Entering the lab's living room.
Shishou sat on the sofa, continuously pondering the feasibility of using Rin Nohara to ambush Uchiha Obito with Shisui's eyes.
In Shishou's view, Rin Nohara, being the goddess to Obito, had a high chance of successfully ambushing him.
However, she was currently in the form of an Edo Tensei body, making it impossible for her to use Shisui's eyes.
Moreover, she had died too early and was relatively weak. Whether she could fully utilize Shisui's Sharingan was questionable.
In other words, to make her effective, Shishou not only needed to find a way to truly resurrect her but also had to train her well and possibly awaken the Uchiha bloodline in her.
Tsk tsk tsk, this project is too vast. Even just truly resurrecting her is challenging enough.
This method seemed impractical, so Shishou thought of another approach: using Kotoamatsukami to implant the command to use Shisui's eye on sighting Obito into Rin.
However, casting Kotoamatsukami was already hugely consuming, and using it with the implanted command might increase the consumption even more. Plus, the effectiveness of techniques cast via the implanted command was less than direct casting.
Whether it would be effective against Obito was doubtful.
Moreover, Kotoamatsukami had a very long cooldown time. Even if he had awakened Hashirama's power, it would still take three years to recover (Note 1).
Using it could mean missing the real chance to kill Obito.
Thinking of this, Shishou hesitated.
As he frowned and thought about these issues, Rin Nohara entered the living room and sat on the plastic-covered sofa opposite Shishou, blinking her eyes at him.
"Shishou, what are you thinking about?"
After a long time together, Rin had become very familiar and close with Shishou.
Hinata had gone to Ryuchi Cave to train in senjutsu, so only Shishou occasionally visited the lab. It was hard for Rin not to feel close to Shishou.
After all, solitude was hard to endure, especially since Rin couldn't sleep to pass the time.
Her long isolation made her long for Shishou's visits.
Every time Shishou came to see her, she was very happy.
Hearing Rin's question, Shishou smiled and said, "I'm just thinking about where to take you to have fun later."
"Rin, do you have any place you want to go? Land of Fire, Land of Water, Land of Wind, Land of Lightning, anywhere is fine."
Rin's eyes lit up at the thought of going out to have fun, looking at Shishou in disbelief.
"Shishou, are you really going to take me out?"
Living was nice, but being confined to the lab every day was too hard for Rin.
Due to her Edo Tensei body, she couldn't sleep, eat, or even leave the room much, as it would scatter her body's dust everywhere.
Every day, she could only read books to pass the time, but even that didn't help improve her strength much due to her Edo Tensei form.
All these factors combined made her feel worse than dead.
If it weren't for her desire to end Obito's tyranny, Rin would have begged Shishou to send her back to the Pure Land.
Seeing the lively expression on Rin's face, Shishou smiled and asked, "So, where does Rin want to go?"
Rin blinked and asked, "Anywhere?"
"Yes, anywhere is fine," Shishou nodded.
Rin lifted her head, quickly thinking about it. After a while, she looked at Shishou and said, "I heard there's a giant turtle in the Hidden Cloud Village. I want to see how big it really is."
She had seen videos of Shishou using a giant turtle, so she was very curious to see it in person.
Hearing this, Shishou stood up from the sofa and smiled, "Then let's go."
"Okay," Rin said excitedly, grabbing Shishou's hand.
Glancing at the excited Rin, Shishou chuckled and disappeared with her.
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In Orochimaru's lab.
After reaching a preliminary cooperation agreement with Orochimaru, Obito asked, "Orochimaru, what do you know about Mount Myoboku, one of the Three Great Sage Regions?"
That bastard using the Flying Thunder God technique had used a prophecy technique to find out everything about him, so Obito wanted to find that big toad who could prophesize.
Prophecy techniques were very troublesome for someone like him who wanted to do big things.
Unaware of Obito's thoughts, Orochimaru casually spoke while organizing the information he had just obtained from Obito, "Mount Myoboku is the head of the Three Great Sage Regions, home to the toads. It is said that the Great Toad Sage living there has a great prophecy technique, able to predict possible future events accurately. Very troublesome."
That damned toad indeed has a prophecy technique!!!
Hearing Orochimaru's words, Obito thought angrily.
Now, he fully considered the Great Toad Sage and the Flying Thunder God user as allies.
Then, Obito asked, "Do you know the location of Mount Myoboku?"
Having confirmed that the Great Toad Sage possessed the prophecy technique, Obito planned to find a chance to eliminate it.
Raiko interjected at the right moment, "Mount Myoboku has already activated its barrier. It's impossible to get in, so you should give up on that idea."
The barrier of Mount Myoboku was personally set up by the Great Toad Sage, making it impenetrable even with space-time ninjutsu.
Obito frowned, "Is there no other way?"
"Heh heh heh heh."
Orochimaru chuckled hoarsely, seemingly recalling something, "There is another way."
Obito asked, "What way?"
Putting down his pen, Orochimaru said, "Jiraiya, one of the Three Legendary Sannin like me, is the representative of Mount Myoboku in the ninja world. If you can capture him, I might be able to help you find a way to enter Mount Myoboku."
If capturing Tsunade was impossible, then capturing Jiraiya, who could also enter Sage Mode, might not be a bad idea.
And this free henchman should be used properly.
Obito looked at Orochimaru and said coldly, "Then it's settled."
As long as he could enter Mount Myoboku, he didn't mind being Orochimaru's henchman for a while.
(Note 1: The cooldown time for Kotoamatsukami isn't explicitly stated, but if it were just minutes, an hour, or even a day, it would be too overpowered. So here it's set to three years. Otherwise, if Danzo could control one Konoha person a day, Konoha would have been his long ago.)
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POWER STONE!!!!
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