Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Raising "Flowers," Mikoto, Izumi

"So rich."

Storage Scroll after Storage Scroll lay in the temporary Supply Storage Point.

There were so many that they nearly filled the entire place.

They contained vast amounts of money.

There were also mountains of Ninjutsu Scrolls, Forbidden Techniques, secret techniques, and more.

Even Naruto, who did not care much about money, was stunned by the sheer amount.

"This isn't even all of it."

"The Uchiha Clan couldn't possibly have had only this much. But Konoha Group took the rest to divide among themselves. It's already not bad that I got half."

"Taijutsu, Genjutsu, Ninjutsu—Yang Release, Yin Release, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth Style Ninjutsu. There are techniques from D-rank to S-rank, and the same goes for Forbidden Techniques."

Naruto smiled. "Maybe I won't even need to learn these scrolls. As long as I absorb all the Nutrients, I'll naturally understand them without a teacher. I might even inherit everything the Uchiha possessed before their deaths."

"This time, there are even eyes."

As he spoke, Naruto glanced toward where the eyes were stored.

"Rounding it off... there are seventy pairs of Three Tomoe Sharingan, one hundred pairs of Two Tomoe Sharingan, and three hundred pairs of One Tomoe Sharingan."

"Among them, Fugaku's eyes are the most special. They were already infinitely close to the Mangekyō Sharingan."

"I really can't let you go."

To be honest, Naruto had originally planned to act in secret and make everything as safe as possible.

But the results would definitely not have been this good.

Thankfully, White Zetsu had appeared.

Without the Mayfly Technique and Disguise Technique—

Naruto would not have dared to come so openly.

Sensory ninja were not that useless. Besides, without the Mayfly Technique, he would inevitably leave traces behind.

"There's no rush to absorb the Nutrients. There are simply too many, and I can't finish absorbing them anytime soon."

"Then I'll start with the eyes. My Two Tomoe Sharingan should evolve too."

"What a pity. My Mangekyō Dōjutsu probably won't manifest, since I didn't awaken it myself."

"But... once I accumulate enough to reach the Rinnegan, I'll still have what I should have."

Naruto took a deep breath, steadied his emotions, and raised his hand.

Vines grew from the Trees storing the eyes, slowly delivering each Sharingan before him.

"The Trees told me that no one has come here for years. There won't be any problems."

At that moment, Naruto's hand underwent Elemental Transformation.

It became a hand formed from countless tiny vines.

As he reached forward, those countless tiny vines swam toward the innumerable Sharingan.

They burrowed into them and began Absorbing nutrients.

The tiny vines quickly sent the Sharingan's Nutrients back into Naruto's body.

A vast and incomparably pure surge of Dōjutsu Power flooded in.

Naruto's eyes instantly grew scorching hot.

He closed his eyes, tears continuously streaming down his face.

Before long, Naruto was drenched in tears.

Yet the burning sensation did not fade. Instead, it only grew hotter and hotter.

Soon, Naruto felt his mind become much clearer.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that one eye had evolved into a Three Tomoe Sharingan.

The other was still spinning madly.

As the Nutrients were absorbed, it quickly became a Three Tomoe Sharingan as well.

At the same time, an indescribable searing pain arose.

His eyes swelled, and Naruto's vision went black. He could see nothing.

A quarter of an hour later.

His vision returned.

Naruto looked into the mirror prepared at his side and discovered that his eyes had changed again.

Mangekyō Sharingan.

A pattern he had never seen before.

By now, he had absorbed all the Nutrients from every Sharingan, and they had all vanished.

Although he had not fully digested all the Nutrients yet, Naruto felt as though he was still just short of something.

So he absorbed Fugaku's eyes as well.

The Dōjutsu Power within his body seemed to have reached some critical point.

Once the Nutrients from Fugaku's eyes entered him, they successfully broke through that boundary.

Boom—

A special kind of Chakra surged through his mind.

The Mangekyō in both eyes spun once more.

"The Chakra consumption is too great... No, Wood Clones, all of you, return!"

Naruto closed his eyes, and his body directly underwent Elemental Transformation.

All the Wood Clones standing by in their positions returned to the Original.

In an instant, the mass of Nutrients inside Naruto's body surged past its limit.

He had no time to care about anything else and focused with all his might on absorbing the Uchiha Nutrients.

A moment later, the patterns in his eyes became even more intricate.

Yet they continued spinning without pause.

Naruto gritted his teeth and raised the speed of Nutrient absorption to the maximum.

A full half hour passed.

Sweat soaked Naruto's clothes.

When he opened his eyes again—

Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan!

Over half the Chakra within his body had been consumed.

"Is that the last of Asura's Chakra?"

"It's finally been extracted. It was all injected into my eyes."

"I already possess one of the conditions needed to awaken the Rinnegan."

"But I won't consider the Rinnegan for now. This body is still too young. I can't keep strengthening my eyes."

Naruto plopped down, and a huge flower sprouted from the ground to serve as his seat.

"Hoo~!"

"Just as I thought, this much Nutrients was enough for me to awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan."

"There are also many memory fragments of Ninjutsu and Forbidden Techniques."

"My body will need time to digest them. You can't rush these things."

Time to lie down. He was exhausted.

His body was too young, and the burden was too great.

"As for Dōjutsu... I can't feel anything yet. Or rather... after absorbing the Nutrients of so many people, could I possess every Dōjutsu that appeared in the original story?"

"That would be amazing... Though the consumption isn't much for me, this body is really too young."

Naruto gave up on the thought of trying.

Right now, he did not want to do anything. He only wanted to lie down properly.

The Wood Clone at the academy had already taken Tenten home.

He should go back and get a good night's sleep too.

With a thought from Naruto, the Woods-Woods Fruit ability activated.

Countless vines filled the entire temporary Supply Storage Point.

In the end, the whole storage point became completely sealed off. Moreover, Naruto would sense any disturbance immediately.

"Home."

But just as he lifted his foot, he turned back around.

"I nearly forgot."

He walked over to Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Izumi.

He reached out and stroked their tightly shut eyes.

"I really almost couldn't resist absorbing you two just now."

"You should be grateful that you had a good clan head and a good husband. The Dōjutsu Nutrients were just enough."

A playful curve appeared on Naruto's lips.

"Asura's Chakra has been dealt with too. I finally don't have that invisible pull on my thoughts anymore."

"I'll keep you for now. I'll raise you well and give you the purest Nutrients. In return, you'll provide me with the purest Uchiha Nutrients."

After saying that, Naruto withdrew his hand and looked at the two beautiful faces bearing the Uchiha Clan's distinctive features.

Two Man-Eating Flowers grew from the vines behind them.

They swallowed both women in a single bite, leaving only their heads outside to breathe.

After finishing those cleanup measures, Naruto immediately used the Mayfly Technique to sink into the ground and stealthily made his way home.

A while later, Naruto returned home, and the Wood Clone returned to the Original.

After taking a bath, he was sitting down to actively fuse part of his memories before sleeping.

Then someone knocked on the door.

"Has he come?"

"That was quick. So impatient to come... Maybe he just has nothing else to do."

After receiving the Wood Clone's memories, Naruto found that Sarutobi Hiruzen had indeed not used the Live Streaming Artifact to watch again for the entire afternoon up until now.

"Who is it... Grandpa?!"

"Why are you here? Come in and have a seat~"

Naruto had initially put on a bleary-eyed, somewhat annoyed expression.

But when he saw that the visitor was, as expected, Sarutobi Hiruzen, his expression immediately changed.

"Hahaha, good, good, good."

Sarutobi Hiruzen seemed very pleased. After entering, he asked Naruto how he had been lately.

Naturally, Naruto answered with a few trivial matters.

Then he brushed it off by mentioning how everyone had come over to visit his home.

"Not bad. It seems you've made many friends too."

"Naruto, I heard you defeated Sasuke today?"

Here it comes!

"That's truly impressive. Sasuke is from the Uchiha Clan. His ninja foundation is not something ordinary children can compare to."

Sarutobi Hiruzen smiled kindly, but deep in his eyes was a probing intent.

He watched Naruto's facial expressions closely, not letting even the slightest change escape him.

Naruto behaved naturally.

He raised his head and spoke with great pride.

"Of course~"

"I'm the Tender Leaves personally taught by Grandpa! In the future, I'll grow into a Big Tree that can shelter everyone. Like Grandpa, I'll become Hokage!"

"Hahaha, not bad. Naruto, you've grown a lot. You must have endured a lot of hardship, right?"

Seeing Sarutobi Hiruzen's old face bloom like an old chrysanthemum, Naruto suppressed his disgust and shook his head with a smile.

"It wasn't hard at all. For the sake of becoming Hokage, this much hardship is nothing."

Old Fox, you won't bring it up, huh? Fine, I'll bring it up myself.

"By the way, Grandpa, you said that when fighting others, I should learn to adapt and make use of my strengths..."

"When I fought Sasuke today, I suddenly had an idea. During the battle, I combined the Clone Technique and Body Flicker Technique from the Three Basic Jutsu."

"I didn't expect it to work so well. Sasuke completely failed to anticipate that move."

As he spoke, Naruto looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen with an expectant expression.

"Naruto, you're very smart. That fighting method is quite impressive."

"Right?"

Naruto looked like a child delighted after receiving praise.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was delighted as well. Sure enough, I didn't earn the title of Ninjutsu Professor for nothing!

Suddenly, Naruto said with some frustration, "But... Grandpa, my Clone Technique doesn't seem to work very well. It fails easily, and even when I create Phantom Clones, they disappear easily."

Isn't that obvious?

Kurama lives inside you. Of course your Chakra is disrupted.

"You'll need to practice more in your daily life."

"I heard them say that above the Clone Technique, there's also the Shadow Clone."

"And I heard a teacher mention something about Forbidden Techniques that can make people very powerful!"

"Grandpa, I want to learn those too. I want to become powerful quickly, then become a Hokage acknowledged by everyone!"

The smile on Sarutobi Hiruzen's face froze for several seconds.

He looked at Naruto with a complicated expression.

It seemed Naruto had completely accepted Konoha and deeply inherited this old man's Will of Fire.

He had also inherited Mizuki and Kushina's talents... The Uzumaki Clan possessed naturally powerful sensory abilities, so there would be no need to have people monitor him anymore.

At the academy, Mizuki was the suspicious one. Orochimaru, were you still unwilling to give up?

"Don't rush. You're still young. Grandpa will give you a huge gift someday."

"Okay... Grandpa's the best~"

"Haha, all right. Grandpa won't disturb your rest anymore. Grandpa still has to go back and continue contributing to the village."

"Okay, goodbye, Grandpa~"

After Sarutobi Hiruzen left, the smile vanished from Naruto's face in an instant, and his gaze turned incomparably cold.

"Old Man, laugh while you can. You'll have plenty to cry about later."