Naruto didn't know what backup plan Obito had prepared, but he understood this kind of person's desires all too well.
'A long-awaited reunion after life and death… how touching.'
Unfortunately, Naruto would never let him have his way.
The resurrection ritual was coming to an end. Rin's body had adapted to her soul and she looked to be in her twenties. She was floating in the night sky and seemed to be about to wake up.
"D-Did it… work?" Obito looked up at the night sky and muttered weakly to himself.
Looking at the increasingly real figure, he felt it was a little different from what he remembered, but he could recognize it at a glance. It was the real Nohara Rin.
At the same time, Obito suddenly sensed an overwhelming wave of malice and turned his head sharply. He immediately met a pair of venomous, gleaming eyes, and Naruto was staring at him with a cold smirk.
He had seen that kind of smile before, and they're always on the faces of the most ruthless criminals. Renegades with nothing left to lose, or psychopaths lost in their own madness.
But he had never expected to see such an expression on a promising Konoha's Shinobi. It was even more sinister and vicious than Danzō's, and he made no effort to conceal his overwhelming malice.
Instantly, a chill shot up Obito's spine, and his heart skipped a few beats. He thought to himself, 'This is bad. He's about to make his move.'
'Or maybe he had been waiting for this exact moment, ready to take action.'
A strong wave of anger surged in Obito's heart, 'So this bastard waited until now to act. Of course he's not an easy person to deal with. Damn him!'
"What the hell are you planning?" He stared at Naruto and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"It's almost over, isn't it?" Naruto grinned and slowly walked towards Rin, who was still floating, "I'm not doing anything special. Nohara Rin is a Konoha's Shinobi, so of course I'm taking her back."
"You're a Missing-nin. What right do you have to expect Nohara Rin to see you? Your very existence is a mistake. Or do you want her to end up like you?"
"What does this have to do with you?!" Obito staggered to his feet, and the mask on his face fell off, revealing his old and withered face.
The purple Rinnegan bulged unnaturally, sending a shiver down to anyone's spine.
"Of course it has to do with me. I am not a traitor like you. The Will of Fire burns eternal, and someone like you could never understand the passion of a true patriot."
Naruto had a teasing smile on his face, and his eyes were fixed on Rin in mid-air.
"Nohara Rin is a Konoha's Shinobi. She is a Konoha's Shinobi before her death and she will be a Konoha's ghost after her death. No matter what, she should never be with someone like you."
"You promised me!" Obito snarled, grinding his teeth. The resurrection ritual had not yet been completely over, so he could only try his best to endure it, but the look he gave Naruto was extremely vicious.
The two of them hated each other and wanted to skin each other alive. The only reason they had stood together to resurrect Rin was because they each had their own motives.
"What exactly did I promise you?" Naruto asked with an amused smile, "Didn't I help you revive Nohara Rin? But I didn't say I would let Nohara Rin see you."
"She belongs to the village, not to you."
"You're looking for death!" Obito roared, and countless White Zetsu emerged from the forest.
The White Zetsu was like a pool of white snow growing on the ground, spreading rapidly at an indescribable speed. Their writhing forms were like something out of a nightmare.
When Naruto learned that there were a large number of White Zetsu here, he realized that there was a high probability that Kabuto had already achieved his transformation into a dragon.
And the reason why there was no news about Obito in the past few days was probably that he had contact with Kabuto.
Every time Naruto thought of this, he always had a strange feeling in his heart, 'Yakushi Kabuto is so arrogant, did he not know that Orochimaru is still alive?'
The screeching of the White Zetsu snapped him back to reality. Looking at the endless swarm of White Zetsu covering the mountains and plains, Naruto didn't seem too concerned, 'Trying to overwhelm me with numbers?'
That might work on others, but against Naruto, it was far from enough.
To put it bluntly, the White Zetsu is just a bunch of clones, nowhere near as formidable as the immortal Impure World Reincarnation army.
Then, Naruto snapped his fingers like Thanos.
Amid the roars of the White Zetsu, the ground suddenly began to tremble violently. Obito, who was in the distance, was stunned and his eyes nearly bulged out of his skull.
'This commotion couldn't be…'
The sound of countless wooden impacts echoed as thousands of coffins rose from the forest, scattering the charging White Zetsu army in an instant.
The plain wooden coffins surged through the sea of White Zetsu, lifting them like waves, churning and boiling. Then, the coffins swung open one after another.
The number of the Impure World Reincarnation army is not particularly large. Compared to the tens of thousands of White Zetsu Obito had deployed along the border of the Land of Fire, there were only about one or two thousand reanimated Shinobi.
But even so, the Impure World Reincarnation army had no fear, nor any hesitation. The white and gray tides clashed, their boundaries indistinguishable.
"Impure World Reincarnation? How could that be possible?!" Obito's breathing grew ragged.
He was no stranger to the Impure World Reincarnation ritual. Just days earlier, when he had come into contact with the extreme lunatic, Kabuto, he had witnessed him using the Impure World Reincarnation, which he inherited from Orochimaru.
But it is not easy to complete this Ninjutsu. First, one had to obtain a fragment of the deceased's body, and then, they'll have to use a living sacrifice to complete the reanimation.
And that was just for a single person. Simultaneously reanimating multiple individuals raised the difficulty exponentially. Forget the trouble of digging up graves for DNA samples, just gathering enough sacrifices was already mentally exhausting.
Though White Zetsu could serve as perfect sacrifices, forcing four or five of them to complete the ritual simultaneously would drain an immense amount of chakra and focus.
In any case, it couldn't be as simple as snapping one's fingers like Naruto just did.
'Damn it, this isn't simplification, this is simply cheating!'
But in an instant, Obito could no longer care about anything else. Because the resurrection ritual was over, Rin, who was wrapped in the green life energy cocoon, moved her eyelids, as if she were about to open her eyes at any moment.
This scene also attracted Naruto's attention. He no longer paid attention to the fighting White Zetsu army, and instead raised his head slightly and squinted his eyes as he looked at Rin.
At this moment, something unexpected happened.