I just want to be lazy, I was forced to become Hokage

"Obito...Obito?"

Hearing a call from somewhere, Uchiha Obito's consciousness that had been plunged into chaos and darkness gradually woke up.

A head of dazzling short golden hair was immediately reflected in Uchiha Obito's dark eyes.

With his dazzling hair color, familiar appearance, and still somewhat confused, Uchiha Obito immediately locked onto the target.

"Minato-sensei?"

Seeing Uchiha Obito wake up and call out his name, Namikaze Minato felt relieved.

The place where he is now is not Konoha Hospital or other treatment facilities, but still in the root base.

Precisely.

It is the secret prison of the root base.

The "Birth of Flowers and Trees" previously released by Nara Langui has affected the entire Root Base, which naturally includes the secret prison where certain special prisoners are imprisoned in the Root Base.

Many days ago, Uchiha Obito was secretly detained here.

(Being) inspected after being transformed by White Zetsu, and (being) tortured for information about Uchiha Madara.

Naturally, Uchiha Obito couldn't escape the pollen attack from [The Birth of the Flower and Tree World] just now, and was knocked unconscious directly.

When Minato Namikaze followed the chakra perception and came to investigate the situation, he happened to see his student unconscious in the prison.

Uchiha Obito's current situation is really not that good.

Under a messy long black hair, there is a bloodless and skinny face. The extremely thin body is covered with pale patches, as if a thin layer of mottled skin is put on the frame.

Even if he didn't know medical ninjutsu, Namikaze Minato could realize how bad Uchiha Obito's current physical condition was.

Even without actively thinking about it, Namikaze Minato could sense the inhumane torture that Uchiha Obito suffered.

Poor baby...

Concerned that the root ninja's methods might not only be limited to the body, Minato Namikaze tentatively called Uchiha Obito softly, wanting to see if the child still had the ability to think independently and normally.

Now seeing that Uchiha Obito not only woke up but also called out his name, Namikaze Minato breathed a sigh of relief.

The brain has not been damaged, there seems to be no error in memory, and the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan has not been damaged...

It can be considered a blessing in misfortune.

"Obito."

Looking at the student in front of him who seemed to be knocked down by a gust of wind, Namikaze Minato tried to speak as softly as possible.

"I have already reported to the Third Hokage. I will bring Lin here later and let her give you preliminary treatment, and then...send you to the village hospital for treatment."

Namikaze Minato did have a good exchange with Sarutobi Hiruzen just now.

The village has been hiding the situation about Uchiha Obito from him, and now he actually detects Uchiha Obito's chakra in the root base...

No matter how he thought about it, Namikaze Minato didn't think Genbu would treat Uchiha Obito well.

Perhaps it was because he witnessed the death process of Danzo Shimura that Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't lift his spirits at all.

After barely perfunctory words to Namikaze Minato, Sarutobi Hiruzen allowed him to lift Uchiha Obito out of his roots.

In a sense, Sarutobi Hiruzen's previous "fooling" of Namikaze Minato was not really a fool, but the truth.

From Konoha's perspective, Uchiha Obito's special experience is indeed inseparable from the elusive Uchiha Madara.

Uchiha Obito is indeed undergoing investigation and interrogation by Konoha.

Can interrogate Uchiha Obito. Where is the need for any troublesome process?

This guy disappeared from the battlefield of Yuno Country, then was "rescued" to the mountain cemetery, and then was rescued by Nara Langui...

During this process, although Uchiha Obito played the role of "protagonist", in fact, he had no idea what was going on.

Basically, you just close your eyes and open them, and things happen...

Uchiha Obito didn't know anything at all except that he knew about Uchiha Madara's survival and that Uchiha Madara controlled a group of White Zetsu.

Konoha also failed to extract any effective information from Uchiha Obito.

Uchiha Madara is alive?

Konoha already knew this.

Does Uchiha Madara have White Zetsu in his hand?

Konoha also has several White Zetsu corpses in hand!

The real reason that prompted Uchiha Obito to stay at the root was not the connection between Uchiha Obito and Uchiha Madara, but Uchiha Obito's special body after being transformed by White Zetsu!

A long time ago, Konoha captured several White Zetsu.

Although they are all corpses, this does not prevent Konoha from studying them.

After some research, Konoha discovered that the cell tissue of this creature called White Zetsu was very similar to plant cells and not like normal human cells.

Considering that Bai Jue can use Wood Release, and that Genbu has been secretly studying Wood Release...

Uchiha Obito, a "White Zetsu living experimental material", was forcibly left in the root base.

Shimura Danzo, as well as Orochimaru, both vaguely regarded Uchiha Obito as a breakthrough point in the research on the limits of the wood escape blood inheritance.

Under this circumstance, one can imagine how Uchiha Obito was treated in the root base.

As the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen naturally knew about this.

He had also considered whether to put Uchiha Obito back in the Minato class.

But after all, it’s about [Wooden Escape]...

There is already a three-tailed Jinchuuriki like Hatake Kakashi in Minato's class.

From Konoha's standpoint, we must consider the issue of the three-tailed Jinchuuriki going berserk and out of control.

The Nine-Tails Rebellion has not happened yet.

Uchiha Madara controlled the Nine-Tails to attack Konoha too long ago.

"The Sharingan is enough to suppress tailed beasts", this is information beyond the scope of Konoha's grasp.

But "Wood Release suppresses tailed beasts" is the common understanding of Konoha's top brass!

Although Uchiha Obito has the identity of "Uchiha clan" and "Minato class member".

But at the end of the day, he was just an ordinary Konoha chuunin.

With the help of Uchiha Obito's in-vivo experiment, he developed [Wood Release], and then strengthened the control of the three-tailed jinchuriki, and even the eight-tailed jinchuriki in the future, and even the five-tailed jinchuriki...

This is a pretty good deal no matter how you calculate it!

But what Sarutobi Hiruzen never expected was...

The roots and Orochimaru have not made any progress on the research issue of Uchiha Obito.

Subsequently.

Orochimaru was deposed.

Now even Danzo Shimura is dead.

As for the [Wood Release] that I have been looking forward to deeply...

Instead, it appeared on Nara Langui!

In this case, what should Uchiha Obito do?

Uchiha Obito, who was the experimental material, had no idea of ​​the reason for Konoha's actions, and his two-point Ken couldn't analyze this reason.

Uchiha, who is straightforward, only knows that he has shed blood for Konoha, that he has performed meritorious service for Konoha, and then...

He was treated as experimental material by Konoha and tortured like crazy.

During the days when he was imprisoned in the secret prison of the Root Base, Uchiha Obito longed for someone to rescue him more than once in his heart.

Whether it's the Third Hokage, Minato-sensei, or the Fugaku clan leader...

Even that bastard Kakashi Hatake, Obito Uchiha had secretly fantasized about.

Unfortunately, no one came.

Some are just endless torture and experiments.

Now I heard Namikaze Minato's words.

There was no fluctuation in Uchiha Obito's heart, only a sky-high resentment.

Uchiha Kenji closed his eyes, his Sharingan opened quietly under his eyelids, and the two magatama were faintly connected together, forming a more complex and special windmill shape.

"Teacher..."

Why come now?