Chapter 46: Obito, I Crushed Your Eye Like a Bubble!
Yasushi was paralyzed by lightning power, his reactions slightly slowed.
Kakashi's left arm dragged the lightning, driving straight in, breaking through his defense, instantly thundering before him.
He instinctively extended his left hand, pressing against his right arm.
Use it now?
But this thought only flashed through his mind before he immediately dismissed it.
His eyes sharpened. Instead of retreating, he advanced. Two fingers of his left hand joined together like a halberd, stabbing straight toward Kakashi's scarlet left eye.
"Come on!"
"Who's afraid of who!"
"Whoever dodges is a bitch!"
Kakashi's gaze was resolute. His left arm thrust forcefully forward with a "poof," penetrating straight through Yasushi's abdomen, emerging through his back.
Spurting fresh blood gushed wildly from the wound, instantly vaporized by lightning.
But Yasushi's fingers had already reached Kakashi's face.
Kakashi instinctively tilted his head left. Even exposing his right eye before Yasushi's fingers, he had to protect his dear friend's relic.
Simultaneously, his body retreated backward, about to withdraw.
But Yasushi followed his retreating motion, his body moving forward, closely following. His fingers bent, easily plucking out that Sharingan.
After obtaining the item, Yasushi immediately stopped and retreated backward. He and Kakashi simultaneously leaped backwards, completely separating.
Kakashi retreated to the distance, covering his bleeding eye with one hand, gasping heavily for breath.
Sarutobi Asuma and Yuhi Kurenai had already positioned themselves before him, firmly protecting him.
On the opposite side, Yasushi was in even worse condition.
His stomach had a large hole, penetrating front to back—such a bloody cavity that even severed intestines flowed out. The wound's flesh was charred by lightning but ironically played a hemostatic role.
The Mangekyo Sharingan spun frantically. Flesh buds at his abdomen began growing and writhing at visible speed, gradually grinding away the residual lightning at the wound.
Yasushi swayed unsteadily, almost unable to stand. But with one hand gripping that Sharingan, he laughed wildly and wantonly there, as if the injury on his body didn't exist at all.
"Haha..."
"Kakashi, this eye is Obito's, right?"
"I'll take it back for him!"
His left palm forcefully clenched with a "poof," crushing that precious Kamui Mangekyo Sharingan!
"Poor Obito!"
"He'll never be able to gather both eyes again!"
"Let's see how he pilots his mecha in the future!"
"I'm sure he's heartbroken to death right now!"
"Haha..."
Kakashi had no idea Obito was still alive. Now watching the precious eye his dear friend left him crushed by Uchiha Yasushi, Kakashi's remaining eye was filled with pain and hatred, ready to shoot fire.
He gasped twice before urgently saying:
"His recovery ability is very strong. We can't give him recovery time! Let's attack!"
"Right!" Asuma and Kurenai agreed, immediately charging forward again, releasing jutsu from afar.
"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!"
"Demonic Illusion: Hell Fire!"
The two jutsu superimposed together. Instantly the entire ground fell into raging fire, making it impossible to distinguish truth from illusion.
"Hmph!" Yasushi snorted coldly, pressing one hand on his abdominal cavity while continuously treating it. Simultaneously, with a thought, Susanoo rose from the ground again.
When Kakashi attacked earlier, Susanoo was caught by "Welcome a Thousand Arms of Death" and didn't play much role.
But this time was different. While activating Susanoo, Yasushi controlled it to reach back and remove the medicinal herb gourd, pouring it downward.
Massive quantities of phosphorus destruction insects emerged again like a waterfall washing down.
After completing operations, he looked down again. Sure enough, he saw the ground bulging upward—Kakashi had charged in via Earth Release again.
With Kakashi's blade techniques, if competing in taijutsu while gravely injured, he'd most likely meet his end on the spot.
So Yasushi had no intention of close combat blade fighting. Instead, he avoided weaknesses by leveraging strengths—directly competing on who lived longer.
The result: when Kakashi charged in this time, looking up, he faced oncoming rolling phosphorus destruction insects and was immediately startled.
However, his reaction speed was fast enough. His fingers immediately twisted into afterimages with a "swoosh," immediately slipping out again.
"Hahahaha." Yasushi stood tall among the insect swarm, controlling the medicinal herb gourd to collect the insects back while laughing loudly:
"My Mangekyo has no other abilities—just endurance!"
"Want to trade injury for injury, life for life?"
"Come on then!"
"Let's see who can out-trade whom!"
The three looked with ugly expressions at the medicinal herb gourd suspended in mid-air. After a long silence, Kakashi finally said in a low voice:
"Before breaking the phosphorus destruction insects' toxicity, we have absolutely no way to deal with him."
"This infiltration operation has already failed. The traitor capture mission has also failed."
"As for intelligence, we can't say it's completely fruitless."
"At least we can confirm Uchiha Yasushi is still alive. Uchiha Itachi may not have betrayed after all. We can attempt further contact."
"Let's retreat. Next time we meet, with sufficient intelligence and preparation, we'll definitely capture this Uchiha Yasushi in one fell swoop."
After discussing, the three didn't hesitate and immediately retreated.
Yasushi was currently busy treating his injuries and couldn't stop them, only letting them leave.
After a long while, Yasushi finally repaired the abdominal cavity, returning to Rain Village in a gloomy mood.
Neither eye being an ocular jutsu that directly increased attack power really made him quite injured.
Though Susanoo was good, it was ultimately too monotonous.
As if troubles never came singly, he'd just entered the high tower when he saw Obito already waiting there. Upon seeing his return, Obito mocked coldly:
"Oh, isn't this the omniscient Yasushi?"
"I'm sure this outing must have been a great victory, annihilating all invading shinobi?"
"Eh? How come you're actually injured?"
"Could it be you didn't prophesy enemy intelligence?"
Seeing Obito's sarcastic appearance, Yasushi's heart flared somewhat with anger. But he didn't rage. Instead, he smiled at Obito:
"Oh my, I'm truly sorry, Obito."
"I promised you before I'd help kill your good buddy Kakashi!"
"Who knew he'd be so slippery—actually ran away with his new teammates!"
"Originally I planned to keep him, but after much effort, I only kept one of his eyes!"
At this point, Yasushi suddenly acted like he'd just realized something, clapping his hands and exclaiming:
"Ah!"
"I just suddenly remembered—Kakashi's eye was originally yours, Obito!"
"Oh my, oh my, if I'd remembered this earlier, I would've brought that eye back for you."
"Look at me, so careless. Such a precious Mangekyo Sharingan—I actually crushed it like a bubble!"
"What?!" Now Obito truly broke down again. Unable to control his inner fury, he directly charged over.
"You deserve death!"
"How dare you!"
Yasushi looked at him with a cold smile, completely undefended, only pointing upward.
"Hey, Obito, the Leader said—internal fighting is forbidden in the organization!"
"Internal fighting is forbidden!"
"You..." Obito's Mangekyo spun violently. Several times he almost pounced to fight, but ultimately retreated.
"After the plan succeeds, I won't let you go!"
He viciously dropped this threat before turning to leave, leaving only Yasushi's wanton wild laughter behind.
"Haha... Obito, you're really good at retreating!"
Obito's entire body trembled. But considering the ultimate "Moon's Eye Plan's" importance, he could only grit his teeth and endure.
He quickly left the high tower, afraid he couldn't restrain himself momentarily and would turn back to kill that damned bastard.
Just wait!
After Nagato's body recovers, you'll be useless!
He swore viciously in his heart, cursing Yasushi. But his body was honest—his footsteps didn't stop as he quickly distanced himself from here.
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