In the dark room, a half-burned candle exuded a dim light. The flame kept swaying, reflecting the intertwined light and dark face of Obito beside him.
Kakashi lay unconscious on the soft cushions on the ground.
His upper body was naked, with only a pair of shorts remaining on his lower body. Medical bandages were wrapped all over his body, exuding a slightly pungent smell of medicine.
Obito quietly looked at Kakashi's sleeping face, waiting for him to wake up.
"Kakashi, after all these years, you are still like this..."
"If I kill you, maybe Lin will be mine."
"But you owe me two lives, you have to pay me back first."
"otherwise......"
Even though he knew that Kakashi was in a coma and couldn't hear what he said, Obito was still talking to himself, his eyes constantly changing.
I don't know how long it took, but when the candle was almost burned out, Kakashi moved slightly.
Seeing this, Obito's eyes narrowed slightly, and he subconsciously put on the mask beside him to cover his face.
"Am I not dead? Where is...where?!" Kakashi slowly opened his eyes. He felt as if his whole body was about to fall apart. There was no place that was not in pain.
Under the dim light, Kakashi could only see the rough roof of the cave. From the corner of his eye, he quickly noticed the masked ninja beside him.
"You...you saved me?" Kakashi asked doubtfully. He only remembered that he and the third generation tried their best to use the last move. The third generation stopped at the last moment, and the hand in his hand White Fang stabbed the third generation in the heart.
Looking at the scene before me, the result seems obvious.
Otherwise, the best outcome for him now would be to be imprisoned in ANBU's death row awaiting trial, or to be torn into pieces by three generations of ninjas.
"I am a person who should have died, but did not. As for saving you, it was just a whim."
A deep voice sounded, and Obito unconsciously used Madara's voice.
"Thank you..." Kakashi's expression froze when he heard this. He thanked him and didn't ask any more questions.
Overuse of chakra, excessive consumption of Mangekyou Sharingan eye power, and multiple fractures in his body. The pain and weakness made him exhausted, and he didn't have much thought to listen to the other party's riddle-like answers.
Obito noticed Kakashi's frown and the constant sweat on his forehead, and said softly: "Although you are not fatally injured, your body is overloaded, so take a good rest."
As he spoke, a swirling texture suddenly appeared in the space around Obito, and then disappeared in front of Kakashi.
"This is..." Kakashi's expression changed slightly. The ability used by the person in front of him felt very familiar to him, and his Mangekyō Sharingan also suddenly started to throb.
After a while, the candle in the cave was completely extinguished after blooming with the brightest light for a moment.
In the darkness, Kakashi felt a little drowsy.
At this time, swirling fluctuations appeared again in the space.
Obito's figure reappeared, and there were several cleaned fish skewered on some straw ropes in his hands.
At the same time, a pile of firewood appeared next to him.
He was a little unfamiliar with making fires and grilling fish.
"You should be able to eat it by yourself, right?"
Looking at Kakashi lying on his back, Obito frowned.
"Okay..." Kakashi said with some difficulty. The injuries on his body left him with little strength at all, but he could still manage to sit up.
Taking the grilled fish from the masked man, Kakashi took a small bite.
It was a bit burnt, no seasoning, and tasted just average.
However, Kakashi, who was already very hungry, still ate four grilled fishes in a row.
Looking at the last grilled fish handed over by the masked man, Kakashi was stunned for a moment: "Don't you want to eat it?"
"No need." Obito responded calmly.
In this way, after lying down for three days, Kakashi regained his ability to move.
"Now that you have recovered, leave on your own. Even if you are wanted by Konoha, you should have somewhere to go." Seeing that Kakashi was able to move, Obito said coldly, making it clear that he could leave.
"You..." Kakashi looked at Obito's back, his eyes a little uncertain.
"What are you still doing here?!"
Seeing that there was no movement behind him for a long time, Obito turned and looked at Kakashi.
"Who are you and why do you want to save me?" Kakashi pondered.
"I just saved you on a whim, so if you don't leave, I can kill you on a whim."
There was a hint of chill in Obito's eyes under the mask. As he spoke, he directly activated his divine power and left.
"Obito!" Kakashi suddenly blurted out.
However, Obito's figure has disappeared into the space.
There was only one last indifferent look as he looked at Kakashi.
The next second, Obito's figure appeared in the forest.
Black and white Zetsu emerged from the ground and appeared next to Obito.
"This is the best time to retrieve the Mangekyo Sharingan. Why don't you do it?"
Black Jue's hoarse voice sounded.
White Zetsu's true body joked: "Of course you can't bear to part with your friendship with Kakashi. After all, we are former companions, right Obito?"
"I have my own plan." Obito said solemnly, without directly answering Black Zetsu's question.
Because the Konoha Collapse Plan made too much noise, the news that Orochimaru teamed up with Sunagakure Village to attack Konoha, and teamed up with the rebel ninja Kakashi to kill the Third Hokage, had spread throughout the ninja world in a very short period of time.
This naturally attracted the attention of the Akatsuki organization.
Black Zetsu and White Zetsu also rushed to the Fire Country immediately.
Originally, Obito's idea of recognizing Kakashi was not strong, but when Black Zetsu and White Zetsu arrived, it was even less likely that he would reveal his identity, thus arousing the suspicion of Black Zetsu and White Zetsu.
And Black and White Zetsu has the ability to merge with plants and the earth, so Obito doesn't know if they have been following him.
Now it depends on what he will do with Kakashi.
"Kakashi has one of your Mangekyou Sharingan after all. He is desperate now. If you don't invite him to join the Akatsuki organization, he will definitely go to Yagami Baiyu. This is a big trouble! I hope he won't become ours by then. Enemies, it’s better to influence the Eye of the Moon plan.”
Hei Jueyi said pointedly.
He doesn't trust Obito, and has even begun to doubt Obito. However, Obito has no obvious alien intentions at present, and there are not many Uchiha people who can take advantage of him, so he can only turn a blind eye.
"Compared with this, isn't it Orochimaru who should be more concerned about? Why has his strength become so strong! Moreover, there are ninjas like Matt Dai hidden in Konoha. The Eight Gate Armor Formation can even affect space. Physical skills, these are the key factors that will affect the plan."
Obito said solemnly.
"Orochimaru's strength has almost caught up with Madara's victory, and may even be stronger! This is a big trouble." Bai Zetsu's body on the side rarely took a serious moment, and analyzed with a solemn expression.
This time Obito went to Konoha, saying he was going alone, but Bai Zetsu actually left spores on his body.
Although in order to avoid being discovered by Obito, White Zetsu's spores did not directly turn into clones, but they left traces everywhere Obito went, and he also watched the final outcome of Konoha's plan to collapse far away from Obito. war, so we have a more intuitive assessment of Orochimaru's combat power.
Unfortunately, none of the spores outside Konoha Village manifested themselves into clones, so they were all killed.
The only one who can have this kind of perception is the monster Yagami Baiyu.
"The biggest trouble now is the Uzumaki Ninja Village. Konoha and Orochimaru can be used to deal with Shiroha and Kushina respectively."
Obito said calmly, as for his true inner thoughts, only he knows.
But Hei Jue nodded: "This is the only way."
"Then should we contact Orochimaru first?" Bai Zetsu suggested.
"Orochimaru was seriously injured in this battle. It may be difficult to find him. Leave it to me." Obito said.
"This is the only way." Hei Jue responded: "Let Bai Jue help you."
"Yes." Obito nodded. He knew that even if he didn't agree, Black Zetsu would let White Zetsu secretly follow him, and he would definitely be more suspicious, so he agreed directly.
"Don't worry, I will definitely find Orochimaru!"
Bai Jue said confidently.
...
Uzumaki Ninja Village.
The open space behind the mountain.
Bai Yu stood with his hands behind his back, his whole body covered in white scales. A ball of light red flame wrapped around his whole body, and the center of the flame was faintly white.
The layman Guoxin is summoning a large amount of Samadhi True Fire to exercise his mental power.
After Orochimaru chose to join Bai Yu, he directly absorbed a large amount of Bai Yu's blood and became Bai Yu's direct blood dependent.
In the future, he will be easily suppressed by Bai Yu's bloodline, and while leaving his life and death to Bai Yu, Orochimaru also received huge benefits. The rich power of blood strengthened Orochimaru's physique, increased his mental power, and quickly recovered from his injuries.
And Orochimaru also shared a trace of Otsutsuki's original chakra in his body with Bai Yu.
The reason why he was only given a little was because he was seriously injured and had not yet recovered. In order not to affect his recovery, Bai Yu took the initiative.
After obtaining Otsutsuki's original chakra, Bai Yu felt that the time had come for a breakthrough. In just one night, his mental power successfully entered the second-level crystallization stage.
Since the refined Grayl Stone increased vitality and recovery power, as well as the mental power to break through again, Bai Yu asked Guo Xin layman to summon the higher-temperature Samadhi True Fire to exercise his mental power.
The effect is indeed as obvious as it was at the beginning, and the process of substantive spiritual power is even faster.
Orochimaru was living in the underground laboratory of Uzushio Ninja Village at this time, and lived next to the room where Bai Yu usually rested.
When Orochimaru saw the various high-end advanced experiments in Bai Yu's laboratory, he even said that if Bai Yu had told him this earlier, he would have come to seek refuge long ago.
Of course, Bai Yu knew that Orochimaru was exaggerating. After all, no one wanted to leave life and death completely in the hands of others if possible.
Orochimaru has now integrated a large amount of his blood, and his higher purity blood will be needed to advance in the future. Basically, he can be said to be a blood vassal of Bai Yu.
Unless Orochimaru is willing to give up the blood of Bai Yu in his body after recovery.
But doing so is almost suicide.
A small amount of blood can be removed, but removing a large amount of blood is a direct devastating blow to the origin of the soul, and the life span will be directly reduced by more than 90%. By then, even if Orochimaru wants to take the chakra path, he will not be able to do so.
The blood war among blood warlocks is a life-and-death war.
Unless one party is willing to surrender.
However, after Orochimaru was rescued by Bai Yu, he seemed to have made up his mind to follow Bai Yu.
So before he retreated to recover from his injuries, he asked Bai Yu for more pure blood. After recovering from his injuries, he directly started to promote to the first level blood warlock before coming out.
To this, Bai Yu readily agreed and directly gave Orochimaru a high-purity Gray's Stone.
While allowing Orochimaru to recover quickly, it will also make him stronger after promotion.
To Bai Yu, a family member who is equal in strength to him and can never betray him is better than thousands of troops.
In particular, Orochimaru can give Bai Yu tremendous help in scientific research, which is simply unmatched by other assistants.
"Are you tickling me?!"
Feeling the Samadhi True Fire that was rapidly weakening on his body, Bai Yu came back to his senses and looked at Layman Guoxin.
Master Guo Xin's face twitched, and he immediately exploded his chakra with all his strength, summoning more Samadhi True Fire.
"Hiss~!" Bai Yu enjoyed the supreme pleasure of practicing Samadhi True Fire's mental strength. Looking at the increasingly reluctant Guo Xin layman, he felt more and more that it was necessary to wait until the third level to go to the Flame Mountain, no matter where the toad was. Whether it's his bloodline or the Samadhi True Fire of Flame Mountain, they are all things that Bai Yu must obtain.
The bloodlines of the two immortals of Shigulin and Miaomu Mountain were very strong, but they had no qualitative effect on improving Bai Yu's bloodline.
If he wanted to advance to level four as soon as possible, what he needed was a more advanced bloodline source.
But now that he has even reached the third level, there is no need to worry about the fourth level, and he can take his time and plan for it.
Bang!
When Bai Yu finished absorbing the Samadhi True Fire on his body again, a cloud of white smoke suddenly appeared in the open space in front of him.
A huge white figure appeared.
"Lord Bai Yu, I've brought you here." White Snake said through ventriloquism, lowering his proud head.
The white snake opened its mouth, and Kakashi stood in its mouth.
Kakashi walked out with a pale face, holding Shiro's sharp teeth as tall as a person.
After much thought, Kakashi felt that taking refuge in Bai Yu was the only option, so he contacted Bai Yu through the scroll.
Who would have thought that the psychic beast sent by Bai Yu was so particular that he would not be allowed to touch its body at all. In order to be transferred together, it swallowed itself in one gulp. Although the white snake did not have bad breath, it stayed in the mouth of such a giant psychic beast. Here, it was not a good experience for Kakashi.
"Senior Bai Yu."
Kakashi staggered up to Bai Yu.
"I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't take care of you before. Welcome to the Uzumaki Ninja Village. From now on, you will be my direct ANBU!" Bai Yu smiled. He saw Kakashi being taken away by Obito, so he concluded that he was not There would be danger, so he left Konoha.
"Thank you..." Kakashi was about to say thank you when he suddenly found that his Mangekyō Sharingan broke through the seal uncontrollably and suddenly released its eye power.
The sudden change made Kakashi stunned for a moment. He was not prepared to attack Bai Yu.
"It's okay, don't be nervous." Bai Yu supported Kakashi, and then without any resistance, his mental power was pulled into an illusion space.
After a few seconds, Bai Yu came back to his senses.
"Senior Bai Yu, this is..." Kakashi said doubtfully.
Bai Yu smiled: "Soon one of your old friends will join us."
"You mean..." Kakashi's eyes widened.
"Go and cultivate first, otherwise Lin will definitely be worried." Bai Yu did not continue.
"All right."
Kakashi looked hesitant, but then he went to the Uzumaki Country Hospital obediently.
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