Utterly Unexpected: Can we revert to plan A?
It had been nearly a week since he'd last had any contact with Tobi, and it was getting a bit baffling. The reason for this was that in that time he'd actually attempted to contact the man and had managed absolutely nothing. Even Zetsu had had nothing that even resembled a clue to offer him.
The only conclusion he could draw from this was that the perverted little twit had taken off on a vacation without any warning.
It had happened before after all, and if he remembered correctly there was a Kyuubi attack on Konoha during that time. The man had turned back up muttering about a 'change of plans' and the Juubi after that, and things had simply gone downhill. This was when the man had gotten positively irritating with his determination to use the moon, of all things, to try to create world peace.
He thought the plan was completely stupid. Clearly his idea of laying an epic smackdown to create an ultimate enemy to make everyone stop fighting would be more effective than grand scale brainwashing. But no, Tobi had to involve the moon, and the sharingan, and really it was all quite maddening. If he wanted to use the brainwashing method, he could do that. He had the Rinnegan! He could just send out envoys and declare himself the true heir to the Sage of the Six Paths.
People would believe him too! He'd tested the theory on a smaller scale in his own country after all, and his loyal shinobi all had the entirely understandable idea that he was a god, and thus would do whatever he said. He hadn't even had to do much to manage this either, instead just sending out Konan on occasion to talk to people while he hung back acting all mysterious.
See? Easy.
But he'd never get Tobi to see it that way, oh no, because Tobi was a damn Uchiha and that family were apparently all as thick as bricks when it came to accepting new ideas. Itachi was a prime example of this. Anyone with a brain could spot that the kid was unstable from a mile off, but did he let that stop him? No.
Did it prove that maybe the family pushed its members a wee bit too far? Yes. After all, if someone up and slaughtered the whole clan, there was no way that there hadn't been a warning of some kind from someone.
Still, he'd only managed to pin the boy down for a real conversation a handful of times since he'd met him, and he'd come to a baffling conclusion.
The brat was just like Yahiko.
Clearly, they didn't share personality traits or mannerisms but there was just something... He'd never managed to keep him pinned down long enough to figure it out, unfortunately, and now, he couldn't even contact the boy.
In fact, contacting anyone at this point was sketchy at best, and he had to wonder what Tobi had done to the jutsu on the rings. If the idiot had somehow managed to give himself chakra exhaustion, it would do this, after all, but he hadn't done that in nearly ten years, and at that point Kiri was just starting their bloodline purging so the man had been rather busy.
No such epic news had made its way to him recently, and in fact, the sketchiness was interfering with the plan to move on the bijuu. You couldn't do an extraction if the connection was cutting out willy nilly every minute or so. No, he'd have to wait for the signal to even back out before he even considered bothering with that, but in the meantime he had to find something to do with the more restless members of the group.
Even if telling Hidan and Deidara to go play had gotten hilarious results the first time.