You Can Guess What Will Happen to Rin Nohara

Outside Konoha, Shimura Danzō, who had only one left arm, waited in the shadows. He seemed to have been there for a long time.

At last, space twisted, and Obito Uchiha appeared before Shimura Danzō, wearing a mask.

"Danzō, what do you want with me?"

Obito Uchiha's voice was hoarse. It wasn't an act; his throat had been injured during the Nine-Tails' Rampage years ago.

He had nearly died that time.

"Obito Uchiha... Were you the one who released the Nine-Tails?"

Shimura Danzō didn't get down to business. Instead, he asked Obito Uchiha.

Obito Uchiha looked the same as ever, but hearing that name once again shook him to the core.

From the moment Rin died, the name Obito Uchiha had died with her.

Yet for some reason, information about him had suddenly leaked. It seemed everyone knew who he was.

"Now... I'm the representative of Madara Uchiha. You can call me Madara Uchiha."

Obito Uchiha denied his identity, as though that would let him deny what he had done.

Obito Uchiha gave no clear answer, but by then Shimura Danzō had already gotten the information he wanted.

"Hmph! Madara Uchiha? You think you're worthy of using that name?"

Shimura Danzō muttered dismissively, then said in a chilling voice, "Bring me Ensei Uchiha's body. If you can capture him alive, all the better."

"If you can do that, I'll return Rin Nohara's body to you."

"And if you can't..."

"Konoha has a forbidden jutsu called Impure World Reincarnation. As long as you have a corpse, you can summon the dead from the underworld..."

"By then... you can guess what will happen to Rin Nohara."

Shimura Danzō was feeling very pleased with himself. After learning that Obito Uchiha had been involved in the Nine-Tails' Rampage, he had secretly investigated Obito's life.

Then he went and dug up Rin Nohara's grave, stealing her body.

On top of that, he had obtained detailed information about the forbidden jutsu, Impure World Reincarnation, from Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Shimura Danzō himself had never managed to master it, but one of his Root members had successfully learned the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.

That was how he had come to threaten Obito Uchiha.

"W-What are you talking about...?"

After hearing Shimura Danzō's words, Obito Uchiha looked dazed, as if he had been pulled back to the day Rin died.

That day, after Obito Uchiha had dealt with all the enemies, he reached out to touch Rin's body, only for his hand to pass right through it. That was when he finally understood that everything in this world was false.

So he returned alone to find Madara Uchiha.

In his own words, when Madara Uchiha asked him, "I don't care about anything in this world anymore."

Rin Nohara's body had been recovered by the Konoha Ninja who arrived afterward and buried in Konoha.

That was why Obito Uchiha often returned to Konoha, occasionally running into Kakashi when he visited Rin Nohara's gravestone.

Obito Uchiha had thought that ever since Rin died, he no longer cared about anything in this world.

But Shimura Danzō was telling him that there were still people in this world capable of disgusting him—and, on top of that, insulting Rin in death.

"W-What the hell are you talking about!!!"

Obito Uchiha completely lost control. A tear of blood silently slid from his scarlet Sharingan...

In the next instant, Obito Uchiha's right hand clamped around Shimura Danzō's neck.

The force should have crushed Shimura Danzō's throat, but a series of Cursed Seals spreading toward Obito Uchiha's arm interrupted him.

Danzō had grown quite skilled at placing Cursed Seals inside people's bodies.

One of his original aims in coming here had been to take Obito Uchiha's eyes.

If he could get his hands on a space-time ocular jutsu, then he would surely...

"Crack!"

Without hesitation, Obito Uchiha tore off his own White Zetsu arm, showing no sign of regret. His eyes held nothing but murderous intent.

The Cursed Seals spread across the White Zetsu arm until they had consumed it completely. It began to crumble, turning into some kind of black substance that scattered across the ground.

"Looks like I was right."

"War between ninja is really a battle of intelligence."

"You're so easy to read now that your information has been exposed."

Shimura Danzō was still congratulating himself, convinced he had the upper hand.

But in the next instant, Obito Uchiha's figure quietly vanished into thin air. Almost at the same time, one of the Root Ninja standing beside Shimura Danzō was sucked away by an invisible force.

Only a few seconds later, seven or eight corpses were dumped in front of Shimura Danzō.

"Return Rin's body to me, or I'll kill everyone in Konoha."

"Remember, everyone! Every single person you know—not one will be spared!"

"You have one day. If I don't see Rin's body by this time tomorrow, I'll start with the Root Ninja..."

Obito Uchiha's emotionless voice rang out again, without a trace of anger.

Yet Shimura Danzō could clearly feel the towering fury behind it.

Only then did Shimura Danzō realize he had made a terrible mistake—and that it might cost him dearly.

At that moment, he truly wanted to do what Hiruzen Sarutobi had done and back down.

But he couldn't. He knew that even if he retreated, Obito Uchiha wouldn't spare him.

"You really want to bet against me? You know perfectly well that Rin Nohara's body isn't in my hands. Even if you kill me, you won't find her body—and you won't be able to stop us from doing things to the resurrected Rin Nohara."

Though Shimura Danzō realized his mistake, he had no choice but to keep threatening Obito Uchiha and stake everything on it.

At that moment, the White Zetsu possessing Obito Uchiha quietly spoke up, telling him to stall for time. He would order all the White Zetsu to investigate every lead on Rin Nohara.

Obito Uchiha trusted the White Zetsu's ability to gather information.

But he would never allow Rin to be threatened—not even by himself.

"Negotiations have failed. I'll start with the Root..."

Obito Uchiha spoke slowly, then gradually vanished from before Shimura Danzō.

Seeing Obito Uchiha disappear, Shimura Danzō froze. Then he suddenly realized what was happening and raced toward the Root base with all his might.

Even though Shimura Danzō pushed his speed to its limit, by the time he reached the Root entrance, the first thing he smelled was an overwhelmingly strong stench of blood.