The moment the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was summoned away,
Uchiha Obito and Black Zetsu immediately sensed it.
"So Nagato has finally begun to grasp the true power of those eyes."
Black Zetsu was overjoyed.
The activation of the Rinnegan's power marked the official beginning of the Eye of the Moon Plan.
Mother, you'll be free soon.
Uchiha Obito disappeared from the area together with Black Zetsu.
Intangibility really was convenient.
After some time, the two appeared beside Nagato and Konan.
Nagato had already exhausted himself mentally and fallen asleep.
"Who are you?"
Konan instantly became vigilant.
She had already lost Yahiko. There was no way she could endure losing Nagato too.
"Relax. I'm here to help you."
Uchiha Obito spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Help us? Who exactly are you?"
"You may call me... Uchiha Madara."
...
Land of Earth.
Under Ōnoki's command, the Hidden Stone Village easily crushed the Hidden Rain Village, which no longer had Hanzo leading it.
Ōnoki himself wreaked absolute havoc among the Rain shinobi forces.
How terrifying Dust Release became when nobody could restrain it—probably only the Rain ninja who had already been reduced to atoms truly understood.
"Tsuchikage-sama, under your leadership, we've already wiped out the Hidden Rain's main army. The remaining scattered squads are basically ours for the taking now. Finishing them off is only a matter of time."
Ryūgan said excitedly.
He had originally thought this would become the Hidden Stone Village's hardest battle.
Who could've expected it to go so smoothly?
"Good. Ignore the remaining small Rain squads for now. Hanzo still hasn't shown himself, and that makes me uneasy. Better to play it safe."
Ōnoki no longer dared to get reckless.
The battle against Konoha had completely traumatized him.
If Hanzo suddenly pulled off some last-second desperate awakening, the Hidden Stone Village would truly have to rebuild from scratch.
"Ryūgan, from now on, all of the village's priorities are to focus entirely within the Land of Earth's borders. Any mission that requires leaving the country is rejected immediately."
"Understood, Tsuchikage-sama."
Ōnoki had already made up his mind.
He would spend the rest of his life restoring the Land of Earth's national strength and rebuilding the Hidden Stone Village's power.
As for expansion and growth... that would be left to his successor.
All he could do now was clean up this gigantic mess.
...
While turmoil swept across the ninja world,
Konoha alone remained peaceful and prosperous.
Perhaps that was the ease and comfort enjoyed by the victors of war.
During that year, everyone who was supposed to get married finally tied the knot.
The following year, just like marriage itself, a wave of pregnancies followed close behind.
Well... after getting married, they'd obviously been doing that a lot. The more they did it, the higher the success rate naturally became.
By the year after that, children began to be born one after another.
Konoha was about to welcome yet another golden era.
And so, regardless of what strange events unfolded throughout the ninja world,
Konoha peacefully passed five whole years.
The children were now around three years old—exactly the age where they ran around causing chaos everywhere.
Oh, right.
When Namikaze Naruto was born, a small incident also took place.
At the time, Uchiha Obito gazed at the Konoha he hadn't returned to in ages, his eyes filled with hatred.
"Grandma, I swear I'll destroy Konoha and avenge you."
Nobody really knew what kind of bizarre storyline Uchiha Obito had gone through this time, but his hatred had shifted from the Hidden Mist Village to Konoha.
"Right now, among the tailed beasts still alive in the ninja world, only the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails remain. And among them, the Nine-Tails is the most dangerous. This is the perfect opportunity to capture it while its jinchūriki is giving birth."
Having completed the first step of his plan,
Uchiha Obito had barely stepped onto Konoha soil—when countless insects suddenly burst upward and wrapped around him.
But Obito activated intangibility and walked straight through them without resistance.
Then another massive swarm of insects rose up and enveloped him again.
At that moment, Aburame Shiken's insect clone condensed into shape.
"Five minutes, huh? Let's see who outlasts who."
"Secret Technique: Infinite Insect Sphere Tracking."
Uchiha Obito sighed helplessly.
"Kamui."
The insects before him and Aburame Shiken's head vanished from the world simultaneously.
In the next instant, another enormous mass of insects reconstructed Aburame Shiken's head again.
So it really had changed.
Even Kamui now?
Still, I'm more curious what made him fall into darkness this time.
Nohara Rin was currently working as an intern nurse at Konoha Hospital.
Could it be he learned about Rin and Kakashi's relationship and snapped because of that?
Honestly... that sounded pretty reasonable.
Hatake Kakashi: Let me explain this one more time. Rin and I are just very close friends. Absolutely not what you people are imagining.
Hatake Sakumo: Didn't you say before that you were just classmates? Why has it suddenly become "very close friends"?
Hatake Kakashi: Uh...
Uchiha Obito also seemed to realize he couldn't keep passively enduring this.
He quickly formed hand seals.
"Fire Release!"
A spiraling torrent of flame mixed with violent wind roared forward, instantly burning out a huge vacuum zone.
Using that opening,
Uchiha Obito phased away and disappeared.
Watching Obito vanish, Aburame Shiken muttered to himself,
"So this method still doesn't work after all?"
A number of black-and-white spotted insects appeared in his hand.
Void-Sealing Insects.
"I'll improve it next time. Once I get back, I'll research whether it's a problem with quantity... or whether the whole concept itself is flawed."
...
Northern Konoha.
Near the Hokage Rock.
Uchiha Obito appeared there.
"Hmph. Those Aburame bastards. I refuse to believe you can instantly make it here too."
Swish—
A silver flash streaked across with perfect precision through Uchiha Obito's body.
A man with white cloth wrapped around his eyes suddenly appeared.
Cold sweat instantly covered Obito's back.
That was close.
Just a little slower, and he would've been split clean in half down the middle before he could activate intangibility.
Uchiha Kamito sheathed his blade again, quietly waiting for the moment Obito chose to attack.
According to the intelligence reports,
if Obito wanted to physically strike someone, he had to materialize his real body first.
Uchiha Obito immediately chose the coward's route.
He phased away and fled.
Konoha was huge. It wasn't like this was the only entrance. There was no need to stubbornly fight someone who looked this dangerous.
"Oh? He left already? What a shame. I was just a little too slow. Otherwise this would've been the grand finale already. Still need more training."
Uchiha Kamito sat down cross-legged, right on top of the Second Hokage's stone head.
At that moment, Uchiha Obito had already arrived inside the Forest of Death on Konoha's western side.
Just as he was about to do something, a voice thick with bloodlust suddenly rang out.
"Hey. Mind going somewhere else? Killing you would be troublesome, so please don't make things difficult for me, alright?"
Inuzuka Ryoha stood there with a huge pack of ninja hounds behind him, varying in size and height.
All of them stared at Uchiha Obito like predators watching prey.
Uchiha Obito said nothing.
He silently turned and left.
"At least you know what's good for you."
After letting out a cold laugh, Inuzuka Ryoha waved his hand.
The massive pack of ninja dogs dispersed one after another into the forest.
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