[Challenge Mission: Expose Obito Uchiha's plot and help Karatachi Yagura break free of the Genjutsu. Complete!] [Reward: Tachi: Flying Waterfall (Purple)! 200 Gold Coins!]
In a forest that looked as though a typhoon had torn through it, Shinji and Karatachi Yagura sat on the ground.
But...
Yagura looked more haggard by the moment.
He gasped for Ki, sprawled on the ground, and fixed Shinji with dead eyes. "What... what did you just do to Isobu?"
"Collected a little interest." Shinji patted his stomach. This time, Little Nine-Tails truly couldn't eat another bite. He had fallen asleep again.
Isobu had been drained down to the size of a baby. He had come within a hair's breadth of dying.
At the same time,
Shinji had used his Ocular Power to control the Three-Tails.
That way, if Yagura died, the beast wouldn't start rampaging again. Shinji couldn't be bothered to argue with him. He wasn't the Nine-Tails, whom Shinji could drain for ages.
"That doesn't matter. Now we can finally talk about you."
"Let's wait for them."
"Oh?"
Shinji raised an eyebrow. "Fair enough. Zabuza did look up to you once."
"..."
Yagura said nothing.
Looked up to me?
At that moment, he thought of Suikazan Fuguki, who had died at Kisame Hoshigaki's hands. Kisame... A flicker of killing intent crossed Yagura's eyes.
But it soon faded.
He couldn't blame any of this on anyone else. There was only one person he couldn't forgive... But when it came down to it, wasn't this how the Shinobi World had always been?
Old grudges never died, and new conflicts erupted every moment, breeding new hatred.
So...
Swish, swish, swish!
They didn't have to wait long.
In the dusk,
Zabuza Momochi, Hozuki Mangetsu, and two others landed. Zabuza pulled out the Kubikiribōchō. With the