A mountain cave.
Dim candlelight flickered across the rock walls.
Sasuke slowly opened his eyes. He was somewhere unfamiliar.
"I already bandaged your wounds."
A deep, resonant voice suddenly sounded from the darkness.
"You won."
Sasuke briefly checked himself. Bandages were still wrapped around his waist and abdomen, covering his entire right arm. He had been seriously injured.
Did I make it back...
Sasuke clenched his fist and lowered his gaze in thought.
Footsteps echoed from the darkness, and a figure wearing a spiral mask emerged.
"But you were badly hurt too. You shouldn't force yourself to get up just yet."
Sasuke gently covered his eyes with one hand. In the next instant, a mass of white flesh suddenly erupted from his body, taking the shape of White Zetsu. There were six of them in all!
The masked man was startled. He could hardly believe Sasuke had seen through the Spore Technique. Sasuke should not have had that ability right now...
"Uchiha Obito."
The next moment, Sasuke's words made the face beneath the mask change drastically.
"Y-You..." The masked man, who had already prepared his story, froze in place. Only two people in this world knew his true identity!
Or rather, two creatures: Black Zetsu and White Zetsu.
Sasuke slowly rose to his feet, facing the other man bare-chested.
Slash!
Before the masked man's eyes, the six White Zetsu crawling on the ground were all abruptly cut in half at the waist, their lives ending there and then.
"Want to talk?"
Yet at this moment, the masked man was filled with caution and wariness toward Sasuke, who had directly called out his name.
He had originally expected Sasuke to become the most useful pawn in his hand, but something completely beyond his expectations had happened.
For a moment, thoughts raced