Deep Assassination

Before leaving Konoha's camp, Uchiha Yue had a good long talk with his former friends, Uchiha Obito, Sarutobi Asuma, and the others.

After that, Uchiha Yue hurriedly left Konoha's camp. Before departing, however, he had not forgotten to tell Uchiha Dust to protect his former friends well. Ninjas like Uchiha Obito and Sarutobi Asuma, who were only genin, might possess great potential in the future, but on the current battlefield, they were merely genin. To put it bluntly, they were cannon fodder.

Only by surviving the battlefield would Uchiha Obito and the others have a chance to soar.

As their friend, Uchiha Yue naturally could not stand by and watch his former friends die miserably on the battlefield. Therefore, before leaving Konoha's camp, Uchiha Yue had summoned three members of the "Yue" Team—Uchiha Dust, Uchiha Tiger, and Uchiha Abandon—regardless of the cost, and ordered them to protect friends like Uchiha Obito.

Of course, Uchiha Yue had no need to care so much about the genin who were not friends of Uchiha Obito and the others.

In the original storyline, Uchiha Yue had never even heard the names of those genin. They had no connection to him whatsoever, so why should he trouble himself over them?

After settling all matters within Konoha's camp, Uchiha Yue left without the slightest hesitation and ventured deep into the Land of Water. Yet even as he entered the country's interior, he did not forget what Uchiha Obito had said. Those words made Uchiha Yue realize deeply just how enormous the changes brought about by his arrival in the ninja world had been.

In the original storyline, Uchiha Obito had begun as a complete dead-last. Even when Uchiha Yue had first arrived in the ninja world, Obito had been just like in the original storyline—a rookie