Thanks Kakashi for the Explosive Gift

System, transfer it—just transfer it once. Let me send this over. Izuna Uchiha can already cultivate, so he's within the transferable range.

A Luo grabbed Izuna's hand and urged the system to quickly transfer the spiritual energy.

At the moment, aside from a trace of weak spiritual energy, he had no other abilities. Attacking Kakashi Hatake was even more impossible.

Therefore, if he wanted Kakashi Hatake to awaken Kamui and send this special blazing rocket to Obito Uchiha, he had to borrow Izuna Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan to cast a genjutsu.

[Transferred.]

The system replied, then lazily stopped paying attention to its troublesome host.

Why had Kakashi Hatake and Obito Uchiha caught its host's attention at a time like this?!

"Ancestor, lend me your ocular technique and genjutsu. It won't hurt you. I just need him to see a great treasure that absolutely has to be sent away!"

After getting the system's reply, A Luo turned and smiled at Izuna.

Seeing Izuna look utterly confused yet still nod in agreement, he smiled even more happily.

This ancestor of the Uchiha clan was truly too amusing. He clearly knew nothing, yet he really dared to agree to anything A Luo said!

Still, it truly would not affect Izuna much. The consumption from the Mangekyō Sharingan's ocular technique would only be A Luo's spiritual energy, along with possible discomfort in his own eyes.

The prerequisite for borrowing it was that Izuna had already absorbed spiritual energy and reached the same type of state as him in a certain aspect.

"Kakashi Hatake, wake up and get to work!"

A Luo raised a hand with a mischievous grin. The spirit body's fingers suddenly became solid and tugged on Kakashi's blanket.

The moment the blanket was pulled, Kakashi Hatake jolted awake. In an instant, he leaped back to the window, his eyes warily surveying his surroundings.

"Who is it?"

Kakashi looked around but found no trace of anyone having entered.

Yet someone had just tugged his blanket. It was neither an illusion nor a dream.

"Kakashi..."

A strangely toned call sounded before Kakashi, but there was only a voice, without any trace of a ninja's presence.

"Come out!"

Kakashi's voice was low. Calmly, he raised a finger and brushed over his eye. His left eye, which had remained closed until now, opened, and the tomoe in the Sharingan slowly turned.

"Kakashi, it's been a long time."

An Uchiha boy wearing goggles, his left eye tightly shut, appeared in Kakashi Hatake's field of vision.

It was Obito Uchiha—Obito Uchiha as a boy!

"Obito..."

Kakashi's eyes widened as he stared in shock at the half-illusory figure visible only to his Sharingan.

This was not a living person. He knew for certain that it was not a living person, so then...

Had Obito's soul truly returned to find him?

"Kakashi, listen to me. I didn't actually die. I was taken away back then. My soul was wrapped up by a mass of white material, and I couldn't break free..."

'Obito's' remaining eye wept as he described how he had been taken away, how White Zetsu had wrapped around him, and then how white roots like a spiderweb had suddenly appeared, coiling around him to take his soul away.

Caught off guard by the sudden attack, 'Obito' struggled frantically. Kakashi watched as those roots quickly trapped Obito, and when only half his face and that blood-red Sharingan remained exposed, he could no longer endure it.

"Obito!"

With a startled cry, Kakashi's Sharingan rapidly changed. After the Mangekyō activated, the spatial transfer that locked onto an object activated in an instant.

Ocular technique, Kamui!

Distorted space carried away that mass of white root-like material, and 'Obito' collapsed weakly to the ground.

Having used Kamui, Kakashi also dropped to his knees on the floor as though drained, covering his eye with one hand and gasping heavily.

However, just as he thought Obito was safe and was about to rise and approach him, a sudden stabbing pain came from his eye. Bloody tears slid down from the Sharingan.

Kakashi himself also fell over from the intense pain in his eye and head.

"Done!"

A Luo snapped his fingers, and 'Obito's' soul on the ground vanished without a trace.

[New achievement attained: 'Thanks Kakashi for the Shocking Gift.' Achievement reward: 2500 points.]

Two thousand five hundred points had arrived. This time, an achievement had indeed appeared.

"The ocular technique's space has been damaged, but it will repair itself. It should recover in five days at most."

Izuna approached Kakashi and examined the Sharingan, more or less determining what sort of condition it was in.

Back then, Sharingan damage had been a common occurrence.

However, directly sending over an enormous explosive gift package and destroying the ocular technique's space was truly something he had never seen before, though spatial Mangekyō techniques had not existed in his time either.

"This special genjutsu space will eventually repair itself. Let's go. Dawn is almost here. From now on, Ancestor, I'll have to trouble you to keep an eye on my brother. I need to go find Orochimaru too."

A Luo checked the time. It was only midnight, but there was no need for him to remain in Konoha any longer.

The sooner he returned to his body and entered the Qi Refining stage, the sooner he could begin studying this world's power system.

He currently had 2501 points. Although he could not see the price of Flying Thunder God, the system had said several times that this world's items were worth less than those from the cultivation world, so he should be able to afford it.

"Be careful over there. If you can still use them, use them whenever you need to. Right now, it's enough that I can come out for a walk after cultivating. Nothing else really matters..."

Izuna reached out, picked up A Luo, and carried the child to the top of Konoha's Hokage Rock. As he looked over the Hidden Leaf Village at night, he was still worried about the boy's situation outside.

Would he be wronged? Would he be hurt? Could Orochimaru truly be trusted to cooperate? And...

Would the child's frail body fall ill, along with all sorts of other concerns...

Genjutsu, ocular techniques—he truly did not care about those now.

Although he did not know how A Luo had borrowed them, since he could use them just now, he could use them freely whenever danger arose in the future.

He was already this child's ancestor. Being able to offer the little one some protection meant he had not held this role of ancestor for nothing...

"I'll grow up healthy and safe. I'll come back often to see you and my brother. I'm not lying to you. I'll be going now. My brother is in your care..."

A Luo nodded and stretched out his arms to hug Izuna.

It was not as if he would never return. They were making it seem like they would never see each other again.

With such a sorrowful farewell, when he came back tomorrow or the day after, he did not know whether it would be awkward...