Young Obito slowly revealed an aged smile, "You guessed right. I'm not interested in your plan itself. But it is very interested. By helping you complete the plan, it might not be able to resist showing up."
Madara furrowed his brow, thinking over many things once again, "If I want to find it, I remember it's not difficult."
"Is that so?", Young Obito mocked, "That's because you were the one it deceived. In its eyes, you're not even worth mentioning, so it's willing to show itself."
"But I'm different. From the moment I appeared in the ninja world, it has been hiding far away. If it were willing to meet me, would I need to go to all this trouble?"
Madara's eyes flickered, recalling Black Zetsu's disappearance just now, 'So, what this Indra is saying, is it true?'
Instantly, Madara grew furious. In front of Indra, Black Zetsu was so terrified it wouldn't even show its head.
But it didn't take him seriously at all, and even deceived him.
This obvious difference in treatment made him feel looked down upon.
Madara said in a deep voice, "Now, I too want to see Black Zetsu once more, to grant it DEATH!"
Young Obito glanced at Madara, 'The Madaras of the two worlds truly are similar.'
In this way, at least on the matter of Black Zetsu, Madara could be considered to be standing on their side.
Young Obito was about to continue fooling him with more words, but at this moment, Old Obito looked at the rapidly approaching ninja alliance below and interrupted.
"Whatever it is, let's talk about it later. Let's first handle the trouble at hand."
———
On the other side of the battlefield, the Allied Shinobi Forces had just arrived, only to see a despairing scene.
The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, Killer Bee, and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Uzumaki Naruto, had both been defeated, and the tailed beasts inside them had been extracted.
After the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was filled with the final two tailed beasts, it underwent a massive change. All its eyes had now opened, and a terrifying pressure spread outward.
The Ten Tails, had been revived.
Facing this origin-of-chakra-type monster in a certain sense, though the Allied Shinobi Forces still had many people left, they still felt their own insignificance.
Quite a few began to tremble. How were they supposed to fight this battle?
But compared to the thoughts of the many others, Naruto and Killer Bee's companions couldn't be concerned about anything else.
Both had suffered heavy injuries from the tailed beast extractions.
Killer Bee was still better off. At the last moment, the Eight-Tails had severed its tail, leaving a fragment inside Killer Bee's body.
Though Killer Bee looked extremely weak, he had barely preserved his life.
Naruto's condition, however, was extremely dire.
Because Young Obito had precisely sent the two into their respective formations, the moment Naruto fell, Sakura, who had the highest level of medical skill in the team, had already begun treating him.
However, Naruto was still continuously bleeding life. His heartbeat had even stopped.
Sakura suddenly and clearly felt it, the pain of nearly losing a comrade. She didn't want Naruto to die. No matter the cost, she had to save him.
Thus, she used a chakra scalpel to cut open Naruto's chest, reached in, and manually massaged Naruto's heart to beat again.
At the same time, she had already pressed her lips to Naruto's and began performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Perhaps this could prolong Naruto's life for a while, but how much longer could she maintain it?
At this moment, Kakashi, already returned to the Allied Shinobi Forces' formation, stood silently to the side, watching this scene.
Naruto, his deeply cherished student, was about to die before his very eyes.
And the one who caused all this, was once his most treasured comrade.
'So this is what it feels like, watching one friend die at the hands of another and being completely powerless to stop it?"
Kakashi suddenly had a thought: just now, when he used Chidori to stab Rin, if Obito had attacked him then and killed him, it would have been better.
If he had died, everything would have ended.
As Sakura continued to treat Naruto, she glanced toward Kakashi out of the corner of her eye.
In terms of saving Naruto, she was nearly in despair. The only hope now was the Kakashi-sensei she considered so incredibly reliable.
She couldn't help but say, "Kakashi-sensei, is there any other way to save Naruto?"
Her tone carried a hint of sobbing, a hint of pleading.
Kakashi didn't know how to face such a Sakura. If he had another method, why would he still be standing here?
He too was praying that Sakura's medical ninjutsu might produce a miracle.
But he couldn't speak such morale-crushing words to his student. At that moment, he felt a crushing weight pressing down on him.
Kakashi's gaze became distant. He couldn't help but wonder, 'If it were Obito from back then, faced with this situation, what would he do?'
If it were that Obito, he definitely wouldn't stand by while a comrade died. He would stop at nothing to save Naruto's life.
'If that's the case…', Kakashi's expression changed, and in the next instant, his gaze became resolute.
Sakura saw this and was overjoyed, "Kakashi-sensei, did you think of something?"
Kakashi answered honestly, "I haven't thought of any solution. But maybe someone else might."
"You focus on maintaining Naruto's life. I'll go see the person most likely to save him," After speaking, Kakashi suddenly shot forward, dashing toward the Ten Tails.
He moved very quickly, instantly breaking away from the Allied Shinobi Forces' formation, and appeared very close to the Ten Tails.
The other shinobi in the Allied Forces were shocked, exclaiming:
"No! It's too dangerous!"
"Come back quickly!"
However, Kakashi acted as if he didn't hear, charging to the base of the Ten Tails.
What surprised the shinobi forces was that the expected terrifying attack from the Ten Tails didn't come. It remained motionless, allowing Kakashi to leap along its body to the top.
Within the Allied Shinobi Forces, many ninja had a strange thought, 'Could it be that this terrifying giant is just a paper tiger, impressive-looking but useless?'
Thinking this, some commanders in the Allied Forces couldn't help it. They sent a few suicide squads, who also charged toward the Ten Tails like Kakashi…
However, those people weren't nearly as lucky as Kakashi. They had only reached halfway when the Ten Tails suddenly opened its mouth and began forming a terrifying Tailed Beast Bomb, then fired it.
BOOM!
At the center of the battlefield between the Ten Tails and the Allied Forces, a massive mushroom cloud formed. The ground shook, and the explosive light devoured everything.
When everything calmed down, thanks to numerous defensive ninjutsu, the Allied Shinobi Forces' formation had barely avoided damage.
But those suicide squads who had just charged forward, had already turned to dust. Nothing remained.
Only then did the others understand, the Ten Tails was even more terrifying than they imagined. Kakashi's earlier unharmed charge might have been only because he was Kakashi.
They had no choice but to restrain their own impulses and wait for further orders from the Allied Forces' command.
———
Far away, at the command center, Nara Shikaku had already analyzed that Kakashi must be going to see Obito, to negotiate.
He issued just one directive, "Stay calm and wait for the result."
And so, tens of thousands of Allied Shinobi Forces… WAITED.
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