Where Do You Think You're Running, Traitor?! Minato, Let's Double-Team Him!

Sunlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves, falling across that pure white Hokage cloak.

Obito's single eye, hidden beneath his mask, stared fixedly at Minato Namikaze.

His gaze was filled with the terror of seeing a ghost.

His limbs turned cold, and even his breathing stopped for half a beat.

Golden hair, azure eyes.

There were no cracks from Impure World Reincarnation, and his chakra was as abundant as a little sun.

"Te... Teacher?!"

A distorted cry escaped Obito's throat, and his psychological defenses instantly faltered.

He simply could not understand it.

That man had clearly used the Reaper Death Seal and should have offered his soul to the Death God. Why was he standing here alive and well?!

And why was he together with that monster, Uchiha Yoru?!

"Who are you calling your teacher?!"

Minato Namikaze shouted furiously. The face that had always been gentle and refined now held only a chilling killing intent that seemed to freeze the air.

He would never forget the night of the Nine-Tails' Attack.

It was this masked man before him who had nearly caused Kushina to bleed to death!

And it was this bastard who had nearly destroyed the Leaf Village he loved!

"Die, Masked Man!"

Minato had no intention of wasting words. The special Flying Raijin kunai in his hand spun between his fingers, flashing like a cluster of silver blossoms.

Obito suddenly bit his tongue. The rusty taste of blood instantly cleared his mind.

This was a trap!

A monstrous deathtrap set specifically to hunt him down!

"Catch me? Dream on!"

Obito roared wildly in his heart as the three tomoe in his right eye connected into a strange Mangekyō Sharingan pattern.

Space began to twist like boiling water.

Kamui, activate!

In just a fraction of a second, his body would completely slip into the other dimension.

Then, not even the Fourth Hokage's Flying Raijin would be able to touch a single hair on him!

"Too late!"

Minato let out an enraged lion's roar.

Whoosh!

A golden flash erupted where he stood.

Without leaving even an afterimage, Minato vanished from Obito's sight.

Obito's scalp went numb. His instinct, honed through years on the edge of life and death, made him snap his head upward.

In midair.

Minato appeared directly above him like a god descending from heaven!

His pure white Hokage cloak snapped wildly in the wind.

Minato raised his right hand high. In his palm, a massive blue chakra sphere spun madly!

Its piercing buzz seemed ready to tear this space apart.

Rasengan!

And it was a Super Big Ball Rasengan infused with violent Yang Release chakra, fully two sizes larger than normal!

"Take this!"

Minato's eyes hardened. Holding nothing back, he drove it down with crushing force!

Looking at the blue sun descending above him, Obito curled his lips into a cold smile of escape from death.

"So what if you're fast? Physical attacks are completely useless against me!"

He did not even try to dodge.

He even arrogantly thrust out his chest to receive this world-shattering blow.

His intangibility was already ninety percent complete!

I'm getting out of here. You can keep playing with air!

Obito mocked smugly in his heart.

Just as he thought he was about to make his escape.

Uchiha Yoru, who had been watching from the tree branch, finally moved.

"Using space ninjutsu on my turf?"

Yoru sneered and slowly pulled a hand from his pocket.

"Your connection's a little laggy."

Bzzzt—!

Yoru's black eyes instantly turned into crimson Mangekyō Sharingan.

He formed no hand seals.

Nor did he unleash any flashy ninjutsu.

Yoru merely fixed his gaze on the spatial coordinates around Obito.

His maxed-out comprehension of space-time erupted at that moment!

It was an absolute interference with the rules, capable of forcibly severing even the Ōtsutsuki Clan's spatial passages!

"Space, freeze."

Yoru parted his lips and spoke four icy words.

The next second.

The boiling, warped ripples of space around Obito seemed to have been hit by a pause button.

They suddenly froze!

"What?!"

The cold smile on Obito's face instantly stiffened.

To his horror, the foot that had already entered the Kamui dimension halfway could not retreat any farther!

The surrounding air became as thick as cement.

The intangibility process had come to a fatal standstill!

Half his body was illusory, while the other half was solid flesh and blood!

"My Kamui... failed?!"

Obito's single eye bulged as if it were about to pop out of its socket, his mind completely blank.

Bang!

Before he could figure out what had happened.

Minato's Super Big Ball Rasengan, like a miniature sun, smashed solidly into his back!

It did not pass through.

There was no intangibility.

The violent chakra currents tore through Obito's flesh like countless sharp meat grinders!

Crack—!!!

A bone-snapping sound exploded crisply across the training ground.

The White Zetsu tissue on Obito's back was instantly ground into chunks of white flesh that sprayed through the air the moment it touched the Rasengan!

"AAAAARGH—!!!"

A heart-rending scream burst from beneath the mask.

Like a rotten watermelon struck by a baseball bat, Obito crashed into the grass in a twisted pose.

Boom!

The ground trembled, and dirt flew everywhere.

A deep crater more than ten meters across formed in an instant, smoke billowing from it.

Minato performed a graceful backflip and landed steadily at the crater's edge.

As he looked at the figure at the bottom, dead or alive unknown, there was not a shred of pity in his eyes.

Yoru leisurely jumped down from the tree and dusted off his hands.

He walked to the edge of the crater and looked down at Obito, whose entire body was twitching and who could not even crawl away.

"With that pathetic grasp of space, you dared sneak into the Hidden Stone Village to steal my fox?"

Yoru gave a derisive snort, his tone full of undisguised mockery.

"Your space ninjutsu is a joke in front of me."

Yoru crouched down, grabbed Obito's distinctive spiral mask, and asked coldly:

"Now, it's time to tear off that mask of yours and see what kind of coward you really are!"