"Sorry, Kakashi's dear friend. I'm Kakashi's student. Something has come up, and I have no choice but to disturb your peace."
"If you want to blame someone, just blame that bastard Uchiha Obito. He really deserves to die."
After muttering, Naruto snapped his fingers, and the soil on the ground split apart instantly. The grass cracked, revealing a gaping wound-like opening.
A coffin silently rose from the ground. The heavy coffin looked particularly eerie in the dim light. With a bang, the coffin lid opened instantly.
Under the hazy moonlight, this was the first time Naruto had seen Nohara Rin in person.
The girl looked about twelve or thirteen years old, with gentle features and large, round eyes. Her pupils were pure black, a characteristic of the Impure World Reincarnation. There were faint blue veins around her eyes, but her face carried a soft smile.
Her cheeks were painted with purple camouflage, and her short hair framed her face. When she smiled, her eyes curved into crescents.
For a moment, Naruto was almost dazed. Because they were cousins, Nao and Rin looked strikingly similar. If not for the obvious age difference, they could have been mistaken for the same person.
"Nohara Rin?" He asked tentatively, waiting for her response.
"Yes, it's me. I..." Rin looked down at her hands, flexing her fingers as if testing them. She then raised her head with a confused look, "Didn't I... die?"
"I remember... I died... Kakashi…"
"You did die. This is the Impure World Reincarnation." Naruto nodded and looked at Rin calmly, "I brought you back because I need your help with something."
"You want my help?" She asked hesitantly, and then she looked at Naruto and was stunned again, "Are you Minato-sensei?"
"Namikaze Minato is my father, and I am Kakashi's disciple now." Naruto nodded. Naturally, he would not be shy at this time and would not hesitate on using connections to build relationships.
"Kakashi?" Rin's face lit up. Covering her chest with her hands, she asked cheerfully, "Is Kakashi doing well now?"
"He’s fine."
"What about Minato-sensei? Someone as great as him must have become the Hokage, right?" Rin seemed very excited and asked one question after another.
"He did, but he was killed by Uchiha Obito." Naruto stated the facts calmly.
"What?" Rin was stunned, the expression on her face froze instantly, "Obito? But he's already... How could that be? Obito would never hurt Minato-sensei…"
"I have no reason to lie to you. Right now, I need your help with something. Of course, I'll explain everything to you beforehand." He said.
"I'll give you the details on the way. You just need to help me with a few things. While I respect your opinion, you don't have the right to refuse."
Rin really had no right to refuse, and could only watch Naruto casually open a dark golden gate.
As they searched for Uchiha Obito, she asked, "What on earth did Obito do?"
Although exploiting someone's sympathy was cruel, Naruto didn't care at all. He was now eager to find Obito and kill him.
"You can ask him yourself. I don't want to talk about it." Naruto refused directly.
He didn't have time to tell her the whole story. His eyes were fixed on the surroundings.
He believed that Obito must be near Konoha and might be watching them right now.
And just as he expected, Obito was hiding in the shadows of the forest, staring intently at the two figures who had stopped ahead. Black Zetsu was perched on another tree, watching from a distance.
Black Zetsu's earlier threat to kill the two women had been nothing but a bluff. Ino and Hinata were both taken into the Kamui Dimension by Obito, and he had no say in the matter.
Moreover, he knew that even Obito didn't fully trust him. So if he told Obito to kill the hostages, it would likely fall on deaf ears.
But Black Zetsu hadn't given up. After meeting up with Obito, he didn't mention Naruto's threats. Instead, he made some vague comments and then left.
Obito didn't suspect anything and didn't ask further. After all, Black Zetsu had always been mysterious. In short, it's always right to be wary of him.
It wasn't until Obito saw the petite figure that he began to tremble violently. He seemed to not believe his eye and shook his head before looking again.
It was indeed Nohara Rin, but at the moment, she was following Naruto. The two were so close that they didn't even need to turn their heads to talk.
After taking a closer look, Obito immediately noticed something was off. At this time, Rin's age was too obvious… she looked like she was just thirteen or fourteen.
He was certain Rin was dead. She no longer existed in this world. So if Rin had truly appeared, it had to be through the Impure World Reincarnation!
Obito remembered this technique vividly. He remembered that Orochimaru had a fondness for manipulating the dead, and the most infamous of his techniques was the Impure World Reincarnation.
So he was naturally furious, ‘Uzumaki Naruto actually used Rin, the person I cared about the most, to threaten me?!’
In an instant, Obito suddenly came to his senses and looked at Naruto with a serious look.
‘How does that guy know my identity? But he wouldn't just randomly revive Rin without a reason, and with such precise targeting.’
Just when Obito was about to continue observing for a while, Naruto had already made a move to touch Rin's chest.
Seeing a pair of hands reaching out, Obito couldn't stand it, ‘How could there be such a shameless person?!’
Kamui!
The moment space began to distort, Naruto immediately pulled his hand back and leaped away, landing ten meters away. When he looked up, he saw the orange spiral mask on Obito's face and the cold, bloodthirsty eye.
"Finally decided to show yourself, Uchiha Obito?" Naruto slowly brushed the dust off his clothes, glanced at Obito, and said indifferently.
"Are you Obito?" Rin was also a little confused. She looked up at the tall figure beside her and said, "Are you really Obito? How did you..."
"Enough!" Obito slightly turned his head and glanced at Rin with a little struggle, "Rin, you are dead. The real Rin is no longer in this world!"
Rin opened her mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment.
"Pfft!" Naruto, who was watching from a distance, laughed and stared at Obito with his hands open. "Now, we should sit down and have a good talk."
"Oh, by the way, Nohara Rin, come here." He said without hesitation, using a commanding tone as he casually waved Rin over. At the same time, he sent a mocking look to Obito.
‘Regardless of whether Nohara Rin exists in this world or not, at least Uchiha Obito is still alive, so he would never be able to overcome the psychological barrier that was Nohara Rin.’