Obito Uchiha was following White Zetsu's guidance, rushing at full speed toward Rin's location.
"Obito, I suspect we'll soon enter battle. Before that happens, there's something I must say."
"What is it?"
"Your combat ability falls short of mine. Besides, my massive body now clings to your wounded form, protecting you."
Obito only wanted to hurry and save Rin. Impatiently, he asked, "What exactly are you trying to say?"
White Zetsu suggested, "I think it would be better if I took control during the fight."
Firmly refusing, Obito declared, "Don't underestimate me! Now that I have the [Sharingan], my strength definitely surpasses yours! I can protect Rin myself!"
"Indeed. You now possess an artificial Hashirama body. With the combination of Senju and Uchiha powers, perhaps unprecedented might will emerge."
Suddenly looking upward, Obito noticed tiny droplets falling from the sky.
Stopping on a high tree trunk to observe ahead, he saw intense battle erupting in front. The water falling from the sky resulted from the fighting itself.
Serious-faced as he stared forward, he muttered, "I thought it was rain... So this is what it is."
White Zetsu warned, "My other half sent word. Looks like it's happening over there."
Obito set his eyes forward firmly. "Let's go!"
As Obito approached the battlefield, his ominous premonition grew stronger, his heart throbbing painfully.
"Almost there... Just hang in there! Stop overthinking!"
When Obito burst through the trees into the clearing, he witnessed a truly devastating scene.
Rin Nohara's two teammates had pierced her chest using ninja swords.
Before dying, Rin cried out two names for the last time.
"Obi... to... Kakashi..."
Rin dropped lifelessly to the ground.
Obito froze completely, staring blankly at Rin's corpse before him.
The surrounding Mist ninja became increasingly furious.
"Damn it! The Konoha ninjas succeeded!"
"We worked so hard to make this happen..."
...
Obito's right eye instantly transformed into the [Mangekyo Sharingan] while White Zetsu enveloped his head.
"Ahh!"
A roar erupted from Obito.
Sharp branches burst forth from the right side of his body.
Doubt gripped him. "Where am I? What is this place?"
The Mist ninja spotted Obito.
"Who's there?"
"Reinforcements?"
"Idiots! He's just one man to save!"
One of the Mist ninja launched a flurry of shuriken at Obito.
Yet all those shuriken passed straight through him.
Obito whispered, "This isn't real... This can't be happening!"
The Mist ninja looked on in disbelief.
"What just happened?"
"Did he dodge?"
Obito bellowed, "I won't accept this!"
Obito Uchiha sprang forward.
A Mist ninja sprang into Obito's path.
"Don't underestimate the Village of Bloody Mist!"
The Mist ninja drew his ninja sword and slashed at Obito Uchiha.
But Obito's hand pressed against the Mist ninja's abdomen first.
Sharp branches burst through the Mist ninja's body, spraying blood in a grotesque display.
Obito kicked over another Mist ninja nearby, sat on him, and broke off a sharp branch to impale him with it. At that moment, four Kiri ninja descended from above, gripping their ninja swords tightly as they stabbed toward Obito Uchiha.
However, the four ninja swords pierced right through Obito's body and into the Mist ninja beneath him.
Obito sprang into the air and instantly kicked down all four Mist ninjas.
Seeing that Obito could be penetrated by attacks, the Mist ninjas panicked one after another.
"What's going on with him?!"
"What kind of strange technique is this?!"
"We must recover that woman at all costs! Under no circumstances can we let our enemy get her corpse!"
Obito charged toward Rin Nohara's location.
All the Mist ninja's attacks passed through Obito's body.
"This guy really can be penetrated!"
Just as one Mist ninja was about to reach Rin, Obito hurled a wooden spike right into him.
Obito formed hand seals, sending the wooden spike flying into the Mist ninja. From inside his body, sharp branches erupted, impaling him completely.
White Zetsu's voice filled with admiration reached Obito's ears.
"Suddenly using Wood Release: Impaling Spears technique… Obito, I understand why Madara chose you."
Obito grabbed the head of another Mist ninja attempting to approach Rin and slammed it hard into the ground.
Then he kicked the Mist ninja high into the air, grabbed his head again, and smashed it into the ground.
Obito pounded repeatedly into the Mist ninja's head, smashing it into a bloody pulp until it was flattened.
All the Mist ninjas watched in stunned silence as Obito unleashed his fury.
"Who exactly… is that guy?"
Splattered in blood, Obito stopped smashing and lifted his gaze toward the surrounding Mist ninjas.
The Mist ninjas now stared at Obito in utter terror.
[Wood Release: Hellish Onslaught!!!]
Frenzied, Obito used Wood Release to create several thorn-covered trees spiraling upward, ensnaring all enemies in a deadly whirlwind.
After killing all the Mist ninjas, their blood dripped onto the ground, creating rivers of blood flowing across the earth.
Bathed in blood, Obito looked toward Rin's lifeless body lying not far away, whispering despondently, "I understand now… This… I… am in hell!"
Like a lifeless shell, Obito staggered forward slowly as the voices of Madara Uchiha and White Zetsu echoed inside his mind.
"The longer you live, the more you realize reality is filled only with bitterness, pain, and loneliness. Listen well—there exists inseparable duality in everything of this world; where there is light, there must be shadow. This is causality, impossible to divide."
Leave all the troubles of reality behind and dive into a dream filled with happiness! Since it's just a dream, everything can go as one wishes.
Even bringing the dead back to life is possible.
Let's create a world—where only victory exists, only peace reigns, only love remains—nothing else matters!
Obito Uchiha cried as he tightly embraced Rin Nohara, whose body had already lost its warmth.
Some time passed.
Obito Uchiha's gaze turned cold and resolute as he spoke, "Rin… I'm going to create another world—one where you exist! I… will sever the chains of this world's fate!"
Obito Uchiha returned to the cave once more and told Madara Uchiha that he intended to sever the chains of the world's fate.
"This," he said, "is why I've come back."
Looking at Obito, Madara Uchiha smiled for the first time. "Hope no one else saw it?"
White Zetsu answered, "Only I saw it. Obito killed everyone else, so it's fine."
A hollow look filled Obito's eyes as he muttered, "Nothing matters anymore. In my world… I'll have Rin."
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