"Now isn't the time for snide remarks, Black Zetsu. You should be helping me keep watch around us instead of laughing at me here. Otherwise, if those six surround me again, I really will have no choice but to surrender."
As he spoke to Black Zetsu behind him, Obito heated a kunai over the campfire until it glowed red, then fiercely pressed it against the cross-shaped wound on his right thigh. It had been inflicted during the earlier battle, when broken branches thrown up by the explosion of Itachi's Crow Clone Technique had pierced him.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
The stench of charred flesh drifted from the kunai and the wound. Obito used the kunai's heat to dig out all the rotten flesh from his thigh before sealing the wound to prevent excessive blood loss.
"Ahahahaha, I didn't expect you to be so ruthless with yourself." Black Zetsu walked out from the wall, cackling strangely behind Obito.
"But you really need to hurry. Itachi Uchiha and the others have also concluded that you may be hiding nearby, and they're preparing to search the area. If you stay here, they'll definitely find you." Black Zetsu came before Obito, intending to see the fear on his face, only to find him as calm as still water. His expression was merely somewhat twisted from the pain of cauterizing his wound.
"Is that so... Then I suppose you must have some good way to keep me from being captured by them?"
Obito Uchiha looked at Black Zetsu with amusement and continued, "I've already done what I promised you and defected from Konoha. Now it's your turn to show some sincerity."
As soon as he finished speaking, man and Zetsu simply stared at each other, neither saying another word.
"Hehehehe, of course. My Mayfly Technique can detect the