Shisui Uchiha Emerges

"Um, can I join too?" Kushina Uzumaki suddenly asked. As the last inheritor of the Uzumaki Clan, she was thoroughly familiar with Sealing Jutsu, and she had become a little tempted as well.

Besides, she also wanted to figure out what that inexplicable sense of familiarity from a moment ago had been about.

Minato Namikaze and Minamoto Takuya were both startled. Then Minamoto Takuya said, "If Minato agrees, then I'm more than happy to welcome you."

"Hmph, then it's settled. He wouldn't dare disagree." Kushina Uzumaki raised her brows.

Minato Namikaze merely smiled from the side without objecting.

Afterward, Kushina Uzumaki left with Minato Namikaze.

Watching their retreating backs, Minamoto Takuya rubbed his empty stomach and looked at the sky. Hopefully, Ichiraku Ramen had not closed yet!

Although Minato Namikaze's sudden visit had taken Minamoto Takuya by surprise.

After a day of discussion, though, he felt it was a good thing. While he could be said to truly specialize in Sealing Jutsu, and theoretically had studied it far longer than Minato Namikaze had.

Minato Namikaze had Kushina Uzumaki behind him, along with the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu as a foundation.

The Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu was famously powerful. In fact, a major reason for their clan's destruction was that they possessed such extraordinary Sealing Jutsu without having the corresponding strength. Every major nation coveted the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu.

From that perspective, it was unlikely that Konoha had directly participated in the Uzumaki Clan's destruction, because Konoha could obtain the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu without doing so.

Who taught Kushina Uzumaki Sealing Jutsu? Mito Uzumaki!

Whose wife was Mito Uzumaki? Hashirama Senju's!

As long as they maintained a good relationship and arranged marriages between the clans, Konoha would naturally have a share in any Sealing Jutsu the Uzumaki Clan developed afterward. Why would Konoha be so full of itself as to participate in wiping out the Uzumaki Clan?

Minamoto Takuya believed that the Uzumaki Clan's destruction was nothing more than either several other ninja villages striking the Uzumaki Clan with lightning speed after learning of its alliance with Konoha, preventing Konoha from providing timely aid, or Konoha simply standing by and watching.

Though he specialized in Sealing Jutsu, he was only one person. No matter how much he researched, he could never compare to a clan's accumulated foundation.

Minato Namikaze was also inwardly amazed. If he had not possessed the Uzumaki Clan's knowledge of Sealing Jutsu, he would most likely have been inferior to Minamoto Takuya. Even now, there was not much in which he surpassed him.

That made him somewhat admiring. One person's research had actually reached such a profound level.

If his earlier use of "senior" had merely been a respectful title because the other man was older, then now it carried genuine sincerity.

If the Uzumaki Clan's knowledge of Sealing Jutsu were given to Minamoto Takuya, then his Sealing Jutsu would certainly surpass even Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki!

The next day, Minato Namikaze did not come again. Minamoto Takuya also learned that he had received another order from the Third Hokage and headed for the front lines. This time, he would probably not return until the Third Ninja World War had completely ended.

Although the war seemed to have calmed down, no ceasefire agreement had been signed. Therefore, the Third Ninja World War had not officially ended.

Yet every nation understood that the war could not continue much longer, because sustaining it was draining their villages too severely.

Even Konoha, with its vast lands and abundant resources, was struggling to hold on, let alone the other ninja villages.

Therefore, before long, this Ninja World War that had not even lasted several years would officially end.

In truth, the current situation did not really require Minato Namikaze to return to the front lines, but...

Minamoto Takuya could understand what was going on. The Third Hokage probably finally intended to step down, so he was letting Minato Namikaze continue building prestige on the battlefield.

That did not surprise him. What did surprise him was that another Uchiha Clan genius had recently risen to fame on the battlefield.

His name was... Shisui Uchiha!

"Shisui Uchiha?" Minamoto Takuya murmured. This man's deeds had essentially always existed only in memories.

Of course, the thing he remembered most was Kotoamatsukami, capable of altering one's cognition!

The strongest Genjutsu—Kotoamatsukami. Although it had never been shown in the Original Work, its reputation resounded throughout the world of the Hokage. Its ability had even spawned countless conspiracy theories, such as Naruto Uzumaki having his will altered by Kotoamatsukami's Genjutsu from the very beginning.

But those were merely conspiracy theories. Of course, that was only one eye's ability. The other eye was with Danzo, and it could silently alter someone's thoughts without requiring eye contact.

It was simply not as forceful as the other eye, and its effects could later be undone, just as the samurai Mifune had successfully recovered.

Moreover, the number of people that eye could affect at once was probably only one. Otherwise, why would Danzo not have influenced everyone in one go?

Clearly, its limitations had forced Danzo to choose Mifune alone.

In short, these were a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan with enormous limitations. One ability had an extremely long cooldown, while the other could affect only a very limited number of people. Even if the two were combined and their power strengthened, those limitations likely would not change.

Minamoto Takuya also did not believe they could alter the will of someone at the Six Paths level. But below the Six Paths level, a Super Shadow might be able to resist somewhat depending on the user, while anyone below Super Shadow would have no ability to resist at all.

As for whether he wanted those eyes?

Minamoto Takuya did want them. Of course, not to implant them in himself, but simply to take them out and use them once whenever necessary.

But overall, those Sharingan were not something he absolutely needed.

"Sure enough, it still has to be Kamui." After thinking it over, Minamoto Takuya sighed. Kamui was truly the most broken ability. It was a dōjutsu capable of injuring someone at the Six Paths level with power below the Six Paths level!

Setting those thoughts aside, Minamoto Takuya had specifically come to the back mountain today not to ponder such matters, but to practice ninjutsu.

He had already mastered the ninjutsu he had learned from the exchange center, such as Lightning Release—Chisui and Wind Release—Vacuum Wave.

Naturally, he had come here to learn ninjutsu that could not be revealed before others.

For example...

Minamoto Takuya stretched out his hand, and a sphere of chakra soon appeared in his palm. It was unmistakably the Rasengan, whose method of learning had been specifically taught in the Original Work.

He had naturally mastered the Rasengan long ago, but the technique had not been useful to his former self. With that pitiful amount of chakra, he could not use the Rasengan more than a few times.

Now that his chakra problem had been resolved, he had naturally come to advance further, learning Wind Release—Rasengan, and then Wind Release—Rasenshuriken.

As for Lightning Release, merging it with the Rasengan did not seem easy. Lightning could travel through a medium, such as electrical wires, but in the air, its form would inevitably be closer to the Chidori used by Kakashi Hatake.

And was Chidori not another version of the Rasengan? It was a ninjutsu Kakashi Hatake had created after watching Minato Namikaze demonstrate the Rasengan to them, so perhaps the two contained some shared principle.