“When I read it as an adult, all the villains' words stick with me.”
(Auto-translated from Japanese)
My Story
I had been reading it in JUMP since it was serialized. I was 40 years old. When I was younger, I thought Obito was a "weak villain. I thought he was a man who lost Lynn, hated the world, and kept fighting with childish motives. But when I read the book again at 40, I saw him completely differently. The moment he gave up on his dream, the regret of not being able to protect the person he loved, the stubbornness of not being able to stop "playing the hero. All of them overlapped with my adult self. I found my voice in the scene where he left his last words to Kakashi. I was reading it alone in the futon. Since then, I have gotten into the habit of re-reading the works I read when I was younger as an adult.
Favorite scene / line
The scene where Obito asks him on his deathbed if he could have been a hero. Kakashi's reply and his expression. That part still pains me no matter how many times I read it.
Stories I'd love to see
I would like to see an IF world where Obito and Kakashi had grown up as normal shinobi. If Rin were still alive and each of the three had become a jounin, what would they have done? It doesn't have to be a sad story, I just want to see it.
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