"Nonsense, I am Uchiha Madara! Not Obito!"
'No… My identity can't be seen through so quickly…'
'I have to kill… deal with the Fourth Hokage first!'
Drenched in sweat, Obito had no choice but to once again make Namikaze Minato his number one target.
As for the Nine Tails…
It seemed it no longer needed his power.
The soaring black chakra had already turned into a giant Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, now wreaking havoc in Konoha, with fire and smoke visible everywhere.
"Obito…", Seeing Obito charging at him with determination, Namikaze Minato could only temporarily give up on talking.
Swish!
He casually threw a Flying Thunder God kunai.
"Still trying to use that brainless move from before? How much longer can your chakra hold out?"
Facing the Flying Thunder God kunai flying at his forehead, Obito focused and remained alert.
Although Namikaze Minato's previous attack was brainless, it was undeniably effective.
He had no way to counterattack at all.
The only viable method was to wait for Namikaze Minato's chakra to run out, then emerge from the Kamui space to attack.
'Huh? He didn't use that move this time?'
Seeing the kunai pass through the back of his head without Namikaze Minato making another move, Obito slightly relaxed.
'So it is just a normal feint.'
"Got you!"
A chain was pulled out from the ground and instantly bound Namikaze Minato's body where he stood. Obito's hand also reached Minato's face at that moment.
POOF!
However, just as his hand touched Minato's body, it turned into a puff of white smoke.
"A shadow clone?"
Obito didn't expect Namikaze Minato to still use shadow clone tactics.
'Clearly, the teacher from before wasn't like this…'
But what he didn't expect was still coming.
POOF!
Another puff of white smoke.
The Flying Thunder God kunai that Obito had phased through earlier transformed into Namikaze Minato's body in the white smoke.
"A transformation technique? In such a short time, he used a shadow clone and transformation to devise a strategy against me?"
Just as he realized that the Flying Thunder God kunai was Minato's real body, Obito felt a powerful impact pushing his back.
Rasengan!
BOOM!
Namikaze Minato mercilessly slammed a Rasengan into Obito's back and simultaneously used another kunai to slice open the mask on Obito's face.
"Are you still going to keep pretending? Obito?"
With the mask destroyed, Namikaze Minato saw clearly: half the face was intact, the other half was rotten, and the body was dripping white fluid like melting white wax, it was Uchiha Obito.
"That move just now…", Realizing he could no longer hide his identity, Obito stopped pretending to be Uchiha Madara.
But that move just now was totally unlike Namikaze Minato's usual style.
"I didn't use Flying Thunder God, it was just an ordinary tactic. Obito, even though you have the Mangekyō Sharingan now, your arrogance and underestimation of opponents haven't changed."
Namikaze Minato's moves had always been brainless, but only because he was too lazy to think.
If needed, he could also teach his enemies what real tactics were.
"The arrogant one was Kakashi! Not me…"
"So it really is you. That's right. Unlike Kakashi, you're just swollen-headed and reckless, Obito," If before Namikaze Minato was 100% sure, now he was 1000% certain.
The mysterious ninja before him was actually that hero of Konoha who had supposedly died in the war, his own student, Uchiha Obito.
"Can you tell me now? Why did you become like this?"
"You ask why…", Obito clutched his wound and carefully looked at his teacher before him.
This action of his was on a whim. After overhearing Kakashi and learning that Kushina was about to give birth, he came to see if he could take the Nine Tails.
Indeed, Minato was right, he was too reckless.
Although he was a student, he had never truly understood his teacher's true strength.
"Of course it's because this false, boring, and cruel world forced me to become like this," Since his identity was revealed, Obito gave up completely and lashed out.
He started venting the dissatisfaction in his heart.
"And you too! Sensei, because you're always a step too late! I was back then, Kakashi was back then, and Rin… too!"
"Obito! Didn't I teach you not to whine on the battlefield?"
"Whine?"
"The battlefield isn't your mother, no one will pamper you," Indeed, Namikaze Minato felt that his ability was limited and he couldn't save his student in time.
But what he didn't expect was that even now, Obito was still throwing a tantrum like a child.
"Rin is a hero of the village, and you… once were too. Even if you died, everyone would have remembered you. But now…", Minato looked back at the Nine Tails still raging inside Konoha.
"Look at what you've done? Do you want yours and Rin's sacrifices to be in vain?"
"Rin's death wasn't a sacrifice, it was a tragedy! A tragedy created by this illusory and cruel ninja world!"
"Then change this world, don't destroy it, Obito!"
"Only by destroying it can we rebuild. This world is an illusion, it's hell, I reject this kind of world," Obito was short on words but still stubbornly talked back to Namikaze Minato.
"Illusion? Maybe you've been deceived by someone's genjutsu…"
"No! I saw hell with my own eyes, just like what you're about to see right now!"
Obito pointed to the rampaging Nine Tails in the distance inside Konoha.
"Obito, if you cooperate with me to reseal the Nine Tails now, this tragedy won't happen!"
The Nine Tails was destroying the village. As Hokage, Minato was understandably anxious.
But as long as there was even a one-in-ten-thousand chance, he still wanted to bring back his student.
"Sensei, save your preaching. You won't understand how I think!"
While talking, Obito had already used White Zetsu to heal most of the injuries left by the Rasengan.
Although he had been hit by a tactic from Minato once, he didn't believe that with his godlike Mangekyō Sharingan, he could lose to Flying Thunder God.
"Obito, I don't want to see you die as a traitor for destroying Konoha."
"Die? Sensei, do you think the same tactic will work on me again?"
Obito now just wanted to deal with Minato quickly, then rampage through Konoha with the Nine Tails.
He wanted everyone to know that this ninja world was full of pain, despair, and no future.
"Then let's do it again," Minato was ready to give Obito one last chance.
Swish!
Just like last time, he threw a Flying Thunder God kunai at Obito.
"I told you it's useless, Sensei. I'm not that dumb!"
This time, Obito decided not to cancel his intangibility until the end, he wanted to see how Minato could hit him.
"Got you!"
Feeling the physical grip in his hand, Obito was 100% sure that the shoulder he caught was Minato's real body, not a clone.
"You actually let me grab your real body. Sensei, you've lost!"
Realizing it was the real body, Obito immediately used Kamui to absorb Minato.
"It's not over yet, this is Flying Thunder God Second Stage!"
Minato, who was caught by the shoulder, instantly escaped Obito's grasp and appeared beside the airborne kunai.
BOOM!
That familiar pushing sensation.
Obito once again took a Rasengan to the back from the suddenly reappearing Minato.
"Obito, it's not too late to turn back!"
Looking at Obito on the ground again…
Minato felt no sense of accomplishment, he still wanted to pull his once kind-hearted student back.
"Come back to Konoha with me. With your help, we can quickly reseal the Nine Tails…"
"Enough!"
'Damn it, two times in a row. And both times the same method!'
'One was a shadow clone, the other used the real body as bait… Sensei really took me for a fool!'
The frustration in Obito's heart now far outweighed any other emotion.
"Uchiha Obito is already dead! Don't call me by that name again!"
Grabbing a handful of dirt from the ground, Obito threw it at Minato's face as if venting.
"Obito…"
Seeing that Obito still wouldn't give up, Minato had no choice but to use Flying Thunder God again to instantly appear beside him.
Contract Seal!
"With this, you'll never be able to summon the Nine Tails with the summoning contract again."
Dense sealing symbols imprinted onto Obito's body, cutting off all connection between him and the Nine Tails.
"Obito, let me ask you one last time. Do you really not plan… to return to the village?"
"Sensei… I…"
Struggling to stand, Obito panted heavily while hiding his hand in his sleeve.
Squelch!
A sudden black rod extended from Obito's hand and, without warning, stabbed into Minato, who was still waiting for his student's answer.
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