Chapter 304 The Truth
Upon hearing his threat, Payne's lifeless Rinnegan glared fiercely at him.
"She's not someone you can mess with!"
Obito Uchiha didn't even glance at him, seemingly not taking him seriously at all, his mask still facing Haruko Hayama who had stopped walking.
Being threatened by her former teammates and childhood friend must have really hurt Haruko Hayama's feelings.
But she has no time to be sad now.
Obito Uchiha's ability to teleport objects is clearly a space-time ninjutsu, but he didn't form any hand seals or make any sound, so how did he activate his ability?
Before she could think it through, Obito Uchiha, standing tall, immediately turned around, giving off an inexplicable feeling of fleeing in panic.
Haruko didn't care about anything else and shouted with all her might.
"Obito, you coward! When you were four, you were chased by a dog; when you were six, you were stabbed in the butt by a shuriken; when you were ten, you tripped over a rock and fell all the way into the river; and when you were eleven, you lost your duel with Kakashi because you had diarrhea!"
"It was you who gave me expired rice balls that gave me diarrhea!"
Unable to bear it any longer, Obito Uchiha, his face flushed with embarrassment, turned around angrily and pointed at her in a fit of rage.
"I already told you that the rice ball tasted unusual, but you insisted on eating it!"
"You said it's unusual, so who wouldn't want to try it and see what it tastes like! Besides, didn't you promise me you wouldn't tell anyone?"
"I didn't tell anyone!"
"You clearly let them hear it!"
Obito Uchiha glared fiercely at Yahiko and the other two who had overheard everything.
Haruko looked at them, crossed her arms, and asked casually, "Did you hear that?"
After glancing at Obito Uchiha, whose resentment had materialized, and then at Haruko Hayama, whose eyes held a threatening glint, Yahiko and the other two shook their heads in unison.
"You! You!" Obito Uchiha was so angry that his hands were trembling.
Haruko's tone turned serious as she continued, "Let's talk, Obito."
"..."
While Obito Uchiha was dawdling, Haruko approached Yahiko and the other two in the morning.
"Can you stop?"
Meeting her earnest gaze, Payne and Konan both cautiously looked at Yahiko, who was at the head of the group, but Yahiko remained silent.
But his silence was the answer.
Haruko had anticipated this, and changed the subject: "Could you stop for an hour? I only ask you for an hour."
Although he didn't know what she could do in an hour, he felt guilty towards her, so Yahiko nodded in agreement.
"We will neither attack nor retreat for the next hour."
After saying that, Yahiko left with Pain and Konan, afraid of facing Haruko Hayama's even more disappointed gaze.
Haruko lowered her eyelashes in the morning, an hour later...
If her idea is proven true, an hour will be enough.
She took a deep breath, glanced at Obito Uchiha who was still dawdling over, and her tone suddenly became tinged with helplessness.
"Obito, are you trying to wear this hour down?"
Presumably thinking that he was going to die sooner or later anyway, Obito Uchiha flashed and stood directly in front of her, but with his mask on and his head down, his expression was completely obscured.
Haruko stepped forward and gently removed his mask.
Obito Uchiha did not resist. Without the mask, his mature and sharp features, as well as his sharp eyes and prominent brow bones, were revealed.
The once innocent and adorable black-haired boy has grown up completely, and his eyes now carry a subtle sense of vicissitude and a restrained coldness.
It felt like just a moment, and Haruko watched him grow up.
In fact, she deviated from the path of growth that everyone shared.
Haruko held the mask she had taken off in her hand and looked directly at Obito Uchiha, who both wanted to look at her and dared not look at her.
"Yahiko and the others did it because of their extreme pacifist ideology, but what about you? Why did you participate in the attack on Konoha?"
Haruko Hayama was met with silence.
Knowing he would react this way, Haruko Hayama spoke again: "Obito, I'm not blaming you, but I desperately want the truth."
After a few seconds of silence, Obito Uchiha said, slowly and deliberately, "Because of you."
"What?" Haruko Hayama was stunned.
"I want to create a world with you."
The year after Haruko Uchiha's death, Obito Uchiha returned to Konoha with Jiraiya after their training trip.
Having lost his memories of Haruko Uchiha, he persuaded Kakashi Hatake to leave the Anbu and often took Kakashi Hatake and Rin Nohara on missions together.
Until one day, while he was on a mission alone, he collapsed in the forest due to serious injuries.
He thought he was going to die, but when he opened his eyes, Obito Uchiha found himself in a cave, and his injured chest had been bandaged.
Two people dressed entirely in white told him that it was Madara Uchiha who saved him.
Madara Uchiha, the former leader of the Uchiha clan, joined forces with the Senju clan to establish Konoha during the Warring States period. He later defected from Konoha and died in the battle at the Valley of the End.
Whether viewed from a historical or age perspective, Madara Uchiha could not possibly be alive today.
However, Obito Uchiha witnessed Madara Uchiha in his twilight years.
"You happened to collapse in the forest above this cave. They found you when they went out to scout and brought you back," Madara Uchiha explained.
Only he knew that this was the opportunity he had been waiting for.
During his battle with Hashirama Senju at the Valley of the End, Madara Uchiha was killed by Hashirama Senju's sword, but in fact, he had made preparations to revive himself before he died.
The reason he fought Hashirama Senju was to obtain Hashirama's cells from him and transplant them into his own body.
As time passed, Hashirama's cells showed no reaction until he was now old and frail, unable to move.
The more Madara Uchiha hid in this dark and gloomy place, the more he hated the world.
He plans to collect all the tailed beasts, revive the Ten-Tails, project his eye power onto the moon to cast Infinite Tsukuyomi, unify the world, and achieve peace in the illusory world.
This is Madara Uchiha's Eye of the Moon Plan.
Therefore, he needs a successor.
The White Zetsu under his command gathered information everywhere, and Obito Uchiha, who awakened his Sharingan during the Battle of Kannabi Bridge, became his best candidate.
The evolution of the Sharingan relies on extremely intense emotional trauma, which is why Madara Uchiha arranged for Kirigakure to abduct the person most important to Obito Uchiha.
When the tailed beast within Nohara Rin erupts, either Nohara Rin will die at the hands of Hayama Haruko, or Nohara Rin will have her mind taken over by the tailed beast and destroy Konoha.
However, Haruko Hayashi happened to know sealing techniques, ruining Madara Uchiha's carefully planned scheme.
Afterwards, Obito Uchiha was taken away by Jiraiya for training, and Jiraiya had no way to deal with him anymore.
With Kushina, the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki, about to give birth, it's the perfect time to bring out the Nine-Tails.
Madara Uchiha had no choice but to temporarily replace him with another Uchiha, coercing and enticing one of his clansmen to help him by releasing the Nine-Tails using his Sharingan.
The plan failed again, and it's possible that it was sabotaged by the same person.
Haruko Uchiha, an unknown nobody adopted by the Uchiha clan, possesses unique eye techniques, which greatly intrigues Madara Uchiha.
Unfortunately, she died before Madara Uchiha could investigate further.
Perhaps she didn't die; her body simply dissipated and ceased to exist in this world, along with all memories of her that everyone had of her.
If Madara Uchiha hadn't possessed both the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and the Rinnegan, he probably would have lost those memories as well.
Madara Uchiha had a strong premonition that this person named Haruko Uchiha would not die so easily.
At the same time, this also gave Madara Uchiha a great inspiration.
He orchestrated a plan to severely injure Obito Uchiha, then brought him back to the cave and used his Mangekyou Sharingan to make Obito remember everything about Haruko Uchiha.
As expected, this naive and foolish child wept bitterly and even felt utterly hopeless.
Then, Madara Uchiha told him that Konoha had killed the girl, and that as long as he collected all the tailed beasts, he could create the peaceful world he longed for.
Even if it's an illusionary world, the girl he longs for still exists there.
The dazed and confused Obito Uchiha did not immediately agree.
At Madara Uchiha's signal, White Zetsu let him go back.
Upon returning to Konoha, Obito Uchiha inquired everywhere about Haruko Uchiha, only to be met with despair as no one remembered her existence.
The Uchiha Fugaku family doesn't remember, nor do Minato Namikaze and the others. Kurenai Yuhi, Asuma Sarutobi, Might Guy, and even Rin Nohara don't know who he's talking about.
Finally, Obito Uchiha approached Kakashi Hatake.
He could accept anyone forgetting, but he could not accept Kakashi Hatake, the man who had made a promise to him, forgetting.
Long before Obito Uchiha left the village to train, he had specifically sought out Kakashi Hatake.
"Hey Kakashi," Obito Uchiha said awkwardly, glancing at the silver-haired boy in front of him, "I'm going on a training trip."
Kakashi Hatake replied casually, "Understood."
No matter how many years Obito Uchiha had seen this arrogant attitude, he could never tolerate it. However, remembering that he was the one asking for a favor, he managed to suppress his burgeoning arrogance.
Obito Uchiha closed his eyes briefly, then opened them again with a serious expression.
"Kakashi, you'll protect Haruko while I'm gone, right?"
"What's the meaning?"
“I know. That night at the dango shop, I saw it clearly in your eyes.” Obito Uchiha held his breath, intently observing his reaction. “You like Haruko, don’t you?”
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