"Then, shall we proceed according to the original plan?"
Watching the distant column of smoke slowly dissipate, Earth Clone Chiba looked at his contemplative original body and spoke.
"Mm. Of course."
Yet upon hearing that, Chiba frowned. At the same time, he bit down on several Ration Balls and specially made Ration Balls, swallowing them to replenish his depleted strength.
I nearly got fooled by how smoothly things are going! I still have to get to Kushina and Minato Namikaze.
Although Obito was more likely dead than alive, his actions had still been highly suspicious. There could still be a threat born from fate's uncertainty.
At that moment, an image flashed through Chiba's mind: when Obito had been trapped in the Water Prison Technique, when the Curse Binding Technique had been released—when Chiba had been so overjoyed that he had forgotten the technique's release timing—Obito had not immediately used Space-Time transformation to break free of the Water Prison Technique.
That was genuinely suspicious.
Although Obito had ultimately dodged the Spiral Water Arrow and triggered the final killing move, the fact that he had not immediately used Space-Time transformation to escape control was suspicious enough. At the time, Kushina had already been safely taken away, Naruto had been rescued, and his plan had completely fallen apart. He had also been trapped in an unfavorable position. Logically, whether he abandoned the plan and fled immediately or used Space-Time transformation to track Minato Namikaze as best he could, he should not have obediently remained inside the Water Prison Technique.
Chiba could not figure out why Obito had done that. There seemed to be no reason that could have made Obito do so.
That point had always left Chiba uneasy.
Moreover, when they had left the cave, there had been another matter that worried