Damn, Something Really Is Going to Crash Down

On Konoha's outskirts, the wind carried a chill.

Obito stood atop a high hill, looking down at the village below as it gradually fell silent, his emotions restless and conflicted.

He could never shake the lingering feeling of discomfort. He always felt that taking Uchiha Yuan's ominous Mangekyō Sharingan had been an extremely grave mistake.

Just then, a slender, composed figure slowly emerged from the shadows. It was Uchiha Itachi.

His steps were heavy, and he radiated obvious exhaustion and weariness. His expression was downcast and gloomy.

Obito gave him a cold glance and said mockingly, "Why did you take so long?"

Itachi lowered his eyes, his expression unchanged, and replied calmly, "Sorry. Things were more complicated than expected."

Obito frowned slightly and pressed on. "Was everything on the clan's side cleaned up?"

Itachi nodded coldly and said in a low voice, "It's over."

A brief, awkward silence filled the air.

Obito narrowed his eyes. Looking at Itachi's cold expression, Uchiha Yuan's pale, eerie face surfaced in his mind once more.

After a pause, he casually asked, "Do you know someone named Uchiha Yuan?"

Itachi seemed somewhat surprised by the question. He considered it for a moment, then slowly shook his head and answered flatly.

"I only know that there was indeed someone by that name in the clan. He was assigned to clerical work in the Police Force. They said he hadn't even awakened his Sharingan."

"He hadn't awakened it?"

Obito looked as though he had heard an absurd joke, and a trace of contempt rose within him.

He reached into his robes and pulled out a transparent bottle. Inside lay Yuan's pair of strange Mangekyō Sharingan, looking incomparably sinister and ominous beneath the moonlight...

"And now you're telling me he hadn't awakened it?"

A flash of unconcealed surprise crossed Itachi's eyes. His gaze locked onto the bizarre pair of eyes, and a rare ripple entered his voice. "Those are... his Mangekyō Sharingan?"

"Yes."

Obito's tone carried obvious disgust and displeasure, as though he were accusing Itachi of a severe lack of intelligence.

"Who would have thought that a clerical worker hiding in the Police Force had long since awakened such a bizarre Mangekyō?"

Itachi fell silent for a moment, his eyes dark and deep. He recalled his father's strange appearance before his death, seeming to ponder something, but he asked no further questions.

Obito did not explain the details either.

At this moment, he deliberately maintained the unfathomable image of Uchiha Madara. Naturally, he had no desire to tell Itachi that he had only seized Yuan's eyes through sheer luck.

Even now, the terrifying power Yuan had unleashed before his death still left him with lingering fear.

Outwardly, he continued to toy with the bottle disdainfully and spoke in a casual tone...

"Even though he awakened his eyes, he was nothing special. I dealt with him easily enough."

Standing in the shadows, Itachi silently watched the man claiming to be Uchiha Madara. In truth, he knew perfectly well that those words contained far too much deliberate embellishment.

But he did not expose him. He merely stood quietly where he was, silently going along with Obito's act of self-deception.

After a long silence, Itachi finally asked the question he truly cared about. "What exactly was his Mangekyō ability?"

Obito paused at that, a strange smile appearing on his face as though he had thought of something particularly interesting.

Toying with the bottle, he slowly turned his head and let his gaze rest on Itachi's indifferent, tranquil face. Then he deliberately asked in a meaningful tone.

"Itachi, what is your wish? To make Sasuke an outstanding Konoha ninja?"

Uchiha Itachi fell silent.

Tch...

Why didn't he fall for it?

Why was I the one who got inexplicably afflicted by his Word Spirit?

The true worth of Wise Two.

Seeing Itachi sink into silence, Obito's smile beneath the mask gradually cooled.

With a self-mocking gesture, he tucked the bottle back into his robes, his voice turning cold and gloomy again.

"Forget it. It doesn't matter if you don't want to answer. Your wish means nothing to me."

Itachi remained silent, his expression as motionless as a statue.

The instant Obito had asked that question, an indescribable sense of vigilance and oppression had risen in his heart.

It was as though the Mangekyō eyes inside the bottle were staring fixedly at him, trying to drag him into some bizarre, unknowable vortex.

Yuan's Sharingan carried a trace of evil.

An inexplicable chill rose in Itachi's heart, and he instinctively looked up at the sky.

The night remained deep and cold, while the crimson moon faintly emitted an eerie red glow.

Seeing that Itachi still said nothing, Obito simply snorted coldly, turned away, and ignored him.

The night wind swept across the earth. Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Obito stood in the pitch-black wilderness, each harboring his own thoughts.

After tonight, the Uchiha Clan would be wiped out...

Not long afterward, Obito brought Uchiha Itachi back to Akatsuki's secret headquarters.

Along the way, Obito remained unsettled. Those suggestive words kept echoing through his mind, leaving him unable to shake off his persistent agitation.

"Itachi, this is Akatsuki's base."

Upon arriving in the Land of Rain, Obito gave a brief instruction, impatiently dismissed Itachi, then hurried through the dark passageways to find Black Zetsu.

"Obito, what's wrong?"

"Something troublesome happened."

Black Zetsu emerged from the darkness beneath the ground and looked at Obito.

"What happened? Weren't you and Itachi carrying out the Uchiha extermination plan tonight?"

Black Zetsu immediately sensed the abnormality in Obito's tone and expression.

"Tonight, in the Uchiha Police Force, I encountered someone named Uchiha Yuan. Before he died, he used a technique that would destroy the Shinobi World!"

A technique that would destroy the Shinobi World?

At first, Black Zetsu thought Obito was spouting nonsense.

But when Obito took out the pair of Sharingan in the bottle and described the end of the Shinobi World and the scene of a planet crashing down...

Black Zetsu finally realized the severity of the situation.

He swiftly decided that he had to personally verify whether Yuan's words were true.

As Kaguya Otsutsuki's third son, Black Zetsu knew many secrets of the Shinobi World, including those of the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon.

He easily located the passageway and infiltrated that distant, mysterious moon.

Upon reaching the moon's surface, Black Zetsu quickly arrived at a special observation point.

When he raised his head and stared into the depths of space, his heart jolted violently. At the edge of his vision, an enormous planet had appeared, carrying an incomparable aura of destruction as it sped toward the world where the Shinobi World lay.

"Damn it, there really is a planet!"

Black Zetsu stared at the death planet in terror, his pupils instantly contracting...

Strange, unusual flames burned across the planet's surface, as though heralding the judgment of the apocalypse, while it continued hurtling toward the Shinobi World's planet.

By estimate, it would collide with the entire Shinobi World within a month.