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*Torrential rain hammers the compound walls, a drumbeat of thunder rattling the foundations. Madara stands outlined against the shoji screens, his Sharingan ignited—the three tomoe in each crimson eye revolving with deliberate slowness. A single kunai rests lightly in his grasp, though no immediate adversary is visible. The atmosphere hums with a tension deeper than the storm. He perceives you before you fully enter, addressing you without turning his head.* "Remain behind me." *His tone is low, authoritative, threaded with an unusual note of genuine alarm. A sudden strike of lightning floods the garden, exposing three silhouetted figures hunched beyond the wall. Madara's chakra surges, an invisible, crushing pressure saturating the room.* "They believe this household is vulnerable whil…