From Naruto onwards, I've become a dreamer.

Chapter 249 Interlude
In the dim cave, the yellowish light flickered.

Heavy breathing could be heard coming from inside, while Bai Jue was leaning against the rock wall outside the cave, his arms crossed over his chest, whistling.

At that moment, a figure wriggled out of the dark shadows and then appeared. It was Black Zetsu. When he saw White Zetsu guarding outside, a hint of disgust flashed in his eyes, which was almost imperceptible. Then he said, "Where is Obito? I have something important to tell him."

"There it is, inside."

Bai Jue gestured towards the cave with his lip, then smiled maliciously, "However, I advise you to wait and not disturb him now."

Hearing the panting from inside the cave, Black Zetsu seemed to understand something. His completely black face turned ashen with anger, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "No, this matter is very important, we can't wait any longer."

As he spoke, Black Zetsu was about to force his way in, but White Zetsu reached out and stopped him, looking as if he were considering his feelings, and said sincerely, "Wait, Black Zetsu, considering that we are both manifestations of Madara's will, I'll give you one last piece of advice: don't go in."

Black Zetsu sneered upon hearing this, his eyes filled with mockery. He looked White Zetsu up and down and said, "No, I am the embodiment of Lord Madara's will, and you are merely an inferior copy."

Then, Black Zetsu ignored White Zetsu, pushed him aside, and walked straight into the cave.

Watching Black Zetsu's retreating figure, White Zetsu sighed and shook his head, looking helpless: "Fine, you said it yourself. Don't blame me if something goes wrong."

Black Zetsu snorted coldly, completely ignoring White Zetsu's warning, and quickened his pace, arriving at the deepest part of the cave in the flickering, dim light.

Amidst the unrestrained, pleasurable moans, there were also heavy, panting sounds from both men and women.

The air was filled with the smells of various bodily fluids, which made Black Zetsu, who shouldn't have had the emotion of 'desire', feel his heart racing and his blood surging. In a daze, scenes of indulgence involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

Immediately after breaking free from the illusion, Black Zetsu spotted Obito.

However, before he could finish speaking, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he saw a scene that he would never forget for the rest of his life, a scene that sent chills down his spine.

In the deepest part of the cave lay a strange and terrifying creature. It had a shape that was close to that of a human, but its face and features were indistinct. Its skin was fair and tender, but its surface was covered with countless tumors that looked like tree knots and were covered with brownish-green pus.

Some of the tumors, resembling flower buds, have fully bloomed, but the stamen in the center of the petals is a 'female organ'.

Black Zetsu, who prides himself on having lived for over a thousand years and seen all sorts of bizarre things, almost vomited at this moment.

I've never seen anything like this before!

Just then, Obito, noticing that an outsider had intruded into this extravagant banquet, slowly turned around and stared at it with cold eyes.

The tall, eerie, pale body, with its head devoid of features and a face, turned around. Despite lacking any facial features, it somehow gave Black Zetsu the illusion that 'He' was watching it. As the branches swayed and the flowers opened and closed, a voice suddenly rang in its mind:
Come on over~ Let's have some fun together~

Let's have children together!

The voice was melodious and shy, yet it contained a certain allure.

Looking at the pale body covered with strange tumors, resembling a monstrous tree, Black Zetsu couldn't help but shiver, and every hair on his body stood on end.

Even the most terrifying scenes it had witnessed in its past thousand years were far less than one ten-thousandth of what was before it.

The next moment, the writhing, fair body stretched out brown branches, each bearing a wet 'flower,' and surged towards Hei Jue from every imaginable corner—the rock walls, the ground, the cave ceiling—like a dark, surging tide.

"What the hell is this?!"

Black Zetsu felt a chill run down his spine, terrified, and planned to hide underground. However, as if the branches had anticipated this, they bloomed from the ground with sticky flowers, so huge that they seemed capable of swallowing a whole person.

escape!
Intuition was screaming warnings, and without hesitation, Black Zetsu abandoned his plan to infiltrate underground and instead sprinted toward the exit.

Its body blended into the shadows, like a flowing stream of black oil, moving at incredible speed, about to burst out of the cave entrance in the blink of an eye.

But just then, the dense, vine-like branches blocked the only exit.

"Oops!"

A horrified thought flashed through his mind, and Black Zetsu didn't have time to 'brake' before crashing head-on into it.

The vine-like branches tightly bound its body, dragging it little by little towards that terrifying white body that resembled a strange tree.

It tried to break free from the vines' hold, but those seemingly slender branches possessed an extraordinary toughness, comparable to steel. No matter how much it struggled, they not only didn't loosen but tightened even more. A sense of despair instantly enveloped Black Zetsu's mind: "No, no, save me! Obito, save me!"

"That's fine, Lin."

Just then, Obito, who was in the middle of the 'activity', pulled out his tightly joined lower body and suddenly spoke.

It stopped dragging its branch and instead hoisted Black Zetsu high into the air.

Then, Obito turned around and stared at it with a cold gaze: "This is the first and the last time. If you dare to disturb me and Rin again, I'll show you what will happen. Do you understand?"

"Obviously"

Black Zetsu swallowed hard, staring at Obito in horror.

At this moment, it was filled with resentment for not heeding White Zetsu's advice and stubbornly barging in to take a look.

Although it had encountered similar situations before, this was the first time it had actually witnessed what Obito was doing in the cave. It was horrifying and beyond human imagination.

No, to be precise, it should be described as a 'chakra' aggregate, which is even more abnormal.

"Alright, now you can tell me what you wanted to see me about."

Obito calmly put on his coat, then sat down next to the monster, resting his chin on his hand, and said coldly, "If I find out it's some trivial matter, Black Zetsu, you should know what will happen. I hate being disturbed when I'm happy."

"Absolutely important, it concerns the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki!"

Black Zetsu was terrified of the strange human-tree and shouted nervously, "Although Konoha's secrecy is excellent, I still managed to find out! The Nine-Tails Jinchuriki is about to give birth!"

"Haven't you always planned for revenge? Now is the perfect time!" It swallowed hard and continued, "When a Jinchuriki is giving birth, they are at their weakest, and the seals within their bodies will loosen. Therefore, Minato Namikaze will definitely return. With just a little manipulation, you can fulfill your wish!"

"Kushina Uzumaki, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki"

A mad glint flashed in Obito's eyes, and he chuckled menacingly, "Very good, this news is very important."

"I've missed my teacher and his wife so much after all these years. I'll take this opportunity to send them my 'blessings'."

(End of this chapter)