Obito stumbled backward, his face as pale as paper.
"Y-You... what did you do to me?"
"I just took a look at what you've been through all these years," Jin said coolly. "Honestly, it was boring."
He turned to look at Gaara, still trapped in the sand in the distance.
"All right, enough chatting. Time to get down to business."
Jin raised a hand, and the sand holding Gaara began to tighten.
"Stop!" Naruto rushed forward. "Don't hurt Gaara!"
But after only a few steps, he was pinned in place by an invisible force.
"Quiet." Jin didn't even look back. "You're next."
Just then, a crack suddenly appeared in the sky.
An elderly voice rang out from within it. "Stop, Uchiha Jin."
Everyone looked up to see an old man with an air of ethereal grace emerge from the crack, leaning on a peculiar staff.
"Sage of Six Paths!" the Nine-Tails cried out in shock inside Naruto.
"Hagoromo Otsutsuki." Jin recognized him. "I didn't expect you to still be alive."
The Sage of Six Paths landed before them. His gaze swept over the devastation on the battlefield, and a flicker of pain crossed his eyes.
"This isn't what I hoped to see," the Sage of Six Paths said gravely. "The power of Chakra shouldn't be used to conquer and destroy."
"Is that so?" Jin turned to face the Sage of Six Paths. "Then how do you think it should be used?"
"To connect people and foster understanding," the Sage of Six Paths replied.
"Understanding?" Jin scoffed. "A thousand years have passed, and you're still just as naïve."
"I'm not naïve." The Sage of Six Paths shook his head. "I believe in the goodness of human nature."
"Goodness?" Jin pointed at the corpses on the battlefield. "Is this what you call