Chapter 75: Madara

Naruto opened his eyes and was greeted by a vast expanse of water, Yagura had regained consciousness before even he did and had long since moved leaving Naruto alone with his clone and the man that was attacking them.

Naruto turned to look at the man and saw a masked man with a black cloak that had red clouds on it, he had chains wrapped around his hands with a weight and a blade on its end, a Kusarigama.

Naruto watched his clone attack the man only to phase right through him, then the man noticed that Naruto had woken up and swam right at Naruto.

Naruto dodged easily and swam to the top of the lake he had created where he stood on top of the water.

A few seconds later the man emerged, Naruto's clone nowhere to be seen, it had been destroyed by the man.

Naruto hummed, "Hmm, you're quite the annoying opponent aren't you?" He said out loud while examining the man.

The man scoffed at Naruto and held the bladed part of the Kusarigama in one of his hands, "I could say the same about you, Uzumaki Naruto."

"Ho? No fair, you know my name but I don't know yours, were you never taught that it is polite to introduce yourself first?" Naruto mocked the man while he pulled Samehada out of his inventory, he didn't really care about people knowing of the existence of his inventory, it was only one of his many abilities after all.

The man merely twisted his head to the side as if he was confused, "I figured that Yagura had already told you who I am, but it seems I thought wrong, I am Madara Uchiha, the Ghost of the Uchiha!" Madara declared letting his killing intent and chakra seep out.

Naruto quirked his eyebrow and used observe on him, it would be much simpler than trying to find out who he is by asking.

[Name: Uchiha Obito

LVL: 205

STR: 515

VIT: 1140

DEX: 780

INT: 670

WIS: 670

Description: Uchiha Obito is a shinobi of Konoha who was declared dead in the Third Shinobi War, he was a student of Namikaze Minato and was the best friend of Hatake Kakashi who he gave one of his eyes, he was taken in by Madara Uchiha and was trained by him so that he could eventually resurrect Madara and help him complete his plans, he is a member of Akatsuki and impersonates Uchiha Madara whenever he is in public, he also has a disguise called Tobi, Orochimaru integrated Hashirama cells into his body allowing him to use his Mangekyo Sharingan ability Kamui indefinitely without side effects.]

Naruto was quite shocked by what he read, seeing one of his father's students was shocking to him, especially since the man that he now knew was Obito was trained by Madara, who was supposed to be long dead but apparently wasn't or now is and is planning on getting resurrected.

"Well you certainly aren't Madara, your chakra signature is completely different, at least that's what the giant fox in me says," Naruto said to Obito, Naruto grinned, "The big ol' fox says that your signature is much more like one of my father's students' Obito's signature, or is he wrong?" Naruto said while grinning at Obito widely whose eyes had visibly widened with shock.

"Tch, I knew I should've killed you along with your parents, it would've saved me much trouble, sadly I won't be able to let you go now since you know who I am, so prepare to say your last words, Uzumaki Naruto!" Obito glared at Naruto, he hadn't expected anyone to be able to figure out who he was much less Naruto who had connected to countless important people.

"Well what are you waiting for, I've been waiting for a good fight for quite a while now, even Yagura was quite weak, I doubt you'll put up much of a challenge either!" Naruto mocked Obito further enraging the man.

Naruto dashed forward immediately appearing in front of Obito and swung Samehada at Obito who phased through the attack, if he wasn't fast enough he would've certainly died there, Naruto wasn't holding back.

Naruto was trying to see how fast Obito's reflexes were, which, were quite fast seeing the Mangekyo Sharingan spinning in his eyes, Naruto had no idea that there was a next evolution of the Sharingan so once he defeated Obito he would ask Sasuke or tell him incase he did not know of it either.

Either way, Obito was fast enough to react to Naruto's attacks so Naruto needed to lure him in to deliver a fatal blow.

The two exchanged a few strikes where Naruto allowed himself to be hit, he would then try to attack fast enough, Obito had to make himself solid to be able to attack which is when Naruto would be able to strike the man.

But after a few high-speed exchanges it was obvious that neither would get the advantage over the other as they were both at around the same speed, Obito's base stats were slightly better than Naruto's, but Naruto was enhanced by the first Heavenly Gate so he was faster than Obito but not fast enough to be able to attack him at the right moment.

Naruto ducked under a slash while at the same time attacking Obito who used Kamui to make himself intangible, Samehada passed right through him dealing no damage.

Naruto and Obito passed through each other, Naruto immediately spun around and swung Samehada at Obito's midsection, Obito had much the same idea as he aimed the blade of his Kusarigama at Naruto's neck, but once again he had to make himself intangible to avoid being killed, making the Kusarigama intangible by extension, Naruto and Obito had yet to deal any damage to each other.

it seemed like it would be quite a lengthy battle but Naruto was starting to figure out Obito's timing and with time he'd eventually be able to surprise the man and kill him.

Though saying and doing were two completely different things.