The dark passage seemed endless. Obito dragged his weary body, moving quickly through the winding cave.
Every time he engaged in strenuous activity, the wounds from before brought him excruciating, tearing pain, but his concern for his companions outweighed everything else.
He finally saw the light ahead and used his last bit of strength to rush out.
However, what awaited him was not hope, but hell.
The pungent smell of blood and burning flesh assaulted his nostrils, making him almost vomit.
Before me lay a Valley utterly destroyed, with limbs and torsos scattered across the scorched earth.
Konoha, Iwagakure, Cloud...
Various colored Forehead Protector were faintly visible amidst the bloodstains.
Hasn't the war ended?
Hasn't the Clan Leader already brought peace?
What exactly happened?
The sight before him made Obito feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
"No... it's impossible..."
He muttered to himself, refusing to believe what he was seeing.
Among the corpses, he even recognized several Uchiha clan uniforms.
Fear gnawed at his heart like a venomous snake, Madara Uchiha's words, "a false world," echoed in his ears like a nightmare.
No, this isn't true!
"Rin! Kakashi!"
Obito ran forward like a madman, each step potentially stepping on shattered internal organs or congealed blood.
His heart pounded like a drum, fear and hope intertwined in the most agonizing torment.
Finally, behind a relatively intact boulder, he saw those two familiar figures!
Kakashi and Rin, with their backs against the boulder, were struggling to withstand the attack of three Iwa Ninja.
Kakashi's breathing was rapid and labored, clearly indicating that he had just experienced a difficult battle.
His left arm hung limply, already injured.
But his right hand still gripped the short knife tightly, each swing precise and deadly.
Lin treated him with Medical Ninjutsu while barely blocking attacks with Kunai. Her medical robe was stained with blood, whether hers or the enemy's, it was unclear.
" Kakashi! Rin!"
Obito shouted excitedly, tears welling up in his eyes.
They're still alive!
fortunately!
They're all still alive!!
Hearing his call, the two turned their heads at the same time, their faces showing a mixture of surprise and delight.
" Obito!"
Lin's voice was trembling with tears.
"I'm so glad you're alright!"
Kakashi, however, remained calm and shouted.
"Idiot! Don't come any closer! It's dangerous here!"
But how could Obito possibly stop?
He saw an Iwa Ninja taking the opportunity to ambush Kakashi from the side, and without thinking, he Hand Seals.
" Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
A blazing fireball roared out, much smaller than usual, but it struck the attacker with pinpoint accuracy.
"Ah!"
Amidst screams, the Iwa Ninja collapsed to the ground, engulfed in flames.
The three finally reunited and formed a defensive formation back to back.
" Kakashi, what on earth is going on?"
Obito asked eagerly.
"Hasn't the war ended?"
Kakashi's face darkened.
"We don't know either. When we woke up, we were at the border of the Land of Fire. We wanted to find you and go back to the village, but before we could find you, we were attacked. It looked like it was a force from Iwagakure and Cloud, but..."
He paused.
"The war is over, so why are they still invading the Land of Fire Border? Do they want to start another war between the two countries?"
Lin added as she treated Kakashi's arm.
"There are far too many of these ninjas; they've clearly come prepared. We've been trapped here... for a long time."
Just then, more enemies surged in from all directions.
Among them were even several ninjas dressed in Cloud) attire.
Their eyes were cold, and they launched their attack without any regard for their own safety.
Whoosh whoosh!
"Careful!"
Kakashi shouted, his short sword drawing a sharp arc to deflect several shuriken.
A hissing sound rang out, and Lightning Nature chakra once again condensed on the short sword.
Kakashi moved swiftly and went straight to meet him.
Obito Uchiha closely behind.
" Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
"..."
The battle broke out again, and it was even more brutal than before.
Although Kakashi's swordsmanship is superb, he has already experienced many battles, and now he is clearly struggling much when facing an attack coming from a blind spot.
After Obito used all his strength to unleash several ninjutsu techniques, he finally extinguished the fire.
Due to the rapid travel, his chakra was now almost depleted.
"This can't go on!"
Kakashi gritted his teeth and said.
"I'll lead you out of here!"
He charged forward, his short sword flashing with lightning, like the scythe of death, instantly slaying two enemies and tearing a gap in the enemy's defenses.
"Run!"
Kakashi shouted.
However, just as they were about to break through the encirclement, a sudden change occurred.
Several ninjas suddenly emerged from the ground, completely ignoring the attacks from the Iwagakure and Cloud Ninja, and rushed straight at the three of them.
"Careful!"
Obito exclaimed in surprise.
He dodged a volley of shurikens, but a Kunai with Explosive Tags was still thrown in front of him.
With a loud bang.
The powerful shockwave from the explosion sent the three of them flying.
"Lin!"
Obito struggled to adjust his posture in mid-air, trying to grab Rin's hand, but he missed by a hair's breadth.
Just then, a figure flashed past like lightning—it was Kakashi!
At the last moment, he used his injured left arm to push Rin towards Obito, but the recoil caused him to accelerate towards the center of the explosion.
" Kakashi!"
Lin let out a heart-wrenching cry.
Obito instinctively caught Rin, and the two fell heavily to the ground.
He looked up and saw Kakashi's figure engulfed by the flames of the explosion that rushed past behind him...
"No!"
Obito felt like his heart was about to stop beating.
However, the next moment, a staggering figure emerged from the dust...
It's Kakashi!
Obito a sense of relief.
Kakashi was using the White Fang short sword to support his body; he was covered in blood, but he was still alive!
"Hurry... go..."
Kakashi spoke with difficulty, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth with each word.
Obito and Rin were both surprised and delighted.
Just as he was about to step forward to provide support, an Iwa Ninja suddenly emerged from the shadows behind Kakashi, thrusting Kunai straight at his heart!
The angle was too tricky; Kakashi had no time to react.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
Obito was too far away to rescue him.
He could only watch helplessly as the Kunai pierced Kakashi's back...
At the critical moment, an unbelievable scene unfolded—
A red light flashed deep within Lin's eyes.
Unleashing astonishing speed from nowhere, she abruptly broke free from Obito's grasp and charged towards Kakashi's back like a moth drawn to a flame!
"Don't want!"
Obito and Kakashi both widened their eyes simultaneously.
Obito screamed in terror, reaching out to grab her, but only grasped at air.
Just as the Kunai was about to pierce Kakashi's body, Rin used all her strength to block it in front of her, facing the deadly blade!
"Pfft!"
The Kunai accuracy, and blood splattered out like blooming red flowers.
It also pierced through his body and entered Kakashi's body.
Hot blood stained Kakashi's shocked face.
Time seemed to stand still at that moment.
Obito's eyes momentarily lost focus.
He watched helplessly as Rin and Kakashi slowly collapsed.
Rin turned to look at Obito, her lips trembling slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but only blood continued to gush out.
"Lin..."
" Kakashi..."
Obito's mind went blank; he couldn't comprehend what was happening before his eyes.
Obito instinctively caught Rin and Kakashi's limp bodies.
His face showed an unprecedented look of terror and despair.
"Lin! Lin!"
The Iwa Ninja seemed stunned as well.
But he quickly raised his Kunai again, preparing to deliver the final blow.
At that moment, Obito felt as if his entire world had collapsed.
Blood stained the ground beneath their feet. Obito roared as he held them in his arms, the enemy's Kunai about to fall...
The intense emotional shock swept through his brain like a tsunami.
Pain, anger, despair, hatred...
A torrent of negative emotions surged forth.
He felt a tearing pain in his eyes, and the world in his vision began to distort and change color.
The crimson hue grew even more vivid, Kakashi's muttering expression, the enemy's cold eyes, Rin's pale face...
Everything appeared magnified and slowed down infinitely in his field of vision.
"Ah!"
Obito let out a roar that sounded inhuman; he felt as if his eyes were burning, and some dormant power was awakening.
The world began to change in his eyes.
He could see every subtle twitch of an enemy's muscles, predict the trajectory of a falling Kunai, and sense more enemies approaching from afar...
In the center of his vision, the movements of the Iwa Ninja had harmed his comrade became slow and clear.
Obito could even see his own eyes, undergoing a strange transformation, reflected in the other's eyes!
The black Tomoe slowly rotated beneath the blood-red eyes, then split and reconnected, forming a completely new pattern...
But none of that matters anymore.
The Kunai through Obito's body without any resistance, as if it had no substance at all.
"It... it went through?"
The Iwa Stone Ninja's eyes widened.
"Go to hell!"
Obito released the two, leaped up, and roared as he unleashed a powerful punch.
This punch contained unimaginable power, shattering the enemy's sternum.
It was blasted dozens of meters away, crashing into the rock wall and turning into a pile of minced meat.
Seeing this, the other enemies swarmed in and attacked.
But at this moment, Obito seemed like a different person. His movements were as fast as a ghost, and every move he made was precise and deadly.
His newly awakened visual abilities allow him to see through all attacks and predict all movements.
But more enemies are still arriving.
" Kamui!"
Obito looked up at the Stone Ninja in the distance who had just killed Kakashi and Rin.
A pair of scarlet Mangekyō Sharingan immediately locked onto him.
The space around the Stone Ninja distorted, creating ripples.
"Ah!"
Before Stone Ninja could react, his body was instantly torn apart.
Obito stood in a pool of blood, and the world seemed to have lost all color, leaving only the glaring crimson stain on Rin's chest and Kakashi's empty, desperate eyes.
All sounds around me became indistinct, with only the pounding of my own heart followed by a sudden, deathly silence.
Pain, despair, anger, hatred...
Extreme negative emotions surged and boiled within him like magma.
Ultimately, it all converged on those eyes, which were stinging intensely and seemed to be burning.
Everything in my field of vision began to distort and deform.
The next moment, he moved.
Without Hand Seals or sprinting, his figure abruptly and contortedly disappeared from the spot!
It's not a high-speed movement like the Body Flicker Technique, but something more unpredictable and direct—
Distortion of space!
A Iwa Ninja felt a strange fluctuation in the air before him, and the Uchiha boy who had been far away suddenly appeared in front of him like a ghost, right up close!
He could even see the completely new pattern spinning wildly in the other person's eyes.
That's no longer just a simple Tomoe.
Instead, a more complex, more eerie black pattern, seemingly capable of devouring all light, was embedded in the blood-red eyes!
"Die!"
Obito's voice was cold and devoid of any emotion.
Under the terrified gaze of the ninja, Obito's hand went straight for his face.
Strangely, his hand seemed to become ethereal, passing directly through the opponent's blocking Kunai without encountering any resistance!
Then, the instant that hand touched the other person's head—
"Crunch!"
A sickeningly loud, distorting sound filled the air!
The ninja's head, along with the horrified expression on his face, was like clay being squeezed by an invisible giant hand, forcibly twisted and compressed in a way that completely defied the laws of physics!
Before he could even let out a scream, his entire head was twisted into a bizarre pretzel shape in an instant, his eyeballs burst, and his bones shattered!
Immediately, the twisted wreckage vanished without a trace, as if thrown into an invisible vortex.
Only the headless corpse remained, standing stiffly in place, blood gushing from its neck cavity like a fountain!
This terrifying and bizarre scene caused all the enemies rushing towards them, whether from Iwagakure or Cloud, to involuntarily stop in their tracks, their eyes filled with horror.
What kind of ninjutsu is this?!
Obito slowly turned around, his newly formed Mangekyō Sharingan coldly scanning the surrounding enemies.
The swirling pattern in his eyes exuded an ominous aura.
"You... all deserve to die."
His voice was calm, yet carried a chilling depth that sent shivers down one's spine.
A Cloud Ninja, defiant of evil, roared and charged forward, brandishing Ninja Blade crackling with lightning, moving at incredible speed!
Obito didn't even look at him; he simply raised his hand casually in the direction Obito was charging from.
" Kamui!"
The Cloud Ninja's charging figure suddenly stopped!
He was horrified to discover that the space in front of him was beginning to violently distort and collapse!
The Lightning Blade in his hand was the first to come into contact with that distorted space, and then, as if it had been thrown into a meat grinder, it tore apart and disappeared inch by inch!
Next came his arms, his shoulders, his chest...
"No! What is this?!"
He screamed in despair, desperately trying to back away, but found that his body was completely immobilized, as if he were nailed to that distorted space!
He could only watch helplessly as his body was swallowed, crushed, and disappeared piece by piece by that invisible spatial vortex!
In just two or three seconds, a powerful Cloud Jonin...
Just like that, it was completely "erased" from everyone's sight, leaving no trace!
silence!
A deathly silence!
The remaining enemies were completely stunned by this terrifying force that was utterly incomprehensible and irresistible!
"A monster... a monster!"
One of the Iwa Ninja screamed in despair and turned to run away.
Obito's gaze instantly locked onto him.
Can they escape?
The Iwa Ninja was running wildly suddenly felt a chill on his neck!
He looked down and was horrified to see that in front of his neck, the air twisted again, and a cold, Kunai blade appeared out of thin air!
It's like someone handed you Kunai from another dimension!
"Pfft!"
The Kunai precisely slit his throat!
Blood splattered!
He clutched his neck and staggered to the ground, his eyes filled with fear and confusion.
Obito's figure twisted and disappeared again, and the next second, he appeared behind another ninja like a ghost.
The man reacted extremely quickly, his hands Hand Seals rapidly as he tried to burrow into the ground.
Obito's Mangekyo turned slightly.
They move faster.
"Snort."
Obito suddenly appeared in front of him, placing a hand directly on its head.
The sickening sound rang out again, and the ninja's head was mercilessly twisted and swallowed up!
Slaughter! A completely one-sided, bizarrely unpredictable massacre!
Obito was like a grim reaper walking among humans; his figure appeared and disappeared on the battlefield unpredictably, each appearance accompanied by the distortion of space and the gruesome death of his enemies.
Ordinary ninjutsu and attacks cannot touch him at all.
This is the power of the Mangekyō Sharingan!
The power of Kamui belonging to Obito Uchiha!
He was immersed in the thrill of revenge and the release of power, as if the excruciating pain in his eyes and the depletion of chakra flowing like blood had ceased to exist.
He only wanted to kill all the enemies in front of him, to use their blood and cries to atone for the harm done to Rin and Kakashi.
Before long, Obito was covered in blood and breathing heavily.
Those Mangekyō Sharingan slowly rotated, still radiating a chilling, icy light.
He slowly turned around and looked into the distance.
Two figures appeared in front of Obito, as if they had descended from the sky!
The newcomers were none other than Minato Namikaze and Chiyo Uchiha, who had used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport to Obito's side.
Minato glanced around, his face showing unprecedented solemnity and anger.
" Obito! Kakashi!"
When Minato saw the horrific scene before him, especially Rin with Kunai stuck in her chest and her life hanging in the balance, his eyes instantly turned icy cold.
Obito, however, seemed not to hear Minato's voice.
Without thinking twice, Minato Body Flicker in front of the two.
After quickly checking on Rin and Kakashi's condition, his expression turned even more grim.
"She's not breathing..."
Minato said in a deep voice, with a slight, almost imperceptible tremor in his voice.
Obito remained standing there, staring blankly at his blood-stained hands. In his newly awakened eyes, the spinning Tomoe slowly subsided, leaving behind an even deeper darkness.
Minato's gaze fell upon Chiyo Uchiha.
" Lord Hokage, they..."
Minato's voice was choked with emotion.
Obito suddenly looked up, his eyes devoid of any light, filled only with endless emptiness and despair.
"Teacher... Lord Hokage, is this world... real... or an illusion...?"
His voice was soft, yet it sent a chill down Minato's Minato.
far away.
A White Zetsu, with half its body exposed, slowly sank into the ground.
In the midst of silence...
Chiyo's voice came through firmly.
"It's real!"
The words had barely left his mouth.
Chiyo Uchiha's gaze swept over the ninjas around him who were still watching them with predatory eyes and trembling with fear.
His eyes changed instantly.
" The Yellow Springs..."
" the Other Shore!"
Streams of life force were drawn from their bodies, transforming into specks of starlight that appeared in mid-air.
The ninjas whose life force was drained also changed in appearance, revealing their true white and withered forms as White Zetsu.
Every single ninja before me had been drained of their life force.
They fell down one by one.
Meanwhile, in mid-air, the life force and Chiyo's Dōryoku that had been extracted erupted once again.
The specks of light that formed from life force fell upon Kakashi and Rin Nohara.
In that very instant.
Obito's stiff face changed slightly.
She turned her head and looked at Kakashi and Rin Nohara.
"Cough cough..."
Two low, weak coughs were heard.
Obito's eyes regained their sparkle.
"Lin!!"
" Kakashi!!"