Naruto: Konoha Spring of the Uchiha Prodigies

"elder brother!"

Sasuke's heart-wrenching cries echoed above the Uchiha clan's territory.

A flash of red light passed through Sasuke's eyes, and when he came to his senses, the two tomoe were already quietly and slowly rotating in his eyes.

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Chapter 101 Obito Uchiha Dies!

As Jiraiya watched what was happening before him, the words that Uchiha Touko had said earlier kept echoing in his mind.

If you believe your nonsense today, you'll be in big trouble tomorrow.

“Itachi…” Jiraiya didn’t know how much he had contributed to Itachi’s death, but Itachi had died right before his eyes, and less than a month had passed since Itachi had believed the prophecy he had spoken of.

Jiraiya turned his head away, unable to bear the sight of Sasuke weeping over Itachi's body. However, Sasuke's cries lingered in his ears, as if he were being directly accused.

Jiraiya walked heavily towards the Security Department, escorted by Uchiha Inahi and Uchiha Zaito.

The battlefield fell silent due to Itachi Uchiha's death, but things were not so peaceful in the Hokage's office on the other side of the village.

"Hiruzen Sarutobi, I f*** you!" With bloodshot eyes, Fugaku Uchiha slammed his fist heavily into Hiruzen Sarutobi's face.

Although he had foreseen his eldest son's fate through his eye technique, when the moment actually arrived, Fugaku Uchiha, as a father, still found it difficult to remain calm.

After all, this was once his proudest son.

"Deputy Captain Fugaku, calm down, calm down!" Seeing this, the other captains of the security department in the office quickly stepped forward and pulled him back.

Although Fugaku Uchiha was blocked by six people, he continued to curse and swear.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had taken a punch from Fugaku Uchiha, slumped in his office chair, listening to Fugaku's insults and staring blankly at the image in the crystal ball.

After finishing his tirade, Fugaku Uchiha slumped into a chair in the Hokage's office, looking at Hiruzen Sarutobi with a numb expression.

"Tell me, if I hadn't taken four-year-old Itachi to the battlefield, hadn't agreed to let him graduate early, and hadn't agreed to let him join the Anbu, would any of this have happened?"

"Maybe." In Hiruzen Sarutobi's mind, everything that happened after he was promoted by the Second Hokage and took over the responsibility of becoming the Third Hokage began to flash by.

Although he led the village through two Shinobi World Wars, it is an undeniable fact that the village grew weaker and weaker under his leadership.

White Fang, Orochimaru, Tsunade, Minato, Hizashi, and now Itachi—each time, he could have done something, but he always dragged it out until it was too late.

In his youth, he was known as a ninja hero, but can he still be considered a ninja now?

Hiruzen Sarutobi asked himself this question.

……

On the other side, after luring Obito Uchiha to the Forest of Death, Touko Uchiha rapidly formed hand seals, and his Susanoo threw two long swords made of lightning chakra and natural energy into the sky. Soon, the two lightning swords flying into the air transformed into a huge thundercloud, enveloping the area where the two were located.

In his intangible state, Obito Uchiha looked up at the thunderclouds in the sky, which contained the might of heaven, and said, "Junior, your strength is quite impressive."

"Now it's just the two of us, are you still going to play tricks? A coward like you doesn't deserve the title of Battlefield Rose," Uchiha Touko said coldly.

"It seems I need to teach you some manners, junior." Enraged, Obito Uchiha clapped his hands, and dozens of giant trees burst from the ground beneath his feet, forming a wooden figure similar in size to Uchiha Touko's Susanoo in its third form.

"The First Hokage's technique?" Uchiha Touko chuckled from within Susanoo. "You coward, you've got plenty of tricks up your sleeve, but how much of the power of the God of Shinobi can you actually unleash?"

"Go to hell and repent for your rudeness!" Obito Uchiha roared, controlling the wooden dummy to launch the first punch.

Uchiha Touko's Susanoo reached out and blocked the wooden golem's fists from both sides. The Susanoo and the wooden golem began to wrestle on the spot. A violent wave of chakra spread out from the two of them, sweeping across an area of ​​nearly 100 meters. Within 100 meters, several giant trees that would take three or four people to encircle were torn in half by this wave.

After dealing with the immediate issues, Kakashi and the others who came to provide support remained outside the battle.

"Couldn't this guy fight a little less aggressively?" Kakashi thought anxiously, having been kept out of the battle.

At this moment, Kakashi was worried about Uchiha Touko's safety and wanted to confirm something, but he couldn't get involved in Uchiha Touko's battle at all.

……

"Hahahaha!"

Uchiha Touko, inside Susanoo, laughed maniacally as if he were a madman, while simultaneously increasing his output of chakra and ocular power: "I haven't used my full strength for a long time since the war ended. I hope you can hold out a little longer, you coward!"

Obito Uchiha gritted his teeth as he stood on the wooden dummy. Tokko Uchiha's strength was far beyond his imagination. In a head-on collision, the wooden dummy he had summoned was no match for him. Right now, it was being suppressed by the opponent's Susanoo and was unable to move.

Seeing this, Obito Uchiha activated his Mangekyou Sharingan while rapidly forming hand seals.

Fire Release: Explosive Wind Dance!

The Mangekyou Sharingan's Kamui jutsu distorted the space in front of Obito Uchiha, creating a raging spiral storm. Then, he spewed out flames, and with the wind fueling the fire, the spiraling flame whirlwind attacked Touko Uchiha inside Susanoo.

"Water Release: Water Barrier!" Facing Obito Uchiha's sneak attack, Touko Uchiha calmly formed hand seals within his Susanoo, creating a water curtain several meters high that blocked the flame storm. Although the water curtain rapidly evaporated under the terrifying heat, a loud dragon roar was followed by a giant thunder dragon breaking through the water curtain and instantly engulfing the flame storm, which had been weakened by the water curtain.

Immortal Technique: Lightning Release: Azure Dragon!

Compared to the last time he fought Orochimaru, the lightning dragon summoned by this technique, driven by Sage Chakra, was even more solid and naturally more powerful.

Seeing the thunder dragon hurtling towards him, Obito Uchiha's pupils contracted slightly, and he quickly entered a state of intangibility.

The lightning dragon exploded in front of Obito Uchiha. The massive explosion occurred instantly, and the mushroom cloud that was generated by the explosion shot into the sky. The blinding lightning illuminated the entire village for a moment, and the sound of the explosion resounded throughout the village. The wooden dummy under Obito Uchiha's feet was also shattered into pieces in the explosion.

"Hahahaha, a weakling like you, a cowardly rat hiding his head and tail, dares to impersonate the name of my clan's ancestor?" Uchiha Touko laughed loudly, and the Susanoo beneath him raised its hand and threw a series of Yasaka Magatama towards the area where Uchiha Obito was located.

The jet-black magatama, concealing lightning, exploded continuously around the Hollowfied Obito.

“Your attacks are useless against my eyes,” Obito Uchiha said calmly.

"Is your only reliance your cowardly eye technique? It really suits your cowardly, hiding-your-face nature." Uchiha Touko said, "Even with the supreme power of my clan, you are not worthy of the name Uchiha. Let me show you what the Uchiha's fighting style should be like!"

The rising steam, after surging into the thunderclouds above the sky, contained an even more terrifying divine power. The lightning associated with the Yasaka Magatama also laid out arcs of electricity like a net in this area.

"Sage Art! Lightning Release: Kirin!"

As soon as Uchiha Touko finished speaking, a deafening roar erupted, and a massive bolt of lightning struck Uchiha Obito. After passing through Obito's intangible body, it blasted a crater several meters in diameter into the ground.

However, this was only the beginning. Within the thunderclouds in the sky, eerie blue lightning faintly formed a terrifying behemoth, and countless bolts of lightning fell one after another, engulfing Uchiha Obito.

This overwhelming force prevented Obito Uchiha from withdrawing from Kamui's intangibility. He knew very well that if he were even slightly touched by the sky-covering lightning, he would be reduced to ashes.

Amidst the continuous explosions, Uchiha Touko's laughter, which sounded somewhat grating to Obito's ears, never ceased.

At this moment, Black Zetsu, hidden underground, was also secretly watching this battle. Even he had to admit that although Obito had been acting under Madara Uchiha's name after Madara's death, in terms of fighting style, Tokō Uchiha was more like that battlefield rose.

Both were equally unrestrained, equally bold and expansive, and even their manic laughter during battle was somewhat similar.

The only difference between the two is that one dances in flames, while the other sings in thunder.

"How long can your intangibility last, you scoundrel!" Uchiha Touko laughed arrogantly.

"You should be more worried about how long your ninjutsu can last," Obito Uchiha said through gritted teeth.

"Finally can't keep up the act anymore? If it were Lord Madara, he wouldn't avoid battle like you." Uchiha Touko, maintaining the Kirin form, sneered. "Then let's wait and see. Let's see if my chakra runs out first, or if your eye technique fails first. I'm willing to bet on that. Do you, you coward, dare to?"

“You…” Obito gritted his teeth, about to say something, but at that moment, the White Zetsu who was one with him suddenly said in the dark, “Obito, Lord Black Zetsu has ordered us to retreat.”

"Retreat?" Obito Uchiha glanced at Touko Uchiha and asked unwillingly.

“Obito, Lord Black Zetsu said we can take our time to plan ahead. With your eye technique, he can’t stop you if you want to leave. The Eye of the Moon plan still needs you to carry it out. There’s no need to fight to the death with them here.”

"I understand." Obito gritted his teeth and glanced at Touko Uchiha with resentment. If he escaped here, he would truly be known as a coward. However, considering the Eye of the Moon Plan, for the sake of the world where Rin was, Obito had no choice but to swallow this humiliation.

Obito Uchiha's illusory body began to distort, and the surrounding space began to rotate.

"Trying to run away?" Uchiha Touko sneered upon seeing this. "You coward, you really only know how to be a coward, whether now or in front of Nohara Rin and Kakashi, right, Uchiha... Obito."

Uchiha Touko's words made Obito abruptly stop leaving. The illusory figure reappeared, its exposed eyes staring intently at Uchiha Touko, filled with astonishment.

Seemingly sensing Obito's confusion, Touko Uchiha explained, "In Sage Mode, my sensory abilities are significantly enhanced. When you fought Kakashi just now, I sensed the Mangekyou Sharingan's power fluctuations in Kakashi's right eye. Those fluctuations were exactly the same as your Mangekyou Sharingan's power. Plus, you two have different eyes, one left and one right. So, after eliminating all the impossibilities, what remains, no matter how impossible, is the truth. Obito Uchiha, you didn't die in the Third Shinobi World War."

"As for why you didn't return to the village after surviving, but instead became like this, even launching the Nine-Tails' attack and killing your teacher and his wife, let me guess, you're not resenting the Fourth Hokage for not saving that girl on the battlefield, are you? Hahaha, you're really laughable. Clearly, the root of all this stems from your weakness, but you don't even have the courage to admit it. You just blame everything on others. No wonder that girl chose Kakashi back then. If it were me, I wouldn't choose a weak coward like you either."

"Shut up!" Obito Uchiha roared, this time no longer bothering to hide his voice.

"Looks like I was right, hahaha." Uchiha Touko laughed loudly, throwing his head back.

"Shut up! You know nothing!" Obito, hidden behind the mask, completely lost his temper. "After your ninjutsu ends, your death is imminent!"

In his Hollowfied state, Obito gasped for breath, his eyes fixed on his opponent. Blinded by rage, he completely ignored the whispers of the White Zetsu that coexisted with him. At this moment, only one thought remained in his mind: to make Uchiha Touko pay the price.

Uchiha Touko looked at Obito, who was already red-hot, and chuckled to himself. The fish had taken the bait.

If it were just to force this guy to retreat, Uchiha Tokō wouldn't have needed to go to such lengths. His eye technique, the Eighty Calamity Sun God, has a natural advantage over Obito's Kamui in his left eye.

Kamui's intangibility is certainly useful, but it also has the weakness of needing to use a physical form to attack. Others might need to go to great lengths to create an opportunity to attack and seize that fleeting moment if they want to kill this guy. But Uchiha Touko doesn't need to. As long as Uchiha Obito has even a moment of chance to reveal his physical form, then Uchiha Touko has a 100% chance of seizing that moment!

However, if Obito is determined to run away, Uchiha Tokō really doesn't have a way to deal with him for the time being.

In other words, there is only one real opportunity.

Two minutes passed, the scale of the lightning that fell from the sky began to decrease, Uchiha Touko's chakra was about to run out, and the eyeshadow at the corner of his eyes gradually faded.

Seeing this, Obito, hidden behind his mask, revealed a look of delight.

"Looks like I've won!" After the lightning in the sky disappeared, Obito Uchiha, in his intangible state, rushed towards Touko Uchiha at high speed while grinning maliciously.

"Hmph, even if I lack chakra, killing you will be a piece of cake for me!" Uchiha Touko snorted coldly and met the attack head-on without dodging or avoiding it.

In an instant, the two passed right through each other. At this moment, Obito Uchiha revealed his true form and stretched out his right hand towards Touko Uchiha's back. The right hand, which was transformed from White Zetsu, instantly turned into a sharp wooden spike and stabbed towards Touko Uchiha.

"As long as I stab you, I will let you experience the most cruel way to die!" Obito thought viciously.

Just then, Uchiha Touko turned around, the eyeshadow in the corner of his eye reappeared, and he gently swung his hand towards him like a knife.

The next instant, Obito Uchiha's mask shattered, revealing his ferocious face, with a wound appearing out of nowhere on his left cheek.

"What?" Obito Uchiha's eyes widened. Although the wounds on his face healed instantly thanks to the powerful regenerative ability of Hashirama's cells, Obito found that he suddenly could not control the chakra in his body.

At that moment, the wooden spike stopped exactly one millimeter away from Uchiha Touko's nose.

To Obito's horror, he discovered that a very special energy had appeared within his body, violently assimilating his chakra.

He roared in agony, but at that moment, snake scales began to appear on the surface of his body and the White Zetsu he coexisted with, and his feet began to petrify.

"What is this thing?" Obito Uchiha exclaimed in terror.

"Natural energy, isn't it amazing?" Lightning flashed before Uchiha Touko's eyes, and the wooden spikes in front of him instantly turned into dust. After doing all this, Uchiha Touko looked at Uchiha Obito, who had irreversibly transformed into a snake statue, and said.

Obito gritted his teeth and used his eye power to activate the three-tomoe Sharingan currently installed in his left eye, intending to use Izanagi to save his life.

……

After successfully activating Izanagi and reversing the unfavorable situation, Obito quickly activated Kamui and escaped into his own Kamui dimension.

"Did we succeed?" Obito Uchiha, inside the Kamui dimension, gasped for breath. "Uchiha Tokkou, I'll remember you!"