"Stop! Please, stop!"
"Rin, get out of the way!"
Kakashi roared, but he could not fully control the movement of his hand.
After all, he had only recently received his Sharingan and had yet to master Chidori. He simply could not control the movement of this Lightning Blade.
"No!"
"Stop!"
Meanwhile, Obito arrived some distance away and watched the scene unfold, powerless to stop it!
Obito was not far from Kakashi and the others. He could probably reach them in just a few seconds.
Yet those few seconds, that tiny stretch of distance, seemed to have become an impassable chasm.
Goodbye, everyone. Goodbye, Master Yin...
Rin closed her eyes in despair!
No!
There was no one left who could stop it, no way to intervene!
Kakashi's and Obito's eyes were filled with despair as well!
Amid that despair, the Sharingan in Kakashi's and Obito's eyes spun wildly. At that very moment, both awakened their Mangekyō Sharingan!
Their Sharingan had only had two tomoe, yet in that instant, both skipped a stage and became Mangekyō Sharingan!
Normally, this would have sent them into ecstasy, but now, their hearts held nothing but boundless sorrow!
Who could save Rin?
Silence!
Everyone's mind was utterly silent.
A fair-skinned hand appeared without warning.
As though reaching into water, as though pinching a mosquito, it effortlessly caught Kakashi's wrist just before his hand touched Rin's chest.
Five centimeters? Three centimeters? Perhaps only two? (It could not have been a few millimeters. At that distance, even without touching, she would still have felt it. Absolutely unacceptable!)
That pair of jade-like hands completely halted Kakashi's forward momentum, bringing his charging body to an abrupt stop.
Already injured, Kakashi was in so much pain that he nearly retched.
Yet compared to the pain in his body, the joy in