Inside the Hokage Office
Tobirama Senju, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Madara Uchiha, Itachi Uchiha, Shikaku Nara... Konoha's top officials had all gathered here, their gazes focused on the tightly bound figure.
The side effects of having his life force drained by the Rinnegan had already manifested on Obito. Though he was only in his twenties, in the prime of his life, his hair had become scattered and withered white, while faint wrinkles ringed his face.
One half of his face had been crushed beneath a boulder, and coupled with the dark, empty eye socket where his eyeball had been removed, Obito looked like an evil ghost from hell.
"Rin... Rin... Rin..."
A faint murmur escaped Obito's lips, so quiet that one could barely hear it without listening carefully.
Kakashi shook his head and let out a sorrowful sigh.
Ever since Obito Uchiha had been brought back to Konoha, he had seemed deranged, as though his soul had left his body.
The only hope keeping Obito alive had been the hazy, illusory Infinite Tsukuyomi plan.
Now that Tobirama Senju had stopped everything, it was only natural that Obito had ended up like this.
"So the masked man who had been impersonating Ancestor Madara all along was actually an Uchiha elder as well..."
Itachi Uchiha gazed deeply at Obito Uchiha.
Having dealt with Obito on the night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre and joined the Akatsuki with his help, Itachi had always firmly believed that the masked man was Madara Uchiha.
Now that the masked man's identity had been exposed, he was truly shocked.
Obito had once been rather well-known within the Uchiha Clan. After all, having a "dead last" emerge from a clan renowned for producing geniuses was quite a strange thing in itself.
Moreover, the Sharingan Obito had given Kakashi had