Chapter 293: Chapter 293: Obito Sends Flowers
A thick mist rose over the sea surface of the Amegakure, and the intense explosion had evaporated all the rainwater.
The explosion lasted for about ten minutes before it gradually ceased. Konan, watching everything from not far away, had a trace of melancholy in her eyes.
She and Nagato had never trusted Obito. From very early on, they were on guard against him, always speculating about his abilities to find ways to counter them.
After all, Obito had once been a member of Akatsuki, and had helped her and Nagato rebuild the broken Akatsuki. To say there were no feelings at all would be a lie.
But it was only a little bit. Compared to Obito plotting to take Nagato's Rinnegan, nothing else mattered. Obito dying here was what truly mattered.
As the thick mist gradually dissipated and the sea returned to calm, Konan looked at the now empty sea surface and murmured.
"Turned to ash already? Makes sense. No one could survive that kind of explosion."
"What a pity. In the end, it still involved those two children. I don't know why they were following Obito?"
Just as Konan finished sighing and planned to leave and return to the Amegakure to deal with its affairs, suddenly, at the spot of the explosion just now, space twisted again, and Big and Young Obito's group reappeared.
Konan was stunned, her expression full of disbelief.
"How could it be possible, you actually managed to teleport away just now! Based on my calculations, you don't have such a fast transfer speed!"
However, just after speaking, Konan saw Young Obito's pair of Sharingan eyes, filled with beautiful patterns.
Then, she looked toward Old Obito, realizing that Old Obito hadn't even activated his Sharingan, and suddenly understood something.
Her expression turned more serious than ever, staring at Young Obito and saying, "You possess a space-time ability even more powerful than Uchiha Obito's? Or perhaps, the one who previously played the role of Madara was you?"
Young Obito shook his head. Looking at the Konan before him, who was like an untouchable flower on a high peak, he suddenly felt a little heartache.
'Konan-nee turning into this, what she has suffered is no less than what I have.'
He spoke, "Konan-nee, you misunderstood."
Konan was startled. Young Obito's way of addressing her was quite intimate, and from Young Obito's eyes, she couldn't see any hostility. Instead, there was a kind of concern that she didn't understand.
She couldn't help but ask, "Who are you?"
Young Obito shook his head, "Maybe you'll understand in the future, but I can't tell you now."
"Konan-nee, maybe you don't have this memory, but I want to tell you, there was a moment when you protected me behind your back. Everyone said, I was your little brother, and you covered me."
"That was, aside from Rin, the first time I felt what it was like to be protected by someone. So I won't be hostile to you. I'm only here to give you, a gift."
Konan was completely stunned. She indeed had no such memory. Young Obito had never appeared in her life.
Yet, for some reason, she felt that what Young Obito said was true. As if there was some kind of mysterious connection, even a scene of her shielding Young Obito flashed through her mind.
She couldn't help but say, "Then come over here, don't stay with Uchiha Obito, he's a dangerous man."
After saying that, she couldn't help but smile. Just now, she had actually developed a sense of wanting to protect this little brother.
But combining it with earlier events, if her guess was right, perhaps this little brother didn't need her protection at all.
After this exchange, her hostility had indeed lessened quite a bit.
Young Obito looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar Konan-nee again, then shook his head and said.
"Konan-nee, I don't want to lie to you. The purpose of our visit is indeed for Nagato's Rinnegan, because we need to carry out a plan. The Rinnegan is indispensable and irreplaceable."
"But we absolutely have no intention of desecrating Nagato. We'll only take the eyes and will not damage the body at all."
Konan's brows furrowed, and her concern for Nagato once again took precedence. Her tone turned cold again, "Looks like there's no room for discussion. Little brother, even though your ability is strange, and even my strongest technique can't affect you, I will still fight to the very end."
Young Obito wasn't surprised that Konan wasn't easily persuaded.
If she could be persuaded so easily, she wouldn't be the Konan in his memory.
That's why he had prepared a gift in advance.
Each flower Konan folded contained a secret flower language that only she could understand. Obito believed that this flower she folded for herself should serve its purpose.
Thinking of this, Obito took out the purple paper flower from Kamui space and gently unfolded it in Konan's direction.
"Konan-nee, this is the gift I want to give you."
Konan was stunned again. She felt that the flower in Obito's hand was unusually familiar, but since they were a bit far apart, she couldn't see clearly.
Unable to think about anything else, Konan couldn't help but say, "Little brother, could you bring that flower a bit closer?"
Obito nodded, and with Flying Thunder God, appeared beside Konan in a blink of an eye.
Konan's whole body tensed up. She hadn't expected Obito's space ability to be this bizarre, completely without warning. If he had ambushed her just now, she probably would've suffered.
But immediately after, she saw Obito holding up the flower in an offering gesture and relaxed.
This pose, between enemies, was completely unguarded. If she had any malicious thoughts, she could've ambushed him at that moment.
Of course, she didn't do that. At this moment, all of her attention was drawn to the purple paper flower in Young Obito's hand.
She couldn't help but take the flower from Young Obito's hand and examined it carefully.
Actually, just one glance was enough for her to be sure, this flower was definitely folded by herself. No one else could imitate the unique technique that incorporated her secret jutsu, the Paper Person of God Technique.
Therefore, she was even more curious, exactly when did she fold this flower?
Moreover, the flower's language was very strange, full of the style she had as a child, it was her younger self gifting this flower to her future self.
Was it telling her that even if she lost her dearest friends, she must still look forward and use beauty to dilute the pain?
Konan's eyes grew slightly moist. Her younger self was really so innocent. Sadly, she could no longer return to that time.
She raised her head and looked at Young Obito, asking, "I don't remember folding this flower when I was young, but it is indeed mine. To be able to give you this flower means, you must be very important to me."
"Could it be that I once lost my memory and forgot many things? But my memory is continuous, there are no blank gaps."
Young Obito neither confirmed nor denied it, but simply took out another flower and seriously said, "Konan-nee, maybe I can't convince you with words, but you can try trusting your own flower language. The one I just gave you was folded by you for your future self, and this one is what you folded for me."
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