"Kai!"
This time, it was Kakashi's turn to rescue someone.
He could die at Tobi's hands, but he couldn't let his friend die at Tobi's hands too.
Kakashi clenched his right hand. Lightning flared in his palm as he thrust it toward Tobi's hands.
"Chidori!"
"Hmph!" Tobi snorted in displeasure and took two steps back. His words were clearly tinged with jealousy. "Kakashi, looks like you've found yourself some new companions!"
"Sure enough, I'm the only one who still remembers Rin!"
"Look!"
"This is reality. How ugly!"
"Tobi!" Kakashi hurriedly explained, "I haven't forgotten Rin!"
"Tobi, I'm not after your eye. I'm willing to give it back to you, too, but I can't agree to your demands!"
"I can't let you keep making mistake after mistake!"
"I have to stop you!"
"And I'm truly sorry, Tobi. This is all my fault!"
"I failed to protect Rin, and I failed to protect your eye. Uchiha An took your eye and destroyed it!"
"The Three Tomoe Sharingan I have now was specially assigned to me by the Third Hokage, who was worried my combat strength would suffer."
"What?" Tobi instantly exploded.
He had still been clinging to a sliver of hope, but the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Losing an eye meant that even if he became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki one day, only one of his eyes could evolve into a Rinnegan.
But what hurt him even more was that Kakashi, who should have been walking the Ninja World with Tobi's eye, had someone else's eye installed in his socket.
It felt just like he'd been cuckolded, and he found it especially hard to accept.
"Kakashi, you deserve to die!"
"How could you use someone else's eye?!"
Tobi roared in fury. His Mangekyō Sharingan spun wildly as he joined his