On the other side, while Ranmaru ran with Taki's group, his eyes remained red, but the next moment, his eyes narrowed.
He raised his hand, causing the group to stop.
Not far from them, a black whirlwind appeared, with his orange, single-eyed mask. Obito looked calmly at Ranmaru.
Ranmaru no longer had his gentle smile, instead, he looked very serious. His red eyes could perfectly see the Sharingan, causing him to narrow his eyes. Jugo had already distributed information about the Akatsuki, so he knew very well who Obito was.
Ranmaru sighed and asked. -Can you let us pass? I don't want to fight you.
Obito let out a cold laugh. -I say the same, kid, leave the Jinchuuriki alone, the others can go.
Ranmaru shook his head, slightly frustrated, but entering combat mode. -It seems we can't reach an agreement.
Obito didn't answer, only staring at Ranmaru, but the next moment, Obito's eyes widened slightly, his Mangekyo Sharingan opened directly, expelling the Yin chakra from his mind.
In front of him, Ranmaru had already changed, his body growing rapidly as fur spread all over his body and his jaw expanded.
Behind Ranmaru, Taki's group had already disappeared.
Only Ranmaru's bright red eyes stared at Obito.
Obito frowned, those eyes... the previous genjutsu almost made him fall completely, but in the next moment, Obito used his Dojutsu, and behind him, the claws of a werewolf pierced Obito's body.
The Ranmaru in front of him turned into mist and disappeared.
Obito frowned, he wanted to get out of there. Ranmaru was difficult to deal with. Obito usually ignored Genjutsu ninjas because, with his Mangekyou Sharingan, he wouldn't even be affected most of the time. However, Ranmaru's Dojutsu left Obito perplexed. Obito barely realized he was in a Genjutsu, if it weren't for slight inconsistencies in his chakra, he wouldn't have even noticed.
Ranmaru's genjutsu wasn't just strong, it was subtle enough that Obito had to take the boy completely seriously. This frustrated him even more, the mission was simple, just capture the Seven-Tails, but so far, Kisame, Kakuzu, and Itachi had been stopped, and even he found himself in trouble.
The moment he tried to drag his body into his dimension, Obito's eyes widened as he quickly became intangible again, another werewolf nearly cut him in half.
It was actually a shadow clone of Ranmaru, there were several pairs of eyes staring at Obito around him, some likely genjutsu.
Obito's lips pursed, the problems only grew, and he had to give up on the Jinchuuriki for the time being.
//-//
Taki's group advanced quickly, their hearts pounding in their chests. Fuu was already blaming herself fiercely, it was all her fault. She wanted to take a different path so as not to attract danger to her companions, but Shibuki rejected the idea.
First, because Fuu was his friend, he wouldn't abandon her, furthermore, he is the leader of Takigakure, responsible for she. Second, because the Seven-Tails was a 'treasure' of Takigakure, they wouldn't give up on it so easily.
But the group was shocked to find another group blocking them again.
Jugo, looking from afar, almost thought that the Fourth Ninja War had started early.
Looking at the figure of the Six Paths of Pain and Konan floating beside them with their paper wings, Jugo sighed, he didn't want to start the war yet.
He hadn't expected the Akatsuki to leave almost entirely to capture the Seven-Tails, he didn't understand the reason for it, but at that point, it no longer mattered. He knew that even if he let Fuu return to Taki, Pain would likely attack Takigakure directly.
Thoughtfully, he looked at Kimimaro beside him and came to a conclusion. Summoning two werewolf Zetsus, he made one of them assume the appearance of Kimimaro absorbing some of his chakra. Kimimaro merely observed, even when Jugo asked for a tail from Saiken. He calmly accepted, although Saiken didn't like it at all. The tailed beast still greatly feared Jugo, so it cooperated.
Sealing the tail within Zetsu 'Kimimaro', he made Zetsu Kimimaro advance to fight Pain and Konan. Meanwhile, while none of them paid attention when Kimimaro entered, he kidnapped Fuu, causing the girl to faint and taking some of Chomei's chakra and sealing it within Zetsu 'Fuu' which absorbed some of her chakra, then returned 'she' before any of them could notice her absence.
For him, sealing something had become child's play when he became an Angel.
-Alright, that way they'll stop bothering Taki and Oto.- Jugo nodded, satisfied. Kimimaro stood to the side, watching the fight without moving. He would fight if Jugo asked, but since he didn't, he simply observed with him.
Fuu remained unconscious, Jugo separated a Snake clone, which "swallowed" her and disappeared into the ground.
Jugo didn't want to prevent the emergence of the Ten-Tails, in fact, he wanted it, mainly because Akatsuki had made the world chaotic enough. So even now, Jugo had no plans to destroy Akatsuki.
Jugo stopped paying attention to the fight below and looked at Kimimaro.
He sensed that Ranmaru and the Sound Four could be released, but Kimimaro still harbored a deep attachment to Orochimaru within him.
Jugo felt he needed to shift this 'attachment' elsewhere, so a plan formed in his mind, but that would have to wait for later.