Chapter 55 "So you really are Obito..."
Your attack was swift, accurate, and ruthless, hitting the bullseye—you mean, directly striking the head of that dark figure, making a very loud noise. Bai, who was in the next room, rushed over instantly. The first thing he saw upon arriving at the scene was you standing on the edge of the bed.
With the arrival of Bai, the dark shadow also vanished instantly.
Only the tattered, tattered book remained, lying forlornly in that dark corner. Bai said, "The ambush?"
"The sneak attack failed." And you even managed to counterattack successfully. You said to Bai with a little pride, "I attacked before it could attack."
Bai walked to that corner to examine the traces left by the other party. You heard your voice in his ear. You were describing in detail the strange attacker you had just encountered. Not only was his appearance strange, but even his voice and the content of his speech were strange. You said, "But it mentioned Obito, so it must know Uchiha Obito, right?"
Following this clue should lead you to more information. Of course, before that, you need to find Obito Uchiha. Because of the special circumstances this time, you finally took the initiative to write a letter to Obito Uchiha, concisely explaining the ambush incident and asking him when you could meet.
Unlike your nonchalant attitude, Bai seemed much more worried. After all, the attacker was able to enter your room silently, and he hadn't even noticed the attacker's presence. This was truly... his dereliction of duty. Bai tried his best to control his emotions, even though his heart was overwhelmed by self-blame and guilt. On the surface, he still appeared calm and composed.
He said, "Mingxi, you're not hurt, are you?"
You shook your head and said, "No." Then you glanced at him again, narrowing your eyes slightly, sensing something was off about him. So you said, "Bai, are you in a bad mood?"
"I..." Bai wouldn't lie to you. He sighed, "What happened just now was my fault. I should have protected you better."
You shuffled into the bathroom in your slippers, saying as you walked, "That's true, but you seem to have forgotten that I'm also a living, breathing person who can adapt to changing circumstances. I'm not someone who just stands there dumbfounded and lets an attacker get away with it."
That's called giving full play to your initiative. Otherwise, if you rely too much on bodyguards, you could easily lose your life in this dangerous world.
As soon as you finished speaking, Bai's mood did ease. Indeed, he had subconsciously ignored your own strength, and your intelligence could make up for the difference in strength between you and the enemy. Bai's slightly furrowed brows relaxed, and he softly hummed in agreement.
The letter you sent to Obito Uchiha got a reply quickly, but not a letter; it was him in person. He suddenly appeared on your balcony. Luckily, you were used to it and weren't startled by his sudden appearance. You simply said, "Have you finished your mission? Did you see the letter I wrote?"
Obito Uchiha said, "I came because of that letter."
Unlike your calm demeanor, he seemed much more agitated, acting as if he were the one involved. You said, "There's no need to be so agitated, is there? Nothing happened."
"That's just because you were lucky." Obito Uchiha's words revealed a hint of anxiety. He should have expected that, as Madara Uchiha's consciousness, Black Zetsu would definitely not allow him to have too much contact with you. Now, the other party has directly classified you as a stumbling block and even wants to take the initiative to attack you.
If you hadn't reacted quickly, the next thing he would have seen was your tombstone.
No, he didn't want that to happen. He had already... he had witnessed too many deaths. At least you shouldn't die. You didn't do anything wrong. You... a pure person like you should live a good life.
You have no idea about the turbulent, almost tumultuous inner turmoil he was going through. All you can see is Uchiha Obito pacing anxiously, muttering incoherently to himself. Because he's speaking in a low voice and very quickly, you can't understand what he's saying at all. You pour him a glass of water and say, "I think you can calm down."
But Obito Uchiha's expression showed that he couldn't calm down no matter what; you caught the anxiety in his eyes, and only now did you clearly realize one thing—
He seems very afraid that you will die.
Ah... that's a bit troublesome. You and he are just ordinary lovers. You don't think it's necessary to care so much about a lover.
Obito Uchiha asked, "Back then... what did that thing do to you?"
"What else could you do? You just think I've influenced you, so you want to kill me. But I don't think I'm important enough to you to influence your decisions, right?" It's good to have self-awareness, and you are a very self-aware person.
However, after hearing what you said, Obito Uchiha became somewhat agitated and retorted, "What do you mean by 'not that important'?"
Wait, why did this person suddenly get all worked up? You didn't even say anything, did you?
You said, "You don't need to be so angry. I was just telling the truth."
Just when you thought Obito Uchiha was about to get angry, he suddenly lowered his voice and said, "I really don't know how you figured out I don't care about you."
Feeling down and depressed.
"Let's get back to the point and not stray from the topic." You didn't call him over to argue. Arguing is pointless and a waste of time, and your time is very precious.
Obito Uchiha seemed to want to continue the topic, but since you had already voluntarily skipped it, he could only purse his lips and listen to you continue.
You find it strange after you hear that the thing that tried to ambush you is called Black Zetsu and is the consciousness of the already deceased Uchiha Madara.
"Is Madara Uchiha's consciousness such a strange thing?"
Obito Uchiha had the same doubts before, but Madara Uchiha was convinced of it and didn't need to question it directly in front of him. However, Obito Uchiha also felt that there was something fishy about it. He said, "He was worried that the Eye of the Moon Plan would not be able to proceed smoothly."
Please, you're not interested in this plan at all, and you certainly won't stop them. Your attitude has always been, "Whatever, it's none of your business."
You said, "Really? But that has nothing to do with me, does it?"
Obito Uchiha seemed thoughtful. He said, "That may be true in your eyes, but it's a different story in his eyes."
Sigh, you never thought you'd get dragged into something like this.
Obito Uchiha asked again, "What are you thinking about now?"
"Oh, I just slightly regret touching you in the first place," you said frankly.
Chatting with you makes his mood like a rollercoaster. His mood, which had just calmed down a little, has now plummeted again. He said, "So you're going to back out of this?"
That's not quite right. You're just a little regretful. People always regret what has already happened. Can he guarantee that he won't regret anything he's done?
"No."
It was already night when Obito Uchiha came to find you, which was your overtime time, so you didn't have much patience and were thinking about how to get rid of him.
You sat on the edge of your bed, rubbed your cheeks, and waved to him. He was still a little resentful, but he obediently came over. You said, "Never mind, you should go change your clothes first, no, go wash yourself first."
As if giving an order, you still couldn't stand him sitting on the edge of your bed in his cloak.
"But you're still ordering me around, aren't you? You were disgusted with me just now, and now you want to treat me like a dog. You're so fickle." Uchiha Obito accused you of being inconsiderate. You nodded, accepting his accusations. After all, you knew what kind of person you were. You patiently waited for him to finish before standing up and patting his cheek.
It was more like treating him like a dog. Obito Uchiha was even more displeased, almost baring his teeth at you. But that was close enough. Just as he was about to get angry, you grabbed his collar, made him lower his head, kissed his cheek, and then said, "Can you behave now?"
Now that things have come to this, Obito Uchiha remained silent, but his body still went to the bathroom. Listening to the pattering sounds coming from the bathroom, you thought to yourself that if even that thing called Black Zetsu was starting to get anxious about the progress of the Eye of the Moon Plan, then it meant that the plan had entered a critical stage.
A war is very likely to break out, and not a small-scale war, but a global war.
The only saving grace is that you haven't yet laid railways all over the world. If you had already built a complete railway network, and it were destroyed in a war, even the most composed person would find it hard to bear.
Fortunately, you had the foresight to build a lot of air-raid shelters, which will probably come in handy when the war really starts. As you were thinking, the sound of water in the bathroom stopped, the door clicked open, and Uchiha Obito came out, bringing a mist of water vapor and the lingering scent of shower gel and shampoo. He sat down next to you.
You paused your thoughts for a moment and, unusually considerate, used a hairdryer to dry his hair. He lowered his head, and even his eyelids drooped, his long, thick eyelashes trembling slightly. When he was quiet, he was quite endearing.
Obito Uchiha remained silent because his hair was short and it dried quickly when blow-dried.
Then he leaned on your shoulder, as if he wanted to snuggle into your arms, to get closer and closer to you, as if only then could he feel at ease.
To be honest, his hair was really a bit prickly, but you patiently patted him on the back and asked, "Shall we do it?"
"I just want to hug you."
"Oh, I see. I'm not feeling well today," you said with a smile.
Even though he could tell you were joking, Obito Uchiha wasn't angry. He was just... glad that he could still stay by your side, that's all.
When Obito Uchiha said "hug," he really meant it was just a hug, without any other meaning. It was just that the hug was so tight that you felt like you were being entangled by an octopus, and you even had trouble breathing in your sleep.
Half-asleep, you slowly open your eyes and vaguely see that he seems to be staring at you the whole time.
Here we go again, isn't it? It's a unique habit of the Uchiha clan—they stay up all night staring at others. You ask in a sleepy tone, "Have you stared enough?"
Obito Uchiha didn't speak. It all seemed like a dream of yours.
When you woke up the next morning, Obito Uchiha was nowhere to be seen. It was on this day that you received letters from various places, including Konoha, Sunagakure, and Kirigakure. In short, all these letters told you that the situation was urgent and that even the most oblivious person should realize that war was imminent.
You immediately instructed your subordinates to evacuate the crowd to the air-raid shelters you had built in advance should an emergency occur. As for what would happen next, you had no idea.
On the third day after Obito Uchiha left, the war officially began. People who have not experienced war may think it is a grand concept, but it is not. War itself is composed of many trivial captures.
In your past life, the invention of firearms doubled the scale of wars and the number of casualties. Although firearms are not as widespread in this world, the damage caused by ninjutsu used by ninjas is already quite exaggerated.
Therefore, the war quickly spread to your country, and you wisely fled towards the Land of Waves. On the way, you encountered Zabuza, who immediately said that he had defeated Gato. You responded with an "Oh," and seeing your indifferent reaction, Zabuza asked, "Aren't you happy?"
You rolled your eyes, somewhat exasperated, and said, "Brother, war has already broken out, don't you even know what's going on?"
For ninjas, war is commonplace, after all, they exist as war machines. So even though the flames of war have reached them, Zabuza remains calm. He looks at you being held in Haku's arms and says, "I will escort you to the Land of Waves."
"Don't say things like that too soon." If you say something like that in a clichéd commercial film, you'll be killed off very quickly.
Zabuza didn't say anything more; he spent the rest of his time clearing the way for you and removing any obstacles in your path.
The obstacles you're referring to are those who inexplicably take advantage of the chaos, perhaps hoping to make a fortune while the world is in turmoil, but they never expected to lose their lives for it.
Even while fleeing for your life, you don't forget to inform your mercenaries to maintain order near your property. After all, the war will eventually pass, and you'll feel the pain if the losses in this war are too great.
Military bases, including those in the Land of Waves, exist to deal with such special situations, and they are now proving useful. Even in the Land of Waves, you are still deploying your own troops. Most of the troops are used to maintain order, and a small portion is used to support the front lines. You think it's enough to just go through the motions and not get too involved. You don't want too many of your men to die.
This is, after all, a matter concerning the ninja world.
After returning to the Land of Waves, you're constantly busy, checking your assets from morning till night. Through this system panel, you can deduce the current state of the battle, which doesn't look very optimistic.
The intelligence network you had set up all over the world was now sending you intelligence from all over the world. There was so much intelligence that you couldn't read it all by yourself. You not only asked Haku to help you with the work, but you also asked Zabuza to help you read the intelligence. Zabuza said, "That guy who calls himself 'Uchiha Madara' is going to change the world."
"I know," you said, but what you didn't know was that on the battlefield, Obito Uchiha wavered and betrayed the plan, causing the Eye of the Moon Plan to fail. Seeing that the thousand-year-long plan to revive his mother was about to fall apart, Black Zetsu roared hysterically, "You idiot! Utterly idiot! Everything you've done is just an escape from reality! You'll continue to suffer this pain forever! No one in this world can find happiness!"
“I don’t think so. I once thought the world was beyond saving, but her existence reminded me that the world is not completely hopeless yet,” Obito Uchiha said thoughtfully.
Black Zetsu, already bound by layers of Wood Release, shouted, "Come on, she doesn't love you—! You idiot, she fooled you! You've been played like a dog!"
Obito Uchiha didn't refute. He wasn't particularly opposed to being your dog. He looked at Black Zetsu and said, "How could someone like you, who doesn't understand love, possibly comprehend this?"
Black Zetsu, burning with rage, was about to say something more, but the next second his mouth was sealed shut by Wood Release, rendering him completely speechless. He could only watch helplessly as Obito Uchiha walked towards his former Konoha comrade.
We lost, we all lost, and all of this failure is because of you!
At that very moment, you, who were in the Land of Waves, sneezed as if sensing something. Zabuza said, "You have a cold?"
"It's also possible that someone is badmouthing me behind my back," you said.
Zabuza said, "Really? There are people who hate you that much?"
You stretched and said with a smile, "There are plenty of people who hate me."
Bai said, "But there are also many people who like you, Mingxi."
You can't deny that, and facts have proven that what Bai said was correct. After returning to Konoha, Obito Uchiha was sentenced to be placed under supervision in the village because of the crimes he had committed. Fugaku Uchiha, as the head of the Uchiha clan, said that he would wait until Obito Uchiha truly repented before accepting him back.
After all, it's impossible not to accept him. After all, Obito Uchiha's temporary defection prevented Konoha from suffering greater losses. It's just that his past actions are hard for people to accept for the time being.
During this period, the person who visited Obito Uchiha the most was his former partner, Kakashi.
When Kakashi first came, Obito Uchiha's attitude was lukewarm. Although it was hard to find fault with it, such an attitude towards a former teammate was a bit too cold.
Perhaps he just needs some more time to adjust, Kakashi told himself.
Later, Obito Uchiha finally opened up to him and took the initiative to speak to him, although his first words were: "Can you help me deliver a letter?"
During this special period, his every move is being watched by many eyes, and the letter he writes at this time will probably have to go through layers of review before it can reach the recipient.
But... this was the first request his old friend had made to him in many years, and he couldn't refuse under any circumstances, so he asked, "Who should I give it to?"
Obito Uchiha paused for a moment, then said, "My lover."
Kakashi frowned. Who was his lover?
Kakashi's doubts were quickly answered when he saw the recipient of the letter, and he fell silent.
——Mingxi.
A very familiar name. He seemed to have heard of her before. She was apparently the adopted daughter of the Uchiha clan leader. She was once supposed to marry the clan leader's eldest son, but then something happened and the wedding fell through. She disappeared afterward, which was even called one of the top ten annual events in Konoha.
Then he saw your name on this letter again, the name of this influential figure. Kakashi said, "This name... looks familiar."
Obito Uchiha bluntly stated, "She lived in Konoha for a period of time before."
Now that the name and background match up, Kakashi can be sure it's you.
He said, "Did you choose to come back because of her?"
"More or less."
He just felt that the real world with you seemed pretty good, so he temporarily abandoned the Eye of the Moon plan.
Kakashi thought to himself, "You've really saved the world." He promised his friend that he would deliver the letter to you, and he kept his word. Soon after, he arrived in the Land of Waves and came to your villa. But before he could hand the letter to you in person, he was intercepted by Zabuza, who said, "Isn't this the Copy Ninja, Hatake Kakashi? What are you doing here?"
There was no need to call out his title and name all at once, and the atmosphere inexplicably became uneasy. Kakashi said, "I'm here to deliver a message to Obito."
"Hmph, is that Uchiha Obito?" Zabuza said irritably.
"That's right, it's that Uchiha Obito."
Seeing that Zabuza didn't intend to let him in, Kakashi said again, "I mean no harm, I really just came to deliver a letter."
Just then, he heard a voice coming from behind the door: "Obito wrote a letter? Let me see it."
Before you could finish speaking, Zabuza, who had been blocking Kakashi's way like a small mountain, finally moved. He swiftly snatched the letter from Kakashi's hand and handed it to you.
Kakashi was still quietly watching your profile. After seeing the letter, you gradually smiled and said to Kakashi, "I understand. I received the letter. You can go now."
Kakashi couldn't help but ask again, "So you really are Obito's... lover?"
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Author's Note: Mingxi: Who's talking nonsense again? [Question mark]
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