The bloody words were still crawling across the floor.
The Lightning Blade in Kakashi's hand wavered even more violently, its blue light illuminating the words and making his exposed eye look red.
Fugaku held his sword across his body and stepped forward half a pace. "Kakashi, steady yourself."
Kakashi did not look at him. He stared only at the black spike. "Rin's death... ask my left eye?"
Obito stood at the edge of the spatial vortex, the eye behind his mask fixed on Kakashi.
This was the moment he wanted.
If Kakashi lost his composure for even an instant, he could use Kamui to sweep away the sealing cabinet, or seize Sasuke outright.
But Sasuke raised his foot and pinned the black spike beneath it.
The sealing patterns were pressed beneath his sole. The bloody words writhed twice, then kept seeping outward.
"Obito, before you give someone a gift, shouldn't you check who's receiving it?"
Obito's spatial vortex slowed by half a turn.
Sasuke swept the Kusanagi Sword horizontally, sending lightning skimming across the floor. The spike's outer seal was sliced open, exposing a small piece of pitch-black bone.
At the sight of the bone fragment, Kakashi's breath caught.
Fugaku frowned. "What is that?"
Sasuke lifted the bone fragment with his sword tip. "Bone remains from the battlefield. The chakra was deliberately altered. It carries traces of the Three-Tails, mixed with sealing ink from Kirigakure's ANBU."
Kakashi looked at Obito. "Why do you have that?"
Obito did not answer.
Sasuke answered for him. "Because he watched you kill Rin back then."
Half the light of Kakashi's Lightning Blade went out.
In the outer courtyard, Yamada Naoto went pale. "Clan Head, those words..."
"Shut up. Guard the gate."
Sasuke's eyes never left Obito. "Obito, if you want to break Kakashi, you'd