The deaths caused an uproar in the Mist camp, and the Mizukage was furious. The result was a fiercer, more aggressive assault on Konoha's lines. But none of this had anything to do with Zangetsu anymore. After taking his revenge, he had immediately set off for the Land of Wind, planning to cross into the battlefield between Konoha and the Stone Village.
There, he would have a proper meeting with his "rival," Uchiha Fugaku.
A few days later, he arrived in the Land of Rain, a country perpetually weeping under cloud-covered skies. The streets of its second-most prosperous town were nearly deserted. The Land of Rain was the battleground for Konoha and the Stone. It was a sad, ironic fate for a neutral country.
Zangetsu sighed. This was the sorrow of the common people. But he had no intention of changing the country. In this world, the strong devoured the weak. Instead of wasting time sympathizing with the weak, the correct path was to become strong enough to make the rules yourself.
"Killing or controlling Fugaku won't be easy. He's always surrounded by other Uchiha," Zangetsu mused. He needed to get Fugaku alone. He remembered from the original story that Fugaku had taken a four-year-old Itachi to a battlefield. That would be the perfect opportunity. But he didn't know the time or place.
"So, maybe I should try to infiltrate Konoha first and deal with him in the Uchiha compound?" The risk was high. If he failed to instantly defeat or control Fugaku, he'd face the combined wrath of Konoha's elite.
It was better to act on the battlefield. If he couldn't find the opportunity with Itachi, he would create one. He could hunt Konoha ninja in a specific area and deliberately leave clues that the killer possessed a Sharingan. As the Uchiha clan leader, Fugaku would be honor-bound to investigate personally. Once Fugaku came after him, he would have his chance.
His options were to kill and impersonate Fugaku, control him with genjutsu, or turn him into a vegetable and install Mikoto as the new Uchiha leader. The final plan would depend on the reward the system gave him for defeating his rival.
"It's a shame I don't have an army of Zetsu to track his movements, or Tobirama's sensing abilities," he thought. "My sensing skills are almost zero. I need to fix that."
He decided to spend the next few months hunting rogue ninja. It would be good practice, and he could use his Sharingan to copy any interesting jutsu he came across. He bought a mask to cover his handsome face and set off for the nearest black market. The bodies of the rogue ninja, if nothing else, could be exchanged for cash. A perfect way to make full use of their resources.
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