Mission accomplished! Why is it a two-tomoe?

Time did not allow Kakashi, Nohara Rin, and Obito to make more choices! The mission also did not allow Kakashi, Nohara Rin, and Obito to have more choices.

Kakashi lay down beside Nohara Rin. Rin raised her hand, and a faint blue halo, characteristic of a chakra scalpel, bloomed. She gently brushed Kakashi's eyes, severing the nerves one by one before removing his ruptured eyeballs.

After the nerves were severed, Kakashi felt no pain, so the muscles in his eyes only bled without the stimulation of spasms.

Then, Nohara Rin removed Obito's left eye using the same method.

The scarlet two-tomoe Sharingan was installed and connected.

Nohara Rin covered Kakashi's eyes with her hand, activating the Mystical Palm Technique. She fused the muscles and the eyeball together, then reconnected the nerves.

An intensely sour and uncomfortable sensation surged from his left eye, and Kakashi couldn't help but close it.

On his eyelid, the long wound that ran from top to bottom had become only a shallow mark—the natural shape left after a wound heals with granulation tissue.

Kakashi covered his head with his hand, letting out a cry. Although he closed his left eye, the "slowness" brought by the Sharingan had not disappeared. It was just invisible; its properties were still in effect.

His right eye's vision clearly became frame by frame, intermittent like reading a manga.

It was as if he had stared at a page of manga for a long time, savored it, and only then turned to the next page to see a new image.

His head felt like it was splitting, throbbing with unbearable pain. It was as if ten thousand Obito clones were surrounding him, shouting in his mind, the weight of it almost making him unable to think. He whispered hoarsely, "This… this is the Sharingan?"

"Kakashi, how is it?" Nohara Rin asked worriedly.

Even though she knew that eyeballs and the body were two separate immune systems, and that an eyeball was essentially a "foreign object" to the body, there was a natural mechanism for rejecting foreign objects, making eye transplants safe.

However, this was her first time performing transplant surgery on eyes. The dense network of nerves was utterly despair-inducing.

But she had completed it in the end. Now, she was just anxious, afraid she had made some mistake during the process. Although, for a ninja, nerve misconnections were a minor issue: they could adjust and recover after a while.

The most outstanding example was undoubtedly Kabuto Yakushi. When Tsunade's ninjutsu disrupted his nerve signals, causing him to try to move his hands but instead move his feet, with his entire nervous system in chaos, he adapted and recovered in mere moments.

Ordinary ninja were not as capable, but they could adapt within a month and use their abilities flexibly.

Kakashi said, "I'm fine." He took out a Soldier Pill and put it in his mouth. The sweetness of honey mixed with the spiciness, bitterness, and sourness of herbs filled his mouth.

With just a breath, the Soldier Pill dissolved in his mouth with saliva and entered his esophagus. A surge of chakra was generated but was drawn by a force, absorbed into the Sharingan, and then flowed from the eye along the nerves into the brain.

It spread throughout the brain from the visual nervous system.

Kakashi felt his head lighten considerably, but the chakra that had just been generated was quickly consumed.

The Soldier Pill continued to work, stimulating chakra. More chakra was generated, finally leaving him with a surplus.

Nohara Rin then treated his arm and turned to look at the unconscious Obito. "Obito…"

Kakashi took a deep breath and said, "Wait for me a moment." After a while, Kakashi finally had enough chakra to perform a ninjutsu and got up to act.

He used Earth Release: Subterranean Voyage, grabbed Obito, and pulled him underground, leaving only his head exposed. He then had Nohara Rin use grass to camouflage him. "Rin, let's go! I hope he's still alive when we get back.

"Let him hide here for now. We really don't have time… Right now, the Rock Ninja's defenses must be at their weakest. After all, our squad has been wiped out by them!"

Nohara Rin glanced at Obito again. "Obito, we'll be back."

The two resolutely headed towards their objective.

This time, they encountered no resistance.

For this ambush, the Rock Ninja had mobilized a large number of forces, and the defenses at Kannagi Bridge were extremely lax. Moreover, they had lost two High Ninja, leaving most of the Rock Ninja in a state of disarray.

Soon, Kakashi saw the bridge in the great rift valley. Kakashi and Nohara Rin cooperated, plastering explosive tags onto the bridge piers.

BOOM!

The explosive tags detonated under the guidance of chakra. The "boom" and "boom" of explosions echoed one after another.

Shattered stones and flames flew together. The bridge piers snapped, the bridge deck bent and broke like noodles, and then it collapsed with a roar. Only a few remaining piers had solitary steel cables hanging down, with no connection to either side.

Deep behind enemy lines, they destroyed Kannagi Bridge! Mission complete.

Kakashi and Nohara Rin did not linger. They rushed back immediately, but when they returned to their original position, they discovered:

Obito was gone.

"Obito!"

Nohara Rin collapsed to the ground, weeping.

Kakashi stood there, saying nothing. After a long while, Minato appeared beside them. Seeing only the two of them, he asked, "Where's Obito?"

Hearing Minato's voice, Nohara Rin hugged his arm and sobbed. Minato's heart sank, but he comforted them, "Life and death are unpredictable. It's inevitable for ninja to sacrifice themselves on the battlefield. Let's go back."

This was not a place to linger; they could face a fierce counterattack from the Rock Ninja at any moment.

Then, where was Obito?

As soon as the two left, nerves, like grass roots, drilled into Obito's eyes from the ground. A cluster of finger-thick nerves followed, holding an eyeball. When the nerves pulled Obito's right eye out, the movement suddenly stopped.

Nara Tama, who was secretly controlling the nerves, was stunned. If the eyeball held by the nerves had eyelids, he would have definitely blinked hard!

A scarlet two-tomoe Sharingan appeared before him.

Two-tomoe?

What happened to the Mangekyo?

He didn't have time to think. He immediately shoved the eye back into Obito's socket and buried some nerves into Obito's body. A hint of complexity emanated from that one eye… Never mind, perhaps they would meet again next time.

However, obtaining Kamui next time would be incredibly difficult.

The nerves on the ground rapidly retreated, as if they had never appeared.

At this moment, a White Zetsu emerged from hiding, attached itself to Obito, and disappeared without a sound. Only some bloodstains proved that Obito had been there.