Naruto: Getting Stronger by Drinking

Bang!

"Kid, how could you be this stupid? Only intense mental stimulation can awaken your Mangekyō Sharingan. That's why you can only awaken it under the stimulation of death. Understand?"

Yuu looked at Itachi Uchiha's expression, walked over, and slapped him across the head as he scolded him.

"Hiss—"

Itachi Uchiha cried out in pain, then a flash of understanding appeared in his eyes.

So that's how it is! Besides witnessing the deaths of family and close friends, there's another way to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan!

Th-this is a secret even my father, the Uchiha Clan's patriarch, doesn't know!

Itachi Uchiha thought excitedly.

Itachi Uchiha did not doubt Lord Yuu's words in the slightest.

After the Uchiha Clan gradually integrated into Konoha, his father, Fugaku Uchiha, would occasionally have a few drinks.

Once, his father drank too much and told him a little more than usual.

That was when Itachi Uchiha learned that his father had been able to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan under Lord Yuu's guidance.

Lord Yuu actually knew more about the Uchiha Stone Tablet, passed down through generations of their clan, than even his father did!

Perhaps the method Lord Yuu had mentioned was a secret recorded on the Uchiha Stone Tablet, one that even his father had never seen!

The more he thought about it, the more certain Itachi Uchiha became that this was a secret carved into the Uchiha Stone Tablet!

If the Mangekyō Sharingan could be awakened this way, then it would not be a curse, but true power!

Itachi Uchiha thought expectantly.

"Lord Yuu, does the Uchiha Stone Tablet record how one must experience death in order to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan?"

Gathering his courage, Itachi Uchiha asked.

He had to ask. If there was no method, how many times would he have