I do not own Naruto or any other references that someone might see in this fic. What IS mine will probably been seen as someone else's anyway, and I'm not exactly hurt by that.
"Word" = People talking
...Word... = Quotes and past words
'Word' = Key, significant or unknown words
'Word' = People thinking
"Word" = Demon, beasts, monsters and the overpowered talking
WORD = Dramatic or epic occurrences and sounds
WORD = violent or disturbing occurrence and sounds
"Word" = Spiral the plant man.
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Author's Reminder:
I have rewrite my story and remove most the side stories from the chapters. This will make the chapters smaller and updates will occur more often, I hope. I know that I haven't set a standard but I will try and do chapters every 2 months. This will also give me time to correct the mistakes I've made.
As for the original story line, this means that characters that are not directly involved with Obito or Madara will be removed. But this does not mean they are being deleted completing.
I will be creating a new story entitled: Another Verse: Encounters of the Third Shinoib War. This story will involve the actions of characters and events that will come to effect the plot in Obito's story line. Of course thought they will not be as often as the original story line.
Whether you decide to read this is your choice. Adding these side stories is a writing habit I have, expanding the world around the main character.
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Chapter 8.
Five days have passed since Obito started his recovery and training under Zetsu's help and the annoyance of Spiral, so far Obito has done decently for the condition he was in. In these fives day Obito has only had 10 hours sleep, although being told that he had slept 8 hours each night by Zetsu to further his recovery and abilities. Obito didn't need the sleep and would remain asleep for more than 2 hours before being fully ready to continue.
His training involved nothing special, revolving around basic chakara control and manipulation exercises to further increase the strength and durability of his rapid healing ability. He spent no time on any other activities or thought being that he had nothing else to do but focus on recovering. Obito complied with it as all he really wanted to do was leave.
Within the five days Obito had not once spoken to Madara who seemingly continued to sleep, concerning Obito. Obito remembered when he first gained thought and consciousness again after the rapid healing process feeling like completely shit and Madara brushing said feelings aside. Madara didn't care about his pain and suffering, which Obito hadn't fully accepted prior to waking up. But the healing had made a massive change to Obito thought process.
The biggest being that he didn't trust Madara, he didn't care about what Madara wanted, he hated the old man bastard and wanted to see him suffer. While Obito wasn't the type to hate people this much but there was no forgiveness for this bastard. When Obito slept he could feel flashes of extreme, phantom pain the same as the healing. During the day the mere shadows of the cave would remind him of the darkness of the experience. It scared him greatly but did not slow his resolve, instead making him work harder and more desperate to get strong. It made Obito more...aggressive.
Obito knew about how some people in the village felt about Madara, hating and despising the legend's existence. He hadn't really cared at the time being that Madara at that point in his life had been dead. Coming to met Madara had only solidified and worsened the impression Obito had of him, even if the old man had saved his life.
It made the whole situation being stuck here worse as every time Obito saw the old man, he'd feel an anger he had never felt for anything else and it would greatly disturb his recovery.
His only comfort was thinking of home and of his team, remembering his time with them. It drove Obito even more than his hate for Madara, but also distracted his train of thought when controlling his chakara. He would often think of Rin, hoping she was ok and happy and that Kakashi and Minato-sensei were looking out for her. He trusted both of them to watch out for her for him.
Currently seated up in his bed looking at his new arm, Obito thought about her thinking about how she would react to finding out he was alive. She would have to be happy and would probably give him a massive hug. The thought of such made Obito smile but then the corners of his eye spied Madara, taking his happy thoughts and smile away.
Obito took a deep breath, he had wanted to talk Madara and lower some of the negative feelings he had for the man. He thought that if he could resolve his hate for him, he could focus more on recovering and getting home.
"How's the arm feeling Obito?" Zetsu questioned standing at the front of the base of the bed next to Spiral. Obito had the bandage that covered the heavily damaged side of his body off revealing the white replacements. Slowly his natural skin color was being regained and regrown around the thin human appendages.
Moving his eye back to his arm he lightly moved it and pinched it with his other, feeling out the thin arm. "I can feel it and move it. But it's so thin and weak. I don't understand why this taking so long." He questioned impatiently.
Zetsu responded teasing and grinning. "You shouldn't complain. If it weren't for the rapid healing you wouldn't have a new arm for another 3 months." He noted as Obito would never have recovered this fast if it hadn't have been for the rapid healing.
Thinking about his choice of choosing the rapid healing over waiting it out, Obito wasn't sure if he had made the right choice. "Another 3 months? I don't even know how much time has passed since I arrived here? Feels like it has been a lifetime." He said staring at the white hand he now had, grasping and gripping his palm.
Zetsu shrugged. "It's not like we're charging rent. So don't worry about it. Sit up Obito. I want to see if you've retained anything that I've tried to teach you." Zetsu said as Obito placed his hands on his knees, crossed his legs and took a meditative seat with his eye closed.
"First, Chakara control technique No.1: Stream. To stream chakara within one's self to any part of the body and create a continuous flow without moulding chakara. Go!" Zetsu said as Obito chakara stream through his body easily and vigorously, maintaining a strong pulse of chakara throughout his body.
It wasn't anything special though. "Hm. Chakara control technique No.2: Release. To release chakara from any part of the body. No matter the form or mixture. Release from your wounded side." Zetsu continued as the chakara around Obito's right side seeped from his body.
It wasn't visible but was good enough for Zetsu. "Good. Good. Chakara control technique No.3: Focus. To build high amounts of chakara to a single or multiple points on your body. Wounded side and only the wounded side." All the chakara that had been moving and glowing on the inside of Obito surged and converged on the right side his body. The release of chakara stopped as the chakara streamed only on the inside.
It was decent, but not to the standard wanted. "Still needs some work. You still got too much chakara on other parts of your body. Next." Zetsu continued.
Obito didn't respond or move, his eye shut as he focused only on his chakara. Waiting for Zetsu's mark. "Chakara control technique No.4: Null: Stop the flow of chakara, reduce its presence and condense your chakara. Make it fade until the point in which chakara cannot be used." It wasn't easy to stop the use of chakara as it natural remained in the body waiting for use. And yet, due to Obito's body rejecting the rapid healing, Obito's chakara quickly began to fade from Zetsu sensory jutsu.
Zetsu could see him but the color and shape of Obito's body became faded and light. Zetsu could sense Obito's will, but all traces of chakara had disappeared. "You have flaws but it is most impressive. Your chakara has vanished completely to the point that a sensory shinobi would not be able to sense you. You seem to have an ability for hiding and disappearing." Zetsu noted as it would be great advantage to have such ability.
Obito opened his eye and scoffed it, taking his new hand off his knee he could see it had begun to lose its reflectivity. "I don't like it. It makes me feel so much weaker and makes my mind feels blank and empty. Like all my emotions are disappearing." He said, not liking the ability.
Zetsu thought about think about how Madara had explained chakara to him. "Chakara is connected deeply to the life energy and individual soul of a person. How you feel can influence your use of chakara and in turn, how you chakara moves inside of you can affect your emotions and soul." He lectured sounding wise.
Remembering the humans he had been interacting with both in and out of the wars he had seen evidence of it influence on the mind. "It is very easy for chakara, a energy source without thought, to influence the mind of its welder without the intent of doing so. So often have people thrown away their own individually and morals because of how there chakara influences there mind. " He said think about some atrocities that occurred in the world. "Powerful genjutsu and curse marks were based on such."
Obito took a deep breath streaming as much chakara around his body, then focusing it back into the damage parts of his body. He could do it unconsciously now but keeping the stream conscious made it stronger and relieved what pain there was. "Makes me nervous thinking about chakara like that. I never considered that my own chakara could influence my mind." Obito said, not liking that his own chakara could fool him.
Zetsu thought about it trying to explain it further. "Genjutsu controls the fives sense but it cannot control the chakara or will of a person. But if someone controls your senses then they can move on to manipulating your chakara and will, like moving up the stair levels of a building. You can't access one level without going through another. At the point of manipulating your will, breaking the genjutsu or even seals is near impossible." He explained further breaking it down for Obito concerns. "The Chakara that you use is an energy source created from spiritual and physical energy generated from yourself. Its power is to act, not wait for stimulus like the 5 senses." Zetsu tried further only confusing Obito further.
Obito raised an eyebrow. "You make it sound more complex than it needs to be. I just want to know how I can use it." He said voicing himself. "I don't like the fact that I'm skilled in such a technique. It literally feels like my body is going numb, and everything feels transparent and invisible." Obito continued.
Zetsu could see that Obito had a skill of it so went into detail of uses and faults, even if Obito wanted an easier explanation. "As it should. Null is a passive defensive use of chakara, a technique that those wanting to stay hidden use. It makes sensory types unable to sense you through chakara, but your flaw with its use is that its renders you unable to use chakara." Zetsu continued being honest.
"Your null is so good in fact that not only your chakara disappears but your will and thought starts to fade, making you less susceptible to genjutsu. It is frightening how primal chakara can make one. But because you use it so skillfullyand impressively, you've render yourself unable to use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu. Not only this but your strength and healing abilities weaken greatly. Not to mentions the 7 second time delay when you stop using Null to try and use your chakara again. It makes you so vulnerable that it's funny." Zetsu sneered, meaning to offend and angering Obito.
Spiral spoke because he hadn't said anything and wanted to join the conversation. "If a twig and dirt could make a baby, it's lifeless, unconscious, void of will body would be you when using Null." Spiral said making fun of Obito.
Obito grew a tick mark on his head looking at Spiral. "Why are you even talking!? Zetsu, I don't want to be a none existent shinobi, hiding and sneaking around. I rather fight directly."He said as Obito was never really the type for sneaking.
Zetsu shrugged again. "To bad fortune does not smile on what you want. Blessed with potential in areas that do not reflect your personality is an unlucky type of rare, considered a curse given to the weak." He said not reassuring Obito.
Zetsu tried another approach wanting to help though. "But remember that all these techniques are used by the strongest shinobi without them knowing of it teaching. Many who use these chakara controls have to teach themselves and discover its power on their own. Experimenting with their chakara or unconsciously using them on the battlefield. By learning these you can build on your own jutsu ability."
Obito continued to mock the words. "I've already lived my life invisible to my friends and family. I really don't want it to reflect in my fighting ability." He said frowning.
Zetsu smirked playfully. "You say that now, but what you can do is impressive. You shouldn't ignore it. I wasn't able to learn Null to the same level as you that fast. It took me a year to get it to same level as you." He said, remembering the lessons Madara had trained him in.
Obito didn't care, all that Obito heard sounded negative in his mind and the fact that Zetsu and Spiral would often tell him how weak he was not helping. Thinking back to his training with Minato and his team, he had often made mistakes, missing when throwing his shruiken and that one time he was stabbed in the hand by a one trying to block. Kakashi often said he needed more training and Minato had often be disappointed in he's choices, but never did they say he was weak. 'I never considered myself weak. Maybe young and naive I thought. But maybe I was just denying it to make myself feel better about it.' Obito thought to himself.
Obito's eye flickered, remembering how Rin had supported him after all times he had messed up, giving him hope that she had deeper feelings for him. She did care at the most. And she believed in him.
Zetsu's squinted a moment feeling the flow in Obito's chakara slow and distort. 'Letting his mind wonder again. It's not good.' He thought having seen Obito lose focus too often thinking about his home.
Still pondering the girl of his dreams, Obito resolve started to surface. 'Rin didn't give up on me. I shouldn't be thinking about how weak I am. To hell, why the hell do I even doubt myself?' Obito questioned in anger spying his new arm. He grimaced at it before grabbing the massive bandages and reattaching the cover across his wounded body and arm. 'I hate being so useless!'
Not knowing any other way to deal with his feelings, he punched the bed his was seated in with his good arm. "I don't think I have ever felt is frustrated and stressed in life. I need to get the hell out of here and stop listening to your crap." He said looking at Zetsu and Spiral.
Spiral laughed at his misery. "To bad you have to listen to whatever we say. And we had to tell you about your ability. You just suck so much that we had to tell you." He said without remorse. Obito eye changed color to the sharigan while Zetsu shook his head in annoyance.
'Still an idiot that doesn't know shit.' Zetsu thought turning to Spiral.
"Hey spiral, you ever see a unicellular organism before?" He said sounding excited, instantly getting Spiral attention.
Spiral instantly turned to his brother, despite having no idea what he was talking about. "No, why?" He question interested.
Zetsu pointed at the wall. "Because there's one the wall. Go see it before it disappears." He said eagerly, wanting Spiral gone.
Spiral gasped. "Oh no, it's disappearing. I have to see the universal organic thing." He said not knowing what it was, how to say it and why he should care. He ran at the wall, jumping on to it on all fours, crawling across the rock wall looking for it.
Obito only eye twitched, wondering why he was getting so angry with a clear idiot. "Is he really that stupid?" He questioned.
Zetsu watched Spiral crawl up the wall staring at it like a possessed plant that crawled out of the ground. "Yes. Yes he is." He said sincerely turning to Obito. "Beside that though, you did need to hear that." He said carefree earning a glare from Obito. "Its for the best. You can't deny facts and reality because you don't like it. Makes you sound like a religious nut." Zetsu said having had some interesting experiences in the world with said type of people.
Obito turned it on Zetsu. "Why not? That's all Madara seems to be doing." Obito countered, somehow easily picturing an insane Madara dressed in a religious get up and being worshiped for it.
Zetsu smiled almost laughing. "Don't compare yourself to Madara, Obito. Because you don't." He said nonchalantly.
Obito glare again, speaking louder. "Don't? I don't compare to Madara?! What does that mean?" He said almost looking for a fight out of Zetsu.
Zetsu sighed, why couldn't Obito just accept Madara was above him? "It means the only thing you to have in common is that you're both male humans with similar genes. I could say you're like a single grain of sand thinking it's in the same league as a desert, but you're a thousand years behind such comparison." Zetsu said only have his attention drawn away noting Spiral standing next to him, staring at the ceiling.
Spiral didn't stop looking at the ceiling as he spoke, staring dumbly. "I didn't know Madara and Obito had similar jeans. Is it the color?" He questioned unaware of any of the conversion.
Zetsu spoke casually without looking at Spiral as well. "Keep looking at the wall spiral. It's getting away." He said face palming with his only hand.
Spiral looking to Zetsu pleading. "But I don't see it. And what you and bro Obito are talking about sounds funnier." He said pouting.
Obito interrupted addressing Zetsu. "How is he suppose be helping me?" He insisted not see the help with Spiral's presence.
"A bit of dumb muscle is always useful." Zetsu respond without hesitation.
Obito sighed as the moment was gone, his frustrating disappearing with Spirals stupidity. "Suppose that's true." He said letting go of his frustration to try focus again on his chakara control. It really did help more than Obito liked to admit, feeling his physical pain and mental frustrations fade as his focus on the movements of his chakara.
Obito glanced up at the colossal flower and demonic statue that took up much of the room. Most likely the room was only so big because of the two objects. He didn't like the sight of either of them but the particularly freighting image and growth of a certain human in the flower had him continuity thinking about it.
"Zetsu, I've been wondering... you called that flower that surrounds that statue the Life-bringing Senju Flower, right?" Obito asked looking to Zetsu who nodded. "Then, that human body that's embedded in it, it's the 1st Hokage isn't it?" Obito continued asking, wanting to confirm his thoughts. The face look exactly like the 1st Hokages face on the monument.
Zetsu felt no reason to lie telling Obito completely about it. "Yes, it is clone of the 1st Hokage made as the core life force of the flower." Zetsu explained. "But it voids of will or sentient thought like most plants. It's no threat."
Obito frowned in disgust. "How could Madara do something like this?" Obito questioned concerned.
"The statues power is very hard to control and sustain therefore the flower was created through Hashirama's cells that Madara had attained from his final fight with the man." Zetsu started since he had thought he would have to explain this sooner or later. He had been born from it after all, so Zetsu was willing to explain why Madara needed the all-powerful Senju's power. "Hashirama Senju's was one of kind, his life energy was greater than the kyubi's and..."
Obito interrupted, still mediating and focusing his chakara on the bed. "That's not what I mean. I thought Hashirama and Madara were friends at one point. How could someone do something like this to someone they considered a friend?" He continued to question not understanding how someone could do this to a friend.
Zetsu scratched his head. "It may look like Hashirama and even have his chakara but that does not make it the 1st Hokage." He said trying to comfort Obito as Spiral listened next to him not knowing this.
Obito frowned in some sadness. "But it still came from Hashirama's being. There's no respect behind doing such a thing." He stated as he could never picture himself using his friends for himself, even if they were dead.
Zetsu agreed. "Of course there isn't." He said casually and with ease, making Obito quickly look at him confused. "But don't be mistaken though. Madara has nothing but the highest respect for Hashirama. However, Madara has a dream, an ambition that he wishes to achieve more than anything else. He's even cheating death for it."Zetsu explained, knowing that such treatment of another human was frowned appoint in public human society. There was hardly any excuse for it.
Obito was a commoner by every sense of the word making Zetsu sweat nervously. 'Wonder how Obito will act when finds out I eat humans? And that I like eating them.' He thought not seeing it as creepy or out of the ordinary, but knowing that if the world knew, they would shout "Kill it with fire!"
Obito couldn't fathom the act, feeling angry with Madara again. "He did this to his own friend for his dream and ambition?" He snarled, glaring at the sleeping old man in pure hate from the bed. "There's no respect, care or emotion with it! Just Madara's own selfishness." He scowled adding another reason why he had hated the man and wanted him...
'He...doesn't care...about anything. He should be dead already anyway.' Obito thought darkly suggesting something to himself, looking at Madara who slept.
Zetsu objected. "You're very naive Obito." He said being honest with his thoughts. "All of the strongest and greatest shinobi in the world fight FIRST only for their own desire and ambitions. The life of the shinobi isn't about understanding morals or clean ethics. You do what you want, break what rules you want and get what you want all based on your dream and belief." Zetsu answered having come to believe such. He had seen every countries council's and knew this was the way of things. But he didn't fell conflicted and hateful about it.
Zetsu understood that humans valued supporting and helping one another, but it seemed that the greater population didn't understand that one has to put themselves before others to live and achieve in life. Madara, and most of everyone else, lived by this mature thought process. "Hashirama's cells were needed. Madara needed its strong physical, life energy to contain and control the chakara of the Gedo mazo. He had to choose between his ambition and his friend, he made his choice." Zetsu said feeling that was all he had the right to say about the subject regarding Madara.
He gestured at Obito. "If you want to know about the measure of Madara and Hashirama's friendship you'll have to ask Madara when he wakes up." He stated knowing Obito wanted more info. And it wasn't because he was interested in the morals of right and wrong. "Asking me anymore is disrespecting Madara and makes you look like a hypocrite." Zetsu said shocking Obito at the words. "What, you think I don't know your trying to prove Madara is disrespectful and deserves the hate people give him?" He questioned knowing that was Obito true intentions behind the topic.
Zetsu had become increasingly concerned about the glares and glances of not anger but pure hate from Obito. 'It isn't good.' He thought seeing Obito thinking about it.
"Maybe you're right about me waiting. Maybe." Obito said wanting to just wake the man himself. "But that doesn't make what he did and is doing right." Obito judged in absolute. "I'll wait, but I think there is a question you can answer for me." Obito stated making Zetsu raise his eyebrow.
"What is it?" Zetsu asked as Spiral remained silent next to him.
Obito now knew he couldn't ask about madara motives, but he could ask about what these things were and maybe why. "Why does Madara need Hashirama's cells to control the statues chakara?" Obito questioned wanting to know why Hashirama's cells were that important and why controlling the statue was important. Obito couldn't believe the obvious. "To make himself immortal? I doubt something like that is why he's uses either." Obito stated addressing that the statue and the flower were two different things.
Zetsu shrugged, only slightly impressed. "You do have some common sense? Or maybe you're coming to sympathise with Madara." Zetsu said grinning, seeing that Obito understood that immortally was a small thing in Madara's eyes. Obito glared at the words not wanting to bridge a relationship anywhere near Madara. But Zetsu actually and genuinely really wanted to two to get along. "Either way I'm sorry because I won't tell you." Zetsu finished as there were things that he wasn't suppose to say.
Obito continued to glare but pleaded. "Then what about where he got that demonic statue?" He asked as Zetsu and Spiral didn't say anything. They remained silent making Obito wait, making the boy look away from them to the bed's surface thinking about it.
Obito decided honest wouldn't hurt. "I didn't feel it at first but I'm starting to feels its chakara." He muttered, his eye darted around the cave. "It doesn't look good with my Sharingan either." He said spying the statue's chakara around him. "Its chakara is filtering and drenching everything in this cave with its energy. The ground, the air, the bed, the lights. They all feel...feel..."
Zetsu finished. "Null?" The chakara was indeed empty in its threat. "Relax Obito. It may have a demonic chakara about it but it's only a statue." Zetsu said, lying through his plant-like teeth.
Obito disagreed knowing there more to this. "You say that, and I don't believe it. After being near it for so long, being under its gaze." Obito peered up at the many eyes that were sealed on its face. "I feel...like it's watching me."
Obito's head and eye moved to look at the different spots of the cave, feeling as if eyes were surrounding him. From the ground, to the ceiling, to madara, to the plant men. Even the air, lights and shadows. Watching him, judging him. "Like it's staring straight through me from every direction." Obito's eye darted to dark corners and areas of the cave that were blindingly black. "Especially the chakara that's in the..sha..." He breathed heavier, mumbling the words.
Zetsu and Spiral heard him though. "Shadows? What you talking about?" Zetsu pointed out, calling Obito out.
"I didn't say shadows." Obito denied.
Zetsu denied that too though. "Yes you did and you know it." Zetsu had seen him, from time to time looking at the darkest spots in the cave. "You've be staring at them at times during your recovery. You start to sweat and breath heavier whenever you look at the shadows of the cave. Your chakara control practically shakes and dissolves when you look at them." Zetsu lectured remembering the images of chakara when he sensed them.
Spiral spoke for the first time in ages. "Senpai thinks Obito's afraid of the dark." He said without thought.
"I didn't say that!" Zetsu objected.
Obito objected. "I'm not afraid of the dark!" He hesitated.
Obito shivered, feeling as if he had lied. Obito continued though, struggling to accept such. "Even if I am, it's not my fault!" He said pointing at them with his good arm, his bandage holding and covering his healing arm. "It's your fault." He said in anger again.
Obito reflected on everything and the way things were know. The darkness of the healing provided by madara would never leave his head. "I...I don't think I'll ever feel the same about anything again and it's all because of you lot." He cringed.
Nothing would be the same. He had changed more than he had realised and the experience haunted him. His new body and chakara was proof of change and the rough, scar on his face was proof that it was completely his fault and choice. He had every right to feel as insecure as he did right now.
Not only that but the chakara that was surrounding him and soaking everything. The chakara he had learnt to sense and feel only because he was stuck in its presence for so long.
It was empty but Obito could feel its presence in his use of stream, inside of him. He trembled thinking about it. "I can feel the demonic statues chakara inside of me. It's very small and it's not doing anything but its moving within my chakara. It's been harmless but still..." Obito spoke in concern as his caretakers listened.
Zetsu wasn't a arguing or opposing type, but he was blunt and frank with his thoughts. "Does it worry you?" He started questioning Obito rhetorically and curiously, offending Obito. "Having changed so much in such a small amount of time? Having Hashirama's cells infused with your being? Having some of that demonic statues chakara as a part of you? Originally, both were only suppose to replace the destroyed parts of your body. But you wanted to get out of here sooner, so accepted a treatment that permanently change you DNA and body through jutsu." He said as Obito listened, slowly grimacing at the words. "Hashirama's cells and the Gedo Mazo chakara will most probably grow with you, especially since you're only just going into puberty." Zetsu said remembering the calculations made by Madara.
Obito didn't like any of it. This wasn't part of what he had envisioned for the future. He was scared but was not beaten by it. "I didn't want to be part senju. I don't want that demon statues chakara freely moving through me. And I didn't want to be like you or Spiral. This isn't what I thought would happen." He stated in frustration. Looking away from those near him, he saw Madara again.
He hated it.
Zetsu was curious to Obito's thinkings. "What did you think would happen?" He questioned Obito, not sure what the boy was expecting.
Spiral, being oblivious to the emotions of Obito, spoke only trying to comfort him. "You say all that like it's a bad thing, bro Obito." He said distracting Obito's hate for a moment. "Because of both of those things, you can now regenerate in seconds, no longer require food, sleep or even the need to use a bathroom. You'll never have to pay food bills again and probably won't even need a home to rent." Spiral said with vigour.
Obito's hate surfaced quickly, scoffing the ignorance. "I thought I told you, that I'm nothing like you two. I'm human! I want a home, food, sleep and even a toilet." He said angrily not wanting to lose his old life.
Unaware of everything, Spiral felt insulted by Obito. "Fine, I never thought you were like us anyway. Even when I was trying to be nice and call you brother. You're only a half-brother. A modified body. You can't compare to us." He said sounding stupid and dumb, his ignorance becoming clear to Obito and Zetsu.
Both sweat dropped at the idiot as again, what ice had formed was broken. Spiral shouted in emotional desperation. "Don't think that we don't know how to feel! Why do you even want a toilet anyway?" He shouted, sounding sad, desperate and pleading.
Zetsu sweated at the ignorance. "Spiral, one question at a time. You'll confuse Obito almost as much as you are confusing me."
Spiral thought about it but did not have a brain, literally. He only thought about himself, not selfishly but because he was dumb. "Oh?...Actaully we're better than you will ever be. Even if we can't poop." He said continuing his rant.
Obito growled. "Would you shut up! If you and Zetsu are that much better than me, prove it!" He asked.
Both went silent, looking and then grinned at one another as if there were some kind of joke behind it. Obito looked confused, not know what the hell was going on.
Zetsu said. "We..."
Spiral said. "Are..."
Together they said in union.
"In charge!"
"In charge!"
Obito snapped, not in hate or anger but in annoyance. "Why the hell are you two talking in union?! You two planned to do that didn't you?! You're pissing me off on purpose!" He said comedicly, his hate disappearing again.
Zetsu smiled, laughing. "Calm down. Just take the joke. You know we're suppose be looking after you until your strong enough to be of use to Madara. It wouldn't be good if you hurt yourself. "
Obito frowned again as the insult. "To be of use? That's bullshit." He growled looking at the sleeping Madara. "After he talks about that load of crap dream of his and explains why he isn't letting me leave he, he doesn't even have the balls to look after me himself." Glaring and thinking about the reason he was here, he had come to realise that it was crap. "I don't like having my freedom taken from me because of someone else's paranoia."
Spiral tapped Zetsu's shoulder and whispered to him, loudly. "Senpai, the plan isn't working. I thought if we forced him to stay with a bad excuse long enough, he would eventually do what Madara wants." Spiral glanced quickly at Obito before looking back at Zetsu. "But he's on to us. He's not as bigger bitch as we thought." He commented nonchalantly.
"I CAN HEAR YOU, IDIOT!" Obito said angry and frustrated with his treatment. "I'm going to get out of here, I won't help Madara and I'm going home to my friends Rin and Kakashi!" Obito shouted glaring at them and then turning to Madara to address him. "And I don't care if that old bastard can hear me! Is he even asleep?" He shouted wanting to get the old man's attention.
"He's asleep right now. But usually he isn't sleeping, instead training in his own unique way using the statue and the flower." Zetsu elaborated, having done the training before. "During the training, he's conscious of our actions and words. But he's asleep right now." He finished suspecting that Obito would be doing some time in the future.
Spiral spoke, wanting the attention. "Speaking of sleep, do you know you sleep talk?" He questioned Obito randomly who hesitated at the question. "You keep saying "Rin! Rin! Rin!", so much that its sounds like bell chimes. I tried to sing along with it once." He said as Obito sunk looking embarrassed. "It didn't work." Sprial finished admitting he couldn't sing.
"Sometimes it idiot, idiot, idiot." Zetsu added.
Spiral sighed. "I wish I could sing. Wait, I thought it was Idiot Kakashi or shithead Kakashi?" Spiral questioned Zetsu as Obito remained still thinking about it.
Zetsu nodded. "Ah, yes idiot kakashi does come out occasionally. What is an Idiot Kakashi?" He questioned, then realising focused on Spiral. "I've never heard shithead Kakashi." He said squinting at the sweating Spiral who gave nothing away looking at the ceiling for no reason.
"Maybe the shithead Kakashi is poop. Maybe that's why Obito wants a toilet." Spiral said staring at the ceiling as if he were day dreaming.
"You're making that up. Obito never said shithead Kakashi." Zetsu declared not believing Spirals words.
Obito mumbled silent, going blue and unable to hear the gossiping clones. "I still sleep talk. And I've been staying stuff like that?" He muttered embarrassed. He had thought that he had stopped talking in his sleep but it was now the gossip amongst plant-men. Another perfect piece to add to his misery.
Noticing his caretakers whispering, Obito narrowed his eye suspicious. Spiral raised his hand, like a child in class. "Um, excuse me. Half-bro, I have a question." He said.
"Um, Ok?"
Spiral got excited and questioned in the absolute seriousness. "What...is like when you take a dump?! How does it feel when need to use a toilet? Like-"
"You're an idiot Kakashi! Stop talking about shit!" Obito shouted in annoyance, unable to take the inconstancy and obliviousness of Spiral.
"Why are you getting so agitated over that?" Zetsu questioned. 'Although, you have been getting more aggressive lately.' He thought thinking about Obito's overall attitude throughout his stay.
Obito ignored Zetsu, pointing at Spiral. "Spiral, I hate you. I really do!" He said irritated turning to Zetsu as Spiral responded by flipping Obito off with the birdy finger. "Zetsu, where'd those clones of you go? I want to get back to recovering and training." He asked wanting to focus on the recovery again, though having been focusing his chakara this entire time.
Zetsu shrugged. "My clones have gone outside so I'll make a few more." He stated having already showed his clones to Obito. There had been a disturbance not far from the hideout and he needed more clones out, monitoring the world. "Seems that..." He stopped his words, peering at Spiral who continued to give Obito the finger. "...Hey, cut it out." He said noting the stupidity between the two.
Obito's eye widened at the words. "Eh? You guys can go outside? How? Tell me." He questioned for first time discovering that there was a way out. His sole focus was to leave even though he still needed to recover and had...personal business with Madara.
Zetsu explained. "We can freely move through the earth as if it were air without gravity, unrestricted." Zetsu said referring to the Mayfly technique that hid most of his, and Spiral's, presence from the world while connected to any earth or plant-life. It also made them intangible to earth and plant-life based weapons, and allowed them to teleport to any location in the world that was connected to the earth's surface and/or plant-life connected to the earth.
Obito's was surprised they could leave the cave through such means, having hoped there was a hidden exit instead. "The hell? How can you do that?" He questioned confused.
Zetsu was taken back a bit. "How? Since when was moving through the earth hard?" He questioned catching Obito off guard. Zetsu continued. "I'm sure that there at least a thousand genin that can move through the earth through one jutsu or another." He stated knowing that there were many jutsu that could allow one to move through the earth. Although none compared to the Mayfly. "You should have tried to learn one. Would have been useful when you ended up trapped underground."
Obito gritted his teeth, remembering the boulder that had crushed him. "Yeah, well, so what? That doesn't mean I'm going to stay here in this hole quietly." He declared thinking about how he had been changed. "If I'm really connected to you two by blood, teach me how to learn your technique then?" Obito demanded, wanting a way to leave.
"What's wrong with staying here until you've healed?" Spiral asked innocently.
"Well first, I won't have any more stupid conversations." Obito started having had enough of the talks he had with everyone in the cave.
Spiral took it personally. "I'm sorry for talking about poop. I didn't know you were so sensitive." He apologized.
"I wasn't just talking about you!" Obito yelled as Spiral continued to murder the meaning of a serious conversation. "I meant Madara as well. And why the hell does your personally change every 5 seconds?" He asked Spiral.
"Don't take it personally with Madara, Obito." Zetsu said civilly interrupting. "Madara doesn't and never liked talking with kids." He said being blunt. "I don't think he ever liked kids." Zetsu said finishing.
"I don't care how he feels." Obito said brushing Zetsu words off. What annoyed Obito was the words and meaning behind Madara. "All that talk of changing his fate and destiny, and that dream of peace annoys me." He said not accepting that the man really cared about such. Thinking that way, Obito saw Madara as a selfish, bastard that would torture innocent people if he believed it would help him.
'No one like that deserves to bring peace or even claim to be.' Obito thought, hating the dream and ambition of Madara.
Spiral objected though because he knew what Madara's dream was and didn't see anything wrong with. "What's wrong with Madara's ambitions? His dream is basically base on breaking fates chains. He plans to remove all sadness from world, making a dream that only has good things. In a dream like that, where everything and anything you want can be yours. Even the dead can exist in such a place." He lectured sounding for the first time, smart?
Obito did believe there was something obviously wrong, but it pecked his interest. "A dream...where you can get what everything and anything you want?" He questioned wanting to know more. For a moment, Obito imagined his face carved into the Hokage momentum as he stood on the Hokage tower. The red, Hokage hat was on him; Kakashi and everyone else in his class bowing in respect to him. Kagami, Lord 3rd, Minato and Kushina in the background smiling in approval. And Rin by his side holding him close, hugging his arm warmly and slowly approaching to kiss him.
In reality he blushed smiling at space as Zetsu watched squinting and sweating. 'He's blushing again. Thinking about that Rin girl again. Hopeless idiot.'
Spiral in his own little world didn't realise shit as he continued about Madara's ambition, breaking Obito and Zetsu from their thoughts. "It's like making a huge ass dream world, using genjutus, and telling everyone who has an unachievable dream to join." He said sound enthusiastic but then going honest. "Although, the genjutsu will force everyone into it against their wills...for the rest of their lives." He said surprising Obito that it would do so.
"That's horrible." He said disgusted. "There's no way I would let that happen." He said knowing that even as good as it sound, he wouldn't allow people to be forced against their wills into it.
Zetsu laughed it off. "So what, you're going to stop us?" He questioned not convinced.
Obito frowned. "I'll try and will." Obito declared staring into Zetsu's eye determined, but unable to waver Zetsu in the slightest. Obito then smirked and shrugged. "Too bad it would never work." Obito said convinced that they're plans wouldn't work, even if he failed to stop them. "Even if I failed, there's no way it would work. Even genjutsu has its limits, you wouldn't even come close to gaining the power and chakara needed for something like that. And I very much doubt Madara could take on the whole shinnbi world. Hundreds of thousands of shinobi world wide, thousand with rare jutsu and ability and at least a hundred at the same level as him." Obito said not believing the world to be so small.
"He wouldn't even last 10 seconds." Obito said believing that against overwhelming quality, quantity and power, Madara would crumble. "It's so stupid, it's meaningless."
Zetsu smirked, thinking off all Madara had learnt and attained over the years. "You underestimate Madara." He said knowing what Madara was. "He's very weak now and would lose no doubt as he is, even if he had allies. But when he's better and attains his full power once more, the world will flip in his presence." He said feeling that once Madara left the cave with the knowledge he had gained throughout these years, and after regaining his youth with his prime abilities and his real eyes. No one would be able to beat him.
Hashirama would never be a challenge to him again. Nor would 9 biju demons born directly connected to a God and fear by any sentient being. They too would fall. Even together they wouldn't last against a full powered, undamaged and youthful Madara.
Spiral spoke as optimistic as ever. "We got much to prepare for, but soon. Very soon, hehehehehe." He mumbled a fake evil laugh looking at Obito who didn't take the clone seriously. "You're more than welcome to join." Spiral asked kindly offering.
Obito thought about what Zetsu said, focusing on one key fact. 'Madara's very weak?' Obito thought, not wanting the man to have things his way. Thinking about Madara his mind unwillingly flash back to the rapid healing, torturing Obito. He didn't react on the outside, having gained some control over the nightmaric, flashes that appear whenever they wanted.
Zetsu could still tell when it happened though.
"I see...not interested." Obito barked back, rejecting the offer. "Like I said, it makes me want to do the opposite." He said looking at Zetsu then Madara. "Maybe I should stop you before I leave this god awful place." He muttered darkly.
Zetsu could see that look of pure hate again. He almost hesitated to ask, but was confident that Obito wasn't a threat he asked. "Stop us? How?"
Obito was still looking at madara when the flash happened again, with nothing but pitch black darkness. "I'll murder Madara." He said, stoic, sick of the pain and nightmares.
Zetsu hadn't expected Obito to actually say it. "Murder? That's a strong word to use." He said but only thought of it as a word. "I don't think you'd actually go through with it, and if you did you would have the shit kicked out of you." He said angering Obito with the arrogance. Then he said something he probably shouldn't have. "Not the best thing to do considering we saved you."
Obito had enough of them feeling that was indebted to them. "I never asked anything of that old bastard!" He shouted back. "I won't let someone like him do something so selfish, changing the world for himself. I'll kill him before he does anything! I WILL!" He shouted in hate, no longer caring about what Zetsu, Spiral or even Madara thought.
Zetsu confronted Obito on the hate and anger, feeling unthreatened. "Whenever we talk about Madara you get really angry and aggressive. Why do you suddenly hate him so much?" Zetsu asked as Madara had assured him Obito would not try to openly object him or even suggest killing him.
Obito started. "Why wouldn't I? He's dream of peace is nothing but a selfish wish to have everything he ever wanted. He'll take and ruin peoples life's for himself." Obito said explaining how madara only cared for himself.
'Like he's done to me.'
Zetsu looked at Spiral who looked back not believing Obito. Zetsu spoke looking at it from a broader perspective.
"Everyone wants something different. What they want, personally, will be valued over the desires of others. Even if it's forbidden, leaving someone else with nothing but pain. They would take it and make it theirs for themselves. I don't see how you see Madara that differently from other people." Zetsu said, having seen it all too often in the world. Sure he did selfish things for Madara and killed innocents for it, but he accepted this reality. A reality that everyone does this. Rather than denying it.
Spiral started using it. "That's why a dream world is better. Where no one suffers and everyone still gets what they want. Boundless food, drink, money and gold; a home safe and free of violence to sleep and relax in forever; more of friends and lovers than you'd ever get in the real world that will love you and want to create and be a part of your family; power, strength, authority and dominance to protect, command and control all of these things in your favour, and to make others bend to your will; to have the world say that you mean something, that your needed and wanted: and that you can gain eternally happiness beyond your wildest and freest dreams. What wrong with giving everyone these things?" Spiral finished change his tone, having spoken in a commanding and respected tone.
Obito hesitated has it didn't sound too bad to have all those things. But he still didn't agree with the method. Before he could say anything though, Zetsu spoke.
"You can't honestly tell us that there are things you want but know that you will never have." Zetsu whispered. "But this isn't about Madara's ambition of a dream world, is it?" He questioned surprising both Obtio and Spiral.
"Huh?"
Spiral turned to Zetsu. "Huh, it isn't. Since when was about something else?" He questioned confused.
"Try to keep up Spiral." Zetsu said smiling.
Spiral questioned it again. "Huh? But-but my speech was so long, and I work so hard on it." He pleaded having memorized the whole thing. Be serious, of course he didn't think of all that on the spot!
"Don't worry Spiral. You still did good." Zetsu said supporting him. "This isn't about what Madara wants, this about what Obito wants. It's about the changes to Obito's body that Madara did, though I don't see any problem with it." Zetsu said calmly and frowning bored like.
Zetsu continued. "As Spiral said before, you're better off with the changes. Because you're a modified human you have advantages better than me and Spiral. You resilience to disease, age, poison, temperature and physical strain has sky rocketed to near super human levels and will only increase as you age." He said knowing that Obito had gained alot more than this and Obito wouldn't be able to change it. "If you say no to joining us, you'll still be able to get stronger through the changes to achieve your own dream." He said as Obito continued to frown. "You'll get your dream because of Madara. Accept it."
Obito wouldn't accept it, why would he? "I don't owe Madara anything!" Obtio objected. "I didn't ask for this! You have changed me permanently and I don't know how to change back." He cursed. "So what other choice do I have but to hate him for it? I have no choice!" He stated as from the very moment he had ended up in this tomb, he hadn't made a single choice that was in his control.
Practically snaring. "So please, don't act as if I'm entitle to you lot. Because I know you didn't do this to me for the right reasons. There is nothing you could tell me that could make me see this change as positive." Obito finished.
Zetsu countered perfectly not trying to change Obito's thought but erasing the factor of all of Madara's ambition in his answer. "You're hating Madara because he's hurt you and because of an image someone else has forced on you. If it were someone else other than Madara that saved you, you wouldn't care about such small details. You're a child." He said nonchalantly but smiling.
Zetsu knew that Obito knew of Madara's dark legend. If were someone else like a kage or a hero, Obito would follow without question.
"To hell with you, Zetsu!" Obito shouted seeing the ease in which Zetsu said the words. Obito shifted and got of the bed, walking over to Madara's sleeping form. "I'm waking that old bastard up." Obito said greatly concerning his caretakers.
Spiral flinched not liking it. "Seriously! Obito, don't be stupid." He said child-like yet seriously, knowing that it was bad idea.
Zetsu was relaxed but advised against it. "I wouldn't do that." Zetsu said without care. It did nothing as Obito continued to walk away. Zetsu nugged Spiral to act. "Spiral, if you would." He asked as Spiral nodded in understanding.
Spiral right arm rose to the side pointing out. "Ok. Wood style: Morph." He said as out of his plant-like palm grew a sharp wooden point, extending and extending. Until, Spiral quickly gripped down on it snapping the thin wooden javelin from his palm before readying himself to throw it. "Hey Obito." He said trying to get Obito attention. It didn't work though as Obito continued to walk away ignoring him. Spiral continued to call him getting frustrated. "Obito. Obito! OBITO!" Spiral yelled in fury.
Obito turned angry and pissed at the subordinate. "Wh-AHH!" Obito quickly jumped to the side dodging as a wooden javelin was thrown straight at him piercing into the ground. Looking at the weapon that would have killed him, Obito sweated then grew angry. "What the hell? Are you trying you kill me?" Obito shouted back in shock.
Zetsu was surprised and sweating in fear. "Spiral, you Idiot! You nearly hit Obito." He said voicing his worrying as Spiral wasn't suppose to hurt him. Just stop him through threatening.
Spiral apologized. "I'm sorry. I'm not as good at throwing has I thought." Spiral said like an idiot before making another him his palm.
Obito saw Spiral create the spear with his sharingan and panicked. "Wait! I thought you were looking after me!" Obito shouted at the two of them.
"We are looking after you." Zetsu responded. "It's just - spiral can't throw that well."
"Don't worry, this time I will throw it at bro Obito. That way I should miss." Spiral said not comforting anyone.
"Don't throw anything!" Zetsu seethed but tried to calm down the situation. "We don't want to hurt you. We want to get you stronger. But waking up Madara is not a good idea." He spoke to Obito.
Obito thought about it knowing that the help was only for Madara's benefit. He spied the spear stuck in the ground seeing it had cleanly stabbed into it. Obito got up, speaking slowly, not believing it. "You...want me to get stronger...for Madara." He said walking over to the spear before easily pulling it out to feel it was heavy and smooth. But he could still hold it easily with his good arm. He turned to the sleeping figure, took a deep breath as his chakara streamed through his body empowering him greater than the average human.
He flinched feeling another flash of pain and darkness taking his balance, almost forcing him to buckle. He bit down hard on his teeth, the flashing pain reminding him of what this old bastard had put him through. Obito frown and growled. "I've had enough of this "imprisonment for you own good" crap!" He growled in hate, bursting from him spot, sprinting at Madara, the spear in his left hand at the ready to kill Madara.
Zetsu realised and thought he would have to use the sporulation jutsu but still pleaded at the last second. "NO! Obito! Stopp!" Zetsu shouted.
Obito was 10 metres from Madara as he mumbled in hate. "This for torturing me and trying to turn me into one of your lackeys." He shouted at Madara only 7 metres away. "DIE OLD MA..."
Obito didn't finish as he froze on the spot, his sharingan flaring red and widening at the feeling of killing intent radiating from the sleeping Uchiha. It was silent, unmoving and suffocating to feel, as Obito felt a cold sweat run down his whole body. It didn't feel like the killing intent he felt before which tired to force him into submission, feeling more threatening, powerful and savage.
Nowhere near as frightening as the red samurai and sun, but still greater than the predatory killing intent he had felt before. Obito wouldn't attack or approach any further.
'What? What? He? He?' Obito panicked and unconsciously used the shunin no jutsu faster than he ever had before to retreat. He reappeared behind the bed and behind Spiral and Zetsu. Only wanting to put distance between himself and the sleeping monster that he thought would decapitated him if he didn't move away.
Zetsu lightly turned his head to squint out the corner of his eye to the boy breathing heavily and sweating behind him.
Spiral didn't move a muscle, aware of what had happened and that Obito was behind him. Spiral didn't need to turn as he didn't even have eyes to look with.
Using killing intent while asleep wasn't easy or even thought to be possible in the shinobi world. But Madara had learnt it only a few years ago, surprising Zetsu when he once tried to approach the master only to retreat back as fast as he could. 'I suppose Lord Madara is luckly that he learnt that skill. But still, I would have used my justu if Obito had gotten any closer.' Zetsu thought as he quickly turned off the spores he had activated on Obito.
Obito's sharigan flared seeing Zetsu blitz in front of Madara to the location Obito was last standing, using the shunshin no Jutsu at such a speed that Obito 3 comatose sharigan couldn't see.
The shunshin no jutsu always had the power to break barriers of speed, the same as the substitution jutsu. Thus also showcasing the value of the C-rank jutsu's that could if used by the strong, could change the law of physics. But using it at such a speed was considered extremely difficult to do, breaking the sound barrier for example would use enough chakara to create 500 paper bomb seals. Add the fact that the shunshin no jutsu has a drastic distance limit depending on the person, and the use at such speed would be considered impossible for an average shinobi.
But this was common in top tier shinobi. And Zetsu and Spiral were made for the purpose of one day being an S-rank shinobi.
This white Zetsu was no joke.
Zetsu's attitude changed instantly. "Obito. Stop." Zetsu said for the first time sounding stoic and intimidating with the clear threat, staring lazily at the boy more than 30 metres away. Although being defensive, Zetsu deformed appearance wasn't as threatening and frightening as one would think taking away some seriousness from the threat.
Obito breathed heavy looking at Zetsu than to Spiral who held a new wooden spear ready to throw any distance. Obito's eye widen, thinking about it and he smirked shaking his head. "Sorry Zetsu. But I will not live my life knowing I ran from a sleeping old man that could ruin lives. I won't let him get away with anything." Obito said glaring, determined and furious. 'From this distance Madara's killing intent doesn't reach me. But...'
Obito readied the spear in his hand, lifting it and aiming it at the sleeping Uchiha as Zetsu continued to stare bored and in thought.
'This shouldn't be happening. Stupid emotional boy is letting his emotions have to much control. Letting you're emotions control you never works with people who aren't born better and special!' Zetsu thought wondering why this aggressive behavior was happening and if Obito's experience in the rapid healing was really so hellish that it would blind him into attacking the Madara Uchiha. He squinted trying to understand as this wasn't the boy he had seen in Obito's memories. 'He's body isn't the only thing that drastically changed. His attitude, behaviour and emotions have reshaped quite a bit as a result of the rapid healing.'
"HAAA!" Obito threw it straight and hard as it whistled through the cave's thin air. And Zetsu step in front of it.
SINK
It sunk and pierced through his head, getting stuck half way through as Zetsu's body wobbled and swayed somehow taking the impact. His knees buckled like a dead man and he fell back as the spear hit the ground first bending to Zetsu's loose body as the plant-clone man landed on his back in an awkward position.
"ZETSU SENAPI!" Spiral shouted as he run to Zetsu and fell to his knees sobbing. Obito stood back astonished as for the first time he had impaled someone through the head. Though, he tried brushed it off having...tired...to harmed people in very dirty and bloody ways before. Maybe not killed or maimed successfully, but he had seen other people cause death enough for it to only slightly waver him.
But Zetsu wasn't a bad person really which made Obito feel sick for a moment as he would never had acted on such instincts and ideals before coming here. He felt guilty but shook his head to see that Madara was still asleep.
A flash of darkness again, riddled and stormed through Obito's head as his whole body tensed. 'No. I won't let this fear control me. I refuse to return home afraid of the dark. I refuse to let rin see me like this.'
"OI! Half Bro! You Killed Zetsu!" Spiral shouted standing again, pointing and clearly angry. Spiral twirled and twisted the spear in his hand by his wrist, getting ready to attack. "You won't die, but will pay!"
Before Obito had the chance to respond to Spiral, Zetsu's hand twitched followed by the whole body that featured a impaled head as Zetsu got back up.
If Spiral had a spine one would have heard it snap as his head turned to the standing and impaled Zetsu. "HAAAA. ZOMBIE!" Spiral shouted, throwing his hands in up and the spear up into the air with freight, swiftly jumping behind Obito's bed and grabbing the bed sheet to cover himself. He shivered in fear crouching behind and watching from under the sheet as Obito gasped wide eyed wondering what happened.
"You're...You're..." He questioned astounded at the sight of the Zetsu standing casually with a wooden spear half way through the right side of his face. It was unnatural and clearly impossible to the common man, confirming Obito's cautious to the possibilities of Zetsu's abilities. Probably would have scared the average person seeing something so impossible, but then again Obito had witness the Yellow flash move faster than light, experience a power unlike anything before from Madara and he had his body destroy and rebuilt for 8 days straight. Impossible wasn't that impossible anymore.
But still, Obito's mind refocused with an irritated frown thinking of how beat Zetsu should the need come, but seeing this made Obito afraid of fighting Zetsu.
Zetsu grabbed the front of the spear sticking out of his head, and had some trouble pulled it out of his thick, soft head. He spoke while trying to pull it out, struggling to do so. "I didn't think you would actually do it. What is wrong with you?" Zetsu questioned god-smacked.
Obito growled back lowly. "I was aiming at Madara! You stepped in the way." He accused pointing at Zetsu.
"Of course I did. I stopped you."
"By allowing a spear to impale your head?" Obito questioned with eyebrow raised.
Zetsu stopped trying to pull it out to shrug. "It worked and made you rethink your actions." Zetsu said before violently ripped the spear out of his head sounding gory. Spiral pretended to faint hearing and seeing this, his head disappearing from peering from behind the bed. Zetsu shrugged again pointing the spear at Obito as the hole in his head sealed and regenerated back to normal. "Though only for a bit. You got over your regret quickly? Why?" Zetsu questioned curious and guarded.
Obito took a step back, the question hitting him hard. It wasn't like he would just killed people without regret, a fact being that he hardly ever hurt people let alone kill them. But he found his reasoning with a fury. "Why didn't I feel regret? I don't care about you or Madara or Spiral. I don't care about your reasons or excuses anymore." He shouted glaring. "I'll kill Madara if I have the chance. I'll speak to him if he cares to, but anything else and I'll kill him in his sleep. I want to leave and go home." He finished again.
SINK
The spear that impaled Zetsu was sticking out of the ground near Obito's feet, making Obito move back suddenly. Obito hadn't seen it hit the ground and Zetsu hardly moved when he threw it suggesting that his muscle and strength were not normal either. Zetsu could have killed him right there and then.
Zetsu looked impatient. "You're going to need that if you want any chance of hurting me. You'll have to beat me to do anything, and we both now you can't do that." Zetsu said casually. "But because I'm a generous person I'll tell you a trick to get out of here. Maybe you'll weight your options."
Obito eye widen a the statement and nodded. Zetsu pointed at the boulder behind Obito. "The boulder sealing the exit can only be destroyed with a punch. It has a seal that stops ninjutsu based attack but his weak against Taijutsu. You can only leave when you're physical strong enough to destroy it with a punch." Zetsu said as it was the final test for Obito.
Zetsu said this because he didn't want to put Obito at risk fighting him. Wanting Obito to instead see the other option and back off. If Obito was going to go so far to leave, then Zetsu was willing to tell him how to leave to stop his foolishness.
Obito frowned not even considering it, only seeing and acting on what he was feeling. "There's no way I can get that strong." He started disappointing Zetsu. "So the easier method would be to beat you and Madara." Obito wanted to beat them, to make them pay for his pain. He didn't want to blame himself anymore.
Obito reached down to the spear at his feet and pulled it out smirking. "I thought doctors hated when their patients did what they want anyway." He commented.
Zetsu wasn't impressed. "I'm no doctor. I'm here to make you stronger. I'm a trainer." He said as that was all he had to do. How he did it didn't matter to Madara. If making Obito stronger meant sparring and beating the shit out of him, Zetsu would do it.
Obito would eventually go back to meditative training soon enough.
"Fine." Obito said, bursting into a sprint, his weapon raised as Zetsu stood fast. It wasn't for the best, but physical training was fine with Zetsu. It was well within the bounds of Madara's plan.
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Been a while since I updated this story, but uni has been busy and its been a good year so far.
In this chapter I'm trying to show Obito's personality changing and how absolute Madara and Zetsu are in there plans and there view of the world.
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