Kakashi and Obito Didn't Disappoint After All-Fun Might Be Late, but It Would Never Be Absent

"Left 4 Dead" was a straightforward, satisfyingly combat-focused game. Although it had some ultra-hellish challenge modes, Uchiha Qi had not included them in the demo.

So, while this ninja-world-exclusive version of "Left 4 Dead" was highly realistic, its difficulty was not actually very high.

Even the other three teams, whose players were mostly ordinary people, were able to advance with ease and slaughter to their hearts' content once they adapted to the impact of the zombie hordes.

As for the bloody thrills and horrifying scenes in the game, they could not excite the players as intensely as they would in the real world.

It was not that the experience lacked realism. Rather, the game provided the players with a certain degree of mental protection. Ordinary people or those with weaker minds were protected on a psychological level, allowing them to immerse themselves deeply in their roles—people long accustomed to mountains of corpses and seas of blood, who would not gag, vomit, or lose emotional control over a few frightening scenes.

This was also one of the new functions developed after the Spiritual Network control skill was upgraded, and Uchiha Jiri had played an enormous role in it. Only through the power of the Three-Tomoe Sharingan had they been able to add this effect, which resembled psychological suggestion.

The Sharingan truly was a miraculous eye with limitless possibilities.

There was indeed a reason why Naruto before Boruto was jokingly called the Legend of Colored Contacts.

Of course, the other teams' games differed somewhat from Minato's Team's. Uchiha Qi had secretly had someone modify Minato's Team's session.

The alteration had been inspired by the entertainment value of Kakashi and Obito's initial argument, and there were not many changes. Other than the monster spawn rate being slightly higher than in the other teams' games, friendly fire had also been enabled.

Yes, friendly fire was disabled by default in this game. Attacks that hit teammates would simply fail, but Uchiha Qi had secretly enabled friendly fire for Minato's Team—this was what he had previously instructed others to do.

Furthermore, the players of "Left 4 Dead" were completely isolated from the outside world, ensuring that external sounds would not affect them or reduce their immersion.

Thus, after fighting their way through the level, the players inside had completely immersed themselves in the game and forgotten the outside world.

The other groups were fine, but as expected, Minato's Team, which had friendly fire enabled, ran into trouble.

"Dead last, did you do that on purpose?"

In the game, after arriving on a bridge and surviving a zombie horde, Kakashi stared coldly at Uchiha Obito with his dead-fish eyes. He held a bloodstained kunai in his hand, while a bloody hole in the back of his left shoulder sprayed blood.

Clearly, the injury had been caused by a kunai.

However, since this was a game with health bars, injuries naturally differed from those in the real world. For example, although Kakashi's wound looked like it was bleeding continuously, his health bar had actually only dropped by around 2%.

Faced with Kakashi's accusation, Uchiha Obito's eyes darted away. "Who would deliberately hurt a teammate? I-I just messed up the throw earlier."

Kakashi narrowed his eyes. "Messed up?"

"Yeah, messed up!" Obito stubbornly refused to admit it.

Then Kakashi glanced at Obito, said nothing more, and continued onward.

Seeing this, Obito sighed in relief, thinking he had fooled him, before secretly letting out a sinister little laugh.

When Nohara Rin saw that the two had not started arguing as they usually did, she paused in surprise before letting the matter go.

Only their teacher, Minato Namikaze, looked as if he wanted to speak, stopped himself, then wanted to speak again. In the end, he said nothing.

After all, this was only a game, not reality. Even if they really died, they could revive.

So it was better to guide than suppress them. He would just let them make a fuss—at least it was better than suddenly turning on each other during a real mission.

Then, not long afterward, while fighting another group of zombies, Uchiha Obito suddenly let out a scream and jumped up while clutching his butt.

When he furiously reached behind himself, he pulled out a bloodied kunai. Perhaps it was merely psychological, but Obito even seemed to smell something like raw fertilizer.

The enraged Obito immediately glared at the person who had thrown the kunai. Kakashi, standing there with his dead-fish eyes, raised his left hand in an apologetic gesture. "Sorry, my hand slipped."

Obito (damn it)!

"Kakashi! What do you mean, your hand slipped? You obviously did that on purpose!"

Kakashi said, "My hand really slipped."

After saying that, he turned around and prepared to leave.

Such an unconvincing lie made Uchiha Obito laugh in fury. He immediately moved his hand and dramatically pretended to slip, shouting, "Ah~ I fell!"

At the same time, three kunai flew out at once.

Kakashi had been prepared and dodged immediately. However, constrained by the frailty of the elderly body he was currently controlling, he noticed the attack but ultimately failed to avoid it completely. One kunai struck the right side of his butt with a Thousand Years of Death.

Obito could no longer keep up the act and burst out laughing on the spot. He could not help it—none of the three kunai he had thrown had been aimed properly, and he had no idea where they might hit Kakashi. Yet Kakashi's sudden dodge had caused one to hit his butt. It was simply too hilarious.

Kakashi instantly saw red. The burning pain in his butt sent his anger soaring. As he pulled out the kunai, he hurled it at Obito. "Dead last, are you deliberately picking a fight?"

Obito immediately screamed after taking a kunai to the knee. He could no longer laugh and rose furiously to throw a kunai at Kakashi. "You bastard, Kakashi! Who's afraid of you? Since you attacked first, then bring it on!"

Kakashi said, "You started this! Idiot dead last!"

Then the two began throwing kunai at each other from a distance. Because their game-character bodies were not as capable as their original bodies, their ability to dodge was greatly reduced. It was difficult for them to avoid each other's kunai, and soon they were both covered in them, like porcupines.

However, because it was a game, it only hurt for a moment and did not affect their movements at all. Their health bars merely kept dropping.

Still, the absurd sight of the two arguing while hurling kunai at each other was comedy at its finest. The audience in the real world erupted with laughter, thoroughly entertained by this pair of bickering rivals.

At first, Nohara Rin had been terribly nervous and frightened as she watched the two throw kunai at each other. But once she realized they would not truly be hurt and would merely lose health, she could only laugh helplessly and try to persuade the two troublemakers to stop.

Having expected this all along, Minato Namikaze stood nearby with his hands on his hips, looking both annoyed and amused. In the end, he could only spread his hands helplessly at his two students.

In the real world, Uchiha Qi smiled and clapped happily.

Sure enough, Kakashi and Obito, those two best buddies, had not disappointed him. After giving them "special privileges," they had indeed created some entertainment.

Exactly. This was not a strategy stream. What was the point of a show that merely proceeded in a flat, straightforward manner without any antics?

This kind of entertaining development was exactly the effect he wanted.

Uchiha Qi's happy and satisfied expression was also seen by the Uchiha guards lurking in the shadows. Uchiha Jiri's heart stirred, and she called over one of her subordinates to convey Uchiha Qi's will.

"Lord Qi is very satisfied with Uchiha Obito's performance. This may benefit our Uchiha Clan's integration into Konoha."

Thus, this overinterpretation was successfully spread. When the Uchiha higher-ups learned of it, their hearts stirred, and they looked thoughtfully at the laughing audience.

It seemed that sometimes, having clan members subjected to "ridicule" was not necessarily a bad thing.

Thinking carefully, every major ninja clan in Konoha had its own characteristics, but the popular clans mostly had some relatively "down-to-earth" members, even if such approachability looked rather embarrassing.

So that was it. Was Uchiha Obito this sort of person who had emerged within our Uchiha Clan?

In that case, they could let go of the matter of teaching Uchiha Obito a lesson. Pass down the order: no one was to trouble Uchiha Obito—tell the clan members that this was the shared will of the higher-ups and Lord Qi.

Thus, the Uchiha higher-ups quietly finished warning the Uchiha clan members, and Obito escaped the fate of being disciplined by his clan for embarrassing himself in public.

Later, when Obito learned what had happened behind the scenes, he breathed a fearful sigh of relief and inwardly cried out that it had been close. Then he became grateful to Uchiha Qi. After all, the Uchiha Clan had unanimously claimed that only Uchiha Qi's staunch protection had spared Obito from internal clan punishment.

Well, it was the kind of staunch protection Uchiha Qi himself knew absolutely nothing about.

Of course, that was all in the future. At present, the enjoyment and deeper purpose of "Left 4 Dead" had already been displayed through the players of the four teams, and Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi directly listed it as a genjutsu game that graduating ninja teams would have to play in the future.

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