Naruto: Reborn as Uchiha Obito

The atmosphere between Obito and Karasuki was strangely awkward.

Both of them simply stared at each other, holding eye contact without blinking.

If anyone else had seen it, they might have thought the scene was ridiculous.

A legendary Uchiha who had just fought Sasuke, humiliated Urashiki, and devoured Momoshiki was now locked in a silent standoff with a turtle.

But Obito knew better.

This thing was dangerous.

Not because it possessed overwhelming power but because of the freedom it represented.

Karasuki was a key.

A key to Obito's freedom in this Naruto world.

From the day he had reincarnated here, he had wanted nothing more than to get his hands on this bastard. But even after searching the place where Urashiki had found it in Boruto, he hadn't found a damn thing.

And now, after staring at the turtle for a while and seeing that it made no move to run away or even speak first—Obito was honestly a little surprised.

"So," Obito said quietly, "you're the little bastard that dragged everyone here."

His gaze narrowed.

"You know, I thought you would run after seeing the guys you brought with you get killed by me."

Karasuki's eyes flickered with a faint, unusual light.

Then, with a soft mechanical sound, its shell gave off a weak glow.

"I am Karasuki," it said calmly. "A noble artifact responsible for temporal transfer. I am not a subordinate to be treated as part of someone's group."

Its tone remained flat.

"Whether the one using me dies in battle or survives… is irrelevant to me."

"Oh?"

Obito's eyebrow rose slightly, interest flashing in his eye.

"That so?"

A faint smile touched his face.

"Are you hinting at something, you cunning little bastard?"

He could hear the meaning hidden beneath Karasuki's words.

The turtle was indirectly telling him that it had no true master.

Anyone capable of using it could use it.

Karasuki did not answer.

It was not trying to oppose this anomaly in front of it.

But it was not afraid of him either.

It did not know exactly what this human had done to Boruto, Sasuke, and the Ōtsutsuki. Still, from what it had seen, Karasuki could guess one thing.

This human was likely trying to seize their power for himself.

But Karasuki was different from them.

Although it possessed intelligence, it was still fundamentally an artifact.

Even the Ōtsutsuki Clan, with the power of the God Tree—something capable of devouring the data and life of an entire planet—could not simply consume Karasuki.

That was why Karasuki assumed Obito was the same as those greedy beings.

He probably wanted to use it to interfere with time.

Obito slowly approached Karasuki.

Soon, he was already close enough to strike.

But he did not attack.

Instead, he spoke casually, almost as if he really did intend to use Karasuki only for time travel.

Obito could not read the turtle's thoughts.

But the fact that it had not run away and was even calmly speaking with him—told him enough.

This little thing probably did not understand what he could really do.

So this little guy is confident I can't do anything to him, huh?

Obito's smile deepened slightly.

"Can you travel to any point in time?"

Karasuki's shell gave off another faint pulse of light.

"Affirmative."

"Can you take me to the future?" Obito asked, keeping his voice as calm as possible.

He was trying to lower Karasuki's guard.

But only Obito knew how much sweat had gathered in the palm of the hand he was keeping ready to unleash the Devouring Coffin.

This was it.

If he missed this chance, he would never get another one in his lifetime.

Too many things would become complicated.

Even his plans for that Ōtsutsuki god would collapse along with it.

Karasuki's shell flashed red.

"Warning. That request carries extreme temporal risk."

Obito's expression did not change.

"I didn't ask if it was safe."

For a moment, only the wind answered him.

Then Karasuki spoke again.

"Your existence is a dangerous anomaly. I advise you not to interfere with time casually."

Obito slowly looked down at it.

Karasuki continued.

"You possess abilities and knowledge inconsistent with this era. Your interference has already altered multiple historical nodes."

"Shut your damn mouth."

Obito's lips curled faintly.

"You think I care about that?"

He crouched slightly, lowering himself to Karasuki's level.

"Let me make something clear."

His voice dropped.

At the same time, he placed a hand on Karasuki's head.

To his satisfaction, Karasuki did not run.

Obito's eyes flashed.

"Devouring Coffin."

Bzzzt.

Before Karasuki could comprehend the power before him, it was completely swallowed by the black coffin.

An ominous darkness enveloped it.

A darkness with no proper concept of time or space.

It was unlike anything Karasuki had witnessed in its countless years of existence.

This time, Obito channeled the connection into the Devouring Coffin just as he had done with Black Zetsu.

That way, this conversation could not be spied on by any means.

Inside the darkness, Obito's voice echoed quietly.

"Karasuki… let me ask you one final question."

His eyes glowed red, filled with a wickedness so heavy it could make one suffocate.

"Can you take me…"

"…to the era before the Ōtsutsuki god transcended to a higher dimension?"

Karasuki's usually half-lidded eyes, which had always seemed calm and indifferent, suddenly widened in astonishment and fear.

Its shell flashed violently red.

"ERROR."

"DESTINATION UNSTABLE."

"TEMPORAL COORDINATES—UNKNOWN."

Obito's expression did not change.

"…Then find it."

Karasuki's eyes flared.

It completely ignored Obito's instructions.

"THREAT DETECTED!"

"Temporal Shift—Emergency Response."

Its shell blazed with a blinding white light as it attempted, for the first time on its own will, to leap through time.

But the light died instantly.

There was nowhere to jump.

Inside this black coffin, neither time nor space existed.

And without time, Karasuki was nothing more than a trapped artifact.

For the first time in millions of years, something unfamiliar surfaced within it.

Regret.

It should have jumped the moment this human appeared.

It should have escaped before those fingers touched its shell.

It should never have mistaken this anomaly for just another greedy being seeking to use time travel.

Perhaps…

This outcome had already been decided.

Karasuki's shell dimmed.

After an existence that had stretched on endlessly—long, dull, without meaning...

Its end had finally arrived.

"…Heh."

A chuckle slipped from Obito's mouth as he cheerfully absorbed the black coffin back into himself.

"…So even you can feel it, huh?"

His voice was light, almost amused.

"That little thing called regret."

Thud.

Then he dropped straight onto the snow-covered ground below, his body lying flat against it.

Haa…

A cold breath slipped out from beneath his mask as his eyes gazed up at the sky, hidden beneath clouds and raging snow.

His voice came out almost like a whisper meant only for himself.

"…After all this time…"

"Finally… I can breathe a little more freely."

Obito had always been worried about Boruto's future plot.

He had always been on guard.

If he changed the future too much, what was stopping the future Boruto or something similar—from coming back to the past to deal with him?

There were already plenty of theories that adult Boruto might have time-traveled at some point. Kid Boruto had done it before, so what was stopping adult Boruto from doing the same?

Those people who could see the future…

Momoshiki and the others…

Obito had never underestimated them.

He had even imagined a scenario where he got jumped by Boruto and Kawaki together.

After all, no one would allow someone like him to mess with the timeline this much.

But now, he knew he had been thinking too much.

Being a singularity was his greatest cheat.

It meant that someone from the future could not return to deal with his past self.

For example, if someone really intended to do that… they would only end up killing the original Obito.

Not him.

There was only one version of him.

If future Sasuke and Boruto never came, then that meant there was a future version of himself that had already made it impossible.

And that was not something he wanted to see.

If there was a future version of him, then there should have been a past version too.

So what stopped those Ōtsutsuki bastards from traveling into the past and killing him off right after he reincarnated?

But now, it didn't matter anymore.

Now, in turn, he could go to any timeline himself.

And unlike Sasuke and Boruto, he could actually remain there without suffering any consequences or being forcefully kicked out.

He had no anchor point.

He could move freely, like a true time robber.

He could even use this method in the future to hide himself between timelines from certain people he might one day have to face.

Momoshiki had repeatedly mentioned gods in the anime.

He described Eida's power as a kind of "programming language" used by gods to create worlds, turning desires into reality.

Momoshiki also stated that the ability was not a normal technique, but true Shinjutsu of divine origin—possibly based on Shibai Ōtsutsuki's DNA.

That meant Shibai wasn't necessarily the only being who had reached a level that could be called "god" in Momoshiki's eyes.

Although Shibai might have been the only one who transcended this dimension, that did not mean there weren't others out there who could easily create and destroy worlds.

That was why obtaining the power of time travel was so important to Obito.

If he could hide inside the timelines themselves…

Then even Shibai Ōtsutsuki would find it hard to sniff him out.

"Captain... are you okay?"

A sudden, moist little voice echoed behind him like a fart in a cathedral.

Of course, it could only belong to the zesty White Zetsu.

Without turning his head, Obito continued lying across the snow, eyes closed.

"I'm fine... Well, better than ever, I suppose."

White Zetsu didn't say anything at first.

He could feel something different about his captain now, as if some huge burden had finally been lifted from his shoulders.

After finding a nice spot in the snow for himself, White Zetsu lay down too.

"Hey, Zetsu..."

"Yes, Captain?"

"…Thanks. For walking this path with me all this time."

White Zetsu froze for a moment, then slowly turned his head to the side.

His captain had removed the mask from his face, and the snow drifted gently across his skin without him bothering to avoid it.

Then, with a mischievous grin, White Zetsu said, "What brought this on? You're awfully sentimental today... like an old man."

Seeing that Obito didn't react to his words, Zetsu continued.

"Hey, okay, okay, I get it, Captain. You looked really cool just now... But..."

His voice softened slightly.

"You don't need to thank me. You don't need to thank any of us. Without you, we'd still be wandering corpses with one will... and no individuality."

White Zetsu looked up at the falling snow.

"So thank you, Captain."

Now it was Obito's turn to be surprised.

He hadn't expected to be kicked right in the feelings instead.

A small smile appeared on his face.

He got up, dusted the snow from his clothes, then turned his back while waving one hand.

"Next, it's about time I make use of the things I absorbed. I'm sending you back. Inform Tobi and the rest to follow the rest of the plan."

"Aye, aye, Captain."

Then, just before Obito snapped his fingers to send him back, White Zetsu's loud voice rang out again, nearly making him trip.

"By the way, Captain, I recorded that scene just now in my memories. Moments like that are rare, so I'll do a good job sharing it with everyone else in the future."

Obito's smile vanished.

"...You snitch femboy."

Snap!

With a snap of his fingers, he sent White Zetsu away.

He would deal with that bastard later.

For now, he had more important things at hand.

Such as fully digesting the power of those he had devoured… and transcending his current limits.

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