[with card] Enemy of the World

25. The second undead

Thousands of miles away, Tianzhi Guoyin Ninja Village.

"This time, Konoha spent a lot of money on the trip to the country of water. Not to mention getting Tsunade back to help, even Kushina was sent out." In the underground laboratory, Orochimaru sat in his seat On the board, discussing leisurely. "It's just for the benefit of the neighboring country... If Kyuubi is taken away by Akatsuki, what's the point of keeping Liuwei? To be so reckless, Minato's stupidity is beyond my expectation .”

He said, looking up at a figure standing in the dark ahead. "Don't you think so?"

"Sensei Minato made such a decision, there must be his plan and reasons." The man said coldly.He was standing in a corner where the lights couldn't reach, most of his body was hidden in the shadows, only a pair of calves wearing black boots were exposed. "Because you don't understand this, it's not you who is sitting on the seat of Hokage, but him."

Of course, the straightforward irony in his tone did not escape Orochimaru's ears.The Snake Immortal narrowed his eyes dangerously, as if he was very displeased; but soon his expression eased, and he even showed a smile. "Maybe. So that's why he sent another support army right after that? Jiraiya, Itachi, the little medical ninja girl in your team, and...your replacement?"

"..." The person in the shadow fell silent, and the cloth of the glove creaked slightly under the clenched grip.

Seeing that the other party didn't speak, Orochimaru's smile expanded a little more triumphantly. "To be honest, I didn't expect the process of summoning you to be so smooth. Ever since I heard the exact news of your death, I've been—or I still am—waiting for Obito to come to me again and ask me to call you again. You reincarnate in the dirt, and exchange you with the substitute in his hands. I am very interested in the world the substitute comes from, so if he proposes such a deal, I might agree."

"But he didn't. Not only him, your father, your teacher, Jiraiya who watched you grow up, they knew the existence of this transaction, and they should have guessed that I might have kept your blood The samples, however, were all silent and did not express anything. It seems that this substitute is doing well in Konoha... Even if he is allowed to participate in such an important task, it seems that he has really succeeded in replacing You have replaced your place in their hearts. How about it, you still have to say this time, do they have their plans and reasons?"

"...Yes." After a while, the person in the shadow finally spoke in a low voice. "If he is more useful than me in fighting Akatsuki and Tobi."

"More useful?" Orochimaru looked at him with interest, "Are you referring to the kaleidoscope Sharingan, or something else? For example... information about the kite, or even his real identity?"

"It's up to you to guess." The reincarnated was silent for a while.When he spoke again, the slight sense of loss had left his tone. "I said long ago that if you summon me for information, you will only be disappointed."

"Hahaha..." Orochimaru laughed hoarsely, "I'm not naive enough to want Sakumo's son to betray Konoha." He suppressed his laughter and leaned back in the chair comfortably Back, beckoning, "Come here."

Under the contract of reincarnation, the summoner's order is absolute.Despite the reluctance in his heart, the reincarnator still took steps and walked towards Orochimaru.He finally came under the light, the Anbu uniform on his body was as it was when he was alive, a few small cracks extended from under the mask, and spread all the way to the eyes that belonged to the undead.

"I summoned you not to inquire about news. Interfering in the battle between Konoha and Akatsuki will only put myself in danger. It is a wise person's way to reap the benefits." Orochimaru told him, "Obito Promised to give me his eyes after everything is over, but I don't feel comfortable basing this deal on Konoha Ninja's conscience. Keep your blood sample, this is the decision I have made from the beginning... If he backtracks and refuses to hand over the kaleidoscope Sharingan, then you will come in handy. Even if no replacement is accidentally summoned, after they send you back to the Pure Land, I can still reincarnate you again."

"You are my 'last resort', Kakashi-kun."

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Obito watched helplessly as Kite disappeared into the vortex of space.Although his vision was not clear, he could still feel that the other party was watching this side all the time during the process of getting away, as if he was questioning him with his eyes: I would rather pay Shuo Mao's life as the price, and you will let me die in the here?

At that moment, the fate of Yuan and Shuo Mao fell into his hands, and life and death were decided by his single thought.The tight time did not leave him room to think, and Obito was forced to make a hasty choice.

But is this decision correct?Sakumo liberated Budu Yuhun on the premise that he knew he would die.He came here with this knife for the purpose of dragging Yuan to Huangquan and burying his son with him.Obito's practice made his consciousness fall short. Even if he had saved his life, he would never be able to stand on the battlefield again and avenge his beloved son with his own hands.

What's more serious is that Obito let go of Kite, the world's number one public enemy.In order to achieve his ideals, that man can get rid of any obstacles without hesitation, Kakashi is not the first, and will never be the last.

If Tobi makes a comeback in the future, or even intensifies, and drags the entire ninja world into the catastrophe created by him, then all of this will be his, Obito Uchiha's responsibility——

The whistling sound of the electric current brought Obitu back to his senses, he raised his head in a daze, and subconsciously looked forward.The samurai is still standing there, but the knife in his hand has been put down, and the black cloud above his head is gradually dissipating.The thunder drums behind him were fading one by one, and now only the four sides were still lit.

"It will take some time for the re-sealing of Fudu Yuhun." Tsunade sighed, with a bit of regret in his voice, but also a bit of joy, "Fortunately, Sakumo reacted quickly, and he withdrew his power when he saw the kite escaped, otherwise he would not be able to escape again." It will be too late."

Obito lowered his head. "Am I... doing the right thing?" he asked in a low voice.

"To be honest, I don't know either." Tsunade replied.Her tone softened, "But there is one thing I know very well. No matter what choice you make, you will definitely regret your decision afterwards. I don't know if things would have changed if you chose the other side. develop in a better direction.”

She turned her head and looked at Obito who was stunned, with the comfort and encouragement unique to elders in her eyes. "Stop worrying about the past. I'm sure Sakumo will understand your choice, and Minato will... Everyone will understand. You have done a good job. Kushina was safe and sound, and was not taken away by the kite Walking Nine Tails is all thanks to you."

"...Thank you, Tsunade-sama."

"So cheer me up! We still have a lot to do next." Tsunade looked forward again, with his hands on his hips imposingly. "And this trip was not completely fruitless, at least Haiyi succeeded in obtaining Yuan's memory. He is so secretive about his true identity, which proves that there must be a fatal weakness hidden in this secret that can defeat him."

"Mr. Haiyi... is he okay?"

The deliberate uplift in Tsunade's voice was gone. "At least his life is saved, but it's still unknown when he will wake up. Maybe..." She stopped talking and changed her words, "No. I will definitely let him wake up."

While the two were talking, the thunder drum behind the samurai had completely dimmed.The sixteen thunder knives turned into phantoms in the air, and the warrior's body glowed with white light, and began to shrink slowly.

"I'm going to give Sakumo first aid, look at Kushina." Tsunade's tone became serious, "Pay attention to your surroundings!"

Obito watched her run towards Sakumo's location, and the mood that had just brightened slightly sank again.By the way, Haiyi also saw those memories - if he saw as much content as Obito, then he would be able to deduce the true identity of Tobi without any difficulty.At that time, will Tsunade still be able to comfort him like this?Can everyone still see him with the same attitude as before?

What's more, if Haiyi can't wake up in a short period of time, then as Konoha's ninja, he will be obliged to report everything he has seen, reveal his identity by himself, and let everyone know that he is in another world. How did he go astray and do the irreparable wrong things.Nothing could be more embarrassing than that.

The sound of the bushes shaking sounded behind him, gradually approaching.Obito quickly became alert, looked back, and happened to meet the Itachi that emerged from the woods.The latter quickly glanced at the end of the battlefield for a week, nodded to him again, and then raised his voice and shouted to the way he came: "Master Jiraiya, they are all here. The battle is over."

Soon, four more figures came to the open space.They were in groups of two, Lin supported Ming, and Jiraiya put his hand on Lu Jing's shoulder - the latter's mask and cloak had disappeared.Obito noticed that Jiraiya's expression was unprecedentedly serious, rather than supporting Lu Jing to move forward with his strength, it would be better to say that he was escorting the other party.

But soon this escort relationship ended. "Sakumo!!" His eyes fell on Tsunade and Sakumo in the distance, and Jiraiya also exclaimed, and ran over in a hurry without caring about anything else.Leaving Lu Jing still standing there; the step he took unconsciously stopped suddenly, and he stared intently at his father's direction, but he didn't know what to think, after all, he didn't follow behind Jiraiya.

"Obito!" Lin didn't know when she came to Obito's side.Seeing his blood-stained appearance, the brown-haired ninja was startled at first, then calmed down quickly, and began to search in her ninja bag. "Master Tsunade stopped the bleeding for you? Don't move, I'll bandage the wound."

When she looked down, Obito found a small severed branch tangled in her hair.Lin looked dusty, and although the professionalism of the medical ninja kept her calm and sober, there was an unconcealable tiredness in her eyes.It was a day and a half late to set off, but they rushed here with them. The marching speed of the support team can be imagined.

"Lin." Obito looked at her carefully, trying to expel the scene he saw when he linked his eyes out of his mind. "How are you?"

Lin kept bandaging, raised her head and glanced at him inexplicably. "I'm supposed to ask you that, right?"

"Really...haha, haha." Obito laughed a few times.He watched as Lin deftly cleaned up the cuts on his legs, stopping him as she turned to his hands. "Wait a minute, it doesn't get in the way. Help me up, I want to see Mr. Shuo Mao."

Lynn bit her lip. "I really love to be brave!" She complained half helplessly and half angrily, but she still took back the medical supplies and took Obito's left arm.With her strength, Obito stood up with difficulty, dragged his injured leg, and tentatively walked forward.

"Ouch!"

His half-recovered eyesight made him miss the raised stones at his feet.Obito fell heavily, dragged Lin to the ground, and fell to the ground with him.The palm pierced by the black stick could not exert force well, and Obito was struggling to get up by himself, but he was firmly supported by a pair of hands. "Take your time, be careful not to tear the wound." It was Lu Jing.

"Mizukage-sama has summoned the medical team, and they will come with a stretcher." Lu Jing said while supporting Obito to stand up straight.Then he reached out to Lynn again. "Lin?"

The scene that had been mostly faded suddenly became clear before Obito's eyes.He stared at the reincarnated man's hand—the right hand—to Lin's shoulder, as if he could easily pierce through her heart if he moved down a few inches—

Snapped!

The hand was suddenly slapped away hard before it touched Lin.After a crisp sound, whether it was Obito who started, Lu Jing who was slapped away, or Lin who was still kneeling on the ground, all three of them froze in place.

The surroundings seemed to become silent in an instant.Then Lu Jing was the first to react; the hand that was hanging in the air slowly fell down, and then the other hand that was holding Obito quietly let go.He took two steps back, looked at Obito, tried his best to maintain a calm expression, but his eyes revealed the bitterness of sudden realization.

"...I understand." He said softly, "So you also..."

Obito suddenly felt a strong upset.At this time, Lin had climbed up from the ground by herself, and he immediately held her hand tightly as if he had found a savior, and deliberately turned his head to avoid Lu Jing's sight.

"Itachi!" he called back to his cousin, who had noticed the unusual atmosphere and was coming from the edge of the wood. "Let's go and see Mr. Shuo Mao's situation. You come and guard Jiu Xinnai first." Then he whispered to Lin, "Let's go." Enduring the pain in his leg again, he limped like a He walked away as if he had run away.

This time, when he almost fell down again, Lu Jing didn't come to help him again.After walking halfway, Obito stopped, glanced back quietly, and saw that the reincarnated person was still standing there motionless.

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Half an hour later, the summoned medical and Anbu teams finally arrived at Guizhi Island.Ming left a team responsible for cleaning up the battlefield, and he took the rest of his subordinates and guests to Shenzhi Island, where the nearest outpost in Wuyin Village was set up.

Kirigakure Anbe, who had previously participated in the battle, was all killed, and Ao was seriously injured protecting Chojuro. Despite Tsunade's best efforts to save him, he stopped breathing before the medical team arrived.Under his life-saving protection, Chojuro only suffered from some mild concussions. After waking up, he immediately rushed to the island of Kirigakure Village to convey instructions to the people who stayed in the village on behalf of Mei.Mizukage himself stayed at the outpost, entertaining Konoha's ninjas as a host.

The size of the outpost was small, and allocating rooms became a problem.Among the three unconscious wounded, Sakumo and Haiyi were not completely out of danger. Tsunade placed them in the largest room to monitor the situation at any time. Jiraiya and the entire Kirigakure medical team helped her; Kushina fell into a coma due to the outbreak of Nine-Tails and the loosening of the seal, but it was only a matter of time before she woke up. Due to her special status, she occupied a hut and was being taken care of by Ming himself; Tucked into the last room, Lin was in charge of taking care of Obito's trauma, and Itachi seemed to take on some kind of monitoring task quietly——before leaving with Tsunade, Jiraiya also pulled him aside and whispered A few words.

No one spoke for a long time, and the atmosphere was unbearably dull.Obito fell down on the only bed, covered his head with the quilt, hoping that he could fall asleep as soon as possible, but unfortunately, it turned out to be the opposite.After the surroundings became quiet, his brain disregarded the master's resistance, and automatically played back the things he experienced a few hours ago before his eyes, and with the addition of insight eyes, every detail was extremely vivid. Retained, clear to the point of almost disgusting Obito.

He lay there with his eyes closed, his thoughts churning endlessly in his mind. For a while, he was thinking about the previous battle between Thor and the Golem. How should the trip to the Land of Water end?After being dazed for an unknown amount of time, just when exhaustion finally took over and began to drag him into a relieved sleep, the door of the room was suddenly opened.

Sitting up from the bed, Obito lost all sleepiness in an instant.The person who appeared at the door was Jiraiya; it was the first time Obito saw such a terrifying expression on his face, his face was almost livid.The heart subconsciously raised his throat, and he stared at the other's lips, for fear of spitting out any bad news from that mouth.

"Lin, since there is nothing wrong with Obito, you can go to Kushina's place to have a look. After all, Mizukage is the leader of Kirigakure, so we can't let him guard our wounded all the time." Jiraiya finally spoke, his voice was extremely suppressed Low, as if restraining emotions. "Stay over there tonight."

Anyone could tell that this was just an excuse to distract her.Lin glanced at Obito, obviously at a loss. "Okay." She finally stood up obediently, and then quickly glanced at everyone in the room, and left behind Jiraiya.

"Just now, Haiyi woke up for a while." Ziraiya didn't continue until Lin's footsteps could no longer be heard.Hearing this, Obito's heart sank suddenly, and his hands under the quilt involuntarily grabbed the sheet. "Although he passed out again soon, but before he passed out, he said a word."

As he spoke, his voice paused, his eyes glanced over Obito and Itachi and landed on Lu Jing's body, and immediately became extremely fierce.

"He said that in Tobi's memory, he saw you kill Lin from that world with your own hands. Now tell me honestly, Hatake Kakashi, who is Tobi, and what is your relationship?"