Chapter 304 The Truth

Hearing his threat, Pain's godless Rinnegan cast towards him fiercely.

"She's not someone you can touch!"

Uchiha Obito didn't even look at him, as if he didn't take him seriously at all. His mask was still facing the morning Haruko who had stopped.

Being threatened by her former teammates and childhood sweetheart really hurt Haruko Hayama's heart.

But she had no time to be sad now.

Uchiha Obito's ability to transfer objects is obviously a space-time ninjutsu, but he did not make any hand seals or make any sound, so how did he activate his ability?

Before she could think about it, Uchiha Obito turned around with his head held high, and for no reason she felt as if he was fleeing in a panic.

Haruko didn't care about that in the morning and shouted with all her might.

"Obito, you're a coward! When you were four, you were chased by a dog. When you were six, you got stabbed in the butt by a shuriken. When you were ten, you tripped over a rock and fell all the way into a river. When you were eleven, you lost a duel with Kakashi because you had diarrhea!"

"It was you who gave me expired rice balls and gave me diarrhea, okay?"

Unable to bear it any longer and blushing with shame, Uchiha Obito turned around angrily and pointed at her in frustration.

"I told you that the rice ball tasted unusual, but you insisted on eating it!"

"You said it's unusual, so who wouldn't want to try it out? And, didn't you promise me you wouldn't tell anyone?"

"I didn't tell anyone!"

"You obviously let them hear it!"

Uchiha Obito glared viciously at Yahiko and the other two who had heard everything.

Morning Haruko also looked at them, folded her arms, and asked as if nothing had happened: "Did you hear that?"

Looking at Uchiha Obito whose resentment had turned into reality, and then at Hayama Haruko whose eyes contained a threat, Yahiko and the other two shook their heads in unison.

"You! You!" Uchiha Obito was so angry that his hands were shaking.

Morning Haruko's tone turned serious and he continued, "Let's talk, Obito."

"..."

While Uchiha Obito was dawdling, Haruko walked towards Yahiko and the other two in the morning.

"Can you please stop?"

Meeting her earnest gaze, Pain and Konan carefully looked at Yahiko, who was in the lead, but Yahiko did not speak.

But his silence was the answer.

Haruko had expected this as well, so she changed the subject and said, "Can you please stop for an hour? I only ask for one hour."

Although she didn't know what she could do in an hour, she felt guilty towards the person after all, so Yahiko nodded and agreed.

"For this hour, we will neither attack nor retreat."

After saying that, Yahiko took Pein and Konan away, fearing that he would face Haruko's even more disappointed gaze in the morning.

In the morning, Haruko lowered her eyelashes, and for an hour...

If her idea was confirmed, an hour would be enough.

She took a deep breath, glanced at Uchiha Obito who was still hesitating and hadn't come over yet, and her tone was suddenly filled with helplessness.

"Obito, are you going to waste this hour?"

Probably because he felt that he had to die sooner or later, Uchiha Obito flashed and stood directly in front of her, but he was wearing a mask and had his head lowered, so his expression could not be seen at all.

Haruko Asahi stepped forward and gently took off his mask.

Uchiha Obito did not resist. Without the mask covering his face, his mature features, sharp eyes and prominent brow bones were revealed.

The cute black-haired boy back then has grown up completely, with a barely perceptible sense of vicissitudes and a restrained coldness between his eyebrows and eyes.

It seemed like just a moment, and Haruko watched him grow up.

In fact, it was she who deviated from the path of common growth.

Haruko took off the mask and held it in her hand, looking directly at Uchiha Obito, who wanted to look at her but didn't dare to.

"Yahiko and the others did it because of their extreme pacifist ideology, but what about you? Why did you participate in the attack on Konoha?"

Haruko Zaoma's answer was silence.

Knowing that he would have this reaction, Haruko Asahi spoke again: "Obito, I'm not blaming you, but I desperately want the truth."

After a few seconds of silence, Uchiha Obito said word by word: "Because of you."

"What?" Haruko Asahi was stunned.

“I want to create a world with you in it.”

In the second year after Uchiha Haruko's death, Uchiha Obito followed Jiraiya back to Konoha after his training journey.

Having lost his memory of Uchiha Haruko, he persuaded Hatake Kakashi to leave the Anbu and often took Hatake Kakashi and Nohara Rin on missions with him.

Until one time when he was out on a mission alone, he collapsed in the forest due to serious injuries.

He thought he was going to die, but when he opened his eyes, Uchiha Obito found himself in a cave with his injured chest bandaged.

Two "people" in white told him that it was Uchiha Madara who saved him.

Uchiha Madara, the former leader of the Uchiha clan, joined forces with the Senju clan to establish the Hidden Leaf Village during the Warring States Period. He later defected from Konoha and died in the Battle of the Valley of the End.

Whether from a historical perspective or in terms of age, it is impossible for Uchiha Madara to be alive today.

But Uchiha Obito saw with his own eyes the twilight-years-old Uchiha Madara.

"You happened to faint in the forest above this cave. They found you when they went out to investigate and brought you back." Uchiha Madara explained.

Only he himself knew that this was the opportunity he had been waiting for.

During the duel with Hashirama Senju in the Valley of the End, Uchiha Madara died under Hashirama Senju's sword, but in fact he had made preparations to resurrect himself before his death.

The reason why he fought with Hashirama Senju was to obtain his Hashirama cells and transplant them into his own body.

Time passed and there was no reaction from Hashirama's cells until he was now old and weak and unable to move.

The longer he hid in this dark place, the more Uchiha Madara hated this world.

He plans to collect all the tailed beasts, revive the Ten-Tails, and project his eye power onto the moon to perform the Infinite Tsukuyomi, unify the world, and achieve peace in the illusion world.

This is Uchiha Madara's Moon Eye Project.

To do this, he needed a successor.

White Zetsu, who followed his command, collected information everywhere, and Uchiha Obito, who awakened the Sharingan in the Battle of Kannabi Bridge, became his best candidate.

The evolution of the Sharingan relies on extremely strong stimulation of sadness, so Uchiha Madara arranged for Kirigakure to abduct the person who was most important to Uchiha Obito.

When the time comes, the tailed beast in Nohara Rin's body will explode, and either Nohara Rin will die at the hands of Hayama Haruko, or Nohara Rin will have her mind taken over by the tailed beast and destroy Konoha.

Unexpectedly, Haruko happened to know the sealing technique in the morning, so Uchiha Madara's carefully planned show was wasted.

Afterwards, Uchiha Obito was taken away by Jiraiya to practice, and he had no way to start anymore.

The Nine-Tails Jinchuriki Kushina is about to give birth, which is the best time to lure out the Nine-Tails.

Uchiha Madara had to temporarily change his candidate, forcing and bribing a member of the Uchiha clan to help him and use the Sharingan to release the Nine-Tails.

It failed again, and the plan was probably ruined by the same person.

Uchiha Haruko, an unknown person adopted by the Uchiha, possesses unique eye-jutsu abilities, which really makes Uchiha Madara curious.

Unfortunately, she died before Uchiha Madara could explore further.

Maybe she wasn't dead. Her body dissipated and no longer existed in this world, and along with it, everyone's memory of her disappeared.

If Uchiha Madara did not have the blessing of both the Eternal Mangekyō and the Rinnegan, he would probably have lost these memories.

Uchiha Madara had a strong premonition that this person named Uchiha Haruko would not die so easily.

At the same time, this also gave Uchiha Madara a good inspiration.

He designed to seriously injure Uchiha Obito, and then brought him back to the cave, and used the power of the Mangekyō to make Uchiha Obito remember everything about Uchiha Haruko.

As expected, this naive and stupid child burst into tears and even felt hopeless.

Then, Uchiha Madara told him that it was Konoha that killed the girl, and that by collecting all the tailed beasts, he could create the peaceful world he longed for.

Even if it is a fantasy world, the girl he has been thinking about exists in it.

Uchiha Obito, who was in a daze, did not agree immediately.

So at Uchiha Madara's signal, White Zetsu let him go back.

After returning to Konoha, Uchiha Obito asked people everywhere about Uchiha Haruko, but to his despair, no one even remembered her existence.

The Uchiha Fugaku family didn't remember, Namikaze Minato and the others didn't remember, Kurenai Yuhi, Asuma Sarutobi, Might Guy, even Nohara Rin didn't know who he was talking about.

Finally, Uchiha Obito found Hatake Kakashi.

He could accept being forgotten by anyone, except Kakashi Hatake, to whom he had made the promise.

Long before Uchiha Obito left the village to train, he had specifically looked for Hatake Kakashi.

"Hey Kakashi," Uchiha Obito glanced awkwardly at the silver-haired boy in front of him, "I'm going to travel and practice."

Hatake Kakashi replied calmly: "I know."

No matter how many years Uchiha Obito had seen that arrogant attitude, he could not tolerate it. However, remembering that he was asking someone to do something for him, he suppressed his anger with difficulty.

Uchiha Obito closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, they were full of seriousness.

"Kakashi, you will protect Haruko while I'm away, right?"

"What do you mean?"

"I know. I saw your eyes clearly that night at the dumpling shop." Uchiha Obito held his breath and observed his reaction. "You like Haruko, don't you?"