"Did you need something from me, Obito Uchiha?"
Neji Hyuga calmly sipped his tea, slowly exhaling tea-scented breath. He sensed that Obito Uchiha, disguised as Tobi, stiffened slightly after having his name exposed.
In that brief instant, Neji Hyuga could sense the violent turmoil in Obito Uchiha's mind, as if it had been shaken by a Category Ten typhoon.
"Huh? My name isn't Obito Uchiha. You can call me Tobi. I'm Tobi from Akatsuki." Obito Uchiha played Tobi like a three-year-old child curious about a new toy.
When it came to acting stupid, he had a natural advantage.
"Ah... Aaaahhh..." Then Obito Uchiha, who had been hanging upside down outside the window, fell straight down to the second floor. He twisted in midair, kicked off the second-floor window, leaped back up, and clung to the outside of the third-floor window with both hands, muttering in alarm, "Whew... That was dangerous. So close, so close..."
Neji Hyuga ignored Obito Uchiha's act and calmly drank his tea. "Is that so? It doesn't matter. Whether you admit it or not means nothing to me."
"Did you come to see me about something?"
"Don't tell me you came to deal with me because of my unification plans and your Eye of the Moon Plan—because you want to revive Rin Nohara and reunite with her in an illusion?"
Neji Hyuga said teasingly.
The Eye of the Moon Plan had been proposed by Madara Uchiha. By gathering all the tailed beasts, he intended to revive the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which the Sage of Six Paths had sealed within the moon, then become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. After reaching the Sage of Six Paths' level, he would open the Eye of the Moon and project his ocular power onto the moon to cast the Infinite