Shinji looked at Tobi, and Tobi looked at Shinji.
Suddenly, the atmosphere grew a little tense.
"Did you write a fake name? That won't work. This contract only takes effect if you write your real name."
Oblivious to the mood, Hidan broke the silence.
Tobi said nothing, and the atmosphere grew increasingly strained.
Shinji knew that if he didn't think of something soon, Tobi would stop being Tobi and turn into "Obito-Madara Uchiha."
Care to guess what would happen when the script could no longer continue?
"Hidan, come outside with me. Tobi, was it? Come find us once you've signed."
With that, Shinji dragged Hidan away.
Tobi didn't stop them. Instead, he stared at the contract in his hand, bewildered and uncertain.
But no matter how he examined it, he couldn't see what use the thing could possibly have.
"A fake name doesn't work? Then what counts as valid? And on what basis?"
Obito couldn't understand it. After some thought, he crossed out "Tobi" and wrote Madara Uchiha.
He waited quietly for several seconds, but still nothing happened.
"Could their behavior just now have been a bluff?" Another possibility occurred to Obito.
But he couldn't use the name Madara Uchiha to test the people outside, so he crossed it out again, planning to write Tobi once more and leave it at that.
Yet after crossing out "Madara," he suddenly hesitated. Frowning, he wrote "Obito" on it, thinking, I must be crazy.
He regretted it the moment he finished. Worried that his identity would be exposed, he immediately moved to erase the name, or simply burn the paper.
But just then, something caught him off guard.
The contract suddenly shattered, turning into a streak of white light that shot into his body. Even his instinctive use of intangibility failed to stop