Disguised for Years, Kotoamatsukami Obtained

Land of Fire, Konohagakure.

A cold wind howled past. A lonely figure stood atop a cliff, gazing at the river flowing below, seemingly lost in thought.

Just then, movement came from the distant forest. The figure turned, revealing a young face.

He was a young man of seventeen or eighteen, his expression calm yet indifferent. However, this expression seemed somewhat forced. Only by clenching his fists and his slightly hurried breathing could one tell that this young man was currently quite nervous.

The trees in the forest parted, and a ninja wearing a flak jacket, with the Uchiha Clan's crest on his clothes, emerged staggering, covering half his face.

Blood stained the ninja's palm and half of his sleeve. Judging by where he was holding his face, it was clear his eye had been injured.

"Shisui! What happened to you?! Your eye... Who did this to you?!"

The ninja standing on the cliff's edge showed a shocked and furious expression, rushing forward to support Uchiha Shisui.

"I failed... Shūichi, Danzō doesn't trust me or the Uchiha. He has his own plans and ambushed me just now..."

Uchiha Shisui spoke with a hurried, somewhat sorrowful voice:

"My plan to use Kotoamatsukami to stop the conflict between the Uchiha and the village has completely failed. There's only one way to make the current Uchiha calm down a little and slow the pace of rebellion."

The Uchiha ninja named Shūichi frowned upon hearing this:

"Don't say anymore. You're bleeding a lot... Let's focus on healing your injuries first!"

"No, there's no time. I'm not planning to heal anymore!"

Uchiha Shisui placed his hand on Uchiha Shūichi's shoulder. As he removed his hand, his right eye, now a bloody hole, was revealed.

Without any hesitation, Uchiha Shisui reached for his left eye. The next second, with a muffled groan, Uchiha Shisui's left eye was also removed.

"I entrust this eye to you... Shūichi, you and Itachi are both geniuses within the Uchiha Clan who can truly transcend narrow clan perspectives..."

"I've already left a suicide note. I will kill myself now. I believe this will delay the Uchiha Clan's coup for some time... During this period, it will be up to you to find a way to eliminate the rift between Konoha and the clan."

Taking Uchiha Shisui's eyeballs, and looking at the now blind Uchiha Shisui, the flustered and nervous expression on Uchiha Shūichi's face gradually faded. Instead, an irrepressible smile appeared at the corner of his lips.

"Suicide is such a waste. A living Uchiha and a dead Uchiha have completely different values!"

"What?!"

Hearing the slightly twisted voice, Uchiha Shisui froze. However, with both eyes blinded, his strength was reduced to less than a tenth. Before he could react, he felt a senbon pierce his lower abdomen.

After the senbon penetrated, the already scarce Chakra within Uchiha Shisui's body rapidly stagnated. At the same time, a numbing sensation quickly spread throughout his body. Uchiha Shisui collapsed to the ground, his face still filled with disbelief:

"You... Who exactly are you? Uchiha Shūichi wouldn't do something like this!"

"That just means you're too naive, Shisui, too trusting. But then again, if you weren't so naive, how could you have been so easily manipulated by the Konoha higher-ups?"

Uchiha Shūichi's face showed mockery. If he had Uchiha Shisui's talent and Mangekyo abilities, let alone the conflict between Konohagakure and the Uchiha Clan, he would have already risen to power and become the Hokage of Konoha.

It's a pity that Uchiha Shisui has now leaked the information about Kotoamatsukami. The Konoha higher-ups must be prepared.

However, if Uchiha Shisui hadn't naively leaked the information, leading the Konoha higher-ups to target him, then he wouldn't have been able to obtain his Kotoamatsukami Mangekyo. From this perspective, it's better that this Uchiha genius remained naive.

While the two were talking, Uchiha Shūichi had already placed Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyo into a prepared test tube. Then, he formed hand seals, and with a bang, a cloud of white smoke rose from the ground, revealing a large snake over ten meters long.

At this moment, although Uchiha Shisui was paralyzed and blind, his top ninja instincts remained. Just by listening to the hissing in the air and the sound of the snake's scales rubbing together, he had already identified the creature Uchiha Shūichi had summoned.

"Snake Summon... You... Shūichi, you're connected to Orochimaru!?"

Snake summons almost all originated from Ryūchi Cave, and it was well known that the highest-ranking contractor of Ryūchi Cave was the infamous rogue ninja of Konoha—Orochimaru.

"What's so surprising about that? Me, an evil Uchiha in the eyes of Konoha's higher-ups, colluding with the rogue ninja Orochimaru, isn't that perfectly normal?"

"You don't really think there's any difference between you, me, and Uchiha Itachi in the eyes of Konoha's higher-ups, do you? If there were, you wouldn't be in this state, Shisui!"

Uchiha Shūichi finished speaking with a face full of mockery. Without waiting for Uchiha Shisui to say anything more, he directly controlled the giant python to swallow Uchiha Shisui in one gulp. Finally, with a thump, both the python and Uchiha Shisui disappeared without a trace.

"A living Uchiha who has awakened the Mangekyo... Even though 90% of the Uchiha clan's bloodline essence is in their eyes, Uchiha Shisui, even without his eyes, is still incredibly valuable. Orochimaru won't get such a high-level test subject from me without paying a price."

"No... With Kotoamatsukami, why would I need to make any deals with Orochimaru?"

Uchiha Shūichi was a transmigrator. In his previous life, his job was selling large trucks.

Perhaps it was because too many transmigrators were sent via large trucks, cursed by resentment, but he woke up one day and found himself in this world.

When this transmigrator regained consciousness, it was precisely after Konohagakure had just suffered the Nine-Tails' Attack.

During the Nine-Tails' Attack in Konoha, most of the Uchiha were tightly guarded by Root and Shimura Danzō. Because of this, the Uchiha Clan was the ninja clan that suffered the least damage at that time.

However, even the smallest loss didn't mean the Uchiha Clan was completely unharmed. A small number of Uchiha Clan Guard members happened to be on duty that day and were not in the Uchiha compound. Naturally, they participated in the battle against the Nine-Tails.

Uchiha Shūichi's parents were on duty that day. When the Nine-Tails' attack broke out, Uchiha Shūichi's parents fulfilled their duties and died in the chaos.

Affected by this mental shock, Uchiha Shūichi, who was only ten years old at the time, directly fainted. After waking up, not only did he awaken his One-Tomoe Sharingan, but his entire being was replaced by the core of a transmigrator.

Upon learning of his identity and the time of his transmigration, Uchiha Shūichi felt that the situation was dire.

After all, the Uchiha Clan only lasted for seven years after the Nine-Tails' Attack before becoming the victims of Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Obito.

Initially, Uchiha Shūichi tried to find his golden finger for transmigration. In the end, he discovered that the golden finger did exist, but it would take ten years to activate.

It was a mysterious sphere of light, faintly visible in his mind. After seeing the sphere of light in his mind, Uchiha Shūichi instinctively received information: it would take another ten years for this sphere of light space to truly take shape.