so tragically.

"Nonsense! How can the village have a second voice besides the Hokage," Having reattached his head, Senju Tobirama quickly refuted.

'This Uchiha's ideology is too dangerous, it must be dealt with immediately.'

"This child is right. If, back then, my Hokage advisor had been Madara instead of you, maybe none of this would've happened," Senju Hashirama suddenly interjected quietly from the side.

Although it was unlikely Madara would've agreed to be his advisor due to his pride, if he had begged on his knees…

Perhaps Madara would've stayed.

In that case, he wouldn't have needed to kill his closest friend, and the Uchiha clan wouldn't have been marginalized and suppressed.

The more he thought about it, the more depressed Hashirama became.

Ultimately, it was he who hadn't done well as Hokage.

"Big brother, shut up. Things like this aren't up for 'what ifs,' and Konoha is doing just fine now. Don't let yourself get misled by him."

'Big brother is still the same political idiot as always.'

Senju Tobirama couldn't help but feel a bit mentally exhausted.

"So what do you plan to do?", Seeing Senju Tobirama's flustered state, Uchiha Shisui realized the words of this masked man might truly be right.

But now that things had reached this point, what could they even do?

"Of course, I plan to reshape this world. After all, this shinobi world is already a mess."

Villages, daimyo, Hokage, Uchiha Kage liked none of them.

"So, how about it? Want to become my subordinate?"

The darkened Uchiha Shisui was still worth recruiting as a tool.

As he spoke, Uchiha Kage projected a scene from his dream-space village into everyone's view like a hologram.

"This is a paradise without conflict, without targeting or suppression, where everyone can live in harmony."

In the projection, ninjas wearing various headbands were peacefully living together in one village.

"This is… genjutsu?"

Seeing the projection suddenly appear in front of him and the utopia within it, Uchiha Shisui was momentarily stunned.

"No, this is a real space. In the future, such paradises will also appear in the shinobi world."

"How could a place like this exist, unless their wills were erased…"

Senju Tobirama was the first to object.

'Paradise? Must be genjutsu.'

Even if not genjutsu, it had to be a special space, and perhaps the ninjas inside were all being controlled…

"Wait! If such a space is real…"

'If this isn't genjutsu but a real space…'

Senju Tobirama suddenly remembered that special Uchiha he once studied, a child born with the Mangekyō Sharingan.

That child's Mangekyō dojutsu space could do something very similar.

"It's you! You're actually still alive?"

A crazy yet bold idea instantly sprang into Tobirama's mind.

Could it be Uchiha Kage hadn't died?

No, but then he thought it was impossible. After all, back then, he'd used Flying Thunder God Slash and, to be safe, also used the mutual detonation tags for a suicidal explosion.

No one could have survived that explosion, not even himself.

'Wait a minute, could it be that Uchiha Kage had already learned the death-faking forbidden jutsu at that time? Izanagi?'

Thinking this far, Tobirama found the masked man before him more and more familiar.

The Mangekyō had changed, but those eyes looked just like…

"You're still alive! How could you still be alive? Wait, is your goal—"

Senju Tobirama's sudden manic actions and his shifting tone and expressions threw everyone present into confusion.

"That's right. I plan to destroy all the existing order of this world and rebuild a new one," To think Senju Tobirama could deduce his identity just from the dream-space projection.

Uchiha Kage, while impressed by the man, did not hesitate to behead Senju Tobirama once again with his long blade.

But unlike last time when he only cut the neck, this time he added a vertical slice.

"To rebuild a new, paradise solely mine, just like what you feared the most back then," Grabbing half of Tobirama's face, Uchiha Kage whispered into his ear like a devil.

"..."

With only half a face left, Senju Tobirama could only desperately plead with his eyes to everyone around him.

'Sarutobi, big brother, and that Uchiha… you must think of a way to stop him!'

'You can't let him just swagger in and then swagger out again!'

He didn't know how Uchiha Kage had become so powerful, nor why he was still alive now. But if no one could stop this man's ambition, not only Konoha Village, the entire shinobi world would become his backyard.

Then it would all be over.

Unfortunately, no one present understood his look, let alone planned to help a dead man.

After all, even with his head smashed, his Edo Tensei body would just resurrect soon.

"Don't go further down this path either, Obito!", Sarutobi Hiruzen did catch the strange look in his teacher's eyes, but he thought it was just Tobirama's overreaction toward the Uchiha.

However, it was Tobirama who wrote the Future Note, and he was the one who told Hiruzen that this chaos-stirring masked man was Uchiha Obito. So why did he now seem so shocked at the masked man's identity?

These doubts gave Sarutobi Hiruzen a deep sense of unease.

There's no way the Future Note could be fake, right?

"Obito? That Uchiha Obito?", Upon hearing the name, not only Uchiha Shisui, but even Uchiha Itachi fell into confusion.

"That's right. If this old man's guess is correct, you are the hero of the Third Great Ninja War, Uchiha Obito, correct?"

Whether to force back the enemy before him or to verify the added information in the Future Note, Sarutobi Hiruzen tried calling out the masked man's name.

"Hmph! Konoha even has this kind of intel…", Uchiha Kage pretended to be Obito while placing his hand on Edo Tensei Tobirama's head, using the Reaper's power to extract the soul from his body.

Before long, the Edo Tensei body, having lost its soul, truly turned into a lump of filthy mud.

"But unfortunately, I am now Uchiha Madara, not Uchiha Obito."

"What did you do to Tobirama?"

Seeing his brother's body dissolve into a pile of sludge, the previously despondent Hashirama was suddenly jolted awake and immediately realized this masked man was very unusual.

"I merely sent him to paradise first. Don't worry, you're next."

After absorbing Tobirama's soul, Uchiha Kage instantly teleported near Hashirama.

"What exactly are you trying to do?"

Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees!

Hashirama first jumped away, then clasped his hands together and summoned a vast sea of trees below.

But the attacking branches and vines failed to restrain the masked man's body, only grabbing empty air.

"Admit it, you are Uchiha Obito! There's still time to turn back. As long as you leave the Akatsuki, you are still a hero of Konoha!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen cooperated with Hashirama's forest, thrusting his Adamantine Staff toward Uchiha Kage.

But unsurprisingly, the staff still passed through without hitting Uchiha Kage's real body.

"Obito? Obito is in there?"

Outside the Four Violet Flames Formation barrier, Kakashi, having just finished off the main Sand Village force, hadn't even checked inside yet when he heard Sarutobi Hiruzen mention Uchiha Obito's name.

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