CHAPTER 173
"Awoooooo!!!"
Obito's heart wrenching scream echoed across the entire Konoha camp.
The miserable cry instantly attracted everyone's attention.
Shinobi who had been training.
Patrol teams making their rounds.
Even members of the Cooking Squad who were busy preparing lunch.
Everyone simultaneously turned toward the training ground at the edge of the camp.
Then they witnessed an astonishing scene.
A figure shot through the air like a spring that had suddenly been released.
His speed was unbelievably fast.
Behind him, a thin stream of blood sprayed into the air, drawing a bright crimson arc beneath the sunlight before stretching more than ten metres through the sky.
Thud!
The flying figure plunged headfirst into a patch of waist high grass.
The grass shook violently.
It took quite some time before everything finally became still again.
The speed at which that person had been launched was comparable to a Jonin sprinting at full speed.
"What happened?"
"Did something go wrong during training?"
"The person who flew out just now..."
"Wasn't that Uchiha Obito?"
Exclamations immediately rang out from every direction as numerous Konoha Shinobi hurried toward the training ground with worried expressions, wondering what kind of accident had just occurred.
However...
The expressions of the people who had witnessed everything from beginning to end were extraordinarily strange.
Ebisu and Genma stood frozen with their mouths hanging slightly open.
Disbelief completely covered their faces.
Kakashi quietly pressed one hand against his forehead.
His visible eye was filled with utter helplessness.
His expression clearly conveyed a single thought.
"I knew this would happen."
Rin's cheeks had already turned bright red.
The blush spread all the way to her ears.
She covered her face with both hands.
Yet...
Her fingers secretly separated just enough for one eye to peek through.
A moment later, she hurriedly closed them again.
She was simply too embarrassed to keep watching.
Several nearby Konoha Shinobi who had happened to witness the entire scene also found the corners of their mouths twitching uncontrollably.
Their shoulders trembled slightly.
They desperately wanted to laugh.
But considering Obito's current condition...
Laughing openly seemed rather inappropriate.
The result was that every one of them struggled painfully to suppress their laughter.
Meanwhile...
Guy had already withdrawn his hand before calmly standing upright.
The faint golden Chakra surrounding his fingertips gradually disappeared.
He casually clapped his hands together before turning toward Kakashi with an extremely bright smile.
"Kakashi."
"I originally prepared that finger strike especially for you."
Kakashi's face instantly darkened.
"You..."
"Bastard..."
He forced the words through clenched teeth.
Then...
As though imagining an absolutely horrifying future...
His expression suddenly changed.
"When we fight later..."
"If you dare use that technique..."
"I'll never forgive you."
Although his voice still sounded calm...
Everyone could hear the mixture of panic and determination hidden within it.
Guy merely shrugged.
He neither agreed nor denied it.
Instead...
The smile on his face somehow became even brighter.
Hearing those words...
Rin instinctively glanced toward a certain location behind Kakashi.
For a brief instant...
Curiosity even flashed across her face.
Along with...
A tiny hint of anticipation.
Kakashi immediately noticed her gaze.
His expression became even darker.
"Rin..."
"You've been corrupted."
He spoke in a gloomy voice.
"Pfft!"
Rin couldn't hold back anymore.
She burst into laughter.
The embarrassment from earlier disappeared almost instantly.
At that exact moment...
Another miserable roar suddenly erupted from the distant patch of grass.
"Guy!!!"
"You bastard!!!"
"I'm going to kill you!!!"
The voice carried endless grief.
Endless humiliation.
And...
An indescribable emotional trauma.
Everyone who had gathered nearby instinctively turned toward the source of the voice.
Several people couldn't help wondering...
Just how severe was Obito's injury?
Rustle!
The grass suddenly shook violently.
A figure burst out at an even greater speed than before.
His fists were clenched tightly.
His entire body radiated murderous intent.
It was Uchiha Obito.
At this moment...
His hair was covered with blades of grass.
Several leaves remained tangled among his clothes.
Blood still seeped from a certain unspeakable location behind him.
He looked both miserable...
And ridiculously comical.
However...
The instant everyone clearly saw Obito's face...
Every person present froze.
The concern.
The confusion.
The suppressed laughter.
Everything disappeared.
Replacing those emotions...
Was pure disbelief.
Because Obito's eyes...
Had completely transformed.
Both pupils were now blood red.
Within each crimson iris...
A single black tomoe slowly revolved.
One Tomoe Sharingan!
Obito had actually awakened the Sharingan!
And he had done so...
In such an absurd way.
"No..."
"That's impossible..."
Ebisu's sunglasses slowly slid down to the bridge of his nose.
The corner of his mouth twitched violently.
After spending so much time living in the Uchiha Clan compound...
He understood the difficulty of awakening the Sharingan far better than most people.
It definitely wasn't as simple as becoming emotionally excited.
Back then...
Among the twenty seven Uchiha Shinobi living inside the compound...
Fewer than half had successfully awakened the Sharingan.
Some elderly Clan members possessed only a single tomoe even after many years.
Others...
Had never awakened it at all.
Therefore...
The fact that Obito had remained unable to awaken his Sharingan had never surprised anyone.
Simply possessing Uchiha blood didn't guarantee awakening the Sharingan.
Especially for someone like Obito...
Who had always been regarded as one of the least talented members of the Clan.
His chances should have been even lower.
Yet now...
He had awakened it.
And...
He had awakened it after suffering...
That ridiculous attack.
How was that even possible?
"Obito!"
A cheerful voice suddenly interrupted his burning desire for revenge.
It was Rin.
Hearing her familiar voice...
Obito abruptly stopped charging.
His raised fist froze in midair.
Only then did he notice how many people had gathered around the training ground.
Every single pair of eyes...
Was fixed upon him.
Feeling the burning pain from behind...
Combined with remembering his miserable scream...
And the way he had been launched through the air...
Obito suddenly wished the ground would split open so he could crawl inside and disappear forever.
However...
Before he could continue wallowing in embarrassment...
Rin's excited voice rang out again.
"Obito!"
"You awakened your Sharingan!"
"You really did it!"
Obito's face immediately became even redder.
He felt both humiliated...
And confused.
"Awakened?"
"If anything awakened..."
"My backside certainly did."
"..."
"Is Rin making fun of me?"
While his thoughts descended further into confusion...
Rin had already run directly in front of him.
Completely ignoring his miserable appearance.
Her bright eyes stared directly into his blood red pupils.
"Obito!"
"Look!"
"Your Sharingan really awakened!"
"One Tomoe!"
"It's real!"
"Huh?"
Looking at Rin standing so close...
Obito instinctively blushed.
Then...
Her words finally registered.
"Wait..."
"I awakened..."
"The Sharingan?"
He suddenly raised his head.
Instead of looking toward Guy...
Or Rin...
He instinctively looked around at everything surrounding him.
In that instant...
The world completely changed.
Everything before his eyes became incomparably clearer.
The tiny veins running across distant leaves.
The countless dust particles floating through the air.
Even the movement of an insect flying far away...
Everything was reflected with astonishing clarity inside his vision.
He could even vaguely predict the insect's next movement.
Dynamic vision.
Heightened perception.
Extraordinary insight.
Every aspect of his eyesight had improved beyond imagination.
"I..."
"I really awakened it?"
"It's not my backside..."
"It's the Sharingan!"
"It's really the Sharingan!"
Shock instantly transformed into overwhelming joy.
Every trace of grief and humiliation vanished.
Replaced by boundless excitement.
Obito looked down at both of his hands in disbelief.
Then...
He suddenly raised them high above his head.
Looking toward the sky...
He laughed as loudly as he could.
"Hahahahaha!"
"I..."
"Uchiha Obito..."
"Have finally awakened the Sharingan!"
"I'm finally not the dead last of the Uchiha Clan anymore!"
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