[Translator: Hell Yeah!!!]
The dark tunnel seemed endless as Obito dragged his exhausted body through the winding cave at full speed.
Every burst of movement tore at the wounds he had suffered earlier, sending waves of agonizing pain through his body, but his concern for his teammates outweighed everything else.
At last, he saw light ahead.
Using the last of his strength, he rushed out.
What awaited him, however, was not hope.
It was hell.
The suffocating stench of blood and burnt flesh assaulted his senses, nearly making him vomit.
Before him lay a valley that had been completely devastated. Charred earth was littered with severed limbs and broken bodies.
Konoha...
Iwagakure...
Kumogakure...
Headbands from every side lay half-buried beneath pools of blood.
Wasn't the war already over?
Hadn't the Clan Head already brought peace?
What... was going on?
The horrifying scene froze Obito to the bone.
"No... That's impossible..."
he muttered, refusing to believe what he was seeing.
Among the corpses, he even recognized several wearing the Uchiha clan uniform.
Fear coiled around his heart like a venomous snake, while Madara's words about the "false world" echoed through his mind like a nightmare.
No...
This can't be real!
"Rin! Kakashi!"
Obito sprinted forward like a madman, every step crushing broken flesh or hardened pools of blood beneath his feet.
His heart pounded violently as fear and hope twisted together into unbearable torment.
Finally, behind a relatively intact boulder, he saw the two familiar figures.
Kakashi and Rin stood back-to-back against the rock, desperately holding off three Iwagakure shinobi.
Kakashi's breathing was ragged, making it obvious he had already gone through a brutal battle.
His left arm hung limply at his side, clearly injured.
Yet his right hand still gripped his short sword tightly, every swing precise and deadly.
Beside him, Rin used Medical Ninjutsu to treat his injuries while barely managing to fend off attacks with a kunai. Her medical robe had already been soaked crimson with blood, whether hers or the enemy's, it was impossible to tell.
"Kakashi! Rin!"
Obito shouted excitedly, tears nearly spilling from his eyes.
They were alive!
Thank goodness!
They were both still alive!
Hearing his voice, they turned around at the same time, joy flashing across their faces.
"Obito!"
Rin cried, her voice trembling.
"You're alive! Thank goodness!"
Kakashi remained far calmer.
"Idiot! Don't come over here! It's dangerous!"
But there was no way Obito would stop.
Seeing one of the Iwagakure shinobi attempting to ambush Kakashi from the side, he immediately formed hand seals.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
A blazing fireball roared forward.
Though much smaller than usual, it struck the ambusher with perfect accuracy.
"Argh!"
The Iwagakure shinobi collapsed to the ground, consumed by flames.
The three finally regrouped, standing back-to-back in a defensive formation.
"Kakashi, what's going on?"
Obito asked anxiously.
"Wasn't the war already over?"
Kakashi's expression darkened.
"We don't know either. When we woke up, we were already at the border of the Land of Fire. We wanted to find you before returning to the village, but before we could, we were attacked. They looked like troops from Iwagakure and Kumogakure, but..."
He paused.
"The war is already over. Why would they invade the Land of Fire again? Are they trying to start another war between our nations?"
As she continued healing Kakashi's arm, Rin added,
"There are far too many of them. They clearly came prepared. We've been trapped here... for a long time."
At that moment, even more enemies flooded in from every direction.
Among them were several Kumogakure shinobi.
Their eyes were icy cold as they launched relentless attacks without any regard for their own lives.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
"Watch out!"
Kakashi shouted as his short sword traced a sharp arc, knocking several shuriken aside.
Crackling sounds rang out as Lightning Release chakra gathered around the blade once again.
Without hesitation, Kakashi charged forward.
Obito followed closely behind.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
"..."
The battle erupted once more, even fiercer than before.
Although Kakashi's swordsmanship was exceptional, he had already endured countless battles and was clearly struggling against attacks coming from every blind spot.
After using several more ninjutsu, Obito's flames finally died out.
His chakra had already been nearly exhausted from his desperate sprint through the tunnel.
"This won't work!"
Kakashi gritted his teeth.
"I'll break us through!"
He suddenly charged ahead, his short sword flashing with lightning like the Grim Reaper's scythe as it instantly cut down two enemies and tore open a gap.
"Go!"
Kakashi shouted.
But just as they were about to break through...
Everything changed.
Several shinobi suddenly burst out from underground.
Ignoring the attacks from both the Iwagakure and Kumogakure forces, they charged straight toward the three of them.
"Look out!"
Obito cried.
He dodged a volley of shuriken, but one kunai with an explosive tag still landed right in front of them.
Boom!
The violent explosion sent all three flying.
"Rin!"
While still airborne, Obito desperately reached for Rin's hand.
He missed by inches.
Then, a figure shot past like lightning.
It was Kakashi!
At the very last moment, he used his injured left arm to shove Rin toward Obito.
The recoil sent Kakashi hurtling toward the center of the explosion instead.
"Kakashi!"
Rin let out a heart-wrenching scream.
Obito instinctively caught Rin, and both of them crashed heavily onto the ground.
Looking up, he watched as Kakashi's figure was swallowed by the blazing flames of the explosion.
"No!"
Obito felt as though his heart had stopped beating.
The next moment...
A staggering figure emerged from the smoke.
It was Kakashi!
Relief flooded Obito's heart.
Supporting himself with the White Fang Short Sword, Kakashi stood there covered in blood...
But alive.
"Run..."
he said with great difficulty, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth with every word.
Obito and Rin were both overwhelmed with joy and relief.
Just as they rushed toward him, an Iwagakure shinobi suddenly emerged from the shadows behind Kakashi, thrusting a kunai straight toward his back.
The angle was impossible.
Kakashi had no time to react.
Time itself seemed to freeze.
Obito was too far away to save him.
All he could do was watch helplessly as the kunai rushed toward Kakashi's back.
At that critical instant...
Something unbelievable happened.
A crimson light flashed deep within Rin's eyes.
Somehow, she burst forward with astonishing speed.
Breaking free from Obito's grasp, she rushed toward Kakashi like a moth flying into a flame.
"No!"
Obito and Kakashi's eyes widened at the same time.
Obito screamed in terror and reached for her...
Only to grasp empty air.
Just before the kunai pierced Kakashi...
Rin threw herself in front of him with every ounce of strength she had.
Thud!
The kunai pierced straight through Rin's chest.
Blood blossomed like a crimson flower.
The blade continued through her body...
And stabbed into Kakashi as well.
Warm blood splashed across Kakashi's stunned face.
Time completely stopped.
Obito's eyes instantly lost focus.
He could only watch helplessly as both Rin and Kakashi slowly collapsed.
Rin turned her head toward him.
Her lips trembled as though she wanted to say something.
But only blood continued flowing from her mouth.
Rin...
"Rin..."
"Kakashi..."
Obito's mind went completely blank.
He couldn't understand what had happened.
Out of instinct, he caught their collapsing bodies.
Never before had such terror and despair appeared on his face.
"Rin! Rin!"
Even the Iwagakure shinobi seemed stunned.
But he quickly raised his kunai again, preparing to deliver the final blow.
At that moment, Obito felt as though his entire world had collapsed.
Blood soaked the earth beneath his feet as he clutched Rin and Kakashi, screaming in anguish while the enemy's kunai descended.
An overwhelming storm of emotion crashed through his mind like a tidal wave.
Pain.
Rage.
Despair.
Hatred.
Every negative emotion surged wildly through him.
A tearing pain exploded within his eyes as the world before him began to twist and change.
The sea of crimson grew ever brighter.
Kakashi's expression...
The enemy's cold gaze...
Rin's pale face...
Everything slowed to an impossible crawl.
"AAAAAAAH!"
Obito let out an inhuman roar.
His eyes felt as though they were burning.
Something long dormant was awakening.
The world changed before his eyes.
He could see every tiny twitch of the enemy's muscles.
He could predict the trajectory of the descending kunai.
He could even sense more enemies approaching from afar.
At the center of his vision, the Iwagakure shinobi who had attacked his companions moved in slow motion.
Obito even saw his own eyes reflected within the enemy's terrified pupils.
The black tomoe slowly rotated within the crimson iris.
They split...
Merged...
And formed an entirely new pattern.
None of that mattered anymore.
Slash!
The enemy's kunai passed straight through Obito's body without meeting any resistance.
It was as though he had no physical form at all.
"It... it passed through him?!"
The Iwagakure shinobi's eyes widened in disbelief.
"Die!"
Releasing Rin and Kakashi, Obito leaped into the air and threw a furious punch.
The unimaginable force behind it shattered the enemy's ribcage.
His body was blasted dozens of meters away before smashing into the rock wall and exploding into a pile of mangled flesh.
The remaining enemies immediately surrounded him.
But Obito had become a completely different person.
He moved like a ghost.
Every strike was swift.
Every attack was fatal.
His newly awakened vision allowed him to see through every attack and predict every movement.
Even so, more enemies continued pouring in.
"Kamui!"
Obito stared at the Iwagakure shinobi who had just murdered Kakashi and Rin.
His crimson Mangekyō Sharingan locked onto the target.
The space around the shinobi suddenly twisted.
Ripples spread through the air.
"AAAAAH!"
Before he could even react, his body was torn apart.
Standing in the middle of a sea of blood, Obito felt as though the world had lost every color.
Only the crimson stain spreading across Rin's chest...
And the empty, despairing look in Kakashi's eyes remained.
Every sound around him became distant.
Only the frantic pounding of his own heart, followed by suffocating silence, remained.
Pain.
Despair.
Rage.
Hatred.
Every extreme negative emotion boiled through his body like molten lava before finally converging upon his burning eyes.
Everything in his vision twisted.
Then...
He moved.
Without hand seals.
Without charging forward.
His body simply distorted...
And vanished.
This was not the Body Flicker Technique.
It was something far stranger.
The distortion of space itself.
One Iwagakure shinobi saw the air before him ripple strangely.
The Uchiha boy who had been dozens of meters away suddenly appeared directly before him like a ghost.
The shinobi could clearly see the bizarre pattern spinning within those crimson eyes.
They were no longer ordinary tomoe.
Instead, an intricate black design capable of swallowing all light rested within blood-red irises.
"Die."
Obito's voice carried no emotion whatsoever.
Under the shinobi's terrified gaze, Obito reached toward his face.
His hand phased straight through the kunai raised to block him without the slightest resistance.
The instant his fingers touched the man's head...
Crunch...!
The sickening sound of twisting space echoed through the battlefield.
The shinobi's head twisted unnaturally, as though squeezed by an invisible giant hand.
His horrified expression froze forever.
Before he could even scream, his skull was crushed into a grotesque spiral.
His eyeballs burst.
His bones shattered.
Then the mangled remains were swallowed by an invisible vortex and disappeared without a trace.
Only a headless corpse remained standing, blood gushing from its neck like a fountain.
The horrifying sight froze every charging enemy in place.
Whether from Iwagakure or Kumogakure, all of them stared in utter horror.
What kind of ninjutsu was this?
Obito slowly turned around.
His newly awakened Mangekyō Sharingan swept coldly across every enemy.
The spinning pattern radiated an ominous aura.
"You... All of you deserve to die."
One Kumogakure shinobi refused to believe it.
Roaring furiously, he charged forward with a lightning-covered ninja blade.
Obito didn't even look at him.
He casually raised one hand.
"Kamui."
The charging Kumogakure shinobi suddenly froze.
To his horror, the space before him began violently twisting inward.
His lightning blade touched it first.
Like meat thrown into a grinder, it shattered piece by piece before disappearing.
Then came his arm...
His shoulder...
His chest...
"No! What is this?!"
He screamed desperately, trying to retreat.
But his body refused to move.
It was as though he had been nailed to that distorted space.
He could only watch as his body was swallowed, crushed, and erased piece by piece by the invisible vortex.
Within only two or three seconds...
A powerful Kumogakure jonin had been completely erased from existence.
Nothing remained.
Silence.
Deathly silence.
The remaining enemies were completely overwhelmed by this incomprehensible, unstoppable power.
"M... Monster!"
One Iwagakure shinobi broke down in terror and turned to flee.
Obito's gaze instantly locked onto him.
"Do you think you can escape?"
The fleeing shinobi suddenly felt a chill across his neck.
Looking down, he saw the air before his throat twisting once more.
The tip of a cold kunai suddenly appeared from nowhere.
It was as though someone had passed it through from another dimension.
Slash!
The kunai cleanly slit his throat.
Blood sprayed everywhere.
Clutching his neck, he staggered before collapsing, his eyes filled with terror and confusion.
Obito's body distorted once again.
The next instant, he appeared behind another shinobi like a phantom.
The man reacted instantly, rapidly forming hand seals as he attempted to sink into the ground.
The pattern within Obito's Mangekyō rotated slightly.
He was faster.
"Hmph."
Obito suddenly appeared before him, pressing one hand onto the top of his head.
The sickening sound echoed once more.
The man's head was mercilessly twisted apart and swallowed by space.
A massacre.
A completely one-sided...
Unfathomable massacre.
Obito had become the Grim Reaper walking the battlefield.
His figure appeared and disappeared everywhere.
Each appearance was accompanied by twisted space and another gruesome death.
Ordinary attacks and ninjutsu couldn't even touch him.
This...
Was the power of the Mangekyō Sharingan.
The power of Kamui, belonging to Uchiha Obito.
Lost in revenge and intoxicated by his newfound power, he no longer noticed the searing pain in his eyes or the enormous chakra draining from his body.
He wanted only one thing.
To slaughter every enemy before him.
To use their blood and screams to mourn the suffering inflicted upon Rin and Kakashi.
Before long, Obito stood drenched in blood, breathing heavily.
His Mangekyō Sharingan continued rotating slowly, radiating an icy aura that made everyone's heart tremble.
He slowly turned around.
Two figures appeared before him as though descending from the heavens.
They were Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Chiya, who had arrived beside Obito using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
Minato swept his gaze across the battlefield.
His face was darker than ever before, filled with grief and fury.
"Obito! Kakashi!"
When he saw the horrific scene before him, especially Rin lying there with a kunai through her chest, his eyes instantly turned ice cold.
Obito acted as though he hadn't heard him.
Without hesitation, Minato flashed to their side.
After quickly checking Kakashi and Rin, his expression became even grimmer.
"They're not breathing...", he said quietly, his voice trembling ever so slightly.
Obito remained standing there, staring blankly at his blood-covered hands.
The pattern within his newly awakened eyes gradually stopped spinning.
What remained was only deeper darkness.
Minato looked toward Uchiha Chiya.
"Lord Hokage... they..."
His voice caught in his throat.
Obito slowly raised his head. There was no light left in his eyes.
Only endless emptiness and despair.
"Sensei... Lord Hokage... Is this world... Real... Or false...?"
His voice was barely above a whisper.
Yet it sent a chill through Minato's entire body.
In the distance...
Half of a White Zetsu's body slowly sank back underground.
Just as silence settled over the battlefield...
Chiya's firm voice rang out.
"It is real."
The moment those words fell...
Uchiha Chiya swept his gaze across the trembling shinobi still surrounding them.
His eyes instantly transformed.
"Yomi..."
"Higan!"
Streams of life force were instantly extracted from every enemy, transforming into countless glowing specks that floated into the air.
As their life force was stripped away, the enemy shinobi's appearances also changed.
Their disguises disappeared, revealing the dried white bodies of White Zetsu beneath.
Not a single one escaped.
Every one of them had their life force completely drained before collapsing to the ground.
Then Chiya's eye power flared once more.
The countless glowing motes of life force descended upon Kakashi and Rin.
At that instant...
The stiffness on Obito's face finally changed.
He turned toward Kakashi and Rin.
"Cough... Cough..."
Two weak coughs echoed across the battlefield.
Light returned to Obito's eyes.
"Rin!!"
"Kakashi!!"