Mangekyō Eye Power Subdues the Three-Tails

Obito raced through the Dense Forest, his deathly white armor looking chillingly sinister in the rain. He could already hear Kakashi's Chidori.

"Hold on, Kakashi, Rin. I'm coming!"

Rin Nohara, who was fighting beside Kakashi, suddenly felt a tremor in her chest.

A surge of power poured out of her heart, instantly spreading through her nerves and taking control of her entire body.

Rin Nohara pushed off a loose rock and leaped stiffly into the air, placing herself precisely between Kakashi and a Kirigakure Anbu,

directly in the path of the Chidori thrusting toward the enemy!

Kakashi's pupils contracted sharply, and he screamed himself hoarse. "Rin!"

But it was already too late.

There was no evasion, no struggle.

Under the control of an outside force, Rin Nohara's body willingly met the spear of lightning tearing through the air.

Shhk—

The Chidori pierced her heart without resistance.

Blue lightning burst across her chest, her blood blooming like a flower before quickly fading.

Her body shuddered slightly, and a trickle of blood escaped the corner of her mouth, but confusion still lingered on her face.

Time froze at that moment.

At the edge of the forest, Obito stopped dead.

He stared blankly at the figure slowly collapsing ahead. The girl he loved had been killed by his best friend.

It felt as though a hand had clenched around his heart, the pain leaving him unable to breathe.

At the same time, Kakashi stood frozen, his face contorting with unbearable anguish.

Their faces overlapped and merged amid the curtain of rain and the bloody light, one screaming on the brink of despair, the other crumbling amid the ashes of his memories.

At the peak of their emotional resonance, special Chakra flooded out of Obito's brain, and both Sharingan erupted with a breathtaking crimson glow.

Two tomoe... three tomoe...

The tomoe on their irises spun rapidly, finally collapsing into a Pinwheel pattern.

The Mangekyō Sharingan was born.

Obito's world turned upside down, and the Mangekyō opened a door to another world for him.

"This is a false world..."

And so, in his eyes, reality itself began to peel away and dissolve.

Just as deathly silence and despair were about to swallow everything, a blood-covered figure burst through the curtain of rain and rushed to the stunned Kakashi's side.

Smack—!

A sharp slap landed heavily on Kakashi's deathly pale face.

"Snap out of it, Kakashi!" Asami Ri roared, his voice piercing through the thunder. "There's still a chance! Rin's life hasn't completely faded... we can still save her!"

That slap forcibly dragged Kakashi out of his self-reproach.

His unfocused gaze slowly sharpened, and he looked stiffly down at the girl in his arms, whose chest he had pierced.

"There's still... a chance?" His voice rasped like broken bellows, and a pleading light flared in his eyes.

Asami Ri had no time to waste on words. He dropped to his knees and quickly bent over her.

He formed hand seals and cast the Mystical Palm Technique. A pale green glow brimming with life suddenly shone from his hands as he pressed them against Rin Nohara's wound.

The emerald Chakra was like a feeble flame, stubbornly resisting the encroaching shadow of death and barely preserving Rin's last trace of vitality.

"Kakashi, listen! Tailed beast Chakra has incredible vitality!" Asami Ri shouted rapidly as he maintained the technique. "If we can use the tailed beast's power to repair her heart, she can survive! But the Three-Tails has sensed that its jinchūriki is dying, and it's going berserk. It's trying to break out of her body!"

"Use your eye, Kakashi! Use that eye to control the Three-Tails and order him to heal Rin!"

By then, Kakashi's mind had already descended into chaos.

He had not even realized that his left eye had changed, much less had the capacity to wonder why Asami Ri knew so much about tailed beasts.

But in the face of despair, Asami Ri was his only lifeline.

Whether the path ahead led to heaven or hell, he would take it without hesitation if it meant saving Rin.

"Aaaah!"

Kakashi roared, completely ignoring the searing pain in his left eye socket.

The crimson Pinwheel pattern spun wildly in his eye, unleashing a cold, powerful surge of Eye Power.

Like a sharp blade, his Eye Power forcibly cleaved open Rin Nohara's inner world and locked directly onto the enormous beast roaring in her mental ocean.

A three-tomoe pattern appeared in the Three-Tails' eyes. Two similar yet distinct forces of Eye Power collided within the mental space, filling Kakashi's vision with distorted, bloody red.

This was Madara Uchiha's three-tomoe Eye Power.

"It's not enough... still not enough! The Three-Tails is resisting too strongly. Rin can't hold on much longer!" Asami Ri shouted beside him. Cold sweat covered his forehead, and the green light in his palms flickered under the immense drain.

At the edge of the Dense Forest, Obito, who had been about to declare war on "hell," suddenly froze.

"There's still a chance...?"

Those words caught his heart just as it was about to plunge into the abyss.

When he looked ahead, his right eye, now awakened to the Mangekyō, actually crossed the barrier of space and clearly shared Kakashi's field of vision.

This was his eye. This was his will.

"Kakashi, there's still a chance..."

At that moment, their eyes resonated across space once more.

Obito did not reveal himself, but the right eye hidden beneath his hood blazed crimson.

A surge of Eye Power, sharing the same origin as Kakashi's yet far more frenzied, merged with his. Following the link between their minds, it poured into the Three-Tails' mental domain from afar.

Within the red mental world, the previously berserk Three-Tails suddenly let out a bleak, chilling cry.

Before the cage of Eye Power forged by the combined strength of two Mangekyō Sharingan, even the ruler of the ocean, even Madara Uchiha's Eye Power, was finally forced to bow its proud, furious head.

Under the control of their Eye Power, the Three-Tails' rampaging Chakra began to flow slowly back, gathering around Rin Nohara's shattered heart.

Asami Ri took a deep breath and released the Mystical Palm Technique, which he had been on the verge of failing to maintain.

Keeping his composure, he yanked a specially prepared medical kit from his waist and spread it open on the loose rocks.

A scalpel, a needle holder, specially made Chakra sutures... the cold metal gleamed bleakly in the rain.

"Kakashi, I'm going to suture her heart!" Asami Ri's hoarse voice carried a reassuring firmness. "I'll go deal with the Kirigakure ninja around us. We can't let them interfere with the surgery!"