Uchiha (Part 2)

"How's it going, Captain? Any gains?" the ninja who brought the "cargo" asked.

The captain nodded, then shook his head. He said:

"There's no need for our mission to continue. The target is already dead."

And he died quite stupidly... He didn't say this part out loud.

Hearing that the mission target was dead, the other two Uchiha ninja breathed a sigh of relief. They really didn't want to continue this meaningless mission.

"Then are there any other problems? It's not like we have to go catch the killer who killed the target, right?"

The captain continued to shake his head.

"There's no need. Because the killer is also dead. However..."

"However, before the target died, someone claiming to be Uchiha Izuna came here attempting to rescue him. It was also this person, claiming to be Izuna, who released the ninja imprisoned here."

"Izuna? How is that possible? He's been on another mission this whole time."

The young Uchiha ninja immediately retorted.

The reason was simple: this ninja was Uchiha Izuna and Madara Uchiha's younger brother. At this point in time, Madara Uchiha was likely already in a state of "missing his fifth brother."

Perhaps soon he would only have one brother left, and later, no brothers at all.

"The other party concealed their appearance. Judging by their build and age, they were indeed similar to Izuna, but... it really wasn't Izuna."

Yuzhen impersonating others wasn't entirely baseless. He was about the same age as Tobirama Senju, and Tobirama Senju was about the same age as Uchiha Izuna, which meant he could impersonate Uchiha Izuna.

The remaining ninja reacted. He asked, "Someone is impersonating an Uchiha?"

Someone impersonating an Uchiha, what should they do?

The answer was: nothing.

Unless the impersonator happened to run into them, the Uchiha Clan simply didn't have the time or energy to deal with such trivial matters.

The three sighed in unison, their expressions filled with helplessness.

"Let's go. Our mission is over."

Yuzhen didn't know that as soon as he left the small town, the Uchiha Clan would visit it. Fortunately or unfortunately, the two parties didn't meet.

At the time, he was focused on rescuing people and forgot about collecting spoils after the battle. If he had been engrossed in "looting," he might have actually run into them.

As long as it wasn't a few specific ninja, Yuzhen wasn't particularly afraid of the Uchiha. As everyone knew, the Uchiha were too arrogant, making them prone to being ambushed due to underestimation.

Dealing with them was simple: when they started thinking "Hate your fate for not having the Sharingan" and showed a disdainful smile, launch a surprise attack immediately.

In the next scene, this Uchiha would be lying flat.

Yuzhen, at this point, was quite skilled at surprise attacks.

It didn't matter if he hadn't encountered an Uchiha yet. As long as fate dictated it, Yuzhen would eventually meet an Uchiha ninja.

At the camp.

Several days later, Chihori had recovered sufficiently. Yuzhen decided to lead everyone to move from here.

But for some reason, whenever he made such a decision, something unexpected always happened to disrupt his plans.

This time was no exception.

On the very day they were packing up to leave, after everyone had made all the necessary preparations, and Yuzhen was just about to give the order to "Depart" and set off, the accident occurred.

A peculiar sense of wrongness made Yuzhen hold back his words.

How could this feeling be described?

It was as if the reality unfolding before his eyes had suddenly been split in the middle, and an extra frame had been inserted.

Or like time, which always ticked forward, suddenly had an extra second inserted between the previous and the next.

The sense of temporal dislocation made Yuzhen feel like he was facing a great enemy. He realized someone nearby had used a special ninjutsu.

Then...

A figure suddenly appeared in mid-air.

"Alert..."

Bang.

Before Yuzhen could shout "Alert," the figure had already landed on the ground with a solid bang.

If anyone wanted to know the standard pose for face-planting, Yuzhen thought it was exactly what he was seeing now.

The figure, having crashed onto the ground, tried to struggle to its feet, but after a few flails, it failed.

Helplessly, she could only lift her blood-splattered face and look in Yuzhen's direction:

"Everyone... please... help me."

The series of actions looked somewhat comical, but when Yuzhen clearly saw the person's face, he felt a chilling shock.

Not because he recognized her, but because...

This person has a Sharingan.

Within the scarlet pupils, they weren't even the basic tomoe shape.

This means she has a Mangekyo Sharingan.

This Uchiha female ninja, she collapsed, honestly called for help, and then fainted.

This...

An Uchiha falling from the sky?

Well, what they call fate, if it doesn't happen here, it will happen there.

If you ask what Yuzhen was thinking at this moment?

He certainly had no thoughts of coveting someone else's human organs. At this moment, he instead thought of Tobirama Senju.

He just felt a little sorry for Tobirama Senju.

Because the person Tobirama was chasing was indeed hiding in the camp.

Yuzhen signaled everyone to stay away, as if worried about everyone encountering biological contamination, as if what fell from the sky wasn't a ninja, but an alien.

He himself cautiously approached, preparing to check the condition of this Uchiha female ninja.

This ninja already had quite a few scars on her body, and was bleeding from all over. Coupled with the impact of falling from mid-air, after seemingly struggling to call for help, she fainted.

To be safe, Yuzhen stepped on the other person's arm again.

With a crisp cracking sound, whether it was cracked or broken, the other person didn't even blink an eye, so Yuzhen was relieved.

"Phew, she's really unconscious."

It couldn't be helped. It wasn't that Yuzhen was overly cautious. It was the first time he'd seen a Mangekyo Sharingan, and he felt he really had to be careful.

"Captain, her eyes?"

Hayasaka Ryunosuke leaned over and asked in a low voice.

When the other party looked up just now, many people had noticed the unusual nature of her pupils.

"The Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan. If I'm not mistaken, this person should be the one Tobirama Senju was pursuing earlier," Yuzhen said.

The frequent conflicts between the Uchiha and the Senju, their great enemies, were common knowledge in the Ninja World.

"But why is she showing up only now? How much time has passed?" Ryunosuke asked again.

Yuzhen also found it strange. Several months had passed, and the time the pursuer appeared was clearly different from the time the pursued appeared.

Then he remembered the very obvious Space-Time Ninjutsu fluctuation he had just sensed, and thought, could this person use Space-Time Ninjutsu?

Don't say it, it's really possible.

But the injuries on her body were clearly new. It couldn't possibly be injuries from months ago, right?

Yuzhen opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing... No one could be sure what the abilities of an unknown Mangekyo Sharingan were.

"So... what should we do? Are we still moving today?"

Yuzhen glanced at Ryunosuke in surprise.

I've captured a wild Uchiha here, and you're not asking if I should take her eyes, but instead asking if we should continue moving?

Isn't this showing too much disrespect to the Mangekyo Sharingan?