[with card] Enemy of the World

49. Heart trace

"Outer Dao Reincarnation Innate Technique."

These words floated out from between the dry lips of the kite, as light as the last breath exhaled by the deceased before dying, and as heavy as a sigh after the dust has settled.

The three members of the Minato class looked at each other, and in unison turned their gazes to the ninjas lying on the ground.Although they can't see any changes for the time being, their intuition tells them that something big is about to happen.

The first mutation was Kakashi.

Hissing white smoke billowed around the silver-haired Anbu.The dead gray layer of the body of the filth has peeled off; although the exposed skin is pale, it has faintly revealed the blood of the newborn.Sensing the change in his body, Kakashi opened his eyes wide and blinked twice in disbelief.

When he opened his eyes again, the whites of his eyes had returned to their normal color.

"Kakashi!" Lin shouted in surprise and joy.

"What... what's wrong?" Obito finally recovered from his drowsy state at this moment.His field of vision returned to darkness again. Hearing Lin's exclamation, he turned his head blankly, eager to know what happened.

A hand gently took his, pressing the palm to his chest.Feeling the unmistakable steady beating under the flesh and blood of the clothes, Obito was startled at first, and then ecstatic.

"...Kakashi," he said in a trembling voice, groping wildly towards the other's face with the other hand, "you...you really...?"

He heard the sound of cloth rubbing, and then something warm and soft pressed against his fingertips.

"It's me, Obito." Kakashi replied, kissing those trembling fingers again. "I'm back--"

Before he finished speaking, he was pulled into his arms by the black-haired Uchiha and hugged him tightly.

At this time, the battlefield has also fallen into a boil.The ninjas who died in battle sat up from the ground, looking at the blood on their bodies in confusion, not understanding why they would come back to life.But this is not important soon; just like the compatriots who were freed from the infinite monthly reading, they quickly found their parents, brothers, and lovers, hugged each other tightly with tears and laughter, and shared the joy of the rest of their lives .

"Who saved us?" "Did we win?" "Did that guy called Kite get knocked down?" Everyone kept asking the same question.

"It hurts..." Kushina frowned and groaned.She felt tired, tired, and aching all over, but fortunately, there was a mass of familiar and friendly chakra coiled around her abdomen, sending warm energy to her meridians, relieving her discomfort.She opened her eyes, her vision gradually became clear, and what caught her eyes was Minato's overjoyed face, her blue eyes sparkling with tears.

"Minato...?" She said dreamily, "But I was not..."

"A lot of things happened, I'll tell you later." Minato said gently, pressing a light kiss on his wife's forehead.Then he raised his head and looked at Jiraiya Tsunade and the others who were also awake and slowly getting up.

"Hokage?" Ai moved his stiff neck.He looked down at his unscathed chest, with a rare lingering fear. "I remember I was dead... Did you bring us back? How? And—"

Ai looked past the yellow flash and landed on the white-haired man not far away. Ai suddenly stopped talking, and tension and murderous intent appeared on his face again. "...that bastard! He's not dead yet!" He staggered to his feet, "I'm going to let him die now!"

"Brother?" Kirabi behind him asked suspiciously.

"...Eh?" Ai Ben's footsteps froze when he went out, turned his head, and looked at his foster brother dumbfounded.

"Raikage, everyone, please wait a moment." At this moment, Minato also stood up.He took a step to the side, and opened his arms to block Siying and the others, blocking their sight behind him. "It's hard to explain the detailed process in just a few words, but Kite is no longer our enemy. In fact, he is the one who resurrected everyone... Therefore, I hope everyone can give him some time."

He paused, his expression darkened. "Anyway...it won't take too long."

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The clasped hands were loosened, and they fell powerlessly by his side.Blood gushed out from the corner of Yuan's mouth, flowed down her cheeks, and soon gathered into a small pool on the ground beside her.His eyes were completely distracted, and the rise and fall of his chest could hardly be seen.

Surrounded by a sea of ​​celebration, he is alone, lying here alone and quietly.The joy had nothing to do with him, and if it had nothing to do with it, it was a celebration of his fiasco.

"... Obito." He swallowed a mouthful of blood, and turned his face slightly. "Are you by the side? Come here. I have something... I want to ask you."

His faint voice was easily swallowed by the noise around him, but Obito still heard it.Letting go of his lover, he motioned to his two teammates to lead him to Yuan, and half knelt down beside the man whose life was about to end.

"I'm here." He replied, touched Yuan's cold hand, and held it tightly. "What do you want to know?"

"At that time, you said... Kakashi liked me. Is that true? Did he... say so himself?"

It seemed that this was the only thing he cared about when he was dying.

Obito was taken aback. "he……"

"Tell the truth." Before he continued, Tobi added. "You tell me what he says. I don't need white lies."

"Don't lie to me. I have...been deceived enough in my life."

Obito's heart throbbed violently because of those words.

"The deer frightened him... always put you in the most important position in his heart." After a moment of silence, he said. "Thinking about it now, he probably guessed your real body a long time ago, but he never told anyone. You have always been a hero in his eyes. No matter what, he doesn't want to marry you with a person who wants to destroy the world. More than anyone else, he wants to stop you, and at the same time, more than anyone else, he wants you to turn back. If he is not against you, but on the same front, he will definitely do his best to help you, regardless of I will do everything to protect you, even breaking my body... You successfully suppressed the ten tails, so I think you have already experienced this."

"He did bow his head to us for you, begging us to give you a chance to make amends. Although he said at that time that he wanted to save the world... But I understand that what he wants to save most is you."

This was not the answer the questioner most hoped for; but Kite's reaction was very calm after hearing it.

"That's enough." He whispered, "I shouldn't...ask for more."

"What about you?" Obito asked after hesitating. "What do you think of him?"

He didn't get an answer for a long time.Just when Obito wondered if Kite had died, he heard the other party's voice.

"Kakashi...he is the only past that I can't let go, the karma that can't be cut off. 'I want to realize the eye of the moon because of him', I will never say this, but I am better than anyone in this world We all understand his pain, and hope he can be happy. But in the end...but I hurt him the most."

"I... am no longer qualified to say that word."

There was another silence.Then Obito opened up again.

"At that time we used Kyuubi and Susanoo to fight against you. When the Odachi and the Amuma Spear collided, I saw your memory. I can't agree with your approach, and it is the same until now; but, about why you It will become like this, why I am so obsessed with the eyes of the moon, after watching those clips, I seem to understand better than when I was in Guizhi Island. If it were me, standing in your position, experiencing your Those things that I have experienced, maybe—no, I must—will make the same choice as you. After all... I am you."

"..."

"You are right. We are indeed luckier than you. We have not lost staff at the Kannabi Bridge, nor have we experienced the Sanwei Jinchuriki incident. I still have Kakashi, Rin, Sensei and Kushina, and Konoha Everyone is by my side, helping me and supporting me. Because of them, in order to protect them, I will risk everything and fight to the death."

Tobi had been listening to Obito's words in silence; it was only then that she finally responded.

"Then," he said, pulling his hands away from Obito's. "Let me give you the power to better protect them."

Obito couldn't help being stunned when he noticed the slight spatial fluctuation. "you……"

The fresh smell of blood interrupted his words.He heard Lin breathing in; the hand came back, and gently placed two moist, spherical objects into his palm.

In an instant he realized what it was.

"He kept the left eye and hid it in the space of Kakashi." Kakashi whispered, "Just now he destroyed the eye of reincarnation and dug out his right eye."

"Since you said...you are me, then they...presumably can also...bring you...more powerful power." The flashback ended.Kite's voice became extremely weak and intermittent. "If you can use...this power...to create a...different future, then...let these eyes...for me and Kakashi...see it too."

"I will." Obito choked up and nodded, carefully holding the pair of Sharingan in his hands. "I will protect everyone and never let them get hurt. I promise you."

Yuan's brows finally completely relaxed.He stopped talking—for a full minute, his expression was completely frozen.

Suddenly, the hand hanging on the ground flicked very slightly.

Kite showed a dazed and ecstatic expression.Throat trembling, he asked softly:

"Kakashi, are you...waiting for me?"

No one knows what he saw at the last moment of his life when he lost his eyes.

As the supreme commander of the coalition forces, Ai stood on a high slope and officially announced the victory of the war to the ninjas.The crowd below burst into cheers like a tsunami.

In the cheers that resounded through the sky, Obito Uchiha——

A man who lost half his life in false dreams and ended up with nothing;

Instigators and losers of the Fourth Ninja War;

Enemy of the world.

——Accompanied by the Minato class from another time and space, he passed away with a smile on his face and tears of blood.

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Two months later, Konoha.

After asking for the desired information from the information desk, Obito walked straight through the hospital building and came to the garden behind.Sweeping his gaze across the yard, he quickly found his target and walked forward quickly.

Sakumo's wheelchair—he was just starting to recover and couldn't walk for a long time, and Tsunade suggested it instead—was parked on the grass next to the fountain.On the silver-haired man's lap were three little puppies, whining and barking as he teased, vying to bite the finger with their small teeth that hadn't grown yet.Pochi lay at his master's feet, squinting his eyes and basking lazily in the sun, only shaking his ears twice when the puppies were rambunctious.

"Mr. Sakumo!" Obito greeted, who nodded with a smile and pointed to the side.Obito looked in the direction he indicated, and saw Kakashi lying on a bench under the shade of a tree, with his hands folded behind his head, and a book of Intimacy Paradise covering his face.

Obito walked over on tiptoe, just about to make a surprise attack, when he heard a laughing voice from under the pages: "I've heard you coming over a long time ago."

"Sme...smell?" Obito was stunned, and when he came back to his senses, he quickly sniffed himself. "I obviously took a shower as soon as I got back..."

"It's the smell of red bean cake, silly boy. Have you been to Kanlikan just now?" Kakashi took the book away and sat up.He looked at Obito, and his eyes finally fell on the pair of red eyes, the pattern in them was similar to Kamui, but not the same. "It seems that the pupil power fusion is good. How does it feel to perform the mission for the first time after being discharged from the hospital? Is Sharingan okay?"

"Great," Obito said, rubbing his eyes unconsciously. "Sharingan doesn't have any symptoms of discomfort. After all... these are also my eyes."

"Have you discovered new abilities?"

"No, but the 5-minute time limit for virtualization has been lifted, and I don't need to materialize when I transfer myself and other things in the future. Shenwei's ability is already very powerful, and after overcoming these two shortcomings, the power will naturally become more powerful." Go up to the next floor." Obito said, clenched his fist confidently, "This way I can better protect everyone!"

"Okay, okay, I know you won't be blind no matter how you use your eyes, and there's no need to stare at a pair of kaleidoscope Sharingans everywhere, right?" Kakashi waved his hand, "It will scare others."

"Hey... I've been in the hospital for too long. I'm excited, sometimes excited." Obito rubbed the back of his head and giggled.His eyes returned to black, and he turned to look in Shuo Mao's direction. "Who are those puppies?"

"Pochi's sons were just born last month. Grandma Inu asked him to bring them here to show me and Dad, saying that when they become adults, they can sign a contract with the next generation of the Hatake family." Kakashi replied , glanced at Obito pointingly, "She doesn't know yet, thanks to a certain Hokage, my family is about to die out."

"Stupid...stupid...stupid Kaka, what are you talking about!" Obito's face immediately turned into a red tomato, and he stammered, "Besides... besides, you can also pass the Ninja Dog contract to the students! Just Just like Jiraiya-sama passed it on to Minato-sensei!"

"Unlike someone, I never planned to leave Anbe." Kakashi said, shaking the book in his hand.

"...This is it?"

"Collector's Edition Volume [-]. I said I couldn't find it at home, so it was taken away by you."

"Ah... that's right. At that time, this book was meant to be read by Lu Jing, but later... I didn't bother to return it." When the name was mentioned, Obito's expression softened, and melancholy and nostalgia appeared in his eyes. "That's what happened a few months ago... Now that I think about it, it feels like a long, long time has passed."

"I think so. It seems that he forgot that this is someone else's book, and he is really not polite when he moves his hands." Kakashi said, and opened it with his fingers, showing Obito the folded one Page. "However, thanks to this folding page, I found something."

"Huh?" Obito took the book doubtfully, and looked at the text on that page.

Different from the normal edition, the Collector's Edition adds a few independent short stories written by Jiraiya after the story of making love to heaven, which can be regarded as a benefit for loyal readers.Obito has no interest in this kind of bad reading, and only read it once with Kakashi when he was bored, and then forgot about it; but for some reason, he still has some impression of this short story called "Rainbow".

He vaguely remembered that this short story was about the tragedy of love between a pair of wandering ninjas.The heroine has a younger brother named Shinji, who has been weak and sick since he was a child, and needs to be accompanied and taken care of at all times; for this reason, there are often frictions between the hero and heroine.

And the page that Lu Jing folded at the beginning is the inner monologue of the heroine after a certain quarrel——

"He yelled at me, saying that the most important person in my heart will always be Xinji, not him. But he didn't understand that I wanted Xinji to live, but I was willing to accompany him to die at any time."

"I can do anything for Shinji, but without him I can do nothing. He is my light, my god, my origin, my creation, without him I am nothing .”

"I love him."

"I know what you're thinking." Kakashi's voice brought Obito back to reality, and he realized that he was gripping the book tightly, and the pages had been pinched out of wrinkles.But Kakashi, who cherished books like his life in the past, didn't bother with him this time, looking forward with his eyes, and said lightly. "You're thinking, it would be great if you could see this sooner... Then you can tell Yuan with certainty that Lu Jing really loves him."

"...Yeah." Obito exhaled and lowered his arms. "In this case, he can go more or less at ease."

"Don't worry. Isn't Lu Jing waiting for him? They will go to the Pure Land together, and there they will explain each other's intentions clearly."

"……Um."

For a while, the two of them didn't speak any more, each was absorbed in listening to the rustling of the leaves.

After a while, Obito broke the silence: "Kakashi, you said...does a perfect world exist?"

"I don't think it exists, at least for us ninjas." Before the silver-haired youth could answer, he had already given the answer himself. "If one day, there will be no more wars in the world, I'm afraid that by then... the ninja will lose the meaning of existence. Tobi saw this clearly, so she said that to me when she sent these eyes. I That's how I understand it."

"Then what are your thoughts?"

"I don't know... Born in Uchiha's family, I am destined to be a ninja all my life, let alone my goal is to become Hokage." Obito scratched his hair, showing a distressed expression, "I can't climb to this place first At the top of the system, how about destroying the system in turn? It sounds crazy no matter what.”

"In that case," Kakashi spread his hands, "let this world continue to be imperfect."

"……Eh?"

"Because there are regrets left in the past, I will cherish the present more. Because I am afraid of losing, I will work hard to become stronger. Because I have seen tragedies, I hope that it will not happen again. Isn't this good?" Kakashi Looking at Obito, the sun shines through the gaps between the leaves, as if it fell into his eyes. "Because reality is not perfect, people will pursue perfection, love and be loved, protect and be protected, entrust and be entrusted. Isn't that enough?"

Obito's surprised expression slowly turned into a smile.He turned his head and looked at the distant sky in late autumn. At the end of his field of vision, there was a row of slow-moving migratory birds flying by.

"You're right. That's... enough."

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In the teaching room on the third floor of the hospital, Lin was introducing the basics of medical ninjutsu to her newly recruited students.The girls with pink hair and blond hair sat side by side, listening to her explanation, their immature faces were full of seriousness.

In the Uchiha settlement, in the backyard of the patriarch's house, Minato and Fugaku are sitting on the promenade drinking tea and playing chess.Kushina and Mikoto chatted while eating snacks, with happy smiles on their faces.

Below the Hokage Rock Mountain, a huge nine-tailed fox was dozing on the ground, with its head resting on its overlapping front paws.Shouting excitedly, Naruto slid down a raised tail and landed on Kurama's back, his face buried in the thick fur.Then he jumped up, waved desperately at Sasuke who was standing below, and signaled him to come and play together; Sasuke was obviously tempted, but he was still reserved because of his thin skin, until he was nudged by his brother behind him, and finally tensed Unable to stop, he climbed up with his hands and feet.Seeing this, Itachi and Shishui looked at each other and smiled.

In an independent log cabin outside the village, Tsunade was doing a regular diagnosis for Nagato, and wrote down a series of precautions on paper.On the open space behind the house, Jilai, accompanied by Xiaonan, gently placed a bunch of paper flowers in front of Yahiko's tomb.

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Another time and space, the third training ground.

The blond-haired young man stood in front of the memorial tablet, and the back of the royal robe was embroidered with five bright characters of "Six Daime Hokage".Not far away, two of his teammates waited quietly beside the wooden stake for the Ninja Exam back then, not disturbing him to confide their hearts to the dead teacher.

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Mountain cemetery.

The towering skeleton casts a huge shadow on the ground.In a corner that would not be easily noticed by others, someone quietly erected a grave.There is no tombstone in front of the grave, and there is no way to know the identity and name of the person who has been buried here. Only a pair of orange goggles are hung on the cross, fixed with strangely shaped shurikens.

It was dusk, and the lens was facing west, reflecting a bit of the setting sun, which slowly sank below the horizon.

Tomorrow morning, the sun will rise again.

(THEEND)