"Heh! Heh! Heheheheheh~"
A ugly laugh escaped Uchiha Obito's throat.
That made Rin even more frightened. Although the man's appearance gave her a sense of familiarity, she really didn't know when she could have met someone so crazed.
"Heh! Heh! Fake! Heh! Heh! Heh! It's all fake! It's all fake!"
"I don't believe it, it's all fake, fake, heh heh heh, Rin can't not know me, heh heh heh…"
"Rin has long been dead, this is still a genjutsu, hahaha! I've seen through it all, you damned imposter!"
Hatred spread through Uchiha Obito's heart; he had already treated the Rin in front of him as a fake, he wouldn't allow anyone to profane the Rin in his heart.
His stopped body moved forward again. Just as he was about to grab Rin, a hand suddenly clamped tightly onto his wrist.
"Enough, Obito, do you intend to commit more sins?", Kakashi instant-transferred in front of Uchiha Obito, clamped his hand, and pinned him to the ground.
"Obito?", Rin suddenly looked up, stunned; she had indeed heard Kakashi call the name Obito.
Rin's face was full of disbelief as she looked down and asked, "Kakashi, you just said…"
Kushina couldn't help widening her eyes, looking at Uchiha Obito on the ground in some shock.
Kakashi bit his teeth and nodded with difficulty, "The one who released the Nine-Tails on the night of the Nine-Tails attack, who killed teacher and mistress, is Uchiha Obito!"
"Ob… Obito…", Rin's face showed astonishment.
"Obito, you… it's you!", Kushina now felt as if struck by a thunderbolt; her emotions surged like a broken dam.
So, the real killer who killed her and Minato back then was Obito.
It was their student, Uchiha Obito, whom they treated like their own.
They finally understood why the man's face felt so familiar; they should have thought of Uchiha Obito earlier.
Only, in their subconscious, they never believed that the Obito who always aimed to be Hokage, optimistic and cheerful, would do such a thing.
"Heh! Heh! Kakashi, now you can accuse me."
Uchiha Obito's face was buried in the ground as he spoke, his tone full of mockery.
At his words, Kakashi's hand pressing Obito's head slowly loosened, and he returned to stand in front of Rin.
"Obito!"
Uchiha Obito painfully lifted his head, looking at Kakashi with a face full of resentment and venom.
"Before I died I gave you my eye, hoping you would use that eye to protect Rin. And what did you do? Not only did you fail to save Rin, you personally killed her!"
Kakashi's pupils trembled slightly upon hearing that; the shadow of his youth resurfaced, and once again before his eyes appeared Rin pierced through by his Chidori.
"Kakashi!"
But Rin's voice sounded from behind him.
Kakashi turned his head and saw Rin, still in her girl form.
Rin, having snapped out of her shock, gave Kakashi a gentle smile, "Kakashi, don't blame yourself too much. It was my own choice then, and it was every Konoha shinobi's duty."
"I never regretted doing that. It was all for the village. I never resented you, Kakashi."
After saying all that, Rin looked at Uchiha Obito with a complicated expression.
'Is this really Obito?'
Kakashi was frozen on the spot; his whole mind exploded with a boom, and a long-suppressed burden inside him seemed to crack away.
"Kakashi, don't lie to yourself. This Rin is a fake, an imposter. The real Rin long ago died; only I could create one…", At this point Uchiha Obito was completely immersed in his own delusion, shouting and ranting, but someone could not take it anymore.
Kushina silently stepped in front of Uchiha Obito, raised her fist, and without mercy struck down.
Boom!
Uchiha Obito's face smashed into the ground again.
Kushina didn't stop, another punch, and another, and another…
In the end half of Obito's head was embedded in the ground.
Watching on the side, Naruto suddenly felt a little creeped out for some reason.
'Is my mother… really such a gentle person?'
Even after taking so many punches, Uchiha Obito still hadn't been finished off, not even knocked unconscious.
Hashirama cells were still exerting power.
"Cough! Cough! Cough!"
Uchiha Obito coughed painfully and spat out a lot of white viscous mucus.
After venting like that, Kushina seemed to calm down a bit.
"Obito, Minato and I actually once believed in you, believed you could become Hokage."
"Although you were always flustered, your shuriken and seals were a mess, always worrying everyone."
"But at that time, when I looked at you, it was like looking at our child. At that time, I wanted our child to be like you, optimistic, cheerful, and able to steadfastly pursue their goals."
Saying that, Kushina looked toward Naruto not far away; her face, which had been full of sorrow, once again showed a smile.
Naruto slowly moved over and hugged her.
"Naruto, I am your mother."
Kushina fondly nuzzled her child.
Obito's head was still in the pit; he was no longer hysterical as before, but he clenched his fist.
"Ugh! Kill me!"
"Hm?"
Kushina was slightly taken aback.
Uchiha Obito continued.
"I have never regretted what I did, because I know I am right. This world is false, it is wrong."
"As long as this world's systems exist, there will never be peace. War will continue, endlessly. War killed Rin, and will keep killing more people like her, there will be more victims like Rin dying."
"As long as there are people, there will be fighting. War will not stop. I only want to destroy such a false world and create a real world, a world without war or pain!"
"Minato-sensei, you, all of you, are just necessary sacrifices!", Obito clenched his fists.
"When the real world is born, everyone will be reborn in that real world, and then we can be as before."
Kushina and Rin and the others were stunned; they were not understanding him, they simply thought Obito had truly gone mad.
"So then, what have you done up until now?", Aoba suddenly spoke.
"Killing the teacher and mistress you loved with your own single-mindedness, wrecking the village that people you loved fought to protect, and in the end what did you achieve, just lying here like a dead dog?"
"Uchiha Obito, your ambition is too big but you lack the strength; in the end you can only find such grandiose excuses."
"You don't understand. As long as the Moon's Eye Plan…"
Obito began to lose his composure.
"Heh! The Moon's Eye."
Aoba sneered, "Uchiha Obito, do you want to know what I saw in Obito's- in Tobi's memories?"