Itachi seized his chance and raised his kunai, ready to deliver the final blow to Kisame, who was caught in a genjutsu.
But just as the kunai was about to fall, the space behind Itachi suddenly rippled without a sound.
A hand holding a kunai reached out of the void and stabbed toward Itachi.
Itachi reacted swiftly, immediately abandoning his attack on Kisame to dodge.
When Obito's strike missed, his right hand immediately grabbed Kisame's shoulder.
Seeing this, Itachi hurled the kunai in his hand at Obito.
But a ripple passed through space.
The kunai hit nothing.
Kisame's figure, together with Obito's, was sucked into a twisting vortex and vanished completely.
Before leaving, Obito roared at Xuandou:
"Uchiha Xuantou, you've ruined my plans time and again!"
"Just wait for my revenge!"
With that, his figure disappeared completely.
Clearly, seeing that the situation had turned against him, Obito had simply left.
Meanwhile, the battle with the Three-Tails was also nearing its end.
Under Xuandou's sustained mental intrusion, Yagura's consciousness finally began to awaken.
The vacancy in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by pain and confusion.
"I... what am I doing..."
The Three-Tails' enormous body began to tremble, and tailed beast chakra slowly dissipated from within it.
Its body shrank, returning to human form.
Yagura fell to his knees, gasping for breath.
The Kirigakure revolutionary forces quickly gathered around him.
Yagura raised his head with difficulty and looked at Mei Terumi, who stood before him.
His voice was weak:
"I... what have I done... the Bloody Mist Village..."
"Those clans with kekkei genkai... the Hozuki, the Kaguya, the Yuki... and all those innocent villagers..."
Tears slid down his cheeks.
"I was controlled for so many years... I pushed the village into the abyss with my own hands!"
Mei Terumi immediately comforted him: