Somewhere in the Land of Water
Kisame, Takashi, and Mageta who had managed to get rid of Kirigakure’s chase were now sitting by a small stream, resting and treating their wounds as well as pondering over the actions they must take from here on out.
“Cough-cough…!” – After coughing out blood, Takashi cursed, “Damn it, where the hell is this Tobi…?”
Naturally, Takashi’s mood is a bit upset, after all, the day he joined Akatsuki, he is already being chased by the Mizukage, although it’s no such a big problem in the big picture, however, given that there are no signs of Tobi whatsoever during the whole fiasco, nor anyone else from Akatsuki is contacting them after all the trouble they have gone through, it is obvious that he is annoyed.
“I think it’s worth celebrating that we managed to escape from the chase of Mizukage and so many of Kirigakure shinobi without any serious injury.” – Kisame said with a playful smirk.
He wasn’t being serious here, as was clearly evident from his tone, to be honest, he wasn’t much afraid of Mizukage, rather he is confident enough to be able to go toe to toe with the Mizukage and still come out of it alive. After all, Kisame’s overall strength with Samehada in his hands is easily mid-Kage level.
In the original story, Kisame managed to easily subdue the Jinchuriki of Yonbi, could push Killer Bee to use the seventh tail of Hachibi and still be the dominant party of the fight, and even forced Might Guy to use the 7th gate, and still survived.
Along with several other feats that speak for his strength, as such he wouldn’t have had much of a problem in dealing with the Mizukage, the only thing that could have troubled him would have been Mizukage’s Aqua Mirror Jutsu but he would have had found a way to deal with that Jutsu too, after all, every Jutsu has its weakness, you just have to find it.
While Takashi and Kisame expressed their thoughts, Mageta had a thoughtful face, he was wondering what could have gone wrong with Tobi that the Mizukage who was supposed to be in a Genjutsu suddenly managed to release himself.
At this time, Mageta suddenly looked vigilantly in one direction, because he suddenly noticed someone in the vision of his Ketsuryugan, and said loudly, “Who are you…? Come out!”
Mageta’s loud shout and his battle-ready stance alerted both Kisame and Takashi, and both of them were instantly battle-ready too, while they vigilantly looked in the direction where Mageta was looking.
Shush shush…
And for a while, the sound of grass swaying could be heard which made the three frown.
“Come on out now, or you won’t remain in the condition to be able to walk anymore.” – Takashi said as a bone spike grew out of his hand.
“Eeek…” – the sound came from behind the bushes, and instantly a figure jumped out of the bushes, “N-no, I am not the enemy… I was just sitting there and observing the three of you and trying to figure out what’s it like to Poop.”
All three of them frowned, “Poop?”
The person nodded, “Right.”
Kisame asked with a smirk, “And did you managed to figure it out?”
But the figure shook his head, and said with a sigh, “Unfortunately no, can anyone of you tell me what’s it like to poop?”
Kisame said with a chuckle, “Hahaha… he is sure is a funny guy…”
Takashi lifted the bone spike and asked Mageta and Kisame, “Should I kill him?”
Mageta shook his head, and said, “No, not yet. Look closely, he is also wearing Akatsuki Cloak, not to mention… his mask…”
“It’s just like Tobi… but it’s different, his mask is white, and the aura he is giving off is different.” – Kisame said upon taking a closer look.
After a bit of observing this person, Mageta said, “Additionally, when I see him with my Ketsuryugan, all I see is an empty shell, it is as if he has no organs whatsoever, and his sense of presence… just what exactly are you?”
The white spiraled masked fellow, wearing the traditional Akatsuki Cloak folded both of his hands over his chest, and said proudly, “I am Tobi!”
“Huh…?” – all three frowned, “Wasn’t that guy Tobi?”
White Tobi nodded, “He is also Tobi, but he is Junior. and I am the Senior you all can call me Tobi Sr.”
“Junior, Senior… what exactly is up with these guys?” – Takashi muttered with a frown while looking at the Tobi Sr.
Kisame said, “Both of them seem to share similar personalities… So, I suppose it makes sense if they are both Tobi, I think it would be interesting to see both of them at the same time.”
At this time Mageta asked again, “What happened to the other Tobi? And why did the Mizukage suddenly regained himself?”
“That is a bit hard to explain, anyway, I have been ordered by my and junior’s senior to escort the three of you to the headquarters, my senior, Zetsu will explain the entire situation to the three of you, so follow me.” Tobi Sr. said and started to walk in a particular direction.
Kisame, Takashi, and Mageta looked at each other, and after a bit of mulling they put away, their weapons and followed Tobi Sr.
On their way, Kisame asked, “So, where are we going?”
Tobi Sr. said enthusiastically, “We will be going to the land of Waves, there we will meet up with another new recruit. After we have her in the team, we will go to one of the Akatsuki hideouts in the Land of Waves, where we will meet up with Zetsu and Tobi Jr.”
Mageta questioned, “And who is this new recruit?”
Tobi Sr. took some time in thinking then said, “Her name…. hmm, I think it was called Kahyo.”
Kisame narrowed his eyes at the mention of that name, and repeated, “Yuki Kahyo… huh? Well, I’ll be damn…” he didn’t speak any further, because that Kunoichi is really extremely strong one, no wonder Akatsuki would recruit her.
“Lead the way then…” – the three said and went in the direction of the Land of Waves.
…
Somewhere inside a cave in the Land of Water.
A spiraling void appeared, and Obito still in his Tobi or better yet Tobi Jr. disguise walked out of it, currently, he had a fatigued look, his consumptions, along with the cost of using Izanagi wasn’t any less.
With Obito’s arrival, Zetsu also sprouted out of the ground and Black Zetsu asked Obito, “What happened to you, who was the intruder in the Mizukage Building?”
Obito did not reply, he was silent and thinking over something.
At this time Zetsu leaned forward and saw the missing arm of Obito, then questioned, “The intruder was able to hurt you so badly, it wouldn’t happen to be the leader of Amatsukami, would it?”
After all, the last time Obito was hurt so badly was in the battle against the Yondaime Hokage during the Kyuubi’s attack, other than that, Zetsu can’t remember Obito being pushed to such an extent since Obito awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan.
However, Obito shook his head, and said with a gloomy tone, “It wasn’t Yama, but Homusubi.”
White Zetsu smirked, “Heh? A battle between two Mangekyou Sharingan users? Heh, I would have loved to watch that battle, anyway, since Homusubi is now dead, we have one less problem to worry about.”
Contrary to the positive answer Zetsu expected to hear, Obito shook his head, as he removed his mask “No, I was unable to kill Homusubi.” This obviously shocked Zetsu, but he was more shocked when he saw the greyish-white pupil in Obito’s left eye socket, “You even used the Izanagi, and still couldn’t kill him?”
Using Izanagi means that Obito already died once while fighting Homusubi, and this is obviously surprising, it is hard to imagine that someone could kill Obito who has Kamui as Dojutsu.
“That woman was playing with me the whole time…” Obito muttered in a gloomy tone.
“Woman?” White Zetsu muttered in surprise, then said, “Homusubi is a woman?”
Obito nodded, “I was surprised too, but it doesn’t really matter whether Homusubi is a man, a woman, a child, a beast, or something else entirely, what’s important here is that she seems to know the mechanism of Kamui, and she utilized this knowledge very well. In fact, the approach she used to kill me even surprised me. If it hadn’t been for Izanagi, I would have surely died.”
While Zetsu asked Obito, “Does she also know your true identity?”
Obito said with a thoughtful expression, “She did not do anything specific that would give away the fact that she knows me, but I am not so sure.”
‘Not so sure?’ Black Zetsu thought, ‘Amatsukami seems to know the secret of both Nagato and Obito, is it possible that Amatsukami also knows about Madara? Or… about me?’ but then he shook his head, ‘Nobody other than Kaguya knows me, not Obito, not Madara, not Indra, not Asura, nor Hagoromo, neither Hamura and certainly not Amatsukami.’ It is impossible for them to know who he truly is.
Obito continued, “Well anyway, I did manage to figure out one of her Dojutsu. It is related to buffing the physical aspects of anything she wants to the extent she can increase the strength of her Susano’o quite a lot.”
Black Zetsu said, “That’s quite a practical ability… as long as she has enough chakra and visual prowess, she might even be able to turn a dried wooden twig into something as hard and strong as current Hokage’s Adamantine Staff.”
Obito nodded, and said, “Increase the threat level of Homusubi to just below that of Yama, given all the abilities she has, killing her won’t be an easy task for weaker members.”
Zetsu nodded and relayed the information to his other clones.
At this moment, Obito sat on a small rock and thought about a lot of things, the defeat today was a very big blow for him, not only his plan of destroying Kirigakure was ruined, but it also revealed the fact that the enemy knows the intelligence about his abilities through and through.
All these events since the War of the summit, especially the ones related to Amatsukami are making him feel powerless, this kind of powerlessness reminded him of the scene of Rin’s death… at that time he was unable to do anything to save Rin.
Black Zetsu said, “The threat of Amatsukami is too great… even if we do not talk about the other members, the threat posed by Yama is too much, the only reason we survived that time is that Gedo Mazo is indestructible, else everyone, even Nagato would have died.” He did not speak anything about Yama’s Golden Sword, or those black balls… but as Kaguya’s will, Black Zetsu obviously knows that those who are able to use Gudodama are incredibly strong.
In fact, Nagato would have died, had it not been for Tobi Sr. to have attached himself to Nagato and saved him in time.
Obito asked with a frown, “So what are you suggesting?”
Black Zetsu said, “It’s time to make up your mind.”
As soon as Black Zetsu spoke, Obito’s face turned gloomy, his eyes turned cold, and he said in a chilling tone, “Do not speak of it.”
But Black Zetsu was unaffected, and said, “It is yours, to begin with, so why the hesitation?”
After a brief silence, Obito shook his head, “It is not mine. It doesn’t belong to me.”
“Does that mean you want to give up on Project Tsuki no Me?” asked Black Zetsu.
Somewhere in the Land of Water
Kisame, Takashi, and Mageta who had managed to get rid of Kirigakure’s chase were now sitting by a small stream, resting and treating their wounds as well as pondering over the actions they must take from here on out.
“Cough-cough…!” – After coughing out blood, Takashi cursed, “Damn it, where the hell is this Tobi…?”
Naturally, Takashi’s mood is a bit upset, after all, the day he joined Akatsuki, he is already being chased by the Mizukage, although it’s no such a big problem in the big picture, however, given that there are no signs of Tobi whatsoever during the whole fiasco, nor anyone else from Akatsuki is contacting them after all the trouble they have gone through, it is obvious that he is annoyed.
“I think it’s worth celebrating that we managed to escape from the chase of Mizukage and so many of Kirigakure shinobi without any serious injury.” – Kisame said with a playful smirk.
He wasn’t being serious here, as was clearly evident from his tone, to be honest, he wasn’t much afraid of Mizukage, rather he is confident enough to be able to go toe to toe with the Mizukage and still come out of it alive. After all, Kisame’s overall strength with Samehada in his hands is easily mid-Kage level.
In the original story, Kisame managed to easily subdue the Jinchuriki of Yonbi, could push Killer Bee to use the seventh tail of Hachibi and still be the dominant party of the fight, and even forced Might Guy to use the 7th gate, and still survived.
Along with several other feats that speak for his strength, as such he wouldn’t have had much of a problem in dealing with the Mizukage, the only thing that could have troubled him would have been Mizukage’s Aqua Mirror Jutsu but he would have had found a way to deal with that Jutsu too, after all, every Jutsu has its weakness, you just have to find it.
While Takashi and Kisame expressed their thoughts, Mageta had a thoughtful face, he was wondering what could have gone wrong with Tobi that the Mizukage who was supposed to be in a Genjutsu suddenly managed to release himself.
At this time, Mageta suddenly looked vigilantly in one direction, because he suddenly noticed someone in the vision of his Ketsuryugan, and said loudly, “Who are you…? Come out!”
Mageta’s loud shout and his battle-ready stance alerted both Kisame and Takashi, and both of them were instantly battle-ready too, while they vigilantly looked in the direction where Mageta was looking.
Shush shush…
And for a while, the sound of grass swaying could be heard which made the three frown.
“Come on out now, or you won’t remain in the condition to be able to walk anymore.” – Takashi said as a bone spike grew out of his hand.
“Eeek…” – the sound came from behind the bushes, and instantly a figure jumped out of the bushes, “N-no, I am not the enemy… I was just sitting there and observing the three of you and trying to figure out what’s it like to Poop.”
All three of them frowned, “Poop?”
The person nodded, “Right.”
Kisame asked with a smirk, “And did you managed to figure it out?”
But the figure shook his head, and said with a sigh, “Unfortunately no, can anyone of you tell me what’s it like to poop?”
Kisame said with a chuckle, “Hahaha… he is sure is a funny guy…”
Takashi lifted the bone spike and asked Mageta and Kisame, “Should I kill him?”
Mageta shook his head, and said, “No, not yet. Look closely, he is also wearing Akatsuki Cloak, not to mention… his mask…”
“It’s just like Tobi… but it’s different, his mask is white, and the aura he is giving off is different.” – Kisame said upon taking a closer look.
After a bit of observing this person, Mageta said, “Additionally, when I see him with my Ketsuryugan, all I see is an empty shell, it is as if he has no organs whatsoever, and his sense of presence… just what exactly are you?”
The white spiraled masked fellow, wearing the traditional Akatsuki Cloak folded both of his hands over his chest, and said proudly, “I am Tobi!”
“Huh…?” – all three frowned, “Wasn’t that guy Tobi?”
White Tobi nodded, “He is also Tobi, but he is Junior. and I am the Senior you all can call me Tobi Sr.”
“Junior, Senior… what exactly is up with these guys?” – Takashi muttered with a frown while looking at the Tobi Sr.
Kisame said, “Both of them seem to share similar personalities… So, I suppose it makes sense if they are both Tobi, I think it would be interesting to see both of them at the same time.”
At this time Mageta asked again, “What happened to the other Tobi? And why did the Mizukage suddenly regained himself?”
“That is a bit hard to explain, anyway, I have been ordered by my and junior’s senior to escort the three of you to the headquarters, my senior, Zetsu will explain the entire situation to the three of you, so follow me.” Tobi Sr. said and started to walk in a particular direction.
Kisame, Takashi, and Mageta looked at each other, and after a bit of mulling they put away, their weapons and followed Tobi Sr.
On their way, Kisame asked, “So, where are we going?”
Tobi Sr. said enthusiastically, “We will be going to the land of Waves, there we will meet up with another new recruit. After we have her in the team, we will go to one of the Akatsuki hideouts in the Land of Waves, where we will meet up with Zetsu and Tobi Jr.”
Mageta questioned, “And who is this new recruit?”
Tobi Sr. took some time in thinking then said, “Her name…. hmm, I think it was called Kahyo.”
Kisame narrowed his eyes at the mention of that name, and repeated, “Yuki Kahyo… huh? Well, I’ll be damn…” he didn’t speak any further, because that Kunoichi is really extremely strong one, no wonder Akatsuki would recruit her.
“Lead the way then…” – the three said and went in the direction of the Land of Waves.
…
Somewhere inside a cave in the Land of Water.
A spiraling void appeared, and Obito still in his Tobi or better yet Tobi Jr. disguise walked out of it, currently, he had a fatigued look, his consumptions, along with the cost of using Izanagi wasn’t any less.
With Obito’s arrival, Zetsu also sprouted out of the ground and Black Zetsu asked Obito, “What happened to you, who was the intruder in the Mizukage Building?”
Obito did not reply, he was silent and thinking over something.
At this time Zetsu leaned forward and saw the missing arm of Obito, then questioned, “The intruder was able to hurt you so badly, it wouldn’t happen to be the leader of Amatsukami, would it?”
After all, the last time Obito was hurt so badly was in the battle against the Yondaime Hokage during the Kyuubi’s attack, other than that, Zetsu can’t remember Obito being pushed to such an extent since Obito awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan.
However, Obito shook his head, and said with a gloomy tone, “It wasn’t Yama, but Homusubi.”
White Zetsu smirked, “Heh? A battle between two Mangekyou Sharingan users? Heh, I would have loved to watch that battle, anyway, since Homusubi is now dead, we have one less problem to worry about.”
Contrary to the positive answer Zetsu expected to hear, Obito shook his head, as he removed his mask “No, I was unable to kill Homusubi.” This obviously shocked Zetsu, but he was more shocked when he saw the greyish-white pupil in Obito’s left eye socket, “You even used the Izanagi, and still couldn’t kill him?”
Using Izanagi means that Obito already died once while fighting Homusubi, and this is obviously surprising, it is hard to imagine that someone could kill Obito who has Kamui as Dojutsu.
“That woman was playing with me the whole time…” Obito muttered in a gloomy tone.
“Woman?” White Zetsu muttered in surprise, then said, “Homusubi is a woman?”
Obito nodded, “I was surprised too, but it doesn’t really matter whether Homusubi is a man, a woman, a child, a beast, or something else entirely, what’s important here is that she seems to know the mechanism of Kamui, and she utilized this knowledge very well. In fact, the approach she used to kill me even surprised me. If it hadn’t been for Izanagi, I would have surely died.”
While Zetsu asked Obito, “Does she also know your true identity?”
Obito said with a thoughtful expression, “She did not do anything specific that would give away the fact that she knows me, but I am not so sure.”
‘Not so sure?’ Black Zetsu thought, ‘Amatsukami seems to know the secret of both Nagato and Obito, is it possible that Amatsukami also knows about Madara? Or… about me?’ but then he shook his head, ‘Nobody other than Kaguya knows me, not Obito, not Madara, not Indra, not Asura, nor Hagoromo, neither Hamura and certainly not Amatsukami.’ It is impossible for them to know who he truly is.
Obito continued, “Well anyway, I did manage to figure out one of her Dojutsu. It is related to buffing the physical aspects of anything she wants to the extent she can increase the strength of her Susano’o quite a lot.”
Black Zetsu said, “That’s quite a practical ability… as long as she has enough chakra and visual prowess, she might even be able to turn a dried wooden twig into something as hard and strong as current Hokage’s Adamantine Staff.”
Obito nodded, and said, “Increase the threat level of Homusubi to just below that of Yama, given all the abilities she has, killing her won’t be an easy task for weaker members.”
Zetsu nodded and relayed the information to his other clones.
At this moment, Obito sat on a small rock and thought about a lot of things, the defeat today was a very big blow for him, not only his plan of destroying Kirigakure was ruined, but it also revealed the fact that the enemy knows the intelligence about his abilities through and through.
All these events since the War of the summit, especially the ones related to Amatsukami are making him feel powerless, this kind of powerlessness reminded him of the scene of Rin’s death… at that time he was unable to do anything to save Rin.
Black Zetsu said, “The threat of Amatsukami is too great… even if we do not talk about the other members, the threat posed by Yama is too much, the only reason we survived that time is that Gedo Mazo is indestructible, else everyone, even Nagato would have died.” He did not speak anything about Yama’s Golden Sword, or those black balls… but as Kaguya’s will, Black Zetsu obviously knows that those who are able to use Gudodama are incredibly strong.
In fact, Nagato would have died, had it not been for Tobi Sr. to have attached himself to Nagato and saved him in time.
Obito asked with a frown, “So what are you suggesting?”
Black Zetsu said, “It’s time to make up your mind.”
As soon as Black Zetsu spoke, Obito’s face turned gloomy, his eyes turned cold, and he said in a chilling tone, “Do not speak of it.”
But Black Zetsu was unaffected, and said, “It is yours, to begin with, so why the hesitation?”
After a brief silence, Obito shook his head, “It is not mine. It doesn’t belong to me.”
“Does that mean you want to give up on Project Tsuki no Me?” asked Black Zetsu.
