A day earlier, at a secret Kirigakure base.
Rin was chained to a stone pillar, cold sweat soaking her forehead.
The Kirigakure ninja finished their hand seals, and the Three-Tails' thick chakra poured into her body like lava.
It's over... She bit through her lip but could not make a sound. The cursed seal at her heart blocked her throat like a venomous snake.
Kirigakure planned to use Rin as a Jinchūriki bomb for the Three-Tails, destroying Konoha by having her go berserk after returning to the village.
This was not Kirigakure's work alone. It was mainly Madara Uchiha pulling the strings from the shadows.
Had Yūto been present at the sealing, he probably would have noticed that all the Kirigakure ninja there were being controlled by the Sharingan.
What followed played out as it had in the original story. Kakashi found the kidnapped Rin, though not exactly in time, and rescued her.
But because of the cursed seal, Rin could not tell Kakashi that the Three-Tails would erupt in Konoha.
She could only let Kakashi take her and flee toward Konoha.
Suddenly, more than a dozen shuriken shot out of the shadows!
Kakashi spun around and blocked them with a kunai, but several Kirigakure ANBU had already surrounded them.
He set Rin down and formed hand seals with one hand, preparing his Lightning Blade.
Just as Kakashi was about to strike the enemy before him...
Rin lunged into the Lightning Blade's path.
Kakashi's eyes widened, but it was already too late to pull back.
Was he going to... watch someone important to him die again?!
Bam!
A dark figure flashed past, and Kakashi was suddenly kicked away, his Lightning Blade cleaving through a tree so thick it would take three people to encircle it.
Yūto held Rin by the