Author Notes: First of all, I've added a few important links to my profile. That list includes a link to my DeviantArt account. There I'll post some drawings I'm making to illustrate this fanfic's characters. I've already posted two of the ANBUs Towa and Komachi, plus two others of Sasuke and Suigetsu as they will appear in the next arc. As I'm not so good in describing one's attire, you guys should really look into this.

This chapter's a lot different than usual. There will be many information revealed and I'll let out some loose ends to develop in the future, so be focused as you read it. If there's something you don't understand, either speak about it on a review or in a PM, so I can clarify it.

The title was changed at the last second. Not "The Mole", but...

Chapter 23 - Madara's Cursed Will

"Are you sure you're alright, Hinata?" Sakura asked yet again, despite having already confirmed that the heartbeat of the Hyuga heiress was normal again.

"Yes." Hinata assured once more. If someone else was in Hinata's position at that moment, that someone would be annoyed for sure with so much insistence. "We must hurry."

"You heard her. Lead the way, Hinata." Kakashi asked for and Hinata immediately darted towards the hideout's direction, being followed by the other five shortly after. "Start thinking about what to do, Shikamaru."

"There's nothing to think about this troublesome situation." Shikamaru immediately answered, causing everyone to look at him by the corner of their eyes. "He's Madara Uchiha. He has a seemingly unbeatable space-time ninjutsu that prevents us from capturing or even hitting him. There's not much we can do."

"But there is something, right? You said seemingly unbeatable." Sakura hopefully stated. Shikamaru sighed, seemingly disappointed.

"According to Kakashi-sensei's reports, his own Mangekyo Sharingan seems to be able to stall him. Unfortunately, that would only be useful if we had someone with a good long-range attack." Shikamaru started.

"Your shadows won't do?" Choji questioned.

"They're too slow. He'll dodge Kakashi-sensei's jutsu and make it absorb my shadows. Besides, that's exactly why it has to be a long range one. You don't want to get caught in sensei's Kamui, right?" Shikamaru rhetorically asked. Choji and Sakura, who had witnessed the jutsu first hand, gulped after imagining the scene. "Barriers delay space-time ninjutsu, but none of us is skilled at that and we would still need a good sensor around."

"And I'm still too fresh at that..." Ino mumbled, thinking that she could have started to learn her clan's sensory jutsus earlier.

"Finally, and this is yet to be proved, there's a small chance Naruto's senjutsu can do the trick." Shikamaru continued.

Flashback

"Let's end this...Madara!"

"Gaara-kun..." Kakashi mumbled before he started to feel the sand below him shaking. Surprisingly, Gaara didn't seem to be expecting that. A large amount of sand was raised and from it came Naruto, orange markings around his yellow eyes. Shocking was the size of the sphere of chakra in his hand. "Oh my..."

"Sage Art: Super Odama Rasengan" Naruto slammed the huge sphere of chakra into Madara's body. A loud explosion occured, causing the sand pile to crumble almost completely.

End of Flashback

"Even though it barely hit Madara, Naruto's Sage Mode Rasengan was still able to take part of his mask." Kakashi remembered. "I first thought that Madara warped slower that time due to his chakra levels being low at the moment, but lately I've been thinking about a certain influence of his natural energy."

"So the best way to save Naruto...is through Naruto?" Sakura ended up asking.

"The problem with that possibility, which is already slim if true, is that Madara must be aware of that as well. Even if we try to help, Madara won't let Naruto make use of Sage Mode. Plus, we don't know Naruto's state. He may already be incapacitated or worse." Shikamaru heavily sighed and, only then, noticed the angry look in Sakura's face and the worried one in Hinata's. "By worse I mean put in a genjutsu and taken away."

"C'mon, Shikamaru! You said there's not much we can do. Doesn't that mean we can do something?" Ino angrily spoke. "Make use of your 200 plus IQ and stop worrying them, damn it!"

"I'm just saying things as they are. Troublesome women..." Shikamaru inaudibly whispered the last two words. "The only thing I believe we can do, is to force Madara to retreat."

"That's the great idea?" Ino asked in desbelief.

"Would you let me explain?" The annoyed Shikamaru countered and she ended up nodding. "Since we can't capture him or defeat him, we can only back him against the wall."

"I still don't get it." Choji interrupted. "If we could do that, wouldn't we be able to capture him or defeat him?"

"Not quite the same, Choji. There's no way to defeat or capture Madara if he keeps on escaping our attacks, but..." Shikamaru finally let out a confident smirk. "...by escaping, Madara has to use chakra and if he uses too much chakra..."

"There will be a point he won't be able to escape anymore!" Sakura realized and Shikamaru nodded.

"Impressive thinking, Shikamaru." Kakashi complimented. "You want us to bombard him with our attacks and force him to waste chakra, until he was only the enough quantity to escape one last time."

"I believe he won't risk himself with such low chakra levels, so that's what I'm expecting him to do. If he was a fool, we would even be able to do what Choji said, capturing or even kill him perhaps." Shikamaru's expression then darkened once more. "I only see a couple of problems with that. First is that neither me, Choji, Kakashi-sensei, nor Hinata are at 100% and it's sure to assume Naruto and Nawirama-san aren't as well. The second problem resides in Madara's other ocular ability, the one of turning us against eachother."

"As for the latter, an emotional shock may release you from the illusion. It worked with the Kages." Kakashi remembered.

"And for the first point you made, even if we have to exceed our limits, we'll take Naruto out of that hideout with us." Choji added, causing everyone to cheer up immediately, except for Shikamaru whose expression darkened even more.

"Choji, I forbide you." Shikamaru's words were close to a hiss, that shocked everyone around him. "You won't use those pills again, damn it!"

"What's wrong, Shikamaru?" Choji asked calmly and with a huge grin on his face. Sakura initially thought it was the same as one of Sai's fake smiles. "Didn't we make a promise? Didn't we promise to help Naruto, Sakura and Ino to get Sasuke back? To help them and protect them while they do so? Naruto is in that situation because he went after Sasuke, so we have to do our all to help Naruto and protect him."

"If you remember that, then you remember what we promised if one of us fell, don't you?" Shikamaru immediately countered. "Do you want to create a cycle of hatred and revenge for nothing, Choji?"

"What will you hate if I destroy him with one hit? Madara is the biggest obstacle in our way to reach Sasuke, so if there's a chance to take him out, wouldn't you do it?" Choji asked, while he raised one fist to illustrate his point. Ino just looked away to the other side and Shikamaru, who opened his mouth to answer, decided not to do it.

Flashback

Some time had passed since they both left Ino's house, after Choji went there to take her to the Hokage announcement. She didn't say a word since then and Choji didn't knew what to do. It was so difficult for him to see her like that. Every since they learned what was happening to Sasuke she had been with a huge depression. Choji tried to support her in every way he could but it wasn't working. Perhaps if he had the guts before, he could have avoided this.

"You really like him don't you?" Choji eventually asked. Ino slowly lifted her head and turned to him. Her eyes were sore from all the nights crying for Sasuke. She stared at him and saw the sad smile in his face. "I'm going to tell you the truth Ino, I hate that bastard. Everything he has done has hurt you and our friends." Ino turned her head down once again as her eyes were starting to get wet. "But if that makes you happy, I'll do everything I can to bring him back. Even if it costs my life." Ino looked again to Choji and this time she couldn't hold her tears.

"Ch-Choji...th-thank you." Ino sobbed before hugging Choji, whose sad smile came back once again.

"It's alright. I promise we'll get him back."

End of Flashback

"Choji..."

"Do you think they can hold Madara until we reach them, Kakashi-sensei?" Choji asked to the Sharingan user as soon as Ino started to speak. He understood what Ino was about to say, but he was still willing to keep his promise.

"Nawirama has a great amount of chakra." Kakashi admitted, agreeing in changing the subject slightly. "Maybe if we're lucky, he has been doing what we just planned."

"Choji, you've made your choice, haven't you?" Shikamaru thought as he stared into the back of his best friend. "You've found a reason that justifies bringing Sasuke back. Even if things go wrong, even if one of us dies, you'll make sure to bring him back, won't you? Just to make the loudmouth happy, you'll try to stop the cycle of hatred. Tsk...I guess I would do the same if I were in your shoes. Damn women are so troublesome..."

"Will of Fire?" Madara asked before he erupted in laughter. "Do you really believe in that crap? Oh, wait...You're a Senju, of course you do."

"I confess I had a hard time in finding it." Nawirama sadly admitted, as he remembered being refused to return to the village multiple times. "But yeah, I found my Will of Fire and I firmly believe in it."

"So tell me, young Senju, is it really worth it? Is it worth it to love your village and its people? To fight for them? To cherish them?" Madara questioned and Nawirama seemed a bit surprised at first. The fact was that he was actually struggling to find an answer.

Flashback

"So...I'm a freakin' Jounin now and I've never been on a freakin' mission." Nawirama complained as he kept on walking with his hands behind his head. His mother closely followed him, her right eyebrow twitching furiously.

"Six months ago, they evaluated your leading skills at the Chunin Exams. What you pulled on your match against Shikaku was exactly what is wanted for a Chunin. This time, Minato evaluated your battle skills, which are enough to become a Jounin, even though I'm against it since you don't have enough battle experience." Tsunade explained one more time. "In case you can get back to the village someday, you'll be able to perform high level missions from the start."

"I'll throw a huge party when that day arrives." Nawirama mumbled. "I mean, Orochimaru left the village a year ago."

"Didn't Minato tell you just awhile ago? Even though our main worry back then was Orochimaru, there's still the Uchiha and Hyuga clans to worry about. The Uchihas would ask for your execution the moment they knew." Tsunade remembered. "Besides, after we thought about it, it's just too weird that the leader of the ANBU Root Division, that rat Danzo, was the only one in favor of you staying in the village. Plus, we're still not totally sure if that girl Anko isn't in cahoots with Orochimaru and..."

"Ma..." Nawirama interrupted his mother, as he felt a powerful and foul chakra coming from Konoha. In fact, a second later, Tsunade had already turned in that direction. "Isn't that...the chakra of what's inside Kushina-neechan?"

"The seal has considerably weakened, but nothing should've happened yet. It's a week too soon for it to..." Tsunade's eyes widened as her son darted towards the village. "Nawirama!"

"Like I would let you stop me from helping this time!" Nawirama shouted back as he continued to run in Konoha's direction.

(...)

"No way..." Nawirama mumbled as he stood before the huge crater in the centre of the village. The Kyuubi had disappeared awhile ago, but only now did he reach the battlefield. On the centre, there were half a dozen people surrounding something. He knew he couldn't do a thing anymore and that it was risky for him to be seen, but he had a feeling he should go there.

"Someone's coming." One of the present ANBU said as he noticed the young boy running towards them. As he got closer, all three ANBUs got a hold of him, stopping him from proceeding.

"Hey! What's going on? Where did the fox go?" Nawirama shouted, while he tried to get himself free from the older men's grip.

"How did you get out of Shinku Yuhi's barrier?" A second ANBU inquired. From behind the ANBUs, Hiruzen Sarutobi turned his head slightly to look at the scene, before standing up.

"Let him pass." The retired Third Hokage ordered. The ANBUs immediately obeyed and Nawirama stared in his direction. What caught his eyes wasn't the old man, but the two pairs of legs laying on the ground behind him, the rest of their bodies hidden from view by Hiruzen's figure. There were two people there, either injured or dead. "You three go and raise a barrier around the crater. I don't want anyone else to reach this place. Only Tsunade is allowed to come through, I'm sure she'll come right away."

"Hai." The three masked men nodded and immediately left to form a perimeter around the area, without asking any questions.

"You've grown since I last saw you in April's Chunin Exams. About half an inch, I think." Hiruzen tried to lighten the situation, but Nawirama didn't take his eyes from what was behind the Third Hokage. Realizing that, Hiruzen advanced in his direction and put both his hands on his shoulders. "Nawirama-kun..."

"I'm not stupid. You wouldn't let me stay if it wasn't something related to me..." Nawirama was trying his best to not cry in that situation. "I felt Kushina-neechan...the chakra of what was inside of her, from far away...that would only be possible if that thing came out."

"You shouldn't see them, Nawirama." Hiruzen stated as the young boy tried to push his hands away. Surprisingly, Hiruzen's strength was much more than what one would expect from his old body. "Let's wait for your mother."

"No! Let me..." Nawirama managed to shift his head into a position that allowed him to see beyond Hiruzen, before his eyes widened as much as they could. Hiruzen sighed in defeat and released him. Now that he had seen it, there was no point in holding him. Nawirama slowly walked towards the corpses, his mouth open but no sound coming from it. Near the corpses, Homura Mitokado was preparing a large scroll to seal them, so no one would see the bodies. Koharu Utatane was about to lift their arms, but stopped as she saw the kid coming closer. Looking away from Nawirama, the female adviser stood and went to Homura's side.

Nawirama wasn't surprised by seeing who laid dead in front of him. He had been sure of who they were since Hiruzen allowed him to stay. She, with long bright-red hair that reached her calves. He, with spiky blond hair and wearing the regular Konoha attire. Both, hugged against eachother and with smiles on their faces.

Nawirama wasn't surprised by seeing their bodies covered in blood, the result of something huge piercing the abdominal region of both Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze. Hiruzen had tried to prevent him from seeing the enormous holes in their bodies, but Nawirama didn't really care at the moment.

What surprised Nawirama was what was under their arms. They weren't really hugging eachother. They were hugging their newborn son. Unusually small, due to him being born a week earlier than he should, with his father's blond hair and strange whisker marks on his cheeks that surely came from what was inside of his mother. He was peacefully sleeping, without a worry in the world.

Nawirama decided to pick him, so he carefully took Kushina and Minato's arms away. Only then did he notice the seal glowing in his nephew's belly, before he felt a hand on his shoulder. Hiruzen's face was covered in tears as he stood by his side. Nawirama realized immediately what that child's future would be. Taking the baby into his arms, he finally let out the tears he had been holding since he arrived.

End of Flashback

"What can I say, Madara? I haven't been an active shinobi, so it's kinda hard to describe it, but..." Nawirama looked away towards Naruto for awhile before continuing. "While I was on the shelf, I wasn't able to protect the ones I cared about. That pained me a lot. I felt completely useless...But now, I can do that! The feeling of being able to help the ones I love, to protect them...it's amazing! It's what's giving me strength to continue to fight!"

"Love, friendship...what is that worth in the end? What is that worth in our world?" Madara questioned with his arms stretched to both sides of his body. "Let's put it this way...Imagine that the shinobi world is at complete peace. No wars, no conflicts. Everyone lives under that philosophy of love and friendship...Then, there's this mission where shinobi from village A is sent on a mission to retrieve some important documents. During the mission, he finds shinobi from village B who was sent on the same mission. Since shinobi villages depend on being hired for missions, their shinobi must guarantee the success of those missions. So, shinobis A and B engage in battle for the documents, with shinobi A killing shinobi B."

"Your point?" Nawirama asked.

"Love turns into hatred, hatred into vengeace and that vengeance will generate even more hatred. It won't stop!" Madara waved his hands as he explained. "I've lived for over a century, boy! I've seen it happen time and time again! It still happens today! Love isn't the answer to peace! Only through force and by showing your strength can you achieve it!"

"War is your answer to peace? It sounds more like you just want to dominate the world!" Naruto shouted furiously.

"You accuse us of following a love philosophy that leads to hatred, but isn't your own called Curse of Hatred?" Nawirama remembered the much older shinobi. "Doesn't that tell you something?"

"Foolish boys, you're still too fresh... It's called Curse of Hatred because it is the Uchiha clan's fate to hate and to be hated by whoever doesn't agree with this belief. Once more, a result of the Will of Fire brought by the Senju clan...Since they had the power after Konoha was built, they oppressed the Uchiha clan because our ideals weren't the same. I warned my people before I made the pact of peace with Hashirama, but my words were eventually forgotten..."

"What do you mean by that?" Nawirama spoke.

"Back then, things were a lot different. There weren't shinobi villages. Konoha was the first, after all...There were only shinobi clans. Every clan travelled around the countries, searching for missions to assure their sustenance. Of course, with so many clans doing that, rivalries were bound to happen. The biggest was, without a doubt, between the Uchiha and the Senju clans, especially since we shared common ancestors that didn't see eachother eye to eye..."

"That thing you told me about the two sons of the Sage of the Six Paths?" Naruto asked, as he learned about the origins of the Uchiha and Senju clans when he was in the Land of Iron.

"Sage of the Six Paths?" Nawirama turned in surprise to Naruto and then back to Madara. "Do you really believe in that myth?"

"Want to know why I accepted the truce with Hashirama?" Madara asked, after ignoring Nawirama's disbeliefing question. "Because I actually had a Will of Fire back in the day."

"What?" Both Konoha shinobi asked in unison.

"Oh yes, I had. I loved my clan. I would give everything for each of my comrades back then...So, after seeing so many of them die in skirmishes against the Senju clan, I had to accept it, but..." Madara then closed his right hand tightly into a shaking fist. "Hashirama tricked me! He didn't fulfill his part of the deal!"

"That's hard to believe..." Nawirama stated.

"The deal was that the leaders of both clans would rule Konoha together! That's how it was for awhile, until Hashirama sold his love speech to the other clans! The Hyugas who hated us even more than they hated the Senjus, the Akimichis and Aburames that were in the village from the beginning, the Yamanakas and Inuzukas who had just been accepted into the village...Everyone united to give all the powers to Hashirama, in the form of the Hokage position, making him the First!"

"You said you had a Will of Fire back then, but it doesn't look like it." Nawirama interrupted. "Even as you speak now, you seem more upset about not being given power."

"I had it towards my clan. Not towards the village who completely disrespected us after Hashirama was made Hokage. And it wasn't the lack of administrive power that bothered me." Madara stopped for a bit, before continuing. "Afterwards, we started to be given less missions each day that passed. That wasn't good for my clan, again because of its sustenance. We used to complete the missions efficiently, even if that meant leaving someone behind or taking every obstacle out of our way. It had been like that even before the village system. Of course, they didn't like our methods... They neglected our clan to blackmail us, to force us to have a change of attitude. They hated what we were and we hated what was being done to us. The Curse of Hatred was running through each and every member of the Uchiha clan at that time, but then..." Madara pointed an accusatory finger towards Nawirama. "The Namikaze Clan appeared to make things worse!"

"Namikaze?" Naruto's eyes immediately widened. "Why is he pointing towards you, Nawirama?"

"My father Dan was from the extinct Namikaze clan, a clan formed by rejects of both the Uchiha and Hyuga clans." Nawirama's eyes narrowed as he turned his attention back to Madara. "Which takes me back to you, Madara! You speak of loving your clan and yet you banished some of your people just because they didn't have the Sharingan!"

"I never banished a single person during the time I was the head of the clan!" Madara furiously answered. "The ones who left the clan did it on their own free will, because they felt they were a burden to the clan! Of course, I would never guess that some would eventually mate with Hyugas. I still don't know what they had on their minds to do it...It was my duty to protect my clan's Kekkei Genkai, so I picked up every single one of their descendants who possessed the Sharingan. That didn't sit well with them, so they actually started to preach Hashirama's village-directed Will of Fire to my clansmen, how their life was better than when they were with us...and it worked!"

"It did?" Naruto seemed surprised by hearing that. After hearing Madara speak so many times of how the Curse of Hatred was the Uchiha clan's ideal, it was surprising to hear that they once accepted the Will of Fire.

"Those constant approaches allied to the difficulties my clan was going through made my men surrender. They started to think they couldn't defeat this implemented Will of Fire, so they thought joining it was the best. Before I knew, I found myself being preached by my own clansmen!" Madara angrily continued. "I warned them! I warned them this wouldn't make things better! I warned them they would regret it eventually! But...no one listened. I had warned him this could happen, even before the truce was official, but no one remembered..."

"I was called a lunatic, a fanatic, a man consumed by hate...Soon, I was relieved of my duties as head of the clan. They all turned their backs on me. Even...even my younger brother, the man who gave me his own eyes for the sake of the clan...the clan I loved, the clan I cherished, the clan I sworn to protect..." For a moment, the frustrated way Madara was speaking was actually convincing the two Konoha shinobis. "I dedicated all my life to that clan and I was left with nothing! I was soon indeed consumed by hate...I painted a target on the back of the ones I thought were responsible for my downfall, starting with Seki and Shinju from the Namikaze clan."

"The White Brothers? You were responsible for their rampage?" The shocked Nawirama asked.

"I put them both on a genjutsu and they started to demolish everything in sight. Since there wasn't a prisional facility back then and considering Hashirama's inability of executing two beloved members of his village, the best thing he could do was banish them." Madara explained in a more controlled tone of voice. "As soon as they were out of the village, I went after them and put them back on the same illusion...They only stopped when the Kaguya clan killed them both on the Land of Water a week later."

"You...you bastard! How could you?" Nawirama found himself shaking in anger. The golden aura surrounding his body since the start of this conversation even became a bit unstable for a moment. "You caused the First World War!"

"Wait! He did what?" The shocked Naruto asked.

"The White Brothers' rampage caused a considerable number of victims in each country they passed by. Since they were Konoha shinobi, everyone turned to Shodai for explanations." Nawirama revealed.

"I killed two birds with one stone. Not only did I get rid of the most talented shinobis from that Namikaze clan, I also weakened Hashirama to a great point." Madara was now speaking like his normal self, seeming even a bit proud of what he did. "At the time, I didn't care about the Tailed Beasts like I care today, so I just found a way to take them away from Hashirama's control."

"It is said that Shodai Hashirama had the nine Tailed Beasts trapped in caves reinforced with his Wood Style, where is now located the Hokage Monument. They were his trump card, in case of possible friction with the recently formed elemental villages." Tsunade's son stated.

"You knew of that, so you forced it to happen..." Naruto concluded, while he stared in disgust to Madara. "What about the village? What about your clan? Didn't you care about what could happen to them if a war broke out?"

"What did I tell you at the start of this conversation, Naruto? Love turns into hatred! As far as I was concerned, the Uchiha clan could burn to the ground along with the village they were so fond of at the time! I only failed in defeating Hashirama..." Madara covered the eye hole of his mask while chuckled. "But still, time gave me reason! The war eventually broke out and Hashirama died on it, while no one knew that I had actually survived! The moment Tobirama Senju was nominated Second Hokage, I was given reason! The creation of the Konoha Military Police Force, the offering of estate for all the Uchihas to live together...They were pushed into a corner of the village! Now they remembered, Madara was right! Things were actually worse than they were!"

"The idea of a coup...It was then it started?" Naruto questioned, causing Nawirama's eyes to widen.

"A coup d'etat?" Nawirama thought about the idea. "It starts to make sense then..."

"Not quite. I was the one who desperately tried to conviced the. It was the main reason why I was relieved of my clan leader position. However, once they saw I was right, they wished to try it." Madara corrected. "As the war went on, I inflicted a new blow to the village. Kumogakure's Kinkaku Force somehow found the Hokage's position in the battlefield and were able to kill him."

"I guess war was really productive to you, huh?" Nawirama commented, being as disgusted as Naruto was.

"You don't know how much. Tobirama nominated Hiruzen Sarutobi as Sandaime before he died. That gave me an ally in Danzo Shimura." Madara revealed, causing both of his opponents' mouths to open. "I've learned of his capture. He isn't useful to me anymore."

"Old man Danzo was on your side?" Naruto mumbled.

"He wasn't a perfect ally." Madara remarked. "I met him shortly after Tobirama's death, when his team got separated. A young boy who loved his village, but who knew that having power was the best way to protect it. Years later, after his nomination as leader of the Root faction, we started to work together in the shadows. He gave me information about Konoha, while I gave him information about the villages I infiltrated myself in."

"But why?" Nawirama seemed confused. "Why would he help you? While his methods are questionable, his love for the village is..."

"Undeniable, yes. Danzo omitted many intel from me, which includes the birth of one new Zennogan user." Madara again pointed towards Nawirama. "That's why I said it wasn't perfect. As for me, I omitted my true intentions. I limited my revenge plans to the Uchiha clan, which Danzo also saw as an hindrance. Still, he was quite helpful. I asked him to ally with Hanzo of the Salamander, so he could take Nagato to the limit. He even lost his right arm for that cause...creating Pain, a powerful weapon."

"Don't speak of Nagato as a thing!" Naruto furiously shouted.

"I asked him to start a connection with Orochimaru. We were aware of what he was doing and Danzo thought his researches could be of great usefulness to the village. He was the one who told Orochimaru to find Akatsuki if things went wrong." Madara continued to explain, but was soon interrupted.

"Chronologically, what came next was the Kyuubi attack." Nawirama stated. "Was it you? Huh, Madara? Were you the one responsible for it?"

"Here we go again...I wasn't controlling the Kyuubi on that night." Madara repeated what he had said many times before.

"I didn't ask if you were controlling it! I asked if you were the responsible!" Nawirama shouted and Madara's right eye widened before he chuckled.

"Alright, I'll admit. What could happen? He isn't alive anymore and..." Madara spoke to himself before focusing back on Nawirama and Naruto. "Kirigakure isn't of use any longer. I was the one who brought that person into Konoha."

"You wouldn't mean..." Nawirama's frowned deeply. "You were really controlling the Fourth Mizukage! Why?"

"We've been talking for too much time, I don't feel like explaining the motives of those actions. Making things quick, with Danzo's help we both entered the village and caused all that chaos. Even though Danzo wasn't appointed the Fifth at that time, Konoha's superiors started to suspect of the Uchiha clan even more, and eventually..." Madara chuckled again. "Danzo was able to convince the Third to eradicate the Uchiha clan."

"You're the one then..." Naruto shaked in anger. "You're the one who made Sasuke like this..."

"Sasuke wasn't in the plans at the time. He just inherited the Curse that has been following the Uchihas for a long time." Madara took a deep breath after all the talking. "You see now? The accumulated hatred created a monster, but even so, I'm a merciful one. I want this cycle of hatred, this curse to stop, so I'll do what should've been done before. I'll unite everything under my command. I'll create peace by using my power."

"What is the meaning of peace if you can't enjoy it? Do you really believe that is the right way to stop the hatred?" Naruto shouted.

"I once told this to Itachi...People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts...their reality may all be a mirage. They may simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs." Madara repeated the words said years before. "That's what the Will of Fire does to you Konoha shinobi. It takes you to this fantasy world of hope for worldwide peace achieved through incoherent talk and zero sacrifices."

"Then there's nothing more to say, I guess." Nawirama said, before he started to perform some hand seals.

"You're right, there has been enough talk already...Shukuen Amaterasu" As soon as Madara said the first syllable of the jutsu's name, two huge portals similar to the ones used in his space-time jutsu appeared, one in front of Nawirama and Naruto and the other one behind them, both being parallel to eachother. As soon as he said the last syllable, black flames erupted from everywhere, filling the entire space between the portals in less than a second. "Chaos brings reconstruction. I'll destroy Konoha and rebuild it under my leadership! I'll destroy the Will of Fire and make everyone follow the will of Madara Uchiha! And then, there will be no more chaos and no more reconstruction! It will be like that for infinity!"

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1.1 Shinku Yuhi - Kurenai's father, his name also means "crimson". The one responsible for the barrier that protected the children during the Kyuubi attack.

1.2 Seki Namikaze and Shinju Namikaze - known as the "White Brothers", they were twins and the only two people in history to have the Zennogan before Nawirama.

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