Obito's breakdown

Naruto's and Hashirama's two teams had failed earlier because they lacked a stable, portal-type Space-Time Ninjutsu.

With Flying Thunder God, they could either send someone straight inside or send in a severed True Several Thousand Hands.

Anyone sent inside would face a life-threatening risk. Obito could turn the tables and kill them at any moment.

That was especially true for Hashirama. Naruto could at least send in a shadow clone, though he had chosen to enter with his real body.

Hashirama's strength, on the other hand, lay entirely in Wood Release, and he needed the power of Madara's Rinnegan to complement it. Sending his real body inside would accomplish nothing.

Surely he couldn't go inside with Madara, use Wood Release there, and try to burst Obito's scales open?

Hashirama had an impure world reincarnation body and had already put life and death out of his mind, so he didn't care. Madara, however, certainly wouldn't take that risk.

After so many setbacks, Obito had probably realized that controlling a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki's body with the Mangekyō Sharingan wasn't quite enough. Handing a Rinnegan straight to him now would be a real joke.

In short, everything was perfect now.

Kushina had awakened the power of Karma and gained Kaguya's abilities.

Rather than comparing it to Kawaki gaining Daikokuten, it was more like a jinchuriki gaining their tailed beast's recognition.

After all, in Kawaki's case, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had croaked, and the possession had been reversed.

In Kushina's case, both women's consciousnesses still existed.

The instant Yomotsu Hirasaka opened, Obito noticed.

He couldn't help noticing. Obito was extremely vigilant now, and he suddenly felt a chill in his belly, as though a gust of wind were blowing into it.

Even without the Byakugan's ability to see through things, his senses alone told him what was