"...Who?"
"Who's there?"
"Who are you!"
Rin Nohara was about to speak.
Tianyi held two fingers together before his chest, a faint sheen of chakra glowing at their tips.
Rin Nohara's body froze in that instant.
Her mouth had just opened, but a force surging up from within clamped it shut. She could neither make a sound nor move.
The Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
Tianyi took half a step forward, then slowly said, "Obito, you should know perfectly well who she is."
Obito jerked his head up. His empty eye sockets turned precisely toward the outside of the cell, as though he could pierce every shadow and obstacle and reach straight into that place he could not see.
His lips trembled slightly. The chains creaked in his grip, the scrape of metal against skin clearly audible in the cell.
"Rin... it's Rin... it's her!"
He stretched both hands forward, reaching toward the source of the voice-but the chains held his forearms and wrists tight, preventing him from moving any closer.
His hands flailed in the air, as though trying to grasp something beyond his reach.
Like a drowning man trying to seize a rope in the darkness, certain it was there, yet forever remaining mere inches away.
He caught nothing.
"Hyuga Tianyi-" Obito's voice was hoarse and broken.
"I'm begging you-let me see her one more time-please-"
Tianyi's gaze fell on Obito's chained body, and killing intent flooded the cell.
"Obito, your crimes are enough to warrant ten deaths."
He paused. "How many of the Leaf Village's Anbu Ninja have you killed? Have you counted?
Above all, you went after my people-I could kill you right now."
Obito's body trembled slightly, but he did not answer.
Tianyi's tone began to change. "But your friend, Kakashi Hatake, pledged his future to