"Interesting..."
Obito shifted slightly, leaping lightly onto a higher treetop and concealing himself perfectly in the shadows of the foliage and the darkness of night.
He suppressed every trace of escaping chakra and waited quietly for his prey to enter the ambush, like a patient hunter.
A Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and a woman who appeared out of nowhere and might be an Uchiha... how interesting.
"Looks like... I'll have to take this a little more seriously."
Obito stopped underestimating them.
Against the forceful Sixth Hokage, who could wield the Nine-Tails' power, and an Uchiha who might possess an unknown dōjutsu, ordinary probing attacks would likely achieve nothing. He might even find himself on the back foot.
With a thought, he stirred the ocular power in his right eye, and a swirling distortion quietly appeared in the space beside him.
A moment later, he drew a gourd-shaped war fan from the Kamui Dimension and gripped it firmly.
The Uchiha Gunbai!
A legendary weapon once wielded by Madara Uchiha, said to have been fashioned from part of the God Tree.
By bringing it out now, Obito clearly no longer intended to rely solely on Kamui's mobility to maneuver around them. He would use the weapon's properties to mount more forceful attacks or defenses.
After roughly eight minutes of waiting, a cloud of gold dust approached from the horizon at astonishing speed.
Now!
A cold gleam flashed in Obito's eye. He pushed off the treetop with both legs and shot into the sky like an arrow loosed from a bow.
Gripping the Gunbai's long handle with both hands, he used no flashy ninjutsu. He simply brought it down from above, using the momentum of his fall to slash viciously at the golden figure hurtling toward him.
It was a heavy, powerful blow, intended to