Chapter 256 : Black Zetsu: Jin, you are so vicious!
Obito, having finished his meal, was revived on the spot. With new 'secret moves' brewing in his mind, he searched everywhere for Naraku, determined to get revenge for the arrow earlier.
"Naraku! Come out! Let's fight another three hundred rounds!"
He searched every nook and cranny of each room but couldn't find Naraku anywhere.
"Where did this guy run off to? Why isn't he here? ...Huh?"
Obito belatedly realized that if Naraku wasn't here, didn't that mean he could come and go as he pleased?
"Eh—!?" He clutched his head and fell to his knees, exclaiming, "So, am I the only one who can't get out of here!?"
"Not really," Zero White Zetsu poked its head out from underground, "Lord Madara doesn't leave either."
Obito was exasperated: "Is that the point? You idiot!"
"Speaking of which," Zero White Zetsu thought that White Zetsu wasn't the dumbest being in the underground space; this inexplicable guy in front of him was, "If Lord Madara and Naraku can't get out, how did they save you back then?"
"—Ah!!!"
The hot-blooded, single-minded idiot was completely petrified on the spot... When Naraku, Zero White Zetsu, and Black Zetsu arrived near the Hidden Mist's secret base on the cliff, the Tailed Beast had just been resealed.
The vast area was empty, still retaining some of the Three-Tails Isobu's immense, damp, and ferocious Chakra, like the fierce evening wind blowing in from the sea at dusk.
"That's..." Naraku saw who the new Jinchuriki was and let out a sneer, "How many times has this been? Fate's jokes are happening a bit too frequently, aren't they~?"
"Is it someone you know, Naraku?" Zero White Zetsu asked curiously.
Their position was too far from the altar, and Zero White Zetsu didn't have such good eyesight to clearly see the Jinchuriki's appearance.
"Well, I suppose so."
Naraku stretched, tilted his head to look at a silver-white meteor streaking from a distance below, his tone growing colder.
"He's here again, just as expected."
"If he had given a fraction of the resolve he showed twice, abandoning Ninja rules to save this girl, to Uchiha Naraku back then, perhaps I would never have been born."
"Ultimately, I should thank 'Hatake Kakashi'."
"Thank him for picking Uchiha Naraku out of the trash, playing with that fool until he was broken, and then mercilessly throwing him back into the mud."
He glanced at the dark shadow beside him, his smile chilling: "Don't you agree, Black Zetsu?"
Black Zetsu, the instigator, the culprit, feigning innocence, wiggled its small tentacles and said dryly: "Exactly."
Just as it was about to say something more, it heard Naraku laughing softly, his voice growing increasingly deranged.
"Oh, what a rare opportunity, why don't we just kill Hatake Kakashi here with the help of the Hidden Mist~? That Uchiha Naraku, no matter how much he suspects, he won't find us!"
"Wait—!"
--Obito hasn't even arrived yet!
--If you kill him now, what will I show Obito then!?
Black Zetsu quickly slid over and tugged at Naraku's pants: "According to the Hidden Mist's plan, he still has to bring the Three-Tails Jinchuriki back to Konoha. Before that, you should hold back a little."
"Then let the Three-Tails go berserk and kill him~"
Naraku spread his arms and spun around, the wide hem of his long robe swirling into an arc before gracefully falling back to his sides.
"To die by the hands of the comrade he saved, that's a fitting end, wouldn't you say? Hahahaha..."
"..." Black Zetsu closed its eyes and massaged its forehead.
--This lunatic! So impulsive! Why bother with a small fry like Hatake Kakashi?
--Didn't he say before that he wanted to provoke the main personality with the truth of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and now he's... --Hm? No, that's not right! It can't be that simple!
Black Zetsu, the filial son, his mind whirring, combined the sub-personality's extreme annoyance with the main personality and suddenly understood.
Indeed, Naraku would not miss any opportunity to torment Uchiha Naraku.
Back then, Uchiha Naraku was accused by Hatake Kakashi over the White Fang incident, suddenly plummeting into an abyss of pain, so much so that he awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan overnight;
Now, Hatake Kakashi repeatedly prioritized saving this young girl over completing his mission.
In the choice between "mission" and "friend," Uchiha Naraku had never had the chance to be "favored," yet Rin had already received it twice in a short period.
If, in the end, Hatake Kakashi tragically died by the hand of Rin, whom he saved.
When Uchiha Naraku found out, he would surely go mad, wouldn't he...?
Then, using the "Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan" as the final blow, completely destroying the other party's will to live.
--Hiss... how malicious.
Black Zetsu silently retracted its body, cautiously moving away from the great villain Naraku... "This is the place."
Kakashi, who had tracked the Kirigakure Ninja to the canyon, hid in the bushes, trying to calm his breathing while gradually approaching the secret outpost where about several dozen enemies were entrenched.
The moment the hand signs were formed, lightning-style Chakra surged and converged within his body, erupting into a sharp shriek in his right hand.
At the same time, a pair of blood-red Sharingan spun rapidly in his eye sockets, providing him with ample confidence to infiltrate the enemy camp alone.
"Enem—"
One Hidden Mist Anbu on guard had barely uttered half a syllable before being pierced through the heart by a Chidori, while another was almost simultaneously killed by a chakra blade to the throat.
Kakashi dared not delay, instantly dashing into the base.
He had expected it to be built into the mountain, with many paths, traps, and wrong turns, but he was surprised to find its structure so simple that even he, entering for the first time, could easily go deep inside.
Perhaps there were countless traps ahead, waiting for prey to fall into them, or perhaps the Hidden Mist had built the site temporarily and didn't have time for detailed construction.
But no matter what, he had to break in and rescue Rin.
Upon reaching the central area, some ceremony seemed to have just concluded, and Rin was still lying unconscious in the center of the altar, her life unknown.
Kakashi eliminated the few Hidden Mist Ninja guarding the altar, confirmed that Rin was alive and merely unconscious, and, relieved, he carried her on his back and left.
The escape was equally perilous, but fortunately, the two eventually got away, their figures shrinking into tiny dots and disappearing from the Hidden Mist Ninja's sight.
"The plan begins. Notify the Anbu in this area to cooperate and make sure to drive them towards Konoha."
"Yes."
After Kakashi and Rin left, thirty to forty Hidden Mist Anbu followed them out of the outpost in single file.
"Naraku," standing at a distant vantage point, also under Naraku's control, beckoned Zero White Zetsu to follow quickly.
If he didn't stick closely the whole time, what would happen if Kakashi was in danger and he couldn't make his main body appear in time?
Naraku was entirely focused on the idea of "getting the timing just right," completely unaware that the sub-body he was controlling was already a "malicious boy" that Black Zetsu considered evil to the core.
--He's so eager to follow, it must be to enjoy the expression on Hatake Kakashi's face the moment he dies by Rin's hand, right?
Black Zetsu secretly expressed its disdain for this.
Although it wasn't a good thing, Naraku was clearly even less human...
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