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Chapter 181: Obito: Nani, why can you hit me!
Obito watched with equal astonishment, even horror, as the Nine-Tails was sealed by a single sheet of paper.
The doubts in his heart intensified.
Paper Style?
Then he looked at the opponent's blue-purple long hair. Ninjutsu and hair color were both very similar. But the Konan in his impression absolutely did not possess such strength, able to seal the Nine-Tails with just a piece of paper. Or even use the Uzumaki clan's exclusive bloodline ability.
No... Obito shook his head internally. It absolutely can't be her.
Then who could it be?
He suddenly felt something was wrong. The intruder's strength was stronger than imagined. Without intelligence or knowing the details, he couldn't fight blindly. It was better to retreat first.
"Hmph!" Obito looked at Kushina, his voice hoarse and low. "Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, count yourself lucky!"
"However, with the Tailed Beast extracted, the Jinchuriki is destined to die. You cannot escape the fate of de—"
Nani!!!
Before Obito could finish his sentence, as if seeing a ghost, he stared in astonishment at a piece of white paper sticking to Kushina's abdomen.
Green light flashed faintly, and her rapidly weakening condition miraculously stopped deteriorating. Then, visibly to the naked eye, she became spirited. As if the life force extracted along with the Nine-Tails just now had been replenished, completely restored.
Obito felt his worldview shattering.
Everything that happened in this short moment impacted his mind greatly. Sealing the Nine-Tails with a piece of paper was one thing, but actually saving a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki destined to die after losing the Tailed Beast!
Simply incomprehensible, unbelievable. Who exactly was the opponent, to possess such amazing means? Unheard of, unseen before!!
The person involved, Kushina, was no less shocked than Obito. She widened her eyes, staring blankly at Konan. A face full of confusion.
The life force flowing out of her body uncontrollably was not only stopped but replenished. Right now, apart from missing a Nine-Tails inside her body, there was no difference from before.
Swish!
Suddenly, a yellow figure appeared beside Kushina. It was the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, holding a Flying Thunder God Kunai and wearing the Hokage cloak. His expression was extremely grave, unable to hide his grief.
"Kushina!!"
The moment he appeared, he glanced at Konan beside her and Obito not far away. His eyes held surprise, unclear why another white-masked person had suddenly appeared. But he couldn't care about so much; he grabbed Kushina. Transferring Kushina to a safe place first was the most important thing.
"Minato! Wait!!" Kushina hurriedly interrupted Minato's Flying Thunder God. "She's not an enemy, she saved me."
Minato paused, subconsciously stopping the Flying Thunder God.
"Kushina, you mean..."
He looked at Kushina in disbelief. He hadn't noticed just now, but perceiving carefully now, he discovered that Kushina had miraculously recovered.
"You... you're okay??"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Kushina moved her wrist. Being tied up just now made her blood flow a bit unsmooth.
"Then... Nine-Tails..." Minato subconsciously looked at Kushina's stomach, frowning. "The seal is gone... Nine-Tails didn't return to your body..."
Then how did she recover...
Kushina immediately recounted what had just happened excitedly, making Minato exclaim that it was incredible.
Konan ignored the couple's joyous reunion, looking coldly at Obito. The latter secretly thought things were bad but remained calm. With Kamui's intangibility, no matter how strong the opponent was, it was futile if they couldn't hit him.
"Hmph! You're impressive!!" He sneered. "Although I don't know who you are, next time, you won't be so—"
Swish, swish, swish!
Dense ice kunai, emitting biting cold air, whistled towards him, interrupting his words.
"Heheh!"
"Your attacks are useless against me. I possess power you cannot understand."
He stood on the reef, his body like a phantom, as kunai after kunai passed through him. It seemed just as he said—unable to be hit. His expression was very smug.
So what if you can seal the Nine-Tails with a piece of paper and save the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki? I am an existence you cannot hit or do anything about.
Squelch!
In the next instant, the sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh rang out.
The smugness on Obito's face froze instantly, and a burst of severe pain came weirdly from his chest. His eyes trembled with shock, looking down at his chest in disbelief.
An ice kunai emitting biting cold air was stuck straight into his chest, buried to the hilt!! Drops of blood were frozen before they could seep out.
It was Konan's Mangekyo pupil technique—Futsu-no-Mitama! Endowing one of the kunai with the property of cutting space, directly hitting the intangible Obito.
"Wah—!" He spat out a large mouthful of blood, horrified to the extreme. "Impossible!! Absolutely impossible!! How could your attack be effective, how could you hit me!"
"This is impossible!!!"
Obito was terrified and panicked to the extreme. The Kamui he relied on to run rampant in the ninja world was actually broken. And in a way he didn't understand at all, it just failed...
Biting cold Ice Release power spread rapidly from his chest to the surroundings of his body. Obito felt his whole body getting colder and stiffer. He staggered back a few steps, unable to maintain intangibility anymore.
He watched in horror as hard ice covered his whole body step by step, yet could do nothing. Even using Izanagi couldn't change the reality that his chest was pierced by a kunai.
"No!! No!! I can't die!!" Obito lost his cool completely, screaming hysterically:
"Rin! Rin hasn't been resurrected!! The new world hasn't been created yet!! I can't die!!!"
Unfortunately, it was all incompetent rage. It couldn't change the status quo at all. Finally, he could only watch in despair and horror as he was frozen into a block of ice. Completely unable to resist.
"Rin?" Kushina and Minato heard the shout and froze simultaneously.
Obito's final desperate roar didn't disguise his voice anymore.
"Minato..." Kushina's voice trembled slightly, saying in disbelief, "The masked man's voice just now sounded very familiar, could it be..."
"Obito!" Minato looked exceptionally grave, slowly spitting out these two words. As a teacher, he was very familiar with his student's voice. Without a doubt, the voice just now was Obito.
"That masked man..." Kushina still couldn't believe it. "It's really Obito... Why did he do this, is it because of Rin's death..."
Her face was full of pain, tears sliding down her cheeks. She couldn't believe that the boy who was always sunny, a bit silly, and always shouted "Master's wife," "Master's wife" loudly would become like this tonight. Not only wanting to kill her but also hurting Minato and little Naruto...
Why...
Minato felt heart-wrenching pain and self-blame. His former disciple turning dark like this was probably directly related to the deceased Rin. If he could have arrived earlier back then, not a step slow, maybe Rin wouldn't have had to die, and Obito wouldn't have turned dark and become the masked man today.
Minato took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down. He wasn't just a husband and teacher, but also Konoha's Hokage.
The threat of the masked man was temporarily lifted, but there was another unidentified person.
He looked at Konan, who walked to the frozen Obito, and said in a deep voice, "Thank you very much, Your Excellency, for saving my wife and subduing the masked man. But the Nine-Tails is my Konoha's strategic weapon. I hope Your Excellency will return it. I am willing to do my best to compensate Your Excellency in other ways."
Konan deactivated her Mangekyo and remained silent.
Alex, however, had a sudden idea. What reaction would the parallel world's Minato couple have if they knew about Naruto's experiences in the future?
Thinking of it, he did it.
He directly took out a piece of white paper and floated it in front of the Minato couple. "Come out, Edo Tensei Kushina!"
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