My name is Uchiha Obito, a sinner. I was a fool who lived the life of revenge only to die in a plot of betrayal. I knew I was just being used and had made a lot of anticipations, but I still got killed.
Maybe it was my punishment for everything I did to so many people. That's why I tried to pay for my sins in the last moments of my life. Although it would never be enough. I just wanted to be a person Rin could be proud of in my last moments.
So when death came, I accepted it with open arms. The world would be a better place without me there. Now I could finally meet Rin. She would surely reprimand me and hate me for my actions, but nothing matters as long as I could see her face again.
Or so I thought, but somehow I didn't die. I found myself still alive. At least I felt alive because I've yet to open my eyes. I felt someone pushing my chest repeatedly with a strong force. It's like when someone tried to save a dying person, so maybe I was still alive, after all, but how could it be?
I needed to confirm it, so I opened my eyes slowly but what I saw was the face of a young man, maybe even still a teenager getting closer to mine. He pinched my nose with a hand and held my mouth with another hand as his mouth also got closer to mine.
My instincts kicked in and I immediately opened my eyes wide as I coughed strongly. Water came out of my mouth, so I knew instantly that this man tried to save me by helping me breathe. But there was no way I would let a man kiss me even if it was to save my life. It should be at least a beautiful woman.
The young man backed off in surprise while I coughed a few more times as I could finally breathe normally again. It seemed I was drowning before, which was strange because I didn't remember the battlefield even having a pond left.
Maybe someone was drowning me with their Water Style jutsu. It might be the 2nd Hokage who was the most proficient in Water Style and hated Uchiha the most.
But when I opened my eyes, I immediately realized that this was not the battlefield. I was on the shore of a dirty wide river. Did I get drifted by the river current to qn unknown place?
The young man who saved my life looked normal, except for being too thin and wore ragged clothes. He also didn't seem strong, so maybe he was just an average citizen, maybe a poor villager at that judging from his clothes.
"Are you alright, kid? I thought you would really die there."
The young man seemed relieved while wiping the water on his face. But kid? I never thought someone would call me kid at my age. He obviously wasn't older than me as well.
Even with his malnourished body that made his face look older, I knew that he was just around Naruto's age in the war, so maybe just a 17 or 18 years old boy. Yet he called me a kid.
"Who are you calling kid? You know, you should be more polite to-" In that moment, I realized that my voice sounded different than I remember. It was just like my voice when I still attended the academy.
I didn't waste time checking my body. Hands, small. Arms, small. Legs, small. Feet, small. Dingaling? Obviously small as well. I wouldn't say mine was big, but it was obviously bigger than this puny thing.
Another strange thing was my injuries were gone. The injuries I got when that boulder crushed half of my body and would kill me if Madara didn't patch me up with Hashirama cells. Even though I found out later that he was also the one who orchestrated that incident to make me his puppet.
My body has returned to normal with no injuries at all. I stood up and also found that I was short. I was only a little higher than the young man sitting in front of me.
Did I really turn into a kid? Just what kind of dream is this? There was no way I got caught in Infinite Tsukuyomi, right? I should live in the reality I wanted if that's the case, after all.
If this was someone's Genjutsu, then I would try breaking it. It didn't work. The young man even looked at me with a concerned look as if I was crazy. He must've thought I hit my head previously or something.
Sigh, I wanted to stop the strangeness of this situation at that. But there was one more. When I tried breaking this Genjutsu, I realized I have no chakra. There was no chakra flow in my body when I tried using Kai.
Then when I tried to feel the chakra in my body, I felt nothing. I truly have no chakra. It really didn't make sense because even normal people should have chakra no matter how little it was.
"Uh, why don't you rest in my place for now? It seems you are still confused by whatever happened to you, so I won't ask anything."
The young man was really concerned about me and talked to me very carefully. Seemed like he thought of me as a lost child who has just gone through something very terrible. I wouldn't say I've just gone through something good, so he was quite correct.
After thinking quickly, I decided to take his offer to rest in his place. I needed time to recollect my thoughts and investigate what happened to me. If this was a Genjutsu, I needed to find a way to break it.
This must be a very powerful Genjutsu like Infinite Tsukuyomi. So maybe it was unbreakable and the only way to get out of it was if the user stops it. But maybe there was a chance, so I needed to find out how with a calm mind.
Though well, maybe living in this Genjutsu world wasn't so bad either. Maybe I could become a much better person here than before. Maybe I should be thankful to the person who used it on me because I wouldn't have a chance to be a good person in the real world.
The young man who currently was older than me because I was a kid, led me into a bamboo forest, leaving the river. He carried many firewood that looked heavy on his back. This guy is surprisingly strong despite being so thin.
"What's your name?" I couldn't stand the silence even though I knew he was being considerate of me.
"Oh, I'm Takeshi."
"Takeshi, is it? I'm Obito. So, where is this place, Takeshi?"
"This is Kuri, I am from Amigasa Village."
"Kuri? Amigasa?" I never heard of those places.
"You don't know? Kuri is one of the regions in Wano, you know."
"Wano?" I tilted my head in confusion, making Takeshi even more surprised.
"Don't tell me you are not from Wano."
"I never heard of that place at least. Have you ever heard of the Land of Fire? Land of Lightning? Konoha? Five Great Elemental Nations?"
Takeshi shook his head at all of those places, so it was safe to assume that this place wasn't even on the same continent I was in. But even people from other continents should know about the Five Great Elemental Nations at least, so this was really confusing.
I should gather information first. That was the basic when facing enemies whether you knew the enemies or not. So I would also keep most things about myself hidden, including the fact that I was a Shinobi. Especially now that I can't use Ninjutsu with no chakra.
"I see. So you weren't washed by the river, but the sea. You were really lucky to be alive." Takeshi nodded like he had made a conclusion.
"Sea? There's a sea nearby?"
"Yeah, this is an island, after all. Even if it's big and the sea is far from the center of the island, we are still surrounded by the sea. Although I never heard about someone getting stranded here from the sea."
"Well, it would be bad if people often get stranded here." Well, no one wanted to drift in the sea because it usually happened when shipwrecks happened.
"Yeah, there's that. But the main reason is because this island is so high above the sea. It's like we are on a mountain above the sea with very tall walls on all sides. So if people are drifted by the sea, most would not even reach this place because the walls would block them."
I knew what I imagined might be a little different from what he meant, but it should still be a very unique place. There was no way I wouldn't know a place so unique like that with all the information I gathered since I planned the Infinite Tsukuyomi and used Akatsuki.
Unfortunately, Takeshi didn't know much about the world outside this island. He only knew that once their leader, the Daimyo of Kuri, Kozuki Oden sailed around the world as a pirate, and when he returned, the Shogun position he should inherit had been stolen by someone else, and he died when trying to take it back.
It was the usual war of thrones that happened throughout history. Though I later regretted taking it too lightly. But now, I was almost sure about something. This Genjutsu was set in another world. The user must be very determined and skilled.
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