"Summoning Jutsu!"
The Animal Path slammed both hands onto the ground, instantly summoning two creatures—
the Split Hound and a Rhino.
Both let out thunderous roars.
The Rhino lowered its head and charged straight into a nearby residential building. With a deafening crash, its massive body—over ten meters tall—plowed directly into the structure, kicking up clouds of dust and debris.
Its horn swung violently left and right inside the building. The six-story apartment complex split cleanly in two before collapsing outward, reduced to ruins in seconds.
The Split Hound leapt into the main street. Spotting the panicked crowd fleeing in all directions, it howled and charged.
"AH!"
Two civilians failed to dodge in time. The hound bit down, its jaws snapping shut. In an instant, the two were reduced to nothing more than snacks—blood and severed limbs dripping from between its teeth.
"Feel pain.
Only by feeling pain can you understand the value of peace!"
Deva Path Pain leapt onto a rooftop, surveying the entirety of Konoha.
Meanwhile, the Asura Path landed on another street. Grabbing his left wrist, he yanked upward with brutal force.
His mechanical body unfolded like a walking arsenal. From within his arm, an entire rack of miniature missiles emerged.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Dozens of missiles ignited and launched in rapid succession, streaking in all directions before slamming into surrounding buildings—and people.
More than a dozen civilians were instantly blown apart.
This kind of weaponry—something Konoha had never seen before—was devastatingly lethal to ordinary people.
Only then did Konoha's ninja finally react.
Two chūnin in green flak jackets rushed forward—but the moment they exposed themselves, the Human Path struck them down. Before they could even rise, their souls were ripped from their bodies.
They died instantly.
"Fire Style: Dragon Flame Bomb!"
A Konoha jōnin attacked from above, unleashing a massive fire technique toward the Six Paths of Pain.
The Preta Path stepped forward, spreading both hands.
"Sealing Technique Absorption Seal!"
An invisible barrier formed between his palms. The fire dragon collided with it—and was instantly converted into pure chakra, absorbed completely. No explosion. No heat.
"Almighty Push—no…
Universal Pull."
Deva Path extended his right hand.
The jōnin lost control of his body and was yanked violently toward him.
"Sawblade Impalement."
A massive rotating blade burst from the Asura Path's back, skewering the airborne jōnin straight through.
Not everyone had Kakashi's reflexes—using Substitution under Universal Pull was not something ordinary jōnin could manage.
Against the coordinated assault of the Six Paths of Pain, most jōnin were killed instantly.
In less than thirty seconds, dozens of lives were harvested—
civilians, ninja, even elite jōnin.
Only then did Konoha truly awaken.
"The enemy has been identified—it's Pain!"
An ANBU operative appeared atop the Hokage Tower, reporting directly to Tsunade.
Standing there were Tsunade, Jiraiya, and several ANBU members.
The moment Jiraiya heard the name, his expression darkened completely.
"Are you certain?"
"Yes. Every one of them possesses the Rinnegan. They match perfectly with the Six Paths of Pain described in Lord Jiraiya's intelligence."
A piercing cry echoed through the sky.
A gigantic bird with a massive beak materialized above Konoha and crashed down like a bomber, demolishing a building and igniting a raging fire.
The creature was the Yata Bird.
Jiraiya knew it all too well.
Back when he infiltrated the Land of Rain, the Path he fought most frequently was the Animal Path—and this bird had caused him no small amount of trouble.
"It's definitely Pain. Those bastards actually came all the way here!"
"Tsunade—immediately order all ninja below jōnin rank to evacuate civilians and children. Against those six, genin and chūnin would just be throwing their lives away. Numbers won't help!"
Tsunade nodded.
She already knew what kind of monsters the Six Paths were. Even with intelligence on only three of them—the Animal, Preta, and Asura Paths—Jiraiya had been forced into Sage Mode.
Which meant that without Sage Mode, even with standard Kage-level strength, Jiraiya couldn't defeat just three of them—let alone all six.
Enemies of this caliber would instantly kill anyone below elite jōnin.
Tsunade immediately issued evacuation orders and poured massive amounts of chakra into summoning Katsuyu.
A slug as tall as a four-story building appeared, splitting into thousands of smaller bodies to heal the wounded throughout the village.
But that also meant Tsunade was now locked into a pure support role—
unable to head to the front lines herself.
Jiraiya turned and issued another command to the ANBU.
"Summon the heads of all major ninja clans—especially Uchiha Rokuro. He must be brought into the fight."
"Yes, sir!"
That ANBU was dispatched to seek Rokuro's aid.
But when he arrived at the Uchiha compound, he froze.
In the center of the clan grounds was a gigantic crater, over a hundred meters wide.
And at its center—
Was where Rokuro's home used to be.
"Th-this… what happened here?! Don't tell me—!"
That ANBU was a sensory-type ninja. Rokuro's chakra signature was well-known to him.
He immediately activated his sensing technique.
Minutes passed.
Nothing.
Finally, his gaze drifted back to the massive crater.
"Don't tell me… Uchiha Rokuro was killed?!"
One minute earlier
The moment Pain launched his assault, Rokuro had already identified the attackers through Konoha's sensory barrier.
"Mom, go hide in the evacuation shelter outside the village. This enemy isn't ordinary—he won't be dealt with easily."
Uchiha Ashikaga understood her son's strength better than anyone.
If he called the enemy dangerous, then it truly was.
She asked no questions. Activating Flying Thunder God with ninja tools, she vanished from Konoha instantly.
Only after confirming her safety did Rokuro open the window, preparing to meet the Six Paths of Pain
When suddenly, an overwhelming spatial force engulfed his home.
Space twisted.
Warping began.
"This sensation… Kamui? Interesting. I didn't even go looking for you—yet you deliver yourself to my doorstep."
With Rokuro's reaction speed, he could have escaped even without using space-time ninjutsu.
But he wanted to meet Obito.
So he didn't resist.
His entire house was dragged into Kamui Space.
Violent spatial disorientation followed—enough to instantly knock out any normal ninja.
Rokuro, however, was also a space-type user.
He was long accustomed to this sensation.
"Looks like you came well-prepared this time. Other than you and Nagato… did Konan and the rest of Akatsuki come as well?"
He turned.
About ten meters away stood a masked Obito.
"You really do know a lot about Akatsuki. But you're too arrogant—walking straight into my Kamui Space. Here, I am God."
A tidal wave of chakra erupted from Obito, shattering the limits of standard Kage-level power and surging into Super-Kage territory.
Rokuro's eyes narrowed.
Not only was Obito's chakra comparable to his own
Even his ocular power wasn't far behind.
"With Hashirama cells boosting him, maybe… but he's still just an ordinary Mangekyō. How does he possess Eternal Mangekyō–level ocular power?"
Before he could finish the thought, Rokuro leapt backward.
The space where he had stood twisted into a vortex
he would have been shredded instantly.
Kamui's spatial annihilation was something even Ōtsutsuki Kaguya couldn't block.
Only evade.
"That Kamui activation speed is impressive."
Rokuro sidestepped again.
A fist-sized spatial vortex appeared exactly where his heart had been.
"Even faster. Smaller vortex, higher speed—that makes sense. But this is far faster than in the original timeline… and it can be deployed remotely via line of sight. Is this the boost from double Kamui? Much harder to deal with than Kakashi."
"Let me show you my true power!"
Obito roared.
Rokuro stopped moving.
In an instant, more than ten spatial vortices appeared around him, sealing off every escape route.
"Using this many at once… even with Hashirama cells, that should be impossible. Unless—double Kamui doesn't just increase ocular power, but grants new abilities."
Rokuro's left Mangekyō spun violently.
Terrifying ocular power erupted, condensing into a Dimensional Blade before him.
With rapid flicks of his fingers, the blade slashed repeatedly—
Each vortex was struck once.
RIP
Like cloth being torn apart, every spatial vortex shattered.
Gone.
The Dimensional Blade returned to his hand.
Rokuro's gaze sharpened.
"So that's it. No wonder you spend chakra so freely—Kamui Space recycles chakra."
The shattered vortices dissolved into chakra, filling Kamui Space—then flowed straight back into Obito.
After everything, his chakra hadn't decreased at all.
"You figured it out. But so what? I understand your blade now too—space severance, huh? Hmph. I can do that as well."
Black chakra gathered around Obito's right hand.
He dashed forward, stabbing straight toward Rokuro's heart.
Rokuro raised his blade.
Hand and blade collided head-on.
A sharp metallic screech rang out.
Both were knocked back—neither gained the upper hand.
Rokuro gripped the blade with both hands.
Starlight shimmered along its length as it extended to two meters.
He slashed again.
Obito blocked with both hands, space energy roaring around them.
BOOM!
Obito was blasted backward.
The spatial energy around his hands dispersed, though his palms remained uninjured—barely blocking the strike.
Rokuro snorted coldly.
Black energy engulfed his body.
The Complete Susanoo erupted from the ground.
A colossal hundred-meter titan stood tall, wielding a massive tachi wrapped in Dimensional Blade light
forming a sixty-meter-long spatial greatsword.
It cleaved downward.
Obito's eyes flared.
He summoned Susanoo as well—but only Third Form, armored yet faceless.
The same state once used by Uchiha Itachi.
CRASH!
Sixty meters against twenty.
The smaller blade shattered in half within half a second.
Third Form Susanoo followed—split cleanly down the middle, dissipating entirely.
Obito was flung away.
He flipped midair just before hitting the ground, avoiding further damage.
"So that's all an ordinary Mangekyō can do. Even with both eyes, you can't manifest a Complete Susanoo."
"Uchiha Obito—you think you're qualified to fight me? You're overestimating yourself."
Kamui Space reassembled the scattered chakra, restoring Obito's strength.
But as he stood to continue
His mask cracked open.
Revealing a grotesque, Yin-Yang split face.
"Uchiha Rokuro—how did you obtain those eyes?! You have no siblings—why do you possess Mangekyō that never go blind?!"
"Heh. Why would I tell you? Do you think I'm stupid?"
Rokuro drove Susanoo forward.
Blade raised.
Obito summoned Third Form Susanoo again, engaging in evasive combat.
After several exchanges, Rokuro understood.
"So from the beginning, you never intended to win—just stall me. Of course, you'd kill me if you could. The real show is Nagato."
A veteran of countless battles, Rokuro prepared to break free.
His Dimensional Blade could function as a portal
just as it once connected Otogakure and Konoha when he killed Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Cutting open Kamui Space wasn't difficult.
But
"Still… killing just Homura and Koharu probably isn't enough to push Tsunade into a corner."
"If Konoha takes a Super Shinra Tensei like in the original timeline… that pressure should be sufficient."
"Then again, I only kept Obito and Nagato around to play villains and collect the Tailed Beasts. I could do that myself—step onto the stage, become the villain."
"I was never a hero anyway."
As Rokuro hesitated
Obito suddenly shouted:
"Uchiha Rokuro! Stop holding back! Use your other Mangekyō technique! Today, I'll crush you completely!"
Rokuro laughed derisively.
"You really do have a death wish. In that case—experience true despair."
His right eye snapped open.
The seven-pointed star spun violently.
A moment later
A kaleidoscopic blackness, brilliant and suffocating, exploded outward from his eye
Engulfing all of Kamui Space.
Obito froze.
He couldn't move.
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