Naruto: World of Warcraft - chapter 60

Tsunade was pregnant, and I didn’t know how to react, I wasn’t expecting such a thing to happen, yes I was humoring the idea, but that was it, I never actually planned on it, what disturbed me the most was how most of my social circle quote on quote felt she was pregnant as soon as she told me, heck even Orochimaru came to my house, although his reasons were different to that of the rest of the group.

He wanted to know why the heck did he felt such a trivial announcement from two miles away, and to be honest, I did too, so I allowed him to run a few harmless experiments around the house to determine a possible cause, meanwhile, Sakumo and Jiraiya took me drinking, while the Hokage started to give me parenthood books.

All while I kept on thinking, how the fuck did this happen, I guess fuck was part of the equation, I guess the real question no longer is, how and what happened, but if I was ready to teach a human how to be a functional human, a very good question indeed, I was barely a functional human myself, so… yeah.

“LET’S GET WASTED!” Sakumo shouted, dragging me into the bar.

“A get some women!” Jiraiya declared.

“WE ARE MARRIED, AND NOBODY WANTS TO BONE YOU!” Sakumo laughed, as Jiraiya started to throw punches at him, playful ones.

As we sat at our table, I felt an unknown chakra signature at the distance, the signature itself was weak but knew how to bled with its surroundings barely touching the borders of the village, avoiding detection all together, except for mine, flickering out of the bar, I teleported to the location I had felt the chakra signature and found nothing, yet I still felt something, it was as if the signature was the earth around me itself, “I don’t have all day, please don’t waste my time,”

“You are a very interesting child,” The voice of an old man could be heard, echoing through the trees of the village. “You have touched the darkness of this world, and yet you cling to the light, why fight for a world that is doom to fail?”

“Is this you trying to convert me into the dark side?” I snorted, as I tried to find the exact location of this mysterious being, expanding all my chakra in the vast field of trees that covered Konoha, but still no luck, so far I had managed to narrow my search to ten miles radius around the border, whoever it was, he was letting me sense him, that much I knew, for his skills hiding his chakra were beyond anything I had encountered, such finesse and control to blend with its surroundings was impressive.

“You can’t fool me, child, I know your pain, I know of your fears, and I know you will one day understand the futility of your work,” the voice declared.

“If you are so sure about that, then why even bother talking with me?” I sighed, if something was futile was my attempt to locate this man, from his chakra alone I could tell I was stronger than him, but… he had way more experience, and was using that to avoid me.

“Who knows,” the voice chuckled, “I myself asked that question and found no answer, I suppose it is because I find you fascinating,”

I chuckled, as I sensed Sakumo and Jiraiya approach my location, their chakras flaring in anticipation for battle, “I’m sorry to tell you this, but I won’t turn evil, or whatever you think I will turn,”

“Evil, good… winners, losers… love, and hate, those concepts are the ones that chain us to a world of perpetual suffering, a world of nothing but agony,” the voice declared, with a hoarse tone. “Wake up to reality, nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you will realize, that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering, and futility. Listen… everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well, even within us. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The Selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. I want to serve the fate of this world, a world of only victors, a world of only peace, a world of only love. I will create such a world… I am… the Ghost of the Uchiha…”

The.. Ghost of the Uchiha?! I knew Danzo suspected this man was still alive, but… could it be, could it really be?! “Uchiha… Madara?!”

“I will free this world of its suffering, and I will break the chains that shackle us, with or without their approval,” Madara declared.

“Why reveal yourself now… now that I know about you, I can and will kill you,” I shot back.

“You have much to learn, young Senju, I never make a move… without being sure of my victory,” Madara replied, “I already won,” and with that his chakra disappeared from the area, leaving nothing but a sense of dread within me.

“Raiden!” Sakumo shouted, flickering to my side, “What happened?”

“I need to talk with the Hokage,” Isshiki, now this… why was the world so determined to fuck me.

“Let’s go,” Sakumo nodded, probably realizing by my expression the matter I wanted to discuss was serious.

“What did I miss?!” Jiraiya muttered, arriving a minute after Sakumo.

“The introduction to more problems,” I replied, flickering out of the area.

Madara Uchiha, Isshiki, being a father, how the hell would I manage all those things, without losing something in the process, how would I protect my child, in a world that was steadily becoming more chaotic, I guess… the question wasn’t how, because there was no question, for I was going to protect them.