Frog Squad Reunited

"Yahiko, why are you here?!"

Nagato's eyes widened as he stared at the person casting Ninjutsu. He was even more shocked than Obito, because the newcomer was neither an unknown nobody nor a powerful ally, but a friend who had long since died.

Countless thoughts flashed through Nagato's mind in an instant. Why was Yahiko here, using the Water Release he had once excelled at? Though its power was not great, the precisely timed Water Release had successfully struck Obito.

The Gravity Rasengan in Nagato's hand pressed easily against the Susanoo. The sturdy chakra armor and skeletal frame twisted and compressed, gathering toward Nagato's palm.

Obito had no choice but to enter his Intangibility state again, while Nagato simply threw the chakra sphere in his hand, allowing it to absorb the water Yahiko had just spewed out.

The battle came to a temporary halt. Obito had no way of immediately leaving the Kamui Dimension, while Nagato hurriedly flew over to Yahiko.

The two stared at each other. Yahiko spoke first:

"Nagato... how did you... how did you become like this?"

He looked his old friend up and down. Aside from those familiar eyes, he could barely recognize Nagato.

His hair was no longer as blood-red as it had been, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, his body had grown much thinner, and the long robe looked especially loose on him.

Yet Konan urgently stopped me.

Half of Yahiko's body twisted away and was sucked into the Kamui Dimension, but the rest of his body still did not fall. A familiar scene began to play out before Nagato.

After Yahiko's death, Nagato had turned his body into the Deva Path. The Deva Path had just been taken away by Sasori of the Red Sands, and Nagato had already made retrieving it