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[URW] Chapter 301: Cowardice
Sep 24
Rengoku walked up to Kakashi and placed a hand on him.
Kakashi's body was instantly freed from control.
He staggered on his feet, but still forced himself to remain standing.
"Rengoku-sama."
Kakashi bit back the pain and apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't protect the Sharingan well."
Rengoku put a hand over Kakashi's eye.
A palm-healing light flared up, and Kakashi's bleeding was quickly stopped.
Hearing Rengoku's words, Obito felt both anger and fear.
Indeed.
Even if he had found a way to avoid Amaterasu, he still had to keep his tail between his legs.
Facing someone who could kill him in an instant, he didn't even dare look Rengoku in the eye.
Because Rengoku was stronger than him.
While pupil technique suppressed him, Rengoku's pupil power was also stronger.
"Where's my Sharingan?", Obito ground his teeth and, taking advantage of this meeting, demanded to know the whereabouts of his Sharingan.
"Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!",Rengoku shook his head while pretending to be regretful.
"Threw it in a cesspit. It rotted long ago."
"You!", Obito couldn't even tell if Rengoku was speaking truth or mocking.
"Oh? You're angry now?"
"As head of the Uchiha, I can throw a traitor's Sharingan wherever I want."
"You said you were going to abandon everything, why are you suddenly unwilling to let go of the Sharingan?"
"Praising the Uchiha's power on one hand, and shouting about abandoning everything on the other."
"Hahahahaha! This is so funny."
Rengoku's words jabbed at Obito like needles.
Obito flushed with shame and anger.
"Oh, by the way, I dug up Uchiha Nonomi's (Obito's grandmother) corpse and threw it in the toilet."
"You weren't around, so I couldn't inform you of the good news."
Obito's eyes bulged and his teeth chattered.
Rengoku grinned brightly, "I also dug up your family's tomb and Rin's grave."
"If Kakashi hadn't knelt there begging and crying, Rin's skull would already have been turned into a chamber pot by me."
"You should be thanking Kakashi."
Kakashi's eye had been bandaged and the bleeding stopped, but the pain was still intense.
Still, hearing Rengoku spout such blatant lies made the corner of his mouth twitch.
After his anger, Obito's expression turned dark as he glared at Rengoku, "Are you humiliating me?"
Rengoku narrowed his eyes and put away his smile, "You don't think doing those things all these years comes without a price, do you?"
Obito inhaled deeply, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth, "What can you do to me? It's just the little tricks you mentioned just now."
"Then you'd better stop entertaining those thoughts."
"It's nothing but traces in a false world."
Rengoku twisted his neck, "I hope that next time we meet you can still laugh about it."
"Kakashi, come with me," Rengoku turned and left, as if he didn't fear Obito's sneaky attack at all.
He'd been around so long that Obito didn't even have the courage to take a single step forward.
Which meant he didn't dare fight Rengoku.
Rengoku wasn't going to waste time.
Killing someone's body is one thing; killing their spirit is better. Destroy Obito.
He had to make him taste the deepest pain this world could offer. Only then would it be real revenge.
"All right," Kakashi, somewhat guarded, followed Rengoku into the forest.
Obito stood on the spot, staring at Rengoku's retreating back, feeling an unparalleled sense of humiliation.
He didn't dare.
He didn't dare attack Rengoku.
He didn't know if Rengoku was deliberately baiting him to strike.
He didn't even know if Rengoku was the real body.
Even if he had gouged out Kakashi's Sharingan, Rengoku didn't care in the slightest.
And Obito had no idea what Rengoku planned to do next.
The intelligence was asymmetrical.
Obito didn't know how much of his own information had been exposed.
"Damn it!", Obito cursed and slipped into Kamui space.
———
Rengoku led Kakashi a good distance before stopping.
He hadn't expected Obito to use a shell-shedding trick to endure another Amaterasu, but that only let him take one more hit. No real change in strength.
Kakashi's change made Rengoku quite pleased.
He looked at Kakashi; Kakashi's expression was calm. No longer the confusion and pain of before.
"Looks like you've embraced a new world."
Kakashi dropped to one knee and bowed to Rengoku, "Rengoku-sama, I can accept all the truths now."
"Please tell me."
Rengoku patted Kakashi's shoulder, "I'm glad you came to terms with it."
"But there's no rush now. First, deal with your injuries."
"Go report to the Third Hokage and tell him you were attacked, and that Obito's identity has been confirmed."
"And that you escaped on your own."
"There are some clan matters to handle; I'll see you in a while."
Kakashi took a deep breath, "Understood, Rengoku-sama."
Rengoku's body sank into the shadowed ground.
Kakashi checked his bearings and headed back toward the village.
The sky was already dimly lightening on the horizon.
———
[Konoha Hospital]
Even at the break of dawn, medical ninja were still on duty.
When Kakashi arrived, he startled the on-duty medic.
Kakashi's eyeball had been destroyed but then treated. What remained was a lump of flesh in his eye socket.
They needed to remove the ruined eyeball.
Though surprised, the medical ninja quickly began surgery.
After all, removing an eye was a minor operation for them.
Even though Obito had gouged it out with his finger, it only took the medical ninja a little extra time to excavate the damaged eyeball.
They treated Kakashi and bandaged him.
Kakashi now habitually used his forehead protector to cover the Sharingan.
Even with bandages, pulling the protector down still hid it.
By the time Kakashi finished his treatment, daylight had fully come.
He immediately headed to the Hokage's office.
———
People wake earlier as they get older.
Of course, with the pressure the Uchiha placed on the Third Hokage, he couldn't sleep well either.
Especially since Jiraiya had just told him about Rengoku brainwashing Naruto.
The Third Hokage's stress had only grown.
He'd slept two or three hours that night and was already up early, at the Hokage office ahead of time.
To his surprise, Kakashi was already there.
"Hokage-sama, I was attacked at dawn…", Kakashi recounted in detail how he'd been controlled by the Puppet Curse out of Konoha, how Obito had gouged out his eye, and how he'd barely escaped.
After listening, the Third Hokage asked, "Have you confirmed the opponent's identity?"
"Yes. Confirmed, Obito," Kakashi answered honestly.
"Rin died protecting Konoha, so he hates Konoha, even the whole shinobi world."
"He's the one who instigated the Nine-Tails' Rampage."
"Our teacher and the teacher's wife were killed by his hand."
The Third Hokage had weathered many storms, but he was still shocked.
"He was only fourteen during the Nine-Tails' Rampage, right?"
Obito and Kakashi were about the same age; that age was easy to estimate.
Kakashi's face was dim and tired, "Yes."
"Uchiha… Obito."
The Third Hokage chewed on the name.
He was used to the Uchiha way of thinking by now.
After all, it wasn't unusual for the clan.
Although Obito harbored great hostility toward Konoha, the Third Hokage had no time to deal with him now.
He didn't even know how long he could remain Hokage.
"Go rest for now. We'll think about what to do about your eye later."
"All right."
After Kakashi left, the Third Hokage instructed, "Bring Koharu and Homura here."
"Yes," A shadow from the Anbu flickered away.
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