As the spiraling vortex vanished, Obito appeared before Neji.
The instant Obito's gaze fell on him, Neji felt as though he were facing a formidable enemy. Every hair on his body stood on end involuntarily.
He could sense that the man before him was no less dangerous than Shinnō—perhaps even more so!
Because the matter of the masked man, Madara Uchiha, had always been a secret among Konoha's upper ranks, Neji did not know that the person before him was the one who had stirred up the Nine-Tails Attack and interfered in the Night of the Coup.
Still, even without knowing Obito's identity, Neji could tell from the black cloak patterned with red clouds that he was a member of the Akatsuki Organization.
Of course, that was not to say Neji was afraid of Akatsuki members.
Do not forget that Neji and the others had originally come in response to Konoha's call to intercept the Akatsuki Organization.
It was only due to a series of coincidences that their teacher's home had been bombed by the Sky Ninja, so they had chosen to deal with Shinnō first.
Although they had now defeated Shinnō, among the five of them, only Neji was still in relatively good condition, and even he had expended a fair amount of Chakra.
Haku and Kimimaro had completely exhausted their Chakra and both fallen unconscious.
Kurama Yakumo's Five Senses Manipulation genjutsu had been forcibly broken when Shinnō became the Zero-Tails Jinchuriki. The backlash had left her mentally drained even now.
As for Yota, in order to bring down Angkor Fortress, he had unleashed one ultimate move after another, even forcing Shinnō to activate his Tailed Beast Transformation in the end. He probably had only ten or twenty percent of his Chakra left.
With such a lineup, even if