At the entrance to the Konoha Camp.
With a senbon between his lips, Genma Shiranui nudged Ebisu beside him with his elbow.
"Hey, heard anything about Obito lately?"
Ebisu pushed up his sunglasses, looking baffled.
"Huh? That dead last? Isn't he over on the Iwagakure Battlefield?"
Then he suddenly lowered his voice. "Don't tell me..."
"Yeah." Genma nodded.
"Word came back from Kannabi Bridge. They said... he fell in battle."
"What?!" Ebisu's sunglasses nearly fell off in shock.
"Seriously? Sure, the guy was always late, but he was in our class!"
As he fumbled to straighten his glasses, he suddenly spotted a figure wandering nearby.
Yūto had been walking back to camp from the front when he vaguely caught the words "Obito" and "fell in battle."
He rushed over in one stride. "What did you just say happened to Obito?"
Both of them jumped at Yūto's sudden appearance.
Genma braced himself and repeated it.
"W-we just heard that Obito fell in battle at Kannabi Bridge."
"Kannabi Bridge..." Yūto stared at the sandy ground and muttered to himself, the original story flashing through his mind.
Wasn't this the crucial turning point where Obito turned evil after his death?
He abruptly grabbed Genma's shoulders.
"Is the news confirmed? Did anyone see his body?"
"Ow, ow, ow!" Genma grimaced.
"The Front Line Messenger Unit reported it. They said they ran into an Iwagakure ambush, and even Kakashi lost an eye."
Yūto let go, his mind in turmoil.
According to the story, Madara should have picked Obito up to brainwash him by now. The Nine-Tails attack, the Akatsuki, the Fourth Shinobi World War...
All that crap was going to come one after another.
He scratched his hair in frustration. His Uchiha revival plan had only just taken its first step!
Yūto pondered Obito's death