"What price?"
Obito waved his hand. "No need to rush."
"My condition is very simple. As long as you can recover your former strength, it absolutely won't be a difficult thing."
"No, not just recover."
A soft laugh came from under Obito's mask.
"It means stronger than before."
Itachi frowned a little, but didn't speak, waiting for Obito's explanation.
He understood the personality of the man in front of him, someone who would do anything to reach his goals, sinister and cunning, used to hiding all of his secrets and emotions behind a mask.
There was only one situation where he would reveal this kind of smug tone.
It was when Obito had already prepared something in advance, and was about to show off in front of others.
"There is a pair of eyes."
Obito said, "Extremely excellent, already awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and for you, there won't be any rejection reaction at all."
The Sharingan, at the end of the day, is a human organ. Once transplanted, more or less, there will be some rejection.
To deal with rejection, either you tank it head-on, like Kakashi, whose chakra was insufficient after the transplant, and whose original potential was affected.
Or you use special methods to neutralize the rejection, like Danzo using Hashirama cells.
But besides those, there is one more situation where no rejection appears.
That is the eyes of a blood relative.
Uchiha Itachi's gaze instantly became extremely dangerous.
Now that the Akatsuki was destroyed, the world already knew why he had slaughtered his entire clan. Itachi no longer needed to hide his emotions, "You want to target Sasuke?"
According to Uchiha tradition, killing one's own sibling truly was the best way to gain power.
"Sasuke?"
Obito froze for half a second, then shook his head. "Do you think I'm insane?"
"Go to Kirigakure, Ryosuke's main base, to catch a Mangekyō user who can erase my phasing ability with a single slash?"
In terms of efficiency in dealing with Obito, Ryosuke might not even be as fast as Sasuke.
If Ryosuke fought Obito head-on, he would still need to consume Obito's phasing duration, Izanami's invulnerability duration, and only after both waves of invincibility were exhausted could he crush Obito.
Sasuke didn't need anything that fancy.
Once his Mangekyō opened, one slash, and the battle was basically over.
You could say that the current Sasuke completely countered Obito. Not to mention the village also had Terumi Mei, Zabuza, Mayuri, and Takeshi, who, at Ryosuke's request, was currently rotating back to the village for rest.
No, even putting all that aside, even if Kirigakure were full of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people, Obito had already made up his mind, "Before I obtain the power to kill Ryosuke, I definitely won't act rashly again, nor will I touch anyone or anything related to Ryosuke."
Obito's tone was straightforward, not a shred of shame in it.
Hearing this, Uchiha Itachi slowly nodded, agreeing with Obito's judgment.
Anyone who personally witnessed the final battle in Kyoto would never find anything wrong with what Obito said.
Ryosuke was simply on another level of strength.
Just like how horses will instinctively avoid cliffs, fearing and avoiding such a person was not cowardice, it was the most normal decision.
Itachi recalled Obito's earlier words, 'Not Sasuke… no rejection reaction… blood relative…'
A thought flashed.
Uchiha Itachi's pupils suddenly constricted. He thought of one person, someone he had long buried in the depths of his memory.
Obito took out a sealed glass container from Kamui space.
Inside the jar was an orange-colored liquid, and two eyeballs were soaking in it.
Yellow talisman papers marked with "Seal" were attached to the top and bottom, using special sealing techniques to maintain the internal activity.
Obito lightly shook the glass jar, causing the eyeballs inside to roll and turn, revealing two congealed Mangekyō Sharingan.
Through the glass, Itachi met the gaze of the two eyes inside.
Though he had only seen them once, Itachi would never forget.
The eyes in the jar belonged to the last head of the Uchiha clan, the one who proposed Konoha's coup, Uchiha Fugaku.
"Father…"
Itachi closed his eyes, no longer wanting to look at those eyes. Obito's laughter echoed in his ear, a laugh full of complicated meaning, just like Uchiha Itachi's emotions in this moment.
Anyone else was fine, but only his father's eyes, those were the ones Itachi refused to give to Danzo.
So, after killing his parents, Itachi originally intended to take back his father's eyes.
Unexpectedly, little Sasuke returned, and afterward Ryosuke appeared, shattering Itachi's "shadow hero" dream with three punches.
Itachi had no choice but to escape.
He originally assumed Fugaku's eyes had fallen into Danzo's hands, but he didn't expect Obito to secretly retrieve them.
"Your father's eyes won't produce any rejection. They will absolutely let you see farther."
"Of course, not just that. There's also..."
Obito took out another jar, this one pure white.
"An improved version of White Zetsu cells, containing Hashirama cells. Once fused into your body, they can greatly raise your chakra, durability, and recovery."
Uchiha Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan.
Improved White Zetsu cells.
If he obtained these, Uchiha Itachi could instantly surpass his former peak, Obito had not lied.
"You've seen the goods, I've shown my sincerity, and if you want to join me, then appear with your real body, and then..."
"Let me touch you."
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To avoid Ryosuke's pursuit, Obito spent most of his time hiding in Kamui space. Even when he returned to the real world, he came and left immediately, never staying long.
Uchiha Itachi didn't have something as convenient as Kamui.
But he had a summoning beast.
Itachi hid inside the stomach cavity of his summoning beast, a crow. Except for eating and sleeping, the crow spent the rest of its time flying all over the ninja world.
This state was essentially exiling himself outside the world. Even if he was captured by the Sage Camera and his location was determined, it wouldn't matter.
The Itachi talking to Obito right now was only a clone.
To fuse Fugaku's eyes and White Zetsu cells, surgery was necessary. Obito needed to see Itachi's real body and personally perform the operation.
Itachi knew exactly what kind of person Obito was.
No one knew how many traps Obito might embed inside his body during the operation.
He might even be lying about all of this.
Once Uchiha Itachi was pulled into Kamui space and fell unconscious, Obito would immediately dig out his eyes.
A pair of Sharingan that could use Amaterasu and summon Susanoo, this was an extremely valuable strategic resource to Obito.
But…
'What else do I have left to lose?'
Since the war ended, Uchiha Itachi had kept reflecting on his life, recalling every decision he had made.
Which were right, and which were wrong.
Why, even though he sacrificed so much and lived so painfully, did the people he cared about never get happiness because of him?
Was it Itachi who was wrong, or…
Was the world wrong?
But soon, Itachi reflected on himself, he shouldn't blame the world. There was only one person who deserved hatred, 'That damned Danzo.'
But Danzo was long dead, and Itachi didn't know what to do.
A mysterious pull guided Uchiha Itachi toward Obito, and now, looking at his father's eyes, he understood where that pull came from.
Poof!
The clone vanished. A single crow circled in the sky and spoke in a hoarse voice, "Come with me, I'll take you to the real body."
Obito let out a soft laugh, "Nothing could please me more."
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