Escape

If he wanted to be Hokage, he had to do what a Hokage would do, such as capture the village's missing-nin and kill enemies who dared to destroy it.

Uchiha Jie and Orochimaru fit those criteria better than anyone else. He held nothing back, opening with the strongest power he could wield—the power he had just obtained from the Rinnegan.

"Chibaku Tensei!"

Itachi pressed his palms together, imitating Nagato, hoping to unleash the same world-shattering power.

But his surname was Uchiha. In terms of chakra reserves alone, he probably had only a little more than Kakashi, far less than a descendant of the Uzumaki Clan.

Nagato's chakra could create a massive Chibaku Tensei comparable in size to an asteroid. Yet even the black gravitational sphere Uchiha Itachi released was much smaller than the one Nagato had produced back then.

Still, this was Chibaku Tensei. Everyone braced themselves. Tsunade had already begun forming hand seals, preparing to unleash Wood Release, while Orochimaru raised several coffins from the ground. They were clearly painstakingly carved, and their occupants might all have come from the same era as the First Hokage.

But Uchiha Jie had no intention of defending. He frowned, his Mangekyō Sharingan spinning rapidly as silver-white chakra rose around him.

Silver-white bones appeared, forming the upper half of a human skeleton. Silver-white tomoe also condensed in its hand, but their target was not the Chibaku Tensei Uchiha Itachi had created. Instead, they were aimed at an empty spot in front of Itachi.

The silver-white tomoe exploded with a thunderous blast. Those with Sharingan keenly detected something unusual within the explosion.

However, one sample of Uchiha Shisui's genetic material remained firmly in Itachi's possession, while the other was far away in Konoha, in Danzo's hands. His body had probably already drifted out to