What Would Happen to Nohara Rin? You Should Be Able to Guess.

Outside Konoha Village, Danzo Shimura, with only one left hand, stood within the shadows, seeming to have waited for quite some time.

At last, a distortion of space-time appeared, and Obito Uchiha, wearing a mask, emerged before Danzo Shimura.

"Danzo, what did you want from me?"

Obito Uchiha's voice was extremely hoarse. It was not a disguise, but the result of his throat having been injured years ago during the Nine-Tails' Attack.

That time, he had nearly died.

"Obito Uchiha... was the Nine-Tails released by you?"

Rather than getting to the point, Danzo Shimura questioned Obito Uchiha.

Although Obito Uchiha still looked the same at that moment, his heart was once again shaken by that name.

From the instant Rin had died, the name Obito Uchiha had died with her.

Yet for some reason, his information had suddenly leaked out, as if everyone knew who he was.

"Now... I am Madara Uchiha's representative. You may call me Madara Uchiha."

Obito Uchiha denied his identity, as though doing so could deny everything he had done.

Although Obito Uchiha did not give a clear answer, Danzo Shimura had already obtained the answer he wanted.

"Hmph! Madara Uchiha? You think you deserve that name?"

Danzo Shimura muttered disdainfully, then said in a chilling tone, "Bring me Uchiha Yansheng's corpse. It would be best if you can capture him alive."

"If you can do that, I will return Nohara Rin's corpse to you."

"And if you cannot..."

"Konoha Village has a forbidden technique called Impure World Reincarnation. As long as one possesses a corpse, the dead can be summoned back from the underworld..."

"When that time comes... you should be able to guess what will happen to Nohara Rin."

Danzo Shimura was very pleased with himself. Ever since learning that the Nine-Tails' Attack was connected to Obito Uchiha, he had secretly investigated Obito Uchiha's past.

Afterward, he had dug up Nohara Rin's grave and stolen her body.

In addition, he had obtained detailed information about the forbidden technique Impure World Reincarnation from Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Although Danzo Shimura himself had failed to master it, one of his Root subordinates had successfully learned Impure World Reincarnation.

That was how he was able to threaten Obito Uchiha this time.

"You... what are you talking about...?"

Upon hearing Danzo Shimura's words, Obito Uchiha became dazed, as if he had involuntarily returned to the day Rin died.

That day, after Obito Uchiha had dealt with all the enemies, he touched Rin's corpse. But when his hand passed through it, he completely understood that everything in this world was false.

Thus, he returned alone to seek out Madara Uchiha.

In his own words when answering Madara Uchiha, I no longer care about anything in this world.

Nohara Rin's body had later been recovered by the Konoha ninja who arrived afterward and buried within Konoha Village.

That was also why Obito Uchiha often returned to Konoha Village, occasionally running into Kakashi by Nohara Rin's grave.

Obito Uchiha had once believed that, ever since Rin's death, he no longer cared about anything in this world.

But Danzo Shimura was now telling him that there were still people in this world capable of sickening him while insulting the dead Rin.

"You... what the hell are you talking about!!!"

Obito Uchiha's emotions completely spiraled out of control. A tear of blood silently slid from his scarlet Sharingan...

The next instant, Obito Uchiha's right hand viciously clamped around Danzo Shimura's neck.

That tremendous force should have crushed Danzo Shimura's neck, but it was interrupted by curse marks spreading toward Obito Uchiha's arm.

Danzo had become exceptionally skilled at such methods of planting curse marks inside someone's body.

One of his goals this time had been to seize Obito Uchiha's eye.

If he possessed the Space-Time Dojutsu, then he would surely...

Crack!

Without hesitation, Obito Uchiha tore off his own White Zetsu arm. There was not the slightest hint of regret on his face; his eyes held nothing but killing intent.

The curse marks continued spreading across that White Zetsu arm until they completely corroded it. It gradually collapsed into strange black matter and scattered across the ground.

"Looks like I guessed right."

"The so-called war between ninja is a battle of intelligence."

"After leaking your own information, you have become far too easy to understand."

Danzo Shimura was still smug, believing he had the other man completely under control.

But in the next moment, Obito Uchiha's figure quietly vanished into the air. Almost at the same instant he disappeared, the Root ninja standing beside Danzo Shimura was sucked away by an invisible force.

In only a few seconds, seven or eight corpses were thrown before Danzo Shimura.

"Return Rin's body to me, or I will kill every person in Konoha Village."

"Remember, every single one! Everyone you know, not one will be spared!"

"You have one day. If I do not see Rin's body by this time tomorrow, I will begin killing the Root ninja..."

Obito Uchiha's emotionless voice rang out once more. There was not even the slightest trace of anger in his tone.

Yet Danzo Shimura clearly felt an overwhelming fury at that moment.

Only then did Danzo Shimura realize that he had made a grave mistake, one that could very well cost him dearly.

At that moment, he truly wanted to retreat like Hiruzen Sarutobi.

But he could not. He knew very well that even if he retreated, Obito Uchiha would not spare him.

"Are you sure you want to gamble with me? You know very well that Nohara Rin's body is not in my hands. Even if you kill me, you will not find her corpse, nor will you be able to stop what we do to the resurrected Nohara Rin."

Although Danzo Shimura had realized his mistake, he could only go all in and continue his threats.

At that moment, the White Zetsu attached to Obito Uchiha quietly spoke, telling him to stall for time. It would order all White Zetsu to investigate every piece of information concerning Nohara Rin.

Obito Uchiha naturally trusted White Zetsu's scouting abilities.

But he would never allow Rin to face any threat, including a threat from himself.

"Negotiations have failed. I will begin with Root..."

Obito Uchiha spoke slowly, and his entire body gradually vanished from before Danzo Shimura.

Watching Obito Uchiha disappear, Danzo Shimura froze, then suddenly understood something and desperately rushed toward Root's base.

Even though Danzo Shimura pushed his speed to its absolute limit, when he reached Root's entrance, the first thing he smelled was an incomparably thick stench of blood.