A white figure flashed across the night sky.
Konan, with her massive paper wings spread wide, darted forward at lightning speed.
In the blink of an eye, her body disintegrated, transforming into a storm of white paper. The swirling paper sheets instantly enveloped the green cocoon, forming a larger, paper-white shell.
Naruto understood immediately, and while Obito's attention was attracted by the diversion created by Konan, he used the Flying Thunder God kunai he'd secretly placed on Konan earlier to teleport inside the cocoon.
Before the paper was wrapped fully into a cocoon, he activated the Four Symbols Seal and directly sucked Rin inside. Then, in the next instant, he teleported back using the Flying Thunder God Kunai.
From the outside, Naruto's figure merely flickered for a split second, as if glitching. But he stabilized almost instantly, making it seem like nothing had happened at all.
No one could possibly notice that he'd pulled off a seamless bait-and-switch. At this time, the real Nohara Rin had been sucked into the sealed space by him, leaving only Konan inside the paper cocoon.
"Konan?! How are you still alive?!" Obito struggled to his feet with his broken body. At this time, he was like a candle in the wind, with only a few breaths left in his body.
White Zetsu has been stopped and can't get through the Impure World Reincarnation army at all.
Obito had never imagined Naruto could counter the White Zetsu army so effectively. Even if he'd wanted a backup plan, it was too late now.
Kabuto had given him an army of 10,000 enhanced White Zetsu and promised that even if Hashirama were alive, he would need ten minutes to break through, which was enough to buy Obito time.
But who could've predicted this twist of fate?
After the resurrection ritual, Obito's physical and mental state had deteriorated. He hadn't noticed Naruto's movements at all, leaving him as helpless as a madman.
He shook his head violently, barely managing to focus on the paper cocoon ahead. The next second, the paper cocoon suddenly exploded, and Obito saw Konan throwing Rin's body to the ground like a discarded doll.
"Rin!!!" Obito's eyes were wide open and he desperately stumbled towards the direction where Rin fell.
But his movements were too slow, and his mind was too sluggish. The last bit of life force left in his body clinging to his roots also held onto his final breath.
In the last moments of his life, Obito's thoughts are chaotic and his movement was almost entirely driven by obsession.
Even if the Konan in midair was just a paper clone, even if the Rin being thrown toward the ground wasn't Rin at all, but just Konan disguising as her with Transformation Technique…
He couldn't tell the difference, he simply couldn't.
Konan had died once before, and no one understood Uchiha Obito's current state better than she did. And it was precisely because of this that she could understand the viciousness of the plan devised by Naruto.
The last obsession before a person dies is the strongest, and they'll desperately cling to even the flimsiest straw. The one Obito cares most about Rin, and when he saw Rin hurt, he wouldn't stop to think.
Rage, panic, fear, these emotions would further batter Obito's already flickering will, scattering his focus and preventing him from reasoning.
Even if this plan was full of holes, when faced with the person he cared about most, in this weakened state… emotion would overpower reason, driving Obito to madness.
The harder he tried to stay lucid, the more his emotions would stretch and distort. It's like being dragged into a film of pure color, his emotions were twisted and molded at will.
With a bang, before Obito could stagger forward, Naruto caught Konan midair.
"Let go! Take your hands off her!" Obito's eyes were almost bloodshot, locked onto Naruto as if he could bleed from sheer fury, "Get away from her!"
Naruto was holding Konan in his arms, but in Obito's eyes, he was holding Rin who had just been resurrected.
Even though Konan didn't have much expression on her face, in Obito's delusion, 'Rin' now has a confused look on her face.
His rage was so intense it felt like his eyes might split open, his glare fixed on Naruto's hands.
"Let go? Why should I?" Naruto looked at Obito's enraged, half-lucid state, and a smile appeared on his face. "Why don't you ask Nohara Rin yourself?"
He knew that Obito was already beyond reasoning now, which is just what he wanted.
'Obito had already mistaken Konan for the newly resurrected Nohara Rin, very good.'
"Rin!" Obito turned his head suddenly and looked at Konan, and like a madman, he walked over step by step, stretched out his hand and asked tremblingly, "Rin, come here, come here… come to me, I… cough!"
Obito coughed up a mouthful of blood and suddenly clutched his chest. His face turned pale from the pain.
Even so, he still forced himself to move toward Konan.
Konan looked coldly at Obito, who now had a panicked and desperate expression. She had never seen the arrogant and indifferent Obito in such an expression.
Thinking of the dead Yahiko and Nagato, a twisted sense of vengeful satisfaction surged within her.
At this time, Konan suddenly understood Naruto's intention, 'So this is what revenge feels like?'
Seeing Obito crawling towards her humbly, dragging his broken body, and dying, Konan really wanted to laugh. The desire for revenge could not be suppressed, and it crawled out of her heart like a vine.
'Uchiha Obito, weren't you so untouchable before?'
'So you do have someone you care about. So even you can grovel like a dog. How… amusing. Fate truly is a strange thing.'
'When Yahiko died, this bastard had probably watched just like this. What had he been thinking back then? Likely nothing at all… people like him never cared about the lives of their pawns.'
'Now, the tables had turned.'
"I…" Konan spoke, already in Rin's voice, and almost without any instruction, she timidly said, "I don't know you."
Bang!
Obito froze in his tracks, looking at 'Rin' in surprise. His outstretched hand trembled, his eyes wide with disbelief.
"Rin, I'm…"
Before Obito could finish his words, Konan had already hidden behind Naruto. Naruto hadn't given her specific instructions, but just let her improvise.
Naruto figured that with her usual aloof demeanor, Konan wouldn't be able to pull off an overly dramatic act.
Since she couldn't act, it's better to let her adapt than risk overdoing it and ruining the plan.
But he did not expect that Konan's acting skills would suddenly soar, and she practically poured salt directly into Obito's wounds now.
Looking at Obito's heartbroken expression, Naruto's eyelids twitched slightly.
'Things seemed to be going in a strange direction.'
The next second, Konan subtly yanked Naruto closer. From Obito's perspective, it looked like Naruto was trying to force himself on Rin.
"What the…?"
This completely catches Naruto off guard, 'Wasn't this moving a bit too fast? Even though the plan mentioned a kiss, that was supposed to come later.'
There wasn't anything beyond that. After all, they couldn't just straight-up do it right in front of a dying Obito, could they? Even Naruto finds that idea way too outrageous.
'The scene is simply unimaginable. Too...'
But Konan doesn't seem to share the same concern. She lowers her voice and says two words.
"Hurry up."
'Hurry up?' Naruto was stunned for a moment, but quickly realizes what's happening. Konan, who is now consumed by vengeance, is fully committed to the act, ready to give Obito a 'little' shock.