"Naruto wouldn't want you to. It will make him sad. This is his home, and all of his precious people are here." Obito told himself as he did his best to suppress the urge to destroy Konoha thanks to the little scene he'd just left behind. The little scene of a sad little Naruto sitting all alone in the park with nobody to play with him. Obito wasn't a good man. Not at all. But, he was trying to be thanks to Naruto who had set him on his path to recovery. Sure, things would be better, he'd be better, had he gone straight to the afterlife like he was supposed to, but here in the living world with all its temptations and annoyances like that guy who was always shortchanging him at that one dango place...

Bringing himself back on track, Obito phased through the floor of the Naka Shrine and into the not-so-secret secret meeting place of the Uchiha. There was something he had to do in a couple months, and he'd need help and resources to make sure it was absolutely perfect. Help and resources he didn't have because he'd turned the Akatsuki loose. Well, at least the ones he could trust to turn loose such as Konan and Nagato. The others had found themselves prematurely dispatched to the afterlife.

"Red team will then get in position near the South Gate." Fugaku said as he pointed to a spot on the diagram he'd brought with him as Obito entered unnoticed, as everyone was too focused on The Plan.

"If any of you want to live to see the outside of this room, those coup plans better start turning into plans for the best child's birthday party ever." Obito said cheerfully, drawing everyone's attention to him.

"Who are you to dictate terms to us?!" one of the Uchiha Clan Elders who looked to be older than the village asked.

"Someone who has the Mangekyo Sharingan and can kill you all in five seconds flat." Obito replied. So sue him. He'd abandoned the Moon's Eye Plan and broke up the Akatsuki, but he wasn't a good man. Not yet anyway. He was trying but, you know, baby steps and take it one day at a time and all that.

Someone who took offense to Obito's threat got up and tried messing with him. Well, the man was due to be dead in a week, so it wasn't like his death right there and then had cut his life tragically short.

Everyone stared at the corpse that was left on the floor less than a second after the massively one-sided fight that had ended with the man's still beating heart in Obito's hand had started.

"Girl or boy?" Fugaku asked.