novelhk Chapter 67 The Strange Face
Chapter 67 The Strange Face
There are 37 days left until the destruction of the ninja world.
The night was deep, and Kakashi sat alone in the camp.
He ignored the various restrictions and surveillance imposed on him by Tobirama...
Compared to the deeper confusion and struggle within, these superficial limitations seem insignificant.
Steam rose gently from the teacup. Kakashi gazed at the tea quietly, then slowly lifted the cup and took a small sip.
In the instant his vision blurred, a familiar figure appeared out of thin air in front of him.
The man, wearing the familiar swirling mask, sat there quietly, as if he had been waiting there all along.
Kakashi showed no surprise, only a faint smile, his tone light and teasing:
"Obito, would you like a drink?"
Looking at Kakashi across from him, Obito felt a warmth in his heart...
"I still can't get used to this kind of drink."
Upon hearing this, Kakashi gently put down his teacup: "You saved Uchiha Itachi?"
Obito nodded slowly, his tone tinged with disdain: "Itachi Uchiha cannot die now. He must live, so that Sasuke can grow better... and so that we can achieve our ultimate goal."
The room fell into a brief silence. Neither of them spoke again, each lost in their own thoughts.
After a moment, Kakashi shifted his gaze to the deep night sky outside the window and said in a low, slow voice:
"Actually... you've already felt it, haven't you? The impact that Uchiha Abe has had on us."
When Uchiha Abe was mentioned, Obito didn't seem to care: "Uchiha Abe's Mangekyou Sharingan possesses extremely unique power."
"He can enhance the power of other kaleidoscopes through his wishes, and while enhancing them, he is also subtly eroding and influencing our perception."
Obito paused slightly, then spoke in a remarkably similar tone, mimicking Uchiha Gen's words from back then:
"He mentioned to me that cognition is a series of complex psychological processes, including an individual's perception, understanding, memory, and reasoning about the external world."
"Cognition encompasses all our abilities to acquire, process, and apply information. It not only forms the basis of thinking and judgment but also determines the reality we perceive."
Obito's words carried a chilling undertone and a hint of mockery...
He didn't care about Uchiha Abyss's subtle influence, because he believed that his will was enough to fight against everything.
Creating a world where only Rin exists was Obito's own will!
Kakashi listened quietly to Obito's explanation, and then offered his own deduction...
"You and I share the same pair of Mangekyou Sharingan, but because of the different wishes we made back then, this difference has caused Uchiha Abyss to interfere with our influence, and even restrain each other."
That little essay from back then...
It was the infection method devised by Uchiha Abe...
"As the Sharingan infection and the amplification of his eye power increased, his abilities also seem to have mutated."
Upon hearing this, Obito slowly removed his mask...
"To me, whether it's Uchiha Abyss or Uchiha Madara, there's no real difference... No matter who they are or what their purpose is, as long as they can help me achieve my ultimate goal, it doesn't matter."
Obito didn't think he was truly influenced by Uchiha Abyss to much extent; at least in his mind, he always acted consciously and clearly according to his own will.
Regardless of Uchiha Abyss's intentions, Obito believed that as long as the ultimate goal was achieved...
Everything else is just trivial details.
In contrast, Kakashi harbored a faint doubt in his heart. He felt that the development of events seemed to contain some unseen and strange clues.
Just as Kakashi was lost in thought, Obito's deep, cold voice rang out again:
"There's one more thing: Danzo has already entered the Land of Water."
Upon hearing this, Kakashi frowned slightly and repeated in a low voice, "The Land of Water..."
Obito nodded slightly, his tone calm but with a hint of mockery: "I already had control over the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura, but I didn't expect Danzo to enter there on his own initiative."
Most importantly, Danzo has already launched a ruthless operation within the Land of Water, his ferocity even startling Obito...
Many bloodline families that supported Elder Yuan Shi of Kirigakure were swiftly and cleanly slaughtered by Danzo...
"It seems it's time to make proper contact with Danzo."
On the other side, the pitch-black night enveloped the entire forest.
Uchiha Itachi lay struggling on the damp, cold ground, breathing heavily.
His body twitched slightly, and the third Sharingan on his forehead, hidden by the rogue ninja headband, was constantly consuming his already meager chakra.
Itachi already suffered from a severe bloodline disease, and his physical condition had always been poor. Now, the forced implantation of a third, strange Sharingan has only worsened his situation.
The intense pain and mental torment brought him to the brink of collapse.
He leaned weakly against a huge tree trunk behind him, struggling to stay conscious and breathing with difficulty.
Just then, they heard light footsteps nearby.
"Hey, Itachi, what's wrong?"
Kizuna, a teammate from Akatsuki, slowly approached and, seeing Itachi's pale face, asked him a question.
"I'm just a little tired, nothing serious..."
Although Juzo Biwa still had some doubts, seeing that Itachi didn't say much, he didn't press further and simply nodded slightly.
"In that case, why don't you rest a little longer?"
"The leader has given us a mission: to infiltrate the Water Kingdom tonight to conduct reconnaissance."
Despite the impending doom of the world, Pain is actively dispatching members of Akatsuki to contact the five great nations and inform them of the impending destruction of the planet.
Because the Land of Water had always been closed off from the outside world, Pain felt it necessary to send Itachi and Juzo Biwa, rogue ninjas from Kirigakure, to the Land of Water to investigate.
Itachi nodded weakly, said nothing more, and slowly closed his eyes.
Time passed slowly, the night grew deeper, and the entire forest was shrouded in silence and darkness.
At midnight, when the weasel leaned against the big tree with its eyes closed...
The third Sharingan on his forehead, which had been hidden by his headband, slowly opened on its own, emitting a strange crimson light.
The once calm surface of the tree behind it began to twist and change strangely, with countless withered branches growing slowly from the trunk like tentacles, silently wrapping around the weasel's body.
The dead trees seemed to come alive, connecting and intertwining to quickly form an extremely eerie face on the tree trunks...
It was a woman's face, beautiful yet pale, like a ghost under the moonlight, exuding an indescribable eeriness and coldness.
Her face slowly approached Itachi, almost touching his ear. Her long black hair wrapped around Itachi's shoulders and neck like spider silk, which was terrifying.
His eyes slowly opened, revealing blood-red pupils, staring intently at Itachi's face, a slight smile playing on his lips:
"Itachi... what is your wish?"
Her voice seemed to come from a distant and cold abyss, carrying an irresistible magic that gradually seeped into the depths of Itachi's consciousness.
Itachi's body trembled suddenly, and he snapped back to his senses!
The kunai thrust out swiftly!
Just as the kunai was about to pierce the woman's face, her eerie features twisted violently, rapidly deforming like a writhing mass of black mud, instantly solidifying into a shape he knew all too well...
"Itachi..."
The face of his former lover suddenly appeared before his eyes, her sad and bewildered eyes staring silently at Itachi, as if telling of endless sorrow and pain.
The woman gazed silently at the itachi...
In an instant!
Suddenly, his eyes burst open, and countless black insects surged out like a tidal wave, spreading densely in all directions, a truly terrifying sight.
The weasel coughed violently...
Coughing up blood!