Your quite true about that, but what everyone is taking into mind is Madara's reaction and Kabuto's response to that reaction. Madara was disturbed and confused on how Kabuto had w/e corpse inside that unknown casket. Before you can use edo tensai, Kabuto must have the body. For example, to summon Itachi, Kabuto requires Itachis body so Itachi's spirit can be pulled from the world of the dead and forced back into the ody it belongs to. So, obviously the body he summoned is that of a body one, that being Tobi/Madara, thought was impossible to find/detect. I'm sure if Tobi were Madara, but in a different body or the shadow of his former body, then the true body of Madara was supposed to be either hidden and only Tobi knows or completely destroyed, raising speculation to Tobi on how the hell did you manage to get my own body when I thought it was gone myself. Now, if Tobi weren't really Madara and using Madara's name, then Kabuto having the true body of Madara can make the nations take Tobi less seriously. Who do you think the Kages would fear more, Madara or some random Uchiha such as Obito if it were him? Obviously Madara as the alliace would strike more fear and allow Nations to take him more seriously as well as screw up in the fact of believing he were Madara.HOw did this chapter pretty much confirm that Madara is using another corpse?!?!? There hasnt been any hints or clues of this being any true... For all we know it can be anyone in the coffin, from Madara's brother to Danzou (LOL) or anyone for that matter. But like I said, that chapter doesnt confirm anything about who's in the coffin. I liked the chapter, a lot of movement. Naruto is finally going to learn how to control the fox (that was confirmed in the chapter), well he's going to try to tame it. Meanwhile Kisame is planning his next move, he will probably make at the time when all Nations get together to talk about the Shinobi Alliance (thats my guess). Naruto will probably be somewhere else when this whole Shinobi Alliance meeting happens.
If anything I think that Naruto will meet the 8 tails when Kisame decides to make his move during the Shinobi Alliance, Naruto will come and help, I think Kisame will die at the hand of Naruto and the 8 tails, then the 8 tails will teach him.
But also, the body doesn't even have to be Madara, it could be any ninja that was powerful and no one would expect you to find the body, such as the Sage of Six Paths for instance. How would Kabuto find the body of the Rikudo Sensei when he was at first believed to be a fairy-tale and also died well over 100 years ago? Imagine how Rikudo Sensei can pose as a threat to Madara. Madara relies on the King of Hell Statue to hold the tailed-beasts. Rikudo could easily dispell the statue, sealing it from Madara and possibly releasing the tailed beasts. Rikudo overall would just put an end to Madara's plans actually.
But, I didn't mention Kabuto's response. He told Tobi to not worry, he hasn't told a single person about that body. That could inform us that A.) Tobi is either not Madara, Kabuto knows the truth or B.) Tobi is Madara but just the shadow, the Tobi's body was hidden or destroyed entirely, cause the state of Tobi's fear on how Kabuto found it. Also, Kabuto responed "oh, you know..." when Tobi asked "how?". That shows me the body could have had protection on it, and only Madara/Tobi knows how to remove them. If Kabuto removed them, that shows Kabuto's capabilities and shows Madara how Kabuto got the body, with extreme powers possibly.
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