"Kurama!"
"Hmm?"
"This is a Sharingan, right?"
On the way to Konoha Village, in the mental space, Naruto looked up at Kurama, his right eye's crimson pupil slowly rotating with three tomoe.
Seeing this, Kurama smirked, "Sure enough, you copied this thing too..."
Naruto sighed regretfully, "Naruto's eye has a special ability, but I only copied the Three-Tomoe Sharingan."
"Be content, kid."
Kurama sneered, "Even pure-blooded Uchiha rarely awaken their Sharingan at five years old... though it's only a single eye."
"Hmm... Speaking of which, there's something I need to ask you."
"What is it?"
Naruto pointed to his right eye, "In recent years, has any Uchiha died with only one eye? Have you ever seen a single Sharingan left behind somewhere?"
"Now that you mention it, I do know one..."
Kurama lowered his head, seeing Naruto's face that strongly resembled Kushina's, and his expression showed a hint of hesitation, "There was indeed such a guy, and he actually has some connection to you."
"Who?"
"A kid named Uchiha Obito."
Kurama lay down, falling into thought, "Naruto was your father's student; I saw him when I was inside Kushina."
"And then?"
Naruto asked the question already knowing the answer. Since Kurama said it, he saved himself a trip to the Uchiha Clan compound.
"Then he died, on the Iwagakure battlefield. Before he died, Naruto entrusted his left eye to his classmate, Kakashi Hatake."
Kurama snorted, "Speaking of which, the girl Naruto had a crush on seemed more interested in Kakashi, that white-haired brat. Judging by the masked man's reaction just now, maybe you really did guess correctly..."
"Are those two still in Konoha?"
"The girl died, the boy, I'm not sure, but you can go ask. Naruto's pretty strong, he shouldn't have died that easily."
While speaking, Naruto had already used Flying Thunder God to arrive in the forest surrounding Konoha Village.
Then he leaped towards the Village, swiftly soaring over rooftops and landing on top of a tall, straight utility pole.
"Eh?! Kushina?!"
On the street below, a passing pedestrian noticed the figure flying overhead and couldn't help but exclaim.
"Isn't that just a kid?"
"No, wait, that's Naruto!"
"He really looks like her..."
Noticing the commotion below, Naruto glanced down and then withdrew his gaze, his figure rising and falling as he arrived below a tall apartment building.
This was the Jonin apartment complex in Konoha Village, where young Jonin and Special Jonin lived, mostly moving here for peace and quiet, to avoid their parents' nagging and pressure to marry.
Naruto had heard this from Shikamaru; Naruto seemed very interested in this place...
"Oh? Naruto?"
A passing Ninja was startled to see Naruto.
Naruto glanced at the other person, nodding politely, "Excuse me, does Kakashi Hatake live here?"
The person was surprised and quickly said, "Kakashi-senpai does live here, yes. If I remember correctly, he's on the third floor, but he works in Anbu, so he's rarely seen."
"Okay, thank you."
Naruto went upstairs, sensed a cold Chakra from one of the rooms, and knocked on the door.
Knock, knock, knock...
The door opened quickly.
A white-haired man with a slanted forehead protector covering his left eye and dead-fish eyes opened the door, looking down thoughtfully at the blond boy in front of him.
Uzumaki Naruto...
Aside from his demeanor, he's very similar to his sensei in every way.
A ripple appeared in his dead-fish eyes, and Kakashi scratched his hair.
"Um... Is there something I can help you with?"
"Sorry to bother you."
Naruto nodded politely, "I was just attacked by a Sharingan user. My preliminary guess is that person is connected to your eye, so I hope you can help me verify my theory."
"My eye..."
Kakashi's hand instinctively covered his left eye. After a brief hesitation, he gently lifted his forehead protector, revealing a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
"You might be mistaken. This is a gift from a deceased friend of mine, who passed away in the war. Furthermore, if you're looking for connections to the Sharingan, perhaps the Uchiha Clan could give you more clues."
"No need, it's definitely it."
Naruto looked at the left eye socket covered by the forehead protector, sensing the identical ocular power signature to his own right eye.
"I need you to do me a favor, and in return, I'll provide you with clues about the owner of this eye. How about it?"
Kakashi was startled, then nodded after a brief thought, "All right, what do you need me to do?"
"Come with me."
Naruto raised his hand and placed it on Kakashi's arm. Their figures flickered, appearing in the forest on the outskirts of Konoha Village.
Flying Thunder God, huh...
Kakashi glanced at Naruto, his expression complex.
Sure enough, this child inherited his sensei's excellent space-time talent, and this Ninjutsu... did his sensei teach him?
"Alright, now let's try it."
Naruto released his hand from Kakashi's arm. Then, an orange-red Chakra cloak appeared around Kakashi.
"This is... a Tailed Beast Chakra Cloak?!"
Looking down at the high-quality Chakra that had solidified around him, Kakashi was once again startled.
"First, let me tell you the information I have," Naruto said blandly. "The guy who attacked me was a one-eyed masked man. His right eye possesses a space-time Ninjutsu that allows him to travel through different dimensions."
"Space-time Ninjutsu..."
Kakashi frowned, "I've never heard of the Sharingan having such an ability."
"Of course not, you're not an Uchiha, how could you know such a thing?"
Suddenly, a two-story-tall fox apparition made of Chakra appeared behind Naruto. Kurama stood with his arms crossed, looking down at the two of them.
"That's the Mangekyo Sharingan. Uchiha Madara once possessed those eyes, but each eye's Ninjutsu varies from person to person, and I don't know much about it either."
"Kurama..."
Kakashi's expression hardened. He hadn't expected Kurama to appear at this moment.
And from the looks of it, he's quite familiar with Naruto?
"Alright, no matter what it is, let's just try it first. We'll use a Shadow Clone as an experiment."
Naruto didn't waste any more words. He created a Wood Clone. "The eye is on you, you know how to use it better than I do, right?"
Kakashi nodded, manipulating the excess Chakra to flow into his left eye.
The crimson Sharingan seemed like an insatiable demon, constantly devouring the Chakra Kakashi supplied.
Immediately after, a colder, yet more powerful ocular power erupted under the infusion of Chakra!
Kakashi's eyes widened suddenly. Where his gaze focused, space twisted and distorted, instantly transferring the Shadow Clone into an unknown dimension.
And the moment the clone disappeared, Kakashi suddenly clutched his left eye, falling to his knees in exhaustion, breathing heavily. The Chakra cloak around him also thinned considerably.
Seeing this, Naruto transferred another wave of Chakra to him.
Kakashi looked at Naruto, "Can you tell me now? About that eye..."
"I'm not entirely sure, but basically, Naruto suddenly ran out and attacked me, and I killed him in retaliation."
Naruto spread his hands slightly, looking resigned, "I'm not sure if it's the person you're thinking of, but I was worried Naruto wasn't completely dead, so I specifically came to Konoha Village to check if there were any Sharingan left outside."
"As for the information about your eye, Kurama told me."
"Kurama is..."
"The Nine-Tailed's name."
"I see..."
Kakashi's eyes dimmed again.
Naruto ignored him, just quietly waiting for the clone to send back information.
Although he really wanted to take Kakashi's eye, he figured there was nowhere to put it even if he did, and he might need Kakashi's help later, so he could only wait for news from the clone.
If Obito was truly dead, then it wouldn't be too late to take the eye. Anyway, he couldn't leave Kamui as a threat.
And as Naruto waited, on the other side, in the Kamui Dimension.
The moment the clone landed, he pushed his sensory abilities to their maximum range.
Then he looked down, noticing a severely damaged corpse lying at his feet.
"So that's it..."
Noticing his location, the clone suddenly realized, "No matter how far apart the left and right eyes are, the landing point in this space is unified!"
Realizing this, he kicked away the half-broken spiral mask from the corpse's face, revealing Obito's face underneath.
Half his face was disfigured, and the other half wasn't much better.
Prying open the corpse's eyelid, he saw the intact Sharingan in the eye socket. The clone's face lit up with joy, and he suppressed his discomfort, digging it out of the eye socket.
Suddenly, a strong surge of malice attacked from behind!
Nine vibrant fox tails erupted from behind the clone, blocking the sneak attack from behind.
And at the same instant, the eyeball in his hand gradually turned illusory and disappeared.
"What a miraculous technique..."
With the fox tails blocking the broken, sharp iron cone, the clone happily turned around, seeing a sinister and crazed face.
"To be danced around like this by a five-year-old kid... Truly ugly."
"Why are you here?!"
Obito roared fiercely, "Who exactly are you?!"
At this moment, the spiral mask was gone from his face, and his originally somewhat regular features were twisted with madness.
And in the position of his left eye was a dull, blind eye.
The clone didn't waste any words. While creating a clone to transmit information, he charged wildly towards Obito.
"Die, die, die!"
Fox tails furiously smashed towards Obito. Behind the clone, space twisted again, and two more fox-tailed, golden-haired figures were teleported in.
"Kakashi..."
Seeing this, Obito's face grew even more distorted. He grabbed the clone's wrist and raised a tree branch, stabbing it towards the clone's head.
"Don't get too carried away!!"
On the ground, thick, sharp tree branches surged wildly, lunging at the two clones who had just been teleported in, but they were easily shattered by a single swipe of a tail.
Pfft—
The tree branch pierced the clone's head.
At the same time, two chains once again pierced Obito's chest!
Space twisted again, and two more clones were transmitted into the Kamui Dimension. Golden chains wove into a net, firmly binding Obito.
"Damn brat! Do you know what you're doing?! A guy like you..."
"How pathetic..."
One of the clones sneered, "No wonder Rin didn't like you."
The air instantly fell silent.
Within the net of chains, Obito, who had been struggling desperately a second ago, suddenly froze. His remaining right eye stared blankly at the clone who had spoken.
"He looks like he's about to shatter..."
Clone Number Two muttered softly beside him.
"Shut up! What do you know?! I never hoped she would like me!"
Obito suddenly roared, his expression frantic.
This damn brat... how... how did he know these things?!
"Hope?"
"He just said 'hope,' didn't he?"
"How pathetic, huh..."
The four clones whispered to each other. A bloody red spread from Obito's neck to his forehead. He felt like his entire being was about to explode from boundless rage.
"Damn brat!!!"
A shrill roar echoed through the void. The four clones firmly controlled the Adamantine Sealing Chains, refusing to take a single step forward.
It wasn't that they didn't want to, but they simply couldn't.
Obito's strength wasn't bad. Even without Kamui, he was still at the level of an elite Jonin, and his combat experience was far superior to theirs.
If it weren't for the brutal offensive of the nine large tails, which gave Naruto no chance to form hand signs from the very beginning, Naruto really wouldn't have been able to subdue Naruto.
The most important thing was that Naruto wasn't sure if Obito had released Izanagi again. He thought there wasn't time to release it just now, but Naruto had surprisingly kept a trick up his sleeve.
If Izanagi were to be used again, then it would be the Kamui Mangekyo...
Killing him was easy, but getting the Mangekyo wasn't!
"Can't think of any good ideas."
Seeing Obito struggling madly, all four clones were at a loss.
Clone Number Two pouted, "Tsk, such a powerful ocular Ninjutsu, wasted on such a good-for-nothing."
"Shut up! You're the good-for-nothing!"
Obito looked at Clone Number Two sinisterly, then seemed to recall something, pulling out a twisted, sinister smile, "You still don't know, kid, your parents, the Four Generation Couple, died by my hand!"
"I know."
Clone Number Two nodded, "You're pretty proud of that? No wonder Rin didn't like you."
I'll be damned!!!
"You little brat who knows nothing, just shut up!!!"
With one sentence, Obito became enraged again, "A kid like you, what could you possibly understand? What can you understand, you who can be so indifferent to your parents' deaths?!"
"It's alright, I'm not that close to them anyway."
The clone scratched his hair, wondering whether to just directly dig out the Kamui Mangekyo. "But you, you probably only became like this after Rin died, right?"
"I merely woke up..."
Hearing Naruto's words, Obito seemed to recall something and suddenly calmed down, "Infinite Tsukuyomi, have you heard of it? A supreme Ninjutsu that can soothe all the pain and suffering in the world..."
"So, it's a pipe dream?"
"..."
"This is your 'waking up'?"
"..."
"Dragging everyone into a pipe dream together?"
"..."
"Everyone stops producing, stops procreating, and goes extinct?"
"What do you know? This was left by the Six Paths Sage..."
"Then why didn't he use it himself?"
"He couldn't? Or he didn't have a dream he liked?"
"..."