Uchiha... Obito?!
Hearing this unfamiliar yet familiar name, Itachi froze in an instant!
This name,
For the other Akatsuki's members, might be extremely unfamiliar.
After all,
As the dead last of the Uchiha Clan, he was very unremarkable in the past.
Neither as legendary as Uchiha Madara, shaking the Shinobi World, nor as famous as Uchiha Shisui, known throughout the Five Great Nations as "Shisui of the Body Flicker".
Even for Konoha,
This name seemed like an optional existence.
However,
Itachi could remember him.
Because,
Konoha's famous number one technician, known as the "Copy Ninja" Hatake Kakashi, had gained his Sharingan precisely from him!
Itachi's gaze froze.
He really never expected that after so many years, he would hear this name from the mouth of someone from another village...!
That Obito, after giving his Sharingan to Kakashi, didn't die???
Instead, he put on a mask and disguised himself as Madara... to manipulate the Akatsuki and take revenge on this Shinobi World...?!
Realizing this,
Itachi felt a chill run down his spine, his hair standing on end.
Regardless,
If this were the truth, it would be too... hair-raising...
How could a former Konoha's hero, an excellent Shinobi willing to sacrifice his life for his comrades, fall to such a state...
Itachi's heart was complicated beyond measure.
However at this moment,
Unlike Itachi, the other Akatsuki's members, including Pain and Konan, all had slightly bewildered expressions.
Because this name,
Was something they had completely never heard of.
Besides the surname being the familiar Uchiha,
Everything else was completely unfamiliar...
And at this moment,
Kyo naturally noticed their expressions.
However,
He was completely unflustered, still calmly making up the story:
"In fact,"
"I also heard this name... from a Konoha Shinobi."
"He is the famous Copy Ninja, Hatake Kakashi."
"Back then,"
"During the Konoha Chunin Exams, I happened to encounter Kakashi."
"Curious about his Sharingan, I began to talk with him."
"And after a round of skillful guidance from me, I finally heard from him the story of his close friend named 'Uchiha Obito'."
"?"
Hearing this, a few people's expressions shifted slightly.
Sharingan Kakashi?
They did know this person.
After all,
Compared to the just-mentioned Obito, that Copy Ninja was obviously much more famous.
And at this moment, Kyo still seriously explained:
"I heard that,"
"Back during the Third Shinobi World War,"
"Uchiha Obito was attacked by a boulder while saving Kakashi. On the verge of death, he entrusted his left eye to Kakashi."
"Thus, the later name 'Sharingan Kakashi' came to be."
"I'm not wrong, am I, Itachi?"
As Kyo spoke, he suddenly turned his gaze towards Uchiha Itachi beside him and asked with a half-smile.
Hearing this, Itachi's heart stiffened.
...
You're asking me again?!
Just now about the Edo Tensei, you asked me, and now you're still asking???
"
However,
Even though he thought this in his heart,
He still nodded with a somewhat ugly expression, and then said:
"That's correct."
"Kakashi's Sharingan indeed came from Obito."
This point,
Was almost common knowledge in Konoha.
A little inquiry would reveal it, so Itachi naturally couldn't lie about this.
However,
He also didn't expect,
Kyo would know these past events so clearly, seemingly even better than him, a native of Konoha...
And at this moment,
Kyo continued to explain calmly:
"Originally, I had no opinion on this Obito."
"But,"
"After I began to suspect the true identity of that masked man,"
"I spent two years gathering intelligence on all members of the Uchiha clan."
"
"And during my gathering process,"
"I suddenly discovered...
"
"That so-called dead hero, Uchiha Obito, after the war ended... his body simply wasn't found either."
"People had always speculated whether he was still alive."
"
"But, because many years had passed and no news of him was ever found, everyone assumed his death."
"But now,"
"What if we confirm that he didn't die back then...?"
"If a person is still alive,"
"How would he avoid leaking his identity...?"
"
"---!!!?"
Kyo's words reached this point,
Not only Pain, but even the other Akatsuki members were all shocked in their hearts!
...
I see...?!
The answer to this question, in fact, was almost self-evident!
After all, to avoid identity leaks, the best way... was naturally to disguise your identity!!!
"That's right."
Kyo smiled and raised a finger, chuckling lightly:
"And,"
"I wonder if you all have noticed,"
"Hatake Kakashi's Sharingan is in his left eye."
"
"And that masked man, under his swirl mask, always only reveals one right eye, his Sharingan."
"Could there be such a coincidence?"
"To sum up."
"
"I can basically confirm that this Uchiha Obito, as the only Uchiha clan member whose whereabouts are unknown,"
"Should, precisely be that masked man calling himself Uchiha Madara."
"
Kyo's expression was calm, unhurried as he finished speaking.
He was like delivering a speech, elegantly and logically stating everything.
"
"
And until all his words fell,
Not to mention low-IQ individuals like Deidara and Hidan, even Pain, Itachi, and others, at this moment, were completely frozen, speechless.
Kyo's words were like an enlightening experience, making them instantly automatically connect all the irrationalities together.
In the end, they even one by one automatically filled in a story of a 'hero's fall to darkness'...
A blanket of silence.
Made the atmosphere in this space even heavier.
So much so,
It was so quiet you could almost hear breathing.
And at this moment,
What the other Akatsuki members didn't know was,
At this moment, Zetsu, standing in the corner, still stood motionless, completely dumbfounded.
But his bewilderment,
Was different from the others' bewilderment.
Others were bewildered because the masked man's identity had been exposed...
And he,
Was bewildered because he had long known Obito's identity!!
Precisely because he knew,
He was directly frightened into a stupor by Kyo's deduction!!
...
His guess was too accurate, right?!!
Is this still something a human brain can do???!
"
Zetsu's heart immediately felt like it had fallen into an ice cave.
After all,
Its plan to save its mother had been delayed for too long.
Back then,
It placed its hopes on Uchiha Madara,
As a result, Madara, in order to restore his prime, stuffed his Rinnegan into Nagato, and tried to create a series of plans by corrupting Obito...
But now,
The most crucial three pieces, two of them were almost gone!
Uchiha Madara, who was originally still in a state of death, was actually brought out by this damn Kyo and Orochimaru using Edo Tensei...
Even more ridiculous was that even damn Uchiha Obito's identity had just been... completely exposed!!
What the hell????
Zetsu was immediately dumbfounded.
Just a moment ago,
When Uchiha Madara's Edo Tensei was just summoned, Zetsu's heart still maintained a certain degree of calm.
Because he always felt,
Although the plan had somewhat collapsed, it hadn't completely collapsed.
But now...
Just how collapsed was this???