"What a boring guy."
Obito Uchiha withdrew his gaze and looked at the white chrysanthemums before the gravestone.
He picked up the wilted white chrysanthemums and casually tossed them onto the ground.
"Jin, Kakashi, this false world isn't worth clinging to."
Then he stood before Rin's gravestone for a long time.
He had stored Rin's body in the Kamui Dimension during the Third Shinobi World War.
What stood before him was only a cenotaph. Of course, the same went for his own grave.
"Rin, Jin was right. I was too weak to protect you."
It would have been a lie to say Obito Uchiha didn't blame himself.
If he had been as strong as Jin back then, he wouldn't have been pinned beneath that boulder.
If he hadn't been trapped, he could have kept protecting Rin.
Rin wouldn't have died...
"This world is false and cruel. I'll create a world without gun smoke, without war, without pain."
Obito Uchiha looked up at the sky.
"When that happens, I'll let all of you live in a wonderful world."
"I believe that day isn't far off."
Just then, the sound of something cutting through the air came from behind him.
Obito Uchiha immediately activated his intangibility. A Tachi slashed down through his body without causing any actual harm.
Uchiha Jin had appeared behind him at some point, still holding the pose of a diagonal downward slash.
"An impressive youngster. To think you could detect my presence."
As Obito Uchiha looked at the familiar face before him, his one exposed eye abruptly narrowed, but it quickly returned to normal.
This guy's stealth techniques are getting better and better.
He got right behind me without me noticing a thing. If I hadn't heard that sound at the last moment...
*He might really have cut