Obito's gaze remained locked on Naruto. He was extremely cautious regarding the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki who knew the Flying Thunder God Technique.
Although his intangibility could immunize him against all physical attacks, Flying Thunder God Technique was one of the few Ninjutsu in the Ninja World that could counter his Kamui. Therefore, he was extra careful about every kunai Naruto threw.
As long as he wasn't approached by a Kunai and Naruto didn't leave a mark on him, the Flying Thunder God Technique could do nothing against his intangibility.
Obito prepared to continue probing the depth of Naruto's abilities with words, but Naruto threw several more flying thunder god kunai.
Obito's body became intangible again, and the Kunai passed through.
However, the moment one of the Kunai passed through Obito's body, Naruto's figure appeared out of thin air beside the flying Kunai.
Obito's pupils shrank. Before he could think, the flying thunder god kunai in Naruto's hand had already slashed through his body.
The blade still passed through while he was in the intangible state, but this time Naruto didn't stop. He followed up with a backhanded horizontal slash, then a forehanded vertical slash, and pulled another Kunai from his ninja tool pouch with his left hand, slashing and stabbing with both blades in a cross pattern.
The blades passed through Obito's body every time, and the frequency of Naruto's attacks became faster and faster.
Obito maintained his intangibility state throughout, the Kunai passing through his body again and again, as if cutting through the air.
Facing Naruto's attacks, Obito launched a verbal offensive, his tone condescending. "It's useless. Your attacks can't hurt me."
"Naruto, don't you want to know how your father died?"
"Come to think of it, you were just born when the Fourth Hokage died. I heard he died to seal Nine-Tails. He chose death to save the villagers. A great Hokage, just like that, gone."
"Have you ever thought about it? If he hadn't saved those people, he would still be alive today, and you wouldn't have been called a fox demon since you were a child."
"Was your father's death really worth it?"
Naruto seemed to not hear Obito's words at all. His attack frequency became faster and faster. Every strike was aimed precisely at Obito's vital points. Although they all passed through, he never stopped.
Obito continued to speak calmly, trying to use words to break down Naruto's psychological defenses.
"On the night of the Nine-Tails incident, have you ever asked the Third Hokage how many people died in Konoha?"
"Do you want to know what your mother, Uzumaki Kushina, said before she died?"
Time passed quickly amidst the slashing of blades.
At first, Obito was able to handle Naruto's attack rhythm calmly, but soon he sensed something was wrong. Naruto's attack frequency showed no signs of stopping.
Generally, when a ninja faces an intangibility ability that allows for absolute evasion, they would distance themselves after dozens of strikes without hitting their opponent and use other Ninjutsu to test for weaknesses.
But Naruto didn't distance himself. His attacks became faster with each round, denser with each strike. It was as if he had activated some kind of attack mode specifically designed to drain the time limit of intangibility.
Obito finally realized something was wrong. His intangibility had a limit. Each activation could last at most five minutes. After five minutes, he had to return to a physical state.
Naruto had never intended to hit him with a Kunai from the start. Instead, he was calculating his intangibility time, using this continuous, high-frequency close-quarters attack to force him to maintain the intangibility state until the time ran out.
Could it be that he knows the secret of Kamui? How could he know?
One second before his intangibility time was about to run out, Obito finally couldn't sit still.
His Sharingan locked onto Naruto's attack rhythm. The moment Naruto swung his next blade, he deactivated Kamui and backhanded with his own Kunai, blocking Naruto's strike.
Clang!
This was the first time since the beginning of the battle that Naruto's attack had been blocked head-on.
This was exactly the moment Naruto had been waiting for. A cold sneer curled at the corner of his mouth.
The Light Release Chakra already stored in his right foot exploded, and a Light Speed Kick lashed out at Obito's side.
Boom!
Obito's body was kicked flying the moment the light exploded, crashing into the vast forest behind. A series of explosive sounds of trees snapping echoed from near to far.
Blood gushed from Obito's mouth. Before he could crawl out of the shallow pit he had created, Naruto appeared at the end of his flight path.
Blinding white light lit up on his foot. Light Release Chakra condensed on the sole of his foot, a second Light Speed Kick was already primed.
Obito's Mangekyo Sharingan tried its best to lock onto the ball of increasingly bright white light on Naruto's foot. At the very last moment before the foot made contact with his body, he activated Kamui.
Boom!
Naruto's Light Speed Kick passed through Obito in his intangibility state and slammed into the ground behind him.
Obito took the opportunity to sink into the ground, re-emerging from beside a giant rock not far away.
He quickly formed seals with his hands and aimed at Naruto's direction.
Fire Release: Blast Wave Wild Dance!
A whirlwind carrying raging flames flew out from Obito's mouth. Fire and wind intertwined into a vortex of flames, sweeping toward Naruto.
Naruto raised his right hand, lines condensing at his fingertips into a scorching white beam, blasting head-on into that vortex of flames.
Boom, boom, boom...
The explosion resounded across the sky, and the shockwave snapped all the trees within dozens of meters.
Obito had just finished unleashing his Ninjutsu and hadn't had time to adjust his posture when a ripple appeared in the space beside him.
No Kunai, no markings, he just appeared out of thin air.
Obito's pupils shrank in a fraction of a second. He stared fixedly at Naruto, his brain almost stopping its operation at this moment.
Flying Thunder God Technique must rely on a mark to be activated, this is a recognized ironclad rule in the Ninja World. But Naruto's teleportation just now had no traces of any marks being activated.
"Impossible..."
"No marks..."
"How did you..."
Naruto's right hand reached for the rotating Mangekyo Sharingan in Obito's right eye socket, his five fingers exerting force as he pulled outward.
Squish!
Obito's right eye was gouged out of the socket by Naruto.
Before Obito could scream, a foot wrapped in blinding white light had already kicked into his body.
Obito was kicked flying again, snapping tree after tree, and slammed into a rock hundreds of meters away. The rock was shattered by the impact, and smoke and dust shot into the sky.
Naruto stood where he was, looking at the Mangekyo Sharingan in his hand.
Kamui, Obito's core ability.
Just as he was about to take out a scroll to seal this eye, the Mangekyo in his hand dissipated.
At the same time, in the smoke and dust not far away, Obito appeared unharmed on a large tree.
He panted heavily.
The Mangekyo in his right eye had recovered, but his face was paler than before, and his forehead was covered in sweat.
He activated Kamui with his left eye, and his body was sucked into the whirlpool-like spatial ripples, disappearing from the spot.
Sure enough, he had Izanagi prepared.
Naruto looked at the spot where Obito had disappeared, not wasting Chakra to pursue.
Although the Flying Thunder God Technique had been upgraded to the level where he could teleport to anywhere he could see, once Obito hid in the Kamui dimension, he was completely out of the range of physical perception. Even with his current means, he couldn't follow into the interior of another dimension.
He had already used the information gap to land a fatal blow, gouging out the Mangekyo, plus delivering a Light Speed Kick. Obito's body must have had at least half of his internal organs shattered.
But he hadn't expected Obito to have an eye prepared to activate Izanagi, rewriting death just like that.
This was also the reason why he hadn't used Adamantine Sealing Chains from the beginning.
He had already exposed the use of Flying Thunder God Technique without marks. If he also exposed Adamantine Sealing Chains, Obito might not come out next time.
But Obito is nothing to worry about. The truly troublesome one is Black Zetsu.