Obito nodded with a quiet hum, his gaze fixed on the figure rolling endlessly in the distance. Unease crept over him.
He still planned to bring Rin back to life someday. He could never let that happen to him!
Otherwise, even if it healed, he might be left with nothing but a useless ornament.
"When this is over."
"I'll take you to meet him."
"Get to know him. Make him lower his guard around us."
Kakashi did not answer, but his heart began pounding harder than it had before his first dangerous mission.
Once she had stabilized everyone's injuries, Tsunade finished her treatment, pulled Yongye's right hand out of her clothes, and vanished in a flash.
Yongye stood there and watched her disappear behind a broken wall. Then he walked toward where Deva Path Pain had fallen.
Deva Path Pain lay amid the rubble, his Red Cloud Robe bunched up, the exposed skin beneath it riddled with bloody holes and scrapes.
The ripples of his Rinnegan had stopped turning. They sat motionless in his pupils like rings frozen in water.
Yongye raised his hand, spread his fingers, and pressed his palm against Deva Path Pain's body.
An invisible ripple spread from his palm and enveloped the entire body. Within it, the body blurred like a crumpled sheet of paper, folded in midair, contracted into a speck of light, and vanished.
Yongye had stored him in the underground storeroom of his newly acquired Spatial Villa.
He withdrew his hand, slipped it back into his pocket, and swept his gaze across the ruins.
He was about to look for someone new to torment when he suddenly sensed something and turned to his left.
Ten paces away, space warped slightly. It folded and unfolded in the air like a wrinkled piece of