"..."
The figure wearing a three-tomoe mask suddenly flashed behind Kakashi Hatake, familiar chakra already faintly coating his black glove!
Kakashi Hatake's heart jolted. Reacting swiftly, he gathered chakra in his legs and kicked off the ground with terrifying force, using the recoil to rapidly put distance between himself and the Masked Man who had suddenly appeared!
"You're..."
Still shaken, Kakashi watched Obito Uchiha gradually emerge fully from the space before him, his open Sharingan filled with wariness.
Had he reacted even a fraction slower just now... the outcome certainly would not have been so pleasant!
"Hmph..."
Obito Uchiha snorted coldly. Toward Kakashi Hatake, he harbored only hatred and melancholy.
"In that case... I'll have to fight..."
Kakashi Hatake drew his ninja blade and kunai from behind him, watching the ninja before him with a grave expression as overwhelming pressure bore down on him!
If he knew that beneath the mask was his friend, the former dead last, who knew what he would think!
Back then, Obito Uchiha had been the class's dead last, a student who ranked at the bottom in everything.
Even on the battlefield, he had been nothing more than a chunin who followed Kakashi's commands.
Even before his death, the most valuable thing about him had merely been his Sharingan.
But now... the gap between him and Kakashi Hatake was far greater than it had been when they parted!
Although the current Kakashi Hatake was far stronger than in the original story, Obito Uchiha had already reached the threshold of a Kage Level ninja during the Nine-Tails Rebellion.
By now, he had even faintly begun to touch the pinnacle of Kage Level ninja.
It could be said that, aside from Minato Namikaze, Madara Uchiha, Ning Feng, and Hashirama Senju, he was the strongest person alive today!