The Final Trouble

There was nothing on this island. It was ridiculously flat and completely unobstructed. He gazed slightly into the distance, where an endless expanse of white stretched out beyond the floating island, out of sight.

Is this Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan technique?

Uchiha Obito observed with a poker face. He was not only unpanicked, but even a bit curious.

He only knew that Itachi had awakened the Mangekyo, but he did not yet know what kind of two techniques he possessed.

At that moment, he suddenly froze, seeing a figure suspended high in the air. This time, he saw the other person clearly.

He narrowed his eyes, and his pupils suddenly constricted. "Are you Uchiha Fugaku?"

When he noticed the hexagonal pinwheel Mangekyo in Uchiha Fugaku's eyes, an extreme sense of unease suddenly welled up from the bottom of his heart, as if something bad was about to happen immediately.

"You—"

Under extreme unease, Uchiha Obito wanted to open his mouth to ask something, but who would have thought that the other person simply flashed a bizarre smile at him.

The next moment, Uchiha Obito felt a sharp pain in his neck, the scenery before his eyes changed, and the world spun. His eyes went pitch black as if someone were covering them, and he could see nothing at all!

Uchiha Obito realized what was happening, and immediately used the Uchiha Clan's ultimate pupil technique and forbidden jutsu, which could turn unfavorable events that occurred within a certain period into things that never happened, choosing only favorable events to become reality!

The price was that the Sharingan would permanently lose its light!

But he did not care! A Three-Tomoe Sharingan could be found again if it was gone; right now, the most important thing was to make everything start over!

He did not understand why the person who came was Uchiha Fugaku, and what made him most uneasy was that Uchiha Fugaku had actually also awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan?

What was even more shocking was that Uchiha Fugaku's pupil power far, far exceeded his own! What did this represent? It meant that Uchiha Fugaku's Mangekyo had not been awakened recently!

Well done, Uchiha Fugaku. To think he had hidden himself so deeply!

In the span of a single breath, a myriad of thoughts flashed through Uchiha Obito's mind.

It did not matter, however. I still have a chance...

Time flew by in an instant!

Why was there no reaction?

Uchiha Obito, with darkness before his eyes, opened and closed his mouth, wanting to roar, but found that he could not make a sound at all.

In the small woods.

Takuya coldly looked at Uchiha Obito's head on the ground. Both of his eyes had been gouged out and were hollow, and his mouth was opening and closing, the shape of his lips seeming to say Izanagi?

Takuya sneered dismissively. I've been on guard against you using that trick all along. You still want to start over? Keep dreaming!

Thud.

At that moment, Uchiha Obito's headless corpse also collapsed with a crash.

Takuya glanced at the spherical object floating in the glass container, let out a long breath, and wore a slight smile. After solving Uchiha Obito, this final trouble, Takuya couldn't help humming Hebe Tien's A Little Happiness.

"Turns out you are the fortune I most want to keep~"

Hehe. Takuya chuckled twice, inspected the area, and after confirming that Uchiha Obito was truly dead, he pulled out a storage scroll for packing items.

He packed Uchiha Obito's head, his headless corpse, the single-eyed mask discarded on the ground, and the katana all into it in one go.

He would see later if Uchiha Obito's corpse could be put to some use. Even in death, he wouldn't let this kid off easy.

Stowing the storage scroll away, Takuya walked back in a relaxed and leisurely manner.

Up to this point, the crisis of the Night of the Massacre had been completely eliminated, and today's events could be drawn to a perfect close.

Water Country.

The Mizukage's secret chamber.

A short fellow lay motionless on a bed.

His name was Karatachi Yagura. Despite his diminutive height, which made him look like a little child, his status was shockingly large.

He was the Fourth Hokage—no, the Fourth Mizukage of Kirigakure, naturally possessing a baby face. Though he looked young in age, he actually already had a grandson.

In addition to that, he was also the second Jinchuriki of Isobu, the Three-Tails.

Karatachi Yagura was able to perfectly control the power of the Tailed Beast, making him one of only five people in the ninja world capable of perfectly controlling Tailed Beast power.

He could use Tailed Beast chakra to form a Tailed Beast Cloak, an ability that gave him a huge advantage in battle.

Reasonably speaking, he was a very powerful ninja. However, fortunes could change overnight; he encountered the even stronger Deva Path Pain, Konan, and Obito. First he was beaten into critical condition by Deva Path Pain, and then he was controlled by Uchiha Obito using the genjutsu of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Ever since then, he had been continuously manipulated by Uchiha Obito's genjutsu, becoming a mere puppet.

He had never heard of such a condition. Although he was controlled, he could see and hear everything.

Under Uchiha Obito's manipulation, not only had Kirigakure been plunged into gloom and darkness, but it had also caused Kirigakure to lose a large number of outstanding ninjas, and countless Kekkei Genkai clans had even been wiped out because of him.

Karatachi Yagura felt as if his heart was being torn apart. Seeing Kirigakure gradually decline, the guilt in his heart reached its peak, but he had no way out. Under Obito's manipulation, he was unable to move freely, always leading a secluded life and never crossing paths with Ao, who possessed the Byakugan.

Even if someone suspected that there was something wrong with Karatachi Yagura, there was no help for it, because no one could beat Karatachi Yagura.

Even while controlled, under Obito's manipulation, he could fight Zabuza Momochi, who had come to assassinate him, to a standstill.

Karatachi Yagura only felt that the road ahead was dark, and that the future of Kiri was going to be ruined in his own hands...

Yet tonight!

Uchiha Obito died at Takuya's hands.

Obito's control over Karatachi Yagura naturally was broken.

Feeling the control vanish and regaining mastery over his body, Karatachi Yagura clutched his fist in disbelief. After confirming that the control was truly gone, Karatachi Yagura instantly sprang up from the bed, leaping up to kick open the secret chamber where Obito had always hidden himself, and let out a roar of grief and indignation.

"Ah! Damned Uchiha!"

Isobu, the Three-Tails, had likewise been controlled by the Sharingan for such a long time. Accompanied by Karatachi Yagura's roar, a massive amount of Tailed Beast chakra also soared into the sky!

This terrifying pressure descended, prompting Mei Terumi and many other Jonin to rush one after another to Karatachi Yagura's location to investigate.

"Could the Three-Tails have gone berserk?!"

Everyone was panicked. Kirigakure was already in a state of decline; if the Three-Tails went berserk within the village, they dared not imagine what kind of losses it would inflict on the village.

They were well aware of the Nine-Tails Uprising incident that had happened in Konoha many years ago. The Nine-Tails had caused heavy losses to Konoha, an unknown number of people had died, countless houses had collapsed, and the cost of post-disaster reconstruction was an astronomical figure!

Yet Konoha was wealthy and powerful, and had managed to persevere.

As for them in Kiri...

They were out of money. They were truly, completely broke, unable to scrape together even a single copper coin, and even the salaries of these Jonin of theirs had no telling how long they had been in arrears.

Had it not been for their loyalty to Lord Mizukage, they would have long since failed to hold on!

When they gathered in twos and threes, arriving nervously and anxiously at the Mizukage Building, all they saw was Karatachi Yagura standing calmly on the street.