Chapter 55: Obito Reappears, Is Reiji Inferior to Itachi?

Naka River.

Reiji was carrying out his daily training here.

Suddenly, he felt an entirely undisguised gaze watching him.

Reiji turned toward the source of the gaze and said, "Since you’re already here, come out."

"Heh."

Amid a soft chuckle, the masked figure of Uchiha Obito slowly walked out from the woods.

"Long time no see, Uchiha Reiji."

Reiji wasn’t surprised in the slightest.

"You’ve got some nerve, openly sneaking into Konoha like this."

Uchiha Obito chuckled twice, his words filled with disdain.

"It’s just a little Konoha. Is there really anyone here who can stop me?"

He’s quite the show-off.

Reiji thought to himself with amusement.

That’s only because your ocular technique is Kamui, allowing you to come and go freely and giving you an absurd ability to survive.

If your ocular technique had been something like Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi instead, you’d probably have been beaten to death by Minato Namikaze in the very first episode of Naruto!

"Speaking of which, don’t you want to know who I am?"

Obito asked curiously.

It had been the same when they met on the Kirigakure battlefield before. The other party hadn’t even asked who he was.

A mysterious powerhouse who could freely enter and leave Konoha, and yet the other party wasn’t curious about his identity?

He had even been looking forward to Reiji making a series of guesses before concluding that he was Uchiha Madara.

"I’m not interested in someone who can only hide his face behind a mask."

Reiji said bluntly.

"Why are you wearing a mask? Is it because your face is too ugly, or because you’re trying to impersonate someone else?"

Uchiha Obito’s expression instantly froze beneath the mask.

An inexplicable fury rose in his heart!

Does this kid even know how to talk to people?!

He immediately replied without any courtesy.

"I’m very dissatisfied with your progress."

"I already told you how to obtain the ultimate power of the Uchiha, yet you’ve done absolutely nothing."

"Could it be because you can’t bear to kill that little girl named Uchiha Izumi?"

However, Reiji remained completely unmoved.

Seeing this, Uchiha Obito frowned and continued.

"You should already understand the situation of the Uchiha clan. I just heard that the famed Shisui of the Body Flicker is dead. I’m afraid the reason behind it wasn’t simply suicide, was it?"

"If you can’t obtain power, everything you care about will eventually be completely destroyed by Konoha!"

According to Obito’s plan, he wanted Reiji to kill Uchiha Izumi and awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Then he would reveal the Eye of the Moon Plan and tell Reiji that Uchiha Izumi could reappear in the world of Infinite Tsukuyomi.

By doing so, he intended to bring Reiji into the ranks of those supporting the Eye of the Moon Plan.

"Are you finished? If you are, then leave. I’m not interested in listening to someone who hides his identity."

Reiji had lost all interest in continuing his training. He simply stood up and headed back toward the Uchiha clan compound.

Stubborn!

He really won’t shed a tear until he sees the coffin!

Obito cursed inwardly.

Forget it. I’ll go make contact with the other one first.

...

Naka Shrine.

Underground, where the Uchiha clan usually held its clan meetings.

Directly in the center before the shrine stood an ancient stone tablet.

Its words had been recorded through some unknown means.

Uchiha Itachi had been curious about the stone tablet before, but with his Three-Tomoe Sharingan at the time, he had been unable to fully decipher its contents.

Now that he had awakened the Mangekyo, he should be able to decipher more of it, right?

He activated his Mangekyo and painstakingly deciphered the contents of the stone tablet.

Sure enough, he could see far more this time than before.

It recorded some of the history of the Uchiha clan, as well as information about the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Before long, Uchiha Itachi frowned.

He couldn’t decipher any further?

Even with the Mangekyo Sharingan, he still couldn’t completely decipher the contents?

"Do you want to know what comes next?"

A sudden voice came from behind him, startling Uchiha Itachi.

He swiftly turned around and drew his blade to defend himself, only to see a familiar figure.

"It’s you..."

Uchiha Itachi’s expression turned hostile.

When he had still been a Genin, this masked man wearing a spiral mask had suddenly attacked him during a mission and killed one of his teammates.

It was also during that incident that he had awakened his Sharingan.

"Who exactly are you? What is your purpose in infiltrating Konoha?"

Uchiha Itachi remained on guard, staring at the other party with his Mangekyo while considering whether he should use his ocular technique to deal with him.

Uchiha Obito looked at the Mangekyo pattern in Itachi’s eyes and opened his own Sharingan to meet his gaze.

"Not bad eyes. You’ve already awakened the Mangekyo. It was because of Uchiha Shisui’s death, wasn’t it?"

"Looks like you’re more worthy of my attention than that fool Uchiha Reiji."

"As for who I am... With your brain, you should be able to figure that out, right?"

Uchiha Itachi remained silent as his mind raced.

He possessed the Sharingan, could easily infiltrate Konoha, and was extremely familiar with this ancestral stone tablet of the Uchiha clan...

There was only one possible answer.

"...Uchiha Madara!"

Uchiha Itachi’s expression became solemn.

Clap! Clap!

Obito applauded, his voice carrying a hint of laughter.

"Not bad. You didn’t disappoint me."

All the frustration he had felt with Uchiha Reiji earlier was completely vented.

His heart was filled with the pleasure of toying with a genius.

As he spoke, he turned toward the stone tablet and leisurely began deciphering its contents.

"...The ancestor of the Uchiha, Indra, inherited the power of Yin. The ancestor of the Senju, Asura, inherited the power of Yang."

Uchiha Itachi’s expression grew increasingly grave.

These were contents he had only been able to decipher after awakening the Mangekyo.

In other words, the other party’s Sharingan was also a Mangekyo?

’As expected of Uchiha Madara...’

Uchiha Itachi became even more convinced of his conclusion.

The leisurely voice continued, soon reaching the part he had been unable to decipher.

However.

The other party’s voice continued.

"...When two opposing powers are brought together as one, all creation can be attained."

At this point, Uchiha Obito’s voice abruptly stopped.

What came next was the content concerning Infinite Tsukuyomi. It was still inconvenient to reveal that now.

Of course.

He had deciphered the earlier content himself, while everything afterward was information he had heard from Uchiha Madara.

But the other party had no way of knowing that he was merely putting on an act.

At this moment, Uchiha Itachi was already completely convinced of his deduction.

This man really was Uchiha Madara!

A legendary figure who was supposed to have died was actually still alive!

For the time being, Uchiha Itachi abandoned the thought of dealing with him using his ocular technique and asked sternly:

"What is your purpose?"

Seeing this, Obito laughed inwardly.

This was going much more smoothly than things had gone with Uchiha Reiji.

Obito immediately spoke in a low voice.

"...To take revenge on the Uchiha clan that betrayed me."

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