"Clang!"
Kurikara slid back into its sheath. Shihōin Naraku leaped up onto the crown of a large tree and surveyed the forest, which had fallen silent.
"Looks like he ran!"
Taking a slash from him in the process, Uchiha Itachi had seized the moment when the water prison collapsed and the water surged out to escape.
"Uchiha Itachi doesn't care about it anyway, so that slash didn't really do much damage."
Shihōin Naraku raised an eyebrow, the corners of his mouth lifting into a malicious smile.
The blade of light he had just unleashed had cut straight through Susanoo's solid chakra, leaving a horrifying wound on Uchiha Itachi's body. If he had seen correctly, it was where his kidney was.
But Uchiha Itachi only ever thought about his younger brother. He didn't care about kidneys at all.
Of course, that was just a joke.
Every organ inside the human body was vital. Shihōin Naraku's slash had clearly been vicious, and with Uchiha Itachi's health already poor, he might very well fail to endure it and die outright.
"This trip out of the village really paid off. I got my custom equipment and took out a destined enemy ahead of time."
"Wait, Kisame Hoshigaki is dead. What happens to Obito and Kabuto's plans later?"
"Forget it. It's none of my business anyway. They can figure it out themselves."
"Maybe Obito Uchiha already died after taking such a brutal hit."
As Shihōin Naraku reflected on his recent battles, he suddenly realized he had greatly affected the course of the entire future.
As the instigator of the Shinobi World War, Obito Uchiha had now been severely wounded by Shihōin Naraku, his survival unknown. That would certainly affect the course of the future.
Meanwhile, Kabuto Yakushi, another person connected to the Shinobi World War,