Where to start, where to start, indeed.

The history of jinchuuriki seemed like such a long tale for Obito, once upon a time. Wherein he had little attention but was beholden to Madara 's stories anyways. Forced to listen to the man.

You need to know this stuff to be Madara, right?

He is the man who once tamed the Kyuubi, he is the man who could control those beasts with his eyes.

He is the man who once stood shoulder to shoulder and fought face to face with Senju Hashirama himself.

And so Obito had listened. He had listened more intently than he did for anything in his life before. He had listened because he must. Because failure no longer means seeing a red mark on a test paper, but rather the unraveling of a complicated chain of identity that would lead to him crumbling from Uchiha Madara back to a nameless Uchiha.

Obito cannot let himself be unraveled.

Because he can only live as Madara.