Obito: The Culprit is You - Rat of Treasure Skin!!

On the hill, the wind blew through the distant woods, carrying the smell of gunpowder drifting from afar.

Kō stood in front of Obito, silent for a long while.

His Three Tomoe Sharingan had already been withdrawn, returning to its usual pitch black.

But what surged within that darkness at that moment was a deep sense of solemnity and vigilance.

Looking at Obito before him, he frowned slightly and asked in a deep voice:

When you said you "discovered something," you wouldn't mean...?

"Kakashi didn't recognize me."

Obito shook his head and said with certainty:

"I can be certain of that."

After speaking, he raised his head and looked directly at Kou through the holes under his mask, as if waiting for his judgment.

He nodded, neither confirming nor denying.

Indeed, if Kakashi had truly recognized Obito's real identity, the scene would never have been as calm as it was just now.

What exactly did Kakashi discover...?

Obito, noticing the fleeting thought in Kokoro's eyes, narrowed his gaze slightly and continued in a deep voice:

"As for my identity as ' Uchiha Madara,' the only people in the entire Ninja World who know it are you, Pain, and a limited number of people around us."

"In Konoha, only Minato... the Fourth Hokage, knows of my existence."

And he died shortly after learning of my existence.

"Kakashi has no reason to know about the existence of ' Uchiha Madara '."

At this point, Obito paused, and the light in his single eye flickered behind the hole in his mask:

"That's how it should be..."

He sensed the suspicion in Obito's words, looked at him with a serious expression, and slowly said:

"Are you suspecting that someone passed on information about ' Uchiha Madara ' to Kakashi?"

"To be precise, it was conveyed to Konoha."

Obito nodded, his tone turning colder:

"Kakashi, since he didn't recognize my true identity, yet developed that level of wariness and hostility towards me after our first meeting, it can only mean one thing."

"He already knew some information about ' Uchiha Madara ' and about me beforehand."

"And the person who told him this information was the one who leaked my information to Konoha!"

Obito finished speaking, he fell silent and simply looked at Kou in front of him.

Kō felt a chill Obito as he felt Obito's gaze turn serious.

"Could this guy be suspecting me?"

As he pondered this in his heart, he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

Although he did intend to trick this guy, he hadn't actually done anything yet!

Moreover, even if he were to actually take action, he would never be foolish enough to leak Obito's information to Konoha and alert the enemy.

After all, he knew very well that once Obito saw through his scheme and he failed to defeat him in one fell swoop, with Kamui's superhuman survival ability, unless he learned the Flying Thunder God, no one in the entire Ninja World would be able to actively track down his whereabouts.

By then, having lost the intelligence advantage and the initiative, we will be in a passive position where the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light.

This is clearly not what I want.

I would never act rashly unless I was absolutely certain I could take him down!

As Kou sensed Obito's serious gaze, a potentially feasible idea quietly surfaced in his mind.

But conversely, if Obito had truly become suspicious of him, or even begun to see him as a threat—

Therefore, in order to avoid becoming increasingly passive in their situation, perhaps taking the risk of eliminating him here is an option worth considering.

After all, his own Mangekyo Dōjutsu, "Magatsuhi God," is the nemesis of "Kamui"!

Thinking of this, a flash of understanding appeared in Kou Dan's eyes.

He calmly considered the possibilities of the plan in his mind, but his expression remained unchanged.

Obito noticed the realization flashing in Kotobuk's eyes, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth beneath the mask.

"Sure enough, he must have figured out the identity of the guy most likely to leak the information!"

There is only one person who knows his identity as "Uchiha Madara" and has the ability to convey this to Konoha!

Obito pondered, the image of the "culprit" involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

A chilling killing intent involuntarily surfaced in his eyes.

Seeing the fleeting killing intent in Obito's eyes, Koko's heart sank.

His expression remained calm, but the terrifying power in his eyes, which had been deliberately suppressed, was now operating at full speed.

The Mangekyō Sharingan was ready to be activated at any moment, and the coordinates of the target locked by the Magatsuhi God were already precisely in Obito's mind, down to the Obito spot where he was standing at that moment.

If I strike first before Obito activates Kamui, I can destroy the space he's in, along with Obito himself!

You only get one chance!

A final decision must be made before Obito!

Obito had no idea what Kokushi was thinking at that moment. He simply looked at his friend in front of him and said in a serious, deep voice:

"I roughly know who leaked my information."

The Mangekyo power within his eyes was operating at its peak at this moment!

His breathing was steady, and his complexion was normal, but the fingers hanging at his sides had begun to curl slightly, ready to strike at any moment!

Although only a few seconds had passed, in Kou's mind it felt as if it had been stretched out countless times.

He could hear the muffled thud of his own heartbeat, catch the frequency of Obito's every breath, and see every subtle fluctuation in the single eye peeking out from the hole in the mask.

Knock on the door, waiting for Obito to say his name.

At this moment, he was fully prepared to completely shatter the space around him the instant Obito uttered his name!

Obito looked at the silent Kou in front of him and said the answer in a deep voice:

"Uchiha Itachi."

Obito looked smugly at Kokoro in front of him and said in a low, confident voice:

"The guy who leaked my information to Konoha... it's very likely him!!"

knock:...

"... ha?"

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(Author's note: This is today's chapter. There will be four chapters tomorrow to make up for today's second chapter.)