Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 105 Black Zetsu: I knew it!
"Players outside the chessboard?" Sasuke repeated Uchiha Douguang's words, thinking carefully for a while, and then said uncertainly, "Their position should also be to win this game."

"Yes, from the moment a normal chess player sits across the chessboard, their stance is to defeat the other. So, Sasuke, what do you think is the difference between the two?"

"The chess piece is controlled by the chess player. The chess piece itself cannot decide where to go on the chessboard..." After Sasuke finished speaking, he suddenly fell silent. He seemed to understand why his brother ended up like this.

"Of course, this is a normal situation, but what if one of the players did not intend to win the game from the beginning? In this case, will the position of the chess piece remain the same as before?" Uchiha Douguang asked.

After hearing what Uchiha Tokou said, Sasuke was also stunned, and then seemed to be thinking about something.

"So, teacher, you want me to step out of the position itself and become a chess player, the one who decides the position of the chess piece, right?" Sasuke said.

Uchiha Douguang nodded in satisfaction, then said, "You are a teachable boy, but Sasuke, you are still a long way from becoming a chess player. To put it simply, Sasuke, do you have any chess pieces?"

"Please teach me, teacher." Sasuke said.

"Didn't I teach you this a long time ago?" Uchiha Douguang said, staring into Sasuke's eyes.

Sasuke froze in place upon hearing that.

After a while, Uchiha Douguang patted Sasuke on the head and said to him: "Let's stop here for today's class. When you are qualified to sit at the chessboard, I will teach you the skills of playing chess."

When Sasuke left, his head was still buzzing. What Uchiha Douguang told him today was still too shocking for him. The child might need some time to digest it.

After Sasuke left, Uchiha Douguang also began his daily Sage Mode practice.

After this period of practice, Uchiha Douguang's perception ability in Sage Mode can already completely cover the entire Uchiha clan's territory.

After a rough scan of the clan territory, Uchiha Douguang suddenly sensed something interesting in the family cemetery area.

Uchiha Douguang smiled meaningfully, changed his clothes, and went out to the clan's cemetery.

Uchiha Itachi was buried in the farthest corner of the cemetery, and at this moment there were bouquets of flowers placed in front of his grave.

Although Uchiha Itachi did not cause any substantial losses to the family, not standing on the family's side in major events was in itself a betrayal of the family. Considering that most of the family members worked diligently for the family, the Uchiha clan did not hold a decent funeral for him, and even the location of his grave was chosen at the very edge of the family cemetery.

However, there would still be some of Fugaku's peers who would sneak over and give him a bouquet of flowers. After all, they had watched Itachi grow up.

As for the young people in the family, very few of them came here. Even in the Uchiha clan, which was full of geniuses, he, who had been a genius among geniuses since childhood, did not have a good relationship with his peers. Apart from Shisui who had been guarding here for two days, it seemed that no one else came here.

No, there are still some.

Uchiha Douguang bent down and picked up a bunch of cornflowers with obvious tear marks on the petals, and an image of a girl with tear marks at the corners of her eyes emerged in his mind.

"Itachi, you have let down so many people." Uchiha Douguang said.

"However, perhaps this ending was already predetermined from the moment you were taken to the battlefield at the age of four." Uchiha Douguang sighed softly, "What has happened to this world? Why does this tragedy repeat itself again and again? When will this world truly have peace?"

At this moment, just a few meters under Uchiha Douguang's feet, a figure dressed in black suddenly stopped moving.

Three days ago, when Uchiha Obito turned into a stone statue and shattered, Black Zetsu was extremely desperate.

In order to save his mother who was sealed by his two filial brothers, Black Zetsu has been working hard for thousands of years. More than ten years ago, when Uchiha Madara's Rinnegan was conceived in his eyes, this was the closest he had ever been to success in these thousands of years.

However, after Uchiha Madara planned everything and fell into eternal sleep, many variables became added.

First of all, Nagato, as the carrier of the Rinnegan, has gradually deviated from the track. He does not seem to want to carry out the Moon Eye Plan. Instead, he plans to use the power of the nine tailed beasts after collecting them to make the world feel pain and understand the value of peace. He himself will act as a god to intimidate the Great Ninja Village, which is completely contrary to his Moon Eye Plan.

Fortunately, Uchiha Obito, the backup plan left by Uchiha Madara to control Nagato, has never been out of his control.

But just three days ago, Uchiha Obito died because of an impulse!
Although Black Zetsu still doesn't know why Uchiha Obito, who possessed the Uchiha clan's most powerful life-saving eye technique - Kamui, and had Izanagi as a life-saving backup, died so easily at the hands of Uchiha Tokou.

When Black Zetsu saw Uchiha Obito turned into a stone statue and shattered into pieces, his heart was broken as well.

After thousands of years of planning, the closest a plan has ever come to success turned out to be so stupid!
However, after Black Zetsu recovered, he got busy again. Wasn't it just a failure? Hadn't he failed enough over the years? As long as he could rescue his mother, what did the torture of failure mean? This time he was already close to success, and he would definitely succeed next time.

Thinking of this, Black Zetsu made another plan, and the first step of the plan was to hide and wait for Nagato and Uchiha Toguro who crushed his plan to reach the end of their lives.

I will recover the Samsara Eye when the time comes and make a long-term plan.

And today, the reason he came to the Uchiha clan's cemetery was to collect some of Uchiha Itachi's DNA.

Decades ago, a supreme genius emerged in the ninja world, Tobirama Senju. He created a technique that could bridge the gap between the human world and the Pure Land: Impure World Reincarnation. Upon learning of this technique, Black Zetsu immediately set his sights on it, spending nearly all of that time underground in Tobirama Senju's laboratory. He learned that the technique required the DNA of the summoned individual to succeed. Although the technique was inscribed in the Book of Sealeds shortly after its creation, leaving Black Zetsu without the opportunity to see it, he knew there would always be another opportunity. The one thing he had the most was time.

So, in order to become a future Mangekyō Sharingan-level fighter, he came to the Uchiha clan's cemetery, but he had just started working when the appearance of Uchiha Toguchi scared him half to death.

Over the years, Black Zetsu has seen many people who have mastered the Sage Mode, and he knows how terrifyingly strong their perception abilities are in this state.

Although Uchiha Douguang had not activated Sage Mode at the moment, what if Uchiha Douguang suddenly felt like practicing Sage Mode? Hei Zetsu didn't dare to gamble.

So, the moment Uchiha Toguro appeared, Black Zetsu wanted to run away.

However, what Uchiha Tokou said in front of Uchiha Itachi's grave made Black Zetsu stop in his tracks.

"When will there be true peace in this world?"

[Wait a minute, my plan seems to be salvageable? ]

Uchiha Tokou's words were undoubtedly heavenly music to Black Zetsu's ears.

"I knew it! When these psychopathic descendants of Indra become strong enough, they'll start thinking about world peace! Mom! I'll rescue you right away!"

Black Zetsu forced himself to suppress the urge to jump out and trick Uchiha Toguchi, and left from underground.

He knew that Uchiha Tokou was different from those traditional Uchiha. It was not difficult to see from the fact that he deduced Uchiha Obito's identity based on a few clues. He probably couldn't make the other party believe it by making up two reasons like he did with Uchiha Madara. Everything still needed to be considered carefully.

……

Uchiha Douguang waited for a while, and when he saw that Hei Zetsu didn't jump out immediately, he sighed in his heart and wondered.

【Did I just act too much? 】

That’s right, Uchiha Tokou came to the cemetery in the middle of the night not only to help Uchiha Itachi visit the grave, but more to catch the big fish, Black Zetsu.

However, Uchiha Tokou had no intention of doing anything to Black Zetsu.

On the contrary, he was very interested in Black Zetsu's plan.

After all, Uchiha Tokou knew that there would be a large number of alien invasions in the ninja world in the future, and the best way to fight against the aliens was to become an alien himself.

Therefore, Uchiha Touma absolutely agrees with releasing Kaguya.

However, Black Zetsu did not take the bait immediately, which made Uchiha Douguang feel a little regretful.

……

The next day, with Kakashi's nomination and Sarutobi Hiruzen's cooperation, the election of the fifth generation Hokage of Konohagakure Village in the Land of Fire officially began.

Uchiha Tokou lived up to everyone's expectations and won all the votes from the village's Jonin, becoming the only candidate for the village's Fifth Hokage.

Sarutobi Hiruzen did not delay and sent a messenger to deliver the voting results to the Fire City on the same day. At this moment, Uchiha Tokou was only one step away from officially becoming the Fifth Hokage of the village, and the only thing left was the formality of becoming the Daimyo's first Hokage.

To celebrate the good news, Uchiha Douguang held a small banquet.

After the banquet, when Uchiha Douguang returned home, a piece of letter on the desk caught his attention.

[Want to bring true peace to the ninja world? Then come to the basement of Nanga Shrine.]

When Uchiha Douguang saw the letter, he smiled secretly in his heart. It seemed that his previous attempt was successful.

However, in order to prevent Black Zetsu from peeping, Uchiha Douguang forced himself not to smile and called Uchiha Keiko.

"Sister Huizi, has anyone been to this room today?"

"No, did something happen?" Uchiha Keiko asked.

"No, I must have remembered it wrong." Uchiha Douguang said.

……

(End of this chapter)