Final Plan

Keshiro was surprised to meet Araki once again.

"Keshiro, I want to ask for your assistance. Naturally, I want you to keep this matter a secret." Araki said to Keshiro, waiting for his response after that.

"What do you want?" Keshiro curiously asked Araki.

"Come with me… I can't speak of it here. And I mean only you must come." Araki said before he started walking out of the Uchiha Clan District. Once again, the Uchiha Clan Members were surprised to see Araki here.

It was rare for him to come to the Uchiha Clan district regularly.

Soon enough, Keshiro reached the location where Araki usually trained Nagato. Currently, Nagato seemed to be resting as his body leaned against the tree.

Araki said to Keshiro in a low voice, for some moments, Keshiro's eyes remained widened. It was like he had heard something utterly unbelievable.

But soon enough, he nodded his head.

"Alright. I will give it a try. But still, I didn't expect you to come to the Uchiha Clan for this reason. So you have already found someone with a Rinnegan, huh?"

"Less talking, more work," Araki said to Keshiro before pushing him in Nagato's direction.

Keshiro's steps were completely soundless, and he soon approached Nagato's sleeping body.

He raised his arm and gently opened Nagato's eyes. Seeing that purple rippled pattern in them surprised him, but a determined look appeared in Keshiro's eyes.

The Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan was activated, and Keshiro muttered, "Tsukuyomi!"

This was so sudden for Nagato that he couldn't even understand when this Genjutsu started. It was completely unknown what sort of nightmare Keshiro was showing him. Still, even in the real world, Nagato's expressions were changing to some frightening looks.

And merely 2 seconds had passed when Araki and Keshiro felt a monstrous chakra being released from Nagato. The Rinnegan in his eyes seemed to have shone for a couple of seconds before it returned to normal.

Keshiro coughed out some blood as Nagato had forcefully broken apart his Tsukuyomi. This was the second time he was meeting someone who had broken apart his Tsukuyomi.

But he could understand this… It was broken apart by the inheritor of the Rinnegan after all.

As Nagato stared at Keshiro and Araki, he seemed to realise that what he earlier experienced was all an illusion.

However, he still couldn't believe it and asked Araki, "Araki-sensei, that was an illusion, right? Yahiko and Konan are safe, right?" His tone sounded quite desperate.

Araki merely turned towards Keshiro and asked him, "Just what did you show him?"

Keshiro shrugged in response and whispered, "The death of a few people close to him. That's the best trauma. I also awakened my Mangekyou Sharingan with that… Regret and Rage are fuels for activating the eyes."

Araki then turned towards Nagato, "How about you use the jutsu that's coming in your mind? We can discuss this all later."

Nagato wondered what he meant, but there was indeed a Jutsu that he wanted to use.

He quickly made some hand seal and said, "Summoning Jutsu: Gedo Statue!"

Araki's eyes widened in shock upon hearing the name of this technique. And not just that, in the Senju Clan Manor, the vase in which the Gedo Statue had been sealed using 13 strong seals slowly started to break.

In merely less than 4 seconds, the vase shattered and the Gedo Statue was summoned in the training ground.

The Gedo Statue was summoned right behind Nagato's body.

Just as the Gedo Statue was summoned, black receivers extended from its abdomen. They pierced Nagato's back, draining some blood and his life-force for this summoning.

Araki entered the Sage Mode and shattered those black receivers before they could absorb any more of Nagato's blood and life-force.

Meanwhile, for some unknown reason, Keshiro activated his Susanoo against this Gedo Statue. He was getting an eerie feeling from this thing. His red coloured skeleton Susanoo formed around his body, protecting him from any unknown attacks.

"W-What the heck is this?" Keshiro asked, utterly shocked.

Even Araki somewhat stumbled… He didn't expect Nagato to straight away summon the Gedo Statue. He thought Nagato would be using more of that gravitational powers or awaken some other powers. This was troublesome…

"I don't know what this is. It seemed awfully related to the Rinnegan since only a Rinnegan user can summon it." Araki casually answered Keshiro's question. Naturally, he won't be telling him of the whole story.

Fortunately, Keshiro bought this explanation. He said to Araki with an urgent tone, "We need to seal it. This… I am getting some really dangerous feeling from this thing."

"On that, we can both agree." Araki agreed with Keshiro's words before he turned towards Nagato, "I guess this is enough for today, Nagato. Go meet up with your friends, they are fine. The thing that you saw previously was a test, and it has confirmed my suspicions."

Nagato didn't completely understand what he was talking about, but he immediately wanted to see his friends at the moment. He was still feeling some pain in his back because of those chakra receivers.

Just before he left, Araki placed his hand over his head and sent a lot of his chakra in Nagato's body. The chakra started to heal his wounds, and soon enough, Nagato had recovered completely.

"Alright, go now."

With that, Nagato left the area.

Keshiro stared at Araki and asked, "Should I leave as well? I don't think you need my assistance in sealing the Gedo Statue."

Araki let out a sigh, wondering if he should even reseal it or not. Considering what he had just seen, a Rinnegan user could easily summon it if he sealed it in a lifeless object. Even some of the strongest Uzumaki seals weren't able to prevent it.

But this event did confirm something for him.

'Madara was indeed the one who summoned the Gedo Statue. I thought that the Sage of the Six Paths had lied to Kurama and others and actually kept the Gedo Statue in the Elemental Nations and Madara somehow stumbled upon them. Still, it seems that the Sage of the Six Paths might have really left the Gedo Statue on the moon…'

'Now… the only thing that remains is to know whether this Rinnegan is of Madara or the schemes of the Sage of the Six Paths. And what is the Black Zetsu doing right now? Why can I not find his location? With the Sage Mode, I am capable of sensing even the movement of shadows, yet I have failed to find him in my range.'

Araki then stared at the Gedo Statue, the husk of the Juubi. He was struck by an idea as he thought 'There is actually one way I can keep this thing safe even from the Rinnegan user's hands. Let's see if it works or not…'

Araki gathered a few Uzumaki Members and brought them to the training ground where the Gedo Statue was covered by a thick Wooden Dome.

These members were the same ones who had previously sealed the Gedo Statue in the vase.

Araki informed them of his final plan, and almost all the members there opposed it.

Araki's new plan was… to seal the Gedo Statue (Juubi's husk) in his own body!

(A/N: The reason he was sure it could succeed was that much stronger seals could be used to seal Gedo Statue into living things instead of non-living things.)