It had to be known, Obito's black rod was hollow inside. When it stabbed deep into Rin's chest, it instantly ruptured the major blood vessels within her body.
In an instant, blood surged out along the rod like a flood breaking through a dam.
"RIN!"
Seeing this, Kakashi let out a cry filled with both terror and rage, as if the sky had collapsed.
He rushed to Rin's side at lightning speed.
At the same time, Minato beside him displayed astonishing reflexes.
Almost the very moment the rod pierced Rin's chest, he had already flashed to her side.
He quickly reached out and pressed firmly against the other end of the rod, stopping the blood from continuing to gush out.
"Use the Water of Life, now!", Minato shouted urgently.
He knew very well that only that could save Rin's life at this point.
Hearing Minato's shout, Kakashi snapped out of it and immediately fumbled through his belongings.
He had long known this mission would be dangerous, so he had naturally carried life-saving items like the Water of Life with him.
Finally, Kakashi found the bottle.
He yanked out the stopper in a panic, brought it to Nohara Rin's lips, and said urgently, "Rin, drink it! Quick!"
But to his shock, even with such severe injuries, Rin kept her lips tightly shut, refusing to drink a single drop.
Seeing her like this, Kakashi panicked completely, anxiety overwhelming his reason.
"Rin, what are you doing? Hurry up and drink it! You'll live if you just drink it!"
At this moment, Kakashi's mind was in complete chaos, unable to think clearly at all.
Minato paused briefly when he saw this.
At that moment, he suddenly heard Rengoku's voice through the Yamanaka clan's secret technique.
After a brief exchange, Minato finally understood why Rin was refusing to drink the Water of Life.
"Feed it to her with your mouth!"
Kakashi's mind was blank. Whatever Minato said, he followed without hesitation.
He took the Water of Life into his own mouth, leaned in close to Rin's lips, and carefully passed the liquid to her.
At that moment, Rin, who had been clenching her teeth, seemed to feel that warmth and vitality. She finally loosened her jaw slightly and swallowed the life-saving liquid with a gulp.
Just as Kakashi was about to pull away, a strong hand suddenly pressed down on his head.
It was Minato, his expression serious as he said, "Don't move. I'm pulling the rod out!"
Before his words had even fully fallen, Minato yanked the black rod out of Rin's body.
In that instant, Rin's body convulsed violently, and a shocking burst of blood sprayed from her chest, splattering onto the surrounding ground.
Reacting instantly, Minato grabbed Kakashi's hand and pressed it firmly against Rin's bleeding wound.
At the same time, he shouted, "Press it! Stop the bleeding!"
Kakashi had no time to think about anything else. There was only one thought in his mind, he had to save Rin.
So he pressed down tightly, not daring to loosen his grip in the slightest.
At that moment, the Water of Life that had just been fed into Rin began to take effect.
Her horrifying wound visibly began to close and heal at a speed the naked eye could see, and she gradually regained consciousness from her dazed state.
The two of them were now in an extremely intimate position.
Kakashi was holding Rin tightly, their lips still pressed together, and his hand was still resting on her chest.
Meanwhile, off to the side lay Obito's severed head.
His eyes, which had been dimming, suddenly flared with a blazing light, as if ignited by a raging fire.
The pain was like countless arrows piercing through his heart, sharp and piercing.
The malice burned like a roaring inferno, scorching every inch of his soul.
Hatred surged like crashing waves, pounding again and again against the shores of his mind.
These intense emotions intertwined and fused together, surging endlessly like a violent tide.
Within the cocoon inside Obito's corpse, a terrifying power quietly awakened.
That power was the Zero-Tails, greedily devouring all the negative emotions surging within him.
As the emotional energy poured in continuously, the Zero-Tails grew stronger, until it finally broke free from the cocoon's restraint.
In an instant, Obito's corpse began to undergo a shocking transformation.
Large amounts of pitch-black chakra erupted from within him.
These black streams of chakra quickly gathered together, forming a tight connection with his brain.
Minato, who had been closely monitoring the situation, sensed the danger immediately.
Without hesitation, he reached out, grabbed Kakashi and Rin beside him, and vanished in a flash.
Almost at the same time, he reappeared, this time behind Obito, and struck down with a single blow.
But despite his lightning-fast speed, he struck nothing.
Obito had already entered an intangible state, like a transparent shadow, easily evading Minato's attack.
At that moment, Obito's body slowly sat upright. His head, which had been severed and hanging at an angle, miraculously reattached and returned to its place.
His hollow, lifeless eyes stared straight ahead, radiating a chilling coldness.
Obito's face was stiff like a puppet, completely devoid of expression.
Yet if one looked closely at the dark chakra raging around him like a storm, it was clear he was anything but calm.
Deep within Obito's mind, two versions of himself stood facing each other.
One was tall and fully grown, an adult.
The other was his younger self, an innocent child.
The adult Obito laughed wildly, his expression unhinged.
Tears and blood streamed from his eyes as he laughed, as if trying to release all the pain and hatred inside him.
In contrast, the child Obito's small body was covered in grotesque cracks, his entire being listless and dim, drained of spirit.
Clearly, witnessing Kakashi and Rin embracing and kissing had been a devastating, almost fatal blow to this childlike persona.
["Do you see it now? You foolish, pathetic me! There's never been you in Rin's eyes!"]
The adult Obito roared with mocking contempt as he laughed at his younger self.
["Even Kakashi loves her. No matter when or where, you've always been the extra one!"]
Faced with such merciless ridicule, the younger Obito slowly revealed a relieved smile and said softly, ["As long as Rin can find true happiness, even if I'm the extra one… so what?"]
Then he lifted his head, meeting the adult Obito's gaze firmly as he continued, ["This time, maybe I can't stop what you're doing. But you'll never be able to erase me completely."]
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