She stood there with blood stains on her clothes, and the wounds on her chest had completely disappeared, leaving no scars.
Her breathing was light but steady, and her chest rose and fell slightly with her breathing.
The rain hit her face and flowed down her cheeks. She raised her hand to wipe it, and then saw him.
"Obito Uchiha?"
Obito Uchiha's lips are trembling.
He wanted to stand up, but his legs refused to work, and his knees slipped in the mud. He fell forward, then stood up in the mud and rushed over, rolling and crawling.
His right leg was still a little lame, and he almost fell again when he ran in front of Lin, but Lin reached out to support him.
"You--you--you just weren't--"
Obito Uchiha's tongue was tied, and his eyes swept back and forth on Lin's face and chest. He raised his hand and wanted to touch the place where the hole should have been, but he didn't dare to actually touch it, so he just hung in the air shaking.
"What I saw with my own eyes - Lightning Cutter of Kakashi Hatake - penetrated your heart - you -"
"She is indeed dead."
Shisui's voice came from behind.
"The heart was penetrated by Lightning Cutter, and he died on the spot."
Obito Uchiha turned her head suddenly. Lin also raised her head and looked in the direction of the sound.
In the rain curtain, two huge figures stood behind Shisui.
One is E Tu, with the head of a bird and the human body. The lower body is made of turbulent black semi-fluid. The green eye holes on the bone mask exude cold fluorescence in the rain.
Another one--another one made Obito Uchiha's breath stop for another beat.
Three-Tails.
The huge turtle-shaped body was lying in the mud, with three tails swinging slowly behind it, and each swing kicked up a large amount of muddy water.
Its carapace was covered with dense spikes and dark green scale. Its head was lowered. There was no violence or murderous intent in its only eyes, only a kind of fear that was suppressed to the extreme.
Shisui just turned his head, Mangekyō Sharingan lit up slightly.
Three-Tails let out a very low whimper, and his entire huge body began to retreat, retreating deep into the mist and disappearing into the rain curtain.
Mangekyō Sharingan's pupil power is so powerful that even an existence of the level of Eight-Tails Nine-Tails will be restrained by it, let alone an existence like Three-Tails that is ordinary among Tailed Beast.
"Those Kirigakure guys sealed Three-Tails into Rin Nohara's body. They originally planned to let her lose control and self-destruct at Konoha, but Kakashi Hatake found out."
"Kakashi Hatake's shot of Lightning Cutter was not to kill her, but to penetrate her heart before Three-Tails was detonated, killing her in advance and letting Three-Tails die in her body before Kirigakure detonated Three-Tails."
Shisui turned around and looked at Obito Uchiha.
"The only way he could think of in that situation was to kill his most important companion with his own hands. You, this friend, are much crueler than you think."
Obito Uchiha opened his mouth and couldn't say a word.
"E Tu's Reverse Cursed Technique can heal most fatal injuries. Heart rupture is surgically fatal, but for Reverse Cursed Technique it is just ordinary tissue repair."
Shisui patted one of the hanging wing bones of E Tu.
There are currently three people who can summon E Tu - Shaoyu, Shisui, and Mizunotsuki Shigure of Kirigakure.
Except that Shaoyu lent this thing to Mizunotsuki Shigure, originally to let him deal with Anbu of Genji, but Shisui has always had the right to summon E Tu.
Obito Uchiha's fingers finally touched the back of Lin's hand.
It's warm. It's alive.
His knees were completely weak, and he was kneeling in the mud, his forehead resting on Lin's arm, and his shoulders shaking violently.
Lin looked down at him, her eyes were red, and she opened her lips several times before making a sound.
"Obito Uchiha... your eyes..."
"Don't worry about your eyes!" Obito Uchiha's voice was muffled on Lin's sleeves, with tears and runny nose.
"As long as you live - as long as you live - eyes are nothing -"
The rain started to lighten up. It turned from a heavy downpour to a light drizzle.
A gap opened in the clouds above the dense forest, and a pale moonlight leaked through the gap, shining on the three people.
Kakashi Hatake was still lying on the dirt ground not far away, breathing steadily and sleeping deeply.
Shisui stood a few steps away, watching this scene. Rain dripped down the ends of his hair, and he didn't bother to wipe it away.
He went over the whole thing in his mind.
First, send him to the Kirigakure battlefield to intercept people, and then ask Mizunotsuki Shigure to make good use of E Tu. The time is just right. As soon as Lin dies, E Tu's Reverse Cursed Technique can bring the people back.
The seal of Three-Tails was also immediately controlled with Mangekyō Sharingan, dragged out and thrown back into the sea.
Every step has been calculated, including when Obito Uchiha will awaken Mangekyō Sharingan and when Mangekyō Sharingan will have an emotional breakdown.
This is not a last-minute idea.
This is a game designed from beginning to end, and his task is just to execute the last step.
But why?
Shisui has followed Shaoyu for so many years, and I know my brother very well, sir.
Shaoyu never trades at a loss.
Mangekyō Sharingan is Uchiha's top strategic resource, yes, but Obito Uchiha's eyes are already in their hands, Obito Uchiha has It was no longer useful, and in the end Shaoyu not only let Obito Uchiha go, but also used E Tu's Reverse Cursed Technique to save the girl he liked.
This is not Brother Shaoyu's style.
Shisui remembered the conversation at Kumogakure before departure.
That day Shaoyu was leaning against Raikage's Office's window, holding a piece of information that had just been sent back from Kirigakure in his hand, with a smile on his lips that Shisui couldn't quite understand.
"When you go to the Kirigakure battlefield this time, in addition to recovering Mangekyō Sharingan, you have one more thing to do. There is a Konoha Ninja named Rin Nohara, whose heart was penetrated by Lightning Cutter. You use E Tu to rescue her."
Shisui was stunned for a moment. "Save her? Why?"
Shaoyu turned his head and looked out the window, the smile at the corner of his mouth deepened a bit.
"First, make up for the regrets of childhood."
"Second, don't you think this game is interesting?"
"Interesting?"
Shaoyu turned around, leaned against the window frame, crossed his arms on his chest, Mangekyō Sharingan glowed dimly in the backlight.
"Who will she choose? Kakashi Hatake? Or Obito Uchiha? Or neither? I want to see what choice a woman who is brought back from the brink of death will make between the hero who killed her and the idiot who gave everything for herself."
To put it bluntly, he just wanted to see who Lin would choose.
Shisui was silent for a while, and then said, "Brother, your bad taste is really good."
Shaoyu smiled and did not deny it.
Shisui shook his head to get rid of these messy thoughts.
He is not Shaoyu, and he doesn't like to think about all these twists and turns. Once the task is completed, it's over.
The things that should be taken have been obtained, the people that should be rescued have been rescued, and the next step is to go back and recover.
He looked away from Obito Uchiha and Lin and looked into the distance.
I made a few seals and passed the Mangekyō Sharingan in my hand from Obito Uchiha to Shaoyu.
The moonlight passes through the gaps in the clouds, at the end of the layers of mountains and forests, in the direction of Kumogakure.
By this time, he should have arrived.