Chapter 192 If this world didn't have Lin...
Chapter 192 If this world didn't have Lin...
Hmm…
It felt like countless flies were buzzing in his mind as Obito Uchiha struggled to open his heavy eyelids.
As the view gradually cleared, the damp rock walls and dripping stalactites came into view.
"Where am I...?"
Obito instinctively tried to raise his hand to rub his head, but found that his hands were tightly bound behind his back, the rough ropes digging into his flesh and causing a sharp pain.
Memories flooded back like a tide.
The Hidden Mist attacked, and Minato went to pursue the enemy, but they were ambushed...
"Lin!"
Obito suddenly woke up and frantically turned his head to look for the brown-haired girl.
However, only Kakashi Hatake, who was also bound and still had his eyes closed, was by his side.
"Hey! Kakashi! Wake up!"
Obito, not bothering to lower his voice, anxiously nudged Kakashi with his shoulder.
"Lin is missing! Get up!"
"Shut up, you loser..."
Kakashi, who had been "unconscious," suddenly opened one eye. Instead of the confusion of someone just waking up, his eyes were clear and bright.
"Do you want to lure all the enemies here?"
Kakashi lowered his voice and spoke urgently.
"I woke up a while ago and sent out a distress signal."
"Signal?" Obito paused for a moment, then asked urgently, "Never mind that! Where's Rin? Where is Rin?"
Kakashi's eyes dimmed for a moment. He turned his head slightly, gesturing for Obito to look towards the corner deep inside the cave.
"Over there."
Kakashi's voice sounded a little hoarse.
"Those Mist Ninja are performing some kind of ritual. They're covering Rin's body with jutsu patterns. That captain... seems to be sealing the Tailed Beast's chakra into Rin's body."
"Tailed Beast Chakra? Sealing?"
Obito's pupils suddenly contracted.
Although he didn't do well in his theoretical classes, he knew what it meant to forcibly perform a sealing ritual on a human body.
Moreover, he had witnessed the terrifying power of tailed beast chakra on the battlefield, and getting involved with such things was definitely not a good thing.
"Damn it! What are those bastards trying to do to Lin?!"
Obito felt a rush of heat to his head. He twisted his body frantically, trying to break free of the ropes, but they were specially made and tightened the more he struggled.
"Don't waste your energy, that's a restraint specifically designed for ninjas."
Kakashi calmly interrupted him.
Turn around and face away from me.
"What are you doing?"
"I have a razor blade hidden in my hand, but I can't move my wrist, so I can only use my fingers." Kakashi quickly adjusted his posture. "Let's stand back to back. You block my view while I cut your ropes."
Obito immediately understood Kakashi's intention. Although the two usually didn't get along, their cooperation at this moment was surprisingly seamless.
The two quickly moved back to back together.
"Hurry up! Kakashi! Faster!" Obito was extremely anxious as he listened to the faint chanting coming from the depths of the cave.
"Don't rush me, you're dead if you cut your wrist artery."
Kakashi's forehead was covered in cold sweat as he struggled to manipulate the tiny blade hidden between his fingers, slowly sawing along the thick, tough rope.
"Sizzle... sizzle..."
Every second was an extremely long time for Obito; every second that was delayed meant that Rin would have to endure an extra second of pain.
at last.
"collapse!"
A slight cracking sound rang out, and Obito felt his grip loosen.
"It's open!"
Ignoring the bloodstains on his wrists from the ropes, he reached back and untied Kakashi from the ropes.
"Walk!"
Without a word, the two sprang up from the ground, crouched low, and crept into the depths of the cave, hiding in the shadows of the rock wall.
The further they went in, the stronger the ominous chakra fluctuations became, and the stronger the stench of blood in the air grew.
Turn the last bend.
The sight before him made Obito's heart stop beating.
In the center of the spacious underground cave, Nohara Rin was tied to a stone pillar, her face ashen and her eyes tightly closed.
The Mist Ninja Captain, possessed by Black Zetsu, stood before her, his hands forming hand seals and chanting incantations.
On the ground, the complex black magic spells had glowed with an eerie red light, like venomous snakes climbing up Lin's body.
There were not only the few Mist Netherworlds who had just fought them, but also other people, about a dozen enemies.
"drink!"
With a low shout from the Mist Ninja Captain, a ball of violent, destructive dark red chakra was forcibly poured into Rin's abdomen.
"Aaaaaah—!!!"
Lin, who was in a coma, was forcibly awakened by immense pain.
She tilted her head back and let out a piercing scream.
"puff!"
A mouthful of blood spurted from her mouth, staining her chest red and dripping down the corner of her mouth.
"Lin!!!"
Seeing this, Obito felt a string in his mind snap.
In his vision, the world turned gray and white, with only the blood at the corner of Lin's mouth being so glaring.
She is going to die.
Lin is going to die.
This thought grew wildly in Obito's mind like a vine.
The fear of losing his beloved, the despair of helplessness, instantly overwhelmed all his reason.
"Stop! Stop right now!!!"
Obito let out a heart-wrenching roar and charged out of the shadows without regard for anything else.
"Obito! Don't be impulsive!" Kakashi tried to grab him from behind, but missed.
Running.
Obito felt a burning sensation in his eyes, as if magma was flowing inside them.
"I don't want to lose..."
"I must save her..."
"If this world didn't have Lin..."
The cold chakra originating from the depths of the Uchiha bloodline boiled over at this moment due to extreme emotional stimulation.
The single tomoe, which had degenerated due to insufficient chakra, began to spin and split wildly in that instant.
Two-tomoe jade... Three-tomoe jade...
It hasn't stopped!
The black magatama did not remain at the state of three, but continued to merge and stretch, eventually transforming into a pitch-black, eerie pattern resembling a shuriken.
Kaleidoscope Sharingan!
In this moment, without Madara's guidance, but simply because he witnessed Rin's suffering, Obito Uchiha, relying on his pure and extreme protection and fear, forcibly awakened those legendary eyes.
"boom!"
A terrifying chakra storm erupted from Obito's body, shattering the surrounding rocks.
The Mist Ninja captain, who was performing the technique, paused and turned around in surprise.
He saw a pair of eyes that should never have appeared at his age, eyes filled with curses and misfortune.
"That's... a kaleidoscope?!"
Zetsu, who was possessing the body of a Kirigakure ninja, was stunned.
This script is wrong!
Lord Ban's plan was for him to see Rin die before opening his eyes, but he's not dead yet, and he opened his eyes just by spitting out blood? This kid's mental defenses are too weak!
No, it's not about being vulnerable.
He was an Uchiha who loved too deeply.
"You...let go of...Lin!!!"
Obito's figure flashed through space like a ghost, so fast that even his afterimages were not visible. A kunai appeared in his hand at some point, and he thrust it straight at the heart of the Mist Ninja Captain.
"This guy... he's gone mad!"
The Mist Ninja captain had no choice but to interrupt the ceremony and retreat.
Meanwhile, Kakashi, though shocked by Obito's transformation, did not forget his mission.
"Now's the time!"
Kakashi's eyes sharpened, and he drew the short sword he had just retrieved, transforming it into a white streak of light. Taking advantage of the moment when the Mist Ninja were forced back by Obito, he headed straight for the stone pillar where Rin was tied up.
"Lin! We're here to save you!"
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