"Rin—"
Obito felt as though the whole world had betrayed him. Everything before his eyes turned gray.
He had watched Kakashi's Chidori pierce the Rin he loved. Blood spilled from her body and pooled on the ground.
"This world... I'll never accept a world like this—"
Obito trembled uncontrollably. He couldn't force a complete cry from his throat, only ragged, broken breaths. Tears fell into the dirt, heavy with rage.
Overwhelming fury and grief awakened his eyes.
The tomoe patterns in his Sharingan twisted wildly and dissolved.
Agony shot along his nerves into his right eye. His blood-red iris transformed with a jolt—three long, curved, sickle-like patterns spread around his pupil, joining into a spinning pinwheel.
Obito's Mangekyō Sharingan fully took shape. An eerie scarlet filled his eye, its patterns as sharp as blades that could tear through reality.
Because Obito's left eye had been transplanted from another member of his clan, it did not become a Mangekyō. But under the force of his rage, it advanced from two tomoe to three.
Across from him, Obito's Sharingan in Kakashi's eye socket resonated with it, revealing an identical pinwheel-shaped Mangekyō pattern.
Black Zetsu sounded surprised. "His eyes awakened? Just because of Nohara Rin?"
Black Zetsu had questioned Madara's plan for Obito before—not because he doubted Obito's eyes would awaken, but because of the cost.
Madara simply didn't know how to plan. He wasn't suited to pulling strings from the shadows.
First the Third Mizukage, then the Three-Tails.
All so Obito could witness Rin's death!
There was no need for all that trouble. An Illusion Technique could easily have controlled Rin and made her die in front of Obito.
As a master manipulator, Black Zetsu had never approved of Madara's cumbersome plan.
Just look at what had happened now. He had merely