Obito said coldly, "I know. For example, if the Eight-Tails uses something like the Tailed Beast Eight-Volume technique again, or the Tailed Beast Ball, it could flatten our Konoha base."
A glanced at Killer B. Although this matter really did have something to do with his younger brother, he couldn't help but grin smugly, "If you know that, then fine. We're willing to retreat simply because, under Uchiha Madara's threat, it's not appropriate to keep fighting a civil war."
But Obito only smiled, "You think I was serious with you just now?"
A was stunned, and asked, "What do you mean?"
Obito closed his eyes, then opened them, the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan appeared.
A immediately felt the cold, enormous chakra rising from Obito, exactly the same aura they'd sensed at the start.
Killer B made a grim, ugly smile and told A.
"Big brother, Obito's an Uchiha. He can still open his Sharingan, and clearly those aren't ordinary three-tomoe eyes, they're the Mangekyo Sharingan written about in the legends."
"I'm starting to believe he could, for a short time, go toe-to-toe with Uchiha Madara. Maybe only Mangekyo can counter Mangekyo."
A broke into a cold sweat, but still tried to keep his pride.
"So what? As long as you don't have the Tailed Beast release, and with my speed, can he really catch us? Remember, my speed's faster than his thrown kunai."
Obito looked at the stubborn A, and another memory surfaced in his mind. The world where the Fourth Raikage A had pulled Rin out of the reanimation. Frankly, Obito had never let that go. Later, the Old Obito triggered Infinite Tsukuyomi and the Fourth Raikage went to sleep on the God Tree.
Old Obito had promised everyone a ticket to a new world, where all could find happiness in the dream, A included, so he spared A that one time.
But since this A was as irritating as ever, he decided the score would be settled with this A.
He picked up a kunai again and took an attacking stance.
"Because the two countries really shouldn't keep fighting, Konoha wants to end the war. You're the Third Raikage's son, killing you would only spread hatred. The Land of Fire and the Land of Lightning might be locked in endless war."
"So… I'll spare your life."
"But debts can't go unpaid. Life has value and shouldn't be ranked. The shinobi world maybe can't do that yet."
"But you killed Konoha's shinobi and walked away unharmed, do you think that's right?"
Seeing Obito take an attacking pose, A went on guard, just like that Konoha shinobi he'd killed earlier.
He said, "So how are you going to make that right? You know, I already memorized the locations of all the kunai you threw, you think…"
Before A finished, Obito had raised his hand and waved through the air toward him.
When most of A's kunai attack motion had finished, Obito vanished from his original place and reappeared in front of A.
A widened his eyes. Obito had just flown near him without any mark at all.
This completely exceeded his expectations.
Moreover, because A's attack was already mostly finished, when Obito came he made no raising motion; the attack was falling and A had no time to use speed to dodge.
He could only pour a huge amount of Lightning Release chakra onto his arm, raise his hand, and block the kunai.
The next moment, A's arm collided with Obito's kunai again.
But instead of the kunai being knocked away as expected, Obito's Flying Thunder God kunai sliced through A's arm like cutting tofu, meeting no resistance, cleaving A's arm in two.
Where A's body and arm separated, a black spatial rift appeared.
In an instant A felt his entire right arm go numb; blood spurted from the wound.
He instinctively raised his other hand to grab his about-to-fly-off severed arm.
But Obito was quicker. He snatched the severed arm first.
A, enraged, erupted with intense electricity, and charged at Obito.
Yet Obito's attack motion was already complete. A's rush slammed into empty air.
Obito's figure disappeared from beside A, and when A blinked he was back where he'd been before, as if he'd never left, only now he had an extra severed arm in his hand.
Obito said calmly, "One arm, I'll take as some compensation."
Then he turned and looked back at the Konoha shinobi who'd rushed over to watch, and casually threw A's severed arm back at them.
"Catch it. Consider this arm part of that deceased Konoha shinobi's battle merits. In any case, it's the future Raikage's arm. If he has family, they'll have honor from it."
Nara Shikaku, who was leading them, signaled to Akimichi Choza. Choza understood immediately, used a partial multi-size technique, and stretched out a huge hand to receive the severed arm.
At this moment A was kneeling on the ground clutching his shoulder, furious, rage mixed with a hint of panic.
"Your Flying Thunder God, you don't need marks? You were messing with us before?"
Obito smiled faintly, "You finally guessed it. But what does it matter if I toyed with you? Now that I've spared you, do you still want to start a war with Konoha?"
A did want to, but the wound at his severed arm was getting worse. Seeing that, Killer B grabbed his big brother and told the Cloud shinobi watching behind them, "We're retreating."
Without giving A a chance to argue, he scooped A up and teleported away, heading for the distance.
About a dozen Cloud shinobi who'd come with them left with them.
Obito didn't pursue. He stood where he was, watching their defeated backs vanish, then turned to look at Nara Shikaku and the others.
He smiled, "Issue someone to go sign a ceasefire with the Hidden Cloud. I imagine they'll agree."
All the Konoha shinobi were dumbstruck. The duo everyone had thought unbeatable had been handled easily by Obito.
Someone started cheering, and soon everyone joined in. The forest outside the Konoha base echoed with cheers.
Obito's face, however, sagged a little.
Because along with the cheers came repeated calls of his title.
"Black Fang!"
"Black Fang!"
"Black Fang!"
Obito shouted, "No, shouldn't we change the name now? Like Black Flash, Black Vortex, Black Shura, Black, I don't know, Blade?"
But no one paid him any mind; they kept calling "Black Fang."
Obito almost spat blood, 'After all that hard fighting, nothing has changed?'
'Sure enough, you can't count on your own people. I can only hope the Cloud Village would take the initiative…'
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