Shisui's eyes widened in shock and surprise.
He hadn't estimated Obito's reaction time to be that much faster than his. But Shisui wasn't done yet.
He hadn't even fought seriously until now.
Before long, just as Obito's kunai reached the neck of the Daimyo to behead him, Shisui's blade reached in between parrying it as he used his high speed body flicker jutsu!
CLANG!!!
Sparks flew out from between their weapons as they clashed with equal strength.
Obito looked at Shisui and found a small but meaningful change in his eyes.
Shisui had activated his three tomoe sharingan.
"You are strong Madara-sama." Shisui said with a slightly fearful tone, still pretending to be the weaker of the two during the clashes.
Obito smirked under his mask, enjoying the superiority with relish but he quickly focused on Shisui as his own eye transformed into the famed Mangekyou Sharingan.
Shisui's eyes widened but Obito didn't give him the time to react. "Let me show you the difference between our eyes!"
'Kamui!'
Obito phased through Shisui's flaming blade and aimed his kunai right
at the Daimyo, only Shisui was faster!
PUCHI!
Blood smeared across the marble floor of the King's chamber as Shisui took the hit meant for the Daimyo.
"Ho- how!?" Shisui asked Obito, referencing the fact that he'd just phased through his blade like it was air.
'I need him to let his guard down… let him think he has won and then I can turn the tables.'
Obito smirked under his mask and pulled back his kunai from Shisui's shoulder. "I told you… I'm a ghost… you can't kill a ghost… I'm immortal!"
Shisui groaned under the pain in his shoulder and finally shouted!
"It doesn't matter how you did that! I will still get you in the end! Aggghhhhhhh!!!!!"
Shisui rushed towards Obito, he raised his knee high in an attempt to crush Obito's sternum, but Obito cleverly phased through once again.
Obito still holding his kunai and Shisui still holding his flaming blade faced off against each other for a second in silence…
'...'
'...'
"Ugh…" The Daimyo groaned in pain from the earlier throw causing Obito to break into a mad sprint towards Shisui.
Shisui looked at Obito and smirked mentally.
'Challenging me in a game of speed? You'll only tire yourself.'
Obito sliced his kunai from the bottom up, only at the peak of his slice, Obito let the kunai slip from his fingers, letting it fly straight at Shisui.
Shisui blocked the kunai with a simple swipe of his sword, however, the second he readjusted his stance to deal with Obito, he found him nowhere.
Trusting his instincts entirely, Shisui used the body flicker jutsu and moved a couple steps away immediately. A kunai pierced through the space his head had just been as a hand attached to it emerged out of a tear in the fabric of space.
"A space time ninjutsu!?" Shisui shouted in faux shock and surprise.
Yet, Shisui didn't relent.
He charged at Obito who was emerging out of the space time tear and slashed his flaming sword at him in an attempt to sear and cut him up!
But Obito was simply stronger! Obito phased through the attacks once again and charged at Shisui!
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!!
Several strikes were exchanged in the matter of a few seconds as Obito and Shisui crossed blades.
Obito effortlessly parried Shisui's sword with his kunai since Shisui looked to be angered by Obito and he seemed to be charging recklessly.
Shisui's shoulder wound worsened as his mobility was affected, his precise strikes started losing their edge as they stopped finding their mark and pressuring Obito.
Obito smirked under his mask and when he felt Shisui's swing grow weak from the loss of blood in his arm, he phased right through Shisui's swing. Phasing through the flaming sword as he moved towards the Daimyo.
Mid-way through the phasing, Obito's eyes met with Shisui's, their gazes reflecting the stark contrast of their positions.
Obito's eyes reflected the victory that was so close to grasp while Shisui's reflected the defeat that had been caused by the victory that had already slipped through his fingers.
Only, at the last second, Shisui's eyes changed. His gaze deepened and the corners of his mouth lifted in a smirk.
Within the instant it took Obito to phase through his flaming blade, Shisui's eyes changed once again as the three tomoe within it melded and merged together into a four bladed fan wheel, causing Obito's lone visible eye to widen in shock and surprise.
'He's awakened the Mangekyou sharingan too?!'
'When!?'
'How!?'
'What is his ability!?'
But Shisui didn't give Obito even a second longer to react to the new information, he'd played his hand and now all that was left was to execute its usefulness to the greatest extent possible.
In the second it took Obito to recover and move away from Shisui, the pinwheel in Shisui's right eye spun.
'I already failed to stop one enemy and gained these eyes…'
'Now I won't let an enemy kill anyone in front of me ever again!'
"Obito…" Shisui said in a harsh tone causing the yellow eyes watching him from the corner of the room to widen, "Kill your self."
Obito's eyes widened too. But then a strange cold feeling entered his mind. A lingering sense of confusion clouded him for a second before things started to become clear as a still water lake.
He froze mid swing towards the daimyo, causing the old man to break out in cold sweat.
'Yes… I must kill myself… that is the right way to end things…'
Obito's kunai wielding hand loosened up for a second before his grip on the kunai tightened as he raised it high.
'Rin… I'm coming to you… are you waiting for me?'
Obito's eyes lost their ferocity and gained a sense of transcendence, as if he could see the beyond right at this very moment while he was still living.
Suddenly, a shadow darted from the opposite end of the room, rushing towards Obito in an attempt to break him out of the hypnosis by possessing him.
Alas, how could a mere shadow escape the sight of Shisui's great mangekyou sharingan?
Either way… Shisui's job here was done. He had stopped Obito from attacking the daimyo, now all that was left was punishment.
Obito lost in his fanciful dreams, didn't hear the rustle of wind as a blade swung at him.
Shisui's flaming sword came down with terrifying focus and speed, something that he had been carefully hiding throughout the tail end of the previous fight.
And in the next second, Obito's head flew up high into the air, his entire body lit aflame thanks to the burning hot sword of Shisui.
The shadow reached Obito in the very next moment, melding with him and taking control over his body, but the deed was done.
The kunai in Obito's hand swung at Shisui catching him by slight surprise but Shisui didn't complain, he dutifully parried the strike before raising his hand in another strike.
Except before Shisui's sword could fall down and slice Obito's body up again, Obito's body sank into the marble floors as if it were made out of butter!
The shadowy figure that had captured Obito's body, extended outwards to take his head along with it, but Shisui threw his sword at it, pinning the flaming head onto the floor!
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