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The empire (Madara’s Art of war Part 3)

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Part 1: Coup and massacre assigned to the Seven of The Mist

Part 2: Suigetsu, Madara’s spy among team Taka

For more than half a century, the powerful Madara Uchiha has lived in the shadows and tireless has been preparing for war. He has been forming an army, gathering intelligence, planning, and adapting to assure success.

Madara follows the rules of “The Art of War” written by General Sun Tzu 2000 years ago. He kept his identity in secret. He only mobilized black ops at the beginning. Madara has also stored weapons, food, and money; destroyed the Leaf’s alliances; and is forcing the enemy to miscalculate. Only a few more steps and Madara will go to open war.

But does Madara share Tzu’s goal? If so, he only pretends to want the unification of the shinobi world, to build an Empire, and bring peace between the tribes.

Special Ops acted – Armies prepare

To this point Madara has only used only a small part of his forces, his special ops units: Akatsuki and the “Seven Swordsmen of the Mist”.

These “black ops” gathered intelligence and money in order to prepare a huge army for the war. At the same time, it weakened several countries, created political uneasiness, shaked Konoha’s alliances, and created openings to allow him to slowly take over other villages in secrecy.

To accomplish that mission, the special forces worked as mercenaries for any nation at the cheapest cost, thereby reducing the mission and profits of the enemy Hidden Villages. The fact that the black ops moved in pairs proved that they intended to cause minimum collateral damage for the sake of future alliances.

Later they captured 7 of the 9 tailed beast, and thus obtained the greatest resource of chakra, and diminished the military power of the enemies.

Akatsuki is the hour in which a new light rises, a metaphor of a new order

First Madara bribed, seduced and subdued ninjas to create the criminal organization Akatsuki. The 10 main members were powerful shinnobis from the Hidden Villages in the: Mist, Rain, Leaf, Rock, Sand, Grass, Waterfall and other unknowns. These 10 Akatsukis bear Rings that can probably canabalize the chakra of the tailed beasts and seal it in a statue. It is a bit like The Lord of the Rings, nine rings to nine humans that turned into nasguls, and “one ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them”. Four of the Akatsuki’s rings represent the creatures called the “four guardian spirits of Japan”, those were assigned to Deidara, Konan, Itachi, Zetsu.

Seven swordsmen of the Mist

These elites of Kirigakure acted as black ops paired with external elements (Zabuza-Haku, Raiga-Ranmaru, Kisame-Itachi). Kisame is an Akatsuki.

Later Madara assumed the role of Mizukage, leader of Kirigakure. See Part 1. Therefore he is the commander of a ninja army, and leader of the remaining “The Seven Swordsmen of the Mist” that has been operating undercover as missing-nin in order to protect the Mist’s status.

Taka the team led by Sasuke Uchiha is the last special unit recruited by Madara. Among Taka is Suigetsu, probably one of the Seven of the Mist.

Alliances kept in secrecy

Madara’s main forces remain a secret, but must include a full army of the Mist, and several other countries. He seduced and took by force several shinnobi villages. A good example is the Rain Village. Pein, the captain of the Akatsuki and possessor of the Rinnengan, is the current leader of the Rain Village. I believe other major countries such as Rock and Lightening are now allied to Kirigakure. And I wonder if Zetzu is a Kage or a Feudal lord.

Kirigakure, the Hidden Village in the Mist, is one of the five greatest shinobi establishments. Therefore its leader Madara is one of the five Kages, the Mizukage (Water Shadow). The other four Kages belong to Konoha, the Sand, the Rock and the Lightning.

Spies

To assure victory in war, Madara has been gathering intelligence about the geography, village organization, and abilities of potential enemies. For this purpose he has a web of spies. Also, he used the Akatsukis as sources of information, and to record battles.

In order to guess the spies identities I chose Sun Tzu’s categories of five types of spies:

1) Common citizens of Konoha are spying for Akatsuki and Kirigakure. Also Madara uses nin-cats: one of them was spying when Sai received his Root’s orders to kill Sasuke.

2) Leaf shinobis work for Madara or his crew, similarly to how Yura of the Sand reported to Sasori. Who is the traitorous ninja in Konoha?

3) Double agents, originally loyal to Konoha, turned by bribe or seductive manipulation. They give up the identity of the Leaf spies and misinform Konoha. The day of the attack they will lead Madaras’s troops through the Leaf’s security. Can you imagine who the traitors are?

4) Dead (Ex-) spies who spread misinformation that leads Konoha to miscalculate.

Kabuto was an Internal Spy for the Akatsuki, but he turned into a Double Agent reporting to Orochimaru. He (as an Dead Spy) gave Naruto a book of information about the Akatsuki, this probably contained some facts but also false info that will lead Konoha to miscalculate Akatsuki’s movements.

5) Living (Active) spies: the allies who infiltrate among the enemies and get back with information. This may be the case of Suigetsu among Taka. See Part 2.

Can you imagine who are the spies working for Madara?

Last Move

Open warfare will not occur until Madara has secured such a power to crush Konoha swiftly. He has almost accomplished that.

After the capture of the last bijuu, Madara will possibly try to “destroy credibility and union” of Konoha. The trustworthiness and wisdom of the leaders is crucial to keep a nation united against enemies. If Madara can corrupt the public image of Konoha’s elders, he can create an opening to break that union. Sasuke can help Madara if he announces the truth about Itachi.

Another move that we can expect is the “diversion”. Madara will try to divide Konoha’s forces, drawing as many Leaf ninjas as he can to the wrong direction so they will leave Konoha and Naruto unprotected. He can Use Pein and the Rain Village as bait.

War

Madara seeks a swift victory; a war that causes less collateral damage to the ground and villagers. Otherwise he will compromise his victory and the stability of his government afterward. Contrary to Pein’s ideal of destroying the world to build a new peaceful era; Madara will try to preserve as much as is possible. He wants to both win and stabilize his power at once.

Goal

Nobody except Madara knows his true goals. A good general never tells more than what is necessary so as to avoid betrayal or failure. Nevertheless, Madara’s preparations confirm that he wants more than revenge or the post of Hokage. He wants to build an Empire.

One of many possible scenarios

* Madara raises his armies and the bijuus against the Leaf and the Sand. After a swift victory, he offers trust and unites the shinnobi villages under one banner – the birth of an Empire. Something that will bring peace just like the Hashirama-Madara alliance did in the past. But in this new era, there would not be greater and lesser villages, because the Imperator will make them equal.

Madara can be working for someone else, like a demon, or a Daimyo. In this case Madara won’t seek to become Imperator.

Another option is that Madara is the boss and mastermind of this war. His goal must be then to make himself an Imperator, or pass the post to Sasuke or another Uchiha. And thus give the name Uchiha the supremacy that he thinks it deserves.

Naruto

Madara’s actions were all meticulous calculated, even the death of the several Akatsukis which he claimed was acceptable. They only initial misculcation was Naruto’s “way of the ninja” and his influence over the youth of Leaf and Sand. But right now Madara understands this perfectly and has adapted.

The great question is: Will Naruto mature and grow his powers enough to shake Madara’s plans?

What do you think about: Madara’s goal, spies, plans, and Naruto’s change…

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