[Outside the Uchiha Compound]
Kakashi received a message from Rengoku and deliberately left a shadow clone at home.
Then he took a round and came over from Konoha toward the Uchiha side.
Mayumi was guarding the gate; Rengoku had already greeted him.
"Kakashi, hurry, the clan leader has been waiting for you a long time."
"Yes!"
After all, they were getting close to the truth, and Kakashi's emotions were a bit stirred.
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Under Mayumi's lead, Kakashi soon arrived at Orochimaru's laboratory.
Rengoku also walked up after receiving the news, and waved to Kakashi.
Kakashi hurried to follow behind him.
As Rengoku led Kakashi downward he said, "I'll say everything first, then you ask questions."
"Yes, Rengoku-sama," Kakashi composed himself and pricked up his ears.
"When Uchiha Madara used secret arts to keep himself barely alive and planned the resurrection scheme,"
"He found Obito to use as a chess piece, saved him after half his body was crushed by the stone."
"He personally plotted Rin's matter, letting Obito see Rin die by your hands, thus pushing him into darkness to become his mouthpiece."
Kakashi's expression was stunned. He hadn't expected there truly to be an Uchiha Madara.
And that Rin's death had actually been plotted by Madara himself.
Rengoku continued, "Obito was actually outstanding by nature; he was the only one in Uchiha history to jump from the double-tomoe Sharingan directly to the Mangekyo Sharingan."
"Madara's plan succeeded a lot, Obito even did better than Madara imagined."
"Obito used the fact that you went every day to the memorial stone to mourn him and Rin, and learned that Kushina's seal was weak during childbirth."
"He forcibly tried to control the Nine-Tails, preparing to destroy Konoha."
"But your teacher, the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato, at the cost of his life forcibly sealed the Nine-Tails into Naruto's body."
Kakashi's face was full of pain, his features heavy with deep guilt.
Rengoku glanced back at him, "Even if you hadn't told Obito Kushina's delivery time, he would have thought of other means."
"But you do indeed need to apologize to Kushina, though not for that matter."
Kakashi naturally knew what Rengoku meant; his face flush with shame, "I'll go to the mistress's tomb to apologize tomorrow."
Rengoku smiled once, "No need to go to her grave, she's here."
Saying that, he led Kakashi into a room.
Kakashi stared blankly ahead; there was a crowd, and among them a conspicuous red-haired woman.
"Mistress?", Kakashi's voice changed.
It was like a duck suddenly having its neck grabbed, his whole body made a "huff huff" sound.
Rengoku said from the side, "I used a secret technique to let Kushina live for a while. If you want to apologize, you can do it now."
Kushina had not truly been resurrected. Temporarily… though how long that temporary would last was unknown.
Under Kakashi's shocked gaze, Kushina walked to him and reached out to ruffle his hair, "You've grown so big too."
Kakashi's single eye was bloodshot; he slowly knelt before Kushina, "Mistress, I'm sorry…"
"Sorry… sorry…"
Unlike the emotionally deficient Kakashi of that other timeline, this Kakashi was gentler, having accepted and embraced this world earlier.
All his elders had already died; now seeing the mistress he had caused to die, he burst into angry, uncontrollable sobbing.
Kushina stroked Kakashi's hair. Although Kakashi had grown up,
in Kushina's eyes he was still that child.
"All right, it's not your fault. I don't blame you."
Seeing Kakashi unable to recover his composure, Rengoku walked past him. Standing there were Kisame, Nagato and the others, and Karuma Yakumo also stood nearby.
They all watched Orochimaru busy inside.
He calmly placed the offerings, set the medium.
Without greeting anyone, Orochimaru formed seals and slammed his hand to the ground, "Edo Tensei!"
As the ground formation lit up, amid wailing cold winds, ofuda paper immediately wrapped the two offerings.
Two female ninja appeared in the courtyard: one was Kurita Kyoko.
The other was the very person whose death had pushed Obito into darkness, Rin.
But Orochimaru held the seals and did not let the two regain their minds.
Kisame stared fixedly at Kyoko, and nearby Kakashi wiped the tears from his face and hurried over.
He had just heard Kushina say that tonight Rin would be resurrected.
Orochimaru stepped forward to check, nodding to Nagato.
Kabuto connected monitoring devices to Nagato, and hooked up the life-force IV; Rengoku also came to Nagato's side just in case.
Nagato clasped his hands; both Rinnegan shone brightly, "Now, Rinne Rebirth Art!"
The massive pupil power descended upon Kurita Kyoko and Rin.
As Nagato's pupil power and life force diminished, white smoke began to rise from Kyoko and Rin.
Rengoku didn't pay attention to them; he only watched Nagato.
The facts proved Orochimaru's calculations were not wrong at all.
Nagato only sacrificed a small amount of life energy, and it was quickly replenished by the life-force IV.
It was even easier than the last time Yahiko was resurrected.
This was precisely why they chose to resurrect these two rookies, because their strength was low, they required little life force and were easy to calculate.
When the technique finished, Nagato slowly exhaled and raised three fingers at Rengoku.
He meant he had lost thirty percent of his pupil power.
Rengoku patted Nagato's shoulder. It seemed Rinne's revival art didn't cost much pupil power, but would if a lot of life force was exchanged.
Elsewhere, Kurita Kyoko and Rin blinked and regained consciousness.
Kyoko completely didn't know what had happened, but in the crowd she immediately saw Kisame.
Kisame suppressed his excitement and came to Kyoko's side, "You don't have to wait until the next life."
Kyoko pinched her own body in disbelief.
"Kisame-nee!"
Kyoko suddenly hugged Kisame.
Kisame froze, not knowing where to put his hands.
He awkwardly patted Kyoko's back.
Kyoko blushed and stepped back from Kisame's embrace, then burst out laughing at his frozen expression, "Kisame-nee, let's eat together again!"
Kisame slowly adjusted and forced a smile, "Okay."
On the other side, after Rin was revived and saw Kakashi and Kushina opposite, she immediately leapt into Kushina's arms.
Tears broke loose, "Wahhhh… I'm sorry, teacher, I'm sorry."
"Wahhhh! I didn't know Obito would do these things, I'm sorry…"
"You really shouldn't have saved me; it's all my fault."
Kushina, a little puzzled, patted Rin's head, "Stop crying, what are you saying?"
"How do you know Obito did those things?"
Rin sobbed and said, "After I died, I didn't go to the Pure Land. I watched Obito…"
"For many years."
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