Naruto: The Information Broker from the Uchiha Clan.

Chapter 335 Obito's Sudden Change in Art Style

Konoha, Ichiraku Ramen.

Sasuke gently touched Hinata's arm with his own, and the six-pointed star Mangekyou Sharingan in his eye sockets had already appeared.

After nearly a year of cooperation, Hinata was stunned for a moment, but then she activated her Byakugan.

"It's really impolite to stare at someone with the Byakugan bloodline, especially a girl."

As Obito spoke, his gaze fell on Sasuke: "Mangekyou Sharingan, the Uchiha brats are really rude these days. Back in the day, I was always helping others."

"Who...are you?"

Hinata, having activated her Byakugan, pointed directly at Obito: "Why can't I see you within the Byakugan's vision?"

can not see?

Sasuke and Naruto were both stunned.

Naruto looked at Sasuke: "Boss didn't sense any malice? Are you mistaken about Sasuke?"

Sasuke replied, "Just because someone doesn't seem to have any ill intentions doesn't mean they're not suspicious. We've never seen anyone with that kind of hand speed before, and besides, they weren't wearing any headbands."

Hinata, standing nearby, exclaimed, her eyes bulging with blue energy: "My Byakugan didn't detect any meridians or chakra in his direction; it was like a wisp of air. No, it was like wherever I looked, that area simply didn't exist!"

"Wh...what do you mean?" Naruto was a little confused.

At this moment, Obito raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

"Oh no... I'm going to die, I'm going to die! What if I get found out?"

Upon hearing this, a kunai crackling with lightning was instantly flung out.

"Bang!"

The kunai, imbued with lightning-attribute chakra, pierced through the wooden planks of Obito and the ramen shop behind him, embedding itself completely in the ground.

"hiss……"

Obito gasped in horror, "I almost died! Are the Uchiha kids this terrifying now? I'm so scared... Run!"

"Whoosh!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Obito rushed out at lightning speed.

The three little devils exchanged a glance and then rushed out at the same time.

"Three bowls of miso ramen are ready..."

???

He glanced at the empty seats, his eyes twitching: "Naruto!! You haven't paid yet!!"

……

In front of the commemorative monument.

Obito, who had just arrived here, initially looked terrified under his straw hat, but his expression changed instantly when he saw Kakashi.

"Oh? Isn't this our Copy Ninja Kakashi?"

A disdainful voice rang out, and Obito walked straight to Rin's memorial stone, reached out and picked up the chrysanthemum, throwing it into the alternate dimension.

"You used the power of entrusted protection to end the protection you were entrusted with, and then you come to mourn every day. You're truly disgusting..."

Kakashi looked at Obito, and a breeze swept by, revealing half of his ferocious face.

After a long silence, Kakashi ultimately did not refute.

At that time, he gave me the Sharingan as a gift for my promotion to Jonin, and entrusted me with the task of using this power to protect Rin. I have failed to do so.

"Oh? Coward Kakashi is speechless now? →_→"

Kakashi exhaled and was about to say something when several cold lights shot out from not far away.

"Aaaaaah! I'm going to die! I'm going to die!"

After twisting his body left and right to dodge the kunai, Obito finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"I just came out to eat noodles, can you three brats not make such a fuss? After all, I promised the Fourth Hokage a few days ago that I wouldn't be discovered."

"Does the Hokage know you?"

Sasuke landed and then noticed Kakashi, with Hinata following closely behind, her hand outstretched towards them.

Naruto, who arrived last, found his crimson chakra cloak beginning to coat his entire body.

"etc!"

"boom!!"

A tremendous force swept over them instantly. Obito's gaze sharpened, and he immediately spread his arms to block Rin's memorial tablet.

"ah!!!"

With a roar, Obito braced his feet against the ground, tree branches rooting into the earth from his calves, resisting the immense repulsive force coming his way.

After the dust settled, Obito's upper body was covered with small wounds, and his chest cavity had even collapsed.

"puff!"

He spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground, soil and all.

Naruto, imbued with the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak, leaped up and pinned Obito down: "Let's see how you run now!"

"Naruto!!"

Sasuke shoved Naruto aside: "We've made a mistake, he's not a spy who infiltrated Konoha!"

"Huh???"

At that moment, Kakashi rushed over and was about to pick up Obito and take him to the hospital when Obito dodged him.

"Take your dirty hands off."

Obito, now fully recovered, looked at the three kids and patted his chest, saying, "I almost died... Are Konoha's genin this terrifying? They're all monsters!"

Sasuke breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the guy was alright.

Naruto rolled his eyes: "Can you stop pretending? You were unharmed after Hinata's attack, you're the monster!"

Naruto then looked at Kakashi and said, "This guy's been acting suspiciously. Isn't he a spy who infiltrated the village?"

Hinata had already deactivated her eye technique and bowed deeply to Obito with a face full of apology: "I'm so sorry, we may have misunderstood."

Kakashi rolled his dead fish eyes: "Team 7... Putting aside whether the other side is a spy or not, do you know that if you destroy the memorial stone, Yun and Minato-sensei will probably hang you up and beat you up?"

At this point, Kakashi turned to Obito and said, "If you still have any other ideas, I advise you to give up. The moment you made your move, Yun also had a reason to make his move against you."

Obito rolled his eyes: "Why are you still so arrogant, Kakashi? Do you think I'd give that nasty guy a chance to mess with me?"

After sighing, Kakashi turned to leave.

But the next moment, Obito grabbed the back of his collar, and after staggering slightly, Kakashi turned around: "What else?"

"that……"

Obito hesitated for a moment: "Could you lend me some money? I'm so sick of eating ramen these past few days, and I forgot to bring any money with me when I came out."

Kakashi chuckled lightly: "Huh? Same old excuse as before. But why should I lend you money?"

Obito was annoyed and reached out to touch Kakashi's headband that was covering his eyes.

"After using it for so many years, shouldn't you pay me some rent?"

These words made Kakashi immediately want to rip off his glasses and throw them at him, but after thinking for a moment, he calmed down.

Aside from the cloud, this eye is the only source of power that can restrain Obito.

"for you."

Kakashi handed Obito a wad of cash and turned to leave, but then stopped after a moment's thought: "Your house is too ugly. I'll have a friend come over to help this afternoon."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kakashi vanished from the spot in an instant.

……

"You three brats are just planning to sneak away like this? Aside from that girl apologizing, what about the other two?"

"Huh?" ×2

Team 7, who were about to sneak away with Hinata, were discovered on the spot. After Naruto and Sasuke bowed deeply to apologize, Obito ordered them to begin cleaning the memorial stone.

The three kids, who had been busy for over an hour and hadn't even had ramen, were almost starving.

As for Obito...

With the house taken care of, it's the perfect time to sunbathe and take a nap.

The path to peace will be walked by others; all I need to do is protect Lin and wait for peace to truly arrive before finding a way to bring her to a peaceful world.

"Uncle... what's your name? We've never seen you before!"

"The new gravedigger recruited by Konoha, as for his name... you can call me Tobi."

"Ah Fei? What kind of strange name is that?"

"Nine-tailed brat, if you don't want me to go tell your mother, you'd better get to work. I know your mother very well!"

"What are you looking at? Uchiha Sasuke, right? I know your mother, Uchiha Mikoto, too. Hurry up!"

"Neither of the two men is as hardworking as the girl; it's shameful."

……

Two hours later, Class 7, who had returned to the ramen shop, began to wolf down their food.

After eating his fill, Sasuke seemed a little distracted.

Although it's not very clear, at that time I was worried that the opponent wouldn't be able to withstand Hinata's attacks.

But... it seems like I really felt the power of the Sharingan.

Is that so-called Tobi also a member of the Uchiha clan?

"So you guys are here?"

Yun lifted the curtain and looked at the three of them, then handed them the Chunin Exams application forms.

"I have already recommended you to participate in this Chunin Exam, but based on the principle of voluntary participation, you will still need to fill out an application form."

"Of course, if you don't want to participate, you don't have to fill it out, and you can continue being low-level ninjas, clearing weeds and exterminating wild boars every day."

Upon hearing this, Naruto and Sasuke quickly grabbed the application forms, borrowed a pen from Uncle Teuchi, and began filling them out.

"Who would want to continue as a sub-ninja, spending their time picking up trash, mowing the lawn, and catching cats?"

Naruto asked疑惑地问道, "It seems like there haven't been any cat-catching missions lately. Has that fat woman from the Daimyo's mansion stopped losing cats?"

Yun casually replied, "You mean the cat-catching mission? It's over. That cat was eating too well three meals a day, and it and its owner were both killed by the Akatsuki."

???

These words stunned the three little devils.

Kill him?

Although I didn't particularly like that fat woman, I still felt a bit strange when I suddenly heard that she was dead.

Yun glanced at the three of them and said in a deep voice, "You think... she spends a lot of money several times a month to post missions in Konoha, just to find her cat? Where did she get all that money?"

These words reminded the three of the scene in the Daimyo's mansion in the Land of Hot Springs, and then they fell silent.

"The breed of cats you catch each time is different. Do you think it's because the cats you lose are different each time, or because the previous cats were already dead?"

"After all, with such a comfortable life, it would probably only try to escape desperately when its life is threatened..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Hinata shivered.

These chilling remarks planted a seed in the hearts of the three children, and it took them a long time to come to their senses.

"Brother Yun, have they hired a new gravedigger named Afei at the memorial stone?"

Naruto looked at Hinata and asked, "That guy is pretty strong. He was able to completely withstand one of Hinata's attacks."

hooligan?

Yun smiled and casually replied, "There is one, but he's not very powerful; I could kill him easily."

Sasuke, standing to the side, hesitated, then asked, "Is he... also from the Uchiha clan?"

Yun thought for a moment and nodded: "I guess so, but because he made a mistake, he is not allowed to return to his clan's territory."

Sasuke was stunned.

Did they make a mistake? What mistake could such a powerful force have made that they wouldn't even be allowed to return to their ancestral homeland?

He wanted to ask again, but Yun flicked his finger at him.

"Don't pry into the village's secrets unless you're at the right level. You're just lowly genin."

As she spoke, Yun put away the three completed application forms: "Oh, and I should tell you all that during this Chunin Exam, I will seal Naruto's Nine-Tails, Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan, and Hinata's power throughout the entire process..."

"What?!"

The three little ones were all stunned.

Originally intending to amaze everyone with his skills, his power, which he relied on, was sealed before he even began.

"The Mangekyou Sharingan seal means... the three-tomoe Sharingan can still be used, right?"

"We're your disciples, Brother Yun... Wouldn't it be embarrassing for you if we didn't dominate the field and fight to the very end?"

"Teacher Yun..."

Of the three kids, only Hinata didn't resist much; it was just an exam, and she herself was afraid that one slap would kill a whole bunch of them.

"Ahem!"

Yun looked at the three of them: "If you don't accept this, you won't be able to participate in this Chunin Exams. So, you want to be genin for the rest of your lives?"

Naruto immediately stood up and protested, "Why should I?"

Yun slapped him back.

"Don't stand so close. If you don't, no one else will participate in the Chunin Exams. What's the point of having only the three of you taking the exam?"

"Furthermore, is there nothing else you have besides your sealed power? The Uzumaki clan's chakra reserves are enough to create a thousand shadow clones, and their three-tomoe Sharingan is comparable to that of a Special Jonin..."

"Hinata's Byakugan reconnaissance, Naruto's shadow clones probing, a combination of wind and fire release attacks, Sasuke's Chidori charge..."

Naruto spread his hands, looking dejected: "But...but this isn't cool at all! This is completely different from the Chunin Exams I imagined!"

Yun chuckled and asked, "What kind of image do you have in mind?"

Naruto immediately stomped his foot on the seat: "Sasuke's black flames engulfed the entire exam hall, everyone scattered amidst the fox boss's maniacal laughter, then Hinata stretched out her hand, and the violent gravity pulled in all the opponents, and then..."

"And then you unleash a Tailed Beast Ball, and Minato and I rush to the rescue to block it? And then you announce that Team 7's strength is off the charts, and they're all promoted to Jonin without any prior promotions?"

Yun sneered as he looked at Naruto, "How about you have your father abdicate, and I'll hand over the position of Fifth Hokage to you?"

Naruto, eyes closed and enjoying the moment, nodded repeatedly: "That would be the best! I'll be Hokage, Shikamaru will be the strategist, and Sasuke will be the ANBU captain!"

"I also want to marry Hinata and defeat my brother-in-law!"

"annihilate the Akatsuki, capture Uzumaki Sora alive, and make him scavenge for trash and mow the weeds every day! Hahaha... uh!"

Naruto's laughter, which he had just opened, was choked back by Yun's gaze.

……

(I'll try again tomorrow night. I managed to stick with it for three days last week, but I failed miserably...)

(I'm so sorry!)

(Also, it seems there's now a feature for readers to correct typos; I'd be extremely grateful if any experts could point out any errors.)

(End of this chapter)