Chapter 618: The Secret History of the A-B Brothers
"Naruto! Get over here! Hurry!"
Half of Obito anxiously shouted toward Naruto.
Even if his heart were pierced, he could still remain alive for some time thanks to the half of his body made of White Zetsu and Hashirama cells.
But now, half of his body had been torn away entirely. If his body hadn't been exposed to and gradually affected by White Zetsu for so long, he probably would have died on the spot.
Obito was filled with regret.
He had only just regretted something moments ago, realizing that things had gone too smoothly in this world and that he had let his guard down.
Yet he hadn't been cautious enough after all. He had still been far too careless.
Since he knew that his opponent was an existence on the same level as the ancestor of chakra, he should have left the Kamui space first and observed him from the shadows for a while before making contact.
Inside the Kamui space, he couldn't activate his automatic intangibility.
He couldn't achieve the effect of "automatically transferring the part of his body being attacked into the real world to become intangible inside the Kamui space."
Without the automatic setting, everything depended on manual control, which meant he needed to react in time.
His reactions weren't even as fast as Minato's. How could he possibly react in time to an attack from Ōtsutsuki Isshiki?
So Obito deeply regretted it now. He clearly didn't have his most important trump card, intangibility, available here, yet he had actually been leisurely chatting with Isshiki.
'Have I played Uchiha Madara for so long that I accidentally got contaminated by Indra's chakra and picked up his tendency to show off?'
Whenever he got carried away, he'd end up getting beaten to a pulp.
Fortunately, Naruto reacted in time. He immediately rushed to Obito's side, and with the last of his strength, Obito activated Kamui and transferred them out.
Isshiki was still there, holding half of the White Zetsu body and acting completely insane. He hadn't followed them out.
That counted as a blessing in disguise.
Outside was a cave in the mountains near Amegakure.
"Somebody! Help! We need help!"
After coming out, Naruto discovered that Obito had already passed out and immediately shouted toward his surroundings.
Naruto didn't know any medical ninjutsu. All he could do was try transferring some Nine-Tails Chakra over, but the effect was minimal.
"Obito? How did he end up like this...?"
A black shadow emerged from the ground.
It wasn't White Zetsu.
It was Black Zetsu.
When Black Zetsu saw Obito on the verge of death, he hesitated for a moment before choosing to possess him.
Obito was the key to resurrecting Madara, and Madara was the key to resurrecting his mother.
Therefore, Obito couldn't die.
There was another reason as well.
As mentioned before, the Black Zetsu of this Engraved Tsukuyomi world, just like Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, had also become somewhat deranged. Whenever he saw someone, he would call out, "Mom."
Black Zetsu knew that after spending more than a thousand years doing the same thing over and over, he had become somewhat obsessed. His periods of lucidity were becoming shorter and shorter, and it was very likely that he would eventually turn into a completely mindless, crazed creature.
By possessing Obito, he could pass on his will to resurrect his mother while also extending the amount of time he could remain lucid.
He could use Obito's will to suppress his own madness.
With Black Zetsu possessing him, Obito slowly regained consciousness.
After waking up, Obito ignored Naruto. He stared outside the cave and began thinking about what his true objective should be.
Originally, he had thought that activating the Infinite Tsukuyomi would be enough.
But Isshiki's overwhelming strength had made him abandon that idea.
Could it be...?
Obito suddenly realized something.
This Engraved Tsukuyomi world had been created by someone in the current Akatsuki. The general course of this world had very likely been deliberately arranged.
In other words, could his mission objective actually be to resurrect Kaguya and eliminate the threat of the Ōtsutsuki clan?
No, that didn't make sense.
Why would he suddenly think that?
Could Black Zetsu attached to him be influencing him?
If Kaguya could resolve the crisis, wouldn't it be enough for him to become the second ancestor of chakra?
With that thought, Obito looked at Naruto.
"Naruto, what did you say just now?"
"You finally reacted. I thought you'd turned into an idiot."
Seeing Obito finally speak, Naruto breathed a sigh of relief.
"I said I need to find an enemy that Dad can't defeat. That way, I can trick him into entering the Kamui space again."
"Yeah. I was careless before. I didn't react in time the first time, and now things are a little troublesome."
Obito nodded in agreement with Naruto's idea and openly admitted his mistake, showing that he had learned his lesson.
Naruto couldn't help sighing inwardly.
'The Masked Man in this world really is a great guy.'
"Minato-sensei is too powerful. There's no way to restrain him through normal methods. We can only do this, Naruto. I'll help you make contact."
Obito recalled some of the information in his memories.
He admitted that there really was no way to capture this world's shameless, bottomless Minato-sensei through normal means.
So he could only use Naruto's old method.
Find another powerful enemy.
"Make contact? Contact who?"
"Obviously, Kumogakure."
Obito took a map from the corner of the cave and unfolded it. Then he pointed toward the sea.
"Kumogakure has a hidden paradise in this area. It's said to be connected to the Tailed Beasts."
"But the important part isn't the Tailed Beasts. There's a legendary place there called the Waterfall of Truth. It's said to be able to bring out a person's dark side."
"Huh? I know about that. Isn't that...?"
Naruto scratched his head.
The Naruto from the real ninja world had been to Turtle Island and trained there alongside Killer B, so naturally he knew about the Waterfall of Truth.
But the problem was that, when all was said and done, the Waterfall of Truth was simply a waterfall-based genjutsu.
It pulled people into a spiritual world within their minds.
But Naruto quickly realized something.
This was the Engraved Tsukuyomi world. Perhaps the Waterfall of Truth in this world could actually manifest that darkness physically.
"Isn't what?"
Obito looked at Naruto in confusion.
"I mean, Kumogakure doesn't have a good relationship with Konoha, right? Especially the Raikage and B... Killer B. I've heard they even had a conflict with my dad."
Naruto changed the subject, bringing up the information he had learned earlier.
"That wasn't a conflict. You could call it hatred. But Naruto, you only know about the surface-level hatred. You don't know what happened underneath."
Obito wore a mysterious expression.
Although the Obito of this world was naturally kind-hearted, he had still gathered a huge amount of intelligence.
In order to earn Minato-sensei's forgiveness, Obito had collected countless pieces of information about Minato from throughout the ninja world.
Among them was a certain secret from back then.
Ordinary people knew absolutely nothing about what had happened.
Those who knew a little only knew that when Namikaze Minato fought the A-B Brothers of Kumogakure, Minato had snatched Killer B away before the Raikage could react. This had firmly established his reputation as the fastest shinobi in the ninja world.
He had also cuckolded the Raikage in the process.
Only Obito, relying on Kamui to move through the battlefield as though no one were there, had discovered that after that incident, Killer B had actually gotten pregnant!
And the child hadn't been aborted by the Raikage.
The Raikage had successfully become the man who raised another man's child.
With this secret as his trump card, Obito was certain that Kumogakure would definitely help Naruto.
Obito didn't tell Naruto the truth directly.
Instead, he took Naruto with him and headed straight for Kumogakure.
(End of this chapter)