Chapter 93 - 86: He Shines So Bright (2/2)

Azumi was fighting an akatsuki member, when Itachi appeared and sealed that reincarnated akatsuki member into his totsuka sword.

Azumi was covered in her new version of chakra, a long cloak made of the fox's chakra was behind her waving around with chakra energy lazily moving around like flames.

”Itachi! Did you defeat Madara?” Azumi asked hopefully.

”Unfortunately, I couldn't. He was too strong for me. I was planning on sealing him into my totsuka sword, but I couldn't. Madara is going to get his mortal body once again, and once that happens, that will be the time we'll attack, during his moment of weakness.” Itachi said to Azumi.

Azumi nodded and proceeded to battle other Edo Tensei shinobis. Itachi then did the same but he preserved some chakra, so that he can fight again later.

Madara appeared on top of the 10-tailed beast's head, and sitting on top of it was Obito. He's eyes surveyed the chaotic battlefield he himself created.

”You've done a good job, Obito! Now, the only thing you need to do is revive me with the rinnegan!” Madara said, confident that his plan will work.

”That's going to be hard, considering I only have one rinnegan with me. The pair of rinnegan you gave to Nagato was stolen by someone, and Nagato and Konan are nowhere to be seen. This eye of rinnegan I have right now can barely control the juubi, if I try to revive you right now, I'll lose control of the juubi and it would start attacking us too. We are at a disadvantage, too. If they come to know that that we can barely control the juubi, they'll attack us head-on without caring for the casualties. I'm sure you can understand the rest, Madara.” Obito said stoically.

Since Hikaru took the pair of rinnegan that Nagato had, Obito had to create the rinnegan on his own using his own body. He needed to rush things and decided to put a ton of Hashirama cells inside him along with Madara's. Kabuto then performed a surgery on him, which took about 24 hours. Yet, at the end of it, he was only able to create a single eye of rinnegan after all that suffering. But it was enough to control all the tailed beasts and control them.

But the results were disastrous for his body. He cannot move from his position, or he would lose control of his control. He was only able to fight earlier because he only controlled a few tailed beasts earlier, but since he now controls the juubi, he can no longer fight on the battlefield.

Obito could feel killing intent leaking out of Madara. He knows his angry, no, furious. After all those planning, this is the only results he gets.

In the surface, they may be winning, but they are actually on the losing side. No, it's better to say that the two opposing sides are tied.

No one is winning, yet no one is losing either.

Madara gritted his teeth, knowing that he will not be able to perform his eye of the moon plan. But getting angry over it would not bring him any benefits.

Obito, though, did not tell Madara something else. He's dying from just using the rinnegan. Since he forcefully awakened it, in such a short time at that, he's body couldn't take in the power of this rinnegan. He feels like he's missing something, something very important for the wielders of the rinnegan.

But right now, he's body is destroying itself. Nothing makes sense anymore, for him. The only thing he wants now is to see Rin, that was his only dream. But from what he can see, they're losing the war. Everyone is against him, not a single soul in this world is truly on his side.

He realized that after he was defeated by that kid. Kabuto only wanted his body for experimentation, Madara only wanted him here to revive him.

All of this just doesn't make sense. But he's ready to die. He'll rot in hell, that's for sure.

This rinnegan of his will be destroyed along with his body.

'Hmph, at least I'll have the last laugh. Forgive me, Kakashi, but this is how it should be.'

As soon as he finished saying that inside his thoughts, his heart stopped beating. The rinnegan in his eye socket destroyed itself. Madara rushed towards him after seeing him fall down, just to get the single eye of rinnegan, but it was already destroyed.

As if the time slowed down by itself, he saw something descend from the sky. It was already night, yet it was bright. It shined so bright, so bright that it blinded his eyes.

The last thing he saw was those black eyes, shining under the moonlight.

'Ah, what was his name again...? Yes, I remember now... Hikaru...'