Chapter 165: Obito: You Actually Became a Jōnin?!
Land of Fire, Konoha forward camp.
Inside a specially designated medical ninja tent—
Tsukasa opened his eyes.
Before him was a dark green canvas roof.
The air around him was thick with the pungent smell of disinfectant and blood filtered through sunlight. Beside him, slightly noisy clattering and hammering sounds echoed as if construction was underway outside the tent.
The sounds of hammers striking, saws cutting wood, and several familiar young voices:
"Pair of threes!"
"Royal flush!"
"Kakashi, is that how you play cards?!"
"I've got a pair of threes too!"
"Is there a problem? I only have one card left."
"As expected of my eternal rival, Kakashi! Fine, I'm doing five hundred push-ups, or I'll run twenty laps around the camp!"
"Aaaaaah! You idiot, why didn't you block his hand?!"
Hearing these voices, Tsukasa suddenly sat up, his brow twitching.
What is this, a Naruto reunion episode? Just from the voices alone, I can tell it's Obito, Kakashi, and Might Guy.
The real question is—how did these three end up on the Land of Rain battlefield playing cards?
"Oh, you're awake?"
A girl with short brown hair and two purple face paint marks walked over carrying a medical tray. She wore a long-sleeved black shirt, a light pink skirt with leggings, and a red medical armband. Her smile was warm and bright.
The tray contained standard medical equipment: gauze, a stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, scissors, and ointment—apparently she was here to change his dressing.
Only then did Tsukasa realize his entire body ached as if he'd run ten marathons, with all his organs cramping and protesting.
But that didn't matter.
Seeing this person, Tsukasa raised an eyebrow slightly.
Wasn't this his buddy Obito's crush, Nohara Rin?
Soon, Rin approached and placed the wooden tray on the cabinet beside Tsukasa.
Then she peeked out of the tent and called:
"Obito, the friend you came to visit is awake!"
As soon as she said this, commotion erupted outside the tent.
"Hey! Rin is calling me! I haven't finished playing my hand—this isn't good!"
Soon, a boy with goggles perched on his forehead and a Konoha headband, wearing an orange-collared jacket and dark blue pants with a ninja tool pouch, poked his head into the tent.
"Rin, thank you so much!"
Upon entering the tent, Obito didn't even glance at Tsukasa lying in the hospital bed. He immediately moved to Rin's side and began showering her with concern.
"Hehe, if it weren't for you, Tsukasa definitely wouldn't have recovered so quickly!"
"How have you been lately? Is the medical team's work exhausting?"
Tsukasa was speechless.
Even Rin couldn't handle his enthusiasm and could only smile gently.
"Obito, go see your friend. I have other patients to attend to~"
With that, Rin picked up her tray and hurried toward the tent exit, peeking outside as if searching for a certain white-haired figure.
Obito was left speechless, instantly freezing like a statue, standing there unable to process the rejection.
Only after Rin's figure disappeared from sight did he scratch his head, suddenly remembering who he was supposed to visit.
As the two Uchiha's gazes met, the tent fell into an awkward silence that stretched on.
Finally, it was Tsukasa who broke the silence, looking at Obito expressionlessly:
"Obito, you didn't actually come here to visit me at all."
"Let me give you some advice—you should give up on this relationship that's never going anywhere."
Obito coughed twice, pretending not to hear Tsukasa's harsh truth, and walked closer with a hearty laugh.
He slapped Tsukasa on the shoulder, grinned, and gave him a thumbs-up while pointing at his headband with an extremely smug expression.
"Tsukasa, you're not qualified to lecture me right now!"
"So what if you've completed hundreds of D-rank missions!"
"I, Uchiha Obito, just led a team and completed a B-rank mission!"
"You've definitely never experienced the tension of escorting emergency supplies to the front lines through a smoke-filled battlefield while constantly watching for Sunagakure ambushes!"
"Pretty amazing, right?!"
"If I keep training like this, I'll gradually become a Chūnin, then a Jōnin, awaken my Sharingan, and achieve the three-tomoe—"
"And finally, I'll become the greatest Fifth Hokage in Konoha's history!"
Tsukasa stared at Obito, eyes filled with disbelief.
So this guy just came here to brag about this?
However, this really left him momentarily speechless.
After all, he'd never actually completed a standard B-rank mission like Obito just described.
How was he supposed to explain it?
That he'd just single-handedly taken on three hundred Sunagakure soldiers, then immediately engaged in a desperate battle with a Kage-level shinobi?
And finally fought alongside the legendary Minato Namikaze to kill Sunagakure's supreme commander?
What rank would that mission even be? S-rank? SS-rank?
No, no, no!
That sounded like complete fantasy—Obito would definitely think he was making it up.
So Tsukasa decided to try a different approach.
He shrewdly seized on the loophole in Obito's words, raised an eyebrow, and mercilessly exposed him:
"Wait, Obito—don't B-rank missions require at least a Chūnin to lead?"
"In your team, only Kakashi is a Chūnin, right? So... doesn't that mean Kakashi actually carried you through the entire mission?"
"Which means you were basically just there to make up the numbers?"
"And—"
Obito's exaggerated smile froze instantly.
Immediately, nervous sweat appeared on his forehead.
He frantically grabbed an apple and quickly stuffed it into Tsukasa's mouth, anticipating an even more devastating attack and deciding to silence him first!
"Alright, stop talking!"
"It's just Chūnin rank! Once I awaken these eyes, I won't just surpass that arrogant white-haired guy—I'll become a Jōnin before him too!"
Obito huffed indignantly, proudly pointing his thumb at his large, bright eyes.
However—
Just then—
A series of hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside the tent!
A large hand suddenly lifted the curtain—
And then a young man wearing dark sunglasses and shrouded in a black coat walked in alongside a young man with a distinctive spiky ponytail hairstyle wearing a mesh undershirt and green Chūnin vest.
Obito looked up and was immediately shocked.
He didn't recognize the man with sunglasses, but the spiky-haired guy was none other than Nara Shikaku—the strategist who assigned missions at the camp!
Obito was about to enthusiastically approach and greet him, thinking that befriending this tactical genius might lead to even better mission assignments in the future.
However—
Nara Shikaku lifted the tent flap and looked directly at Tsukasa, speaking in an extremely solemn tone:
"Tsukasa,"
"Come with us."
"We're holding your Jōnin promotion ceremony—right now!"
End of Chapter 165
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