They crashed down onto the eight tails in a blur of green and silver and pink. Hatake grabbing Uzumaki whilst Sakura swept low with Kusanagi and Maito swept high with a powerful kick. The man became intangible and avoided their attacks, but he also avoided getting his hands on their jinchūriki, which was good.
Whilst the two men decided to be melodramatic and make a showing of their supreme coolness, Sakura used a kunai and a few well placed hits to break away the rock covering the glowing Uzumaki's back. She did not find it surprising that he'd found a way to make himself a neon orange nightlight.
"Kakashi-sensei! Bushy-brows-sensei! Sakura-chan! You're here!" Uzumaki cried.
"I can't be sitting around while one of my Team Seven students is overdoing it out here!" Hatake said cheerfully over his shoulder.
"Ah wait! ThatguyhasaSharinganandaRinneganinhisleftandrighteyes-!"
Naruto was babbling at high speed, but Sakura'd spent enough time around him to decode the slurred words. She sighed, there went any hope of using stealth.
"Andthere'sthisstakeintheleftsideofhischest and… uhhhhh!"
"Calm down, you aren't making any sense."
"His right eye is a Sharingan, and his left eye is a Rinnegan. There's the same kind of stake in his left breast that Pein had… I see." Hatake explained.
"He must be using a ridiculous amount to chakra to control bijuu's." Sakura added.
"That's my Kakashi! Sharp as always!" Maito said at the same time.
"Five tails! It's the five tails!" Hatake cried as massive, booming hooves stampeded towards them. Sakura watched the oncoming giant horse and readied a punch. Fortunately she didn't need it. The masked man himself forced the bijuu to stop.
…Had the bijuu been aiming for him in the first place?
"Or maybe he doesn't have complete control of the bijuu's." Sakura mused.
The transformed tailed beasts rushed towards them
"First we need to see which one's going to use which one of Pein's techniques!"
Sakura powered up her storm chakra, deciding not to draw Kusanagi in favour of heavy hitting.
"I'm not good with faces, they all look the same to me!" Gai yelled and Sakura laughed hysterically as the three of them met the tailed beast's head on. Every one of them an almost identical mass of black if not for the number of tails they sprouted.
She met a black shape with a slam of a fist, pressurised chakra sending it flying as she threw herself towards a second one, slamming a palm into it's back. She went for a kick but was knocked backwards by a slam of a tail, skidding along the ground alongside Kakashi and Gai. She just got a her arms up in time to block and they throbbed with fresh bruising. They'd been thrown away from Naruto and the eight tails, the group now separated by the half transformed bijuu.
"Why aren't they using Pein's abilities?!" Maito yelled.
"Maybe they can't?" Hatake said.
"So he knows that we've already developed strategies to counter all of Pein's abilities and isn't stupid enough to waste chakra on something like that!" Maito said.
"Because controlling the bijuu's with his doujutsu is already using a hefty amount of chakra!" Sakura finished.
"You guys are so smart!" Screamed the Uzumaki from where he was being attacked by a pair of tailed beasts.
"…Hatake Kakashi." The masked man said. "Excellent eye. And you've taught your student well. Now, excuse me while I try and act a bit tough."
A transformed jinchūriki screamed. The earth exploded beneath them as the six tails burst into its giant, terrifying glory. Then it exploded again as the four tails burst into being behind it.
Sakura bounced along the ground after being thrown back by the impacts, doing her best to protect anything important as she rolled before she managed to get her feet under herself and pushed up to standing.
The three of them and Naruto and the eight tails had effectively been separated, each facing a fully transformed tailed beast. The five tails moved in a flurry and they were faced with a shimmering opaque wall of gas.
"What the?!" Gai screamed.
"Don't make contact with it!" Kakashi roared and they jumped backwards and away from it.
"If I can get a line of sight on the bijuu I could probably injure it!" She yelled.
"Probably?!" Yelled Gait.
"They've pinned us down!" Kakashi interrupted and they looked behind them to see the transformed jinchūriki's arms sticking out of the ground behind them.
"The tree disintegrated! A rotting gas!"
A second Kakashi poofed into existence, the two of them moving behind them to form a manji formation.
"Here's the plan!" Kakashi said. "Me and Gai focus on the enemies in front and leave our backs to each other! Sakura takes the first opportunity to do some damage! Any objections?!"
"None!" Gai said and Sakura echoed the cry.
Then Gai and Kakashi were moving. Sakura could hear the crackling of lightning at her back but didn't pay it any further attention, instead drawing Kusanagi and watching Gai successfully punch away the gas.
Sakura drew her chakra into the tip of her sword, mixing the three elements in a perfect ratio.
One blizzard senbon took four percent of her chakra. Against a bijuu? She could afford to make ten.
She landed next to Gai just as he threw his last punch, a circle of ten rapidly spinning, hair thin shards of crackling ice forming at the tip of her sword as she pointed it at sight of the massive creature. The circle itself beginning to spin until it appeared just a solid cylinder of blue.
The last of the gas parted. Sakura aimed, braced herself, and released the jutsu. The cylinder of blue light exploded forwards. She was sent skidding back a few metres from the force.
It hit the bijuu at the top of its chest and blew a hole the size of its mountainous head in the creature. It screamed horribly, throwing its head back and stumbling wildly. The earth shook with every step, the ground cracking and shifting.
Sakura panted through the sudden loss of chakra, unable to help it as an exhilarated laugh slipped past her lips. The three of them stepped back into loose formation, Kakashi having popped his shadow clone in a not-good showing of his available chakra levels. The Bijuu was ignoring them completely in favour of curling into a ball and whimpering, but the ones behind them were gearing up for more.
"Holy shit!" Sakura exclaimed, laughing wildly. "I hurt a bijuu!" A gloved hand ruffled her hair.
"We're not done yet!" Gai said, staring at the transformed jinchūriki crawling from the ground behind them.
Then, the bijuu fighting Naruto was sucked into the head of a nightmare creature that rose from the ground. The masked man standing on top.
"You only stopped two beasts, and it looks like you're all on death's door. But I don't intend to be stingy here." The man said, holding a hand seal before his face. "You have some very valuable things that belong to me, now I'm going to take them all."
The ground before them exploded. The remaining four bijuu's transformed. Four giant, mountain sized balls of death formed in front of their mouths.
"TH-THIS IS REALLY BAD!" Gai yelled.
"WATCH YOUR STEP GAI!" Kakashi yelled back. "I"M GOING TO USE KAMUI TO WIPE THEM ALL OUT!"
The seal between her collarbones started itching and burning. She ignored it.
"There's no way you have enough strength for that!" Gai replied. "There's no choice, I've got to use the eighth gate."
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP AND LET ME DEAL WITH IT!" Sakura screamed, throwing her hands up and feeling the sheer, unadulterated power of the seal on her forehead spread over her limbs. She began pushing chakra in to the tips of her fingers.
Then, a burst of speed. A blur of orange. The giant balls of death were effortlessly deflected. In her shock, the power slipped back inside the seal.
"Naruto?!" She exclaimed at the same time Hatake exclaimed "Se-sensei?!"
"I-is it Naruto?!" Maito yelled. Around them four massive chunks of land were wiped off the map. "Is this the power of a bijuu?!"
"The mountains…"
"This power scaling is totally ridiculous." Sakura murmured.
"Here they come!" Maito yelled. The bijuu leaped. Warm, orange chakra enveloped them. "What is this?"
"Are we inside the nine tails chakra?"
"This is insane!" Sakura said. It was like floating in a warm bath of orange soft drink, except she was entirely submerged, not sticky and somehow magically breathing normally. Sakura was then largely distracted from the giant monster fight they were being taken along for by the insistent burning in her collarbone seal. It seemed to buzz and hum with impatience. "What the fuck do you want?" She muttered waving her hands in frustration.
The seal grew abruptly cooler and then hotter again as she did. Narrowing her eyes, Sakura waved her arm slowly, playing hot and cold with it's placement until the seal was happy. When she looked, her arm was pointing at Hatake.
"Right you want something from Hatake." She murmured, loosely aware they'd been thrown backwards over a forest. It burned angrily in response. "Okay that's a no. If you don't want something from him… you want to do something for him?" The seal cooled happily. Her eyes widened. "You want me to give him you? What the fuck?" It somehow radiated approval.
Apparently her own probably-the-consciousness-of-a-past-life-containing-seal wanted to jump ship. Figured.
Sakura narrowed her eyes with concentration and- deciding just to roll with the soft drink bath theory- made swimming motions in the direction of Hatake. Amazingly, it worked.
She moved toward him, bumping into the man and causing him to jolt and look away from the probably pretty cool giant monster fight. She grabbed his shoulders and twisted him to face her, pushing him down a little as well so that his forehead was at eye level.
"Wha-?" He started but she interrupted him.
"Sorry, sensei, I know there's a cool fight happening and all, but Tristan's really insistent on going to you." She pushed his hitai-ate up and felt the seal gather eagerly on her forefinger. She looked at it. "Eager little bastard." She muttered and pushed the finger onto the forehead above a very confused pair of eyes.
A white-hot flash of agony hit her, a bitten of scream choking past her lips as she clutched at the fabric above a burning collarbone. As quickly as it started it ended and she was blinking back tears and untwisting her hand.
"Are you alright?" Hatake sounded panicky and confused. She felt that was reasonable. Sakura, herself, was feeling a bit panicky and confused. "Did you…?" He touched his forehead, now sporting a purple diamond that he couldn't see but could very likely feel in his chakra network, his own eyes horrified as they flickered up to her forehead. She shook her head and pushed up her hitai-ate, revealing the purple diamond there and he relaxed a little.
"That," She pointed at the man's diamond. "Is sort of a…" Her expression twisted. "Friend. I saw when I died. He became suddenly very insistent on going to you."
Hatake's expression softened before becoming very, very complicated. Had he seen someone when he died?
Sakura would likely never know.
The world was exploded again. Naruto was screaming.
Kakashi pushed back down both their hitai-ates just in time for the soft drink bath to suddenly disappear. Sakura, having been kind of horizontal from her attempts to get to him, threatened to fall flat on her face from the drop but he caught her with an arm around her waist. Setting her on the ground and steadying her with a hand on her shoulder.
Sakura turned to face the nightmare statue.
"I can't believe he'd be able to completely control the nine tails as well." The masked man mused, voice carrying over the empty ground. "Although, it looks like he won't last long. This changes nothing."
"Things have changed!" Uzumaki argued. "Because I just learned a whole bunch of difficult names at once!"
"What the fuck." Sakura whispered emphatically.
"Difficult names?" Masked man asked. "What are you talking about?"
"Ahahah." Uzumaki teased. "You don't know them, do you?!" He stuck his tongue out at the guy. "I'm not going to tell you."
"Seeing Naruto having grown this much makes me feel really old." Maito said.
"…What's the matter? This isn't like you!" Hatake exclaimed, his voice alarmed as he turned to look at the green man. "It may sound weird coming from me but, let's just agree our springtimes of youth aren't over yet! The fact that we're here means…"
"Don't say anything more! You'll make me even sadder!"
"Now that's the guy I know."
Sakura was bewildered. She did not understand rivalries.
Rain began to fall.
"This war will make all pasts, all futures, all existences completely irrelevant."
The nightmare head rose out of the ground, a giant gangly body prying itself from the earth's depths like the very devil itself clawing it's way out of hell. A foul, overpowering chakra filled the air. It seeped into Sakura's bones like rot, bile rising in her throat.
Kakashi and Gai raced forward in unison, each wordlessly going for an arm in demonstration of their many, many years of working together.
Sakura huffed and jumped forward herself. The eight tails jinchūriki and Naruto were going for the chin so she collected her chakra in her fist and went for the stomach. Collected, pressurised and released at the perfect moment. Hitting in unison with an orange blur and a giant punch.
A tiny, almost unnoticeable crack appeared under her hit and the creature went flying backwards, crashing into the earth as Sakura landed and rolled, retreating back onto the eight tails.
"Oh well." The masked man said. "I have no choice now." He summoned a giant pot and a bottle.
"What's that?!" Asked Hatake.
"I wanted to revive it in an intact, perfect form but even just a piece possesses the same power." The pot and bottle flew into the nightmare creature's mouth. All of it's eyes opened at once and it pushed itself off the ground with a roar, the foul air around her seemed to double in its intensity. "It's a bit late. But the promised time is here.
"Look closely and feel it in your skin! The ten tail's has been revived! The beginning and end of this world!"
"I get it! So the Mazō is some kind of vessel of the ten tails!" Hatake said.
"What, the ten tails?!"
"Wait, what's going on here? If what he said was true in the meeting than this war was all for the sake of gathering the chakra of the nine tails which was necessary for the revival of the ten tails! The eight tails and nine tails still have their chakra is this some kind of lie?"
"We always sling raps and screw up crap!
"He absorbed a bit of chakra from the octopus leg clone. I'm getting a little worry prone." Sung B.
"The chakra from the octopus' leg. Then it only needs to be a part of the beast?"
"Then was there nine tails chakra in that pot and bottle thing?!" Sakura asked.
"Everyone, listen." The Uzumaki said with what was definitely not the Uzumaki's voice.
"That voice…"
"The kid and the nine tails did a switcheroo!"
"Sakura is right. The pot and the bottle he had the Mazō eat were treasure's the Grandpa Rikudō brought. They have the power to seal away anything. Whatever goes in never comes out, no matter what. And in the pot lied Kinaku, in the bottle lied Ginkaku. They were probably revived with the edo tensei, used in this war and then sealed inside."
"Rikudō and the brothers Kinaku and Ginkaku. I've heard all of these names in legends, but what does that have to do with your chakra?"
"They once fought me. And I ate them! But afterwards they fed on the meat in my stomach and absorbed my chakra!"
"In other words Kinaku and Ginkaku each held a piece of your chakra and the masked man stole them as materials to use to revive the ten tails from Darui's first squad. That matches the intel we received from HQ."
"But that chakra along with the eight tails' is only a piece. I don't know what kind of form the ten tails will be revived in."
"I'd like to do something before it's revived, if possible." Said Hatake.
"Kakashi, you always open your mouth so easily. No wonder you've lived a life of regret." Said the masked man, an edge of emotion to his voice that made the comment sound personal. Sakura swore softly under her breath.
The likely hood of Uchiha Obito surviving being crushed half to death just rose substantially.
Damn.
"…just who are you?!" Demanded Maito.
"You don't remember faces, so what's the point in telling you." Suggesting Maito had, actually, known the masked man at one point in time.
Double damn.
"Kakashi, as you said, now is our only chance before the ten tails is revived. Grandpa Rikudō said that ten tail's revival would signal the end of this world." Said nine tails. "But if only a piece of the nine tails chakra and the eight tails is inside we won't know until we try."
"You're misunderstanding." The masked man said. "The ten tails' revival doesn't need to be perfect for my purposes. My goal is simply the great genjutsu, infinite tsukuyomi! To cast a genjutsu on every human being on this planet. To make the world one and free of anyone, no war, no peace, nothing but a perfect world. There lies truth in singular consciousness that has abandoned all individuality!
"This world no longer needs heroes like hope or future! If the ten tails is revived, even if it is incomplete, I'll be able to use infinite tsukuyomi! And then reality will end. All that will exist is a single, never-ending dream!"
"I, had a father! And a mother! And Ero-sennin! All kid's look up to heroes! That's why I was able to keep running forwards without getting lost! I'm gonna become a Hokage that will beat out all previous generations!" Uzumaki cried. "That's my dream! You idiot!"
"Even if you never want your youth to end, at some point you have to stop dreaming!" Maito added.
"Yeah, dreams are things that come true." Added Hatake.
"Dreams, dreams, dreams, dreams, lot's of dreams! My dream is a middle aged woman chest! The turret you see when lots of dreams come true is the best!" The Kumo man sung.
"If you want to run away from your problems to live in a fantasy world then go and get high on opiates!" Sakura added, drawing herself up to her full (insignificant) height. "Leave the rest of us alone!"
"Individuality makes people blind to the truth." The masked man muttered, like a cult member repeating a mantra. "My words, the words of no one. Are the words that will lead this world to truth."
Uzumaki screamed, glowing orange again, and threw himself and a giant rasengan at the masked man. He blocked it with the gunbai, the weapon absorbing and then deflecting the chakra ball.
"Guess I really will have to bash in your mask first."
"There's something I cannot part with. I will not let you touch the Mazō!"
Naruto launched forward, closely followed by Gai and Sakura. Gai was welding nunchucks so Sakura made sure she gave the man a wide berth, swiping with Kusanagi when small opening's appeared.
They were few, the pair fighting turning into a whirlwind and leaving her and Naruto behind, but Sakura managed a single, visible slice in a sleeve.
After two days of fighting paper, visible damage was extremely satisfying.
The battle waged on, the three of them throwing themselves after the masked man until Gai was separated by the debris, Sakura was slammed into by the gunbai and thrown through the air- the distinct feeling of her arm snapping forcing a number of curses from her mouth- and the masked man launched at Naruto. Kakashi jumped in to save him, a lightning charged kunai forcing the masked man to go intangible once more before he deflect the kunai with a foot, directly towards Naruto.
Kakashi got rid of it with Kamui, and Naruto punched.
There was a moment of stillness during which Sakura managed to control the wild fall through the air and right herself, pushing through the rubble to join the other three.
There was a single crack on the masked man's mask.
"Hey Kakashi, did you see that?!" Maito called.
"Cracks appeared on his mask." Hatake confirmed.
"Naruto's attack must have hit him before he went intangible!" Maito cried.
"You're right, on the left side of the mask!" The Uzumaki proclaimed.
"No." Sakura cut them off. "That was the dagger." She turned to look at Hatake, her hand clutching her right arm still. "Kakashi, if they're linked-"
The masked man slammed a glowing hand into the ground and a barrier rose up around the Mezō as eight tails tried to attack it.
"If the barrier's been brought out, looks like we'll just have to take out the masked guy first."
"I've been aiming for his mask the whole time! Dammit!" Uzumaki cried.
Hatake's hand landed on top of her head. "I really should pay more attention to your ramblings." He muttered. "Gai, Naruto, B-san. There's something I want to try. Help me out." Then he was picking her up and running with the others to the eight tails, placing her on the creature's head and heading for the hand.
"I can help!" She cried.
"Focus on your arm first." Hatake rebuffed and disappeared. Sakura scowled and dug through her pack, keeping half an eye on the boys as they were thrown into the fight. She pulled out a scroll containing an emergency medical kit and unsealed it. A hand tore off the broken arm's sleeve and then grabbed the elbow if it, shoving the wad of fabric in her mouth and screaming through it as she pulled her arm straight to somewhat set it.
A trio of metal poles was placed on the arm and stuck to the skin with her chakra and then it was all wrapped, her right bicep becoming a stiff layer of metal and bandages.
She tested the range of motion and grimaced. Her kenjutsu would be sloppy and her movement's would be limited, but she could punch. She leapt towards the battle.
"Where did you get that eye?" Hatake hissed, a brittle undertone to his voice.
"Where, you ask?" The masked man said. "Hm, if I dare say, it was during the previous great war. The Battle of Kanabi Bridge, you participated in this war hailed as the 'sharingan hero'."
"You're-?!"
"I've told you not to open your mouth so easily!" The masked man said and Sakura landed next to Uzumaki. "You've degraded to a man who's all words and no action. Your words have neither value or meaning!"
Sakura felt the protective edge to her boil. She snarled.
"It's too la-"
"What the fuck do you know?!" Sakura hissed, a flare of killing intent pulsing through the air and venom dripping from her voice. The masked man paused in his tirade. "People make mistakes, things go to shit, that's called being human. Good people learn from their mistakes and work their ass off like he has to live up to their values. You" She pointed at him, another flare of killing intent pulsing outwards. The Uchiha leant back unconsciously. "Are nothing more than a pathetic coward, running away from reality with his tail tucked between his legs." Her storm chakra rippled around her, cycling faster and faster. Naruto stepped up beside her.
"That's right!" He cried. "I don't really know what's going on, but we are Hatake Kakashi's students and I will be Hokage!"
"We will never let our comrades die!" Sakura echoed and they burst forward together, Naruto clad in orange and Sakura clad in electric blue.
Naruto smashed a giant, chakra created hand into the man and he stepped away from it, the world spinning before him as giant shuriken whirled out of his eye.
"You fools! You cannot defeat me!"
Sakura took her built up energy and flickered, slamming a chakra heightened palm into his lower back. Unfortunately, and against all of Sakura's expectations form using the move on others, he didn't explode in a wave of gore but the man was sent flying. The shuriken caught by the eight tails.
He turned in the air, a barrage of black stakes thrown out of his Sharingan and crashing around them. Sakura didn't have the momentum built up to flicker again, but she had chakra. She raised her hands as Naruto formed a clone, forming a blizzard senbon and releasing, the blur of blue rushing through the air towards the man.
It didn't hit, but it forced him to stop with the stakes to become intangible, allowing Naruto's shadow clone to throw itself through the air and into the man's face with a rasengan. The clone was kamui'd away and Sakura smiled ferally. The original Naruto forming a bijuu bomb and forcing the masked man intangible entirely.
He landed on the ruined ground, mask smashed and lying around him in pieces. Sakura glanced at Hatake, saw the distraught expression on his face and she knew.
"Obito?!" His voice was shaky.
"Is that really Obito? Even though he's supposed to be dead?" Maito asked.
"There's no mistaking it, it's Uchiha Obito!"
"If you wish to call me by that name, then by all means go ahead. It no longer holds any meaning to me." The Uchiha said.
"So, you survived." Hatake said.
"Who is that?!" Uzumaki cried.
"Naruto, remember that time in Wave where you thought Sasuke died protecting you?" Sakura yelled and the orange boy nodded. "It's that, but Kakashi is you and the thought he died part was for two decades!"
Horrible, distraught understanding passed over Uzumaki's face.
"If you were alive, then why up until now…" Hatake said, wholly focused on the freshly unmasked Uchiha.
"Wether or not I survived is irrelevant. But of course if I had to say why," The man's face turned mean and Sakura pulled her lips back in a snarl. "It would be because you let Rin die. Don't get too hasty now. And you should stop making that face Kakashi."
"Aren't you going to blame me?"
"With this insignificant reality what good would blaming you do? I hold no interests in the affairs of this world thats about to disappear."
"BULLSHIT!" Sakura yelled and gave in to her anger. Purple lines unravelled in burning tracks over her body and her storm chakra bled from circulating lines until her entire figure was wrapped in solid blue. She blurred out of existence and reappeared before the Uchiha, hand clamped tightly around his throat. "If you didn't care about who you were you wouldn't hide yourself behind a mask." He bled through her fingers but there were five, coin sized rings of melted fabric and flesh where they'd been and his face was twisted with pain.
She shoved her hand inside his intangible head, the covering of electric blue shifting and crackling around her.
"How long can you stay like that?" She asked, he jumped backwards but she moved with him, keeping her hand cupped around his intangible Rinnegan, her smile was hurting her cheeks. "Is it longer than I can maintain this?"
A hand clapped around her wrist. She twisted and kicked out, gritting her teeth the surge of pain in her arm as she did, her foot colliding and melting partway through a torso before she was tossed away. There was no blood, no gore, no bones. Just endless, unstoppable paper.
She was caught by an orange tail and set down next to Hatake and Maito. Her hand clutched her arm, and she seethed, panting on one knee as her mind raged.
"I'm surprised to see you struggling, Obito." Said the paper doll.
"Sakura are you-?" Hatake reached a hand out to her and she flinched away, holding up a finger as she focused on breathing.
She had a lot of chakra running through her at the moment. Losing concentration would mean she would quite literally explode.
Slowly, carefully, and with the full focus of her mind she tuned out her surroundings to sink the storm chakra back into her body, running it through her system and up into the seal. The blue slowly faded and the purple retreated. The rhombus itching uncomfortably against her skin. With a grimace, she pushed the hitai-ate up and into her hair, settling it against her braids.
It was less secure, but it let the burning heat of the rhombus cool a little against the night air. Sakura sighed in relief.
The Uzumaki was yelling.
"Are you okay?" Hatake asked as he helped her to her feet. She spat blood, ignoring the way her chakra tubes felt like they'd been scraped raw with steel wool to start recirculating her storm chakra and building up momentum. Apparently, forcing over a hundred times your reserves of chakra out of your body at once and then subsequently reabsorbing it wasn't that great for your health.
Noted.
"I'll live." She said and steadied herself, pushing the hand on her arm away to stand firmly next to the trio of them, eyes fixed on the unmasked Uchiha and the paper doll. Sakura sniggered. An immortal Uchiha Madara with unlimited chakra. Her smile turned self deprecating and she glanced up at an increasingly concerned looking Hatake. "Maybe we'll get lucky and someone will summon us the Shodaime."
Four spears of black flew over their heads and crashed uselessly into a wall of chakra, the paper Uchiha now holding the gunbai with an annoyed expression on his face.
"Obito." He said, completely ignoring the group of them to scold the unmasked asshole like a particularly wayward child. "Did you begin the plan without absorbing the eight and nine tails into the jutsu first? You were impatient Obito. Is that why you've also revived me in this way? What have you been doing up until now? What happened to Nagato? To revive me at the right timing with the Rinne Tensei Jutsu. That should have been the original plan."
"Nagato! You used him!" Uzumaki cried, Sakura raised an eyebrow.
Was he really emotionally invested in someone that decimated the village?
"He betrayed us, he used the jutsu to revive the villagers." The Asshole said, completely ignoring the Uzumaki.
"Everyone's doing as they like." The paper Uchiha said with the exact tone Tristan's kindergarten teacher had worn after walking in on the class of very small children having a paint fight. "But it still doesn't matter. It's not too late, I'll capture the eight and nine tails."
"YOU WERE DEAD ONCE QUIT SCREWING WITH US!"
A bijuu bomb was effortlessly absorbed by the gunbai and thrown back in Uzumaki's face.
"Obito you take care of these guys, I'll take on the eight and nine tails."
The fight began.