Land of Rain.
A secret cave somewhere.
Tobi slowly emerged from the ground. Looking at the masked man dressed entirely in a red-cloud black robe, he wore a teasing smile.
"Obito—"
"Something big happened in the Shinobi World recently~"
The masked man had no interest in Tobi's words. He stared at the Sharingan embedded in the wall and immersed in liquid, seemingly lost in thought.
Tobi wasn't annoyed by his attitude. He chuckled.
"I hope you can still sit as calmly as you are now after I finish speaking."
The masked man turned his head, and the Sharingan hidden beneath his mask silently swept over him.
Tobi felt uncomfortable under that gaze, and he put away his playful attitude.
"According to the news sent by my clone in the Land of Waves, they saw Nagato extract the Nine-Tails from the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki."
Obito's pupils contracted slightly.
"Nagato? Impossible. Was it Pain's doing?"
Obito asked in return.
"No, no, no. It wasn't Pain. It was Nagato himself, Nagato with the red hair and Rinnegan."
"And there's another interesting thing. I found two Kakashis at the scene, and one of them was your brother..."
"He looks exactly like you, as if he were carved from the same mold."
"I never knew you had a brother... Your family hid him from you pretty well."
As Tobi spoke, his tone shifted from serious back to teasing.
Obito's Sharingan swept up and down over Tobi, and he frowned slightly.
"Black Zetsu, go check whether he's being controlled by Genjutsu. My Sharingan actually couldn't detect anything unusual!"
Tobi watched a lump of black sludge float out of Obito's body and curled his lips.
"Obito, I watched you grow up, at least. Do you really have no trust in me?"
Obito ignored him. Before long, Black Zetsu's