Caught in the Act

{POV OBITO}

I sat in front of Black Zetsu, listening to his report.

It seems someone was not only able to detect a White Zetsu, stationed to keep an eye on the Uchiha, but also kill it without it being able to alert others fast enough.

That fact alone made me evaluate that individual to have a significant amount of strength.

'I need to know who that person is, I can't have such a dangerous individual unaccounted for. My plan for the future is perfect. With the planned annihilation of the Uchiha and Pain under my thumb, having someone like that running around can spell unneeded trouble for me.

He needs to either join my cause... or die.'

"Station more Zetsu in Konoha, I believe that individual is still hiding there. Do not engage but let me know immediately when they are found. I will portal over and have a talk with them myself!"

Black Zetsu looks at me and asks: "What is your plan Obito? They seem to have the ability to use the Mayfly technique or worse, to copy peoples powers? It is a big unknown what tricks they have up their sleeves?"

I scoff at his words. 'Does he truly think I don't know what he is insinuating? As if someone would be able to steal the prowess of my Sharingan, I am invincible!

If I don't want to be caught, I can't be caught. This lack of respect and trust in my abilities should be punished.. alas he is still too useful to throw away.

With a situation like this coming up, my immediate plans have to be put on hold for a while, but in the grand scheme of things they change nothing. I will create a peaceful world, and no one will stop me!'

"Just let me know when you findd them, I will take care of the rest!"

Black Zetsu gives me a blank look, his thoughts unknown to anyone, and just slips into the ground relaying my orders to other Zetsu.

{POV MC}

Happy with my boons from the previous night, I sat on the bed thinking of all the new possibilities that opened up to me with this new technique. It truly is incredible, merging with the ground and Flora of the earth.

Learning some useful Jutsu and observing fights as well as incorporating everything new I would learn into my own fighting style and practising it was my upmost priority for now, and with the insane potential the Mayfly technique had for spying and infiltration, my knowledge of different things would shoot through the roof.

Since I had still caused quite the scene yesterday, I decided to stay in the room for the remainder of the day. I was sure it would be fine going outside either way, but it wouldn't hurt to be extra cautious.

I focused on sensing what was happening in the village, and noticed a lot more Anbu guards running around, seemingly searching for suspicious people on the streets. I was sure they were going to keep this up the coming days and nights, but it wouldn't have much of an effect on me.

With what I had planned for the coming night, they would most likely be even more on edge.

I was chuckling to myself, thinking about the faces of the Hokage, Danzo and Obito when they realise someone else is meddling with their Uchiha affairs.

The day passed by fast, and around 11 pm is when I got ready to leave the room.

I dimmed my chakra presence to almost nothing and changed my chakra signature to yet another frequency, just like the previous night.

'Uh, I don't think I'll ever get used to this feeling, it feels wrong and dirty.'

I slipped into the floor and made my way towards a shinobi shop. They had many things a ninja would need on their missions.

From weapons to healing kits, any gear and tools that one would need could be found here. The shop had already closed and I knew the shop was empty. So I came out the ground and looked around for what I needed.

I had a few things on my item list that could prove to be useful in the future.

First on the list was a sealing scroll. I had a general need for it, as I might need to carry more things in the future. Next were kunai, senbon needles, shuriken and a ninja pouch to put these things into.

I stored quite a few in the scroll as well. It'd never hurt to have too many.

Last on the list were some paper and smoke bombs. I didn't think I'd need them during my operation for the night so I stored them in the scroll as well.

With my new pouch of ninja tools on my leg and the scroll tied to my lower back I slipped back in the ground when I noticed some Anbu coming this direction because of their patrolling.

Next stop was the Uchiha compound. Most people were sleeping by now, and I had free rein to look for a person that I had confirmed to have a three-tomoe Sharingan.

Getting into the compound, unbeknownst to the Uchiha as well as the Zetsu in the ground was easy enough. While the Zetsu were trickier to evade, with my space sensing I just kept out of their way, making sure not to get too close.

Sensing a house in which I felt a familiar presence, I made my way there. In the house were two presences, and once I saw them I felt the other was probably his wife or girlfriend.

Slipping out of the wall next to their bed, I silently took out two senbons to dispatch of both of them quickly. I needed to also kill the woman, since I didn't want to leave any witnesses.

Hovering above their sleeping forms, I threw the senbons with a lot of strength right at their respective foreheads.

However, before the senbon could make contact with the man, his eyes shot open, as if he had a built-in danger alert, and he tried to evade the senbon coming for him by tilting his head to the side.

It didn't really work, since the senbon was too fast. So instead of hitting him in the middle of his brows, it hit his left eye. He let out a pained yell before it made contact with his brain, killing him.

The other senbon I threw had no issue reaching it's target and silently killed her.

I was pressed for time so I quickly called on my mist to swallow the two when I already felt neighbours waking up and Zetsu converging on my location.

Before I could suck my mist back into myself, I realised I was being observed. Caught right in the act.

At that moment however I didn't care and simply sucked the mist back into my body through my hands.

I felt a rush of changes happening to me and my eyes, and was shortly distracted. In that time however a swirling portal opened in front of me.

When I realised this, I was being stared at by a black clothed person with a swirling mask.

Obito was probably evaluating me and my threat level at the moment. I wasn't scared of him but I also didn't feel the need to talk to the man. I couldn't hurt him even if I tried to for now, so I simply waved a goodbye with my hand and slipped back into the ground when I felt he was about to open his mouth to speak.

I heard him tell the Zetsus to follow me, however that was a foolish endeavour. While I wasn't as fast as Zetsus underground, since I was still new to the technique, I was impossible to sense so I safely made my way out of the Uchiha compound.

Reaching the edges of the compound I felt Anbu having a discussion or stand-off with some Uchiha guards but I didn't bother with them.

I came back to my hotel room to evaluate the changes that happened to my eyes, but wasn't sure if I should do it right then and there.

So I simply sat in the lotus position and got back to sensing the village, to feel what was happening with the situation I just caused.