Damn It, Something's Really Going to Fall

On the outskirts of Konoha, the wind carried a biting chill.

Obito stood atop a high hill, overlooking the village as it gradually sank into silence, his mood restless and complex.

He could not shake a lingering sense of unease, constantly feeling that taking Uchiha Yuan's pair of ominous Mangekyo Sharingan had been a grave mistake.

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

His footsteps were heavy, radiating a palpable sense of exhaustion and weight, his expression downcast and gloomy.

Obito cast a cold glance at him and said with a hint of mockery, "Why are you so slow?"

Itachi lowered his eyes, his expression unchanging, and replied in a calm tone, "Apologies, the matter was more complicated to handle than anticipated."

Obito frowned slightly and continued to press, "Was everything regarding the clan taken care of cleanly?"

Itachi nodded with an indifferent gaze and whispered, "It is finished."

A brief, awkward silence permeated the air.

Obito narrowed his eyes, watching Itachi's icy expression, while the pale and eerie face of Uchiha Yuan surfaced in his mind once again.

He paused, then asked casually, "Do you know someone named Uchiha Yuan?"

Itachi seemed somewhat surprised by the question; he pondered for a moment, then slowly shook his head and said flatly.

"I only know that such a person existed in the clan. He was assigned to the Police Force for clerical work; it is said he hadn't even awakened his Sharingan."

"Hadn't awakened it?"

Obito felt as if he had heard an absurd joke, a trace of contempt rising within him.

He reached into his robe and pulled out a transparent bottle containing Yuan's bizarre Mangekyo Sharingan, which appeared incredibly demonic and ominous under the moonlight...

"Now tell me, he hadn't awakened it?"

A flash of undisguised surprise crossed Itachi's eyes as he locked his gaze onto those grotesque eyes, a rare ripple appearing in his tone: "This is... his Mangekyo Sharingan?"

"Yes."

Obito's tone carried clear disgust and displeasure, as if blaming Itachi for his severe lack of intelligence.

"Who would have thought that a clerk hiding in the Police Force had long since awakened such a bizarre pair of Mangekyo?"

Itachi remained silent for a moment, his eyes deep and dark. Recalling his father's strange demeanor before his death, he seemed to be contemplating something but did not ask further.

Obito did not continue to explain the details either.

At this moment, he was deliberately maintaining the mysterious and unfathomable image of Uchiha Madara, so he naturally did not want to tell Itachi that he had only managed to seize Yuan's eyes by sheer luck.

Even now, the terrifying power the man had erupted with at the moment of his death still left him with lingering fear.

For now, he continued to toy with the bottle in his hand with feigned indifference, saying...

"Although he had awakened them, it was nothing special; I dealt with him easily."

Itachi stood in the shadows, silently watching the actions of the man claiming to be Uchiha Madara, knowing full well that there was far too much embellishment in those words.

Yet he did not expose him, simply standing quietly in place, silently playing along with Obito's self-deception.

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

Obito paused at the question and let out an eerie laugh, as if he had thought of something extremely amusing.

Playing with the bottle, he turned his head slowly, his gaze lingering on Itachi's indifferent and calm face, and asked with deliberate, profound intent.

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

Uchiha Itachi fell silent at these words.

Tch...

Why didn't he fall for it?

Why did I inexplicably get hit by his verbal trap?

The true value of 'Idiot Obito'.

Seeing Itachi fall into silence, the smile beneath Obito's mask gradually turned cold.

He tucked the bottle back into his robe with a self-deprecating air, his voice turning cold and gloomy once more.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter if you don't want to answer. Your wishes are meaningless to me."

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

The moment Obito asked that question, a surge of indescribable vigilance and oppression had welled up in the depths of his heart.

It was as if the Mangekyo eyes inside the bottle were staring fixedly at him, attempting to drag him into some bizarre and unknowable vortex.

That Yuan's Sharingan carried a touch of evil.

An inexplicable chill washed over Itachi, and he subconsciously looked up at the sky.

The night remained deep and cold, and the scarlet moon was faintly revealing an eerie red glow.

Seeing that Itachi still did not speak, Obito simply snorted coldly, turned around, and ignored him further.

The night wind swept across the land as Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Obito stood in the pitch-black wilderness, each harboring their own secrets.

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

Not long after, Obito returned to the Akatsuki's secret base with Uchiha Itachi.

Throughout the journey, Obito had been restless; the suggestive words kept echoing in his mind, leaving him unable to shake off a persistent sense of agitation.

"Itachi, this is the Akatsuki base."

Upon arriving in the Land of Rain, Obito gave a brief instruction and hurriedly dismissed Itachi, then strode through the dim passage to find Black Zetsu.

"Obito, what is wrong with you?"

"There is a matter, a very troublesome one."

Black Zetsu, who had emerged from the dark shadows of the ground, stared at Obito.

"What is it? Wasn't tonight the night you and Itachi were to carry out the plan to exterminate the Uchiha Clan?"

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

"Tonight at the Uchiha Police Force, I encountered a man named Uchiha Yuan. Before he died, he unleashed a technique that would destroy the ninja world!"

A technique to destroy the ninja world?

At first, Black Zetsu thought Obito was just spouting nonsense.

But as he produced the pair of Sharingan from the bottle, and as Obito described the apocalypse of the ninja world and the scene of a planet crashing down, Black Zetsu finally realized the gravity of the situation.

He quickly decided that he must personally verify the truth of what Yuan had said.

As the third son of Kaguya Otsutsuki, Black Zetsu possessed many secrets of the ninja world, including those regarding the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon.

He easily located the passage and infiltrated that distant and mysterious moon.

Upon reaching the lunar surface, Black Zetsu quickly arrived at a special observation point.

When he looked up and gazed into the depths of the cosmos, his heart jolted violently; at the edge of his vision, a massive planet had emerged, carrying an unparalleled aura of destruction and hurtling toward the planet where the ninja world resided at a terrifying speed.

"Damn it, there really is a planet!"

Black Zetsu stared in horror at this planet of death, his pupils instantly constricting...

The surface of that planet was burning with eerie and peculiar flames, as if symbolizing a final judgment, as it continued to barrel toward the ninja world.

According to his calculations, it would collide with the entire ninja world within a month.