novelraw Chapter 203 Role Reversal
Chapter 203 Role Reversal
While Black Zetsu was still questioning his life and couldn't understand how his originally perfect script had turned into this mess by a single step, on the battlefield, the Konoha side had already begun a full-scale annihilation of this Kirigakure unit!
Seeing that Black Zetsu was showing signs of autism, Afei quickly took over the command and ordered all White Zetsu involved in the plan to retreat!
At this point, there's no point in trying to get Obito back; we can only let that kid have his own luck.
If they don't withdraw now, all their accumulated wealth will be wiped out here today.
Unfortunately, he was unaware that someone had already been secretly monitoring every possessed member of the Hidden Mist Squad.
All the replaced hidden stakes were marked out!
"We can't let those Hidden Mist ninjas with white spots get away! They stole our Wood Release techniques!"
None of those guys can get away!
Amidst the chaos, a voice kept mingling among the Konoha troops, stirring up trouble everywhere!
Every time the owner of this voice makes a move, they will mark a Kirigakure ninja with a problem.
In order to avoid revealing his identity, this mysterious "Konoha" ninja, who was actually Shiba Kiyokawa in disguise, never used his full strength.
His Ice Release technique is now famous throughout the ninja world; it's truly iconic.
Even so, very few Hidden Mist ninjas could withstand a single blow from him. Moreover, this time Kakashi did not recklessly come to the rescue alone as he did in the original story, but instead brought a large group of Konoha ninjas to help him!
At this moment, apart from the Three-Tails, which no one can deal with, Konoha actually has the advantage in numbers compared to Kirigakure, by bypassing the roaring Three-Tails!
This is not the original story: Kakashi, like a lone wolf, struggles and fights against a group of Hidden Mist ninjas.
As for fighting spirit, Konoha's side is even more enthusiastic!
After all, Wood Release is to the Leaf Village ninja what Jerusalem is to the West and Tifa is to the 3D district.
That is faith, that is the soul, that is the inviolable white moonlight!
Therefore, even though the Three-Tails' enormous size loomed over the battlefield, creating an oppressive atmosphere, it still couldn't stop the ninjas from various Konoha clans from charging headlong into the Hidden Mist formation!
"How dare you steal Wood Release techniques! You thieves from Kirigakure, you deserve to die!"
Faced with this group of vicious Konoha thugs, the ordinary Kirigakure ninja who were not controlled by White Zetsu were completely bewildered and confused.
"When did our village start researching Wood Release? Where did these white guys come from? What's going on?!"
Others with sharp eyes spotted the blind spot and pointed it out incisively.
"Those white guys deliberately let the container escape; they're traitors!"
Therefore, the more meticulous the plan and script, the more severe the chain reaction will be once it is disrupted!
Madara Uchiha was a perfectionist to some extent. He always pursued perfect drama when writing scripts, and he was too arrogant, thinking that he could control everything.
If he hadn't died, with the Mizukage's supreme authority protecting the script, perhaps it really wouldn't have caused too much trouble.
Unfortunately, the original plan ultimately failed.
Now that Shiba Kiyokawa has intervened, the whole situation has become completely unrecognizable!
Konoha began to actively cooperate with him in hunting down the Hundred Zetsu who could use Wood Release;
Kirigakure begins to hunt down traitors and purge those who deliberately sabotaged the release of the Three-Tails' container!
For a time, both sides on the battlefield were working together to crush Black Zetsu's forces.
As for Obito, the next generation of Infinite Tsukuyomi mastermind they had high hopes for, he was currently being hunted down and fleeing everywhere.
Shiba Kiyokawa only glanced over by chance and saw Kakashi manipulating lightning to chase after Obito.
In the original work, Obito used Rin Nohara's death to manipulate Kakashi for the rest of his life, and every time he appeared in Kakashi's life, he would question him, "Why didn't you protect Rin?"
The verbal abuse always left Kakashi speechless.
But in this new timeline, the roles of these two have been reversed, and Kakashi seems determined to teach Obito what cruelty is today!
"Don't run! You beast! How dare you kill Lin?! Stop right there!"
Faced with Kakashi, whose eyes were red and who was shouting while crying, Obito retreated repeatedly and kept explaining.
"No! I didn't! I didn't kill Lin! How could I do such a thing?!"
Kakashi, however, relentlessly pursued him, dragging Chidori with him along the way!
"You used that kind of escape technique too! I saw it when you came! And you also had that white stuff on you, you're in cahoots!"
If there's anything in this world that could make Obito feel more desperate than Rin's death, it's probably that he himself was involved in the murder.
Now Obito no longer had the courage to question Kakashi. On the contrary, he was being chased so much that he didn't even dare to fight back for a moment.
He activated the Hollowfication technique repeatedly to dodge Kakashi's Chidori Piercing Strike!
Obito dared not retaliate, and most of the time he didn't even dare to open his eyes, fearing that Kakashi would see his Sharingan under his one-eyed mask.
His only consolation now is that he brought a mask, so apart from Lin, who was in close proximity to him, no one else recognized his identity.
In any case, he didn't want to be seen as having any connection to Lin's death!
The commotion over there was intense. Enraged, Kakashi used lightning to pierce through everything in his path, determined to hunt down the culprit to the ends of the earth.
However, Shiba Kiyokawa lost interest after only a few glances.
He knew that the love-hate relationship between the two was destined to end in tragedy. Once Obito had mastered his Mangekyou Sharingan and could freely traverse the Kamui dimension, he could leave at any time.
Obito, who had awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, was exceptionally difficult to kill.
This is also the fundamental reason why Shiba Kiyokawa went to great lengths to put on this wonderful show.
From now on, let Black Zetsu deal with this troublesome elusive character on his own.
At this moment, he had almost wiped out all the White Zetsu on the battlefield, so the next moment, he turned his gaze to the giant tortoise on the battlefield.
The three tails caress each other one by one!
Noticing his gaze, a Kirigakure ninja possessed by White Zetsu used his last strength to grip his kunai and charged forward with a roar that sounded like a lament.
"That's our tailed beast, we will never let you take it away!"
At this point, it was impossible to tell whether this was the obsession of a Hidden Mist ninja or the idea of parasitizing a White Zetsu.
But all of that is no longer important.
Shiba Kiyokawa simply took a half-step back to the side, effortlessly avoiding his opponent's final desperate attack.
He then raised his hand and snapped his fingers once again with great ceremony.
"Snapped!"
The crisp sound seemed to awaken something from close range.
The next moment, the white spores on the Hidden Mist ninja's body grew wildly, instantly producing a large number of tumors.
Then it exploded, and countless twig fibers were pulled out from the broken spore tumor, tearing apart the original body of the Hidden Mist ninja.
On his deathbed, the man asked in despair, "Why can you control us—who are you?"
In response, Shiba Kiyokawa, in disguise, simply smiled and did not reply.
This is actually the same as the Orochi-style disguise technique he is currently using, both originating from a gift from Orochimaru not long ago.
He entrusted Orochimaru with the research on the White Zetsu organization for so long, and now that the two have established a deeper level of cooperation, it is only natural that he would receive such a gift.
Black Zetsu probably never imagined that the complete intelligent White Zetsu they captured after their initial defeat in the Land of Rain a year ago, after being driven back by the Akatsuki, would become a crucial foreshadowing, buried until today, delivering the most fatal blow to them at the most critical moment!