Above the vast, boundless sea, with no edge in sight, a mass of golden sand streaked through the sky at astonishing speed like an arrow loosed from its bow.
Naruto and Uchiha Shisui sat atop the sand, chatting idly.
"Honestly, even as a member of the Uchiha Clan, I never imagined that the Uchiha Clan's War Weapon would be a living person."
Uchiha Shisui could not help but sigh inwardly. Treating a person as a War Weapon and sealing them away was practically no different from a Tailed Beast.
Who knew how much dark, lonely suffering that nameless Uchiha ancestor had endured?
He could not understand it either. If she had been the Uchiha Clan's War Weapon, why had there never been any record of her in the clan's history?
Only in forgotten texts tucked away in a corner had a few scattered words been preserved, along with a scroll recorded in code.
"That really is unexpected. Perhaps that is why the successive heads of the Uchiha Clan recorded the information in code?"
Naruto's tone was somewhat uncertain. After all, he was not a member of the Uchiha Clan, so it was not his place to say too much about such matters.
Something that had to be passed down despite being concealed and obscured surely represented some ugly deeds committed by the clan.
Uchiha Shisui nodded as well. He could guess some of the secrets involved. Treating people as War Weapons must have involved things like human experimentation.
He had seen the Hidan in Orochimaru's possession. Back then, he had been one of the people responsible for brainwashing Hidan with genjutsu.
An immortal monster—that had also been Wave Country's War Weapon.
"I just wonder whether she is still alive. She has been sealed away for centuries. If she is alive,