This self-introduction completely stunned Obito.
'You're Uchiha Obito? Then who am I?'
"This isn't funny." Obito steadied himself, patting the spot on his chest where he had just been kicked.
Thanks to the powerful regenerative abilities of White Zetsu and Hashirama's cells, the injury had already healed quickly.
But Shura's declaration of 'My name is Uchiha Obito' ruthlessly stabbed at the deepest wound in Obito's heart.
'My real name… how could someone else dare to use it so casually?!'
'That name had already died, along with Rin, on that blood-soaked night!'
"No matter who you are, you'll pay the price for this!" Obito's voice was icy cold, his sword flashing coldly under the moonlight as he swung it.
"Why won't you believe me? I really am Uchiha Obito." Menma sighed helplessly, spreading his hands: "Actually, I just faked my death during the Battle of Kannabi Bridge. Want to hear my revenge story?"
Listening to the other party's nonsense, Obito let out a muffled, suppressed laugh from behind his mask. He drove his sword deep into the ground and swiftly formed hand seals.
"Fire Release: Blast Wave Wild Dance!"
A surge of scorching Fire Attribute Chakra gathered beneath Obito's mask and erupted outward.
The Kamui was activated and began to distort the surrounding space, triggering an even stronger whirlwind that wrapped around the flames, forming a massive spiral of fire!
The flames, dancing within the distorted space, twisted like a blazing serpent, advancing in a spiral motion, intent on devouring everything in its path!
Amid the violent winds and scorching heat, the surrounding trees were instantly reduced to ashes!!
Facing the onslaught of the spiraling fire, Menma calmly formed his own hand seals.
'A Chakra clash? Then let's see who has more!'
"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!"
After completing the hand seals, Menma pressed a hand against his mask and unleashed an overwhelming surge of Fire Attribute Chakra, roaring forth like a tsunami!
The Great Fire Annihilation formed a wall of flames dozens of meters wide, scorching everything in its path!
Like a colossal tidal wave of fire, it crashed toward Obito's Blast Wave Wild Dance!
Boom!
The two Fire Release Ninjutsu collided, erupting in a deafening explosion as the flames consumed each other, neither willing to yield!
The previously dim sky brightened as if it were midday, the scorching heat turning the ground beneath them into crystallized glass!
Obito continued pouring more Chakra into his Ninjutsu, trying to prove with his flames who the real Uchiha was!
Yet no matter how much Chakra he channeled, his flames couldn't break through the opposing inferno. The longer the clash dragged on, the more unsettled Obito grew.
At this moment, Menma suddenly increased his output, and the flames spewing from his mouth surged to another level!
The fiery tsunami swelled violently!
With overwhelming force, it crushed Obito's Blast Wave Wild Dance, pushing it back!
Seeing that his opponent's Chakra reserves and Ninjutsu scale far exceeded ordinary people's limits, Obito had no choice but to abandon the clash and activate Kamui's intangibility.
Without his support, the Blast Wave Wild Dance was instantly swallowed by Menma's Great Fire Annihilation, the forest and underbrush reduced to a charred wasteland.
After the flames died down, Zetsu's body emerged from the scorched earth nearby.
"Yikes, that was terrifying." The white half of Zetsu exaggeratedly waved its arms, yammering loudly.
On the scorched earth, Obito's figure gradually reappeared, his Sharingan behind the tiger-striped mask filled with tension.
Though both Blast Wave Wild Dance and Great Fire Annihilation were B-Rank Ninjutsu, that only referred to their learning difficulty.
The power of a technique depended on the user's Chakra reserves and mastery.
Someone like Madara Uchiha could unleash B-Rank Ninjutsu with the destructive force of natural disasters!
"This is a bit troublesome, Madara." Zetsu was like an annoying mosquito, constantly calling out from the side: "There are two Uchiha on the other side, you know."
"Shut up!" Obito snapped, and the three tomoes in his Sharingan spinning rapidly, morphing into the pattern of the Mangekyo!
Obito is getting serious now!
"I'm done playing." However, when as Obito was about to launch another attack, he saw Shura on the opposite side clapping his hands dismissively.
He then walked over to the Uchiha girl beside him and casually slung an arm over her shoulder: "Why don't you go have some fun with him?"
Menma hadn't even gone all out, and he knew Obito was holding back too.
But if they continued fighting, Menma would risk exposing that he knew the secrets of Kamui, or worse, revealing his Flying Thunder God Technique and the Black Nine-Tails' Chakra.
At this point in time, he wasn't ready to show his full hand.
So, Menma decided to let Hikari take over. It would be good for her to gather intel on Obito firsthand.
Hikari was about to step forward, but suddenly thought of something and smiled sweetly at Menma: "Okay, Obito~"
While she didn't fully understand why Menma was calling himself Uchiha Obito, she sensed the name had something to do with the mysterious man opposite them. So, she played along with Menma's act.
Crack-
Beneath the striped tiger mask, there was a sound as if something had shattered.
Obito stared blankly at the gentle smile of the girl across from him.
For a moment, it was as if he was seeing Rin from their Genin days again.
Back in Konoha, when they were just starting as Ninja, those ordinary yet beautiful days… even the tedious D-Rank missions felt worthwhile as long as Rin's warm smile was there.
But now, watching someone else use his name while being so intimate with another…
"You damn bastards!" Obito roared, his voice trembling with fury.
His Mangekyo Sharingan spun wildly, tears uncontrollably streaming down his face.
He threw the sword he had just put away from Kamui Dimension at the black-haired girl opposite with lightning speed, and at the same time, he followed closely behind and charged at her himself.
Hikari deftly blocked with a kunai, closing the distance in an instant.
The moment the sword was deflected, Obito caught the hilt with precision and swung it back in a fierce horizontal slash!
Clang!
Sparks flew as the blade clashed against Hikari's kunai once more.
In the midst of the metallic clash, Obito activated his Kamui, distorting the surrounding space in an attempt to suck his enemy into his Kamui Dimension!
Boom!
However, a pillar of black flames erupted, engulfing Hikari completely!
"Amaterasu?!" Obito gasped in shock, immediately canceling Kamui's absorption and leaping back to create distance!
If those flames touched him, the only way to stop the unquenchable black flame from burning his body would be to sever the affected limb.
And since Obito couldn't phase through attacks while using Kamui's absorption, he had no choice but to retreat hastily.
As he stumbled back, a dark red skeletal claw suddenly shot out from the flames, lunging straight at him!
Obito, who was unable to phase in time, could only raise his sword in a desperate block.
Bang!
The tremendous force sent him flying several meters, cracks spiderwebbing across his blade!
Once he steadied himself, he looked up in disbelief.
He saw the dark red Susanoo standing tall, and the half-skeletal giant wrapped around a black-haired girl.
Beneath her flowing hair, a pair of unparalleled Mangekyo Sharingan blazed with power!