The Land of Water.
Obito had finally regained his youthful looks.
He was a handsome young man.
"Damn you Hyuga, this is all your fault! I actually defiled Rin... yes, it's all your fault. Otherwise, I never would have..."
Obito Uchiha was flustered and furious. With his youth restored, his hormones had stirred, and last night, he had actually dreamed of Rin...
When he woke up that morning, his pants were stiff and crusty.
It seemed he had dreamed...
Who was he?!
Obito Uchiha, Madara Uchiha's proxy, the greatest mastermind currently lurking behind the scenes in the Ninja World. He led even the inheritor of the Rinnegan around by the nose like a dog on a leash. He had slaughtered Kirigakure's people until the village was in shambles.
He.
Had had a wet dream last night.
Fucking hell. He had thought his heart was already as hard as iron.
After all, he had even killed his teacher and his teacher's wife.
Yet yesterday, he had actually had an erotic dream.
And the person in it was...
It left him both delighted and furious.
Delighted because he had seen Rin again after so long, furious because he had actually defiled her... she was his pure, untouchable first love...
But that medicine let me see Rin again.
And of course, if it was with her...
That was pretty nice too.
"No, how could I think that? It's all the Hyuga's fault... otherwise, a virgin like me never would have..."
"It's all the Hyuga's fault..." Obito Uchiha muttered to himself.
He had turned back into that innocent little idiot.
If Nagato and Konan learned that the "Madara" they feared was such a fool, their jaws would probably drop.
"Zetsu~ I think there's definitely something wrong with that medicine. Get me some more. I need to study it..."
The masked "Madara" gave Zetsu his orders. His mouth said no, but his body was honest.
"Huh~ Obito, since when did you know how to do research?! Haven't you always been a terrible student?" Zetsu asked in confusion. This fellow was far too honest.
"Shut up~ just go. And call me Madara from now on." Obito roared, mortified and angry.
Bastard~ do I need you to remind me I'm a terrible student?
"Heehee~ Obito, you know what pooping feels like now, right? I saw you washing your pants.
"Did you poop your pants? What did it feel like?!"
Zetsu kept grinning, failing to notice Obito's face turn from dark to red, then dark again. Murder gleamed in his eyes.
At that moment, it was as though a thunderbolt had struck Obito's mind.
Someone saw me washing my pants.
Someone saw.
Saw.
His head instantly flushed so hot it practically steamed.
No, this can't get out.
He instinctively wanted to kill the witness.
"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation..."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa~ Obito's murdering people... Obito's murdering people..." Zetsu vanished with a strange laugh.
"Lucky you ran fast." The moment Obito attacked, he came to his senses. Zetsu was on his side, and what the hell did he know anyway?
Fortunately, he had dodged.
At the thought of his own embarrassment...
Obito couldn't help cursing.
"Damn you Hyuga, this is all your fault."
Someone in the village spotted the flames.
"Lord Mizukage is under attack! Hurry~"
"Shit~" Hearing the voices, Obito immediately realized something was wrong. It seemed he had screwed up...
Just then...
Bang! A dark figure rushed in to attack. "Die, Yagura!"
"Zabuza, it's you..." The controlled Yagura immediately counterattacked, then exposed the attacker's identity.
As for Zabuza...
Obito dismissed him entirely. He was only a Jonin.
He controlled Yagura and sent him charging in for the kill.
"Secret Technique: Coral Palm."
What he hadn't expected was that Genji, now restored to youth, and Mei Terumi's group had already gathered their forces to purge the villain at their leader's side and restore peace to Kirigakure. "The Fourth Mizukage, Yagura, is being controlled. His reckless actions have thrown the village into chaos!"
"Follow me! We'll take our village back from the villain and restore the peace we once knew."
"We are at your service." Large numbers of ninja answered the call.
"Kill Yagura! Slay the fiend!"
The village had become far too oppressive. Shrouded in bloodshed, everyone could barely breathe. They lived in constant fear, never knowing whether they would see tomorrow. They might as well take a chance.
Death was death. If they survived, they could live on.
Nirvana: Wonderful. While you fight out front, I can move things and steal people in the rear... pfft, I mean find talent...
"Kimimaro, Haku."
"I'm coming."
A new human trafficker had arrived in the Ninja World.
Unfortunately, the Land of Water was surrounded by sea and shared no borders with the other four nations. It had always been mysterious and isolationist, so Qingwu was the only one who got to watch this grand spectacle.
Kirigakure was in the midst of internal strife.
Otherwise, the other four great nations might have seized the opportunity...
To bite a chunk out of the Land of Water.
What a shame.
None of them knew.
They had missed a golden opportunity.
No, someone would still eat his fill.
"Space-Time Ninjutsu really is this badass."
A hundred meters above Kirigakure, Qingwu sat cross-legged, concealed in the night, watching the spectacle with his Byakugan activated.
"Yes, yes~ hack him, Zabuza!"
"Holy shit~ that Coral Palm is awesome. One hit grows a whole patch of coral, and one careless move gets you sealed. Fucking sneaky~"
"Zabuza's got skills. Silent Killing, thank you very much."
"That Water Mirror Technique is seriously broken. Zabuza's screwed... oh, holy shit... he actually escaped that..."
"Obito, you're such trash... you've ruined a Kage Level account... holy shit... here she comes... here she comes..."
"Mei Terumi's so bouncy. What a figure. I admit it, I'm thirsty... those kisses would be seriously exciting..."
"That little mouth spits acidic mist... holy shit... if that happened while we were getting intimate..." At the thought, Qingwu suddenly felt a chill between his legs.
They were fighting for their lives while he sat there passing judgment.
Fantasizing about her.
What a creep.
Seeing the situation turn against him, Obito snorted. It seemed Yagura had been exposed. This pawn he had used to take revenge on Kirigakure was no longer useful.
"Use Tailed Beast Transformation and destroy as much of Kirigakure as possible. All of you can join Rin in death." He issued one final command through Sharingan Genjutsu, then vanished with Kamui. Obito valued his own life far too much.
Without anyone noticing.
(Qingwu: Sorry, I've been watching the whole time.)
"Awooo~" The enormous turtle, the Three-Tails, appeared. Boom! Boom! Boom! Several Tailed Beast Bombs flew out, carrying out Obito Uchiha's order to destroy Kirigakure.
"Damn~ Obito really is ruthless. No wonder Kirigakure kept such a low profile early in Naruto. This would leave them badly weakened," Qingwu remarked. "Ruining an entire nation to avenge your girlfriend. Obito, I have to say, you're a real man."
The Demon Refining Pot remained open, absorbing the chakra leaking from the tailed beast. Perhaps, once it gathered enough, it could create a little Three-Tails.
"Now let's see whether Kirigakure's resistance can pull this off."
As it turned out, they could.
Without Obito Uchiha personally controlling him, Yagura soon broke free of the genjutsu and regained his senses.
"The bloody mist policy... children killing each other... wiping out the Bloodline Families... destroying the village with Tailed Beast Bombs..."
"I did all of this?!"
Unfortunately, it was too late. Kirigakure had suffered devastating damage, and overusing Tailed Beast Bombs had drained him completely. He couldn't face the people of Kirigakure either. In the end, he willingly died at his own doorstep. "Elder Genshi, Mei Terumi, I leave the village to you."
Qingwu thoroughly enjoyed the show.
"At least he was a man in the end. He took the Three-Tails down with him."
The Demon Refining Pot told him that when the Three-Tails died, it had intercepted a third of his chakra, enough to create a new creature.
"Thanks for the gift, buddy."
Kirigakure's story...
Had come to a temporary close.
Elsewhere in the Ninja World.
The Land of Fields, for instance.
Looking at the test subject whose youth had been restored...
"How fascinating~"
Orochimaru had obtained some too, of course. "Hiss~ interesting, truly interesting. The Hyuga Clan, was it?! Perhaps I can find a new path to immortality through you. Hahaha~"
He was overjoyed. He had glimpsed another path to eternal life, and it gave him fresh hope and motivation. He wasn't afraid of hardship, only of having no hope in sight. And so, he formed a new plan.
"Contact Kabuto. Have him find a way to learn more about the Hyuga."
"Yes, Lord Orochimaru." A subordinate immediately acknowledged the order and withdrew to pass it on. Before long, a ninja pigeon took flight.
Qingwu: Come on, all of you. I've got my sack open and waiting. I'll take whoever comes. Generous of me, right? Heehee~
Amegakure.
Within the Akatsuki.
Looking at Konan, whose youth had been restored...
Inside Hiruko...
Sasori, whose body was already a puppet, felt conflicted. "A different form of eternity?! They can even do something like this... could the Hyuga, or rather, Hundred Beast Mountain, bring the dead back to life...?"
"I heard about what happened in Sunagakure."
"That's good too. Grandfather Ebizo has left descendants for the Akasuna family. Grandmother, now you should have someone to rely on in your old age."
"Then I can finally stop worrying about you."
"Father, Mother."
"Wait for me."
This, too, was an obsession in his heart. To give himself enough time, he had even turned himself into a puppet. The hardship of that process, the agony of wearing away his own flesh, was not something he could explain to outsiders.
He was running a business with no costs.
After selling the medicine, Kakuzu returned and counted his money. When he saw Konan's appearance, his face twisted with anguish. "I sold it too cheaply. That damned profiteer. If I'd known it worked this well..."
"I should have charged him a hundred times as much... it hurts... bastard... my money... that damned profiteer..."
What he hadn't expected was Konan staring at him with murder in her eyes.
"Kakuzu, you dared to resell my Youth-Preserving Pills?"
The corners of Kakuzu's mouth twitched as he explained, "What do you mean, your Youth-Preserving Pills? I never touched your share, all right?!
"I stole the medicine I sold myself. How can you slander an innocent man like that?"
"Really?! I don't believe you." Konan had already been astounded by the Youth-Preserving Pills. No amount would ever be too much.
Kakuzu immediately stood up. "Hey, hey, hey~ I'm not that sort of person. I love money, but I earn it openly and honestly."
"All right. Next time you steal any Youth-Preserving Pills, just give them to me. I'll pay you." Konan said no more about it.
"Good. Deal." Kakuzu agreed immediately, then turned and left. It was still early enough to pull another job.
Still, he felt that something was off.
He stopped thinking about it.
Anyway...
Konan would pay.
A sale was a sale, no matter who bought it.
But he had forgotten that Konan's money had been earned by him too.
She was using his money to buy the Youth-Preserving Pills he stole.
He was working for free.
Something for nothing.
A truly no-cost business.
Konan really knew how to scheme. No wonder she was the rich woman who had six hundred billion Explosive Tags in the original story.
Hopefully, Kakuzu could take it when he learned the truth.
And wouldn't burst into tears.
Kakuzu: "I just love its smell. I can't bear to spend a single penny. Being poor scared me that badly."
Yeah, that painted quite a picture.
Haha~
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