That person had not only gravely injured Danzō Shimura in an instant, he had also rescued Sasuke from his grasp!
His movements were so fast they were impossible to follow! Even if an ordinary person recorded it and replayed it several times, they still wouldn't be able to see exactly how he did it!
And that man seemed to have used something to accelerate Obito's Great Fireball!
It was so fast that no one had time to react!
That move, forcing Obito's Great Fireball to strike Danzō Shimura in the blink of an eye, was like some strange power had slammed the fast-forward button!
Naruto, Young Obito, Young Kakashi, Rin, and Sakura all stared in shock at the young man holding a massive fan in one hand and carrying Sasuke under the other arm.
On his back was clearly the Uchiha Clan's fan-shaped family crest.
An Uchiha?!
Why was there an Uchiha they didn't recognize inside Obito's Kamui's Dimension?!
Sasuke Uchiha, caught under the man's arm, tilted his head up to look at him.
That face bore some resemblance to both himself and Itachi.
But he was certain this was not his future self!
"You are…"
Sasuke had meant to ask who he was, but when he saw the unique crimson pattern in the man's eyes, he couldn't help blurting out, "Mangekyō Sharingan?!"
A pattern he had never seen before.
"Who… are… you…"
Danzō Shimura, embedded in the wall, forced the words out with difficulty.
"My Uchiha clansmen aren't yours to bully, least of all by someone from the Shimura Clan!" The young Uchiha opened his mouth and immediately placed Sasuke and Obito under his protection. He was quite the protective Uchiha!
"!!!!"
Sure enough! He was an Uchiha!!
Young Obito, Young Kakashi, and the others looked toward the young man who had spoken. Judging by appearance, he seemed about the same age as the Fourth Hokage, Minato.
He looked a great deal like the future Sasuke, yet his hairstyle was somewhat similar to Itachi Uchiha's.
Danzō Shimura was stunned too. How was there another Mangekyō Sharingan?!
Just how many Mangekyō Sharingan were the Uchiha Clan hiding?! Were they planning a rebellion?!
At that moment, Young Obito also noticed the object in that Uchiha clansman's hand.
"It's the ancestral giant fan!"
"Ancestral?"
The young Uchiha turned back and gave Young Obito a baffled look.
"This is my brother's Gunbai Uchiwa. I found it in the corner under that rock." He pointed toward the Hokage Rock.
"Your brother…" A vague guess formed in Young Obito's mind.
"Madara Uchiha. You probably wouldn't know him. He shouldn't have arrived in the Pure Land yet."
Izuna said, "But he might be related to you by blood." Though he desperately did not want to admit that they might also be related to Hashirama Senju.
Obito and Sasuke were shocked!
So it really was that old geezer's younger brother!!
That Izuna Uchiha!!!
Why was he in Kamui's Dimension?!
Wasn't he killed by the Second Hokage?! And what was all this about the Pure Land?! He didn't actually think this place was the Pure Land, did he?!
Seeing his clansmen staring at him in stunned silence, Izuna Uchiha continued,
"There are also many Uchiha clan robes over there, along with scrolls and weapons my brother and I were used to using. I was just about to ask where this place is, and why the Uchiha's precious Gunbai Uchiwa was left lying around."
Only then did Young Obito remember!
Earlier, when he had traveled back to his own parallel world, he had arrived right at the moment that old geezer was about to brainwash him. Since the old man was already dead anyway, and since there were so many powerful ninja tools and scrolls just sitting there, it would have been a waste not to take them. So he, who had only just obtained the Twin Kamui…
Seemed to have cleaned out the old man's entire lair…
So all those things had been under the Hokage Rock this whole time?
Cold sweat poured down Young Obito's back. He suddenly felt the pressure of a thief caught red-handed by the owner of the sheep he had stolen.
"You're… Izuna Uchiha?"
Sasuke, who had been set down, asked the young Uchiha's name with near certainty.
"Oh? You know me?"
Izuna Uchiha had always been tolerant toward his clansmen, especially children. He patted Sasuke on the shoulder, then looked at him and the other children, all battered from battle.
"We can talk about recognizing each other, and about me, later. First, let's deal with the guy who made all of you suffer."
Izuna Uchiha looked at Danzō Shimura and raised two fingers, aiming them like the sight of a gun at the Sharingan in Danzō Shimura's right eye.
"This will be over in an instant too," Izuna Uchiha murmured to himself, revealing his Mangekyō Sharingan.
Just as he had said, in the very next moment, he was holding a bloody eyeball in his hand, his fingers still frozen in the motion of stabbing in and gouging it out.
Sakura and Rin had not seen how he moved at all!
It was already done?!
That move left all six teenagers stunned for several seconds.
Only several seconds later did Danzō Shimura finally feel the pain. He clutched his eye and screamed.
Feeling the sticky blood on his hand and hearing Danzō Shimura's screams, Izuna Uchiha frowned slightly. "Does the Pure Land also have pain and the sticky feeling of blood?" If that was the case, then the Pure Land was not much different from the real world. Nine times out of ten, there would be war and suffering there too.
Looking at Izuna Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan, Young Obito couldn't help asking, "Is yours a space-type Dōjutsu too?"
Izuna shook his head. "What I control is the speed of time's flow around me."
The speed of time's flow?
It was the first time any of them had heard someone describe time like a river, using the swiftness or gentleness of a current to explain how fast or slow time was!
"What looks like only an instant to you has already lasted a very long time for me," Izuna Uchiha said. "Long enough for me to walk over slowly, carefully gouge out that eye, and then walk back."
Sasuke and Young Kakashi immediately understood why the Great Fireball, which was not especially fast, had struck Danzō Shimura in the very next instant after being enhanced by the Gunbai Uchiwa!
A Dōjutsu related to time?!
"Doesn't that completely counter the Second Hokage's Flying Thunder God Technique?!" Naruto exclaimed.
When Izuna heard the name Flying Thunder God Technique, he asked, "The Second Hokage you're talking about, is that Tobirama Senju of the Senju Clan? He's dead too?"
"Yeah, that's him. He's been dead for a really, really long time, hasn't he?"
Tobirama had been dead for a long time?!
He had only just arrived in the Pure Land, yet Tobirama Senju had already been dead for ages?
Naruto said, "But not long ago, Pain revived him, the First Hokage, and my dad."
"Pain?" Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko also leapt over to their side at that moment. "Who is Pain?"
Uh…
That would be a little troublesome to explain.
Earlier, when they were farther away, Izuna Uchiha had not paid much attention to this boy named Nagato.
It was only when they were close enough to stand face-to-face that Izuna Uchiha's brow furrowed sharply.
"In your eye sockets… those are my eyes!"
Those eyes had clearly been given to his older brother, Madara Uchiha, on his deathbed! Why were they in this boy's eye sockets?
Nagato himself was just as confused, and he was startled by the sudden fierceness in the young Uchiha's expression.
Earlier, Naruto and Sasuke had also said that his eyes belonged to someone else, and that he was actually a member of the Uzumaki Clan, the same clan as the mother of the boy named Naruto standing before him.
Like Naruto, he was already one of the few remaining descendants of the Uzumaki Clan.
Young Kakashi said, "It's a long story. We'll tell you after Minato-sensei gets here. Sasuke and Obito are both your clansmen, so you should be able to trust us."
"Mm." Izuna Uchiha was extremely tolerant toward his own clansmen and took pride in the glory of the Uchiha Clan. Seeing two young clansmen around thirteen or fourteen years old who had already awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan naturally made him even more fond of them.
"Can you first tell me what this place is?"
Young Obito revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan. Izuna had already seen that windmill-like pattern once before, when Obito pulled Danzō Shimura into Kamui's Dimension.
"This is my Dōjutsu space. Any damage caused during battle can be fully restored to the appearance of Konohagakure very quickly with just a little chakra."
"A Mangekyō Sharingan with spatial abilities?!" Izuna was clearly surprised, and a hint of delight showed through. "That's incredible! This is a Mangekyō Sharingan ability even I've never seen before! You must be a genius of the Uchiha Clan!"
Obito blushed. No one had ever praised him like that before.
"No, back in the clan, everyone said I was a dead last."
Izuna laughed loudly. "I only awakened my Mangekyō Sharingan at twenty-four, on the verge of death. Yet you awakened the Mangekyō at such a young age. You're a genius who can almost rival my brother!"
Danzō Shimura struggled, trying to crawl out of the wall.
No one saw Izuna Uchiha move his hand, but Danzō's limbs had already been pinned into the wall again by kunai, leaving him unable to pull free.
The one who made the same move, only a little later, was the young Obito Uchiha, whose palm had just sprouted wooden spikes.
Seeing Wood Release used by an Uchiha clansman again, Izuna had no choice but to ask with a grave expression, "Why do you have Hashirama Senju's Wood Release ability? He was my brother's mortal enemy."
Whatever happened, no one could tell him that this child had half his brother's bloodline and half Hashirama Senju's bloodline.
If they did, he really would fucking lose it!!
"Because I have the First Hokage's power within me."
Izuna's heart skipped a beat.
His brows knitted tightly, but he maintained the good upbringing of a great clan and clung to one final thread of hope as he asked, "Could you possibly be the child of Hashirama Senju and a woman from our Uchiha Clan?"
But Hashirama Senju was as proud as his brother. As for an Uchiha woman who could be with a man like that…
Sorry, unless his brother was a woman, he really could not think of any other possibility.
Fuck!!!
If it really was what he thought it was…
Where was his sword?! Where the hell was his sword?!
Whether this was reality or the Pure Land, he was going to kill Hashirama Senju a hundred million more times!!
"No way!" Obito bared his teeth, cutting off Izuna Uchiha's imagination. "I'm a pure-blooded Uchiha with a lineage certificate! The Wood Release is because I accidentally fused with Hashirama-sama's cells before, and I had to modify myself with White Zetsu components to survive!"
Helplessly, he rolled up his sleeve and showed Izuna the milky-white White Zetsu components on his arm, which looked nothing like human skin.
Izuna did not seem too concerned about that. Instead, he murmured, "So all of you, and I, are still alive after all. This place really has nothing to do with the Pure Land."
"You only just figured that out?" The two Uchiha were honestly impressed by this ancestor-level figure.
Resurrection.
That word finally entered Izuna Uchiha's mind.
How had he been resurrected?
He looked utterly lost.
At the same time, Minato Namikaze, whom Naruto, Sasuke, Obito, and the others had been waiting for, finally arrived.
However…
Coming with him were the original first-generation Akatsuki members, as well as…
Nagato, Konan, Hidan, Deidara, Kakuzu, Sasori of the Red Sand, Itachi Uchiha, Kisame Hoshigaki, and the other current second-generation members.
They came running straight toward them.
But Hanzō of the Salamander only thought…
Another batch had come to die.