"Destroy Konoha's upper echelons, all those involved in that night's tragedy must be slaughtered!!" Sasuke said coldly.
"Very good. It looks like I've finally subdued Sasuke and made him mine..." Seeing Sasuke's face full of hatred, Obito's face beneath his mask couldn't help but show a smile. His plan to win Sasuke over had finally been accomplished.
"All right, next you'll form your 'Hawk' team. If I need your help with anything, I'll call on you," he finished, and with that, Uchiha Obito's body twisted and disappeared from the spot.
"Let me help? So you really want me to become a pawn, Uchiha Madara..." Sasuke's eyes flickered with a wary light as he watched the direction Obito disappeared.
"I'm not so simple as to let you have your way..."
...…
"Back so soon,"
Within a canyon in the Land of Rivers, Obito was lying lazily on a rock, gazing at the sky. Seeing a plant-like figure rise beside him, he asked with some surprise.
"How is it? Pain should have already taken the Nine-Tails, right?" Obito continued, feeling very pleased after having just taken Sasuke for himself.
"You're really at ease!" Black Zetsu's hoarse voice was unstable and tense.
"What's wrong?" Seeing Zetsu's tone was unusual, Obito sat up and asked.
"Something big has happened," White Zetsu said, and Black Zetsu, displeased, looked at Obito. "When you first interacted with Uchiha Kaoru, I warned you to kill him. No matter if he knew our plans or not, the power of the Mangekyō Sharingan is unsafe if it's not under our control. But you didn't listen. Now, Pain has invaded Konoha, destroying only a few houses in the village, and we didn't even see the Nine-Tails' shadow. Pain was defeated directly by Uchiha Kaoru, and even Nagato and Konan are nowhere to be found!"
"What?!", Obito froze upon hearing this, a menacing aura emanating from him. He hadn't expected things to develop to this extent.
Zetsu looked at Obito, then explained how Nagato and Konan disappeared after the fight...
"Six Paths of Pain was easily defeated, and Kaoru even used space ninjutsu to take Nagato and Konan away..." Obito's tone was no longer playful, but grim.
"Beating the Six Paths of Pain doesn't matter. The key is the Rinnegan! You learned how to summon the Outer Gedo Statue from Madara, but without the Rinnegan, you can't control the statue. Without that, collecting the Tailed Beasts is pointless!" Black Zetsu muttered harshly.
"Careless," Obito cursed inwardly. Had he known it would turn out like this, he wouldn't have let Nagato go after the Nine-Tails so casually. Now Nagato was missing, and the Rinnegan was nowhere to be found.
Not killing Uchiha Kaoru back then was a mistake—thinking he could use him, he let him go. Now, this guy had grown from an untrained fledgling into a soaring eagle. Damn it...
"We must kill Uchiha Kaoru and retrieve the Rinnegan!" Black Zetsu said gravely. "That Uchiha Kaoru is now in Konoha. It's dangerous, but we have to do it!"
"Uchiha Kaoru..." Obito whispered softly, his single visible eye flickering with a sinister killing intent.
"Let's do it this way. Looks like I'll have to personally take action this time..." Obito clenched his fist as he looked up at the clear sky and spoke.
...…
Konan and Nagato ultimately accepted Kaoru's suggestion because they had no choice. Kaoru could directly take Nagato's Rinnegan without any cost. It was already rare for them not to hurt him.
For Konan, this result wasn't bad. Over the years, she had watched Nagato walk step by step to this point after the death of Yahiko. Whatever Kaoru's true purpose or other ambitions might be, Konan didn't care. Her only concern was Nagato, her only friend, and Amegakure.
Kaoru was not skilled in medical ninjutsu. To say he was good at it was an overstatement; his medical skills were only at a basic theoretical level.
Fortunately, when Tsunade was performing surgery on Wan'er, Kaoru kept copying the entire process with his Sharingan. Eye transplant surgeries weren't difficult techniques, and since Kaoru had his own goals, he personally performed Nagato's eye transplant surgery.
A week later, inside the Root organization's base.
In a deep underground secret chamber, Kaoru gently untied the bandages wrapped around Nagato's eyes.
"You can open your eyes now, but go slow. The first time seeing light and air will be very uncomfortable," Kaoru said calmly, watching Nagato's tightly closed eyes. Konan beside him looked on with concern.
After a few twitches of his eyelids, Nagato slowly opened his eyes, then quickly closed them again. After repeating this several times, once his eyes fully adapted to the light and air, he dared to fully open them.
"Is this what the Sharingan feels like..." He reached up and gently touched his eye socket, turning his eyeballs around. In his scarlet pupils, three black tomoe could be seen clearly.
It was different from the Rinnegan, but the vision was surprisingly clear.
"This is the Sharingan I collected. It's not at the Mangekyo level, but it's enough for you," Kaoru examined Nagato carefully and explained calmly.
In fact, this pair of Sharingan was left behind by Danzo. There were many such Sharingan, and since they were just sitting around, Kaoru installed them on Nagato for his own purpose.
"Uchiha Kaoru, you've already got what you wanted!" Konan first looked relieved at Nagato, then stepped forward and stood beside Nagato, her eyes warning and alert as she looked at Kaoru.
Her message was clear: now that the Rinnegan had been taken by Kaoru, it was time for them to leave.
"Do you want to leave? But before that, let me do one thing..." Kaoru tilted his head with a playful smile. The three-tomoe Rinnegan in his eye began to spin and blend together, a strange tomoe and pattern appearing instantly.
The Mangekyō Sharingan!
He smiled lightly, then suddenly pushed Konan aside, grabbed Nagato by the hair, and made their eyes meet.
"What are you doing?!" Konan was startled and shouted. But she had already guessed what Kaoru was doing—was this genjutsu?!
"Don't act rashly, or he'll die," Kaoru mocked as he ignored Konan, looking at Nagato. "This isn't the end. Since I got the Rinnegan, I want to learn how to use it. Do you know why I gave Nagato the Sharingan? Because I can control him, and I can control you too!"
Control Nagato? Control us? Deceived?! Tricked by Uchiha Kaoru? He never intended to let us go—was everything just his scheme from the start?!
"Exactly. Now you know a lot about me and about Obito. If I let you go now, I'll be in trouble..." Though he didn't look at Konan's expression, Kaoru could guess her thoughts. After a slight malicious smile, he quietly looked into Nagato's eyes, his tone also carrying a hint of seduction. "Tell me all the ways to use the Rinnegan, including the methods for the Six Paths of Pain. This forbidden technique has two sealing methods. Tell me everything you know..."
"Uh..." Nagato's eyes were dull, his scarlet eyes filled with confusion.
After a brief silence, Nagato began to carefully explain how to control the Rinnegan, including how to use the Six Paths of Pain and all related techniques.
"Good, I understand," Kaoru said softly, releasing his grip on Nagato's hair.
"Uchiha Kaoru, you bastard!" Konan roared and rushed toward him, but in the next moment, a shadow flickered, and Konan was already pressed against a wall with Kaoru's hand around her throat.
"Can you be more honest, Miss Konan?" Kaoru looked coldly at her, his voice grim. "I've sealed the Sharingan on Nagato. As long as I think it, he'll be done for. If you don't want him to die, behave yourself!"
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