Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1087 Conversation and Warning

Seeing this, Qingming also restrained his aura.

At that moment, Obito Uchiha's disguised hoarse voice came from under the mask.

Then he said, "Why did you return the Nine-Tails?"

"Ok?"

Upon hearing this, Qingming was slightly taken aback, and then raised his eyebrows.

Seeing his reaction, Obito Uchiha thought he was going to deny it, so he added again, "Don't tell me that you weren't the one who captured the Nine-Tails back then?"

Hearing this, Qingming finally understood why Uchiha Obito had asked that question earlier.

So that's what the other person was struggling with.

That makes sense, though. From the other side's perspective, his attitude towards tailed beasts has always been one of "better to catch the wrong one than let one go."

But what about this time?

He had already obtained the Nine-Tails, but then he released it, which is completely out of character for him.

Therefore, it's no wonder that Obito Uchiha had doubts and asked that question.

Upon understanding this, Qingming felt a surge of joy.

This simply means that his deception succeeded.

Now, Obito Uchiha is indeed unaware that he still possesses half of the Nine-Tails.

In this way, he will always have a trump card to counterbalance the other party, and if they cooperate again in the future, he will be more confident in his actions.

However, now is not the time to think about these things; he should first think about how to explain things to the other party.

He pondered for a long time, but he couldn't come up with a good reason.

So he simply stopped explaining and said, "What I do is none of your business."

"you"

Obito Uchiha was quite angry at his words and was about to say something when Qingming spoke up again: "Besides, I didn't promise you anything back then, did I?"

Upon hearing this, Obito Uchiha was taken aback.

Indeed, when he told Qingming about the plan, Qingming did not explicitly agree to any of his requests. Everything was deduced by him based on Qingming's past behavior.

"This"

Obito Uchiha was rendered speechless by the rebuttal.

He left with such ease back then, and now he's in such a sorry state.

But he quickly composed himself and said, "Don't change the subject. You still haven't said why you want to return the Nine-Tails to Konoha?"

Seeing that the other party was going on and on about this topic, Qingming didn't waste any more words and simply replied, "There's nothing I can do. My strength isn't good enough, so I have to give up."

"what?"

Obito Uchiha could hardly believe his ears. Didn't he know what kind of strength Qingming possessed?

It's possible that Qingming couldn't defeat his opponent at the time, since his strength would inevitably be affected if he couldn't reveal his identity.

However, he simply did not believe that he couldn't even escape after capturing the Nine-Tails.

But since Qingming had already said that, what other options did he have?

Turning against Qingming?
Putting aside the question of whether he could win, even if he could, what benefit would he gain? The tailed beast in Qingming's hands?
He wasn't entirely confident he could kill Qingming right now.

In this situation, taking rash action would only make Qingming wary.

At that time, it won't be so easy to obtain the tailed beasts from them again.

Moreover, in Obito Uchiha's eyes, Qingming still had value, so there was no need to rush to eliminate him.

Seeing that Obito Uchiha remained silent, Qingming turned around and glanced in the direction from which the sounds of battle were coming, then changed the subject, asking, "Are they under your control?" Upon hearing this, Obito Uchiha immediately became alert.

Obito Uchiha wasn't too surprised that Qingming was able to discover that the Hidden Mist Anbu were under his control.

Indeed, the Sharingan doesn't have such precise observation of chakra flow, but at the Mangekyou level, it's still easy to distinguish traces of genjutsu.

In particular, the genjutsu he used was a classic genjutsu passed down from the Uchiha clan, which made it even easier for Qingming, who had also awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, to detect it.

Therefore, it's only natural that Qingming would discover the problem.

However, even if Obito Uchiha were beaten to death, he would never have imagined that Qingming could see through it at a glance using his Byakugan.

However, none of this matters.

After asking this question, Qingming silently activated his three-tomoe Sharingan and carefully observed Obito Uchiha's eyes beneath his mask.

At the same time, he was also observing the silent Jue.

He wanted to judge from the two men's eyes and expressions whether his assessment of their subsequent intention to manipulate the Hidden Cloud Village was accurate.

As it turns out, his guess may have been correct.

Just by looking at Obito Uchiha's wary eyes, he knew that the other party was worried that he would be contacted about something because of this.

The two stared at each other silently for more than ten seconds before Qingming finally spoke up: "I don't care what you want to do, you'd better not affect me."

After saying that, he ignored the two people in front of him and turned to run towards the camp.

At this time, the fighting there was still ongoing.

Indeed, with Qingming providing intelligence, Nara Mitsuhiko and the others were not caught off guard by the dozen or so Kirigakure ANBU members.

However, their attempt to ambush these hidden members of the Fog Shadows also failed.

The leader of the Kirigakure ANBU was indeed somewhat slow to react because he was being controlled by Obito Uchiha, but the rest of the Kirigakure ANBU were unaffected.

They came here simply to follow orders.

Given their combat experience, they naturally wouldn't fall into the trap hastily set up by Nara Mitsuhiko and his men.

Therefore, this battle turned into a head-on clash between the two sides from the very beginning.

Logically speaking, this situation should be more advantageous to Konoha, which has a numerical advantage.

However, of the hundred people on Konoha's side, twenty were wounded, and all of them were seriously injured and needed to be returned to the village for treatment in the first batch. They had very little fighting power.

Of the remaining people, more than half were genin.

As for the number of Jonin, including Qingming, there are only seven.

Among them, three are special Jonin who excel at perception and tracking.

In contrast, the Hidden Mist's side, though only having one squad of seventeen, consisted entirely of elite members of the Anbu.

Among them, there are five true Jonin, and of the remaining twelve, three are special Jonin who are skilled in assassination, while the rest are all elite Chunin.

Therefore, Konoha cannot gain any advantage at all.

Furthermore, due to the uneven strength of the members on Konoha's side, several of them were killed first.

Qingming rushed back because he wanted to minimize casualties as much as possible.

He wasn't worried about Obito Uchiha and Zetsu joining the battle.

Even if the two of them joined forces, they would still be no match for him. Even if they could restrain him and force the Kirigakure Anbu and Nara Mitsuhiko to fight to the death, it would be meaningless.

As long as he is alive and can relay the information about the two back to Konoha, Konoha will not be able to hold a grudge against Kumogakure for this.

In this way, the peace talks will not be disrupted, and their actions will be meaningless.

Therefore, the likelihood of either of them making a move is very low.

(End of this chapter)