A melon picked by force might not be sweet, but at least it quenched thirst.
After eating the sweetest piece, Zou Hyuga stopped sensing in the direction of the cemetery under Oto Uchiha's conflicted gaze.
He had kept his senses focused on the cemetery just now and faintly detected signs of movement where Kakashi had lingered earlier.
That cemetery was one of the few blind spots in the village's surveillance. After all, keeping a cemetery under watch always seemed a little strange.
As far as he remembered, aside from the Fourth Hokage, the only ninja capable of slipping past surveillance and appearing in that blind spot was probably Obito, the hero who had died in the Ninja War.
Obito, once a hero, had crawled out of his grave, and the strength he now possessed already placed him at the pinnacle of the shinobi world.
The combination of the Mangekyo Sharingan and Wood Release would be extremely troublesome even for the Fourth Hokage to handle.
Add a space-time dojutsu to the mix, and he was nothing short of a monster.
A dojutsu like Kamui was nearly impossible to guard against, and Zou had no confidence that he could resist Obito's genjutsu, either.
More importantly, Obito seemed to possess the ninja tool passed down through the Uchiha Clan-the Gunbai that symbolized the clan. That Gunbai apparently had the ability to reflect a Tailed Beast Bomb.
It was precisely because he had sensed that unusual presence earlier that he had refrained from activating his Byakugan at the cemetery. As he was now, he had no confidence he could survive the consequences of attracting Obito's attention.
Reining in his wandering thoughts, Zou Hyuga returned to his clan compound. Obito's appearance meant he could no longer continue his experiments as he had been doing. If