Shadows!

{Somewhere in the The Land of Grass}

There was a cave hidden beneath a large graveyard between the border of the Land of Grass and The Land of Waterfall. Hidden in the cave was an ugly-looking statue, it was massive in size and with its eyes covered in bandages.

It was connected to an old-looking man who sat on a wooden throne. His hair was completely white and he looked like he was on his death bed but his eyes were surprisingly calm as he looked at another weird-looking shinobi emerge from the ground.

White Zetsu was a clone made from Hashirama's DNA given life by the demonic statute. At least that's what Madara believed, he looked at the white man who had weirdly malleable skin and small thorns jutting out of his shoulders and body emerging from the ground.

"Is it done?" Madara asked, his eyes bore into Zetsu's frame as he waited for an answer. He could feel his time dwindling even with the vitality given by the  Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, his body was slowly shutting down.

"The Land of Rain would definitely fight against Sunagakure and they wouldn't team up with Iwa and Suna against Konoha," Zetsu replied confidently, he was following Madara's orders when he used his special cloning skill to borrow the bodies of several Suna shinobi to attack Amegakure's citizens.

"Good... make sure to create regular chaos, but don't get caught up in everything, if you die your real body will be revealed," Madara ordered and then he went back to the comfortable silence. His Sharingan spun as he went deep into his thoughts.

White Zetsu walked away he knew that there was no point in talking to Madara tight now, he would brood over the smallest of things. He didn't know who he was, he sometimes saw flashes of a time long ago, in his dreams he saw the red eye that sprouted from a flower that was towering over all of him.

Meanwhile, Madara was brooding over the plan, the fight with Hashirama had taken a lot out of him, even with the extra chakra that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path provided he didn't have the strength to capture all the tailed beasts anymore.

'And that's where you come in, Uzumaki Nagato, even if he couldn't capture the 9 tailed beasts. If he could use the power of Rinnegan to reincarnate me I could deal with anything...' 

"Has Nagato not been able to awaken the powers of the Rinnegan just yet?" Madara asked.

"No," White Zetsu replied. 

A form of shadow that was just a black person's body with a face emerged from behind Madara and spoke, "Why don't you kill the boy's parents, the Rinnegan is an evolved form of the Sharingan. Grief should be an excellent motivator." Black Zetsu spoke, his grin widened as Madara slowly nodded.

White Zetsu ignored Black Zetsu as always but listened to Madara's orders, "Kill the boy's parents...make sure that the boy sees their death and morph into a Konoha Shinobi when you do it. If his target is too big for him, like Konoha. Then he would not be able to take his revenge so easily, the negative emotions would fester and he would be able to harness the power of the Rinnegan to later revive me." Madara spoke, and the gloomy tone in his voice was gone as he looked up, he could imagine the moon up there as the longing for a perfect world and peace overcame him.

'I need to groom someone to take over my position as the boogeyman of the world, if the 5 shinobi villages continue to grow, then even the Rinnegan Nagato would not be able to contend even one Shinobi village at a time in strength. I need someone who would keep the 5 villages in check...'

After brooding for a bit Madara spoke, "Zetsu, go through the young shinobi of the Uchiha clan. Find me someone who loves, who cares about others more than he cares about power."

Zetsu turned to give the undead Uchiha a look that clearly said what-the-fuck-you-on-about, but he kept his thoughts to himself. With his orders received he slipped through the ground and headed straight to the Land of Rain.

Zetsu longed to see the moon turn bright red one more time and to do that he could do anything.

...

Madara stared at the room in silence for a bit and spoke, "Tobi, get in here..." 

Another Zetsu, but this one with a spiral-shaped pattern all over his body appeared from the ground, "Yes Madara-sama."

Unlike White Zetsu, Tobi was much more innocent.

"Leak the information on Konoha's current Jinchuriki to Kumo... can't have them not participate in this war if they worry about Kiri too much..."

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{At the same time, Somewhere in Amegakure}

Fusa Uzumaki stared as the village atmosphere started deteriorating, the Second Shinobi World War was upon them and she didn't know what to do. She had run away from Uzushiogakure when she was pregnant with Nagato.

The Uzumaki clan was a noble clan, so she disgraced herself and her extended family by marrying a commoner and giving birth to Nagato. While it not being an outright sin, she knew she would be ostracized by almost everyone. While she could take it she didn't want this kind of life for Ise or Nagato.

But the security that Uzushio provided was nothing compared to Amegakure. Hanzo was trying to fight off the invaders but against Konoha and Suna, a small country like Ame doesn't have that great of a chance.

She walked into a rundown house and spoke, "I'm home"

Ise was a doctor in this village, he was well respected but the economy of the whole village was in shambles. One of the things that Fusa liked about Ise was his kindness, with Shinobi swarming the Land of Rain the number of injuries was piling up.

She walked into the guest room and saw Ise looking at her with a smile, and an old man was sitting opposite him and Ise was binding a bruise on his shoulders.

After making sure Ise was okay she walked over to Nagato's room and saw him already asleep in his bed. She saw him sleeping for a bit and after making sure he wasn't just acting, she closed the door.

A sigh of relief escaped her as she stood up and walked to the kitchen. Another day without an accident.

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AN- Madara's involvement in the war, I figured since the old man was alive till the end of the 3rd Shinobi World War. He wouldn't want to stay idle right?

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