Being able to see his dad instantly defeat enemy ninjas again made Naruto unusually excited!
The hundred clans of the Ninja World in the Warring States Period still had no idea...
What the Yellow Flash of Konoha truly meant!
["You're going to face an Iwa ninja army of more than fifty people by yourself?! No matter how you look at it, that's way too much!"]
["Shut up and do what he says. You'll see it for yourself in a moment."]
["The battle of the Yellow Flash of Konoha is over in an instant, so don't blink!"]
"In... an instant...?"
The Uchiha and Senju ninjas had seen that blond-haired man before.
He was gentle and mild, without the slightest sense of danger.
"Isn't he a servant who escaped from the Uzumaki Clan?"
"Idiot! That Naruto Uzumaki who saved Myoko-sama calls him 'Dad.' No matter how you think about it, there's no way he's a servant of the Uzumaki Clan."
"But aren't the Senju the only ones who can marry into the Uzumaki Clan? We've fought the Senju for so many years, and I've never seen anyone among them with golden hair."
As they were discussing it...
The Minato Namikaze they were watching took a deep breath. When he exhaled, his entire gaze and aura changed.
"Sure enough..."
He was no ordinary man!
Before they could even say what they were thinking, Minato Namikaze had already turned into a golden flash.
He flickered back and forth between the kunai thrown by those four ninjas, and everywhere he passed, enemies fell dead.
That speed! Aside from the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan and the Hyūga Clan's Byakugan, it was difficult for ninjas from other clans to even tell how he moved so quickly and smoothly among the enemy, killing them with such elegance.
That was right.
For the first time, they actually wanted to use the word "elegant" to describe the sight of a ninja killing people!
Madara Uchiha gave a low laugh. "A pretty dance, but his strength is still lacking. He did inherit Tobirama's true teachings, though."
Tobirama Senju: "..." Aside from the Flying Thunder God Technique, what does that have to do with me?!
In one seamless motion, Minato Namikaze in the sky projection returned to the Konoha ninjas.
["I've already taken care of the enemy with my 'Spiraling Flash Super Round Dance Howl Style Three.' My students are carrying out a separate mission right now, and I need to get back to support them as soon as possible. Can I leave the cleanup to you?"]
["No problem. If anything, you've helped us a great deal."]
["As expected of the Yellow Flash of Konoha!"]
["That was such a relief! I thought we were finished."]
The Senju Clan and Uchiha Clan members who had met Minato Namikaze before fell silent for a moment. They seemed to have a lot they wanted to say, but they did not know where to begin.
"Spiraling... spiraling what?"
"Spiraling Flash... Super Round... No, I really can't say that name out loud."
"Golden hair. Which ninja clan is he from? Just hearing the technique name, I can't even tell whether he's strong or weak."
Minato Namikaze blinked innocently at the Second Hokage and First Hokage. "Is the name not good?"
Madara Uchiha: "..."
Tobirama Senju said, "Just like Big Brother. A natural airhead."
Izuna Uchiha said, "So no one is perfect after all."
Hashirama Senju said, "It's not the same style as my naming. Maybe I really don't understand young people these days anymore."
Young Obito Uchiha nodded. "Naruto names things as simply as possible. That isn't the same style as Minato-sensei either."
Minato Namikaze pouted, a little unhappy. His naming artistry was so wonderful, yet his son had not inherited it. Wasn't that such a shame?
The people who had come out of the gambling den together kept glancing at Minato Namikaze. The impression of him instantly killing over fifty enemies was deeply engraved in their minds. No matter how airheaded the technique name was, no one dared provoke him.
Hashirama, Tobirama, Madara, and Izuna also sensed the probing gazes coming from ninjas of the Warring States Period. Sure enough, there were ninja clans hidden in the town!
The scene in the sky shifted from Minato Namikaze rushing back to Kannabi Bridge to the earlier moment when the two boys, Obito Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake, split up after their argument.
["Found it! The enemy's hideout! Calm down! I can definitely save Rin!!"]
Obito Uchiha, who looked about the same age as Young Madara Uchiha, appeared in the image. Ninja clans of the Land of Fire, including the Hagoromo, immediately sent people to investigate his identity.
["Smack! Smack!"]
In the image, Obito Uchiha slapped his own face hard twice to psych himself up.
And successfully drew the attention of the enemies inside the hideout.
The ninjas of the Warring States Period burst out laughing.
The Uchiha Clan got their first taste of social death.
Fugaku Uchiha, who had just been revived by the mission scroll, could not help pressing a hand to his forehead.
The Uchiha's elite image...
They had lost face all the way back in the Warring States Period.
The Uchiha Clan's ninjas felt ashamed, but they had no idea that the torture to come would be more intense each time.
["Hiding with Camouflage Technique."]
In the projection in the sky, the Iwagakure ninja used ninjutsu to disguise himself, silently approaching Young Obito Uchiha from behind.
Whether in the Warring States Period or the future Ninja World, the gap in strength and experience was the key reason young ninjas lost their lives.
When the Iwagakure ninja's kunai swung down and blood spurted beside Obito, the six young ninjas from Team Minato and Team Kakashi all tensed up.
When they saw that it was Young Kakashi-sensei who had returned to support Obito, the three students of Team Kakashi cheered excitedly.
"That was so cool, Kakashi-sensei, dattebayo!"
"He really is completely different from the delinquent teacher he is now."
Kakashi, who had instinctively pulled out Icha Icha Paradise, stiffened awkwardly and gestured for Sakura to give him some dignity.
Obito Ōtsutsuki sighed. "You're too naive. Once this projection appears, forget your dignity. It can strip away even what's underneath."
Was it... really that serious?
The people from the mission scroll world looked at Obito Ōtsutsuki, who seemed ready to pull a shovel out of Kamui's Dimension and dig himself a hole, and could not help becoming wary.
Adult Obito, standing beside him, lowered his eyes. These were his memories.
But Young Obito's fate had been changed by the mission scroll. He had awakened the Sharingan earlier and fought in excellent coordination with Kakashi.
In the projection:
["Kakashi! Why did you come back to help me?!"]
["I had no choice. How could I leave a crybaby like you to handle this alone?"]
This was the second time Obito Ōtsutsuki had watched this scene together with the whole world.
It was painful. Because he knew there was a species in a certain world called "fujoshi" who forcefully locked him and Kakashi together, he now found it hard to look directly at this kind of dialogue.
Damn that idiot Kakashi! Why say something so strange?
While Obito Ōtsutsuki was so embarrassed that his hair nearly stood on end, Young Obito was arguing with Young Kakashi, insisting that he was not a crybaby.
Adult Obito was absorbed in his memories until he heard a woman nearby say, "Ah~ He spoils him so much!"
S-spoils...
Spoils what?
Adult Obito, Young Obito, and the others from Team Kakashi and Team Minato were all a little stunned, completely failing to understand what she meant.
Obito Ōtsutsuki, who understood instantly, slapped a hand over his face to cover his eyes. Damn it, did that mysterious species exist even in the Warring States Period?!!
In the projection:
["That white hair and chakra short blade..."]
["Could you be Konoha's Hatake White Fang?!"]
["This ninja blade is a keepsake from my father."]
["I see. White Fang's child, huh? Then there's nothing to fear."]
The repeated mentions of Konoha in the projection made the ninjas of the Warring States Period, who had never heard of any ninja clan called "Konoha," feel uneasy.
The only information they had at present was that this place called Konoha was connected to the Uchiha Clan, one of the leading ninja clans in the Land of Fire.
From the perspective of the two Konoha boys, the enemy ninja disappeared before their eyes, even his scent vanishing with him.
["Looks like we'll have to judge the enemy's position through sound and the movement of the air."]
The silver-haired boy, who looked very capable, calmly thought through how to handle the enemy.
Meanwhile, the Uchiha boy standing behind him was like dead weight. Other than spouting that bold declaration earlier, he just stood there, completely useless.
Young Obito was so anxious his mouth went dry.
"How is this possible?! He's way too useless!! My other-world self!!"
Rin tugged at his sleeve, signaling him to look to the side.
It was Adult Obito and Obito Ōtsutsuki.
Right. The things that had not happened to Young Obito, the events in the projection, were all things that Obito Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake from the mission scroll world had truly endured.
Young Obito widened his Sharingan. With the Sharingan's power, he could clearly see the form of that Iwagakure ninja in the projection. He even remembered this man, whom he had fiercely split in two when he thought Kakashi and Rin had been hurt.
But just as in Adult Obito's memories...
The Obito in the projection noticed nothing.
["Obito! Behind you!!"]
In the projection, Young Kakashi suddenly remembered and quickly warned him. At the same time, he had already pulled Obito, who had become a living target, out of the way and taken the enemy's blade himself.
["Squelch!"]
A streak of bright red blood!
The silver-haired boy's left eye was viciously slashed open.
["His eye!!!"]
["Kakashi!!"]
Everyone around them turned to look at Adult Kakashi. So that was how he had lost the left eye he always kept covered.
Fugaku Uchiha was not surprised. Back then, he had accompanied Konoha's intelligence department in interrogating Kakashi again and again.
It was only the difference between hearing about it and seeing it with his own eyes now.
Watching this scene again, Adult Obito still felt an indescribable sense of guilt. For some reason, he even wanted to ask whether the other man hated him.
"At least before I learned about that incident, you were my hero."
Only when Adult Kakashi suddenly said those words did Adult Obito realize he had actually asked the question out loud.
Madara Uchiha ground his back teeth, inexplicably feeling a strange ache in the muscles from his cheeks to the corners of his mouth.
Seeing this, the three young members of Team Minato kept casting sideways glances, intentionally or not, at Adult Obito and Adult Kakashi. They felt that the two of them had an air of ill-fated hardship around them.
In the projection:
["Kakashi! Are you okay?! How's your eye?!!"]
The Young Obito in the projection half-held, half-supported Young Kakashi, who had fallen to the ground clutching his eye, helping him up.
Seeing the bright red blood on his fingertips, the self-blame, the hatred toward his useless self, the pain, and the desire to protect his comrade caused that special chakra to secrete in his brain...