Half an hour later.
Forest.
"Uchiha Shisui! Surrender without resistance!" Surrounded by more than a dozen Root elites, the Root captain radiated confidence, as though everything was under his control.
Uchiha Shisui had nowhere left to run!
Across from them, Uchiha Shisui panted heavily.
He had thought the Body Flicker Technique would be enough to shake them off, but he had never expected them to drive him this far.
He could not help letting out a breath.
The gesture looked like a resigned sigh, making the Root Members even more confident.
"Looks like you understand the situation. Come back with us obediently now!"
The Root Members smiled.
But as Uchiha Shisui's Three-Tomoe Sharingan spun rapidly, immense eye power surged forth.
The Root Members could not sense it, but when they saw his eyes transform into the shape of a Windmill Shuriken, Shisui's entire body seemed to exude an extremely dangerous aura.
Every cell in their bodies seemed to scream madly, "Run! Run!"
But death meant nothing to the brainwashed Root Members.
"Attack!" Though the hair on the back of the Root captain's neck stood on end, he still issued the fierce command.
The Root Members charged forward one after another.
A trace of green emerged from the besieged Uchiha Shisui's body, as if a giant were awakening.
Uchiha Clan Land, Back Mountain forest.
Two Little Boys stood a hundred meters apart.
One kept practicing shuriken, imagining his brother's surprise and praise when he saw his improvement. A smug little grin unconsciously appeared on his face.
The other was doing crunches, wondering when his brother would have his eye dug out.
It was not that Jinghuo Uchiha wanted to increase the quest reward. If Uchiha Shisui did not have his eye taken, he would never wake up to reality.
Suddenly, he sensed a unique feeling of bloodline connection. His eyes began to spin and change uncontrollably.
One-Tomoe;
Two-Tomoe;
Three-Tomoe;
Mangekyo!
That powerful eye power left the little boy practicing shuriken beside him dumbfounded.
He watched Jinghuo Uchiha raise his head and quietly look toward the village.
That Demon's Window Mangekyo, unlike the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, was filled with calm bloodshed. Like a crimson abyss, its very existence seemed to represent carnage and bloodshed.
For the first time, the young Second Pillar came into contact with what true strength was.
The shock in his heart blanked out his mind. His heart pounded wildly in his chest, going peng peng with deafening force.
At that moment, Jinghuo Uchiha was the only thing in his eyes.
Jinghuo Uchiha ignored Second Pillar.
His mind refreshed Quests continuously, at a frenzy comparable to Nine-Tailed Night.
[Quest name: You Think You Can Dig Out My Brother's Eye?][Quest content: Kill Shimura Danzō!][Quest reward: Lava Style Chakra Mode] [Quest name: So You Call Yourself Root?][quest content: Destroy the Root Base!][quest reward: Fire Style Chakra Mode · Flame Emperor Form] [Quest name: You Call That Being Hokage?][quest content: Kill Sarutobi Hiruzen!][quest reward: Rinnegan] [Quest name: You Think You Can Be Clan Head?][...] [Quest name: You Think You Can Be a double agent?][...] [...] [...]
"Has my brother's eye been dug out?" Feeling the throbbing in his eyes, Jinghuo Uchiha closed them.
The Clan Head's incompetence, the clan members' dissatisfaction, Shimura Danzō's deception, Sarutobi Hiruzen's tacit approval, the casualties of war, the covetous eyes of other villages, the villagers' hatred...
It had been two years.
Now that this moment had come, he was not as calm as he had imagined he would be.
Blazing rage crashed through the hot blood in his chest.
Uchiha Shisui's guilty smile kept replaying in his mind.
No matter how busy Uchiha Shisui was in daily life, he had always put him first.
Now, all of it seemed stained with filth.
He regretted it a little.
Even if Uchiha Shisui's eye had not been taken, he was still going to kill Shimura Danzō now!
Jinghuo Uchiha opened his eyes. The Mangekyo was no longer there; only the Three-Tomoe Sharingan gleamed brightly, filled with chilling bloodlust.
He walked through the forest, heading toward the village one step at a time.
Before long, Jinghuo Uchiha appeared on the street.
The villagers saw a little boy wearing clothes bearing the Uchiha clan crest. Their gazes were full of disgust, but they said nothing.
But when they looked closely, they saw the crimson in the little boy's eyes.
That was... the Sharingan!
The Three-Tomoe Sharingan!
Those eyes were filled with incomparably powerful killing intent.
Steadfast and ferocious!
The villagers seemed terrified, standing there stiffly like wooden chickens.
Only after Jinghuo Uchiha had left did they come back to their senses.
Only then did they realize that their bodies were already drenched in sweat.
"Wh... what was that..."
"The Sharingan... and it was Three-Tomoe..."
"He awakened the Sharingan at such a young age..."
"He actually dared to leave the Uchiha Clan Land..."
"He's heading toward the Village Center. What is he going to do?"
Countless people felt their scalps tingle, sensing that something huge might happen next.
Forest before Naka Shrine.
Wearing a cat mask, Uchiha Itachi leaned against a massive rock with his arms crossed, waiting for Uchiha Shisui to arrive.
At the same time, he could not stop recalling how his father, Fugaku Uchiha, had insisted last night that he attend the gathering.
His expression was calmly gloomy.
Suddenly, the leaves above rustled.
"Shisui?" Uchiha Itachi called.
"Come here." Uchiha Shisui's calm voice came from above.
Uchiha Itachi sensed that something was wrong.
Soon, he followed him up.
Naka River.
Uchiha Itachi once again saw Uchiha Shisui with his back turned toward him.
But this time, it was clearly different from before.
Uchiha Shisui's voice drifted over, calm yet carrying a trace of unwillingness.
"The Uchiha coup can no longer be stopped. Once Konoha falls into civil war, other countries will surely take advantage of it, and war will become unavoidable. I wanted to use Kotoamatsukami to stop the coup, but Danzo took my right eye..."
As he spoke, Uchiha Shisui turned around, revealing his exhausted appearance with only his left eye remaining.
Uchiha Itachi's pupils contracted slightly.
Uchiha Shisui kept his left eye open and looked at Uchiha Itachi as he continued, "He does not trust me. He insists on protecting the village in his own way. I'm afraid he will not spare my left eye either. Before that happens, I entrust this eye to you."
Uchiha Shisui calmly dug out his own left eye.
Uchiha Itachi's face remained expressionless at the sight, yet anyone could see the endless sorrow in his heart.
Shisui...
"I can only entrust it to you, my best friend." Uchiha Shisui smiled and extended his left hand, revealing the left eye in his palm.
Just as Uchiha Itachi closed his eyes and prepared to receive it with a crow, the ground began to quake violently.
That unique Chakra...
Uchiha Shisui's expression changed drastically.
"Itachi!"
Uchiha Itachi hurriedly leaped onto the treetops and looked toward the Village Center.
There, he saw a huge crimson figure, like burning Rage Flame, overflowing with terrifying violence.
"Danzo! Give back my brother's eye!!!"
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