In the folk legends of the Ninja World.
There was a kind of creature called a "Prophecy Beast."
Sometimes, they would suddenly appear among humans and speak in human language, predicting calamities that would occur in the future, such as wars, plagues, and droughts, and telling people how to avoid them.
After making an accurate prophecy, the creature would immediately die. Its life was brief and legendary, shrouded in mystery.
Some people scoffed at the legends of Prophecy Beasts, while others believed in them wholeheartedly.
Uchiha Fugaku belonged to the latter.
Because.
His Mangekyō Sharingan was home to an ability identical to that of a Prophecy Beast.
It was called Amabie.
This technique allowed Fugaku to glimpse someone's fate and see fragments of the future that would unfold for them.
The target could be Fugaku himself or someone else; all he had to do was record their Chakra with his Sharingan.
The inertia of fate was powerful, but it wasn't unchangeable.
As long as someone learned their fate in advance and worked hard enough, they might be able to change it and turn misfortune into good fortune.
That was the power of Amabie.
However.
Such a heaven-defying ocular technique naturally had its drawbacks.
First, the future Amabie showed was limited and incomplete. More precisely, it showed the most likely path out of the countless possibilities that made up a person's fate.
Second, like Kotoamatsukami, Amabie required a cooldown of several years—or even more than a decade—after each use.
And it had an even greater side effect—
It consumed a huge amount of the user's lifespan.
That was the price mortals had to pay for peering into the future.
The last time Fugaku had used Amabie was six years ago, on the night of the Nine-Tails' Attack.
That night, the Nine-Tails