Obito Changes the Plan

The White Flame surged forward, incinerating every cloud in the sky along its path. From the perspective of the onlookers, it looked as if this Fire Release had burned a massive hole through the heavens.

Subsequently, the surrounding air rushed into the vacuum left by the flames, forming a spectacular, miniature tornado.

The sheer visual impact was terrifying...

This Uchiha Gunbai, extracted from the same Mangekyo ocular technique "God-Meeting Machine," could indeed be controlled by his left eye, unleashing its original power.

Much like the Teleportation Banner he had extracted the first time, anyone else who obtained it would only see it as a small flag made of peculiar materials.

Seeing that the enemies had been wiped out, Uchiha Qiu Yang ceased the flow of chakra, and the Mangekyo in his left eye slowly dimmed.

Hoo...

With just one strike, over fifty Iwagakure ninja had been slaughtered.

It was a waste to have left this Uchiha Gunbai with Obito or Madara; did you two even know how to use it properly?

Uchiha Qiu Yang mused. Unlike Naruto, he didn't enjoy playing the saint, wanting to use "Talk no Jutsu" to reform every enemy, even those who killed his parents...

He simply focused on the fact that these people were invaders and scum, refusing to dwell on their personal stories or the responsibilities they carried.

By hypnotizing himself into believing this was just an anime world, he felt no psychological burden. Besides...

Ah, the feeling of being invincible is truly comfortable.

Uchiha Qiu Yang tilted his head at a 45-degree angle, gazing at the terrifying Scar of the Sky created by his technique, quietly savoring the stares of the remaining enemies, his teacher, his junior, and the toad, all of whom were gasping in shock.

If only there were a camera to capture this masterpiece!

He wondered if Nadeshiko, that beautiful girl, had seen his invincible heroic posture as he avenged her.

As for why he didn't aim that fan of flames at Obito?

Well... Uchiha Qiu Yang's primary goal wasn't revenge against Obito, but rather seizing the Uchiha Gunbai and eliminating the Iwagakure ninja.

After all, a character like Obito was crucial to the later plot, responsible for resurrecting the Ten-Tails and assisting Uchiha Madara with the Samsara Heavenly Life Technique.

If his own Tailed Beast plan failed, he could always wait for Black Zetsu to launch a sneak attack and snatch half of the Ten-Tails from Madara to become an Otsutsuki himself. That wouldn't be too much to ask, right?

So, a brief skirmish for now was enough.

Uchiha Qiu Yang waved his beloved Uchiha Gunbai a few more times with immense satisfaction, feeling that mastering this White Flame alone was enough to put him at the Super Kage level.

Don't let his effortless display fool you; after using that White Flame, his ocular power had been depleted by at least half.

In other words, with his current ocular power, he could only use this technique two or three times at most.

"Damn it, the Uchiha Gunbai that Madara entrusted to me has such astonishing power?"

Obito was horrified to the core. The world-ending White Flame generated by the fan just now was likely a grade higher than the inextinguishable Amaterasu.

It was a Super S-rank, a level above S-rank.

That damned Madara had only taught him how to use Uchiha Reflection and never revealed the fan's true potential until his death—clearly, he had been guarding against him.

But now that he had seen it... he would surely learn to use it. Thinking this, Obito suddenly formed the summoning seal:

"Summoning Jutsu."

The Uchiha Gunbai in Uchiha Qiu Yang's hand responded to the call, vanishing in a puff of smoke and returning to Obito's grasp.

Uchiha Qiu Yang: "????"

What the hell just happened? I'm asking you!

Uchiha Qiu Yang's face turned as ugly as if he had swallowed a fly, and he slapped his forehead in frustration—

Damn it, he'd been careless. He should have realized the fan had a summoning contract and used a sealing technique to sever it first.

"Uchiha Qiu Yang, is it? I, Uchiha Madara, will remember you."

With that, Obito drew a circle in the air around his body, and like an eraser wiping away a drawing, he vanished amidst a swirl of space-time.

At the very last moment, his eyes remained locked on Uchiha Qiu Yang—

He had to adjust his upcoming plans. He would no longer infiltrate the Akatsuki as an intern. Even with his agreement with Itachi, he could no longer ignore the variable that was Uchiha Qiu Yang...

"Damn, he just ran away?"

Uchiha Qiu Yang had already suffered from Obito's Kamui once, so he didn't try to stop him this time, turning his gaze instead to the only remaining enemy on the field:

Kitsuchi of Iwagakure.

Feeling extremely sour about losing the Uchiha Gunbai, he let his eyes revert to the three-tomoe state, leaped onto his Wood Release forest, and clapped his hands together:

"Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique!"

A massive, tree-colored dragon head emerged from the branches beneath his feet, followed by a body covered in hard wooden scales. It detached from the trunk and charged toward Kitsuchi at high speed.

"Earth Release: Earth Mountain..."

Kitsuchi had intended to use this technique—the one capable of pinning the Ten-Tails—to trap the incoming wood dragon.

However, after his battles against Yamato and Jiraiya, he no longer had enough chakra to execute the jutsu.

In desperation, he could only harden the parts of his body about to be struck into rock, closing his eyes to endure the impending impact of the wood dragon.

He had a premonition that he was going to meet his end at the hands of this Wood Release user today.

Jiraiya had already recovered from his shock and hurriedly moved to stop his bloodthirsty disciple:

"Qiuyang, stop! We cannot kill this man yet."

This Kitsuchi was the son of the Third Hokage, and if they killed him here in Konoha, it would surely provoke the wrath of that powerhouse who possessed the Kekkei Tōta.

In the end, it would be the ordinary villagers who suffered.

Hearing his teacher's words, the massive head of the Wood Dragon halted right in front of Kitsuchi, and Qiuyang actually managed to control the Wood Dragon and cease his attack.

He curled his lip, signaling that he understood nothing of diplomacy or politics.

However, this Kitsuchi would apparently go on to become a captain in the Allied Shinobi Forces during the Fourth Ninja World War, and keeping him alive... wouldn't it be better to let him go back and spread the word?

Besides, he had already acted out of anger for the sake of a beauty; sparing one person wouldn't hurt.

Qiuyang leaped onto the raised head of the Wood Dragon, looking down at the ashen-faced Kitsuchi:

"Go back and tell your father, Ōnoki, that he should pick softer persimmons to squeeze in the future. Don't be so stubborn as to clash with our Konoha. Get lost!!"

Knowing that he was in the wrong for this invasion, Kitsuchi cast a grateful glance at Jiraiya from afar before limping away from the village that had become a graveyard for a hundred of Iwagakure's elite.

Now that Konoha had produced someone capable of rivaling, or perhaps even surpassing, the Fourth Hokage, the "Yellow Flash," he was already contemplating how to convince the Third Hokage to halt his expansion.

Based on his understanding of the old man Ōnoki, he would likely be furious upon hearing this news and would prioritize targeting or hunting down Qiuyang.

Sigh, the future of the Ninja World is destined to be anything but peaceful!