Obito's figure slowly rose into the air.
His resonant voice echoed through the street.
"Feel pain. Know pain. Accept pain. Understand pain!"
"Those who do not know pain can never understand the true meaning of peace!"
Behind Obito,
his teammates began whispering among themselves.
"Is it just me, or is there something wrong with our captain... up there?"
"Be confident. Drop the 'is it just me.'"
Obito turned and shot his teammates an irritated glare.
Then he looked back at the Rain Ninja rushing toward them in the distance.
Time to use that move...
Obito raised his hands to form a seal, then called out in a low voice, his gaze intent.
"Fire Release: Pants-Pulling Dance!"
A massive serpent of flame appeared and spiraled toward the Rain Ninja.
The terrifying vortex of fire swallowed the enemy almost instantly.
In the blink of an eye, it burned the Rain Ninja to ash.
With a teammate who might as well have been cheating, the squad worked much faster.
Obito's squad and Nagato's squad soon completed the tasks Yahiko had assigned them.
The two were now leading their squads to support Yahiko and Konan's team.
To be fair,
Yahiko and Konan were both strong.
But compared with the two men with special eyes, they fell well short.
Then again, that was how Naruto worked.
Early Naruto: With hard work, even a genius can be surpassed!
Middle and late Naruto: Never mind what we said earlier...
Even the Acorn Beast, who had nearly kicked his way into the finale,
was a bona fide Taijutsu prodigy...
The three squads joined forces.
The pressure on Yahiko and Konan vanished at once.
"Banshō Ten'in!"
"Shinra Tensei!"
Even Obito stopped pitching in.
He simply watched Nagato put on a one-man show.
Yahiko clicked his tongue.
"So this is