Shards of glass came raining down from the sky.
The man with short, pale hair had an eerie appearance and strange clothing.
His skin was grayish-white with the faintest sickly green tint, and the right side of his face and body looked as if it were covered in strange scales.
His cloak seemed fused to his body, making it impossible to tell whether it was part of him or whether he was simply wearing it.
He was barefoot, dressed in loose black pants.
Six black magatama symbols marked his chest, and the same number of black spheres hovered constantly behind him.
Tangible chakra flames burned around his collar, and in his hand he held a strangely shaped black staff.
But none of that was what truly shocked the Senju and Uchiha clans.
What truly made Madara Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Izuna Uchiha's eyes widen was the horn growing from the man's forehead. Beneath it were two eyes, one a Mangekyō Sharingan, the other a pale purple Rinnegan they had never truly seen before!
"Could that be..."
The Uchiha Clan was stunned!
"Is that the Rikudō Sennin's Eye?!!"
"That is correct."
The man spoke!
The ninjas of the Senju and Uchiha clans stared at him nervously.
"I am Obito Uchiha."
The man calling himself Obito Uchiha looked at Madara Uchiha and said, "I am the great ancestor of the Uchiha clan. I was the one who saved your younger brother. Now express your supreme gratitude to me with fear and reverence."
...
It was obvious at a glance. Young Obito Uchiha had used the Transformation Technique to take on that appearance and go out to scam people!!
Inside Kamui's Dimension, Madara Uchiha was so furious his nose nearly bent out of shape!
That little brat! Just wait until he got back. He would crush him to death!!
Minato Namikaze laughed awkwardly. "The children are still young. It seems they haven't had their fill of pranks after last time."
"Can't you keep them in line?! What do you mean, 'great ancestor of the Uchiha clan'!!" Madara Uchiha couldn't help roaring at Minato Namikaze.
Minato could only laugh awkwardly. The prank had indeed been started by Naruto and Obito, but the young Hashirama-sama, young Madara Uchiha, and their younger brothers had all been eager to try as well. In the end, he really could not win against these children, so he could only let them run wild.
Besides, after hearing their plan, Minato himself felt this method was better than having Madara Uchiha directly go over and crush the Senju clan, continuing the hatred between the two clans.
On the rooftop terrace of the Hokage Tower, Madara Uchiha stood with his arms crossed, his hair seeming even more explosive than usual from anger.
His face was so dark it looked ready to drip ink, as if the words, "I'll crush you the moment you get back," had already been posted on the public screen.
Among the Uchiha clan members from the Warring States Period, someone voiced a doubt. "That was transformed by that brat called Obito? Just whose descendant is that kid? He's completely out of place among us Uchiha."
Minato said, "I'm not sure either. His parents died protecting him when he was very young."
Minato Namikaze himself was only eight or nine years older than Obito and the others. When Obito's parents sacrificed themselves, he had not yet reached his current level, where he could handle any A-rank mission with ease, nor could he look into the internal affairs of the Uchiha clan.
"But Obito really has been different from the other Uchiha in the village since he was little."
"Unlike the elite Uchiha, Obito was always at the bottom of his class in the Ninja Academy."
The Uchiha ninjas all wore expressions that said, You must be joking! How could a descendant of the Uchiha Clan possibly be at the bottom of the class?
Minato Namikaze said, "Obito is warmhearted and enthusiastic. He can't ignore people who need help. Even if it means he might be late, he'll still help the elderly in the village carry their things and walk them home."
Madara Uchiha knew everything Minato Namikaze was talking about.
That was exactly why, back then, he had chosen that boy to carry out the Eye of the Moon Plan as "Madara."
Outside Kamui's Dimension was the Young Obito from the parallel world of Kannabi Bridge. During this Time Travel, Madara Uchiha had not met the Obito whose everything he had destroyed.
Minato Namikaze said, "That child Obito has dreamed of becoming Hokage since he was little. No matter what setbacks he faced, he never abandoned his comrades. He always firmly believed that he would become the future Hokage, end the war, and save the world in style."
His movement as he looked toward the Hokage Rock made the ninjas of both clans from the Warring States Period notice something.
The person outside Kamui's Dimension looked almost exactly like the fifth face carved into the Hokage Rock!!
Outside Kamui's Dimension, Hashirama Senju, the clan head of the Senju Clan, stared at the man claiming to be the Uchiha ancestor, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Madara Uchiha said reluctantly, "No matter what, since you saved Izuna, I really should thank you."
"You rude brat. You should address me as Ancestor-sama!"
"Uh..."
"Ances..."
Inside Kamui's Dimension, Madara Uchiha snapped a kunai in half with two fingers.
Outside Kamui's Dimension, Izuna stopped Madara Uchiha before he could thank him. "Don't trust him, brother! This must all be a scheme by the Senju Clan! That Tobirama Senju is full of tricks!"
"Hmph." Tobirama Senju snorted coldly. "Is that as far as your brain can go?"
His sworn enemy's words clearly had another meaning.
Izuna made a doubtful sound. "Hm?"
Tobirama Senju said, "Didn't you see that he's using the Mangekyō Sharingan? And one with a space-time attribute, a Mangekyō Sharingan I have never seen before in your Uchiha Clan. Do you think that if this were a scheme by me and my older brother, we could successfully find an Uchiha with the Mangekyō Sharingan to deceive you? Foolish!"
Although he had been insulted, those words left Izuna Uchiha unable to argue.
Young Obito seemed to be taking revenge on the ancestors from the era of Konoha's founding for treating him and Sasuke like sandbags whenever they felt like it. He had copied the future Madara Uchiha's gloomy, arrogant, dismissive expression perfectly.
Especially after experiencing Naruto Uzumaki's life from the main timeline in that parallel world on the eve of the Uchiha Clan's massacre, the deepest impression that "old geezer" had left on him was this!
"Do you want to dance too?"
On the battlefield, Hashirama Senju said, "That really does sound like something Madara would say." He turned to look at Madara Uchiha, who was standing in front of Izuna Uchiha. "Madara, could this person be your grandfather?"
Inside Kamui's Dimension, another kunai in Madara Uchiha's hand met its end.
On the battlefield, Tobirama Senju calmly questioned the figure before him who had transformed into Six Paths Obito. "No matter who you are, what is your purpose in appearing here?"
Young Obito, transformed into Six Paths Obito, said, "I came here to tell you something."
"Tell us something?"
Young Obito looked at Izuna Uchiha, who had asked in a doubtful tone. "About the cure for the blindness caused by the Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan... You think giving your eyes to Madara Uchiha is the right choice, but that is nothing more than a method Black Zetsu has used to deceive the Uchiha Clan for over a thousand years!"
"What?!!"
Izuna Uchiha's eyes widened. Madara Uchiha looked in shock at Obito Uchiha, who claimed to be the Uchiha ancestor, then looked at his younger brother beside him.
"Izuna, are you planning to...?!"
Even though he had done everything he could to hide it, Izuna must have noticed something was wrong and realized that his eyesight was getting worse.
So...
"You've been planning how to give me your eyes all this time?!"
"I..."
Izuna Uchiha wanted to deny it, but he did not want to lie to his brother.
Madara saw Izuna's silent admission, and the anger in his heart had nowhere to go.
Hashirama Senju was also shocked by the news that Madara Uchiha's eyesight was nearly gone. During their battles, Madara always kept his Sharingan active, and the Sharingan let Madara Uchiha temporarily possess vision just like before. Because of that, he had not noticed at all that Madara's eyesight was already almost gone?!
At that moment, only Tobirama Senju remained calm.
"What is this Black Zetsu you mentioned?" His instincts told him that this matter had something to do with the Senju as well, more or less.
But he had never expected this so-called great ancestor of the Uchiha Clan to reveal such a shocking conspiracy.
The Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan were descendants of Rikudō Sennin's two sons?
The true method to cure the blindness caused by the Mangekyō Sharingan was the chakra of the Senju Clan?
And a part of Hashirama Senju's body was especially effective?!!
It took Young Obito some time to explain all of this information clearly to them. While the ninjas of both the Senju and Uchiha clans were shocked, there were inevitably some who could not believe what he was saying.
And that person seemed to be hiding among the Uchiha Clan, cleverly stirring up everyone's emotions and claiming that this great ancestor of the Uchiha must be a fraud.
The teenage Sasuke and Young Kakashi, who were still inside Kamui's Dimension, locked their gazes onto that Uchiha.
When that guy threw a kunai at Obito first and guided the others into attacking Obito as well, many of the people inside Kamui's Dimension guessed that the Uchiha who had been hiding his identity was none other than Black Zetsu and White Zetsu in disguise!
All of the attacks passed straight through Young Obito, who had transformed into Six Paths Obito with the Transformation Technique, as if he were a ghost lingering in the world.
Obito wanted to counterattack, but he did not dare pull Black Zetsu directly into his Kamui's Dimension.
If Black Zetsu took control of one of Naruto and the others and threatened to make them commit suicide, they would be forced into a terrible position.
In that brief moment of shock, Black Zetsu realized that this Obito Uchiha's ability was truly unusual. Of the thirty-six stratagems, fleeing was best! He immediately used the Mayfly Technique and burrowed underground.
Because they also did not trust this so-called Uchiha ancestor, none of the Senju or Uchiha ninjas tried to capture Black Zetsu. Instead, they continued waiting for Obito Uchiha to give them a reason convincing enough to believe him.
Young Obito was somewhat at a loss for words.
He had already used up all the lines he had prepared.
It seemed he had misjudged the wariness of the ninjas from both clans at this point in time in the parallel world.
Fortunately, when he used Intangibility Mode, Minato Namikaze had written a few words on the part of his body exposed in Kamui's Dimension, giving him a hint.
[Moon's Eye] [Pure Land] [Brothers]
Minato Namikaze wanted Obito to reveal some information to Madara Uchiha about the Eye of the Moon Plan's failure and about Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju reuniting in the Pure Land as comrades and brothers.
However, Young Obito's understanding of the hint Minato Namikaze had given him seemed somewhat different...