"Kiri-nin?" The leader walked up to Kisame and Zabuza, narrowed his eyes looking at them, and said, "I heard you want to take Itachi away?"
He held a kunai in his hand...
"Speak!"
His voice turned severe...
"How did you bypass the defense line?"
However...
"Hmph!" Kisame snorted coldly and said indifferently, "I am a shinobi!"
Your question is somewhat insulting. Have you ever seen a shinobi who reveals village secrets just because someone shouts at them?
He closed his eyes...
"Kill me or torture me, do as you please!"
And Zabuza also closed his eyes, ignoring them. Although the situation was indeed quite frightening, they had long been prepared for death since becoming shinobi.
So...
After Kisame finished speaking...
Madara nodded disdainfully. He had no time to play shinobi games here. He raised his sword to send them on their way when...
"Madara!" Hashirama stopped Uchiha Madara, saying with a serious expression, "The dead should not interfere with the world of the living."
This was also why he had been quietly following Madara, worried that Madara would act recklessly...
Moreover...
The Fourth Hokage had actually not succeeded to the position. That little monkey, at his age, was still stirring up trouble in Konoha, wantonly starting wars...
To be honest, when he heard this, the God of Shinobi was furious.
Why did he create the shinobi villages back then?
Wasn't it to give children a happy childhood, to spare them from going to the battlefield to die young? But the result...
The Fourth Hokage of Konoha actually told him...
Your ideals were never carried out!!!
So, after hearing from the Fourth Hokage, he urgently wanted to return to check on Konoha's situation. If all this was true...
Then let him end it all with his own hands!
Hashirama looked quietly at Madara, who was frowning and about to lose his temper, and said, "I also promise you, if Konoha is really as you said, I will destroy it with my own hands, and personally apologize to you."
His expression was serious...
"The dead should not interfere with the world of the living."
Otherwise, the shinobi world would surely fall into chaos.
However...
Someone bullies my great-grandson, and you want me not to do anything?
With my temper...
Madara's eyelids twitched, and just as he was about to say something...
"That's right, Grandpa Madara." Obito stepped forward, looking at Madara with a smile, and said, "The dead should not interfere with the world of the living. Although I can guess why Director Hiruko and Director Chiro summoned you at this time, but..."
He looked seriously at Uchiha Madara, a confident smile on his face...
"Uzushiogakure will definitely not fall!!"
"Grandpa Madara, your statue stands in the Uzushiogakure Academy, so..."
"Please believe in the students you taught, believe in the younger generation of Uzushiogakure, believe in us..."
"We will definitely protect Uzushiogakure."
He sighed...
"If Grandpa Madara intervenes this time, will Uzushiogakure have to trouble Grandpa Madara to come up again every time it's in danger in the future?"
"That's right~" Itachi also came over, holding the torn bag, his little face serious as he said, "Itachi will definitely be able to protect Uzushiogakure in the future, no need for Grandpa Madara to act."
He glanced at the torn bag in his hand and held it out...
"It's wrapped well inside, it's not dirty!"
A smile on his face...
"Grandpa Madara, Mom said you treated me to roast chicken many times. This time, let Itachi treat you."
Anyway, his little brother can't eat it now, he'll buy some for his little brother next time...
"And I also bought the milk candy that Grandpa Madara likes the most. Itachi likes it very much too."
A look of regret on his face...
"But Mom won't give it to me, she's worried Itachi will get cavities~"
Hearing Itachi's words, Uchiha Madara was stunned. Looking at the somewhat torn bag, the roast chicken inside was indeed wrapped in paper and was fine. And also...
Madara saw a familiar packet of milk candy lying quietly beside it...
"Hmph~!" Uchiha Madara wiped the corner of his eye and snorted coldly, "As you wish!"
He patted Itachi's head...
"You eat it yourself. Grandpa Madara can't eat anything now!"
"Ah?" Itachi, hearing Grandpa Madara's words, was stunned, tilted his head, and was about to ask something when he remembered that Grandpa Madara had long passed away. He nodded his little head regretfully and said, "Then I'll take it for my little brother!"
"Little brother?" Madara, hearing Itachi's words, was stunned and said, "Mikoto is pregnant again?"
"Yes!" Itachi nodded his little head, a smile on his face, "He's very cute!"
"Is that so..." A flash of relief passed through Madara's eyes, and he nodded, murmuring, "It's good that everything is fine."
"It seems we were somewhat unnecessary." Chiro and Hiruko looked at each other, smiled, and nodded, "We should have known it wouldn't be so troublesome. Preparing this jutsu these past few days has turned several strands of our hair white!"
"Not at all!" Itachi looked seriously at Chiro and the others, bowed, and said, "If it weren't for you, I definitely wouldn't have been able to see Grandpa Madara!"
A smile on his face...
"And if Mom and little brother saw Grandpa Madara appear, they would definitely be very happy too."
"So, thank you!"
"Hmph!" And Madara just snorted coldly, saying nothing...
As for Hashirama...
He smiled and nodded, never expecting that this Edo Tensei summoning would show him such an interesting scene. That Uchiha Madara from back then, the one with the expressionless face, always scowling, quick to draw his sword and kill, had changed so much...
He sighed with emotion inwardly...
The forbidden jutsu his brother Tobirama created was actually somewhat useful.
"Oh, right!" Obito seemed to remember something, scratched his head, took out a small box covered in seals from his tool pouch, and handed it to Hiruko, saying, "Clan Head Fugaku said, if Uzushiogakure is in danger, I should bring this to you."
This time he wasn't just here to deal with the fight, but also to give the small box that Clan Head Fugaku had given him to Hiruko, after all...
Uzushiogakure is in great danger right now.
"I don't know what it is?"
"Eh, this is..." Hiruko took the box, his expression peculiar as he glanced at Boss Madara, and said, "This was given to us for research by Lord Jun back then."
So, it's not our fault. If there's a problem, please take it up with Lord Jun. Then, he opened the box...
"This is actually..."
"My eye." Before he could finish, Boss Madara interrupted him directly, saying indifferently, "The Rinnegan!"
Seeing the familiar eye inside the box, he sighed inwardly...
Back then, he had divided his eyes into two parts. One part he gave to that brat Jun, and the other part...
"Eh? I have a box like this too!" Itachi took out a box from his bosom, looked at Grandpa Madara, and said, "Mom said this is a gift from Grandpa Madara to me."
Boss Madara rubbed Itachi's little head, nodded, and said calmly, "It is a gift I gave you!"
The other part was given to Itachi as a gift. He didn't tell Mikoto anything specific, just simply said it was a gift for Itachi, and he gave it to Mikoto secretly, worried that the brat Jun would misunderstand.
Then, he took the eye from the box in Hiruko's hand, walked up to Obito, and directly reached out his hand...
"Ah!!" Obito was stunned, before he could react, he covered his eye in pain and said, "Grandpa Madara, you..."
Why are you gouging out my eye?
However, before he could finish...
Boss Madara pressed the Rinnegan into Obito's empty eye socket...
"Since you obtained it, perhaps this is fate."
He turned his head, took Itachi's small hand, and said calmly, "These two Kiri-nin are left to you. I'm going with Itachi to see Mikoto now."
And also...
That other little brate~
Itachi, holding Grandpa Madara's hand, hesitated for a moment, looked up at Grandpa Madara, and said, "Grandpa Madara, you gave me the Rinnegan so I could change my eyes?"
"But Big Brother Obito looked like it hurt a lot, I..."
Hearing Itachi's words, Madara was stunned, then said calmly, "It does hurt a bit. That is a gift from Grandpa Madara to you. You decide for yourself. If you don't want to change, then don't."
"Mhm!" Itachi put the eye away, nodded happily, and said with a serious expression, "I will always keep the gift Grandpa Madara gave me safe."
"By the way, there's also a piece of candy in the box!" A faint smile flickered across Madara's cold face. Seeing Itachi's happy smile, a trace of nostalgia appeared in his eyes, "I didn't expect you still haven't opened the box until now. It's probably melted?"
It was a very ordinary milk candy, bought for him by Tobi back then.
"Remember, if it's spoiled, definitely don't eat it, or you'll get diarrhea."
"Next time..."
"Grandpa Madara will buy you another one."
Tobi...
Madara looked up at the blue sky...
Did he listen to my words and hide properly?
...
"Itachi?" Mikito, holding the baby, ran to Kushina's place, saying anxiously, "Kushina, have you seen Itachi?"
She gritted her teeth, her eyes red...
"That brat, who knows where he ran off to?"
"Itachi?" Kushina, hearing Mikoto's words, immediately showed a worried expression too. She sat up, holding her stomach, and said, "Did you ask Kyoko? Maybe he just went to play in the corridor?"
"If you can't find him, quickly call Dad. It's so chaotic outside, I hope nothing happens!"
"I've asked and called already." A tear fell from the corner of Mikoto's eye, her face full of fear, "I hope nothing happens to him!"
Then, gnashing her teeth, she showed a fierce expression...
"When I find him later, I'm definitely going to spank his bottom hard. He's so disobedient for an older brother!"
As soon as she finished speaking...
"Mom, I'm back."
A young, clear voice came from the doorway, followed closely by another...
"Whose bottom are you going to spank!"
A cold voice, carrying a trace of relief...