Hirohiko... Yukina...
Why... why now? What should I do? What do I do next? What does all this mean? How can I make up for it?
What now? What am I supposed to do? Staring blankly at Obito, who could no longer hear him and had gone on talking about saving Hirohiko and Yukina, Chiba parted his lips but could not say a single word. His whole body froze in place.
This was something he had never expected.
Obito was dying, and Hirohiko and Yukina, whom he had thought were already safe, were apparently in danger. It had even driven Obito to say such things.
Clearly, Obito intended to sacrifice his own chance of survival in exchange for a chance to save Hirohiko and Yukina.
From those words, as well as Obito's earlier response of "but" to Rin, Hirohiko and Yukina's situation was extremely dire.
Rin and Kakashi had even seemingly concluded that there was no hope.
Chiba did not believe that Rin and Kakashi, who had emerged from the shadows of their past, would simply abandon Hirohiko and Yukina. There had to be a reason.
Neither Rin nor Kakashi was selfish. They both knew right from wrong.
And Hirohiko and Yukina were comrades to whom they could entrust their backs. If there had been any possibility, how could they have possibly left them alone?
"Chiba... Chiba..."
At that moment, seeing Chiba standing there utterly stunned, his eyes trembling, Rin was startled. She hurriedly reached out and patted his shoulder, but when Chiba showed no reaction whatsoever, her expression abruptly changed. Unable to help herself, she began shaking him as she cried out.
W-what should I do? At the same time, panic welled up in her heart. It was the first time she had ever seen Chiba like this. From