Naruto: If I ask you to kill Sasuke, you will become a succubus?

"Why should I tell you?"

"Tell me about it."

His tone became a little frivolous, as if he was teasing a child.

I didn't want to tell him, so I asked him back, "Did anyone ask you that question at that time? Who did you answer?"

"..."

He stopped talking.

This is also normal. If he was really Uchiha Madara, he would have been an adult when the ninja school was established.

Why would a teacher ask him this question?

The traditions that are passed down in Konoha today may have been formulated by him and Senju Hashirama.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, I took the initiative to ask: "Why do you do that kind of thing?"

"What kind of thing?"

With the clerk present, I couldn't explain clearly, so I could only mumble, "It's about the Mizukage."

I know he understands.

The clerk suddenly said, "Miss, I'll come back in fifteen minutes to help you remove the mask."

Then she immediately turned and walked out.

When the door closed, Uchiha Madara said, "Why can't I do it?"

Without outsiders present, I can say it more bluntly: "You made so many people suffer...! So many people died because of you..."

Uchiha Madara's attitude cooled down, and I felt his eyes become icy cold.

"What do you know? You said you wanted to change the Hidden Mist Village, so, how are the changes going?"

“We’re working on it.”

"Humph, you just cancelled the rule of killing each other. Don't you think that this will change the ninja world? Kirigakure has always been based in the ninja world with its crazy enthusiasm of completing tasks by any means necessary. Once ninjas start to cherish their lives, you will only make Kirigakure abandoned by the ninja world. No one will come to entrust Kirigakure with tasks, and you will just let everyone starve to death."

Speaking of this, I got angry: "How dare you say that? Who was the one who transferred all the funds of the Hidden Mist Village?!"

"Who is it?" Uchiha Madara said nonchalantly, "Who knows?"

I simply asked him directly: "What exactly is your plan? Why do you want to control the Mizukage? You have been operating in secret and survived until now. What exactly do you want to do?"

"Then let me ask you something too," he said, turning the tables: "What is the world of your dreams like?"

"A world in my dreams...?"

"No more wars, world peace, everyone can be with the ones they love, living a happy and peaceful life... This is the world I want."

"Are you going to say that this is your purpose?"

"Yes."

I looked at him in disbelief, and couldn't believe he could be so confident: "Do you think what you did is the same as what you said?"

"I have my own way."

"Your method is to force teenagers to kill their classmates in school?"

"That is a tradition of the Hidden Mist Village itself."

"Then why don't you abolish it?"

"Why should I abolish it? This world is ugly, cold, cruel, and bloody... Dying early may be a relief."

I was so angry that I could hardly lie down. This guy who was talking nonsense and making unreasonable arguments really made me want to beat him up.

"That's not the case! Don't you think there is nothing beautiful in this world?"

Uchiha Madara fell back on the bed. "The beauty... Even if there are beautiful things, they will soon disappear. In the final analysis, human beings themselves are an ugly existence. Ambition and desire will never disappear. Even if there is peace now, looking at the entire history, it is only a brief moment. Soon, there will always be disputes again... What is the meaning of peace? What is the meaning of war? Victory or defeat, there is no meaning. Everything you do in life is ultimately in vain... In the final analysis, human beings are such a hopeless thing."

I tried my best to understand, but I still felt that I couldn't keep up with his thinking: "I don't quite understand."

"Have you ever experienced war? What is war all about? From the Warring States Period to the three Ninja World Wars... they were all for some boring reasons! People use the title of 'hero' to trick everyone into sacrificing their lives for it... Konoha's heroes are villains to other villages, and other villages' heroes are also extremely evil to Konoha. What's the point of becoming such a meaningless 'hero'? The most ridiculous thing is - even if you have sacrificed yourself for victory, for peace, and for important people, they can only live for a short moment. Soon, they will die in the next battle for inexplicable reasons and because of incomprehensible orders. It's so short that it makes people feel that any effort is a joke."

Although I still couldn't fully understand what he said, I felt that I was gradually understanding his feelings.

Beneath his frivolous and playful appearance from time to time, he seemed to be carrying a huge amount of pain in his heart.

"You watch the people around you go to the battlefield one after another, with no choice but to die or let others die. As long as humans exist, war will never stop... Is there any need to save such a world? As long as humans exist, there will only be despair in the end."

He became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and I could sense his anger rising.

"If death is so meaningless, what is the point of living? Will the world become a better place? Even a genius like the Fourth Hokage... he can't change such a world! Does he realize that there is something wrong with the world? Has he made any changes? No! He will only live as a hero that meets Konoha's expectations, a powerful 'Hokage', and go with the flow! The reason he lives is because he is stronger than others, but this strength is meaningless to the world! No one realizes that this is wrong! They will only accept the rules and say that this is how the world is! They suffer for it, get angry about it, and complain about it, but they will only give in like cowards!"

His anger and pain shocked me for a moment. I heard his tone become as cold as ice again: "So I want to change the world in my own way."

"So the death of others means nothing to you? And it doesn't arouse any emotion in you?"

He said calmly: "Death itself is meaningless."

I don't know why, but I felt a little sad when I heard him say that.

"Have all the people close to you...passed away?"

Uchiha Madara lived a long time ago. Although no one knows why he can live to this day, his parents, family, relatives, friends, those who knew him and those he knew, may have been gone for a long time.

Is he so angry because he has been alone for too long and there is no longer any bond that truly connects him to the world?

He said stiffly: "It has nothing to do with you."

Even though he had a bad attitude, I didn't mind.

I then asked, "Have you... seen fireworks?"

Uchiha Madara said "Hmm?" in a nasal voice.

"It's the fireworks display. But it's almost winter now... the fireworks display is over."

"Of course I know about the fireworks display," he sat up from the bed and asked me in confusion, "Why are you talking about this?"

"Next summer, do you want to go watch the fireworks together?"

This person is so elusive that I always feel it would be easier for him to come to me than for me to go find him.

If we could arrange to meet, maybe we could get in touch further, and then I could think of more ways to find out what he wanted.

"..."

"The fireworks are beautiful. I like fireworks displays the most."

"..."

"Beautiful things may indeed be fleeting, but it is precisely because they are fleeting that people want to pursue them constantly and work hard to keep the beauty... Although I don't fully understand what you said, and I can't agree with your behavior, but your goal... is also to pursue beauty, right? You said that human existence is despair, but you are also a human being... Do you think your existence is also despair?"

"My existence means despair to you."

“Even if everyone thinks that others are hopeless and thinks that they are hopeful…isn’t there still a lot of hope?”

Uchiha Madara sneered and seemed to disagree with me.

He changed the subject: "Kakashi seems to have gone to the Hidden Mist Village. Did you meet him?"

"No."

"Why, he even gave you the White Fang."

"He didn't give me the White Fang. I stole it from him."

Uchiha Madara sneered: "Even if you can use Susanoo, it won't be that easy to snatch White Fang from Kakashi."

"I am stronger than him now!"

"But White Fang has a different meaning."

I asked suspiciously, "Are you familiar with Kakashi?"

"You said he was your teacher. I thought he would believe you and help you."

"That's not the case... My origins are unknown, and to him... the safety of the village is more important."

Uchiha Madara suddenly burst into laughter.

That laughter made me doubt that I was not saying that my origins were unknown, but that I was telling a very funny joke.

I was a little surprised and a little unhappy and asked, "You think I'm funny?"

"No," Uchiha Madara held his stomach and rolled on the bed with laughter: "I just thought that Kakashi is still the same as before, a cowardly waste!"

Even though I no longer call Kakashi "Sensei", it still makes me angry to hear him being called a "cowardly waste".

"Why do you say that about him!?"

"I remember when he was young, he was called a genius," Uchiha Madara said contemptuously, "A genius is someone who can do things that ordinary people can't do, right? What did he do? He did nothing. He is just a genius in name only, but he can only succumb to this disgusting world and is a coward who can't even do anything about the tragic deaths of his relatives and friends. He dare not resist the orders of mediocre people, dare not resist the corrupt rules, dare not fight against this desperate world, and dare not face up to his worthless fate - he can only stand in front of the tombstone like a stray dog. What kind of genius is he?"

"…Do you hate Kakashi?"

"No," Uchiha Madara had clearly looked resentful just now, but when I asked him that, he refused to admit it: "I look down on him."

The room went quiet.

After a while, he asked, "Why don't you say anything? He abandoned you. Are you still angry because I scolded him?"

"You experienced the Third Shinobi World War, right?"

"Ah."

"And you also noticed Kakashi who was known as a genius when he was young."

"so?"

I hesitated for a long time. Although my mind told me that I shouldn't ask Uchiha Madara, and I shouldn't reveal any information that might become my weakness in front of him, but...

"Then you..." I asked cautiously, "Do you know Uchiha Obito?"