Madara once again appeared sneakily outside Naruto and Sasuke's little love nest.
Over the past few days, he often used the excuse that mushrooms were literally about to grow on his body to go outside, read books, and sunbathe.
Using this prime opportunity, he observed the situation with his neighbor next door.
If he hadn't observed, it would have been fine.
But once he did, Madara immediately received a very pleasant surprise.
That clan member of his, who was also the reincarnation of Indra's chakra, actually had garbage vigilance!
He even brought Uzumaki Naruto, who was completely under genjutsu, outside to sunbathe!
For Madara, this was simply a heaven-sent opportunity!
He understood now.
So Uchiha Sasuke only forcibly took the reincarnation of Asura's chakra too!
In that case, it was perfectly reasonable for him to take a little piece of the pie as well.
During this period, Sasuke also noticed Madara's blatant peeping.
After all, with Madara's current frail strength, it was basically impossible for him to secretly observe without being discovered.
But Madara didn't care.
He simply watched openly and confidently. He didn't believe Sasuke could guess what he wanted to do.
And even if Sasuke did guess, could he really keep Naruto physically glued to him at all times?
If Sasuke really brought Naruto with him everywhere he went, then the people of Amegakure would probably start thinking the two of them had some extremely improper relationship!
Sure enough, Sasuke still left alone today, giving Madara his grand chance.
"Hmph, hmph, hmph."
Madara proudly walked up to the front door.
Unlike last time, when he had secretly shimmied through the window like a rat, this time he was going to openly kick down the door and take back the power that rightfully belonged to him!
Click.
Madara aggressively twisted the doorknob.
The door was locked.
Thud.
Madara kicked the door.
His leg snapped again.
While waiting for his Edo Tensei body to automatically recover, Madara calmed down and regained his ability to actually think.
So he hobbled over to the window instead, only to discover that the damn window was also locked shut!
'This Uchiha Sasuke is going too far! He actually distrusts others THIS much?!'
Somewhat angrily, Madara punched the window glass.
His hand snapped.
If he were still alive, two streams of miserable tears would probably have flowed down his face by now!
'TOO WEAK! It's all because I have no power now! Damn you, Tobirama!'
Fortunately, the core principle remained the same: a gentleman is not born different from others, he's simply good at making use of things.
The greatest difference between humans and animals was that humans knew how to use tools!
Last time, Uchiha Madara was able to use this battered, ruined body to counter-kill those bandits' family members.
Naturally, dealing with a mere piece of glass would be no problem for him at all!
Enduring the deep humiliation and bearing the burden, Uchiha Madara found the clothes and pants Sasuke hung outside to dry.
He picked out a horribly ugly yellow pair of pants, then took out the safety scissors he asked Hashirama to buy for him.
Because he was far too weak and couldn't even tear open the plastic packaging of his new books, those scissors had come into existence.
After successfully pulling the elastic waistband out of the pants, Madara revealed a triumphant, villainous smile.
Then Madara selected a suitable tree branch and, with massive difficulty, stuck it into the dirt.
Using the elastic band, he built a simple stone-throwing device.
In short, a slingshot.
"Mm—HNGH."
After making the slingshot, Madara discovered he didn't even have the arm strength to pull it back!
He could only borrow the lever and pulley knowledge he recently learned from his new books, and finally managed to draw it.
Bang.
Crash.
Looking at the shattered glass scattered all over the floor, Madara was so moved that he nearly cried.
But after thinking about it again, something was terribly wrong.
The original him could casually summon giant meteorites with a wave of his hand.
Now he was this thrilled just because he managed to throw a tiny pebble?!
Wasn't that pretty pathetic?!
And so, his emotional state instantly changed from "so moved he nearly cried" to "so sorrowful he nearly cried."
...
Through the surveillance feed, Senju Tobirama watched as Uchiha Madara went through such pathetic hardship just to complete the simple act of breaking a window.
His expression couldn't help but become a little strange.
"Madara really can bend and stretch when needed. No wonder he managed to fake his death and hide for so long back then. If not for Makoto, we probably would've died several times over and still been kept in the dark."
"Inhenrently evil Uchiha!"
As Tobirama cursed, he suddenly thought of something and revealed the exact same sleazy smile as Uchiha Madara, who was currently awkwardly climbing through the window on the surveillance screen.
As for what kind of smile it was, one could refer to the smile Tom the Cat made when entering a room while making that creepy tiptoe sound.
Tobirama had someone notify the inherently evil Uchiha of ALL Uchiha, Uchiha Hikari, telling her that there was content here she would definitely be interested in watching.
Uchiha Hikari was very surprised when she found out.
Was this not obviously that naturally gay Senju old man trying to trick her into something?
Sure enough.
As soon as she arrived in the surveillance room, she saw Uchiha Madara on the screen actively tugging at Uzumaki Naruto's pants!
Although she wasn't completely clear on what exactly was going on—wasn't there a massive generation gap here?!—Hikari felt that it might be the naturally gay Senju Hashirama playing some kind of sick illusion game.
But no matter what, the black heart of Tobirama was something everyone knew!
"Naturally gay Senju old man, you want to disgust me with something like this?!"
The furious Uchiha Hikari directly activated Susanoo! The giant skeletal hand violently grabbed Tobirama.
This naturally gay Senju old man clearly knew that what she hated most was the gay-filled ninja world, yet he specially invited her over to watch a scene of people physically bonding together!
He deserved death!
"What a pity." Senju Tobirama didn't immediately use Flying Thunder God to escape.
Instead, he just sighed.
A pity? A pity about what?
A pity that he horribly miscalculated!
He originally thought that after hearing his invitation, Uchiha Hikari would at least hesitate for a while before coming here.
In that case, by the time she arrived, what she would see would be some heavily mosaic-covered images of Madara and Naruto.
Unexpectedly, Uchiha Hikari came so decisively!
Because of that, she arrived too early. Madara hadn't even started the main event yet!
Wait!
Senju Tobirama suddenly reacted.
She came TOO decisively!
It was almost as if Uchiha Hikari's goal was not to watch the surveillance footage, but to find an excuse to beat the crap out of him!
'CRAP!'
Senju Tobirama just tried to activate Flying Thunder God when his entire body suddenly went weak, and the technique failed.
He looked down and saw the cursed mark of Yachihoko (Eight thousand spear) appearing on his body!
His chakra had all been drained!
Impure World Reincarnation had infinite chakra, but this "infinite" didn't mean there was no upper limit.
It only meant that the chakra would recover endlessly.
As long as Yachihoko's absorption speed was higher than the recovery speed of Edo Tensei, it could totally force an Edo Tensei ninja into a state of having absolutely zero chakra!
"You like bonds that much, right?!" Uchiha Hikari glared at the image on the monitor, grabbed Senju Tobirama, and stomped outside.
After going out, she directly took flight and arrived directly above Naruto and Sasuke's love nest.
In the room below, Madara was excitedly fiddling with something.
Uchiha Hikari's skeletal Susanoo arm hurled Senju Tobirama into the house as if throwing away a piece of trash!
BOOM—!
Senju Tobirama smashed through the roof like a meteorite and crashed into the room.
Inside the room, Uchiha Madara, who was right in the middle of operating, was startled.
He completely thought his actions were discovered and that someone launched a strike to stop him.
But when the dust dispersed and he looked closer…
Huh?
Wasn't this the naturally evil Tobirama?!
They hadn't seen each other for a few days.
How did he become so pathetic?! Lying on the ground, completely motionless here?
Uchiha Madara raised his head and looked at the massive hole in the ceiling.
There was nothing in the sky since Uchiha Hikari had already left.
Then he lowered his head again and looked at Tobirama, who remained completely still with his eyes tightly shut.
Madara immediately suspected that this might be Tobirama fishing for him, trying to lure him into making a move, so that Tobirama would have a solid reason to attack him in front of his elder brother Hashirama!