Chapter 261 : You're such a pathetic fellow.
Naraku subtly trembled, taking a half-step back to escape Jin's restraint, and raised his hand to undo the genjutsu.
Just then, a cold hand suddenly gripped his fingers, disrupting the flow of Chakra.
"Don't be in such a hurry to leave," Jin clung to him again, his voice slightly cold as he threatened, "Otherwise, I can't guarantee what will happen to Hatake Kakashi."
Naraku's movements instantly stiffened, showing a rare emotional fluctuation in front of Jin.
"No!" He grabbed Jin's wrist, his tone urgent: "We had a deal! You can do anything to me, just don't hurt Kakashi!"
"Someone who goes back on their word has no right to make demands of me."
Jin used the momentum from his grabbed wrist to pull Naraku in front of him, staring into those eyes that were identical to his own.
"You said you wouldn't hinder Lord Madara's plan and that you would give me your body, right? Now, it's time to fulfill your promise and give up this body."
"I'm sorry," Naraku lowered his head, his face full of guilt, and mumbled, "Just give me a little more time, Master isn't awake yet..."
Jin impatiently pinched Naraku's chin, forcing him to look up and meet his gaze.
"Before, seeing as you were close to death, I didn't argue with you about the ownership of the body."
"But that doesn't mean I'll continue to tolerate this situation now."
"If Hatake Sakumo never wakes up, are you planning to drag this on forever?"
"I," Naraku hesitated, then finally pursed his lips, speechless, "I don't know."
"Fine," Jin sneered coldly, released his hand, and pushed Naraku away, "Since you want to break the agreement and live forever, then I can also recklessly destroy the things you most want to accomplish, the people you most want to protect."
At this point, he showed an eager and excited expression, speaking playfully.
"For example... sabotaging all experiments that could restore Hatake Sakumo's consciousness? Or, killing Hatake Kakashi right now?"
"No, it's not like that... !"
Naraku hurriedly walked back and grabbed Jin's sleeve, shaking his head repeatedly in denial.
"I don't want to live forever... no... just give me another year or two, please... by then, no matter what, I will..."
A raised index finger to his lips forced Naraku to swallow the rest of his words, but his dim eyes still conveyed desperate pleading, along with a hidden and unconscious madness.
That was his obsession to complete his atonement, and his desire for self-destruction.
Seeing all this, Jin lowered his finger and smiled knowingly.
"I can give you a little extra time, but you must complete one thing first."
Naraku had no choice but to nod in agreement: "Okay. What is it?"
"Next, I will cast a genjutsu on the Three-Tails Jinchuriki that even we cannot easily dispel, making it lose control and attack everyone indiscriminately."
Looking at the Naraku who was too shocked to speak, Jin tilted his head and blinked, deliberately pointing out the former's poor condition.
"You, who forcibly used the immature 'Blood Pact Transposition Jutsu,' are now in agonizing pain all over your body, and your Chakra is running low, aren't you?"
"Perhaps dealing with a few Hidden Mist ninja is easy enough, but against the Three-Tails, you won't last long at all."
"If you don't find a solution quickly, once time passes and the Three-Tails completely breaks free from the seal, all three of you will die~"
After explaining all the information, he stated his malicious demand with a joyful expression.
"The thing you need to do is very simple~"
"Either kill the Jinchuriki while you still have the power to protect your most important Kakashi."
"Or you can keep stalling, wait for the Jinchuriki to die because the Three-Tails breaks the seal, exhaust all your Chakra and Dōjutsu Power, and then watch Kakashi get killed."
Jin wiggled his finger and gave Naraku a cute wink: "Other than that, you can't do anything else~ Otherwise, it will be considered a breach of contract~"
Naraku seemed to just recover from the desperate situation Jin described, asking with trembling lips: "This... why exactly?"
"You don't need to know the reason for now, and you have no right to refuse."
Facing the main personality's extremely panicked expression, Jin curled his lips in satisfaction and malice, gesturing to the side: "In short, this is part of the plan."
Black Zetsu, who had been pulled into the genjutsu by Jin from the start, poked its head out nearby and nodded solemnly: "Indeed."
While performing its professional act, its heart was filled with exclamations like "how could he be so vicious."
-- Jin, you really are ruthless, forcing the main personality to kill Nohara Rin?
-- If Obito saw this, if he didn't go crazy, I'd write "Black Zetsu" backward again!
-- Huh, why did I say "again"?
-- Never mind, let's not think about it too much for now.
As things stood, Black Zetsu had no choice but to follow Jin to the end, first bringing Obito into the Eye of the Moon Plan.
Anyway, Uchiha Naraku was destined to die, and Jin and Madara couldn't possibly tell Obito the truth. By then, couldn't it manipulate the "truth" of this matter however it wanted?
Naraku stood still, pale and helpless, and was about to speak when Jin interrupted him first.
"What, is this so hard? ...You know which one to choose, don't you?"
"It's just a Nohara Rin, how could she be more important than keeping your promise and protecting the Hatake Father and Son?"
Jin gently stroked Naraku's face, his thumb sliding to the corner of his lips and lightly caressing, as he whispered into his ear.
"Besides, without her, perhaps you could get a little bit of attention from Hatake Kakashi?"
"You probably don't know yet, do you? That Kakashi, who blamed you and thought you shouldn't have been saved by Hatake Sakumo, was willing to abandon his mission to save Rin two or three times!"
"You'd gladly give your life for him, but since that night, has he ever done anything like that for you? Even once?"
Naraku incredulously retreated two steps, lowering his head, not daring to respond.
Despite desperately suppressing his abnormality, his trembling fingertips still betrayed him, revealing the intense and turbulent throbbing pain in his heart at that moment.
"Ah, I remember," Jin laughed maliciously, reaching out and forcefully poking Naraku's chest directly over his heart, "The only one willing to do something like that for you was Hatake Sakumo, but what happened to him in the end?"
"And what did Kakashi say then? — Uchiha Naraku, it's all, all your fault!"
This sentence seemed to flip a switch for a nightmare. Naraku covered his eyes and retreated repeatedly, collapsing to the ground, trembling with fear all over: "I... it's all me..."
Even so, Jin still wouldn't spare him, grabbing his hair and forcing Naraku to lift his face, confronting the loud mockery from the sub-personality.
"Are you jealous, Uchiha Naraku? Hatake Kakashi only gives you endless nightmares and pain, yet he's so lenient with others."
"They only teamed up for a year or two, and Nohara Rin was already so important to Hatake Kakashi... So what are you? What do all those years you spent with him even count for!?"
"He said so many nice things to you, like 'I won't let you die before me,' 'I couldn't express my true feelings because of genjutsu,' 'I'll definitely find the charm again'..."
"Every single word was a lie! He doesn't care about you at all! You mean absolutely nothing to him!!"
"Ugh..."
Naraku let out an uncontrollable sob, tears continuously welling from his dull eyes, tracing paths down his cheeks, and dripping onto the calm surface of the pool below, creating ripples.
Seeing this, Jin suddenly changed his tone, hugging Naraku's shoulders and coaxing him in a low voice.
"What if... Nohara Rin didn't exist? Perhaps you could take her place."
"Don't you want to experience it? The feeling of Hatake Kakashi choosing you, even if it means abandoning a mission?"
"Now you have a great opportunity, don't you? With an impeccable reason and timing, to reclaim Hatake Kakashi's affection for you..."
But no matter how Jin tried to provoke him with words, Naraku just cried blankly, saying nothing.
Perhaps annoyed by this dullness, Jin suddenly grabbed Naraku's throat and pushed him down onto the surface of the pool, his usual gentle facade completely gone, replaced by fierceness and brutality across his handsome face.
"Don't you dare cry! It's because you only cry! That's why things turned out this way!"
"If you want it, go take it! If you can't take it, destroy it!"
"What belongs to you, even if you throw it away, don't let anyone else have it!"
He looked at Naraku, who was silently weeping beneath him, then suddenly showed an expression of "how boring" and released his hands, standing up.
"Forget it, no matter how much I tell you, you won't be able to do it. You're just such a pathetic fellow."
Accompanied by Jin's terrifyingly calm tone, the illusion gradually collapsed, and Naraku's consciousness returned to reality.
He was still walking at the front of the team, as if everything just now was merely a dream.
But the suddenly violent Chakra behind him stirred up a gust of wind, like a signal, telling him an undeniable fact:
Jin's genjutsu had taken effect.
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