[After Obito left, Yahiko and Nagato went to the designated meeting place as planned.
[Hanzō had already ambushed the place with his men long ago.
[Obito, wanting to hurt Nagato deeply and cut his ties with the Akatsuki, chose to ambush the members of Akatsuki who were heading to rescue him, using Wood Release to wipe them all out.
[When Obito arrived at the meeting place, he witnessed Nagato's fate.
[Nagato unleashed the power of the Rinnegan, killing most of the Hidden Rain ninjas and forcing Hanzō to flee.
[Watching Nagato's rage, Obito thought back to his own past.
[Back then, he also killed without mercy to avenge Rin, releasing his anger without restraint.
[And after the outburst, came the transformation of his personality.
[Obito: "Nagato, Yahiko, Konan... I'll bring you together in your dreams, in the perfect world I create."
[Later, Obito found Nagato and said to him, "I wasn't wrong, was I? This world has no true peace."
[Nagato was silent, and they reached an agreement to cooperate.
[But cooperation doesn't mean no differences. There were huge disagreements on how to create peace.
[Nagato wanted to create a weapon capable of destroying a country in an instant, to intimidate the great nations that dared to start wars and force peace upon them.
[With the tailed beasts gathered, he wanted to create a balance between them all. Nagato planned to use the "Gedo Statue" that absorbed the nine-tailed beasts to be the one to carry out the plan.
[Obito, on the other hand, just wanted to create a world with Rin in it, casting the Infinite Tsukuyomi to achieve the peaceful dream.
[By now, Obito might have already discarded Madara's vision, preparing himself to be the one to execute the plan.
[After all, Rin's world couldn't be tainted by anyone else.]
"Rin's world, no one else can touch it. Seeing this, Obito, don't you feel embarrassed?"
Obito: "I'm really embarrassed, I'm freaking embarrassed."
After his thoughts were exposed by the light screen, Obito felt so awkward he could have sunk into the ground.
He didn't pay attention to Kakashi, who was teasing him, and instead cautiously looked at Rin.
"Rin, actually, I..."
"Don't talk to me right now, I need some time alone."
Rin blushed and stopped Obito from speaking.
All along, Rin knew Obito liked her.
But she didn't expect that Obito liked her this much.
He was so obsessed with it.
Facing someone who liked her so much, and loved her deeply, honestly, Rin couldn't help but feel a little pleased inside.
But for some reason, she still needed to think carefully about how to get along with Obito.
"Huh?"
Obito thought Rin disliked him, and immediately became flustered, his face turning red as he didn't know what to do.
"Don't panic, let Rin have some time to herself first."
Kakashi patted him on the shoulder, and Obito slowly relaxed.
He gently looked at Rin, not disturbing her.
"The body is ready, and the convict is in place. Should I start the Edo Tensei now?"
At this moment, Orochimaru's clone returned with the materials for the reanimation of Madara.
"Now is the time."
Jiraiya nodded in agreement, indicating it was time for the reanimation.
Orochimaru didn't hesitate, holding the body tissues of Madara and a death-row convict, walking to the door of the office.
"Reanimation Jutsu."
Orochimaru formed hand seals and then slapped the floor hard.
Then, nothing happened.
"What's going on? Why can't even Madara be reanimated? Is there something wrong with the Reanimation Jutsu?"
Orochimaru, who was usually calm and composed, started to lose his cool at this point.
The issue of the reanimation not working on people like Danzo had led him and the Second Hokage to believe that it was likely because these people had crossed from the Second Hokage's timeline into the Third Hokage's timeline.
As for why the reanimation didn't work on counterparts from this timeline, they didn't know.
But if Madara from the Second Hokage's timeline didn't cross into the Third Hokage's timeline, why couldn't the reanimation work?
"Could it be..."
Orochimaru and Jiraiya exchanged a glance, both thinking of a possibility.
If that's true…
"Then things could get a little tricky."
"Let's finish watching the video first before discussing it."
Orochimaru nodded, his expression unusually serious.
[When Obito gave up his faith and stepped into Konoha, there was nothing left in this world for him to cling to.]
[No one knows why Obito quietly infiltrated Konoha.
[If it was for the Nine-Tails, there was no need for him to do so.
[Black Zetsu had once said that the Nine-Tails should be the last to be sealed, so there was no reason for him to risk capturing it early.
[I guess he came back to Konoha just to take one last look at Rin, but unexpectedly overheard Kakashi talking to himself and learned that Kushina was about to give birth.]
"So it was my leak of information, huh?"
Kakashi sighed, falling silent.
Sakumo noticed his son's mood was low, so he gently ruffled his hair.
Everything was understood without a word.
[Obito threw away the flowers Kakashi had placed on Rin's grave and angrily shouted in his heart: "Why is it that you all can live happily?"
[In the middle of the night, Obito sneaked into Kushina's delivery room, cruelly killed the Third Hokage's wife, Biwako, and took Naruto.
[At this moment, he wanted to force Minato to make a choice.
[What would the man, who couldn't save Rin because of his mission, choose this time?
[He tossed Naruto into the air, and as expected, Minato quickly saved him while Obito used the opportunity to kidnap Kushina.
[Looking at the woman who had once cared for him, his heart might have been conflicted, but there was no hesitation. He forcefully pulled out the Nine-Tails.
[Losing a tailed beast meant death for the jinchuriki.
[But as a member of the Uzumaki clan, Kushina's strong survival abilities allowed her to barely hold on.
[Obito, who had completely turned to darkness, showed no mercy. He controlled the Nine-Tails, using its giant claws to strike at Kushina.
[Obito: "Minato-sensei, now you can really understand how I feel, right?"]
"Obito, do you know how much pain I was in back then?"
Obito broke into a cold sweat and awkwardly laughed, "I... probably understand, yeah."
"Then can you tell me, what were you really thinking at that time?"
At this moment, Kushina was a completely different person from the one who was worried about Obito's Cursed Seal Tag earlier.
Her lips curled into a cold smile, her red hair fluttered, and the overwhelming aura made Obito shiver in fear.
"Uh, at that time, I thought... in this fake world, you guys could just die. It didn't matter. After I activate the Infinite Tsukuyomi, everyone will come back to life in this perfect world."
"So, that's what you were thinking? Haha, should I thank you for letting me come back to life in the Infinite Tsukuyomi?"
Hearing Obito's thoughts from back then, Kushina couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time.
"No need to thank me. Just make sure when you punch me later, don't go easy on me."
"Don't worry, when I punch you later, I won't hold back."
"Eh?"
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