The First Time Obito's Kamui Failed

Obito remained frozen mid-lunge. The Kunai in his left hand was less than half a foot from Ren's throat, while his right hand reached toward Nagato, who hung captive in midair.

But Obito himself seemed nailed to the Rain Curtain.

An invisible force locked his limbs and the space twisting around him.

Ren glanced up at him, his tone flat.

"Kamui is troublesome, I'll give you that."

"Too bad you left too much behind."

Obito did not answer at once.

Beneath his mask, his Mangekyō Sharingan spun rapidly.

The figure suspended over the battlefield was not his real body at all.

His true body had long since hidden inside the Kamui Dimension.

What he had left in the real world was only a Projection anchored to spatial coordinates. It looked no different from a physical body and could still relay sight, sensations, and Chakra fluctuations.

His original plan had been simple.

First, he would use the Projection to draw Ren's attention.

Once Ren focused entirely on Nagato and Nagato was too suppressed to resist, Obito would emerge from the Kamui Dimension and take him by force.

Once they returned to the Alternate Space, even Ren would have trouble pursuing them.

But Obito had never imagined Ren's Hand of the Heavens could restrain even a spatial Projection.

The Projection was not a physical body.

But its presence in the real world meant a coordinate linking this place to the Kamui Dimension existed here.

When the Hand of the Heavens locked down the Projection, it sealed that spatial coordinate as well.

Obito could return to the Kamui Dimension.

But he could no longer use this coordinate to move freely through the real world.

"You can lock down spatial coordinates?"

Obito's voice was low, with a trace of fury he could no longer