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A few days later, in a high-level eting in Mist Village, the old farts finally ca to a decision and declared the official end of the Third Great Ninja War.
About damn ti.
Obito didn't give a single fuck.
While the world was sighing in relief, hosting peace talks and throwing wet blankets over battlefield fires, he had already fucked off to the Land of Rain once to check up on things.
Hanzo? Dead as shit.
Nagato? Successfully turned that scrawny ss of a body into a human porcupine with black rods, slaughtered Hanzo without breaking a sweat.
Rain Village? Fully under Nagato's thumb now.
Scorpion and Kakuzu? Both reeled into Akatsuki like fish on bait. Konan helped with Scorpion; Obito himself handled Kakuzu with the one thing that always works — cold hard cash.
Akatsuki's drip? Finally fixed. That boring-ass "we're the good guys" bullshit replaced with sleek black cloaks, red clouds, and matching nail polish like a group of emo fashion models with god complexes.
Obito didn't care for the bells on the hats, though seriously, who the fuck thought ninjas needed jingle bells?
After shooting the shit with Pain (a.k.a. Nagato's corpse puppet cosplay) about how to develop things next, Obito headed back to the Land of Water.
Today, for once, the weather wasn't pissing rain like usual. The sky was actually blue shockingly.
Obito sat in the sa cave where he'd done all his delicious little experints last ti, books spread out like so bored-ass grad student.
History scrolls from Mist Village lay around him like discarded trash, and a few secret technique manuals too... might as well milk the village for everything before it collapses under its own incompetence.
The original Naruto lore from his past life? Pretty fucking useless when it ca to pre-modern history.
And the previous Obito, the dumbass second personality he replaced, clearly never read shit except maybe a comic about friendship.
So now, with nothing urgent on his plate, Obito just read for fun. You know, educate himself.
Then, as he flipped a page and ntally judged the shitty calligraphy of so long-dead Mist scribe, the book froze in his hand.
A white blob popped up from the ground beside him.
"The fuck do you want?"
White Zetsu grinned like a pervert who just discovered porn.
"Obito, I've got so very interesting news."
Obito raised an eyebrow.
"Spit it out."
White Zetsu's grin widened, clearly enjoying the drama.
"Your teacher that blond bastard, the Yellow Flash just got promoted. He's now the Fourth Hokage of Konoha."
"..."
Obito went silent.
Yellow Flash, huh?
So Minato finally reached the top of the food chain. That ant one thing the chain of events was speeding up.
It was September now. If things followed canon which, despite his ddling, they mostly fucking did then Kushina would get pregnant either at the end of this year or early next.
And next October… Naruto Uzumaki would be born.
The goddamn golden boy.
The "child of destiny."
The ani's poster brat.
Obito tapped the edge of the scroll in his hand, his Sharingan flickering behind the mask.
He had a choice now.
Either sit back and let things roll like the script — masked man attacks village, Nine-Tails sealed, Minato dies, Naruto becos the protagonist, blah blah blah...
Or...
He could do sothing fun.
Grin slowly spreading beneath the mask, Obito muttered to himself.
"Well... maybe I should just slaughter the couple early and save everyone the damn trouble."
Or…
Just fuck Kushina.
That thought crossed Obito's mind for a full half second before he clicked his tongue.
"But wouldn't she be pregnant now? That'd be… weird."
Yeah. Nah.
After thinking about it for a mont, Obito vetoed the idea.
First of all, yeah he had definitely gotten a lot colder since arriving in this world. But not that cold. Not yet, anyway.
So lines still felt weird to cross. And banging his teacher's pregnant wife for the hell of it? Yeah. That was so next-level doujin shit he wasn't ready for.
But the bigger thing the one that actually made him hesitate was a principle.
He didn't do favors. Didn't accept them. Didn't ignore them.
And above all he didn't owe them.
Minato had been kind to the previous "him." The Obito Uchiha who died under the rock. A teacher. A guide. A kind man.
So what the hell was he supposed to do with that?
Kill him? Spare him? Ruin his life? Leave him alone?
It was a complicated feeling. And Obito hated complicated.
But for now, he shelved it.
Because there was sothing else that made him pause sothing bigger.
The reincarnation cycle of Indra and Asura.
That shit wasn't random. There were rules.
In the original tiline, after Hashirama Senju the Asura reincarnation died, there was a long-ass pause. Decades went by without a new Asura showing up.
Why?
Because Madara Indra's reincarnation hadn't kicked the bucket yet. And without an Indra to balance, the world didn't get a new Asura.
Only after Madara finally died, boom the system hit refresh.
Sasuke was born in July.
Naruto followed in October.
Yin. Yang. Order restored.
So even if he went full murderhobo and slaughtered the couple now, it wouldn't matter.
Asura would just reincarnate into so other random orphan with a stupid dream and gravity-defying hair. At least if it's Naruto, he'd know exactly what he's dealing with.
So yeah. Better to let Naruto be born. Track the soul. Watch the ga unfold from the start.
Besides killing them wasn't even easy.
Minato with his Flying Thunder God was a pain in the ass. You couldn't trap him. You couldn't catch him. And if you couldn't kill him in a single shot, he'd be gone faster than you could think.
Uchiha Fla Formation? Useless.
Space-ti trap seals? Didn't have any.
The only ti Minato was vulnerable in the ani was when Kushina was giving birth
all chakra suppressed, seal weakened, ho alone.
So that plan?
Hijack the Nine-Tails birth event.
Just like the ani.
Release the fox.
Force a full-blown crisis.
And then kill the golden couple when they can't run, can't fight, and can't fuck each other to safety.
Obito chuckled softly to himself.
"Nine-Tails... childbirth..."
"Huh? What did you say?" White Zetsu suddenly asked, blinking his weird-ass eyes.
"Nothing," Obito said with a shake of his head.
"You don't look surprised," White Zetsu comnted.
"Sothing to be expected," Obito replied flatly.
"Also, that idiot Kakashi the guy you knew before has entered the Anbu now. He's even slightly famous in the ninja world."
"He never leaves a mouth alive when executing missions, treats all enemies with a single hit, and is now known as Cold-blooded Kakashi."
Huh?
Obito raised an eyebrow. No surprise at all.
At this stage, Kakashi becoming a ruthless killer? Yeah, no shit. He'd watched the ani.
Sure, Kakashi had stopped spouting that "rules over comrades" bullshit. He wasn't a complete stick-up-the-ass anymore. He valued his team now.
But that didn't make him soft.
Nope. Kakashi was cold. Deadpanned.
He'd slaughter any enemy who so much as breathed near Konoha... no hesitation, no words. Just a single clean kill.
He ignored life like it was nothing. Dude even wanted to off himself at one point. Lifeless. Like a walking corpse. Every day just another step toward whatever pointless goal he had.
Obito sighed and brushed it off.
"It doesn't matter what happened to him."
He wasn't here to cry over his edgelord ex-teammate.
"By the way, I asked you to find certain people. Any luck?"
White Zetsu perked up. "Found so. The princess of the Snow Country Koyuki Kazahana just a little girl right now."
"The shrine maiden from the Land of Demons? Na's Shion."
"In the desert? No Loran. The entire place is just Wind Country territory."
"On the Fire Country border, there's a clan of Earth Spiders living in seclusion."
"And..."
White Zetsu kept going, listing nas and locations. On and on.
Obito just nodded, arms crossed, listening.
Huh.
So so of the ani movie and filler characters actually do exist in this world… and so don't?
Interesting.
"By the way, why are you looking for these people?" White Zetsu finally asked, tilting his head.
Obito smiled beneath the mask.
"It's fine. Just confirming sothing."
He waved it off.
Now he knew. So existed, so didn't. That was all he needed.
"No need to keep looking for the ones we didn't find."
"I'll give you a new list later. Just keep an eye on those people going forward ignore the rest."
"And Nagato… keep a closer watch on him. You can handle the crap he throws your way. I want Akatsuki growing fast."
"Alright, got it." White Zetsu nodded, then sank back into the ground.
Obito stood there in silence.
Kakashi…
His eyes narrowed slightly.
And then, without another word, he brought his hands together into a familiar series of seals.
Ushi, Oo, Saru, Tatsu, Ne, Tori, Ushi, Mi, Inu, Tora, Saru
"Twitter Twitter!!"
The sharp, high-pitched sound rang out like a thousand birds screeching in unison, and a blazing bolt of blue lightning erupted from his right hand.
Lightning crackled, dancing wildly.
"This is Chidori," Obito said calmly. "Pretty simple."
Then he narrowed his eyes.
"But let's change the shape a little…"
He raised his hand.
The thunderbolt stretched and condensed a straight, spear-like beam of lightning suddenly surged forward, piercing straight through a thick rock nearby.
Zzzhhh!
The tip of the bolt hissed as it passed through, and when Obito casually swung his arm, the top half of the rock slid off and dropped with a thud cleanly sliced.
The cut was razor-sharp. Smooth as glass.
"Chidori Sharp Spear. Not difficult at all."
He shook his hand, letting the lightning vanish.
Then he picked up the scattered books and scrolls around him.
"Hmm… still," he muttered as he turned toward the dark mouth of the cave,
"Rasengan's way more fun to ss with."
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