He seemed oblivious to the horrific slaughter that had just taken place around him.
Obito Uchiha dragged his battered body toward Rin, inching forward one painful step at a time.
He reached out with his still-intact right hand, smeared with his enemies' blood and the mud covering his body, trembling as he tried to touch Rin's face.
His fingertips stopped an inch from her skin.
He did not dare.
He was afraid he would feel nothing but cold.
"Rin..."
Broken syllables escaped his throat as the distorted Mangekyō pattern in his right eye slowly spun.
Bloody tears mingled with the rain and slid from the corner of his eye, washing two stark red trails down his pale, bony mask.
"I'm sorry... I'm too late..."
"I'll... save you now..."
He abruptly pressed his mutated left hand against the horrific wound in Rin's chest.
The pale substance covering the left half of his body surged again, and dark purple light flowed down his arm into Rin's corpse.
He was trying to use this newly acquired, ominous "Hollow power" to fill Rin's wound and reverse her death.
But...
It was useless.
The wound showed no sign of healing.
Rin's body remained cold and stiff, without the slightest trace of life.
The vast, life-filled chakra poured into Rin's body, only to vanish without stirring so much as a ripple.
It was as though her body had become nothing more than an exquisite, empty... shell.
"Why... why isn't it working?!"
Obito growled, pouring in more power.
Dark purple light almost engulfed them both.
But Rin still did not wake.
Even her body temperature did not rise in the slightest.
"Give up."
Liuyu's voice sounded behind him.
At some point, Liuyu had approached from behind and stood quietly watching his futile struggle.
"Her soul is no