Shattered Obito

"B-Big Brother." Itachi went rigid.

He had forgotten how long it had been since his big brother had shown him affection like this.

He only remembered clinging to his big brother when he was little. But because of the war, Big Brother had spent less and less time at home.

By the time the war ended, they could no longer recapture what they once had.

"Come on. Come with me to the New World. I need you, and the Uchiha Clan needs you. You've done enough for Konoha. It's time you did something for the Uchiha."

Yoru gently patted his younger brother's shoulder and motioned for him to follow.

Itachi nodded, accepting his big brother's words.

He did need to see this so-called New World for himself, if only to confirm whether the village and his clan truly had no ties left.

After all, the idea of making more than a thousand people disappear from Konoha was hard to believe.

He did not really understand what "New World" meant, either. He would have to see it with his own eyes.

"Hey, hey, hey! Who said you could leave? What was all that nonsense you were spouting? Who's Obito? Explain yourself, you bastard!"

Across the room, Obito recovered from having his identity exposed and stubbornly blocked the group's path.

"Obito, don't provoke me or the Uchiha Clan. I don't care whether you want to destroy this hopeless world or create one with Rin in it. Do whatever you like. We're leaving this world, and nothing you do has anything to do with the Uchiha."

Yoru stopped and stared at Obito, who had grown rather fond of wearing that spiral mask. He spoke one word at a time.

Yoru was about to take the Uchiha Clan out of this world, so he had nothing left to hold back. He had no intention of playing some mastermind behind the scenes here. Why should he care about revealing secrets?

Push him far enough, and he would make a detour to the Land of Rain and tell Nagato every last thing Obito and his allies were plotting.

Then let them see how they carried on.

"Who are you? How do you know any of that?"

At the sound of Rin's name, Obito's voice dropped. He abandoned all pretense and glared at Yoru.

Impossible. No one in the entire Ninja World should know who I am.

"What's wrong? Does a rat hiding in the shadows want to take me on?"

Yoru smiled. His eyes instantly turned scarlet, their distinctive patterns spinning as he fixed his gaze on Obito.

Since awakening a Space-Time Mangekyō Sharingan, Uchiha Yoru feared Obito least of all.

The most troublesome thing about Obito was that he was hard to kill. His actual strength was nothing remarkable. His favorite tactic was sucking people into his Alternate Dimension and leaving them to starve until they collapsed.

Yoru was curious which Space-Time ability was stronger: Obito's, or his own eyes' power to open the way to different worlds.

Faced with Uchiha Yoru's open challenge and those Mangekyō Sharingan brimming with unknown power, Obito's face darkened beneath his mask.

Yoru not only knew his true identity but even knew a secret as central as "creating a New World." It was entirely beyond Obito's control or comprehension.

The feeling of being seen through completely filled him with a fear and fury he had not felt in years.

"Looks like you know too much... Those eyes—and you—can't be allowed to remain!"

Obito's voice turned cold. His earlier mockery was gone.

The space around him twisted violently. He turned and vanished, then appeared without warning behind Uchiha Yoru.

He reached for Yoru's shoulder as a powerful suction surged toward him. It was his Mangekyō ability—Kamui!

"Watch out!" Fugaku and Itachi warned almost simultaneously, both activating their Mangekyō Sharingan.

Four pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan, each harboring terrifying power, faced off in the same room. Invisible Eye Power surged between them, seeming to freeze the air.

"Just what I wanted! Let's see which is stronger—your Kamui or my Amenomikado!"

Uchiha Yoru spun around, the patterns in his eyes whirling madly. The space before him was not drawn into the Kamui Dimension. Instead, it warped and rippled violently in the opposite direction, like water struck by a boulder!

BZZT!

Two supreme Space-Time powers collided. There was no earthshaking crash, only a strange, teeth-grating sound, as though space itself were being torn apart.

The room's tables, chairs, and tatami were pulled and twisted by invisible forces until they crumbled to dust.

Obito grunted. His Kamui felt as if it had struck an unbreakable wall that pushed back. Not only could he not draw Yoru in, but his Eye Power was draining rapidly, and his spatial passage had become dangerously unstable.

"Impossible! How can you..."

Obito could not believe it. His Kamui had never failed him, yet today he was losing in a direct clash of Space-Time powers?

"Nothing's impossible. Your Kamui leads to an Alternate Dimension attached to this world. My Amenomikado connects to the gaps beyond this world—and to other worlds.

"We're on different levels!"

Uchiha Yoru shouted. Two streams of blood ran from his eyes. The strain on him was immense, yet the light in his eyes burned brighter.

Clang!

As Obito and Yoru remained locked in their struggle, Itachi made his move.

A sword thrust toward the unguarded Obito from a vicious angle.

The unstable space kept Obito from using Hollowfication. He dared not take the attack lightly and had to dodge.

After their brief exchange, Obito, who was weak at Taijutsu, looked somewhat ragged.

Only when Yoru withdrew his Mangekyō ability did Obito stop dodging. The lone eye in his mask fixed on Itachi.

"Itachi, is this how you treat an ally?"

Itachi was unmoved. His sword kept coming.

It pierced straight through Obito's body.

But the sensation through the blade made Itachi frown almost imperceptibly.

There had been no feeling of striking anything solid.

Did he dodge it?

"His Mangekyō has a Space-Time ability too. Hollowfication lets him shift his body into an Alternate Dimension. He becomes solid only when he attacks. At his current level, he can maintain Hollowfication for no more than five minutes. After that, it stops working."

Seeing Obito put on another act, Uchiha Yoru mercilessly laid bare his secrets.

"How the hell do you even know that?!"

Obito glared at Uchiha Yoru, itching to rush over and kill him.

But he looked around and saw Fugaku's eager eyes behind Yoru. There were three pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan against him. Reason told him not to act rashly.

"My left eye controls Space-Time, and my right eye sees the future. There's nothing in the entire Ninja World I don't know. Don't like it? Then keep it to yourself. If you're so capable, bring Madara here to fight me."

Yoru's mockery was merciless.