Fate brought us together across a thousand miles.
Perhaps their last encounter had left too deep an impression. The moment their eyes met, they recognized each other... What was it like to meet an old acquaintance in a foreign land, only to find a mortal enemy with a blood feud?
The mysterious masked man's eyes narrowed, and the scars on his body still throbbed faintly. "Long time no see... So the one who perished with me was just a crow clone... Hehehe..."
"Obito... What's wrong?" Zetsu sensed that something was off with his companion.
"Caw!"
Body Flicker Technique!
Kitahara's figure vanished from the spot in an instant!
Obito's Sharingan could only catch a shadow flashing past. "Zetsu, run!"
The pitcher plant did not dare ask questions and swiftly sank into the ceiling. The crow's wings snapped shut, its ordinary feathers turning as sharp as blades as they split Zetsu's head in two...
That injury meant little to Zetsu at most, only costing him a White Zetsu clone. When Obito saw Zetsu summon another clone to repair his wounds, he relaxed slightly.
Then he turned his gaze back to Kitahara. "As expected, you managed to scheme against me last time because you really aren't an ordinary Ninja Crow!"
"Obito, it is..."
"The one that nearly blew me to death during the Nine-Tails incident last time... It failed to achieve its goal this time, but at least I can eliminate a hidden danger..." The Sharingan within the mask hole grew brighter, only for blood to begin flowing from it...
"Caw!"
Kitahara's piercing cry seemed capable of rupturing eardrums... This man actually wanted to control him! What an opportunity... If the Sharingan failed...
He did not have time to activate Kamui!
Kitahara charged forward decisively. The unguarded Uchiha Obito was sent flying by a flap of his wings! A Tailed Beast Bomb instantly condensed in Kitahara's mouth and shot after Obito!
Boom!
The enormous explosion startled the entire town...
After the smoke dispersed, Uchiha Obito stood in the massive crater and spat. "Tch, it can't be controlled by the Sharingan..."
The moment Kitahara's wings struck him, he had reacted and entered the Kamui dimension, barely escaping disaster. Otherwise, he might truly have died here this time.
Even so, blood began seeping from beneath his mask. The force of those wings had wounded him again... Since this crow had seen his true face, Uchiha Obito simply removed his patterned mask.
"Obito... Are you all right?"
"If I can't even deal with a crow, how are we supposed to carry out our plan?" Two chains extended from Uchiha Obito's sleeves, rattling loudly...
What was there to fear from a crow? He had merely been careless just now... How could he, the wielder of the Kamui Mangekyo, possibly lose!
Still, Obito's heart was pounding. The last surprise had been a little too big... He could only mutter silently to himself, I can't use the Kamui dimension to absorb anything... I can only use it to evade attacks... Only evade...
Kitahara looked at Obito's chest. The instant they had made contact, a tiny crow curse mark had appeared there, wriggling about...
After being marked by Flying Thunder God, how were you going to escape, kid?
As long as he entered the Kamui dimension, it was equivalent to opening a door through space and time. A Flying Thunder God user could enter Kamui through the mark on him... As for being unable to leave after entering, weren't shadow clones made to die?
Shadow Clone Technique!
The crow's shadow clone held a Tailed Beast Bomb in its beak...
It watched Obito charging toward it...
Kid, now that you've seen the Tailed Beast Bomb in my beak, shouldn't you enter the Kamui dimension to dodge it, out of respect?
Just as Kitahara expected...
The shadow clone that activated Flying Thunder God vanished into thin air.
Inside the Kamui dimension, Uchiha Obito stared in shock at the crow clone holding a Tailed Beast Bomb in its beak, unable to speak... One second later, fragments of White Zetsu littered the ground, and Obito collapsed before the crow, drenched in blood...
His Kamui dimension had been blown up again!
"Space-time ninjutsu..."
Uchiha Obito gritted his teeth and glared furiously at the crow, whose eyes gleamed with mockery.
Were you getting addicted to this?
Was it the perfect counter to Kamui?
Obito had no way of detecting any trace of the Flying Thunder God Technique before the Tailed Beast Bomb struck him head-on. His clothes, White Zetsu shell, and everything else were blown to pieces again, and he had no idea how many of his bones were still intact.
He still had scars from the last injuries! No matter how strong the vitality of Hashirama's cells was, they could not withstand repeated brushes with death!
Zetsu, watching from the sidelines, was already dumbfounded. "...What just happened..."
He had not seen what happened at all. That crow had merely summoned a shadow clone, and then Uchiha Obito was suddenly covered in blood?
Were you kidding, brother?
No matter what, Uchiha Obito still had to be saved... His performance had declined terribly, but his past achievements were still enough for Zetsu to protect him.
Wood Release: Cutting Jutsu!
Zetsu quietly moved to Obito's side and flung more than a dozen wooden rods at the crow. Kitahara, who had intended to finish him off, could only retreat quickly...
A White Zetsu clone emerged from the ground and tightly wrapped around Obito's body, temporarily taking over his ability to move.
"Kamui can't be used in front of it... Let's go!"
Zetsu could only nod. What combat ability did he even have?... He still had not understood this battle at all. He only knew one thing: Obito was on the verge of death again!
At present, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had not absorbed a single tailed beast, yet it still had to feed its life force back to Uchiha Obito... If they kept making deals that lost them money, they would go bankrupt sooner or later!
Zetsu was close to breaking down, but all he could do was anxiously summon White Zetsu clones to die and cover their retreat. Manufacturing more White Zetsu afterward would be another expense...
"Caw!"
More than a dozen White Zetsu had barely poked their heads out before a Tailed Beast Bomb wiped them out. The crow swiftly chased after Uchiha Obito... Letting him go would be like releasing a tiger back into the mountains!
Mayfly Technique!
The White Zetsu wrapped around Obito and Zetsu burrowed underground together...
"Caw!"
With a Tailed Beast Bomb in his beak, Kitahara fired it fiercely into the ground! Uchiha Obito and Zetsu were blasted out, tumbling across the earth... After landing, the two of them suddenly turned into two White Zetsu corpses.
How had those two escaped? Kitahara wondered, and could only blast the White Zetsu corpses on the ground into ashes... Then he flapped his wings and departed.
Underground.
Uchiha Obito and Zetsu emerged from the Kamui dimension in a miserable state... After entering the earth, they had sensed the Tailed Beast Bomb close behind them.
In that situation, they could only gamble.
They gambled that the crow was stupid enough to think they had escaped... In truth, they had used the ground as cover to enter the Kamui dimension, then ordered two White Zetsu who had rushed over as emergency support to transform into their forms and die in their place.
"That was too dangerous, Obito..." Zetsu looked exceptionally tense. They had stirred up storms throughout the ninja world; when had they ever been in such a sorry state...
"Pfft..." Uchiha Obito could not stop the blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, and his breathing grew increasingly shallow. "First, find the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. As for the rest..."
Before he could finish, Obito completely lost consciousness... His body could no longer sustain using Kamui to escape. He could only evade for a brief moment; if that crow had remained for a few more seconds...
Kitahara would probably be able to focus on raising his chicks from now on.
He had overslept...
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