He didn't know how far he had run, he only knew that the ground under his feet changed from rocks to grass, from grass to dense forest, and at the end of the dense forest was an open land shrouded in mist.
There was the smell of blood in the fog. When Obito Uchiha rushed into the fog, the whole world fell silent for a moment.
Then he saw it.
Kakashi Hatake stood in the center of the open space, extending his right hand forward. Lightning Cutter's electric light had not completely dissipated, and blue-white arcs were crackling between his fingers.
Lightning Cutter penetrated a person's chest. That person was Lin.
Lin's body was penetrated by Lightning Cutter from the center of her chest. Blood gushed out from the wound and the corners of her mouth at the same time, flowing down Kakashi Hatake's arms, hitting the ground drop by drop, and mixed with the soil to form dark red mud.
Kakashi Hatake's face was expressionless, not indifferent, but completely blank, as if a person's soul had been taken away at a certain moment.
Lin's lips moved, as if she wanted to say something, but no sound came out. She just raised her hand, and her fingers dropped before they touched Kakashi Hatake's cheek.
Obito Uchiha's brain shut down at that moment. He stood there, his hands still swinging in the same position as when running, his mouth open, and no sound came out of his throat.
The last sound he heard was the muffled sound of Lin's body falling to the ground. And the muffled sound of Kakashi Hatake kneeling on the ground. Then everything went black.
When Kakashi Hatake fell, Obito Uchiha heard something break in his heart.
It wasn't a "click" sound. It was a "boom" sound. Just like the time when the cave collapsed at Kannabi Bridge, huge boulders hit the body, and the bones were broken one by one.
But at least he knew what happened that time.
This time he stood at the edge of the open field. The fog had not yet dispersed. The smell of blood made his eyes sore, but his brain refused to accept the information in front of him.
Kakashi Hatake knelt on the ground.
Lin was lying on the ground. Blood seeped out from the dark red mud between the two people, and it was impossible to tell whose blood it belonged to.
Kakashi Hatake's right hand still maintains the posture when Lightning Cutter was activated. The fingers were slightly bent, and the blue-white electric light bounced on the fingertips for the last few times, and then went out.
Lin's eyes were still open and her lips were slightly open, as if she had something to say.
No.
Obito Uchiha stood there with his mouth open and no sound coming out of his throat. That's wrong.
Kakashi Hatake It is impossible to kill Lin.
Kakashi Hatake Although that bastard has a dead face all day long, and although he opens and shuts his mouth to "task first" and "rules first", he is Kakashi Hatake.
It's the Kakashi Hatake who had his arm cut and still gritted his teeth without saying a word.
It was Kakashi Hatake who said he didn't care whether Obito Uchiha lived or died, but in the end he went with him to save Lin. He couldn't possibly kill Lin.
Impossible.
Obito Uchiha's right eye started to feel hot.
It wasn't the burning sensation of being burned by fire, it was the feeling of burning from the depths of his eyeballs, as if something was pushing out from the inside of his pupils, turning all the thoughts in his mind into a mess.
The world spun around him, the sky spinning, the shadows of the trees and the mist turning into a grey-green gruel.
His vision became increasingly blurry, but the image of Corin lying on the ground became clearer and clearer on his retina, as if it was burned into it.
"I won't admit it..."
Obito Uchiha's voice was squeezed out of his throat, hoarse and broken, as if it came from someone else's throat.
The Two-Tomoe Sharingan in his right eye rotated wildly, and the two Tomoe elongated, twisted, and deformed, colliding together and tearing apart at a speed that violated the common sense of Sharingan evolution.
New Tomoe came out from the depths of the pupils one after another. Three. Four.
Then they started to connect, not Tomoe, but textures.
The dark red lines spread from the pupil to the entire eyeball like bloodshot eyes, and finally settled into a three-edged sickle-shaped pattern. Mangekyō Sharingan.
At the same moment, Kakashi Hatake, who was kneeling on the ground, opened his left eye suddenly.
The left eye covered by the bandage and given to him by Obito Uchiha.
Sharingan's pupils were also rotating. The two Tomoes turned into three, and the three were torn into six, and finally spread suddenly into a hollow triangular boomerang-like pattern.
Mangekyō Sharingan. Both eyes awakened at the same time, and across the entire open land, across the fog, and across the diffuse smell of blood, they completed the resonance.
Then Kakashi Hatake's eyes closed.
All the chakra in his body was drained in an instant.
"There's another one!" Kirigakure Ninja's voice came from the mist, "Kill that kid!"
There were more than a dozen Kirigakure Anbu present. They chased Lin all the way from the Konoha border to the depths of this dense forest, just to force Three-Tails out.
Now that Lin is dead, Three-Tails didn't explode into Konoha, and the mission was ruined.
Ninjas who fail in missions are not very good-tempered. Kirigakure Anbu, who was standing at the front, walked towards Obito Uchiha with a knife in his hand. The knife reflected the pale light coming from the fog, and there was still blood on the blade that had not yet dried.
Obito Uchiha didn't look at him. Obito Uchiha only saw Lin's body. His lips were moving, and his voice was as low as talking to himself.
"Lin... wait for me there first... I'll come right away... I'll come to see you right away... see you in that world..."
That Kirigakure Anbu was already three steps in front of him. The knife was raised.
The blade slashed down and took Obito Uchiha's neck.
Then the knife passed through.
The blade passed through Obito Uchiha's neck.
No, it was Obito Uchiha's neck that changed into an indescribable state the moment the blade came into contact. When the blade passed through, it didn't cut anything, the blood didn't surge, and the flesh didn't break. It was like the knife cut into a cloud of fog.
Kirigakure Anbu's pupils shrank sharply. "What--"
His response was quick.
When the sword failed, he immediately closed the sword and retreated. At the same time, he touched the blade with his left hand, chakra poured into the blade, and the blade glowed with a layer of blue light, preparing for the second strike.
But Obito Uchiha's hand was already on his shoulder.
Wood Release·The art of cutting.
There is no Hand Seals. There is no charge. There is no pre-action.
Where Obito Uchiha's palm touched Uchiha Setsuna's shoulder, gray-white wood fibers spurted out from Obito Uchiha's palm.
They were wooden spikes that were thinner than Kunai and sharper than the blade of a knife. They were densely packed, like a rain of exploding needles.
The spikes penetrated Kirigakure Anbu's shoulder skin, and then grew wildly in his flesh.
Kirigakure Anbu let out a short scream.
"Ahhhhhh!"
The scream only lasted half a second.
Because the wooden spikes didn't stop after they penetrated his shoulders.
They shuttle under the skin and spread throughout the body along the gaps between blood vessels and muscle fibers.
His chest inflated like a blown balloon and then exploded.
It's not an exaggeration, it really exploded.
Wooden thorns pierced out from between his ribs, sending pieces of flesh and bone flying everywhere.
The blood mist exploded into a red cloud in mid-air, splashing on Obito Uchiha's face, body and hair. Obito Uchiha did not blink.