Flying White Pigeon Technique!
Swapping places with a pigeon he had summoned during their earlier conversation, White Dove appeared in front of Shisui. He said in a low voice,
"Shisui, you were my real target all along..."
Squish!
The sound of a blade piercing flesh rang out.
Shisui's heart was pierced by the Ninja Blade.
He had already lost both eyes and his right arm. Now his heart had been pierced, too. White Dove refused to believe he could survive. Did Shisui think he was Kakuzu or Hidan?
"Wh-why?"
Ignoring the pain in his body, Shisui faced White Dove with his empty eye sockets. He seemed unable to understand why White Dove still wanted him dead after stealing his Mangekyō.
"You're too naive, Shisui. Your very existence is an obstacle. Besides, you're on the village's side. How could I ever feel at ease while you're alive?"
White Dove offered a brief explanation.
He wasn't just making conversation. He was buying time so Shisui couldn't fight back.
That was right. Shisui's existence was an eyesore not only to Danzo but to White Dove as well.
After all, Shisui was an Uchiha, but his loyalties lay with the village's higher-ups.
If his fellow clan members knew that, they wouldn't be so bold about clamoring for a rebellion.
In the original story, Shisui's death also delayed the Uchiha rebellion by a year.
Without Shisui's Mangekyō, the Uchiha naturally lacked confidence.
They didn't rebel a year later because they had found new confidence. They simply had no other choice.
"I see...!" Shisui gave a bitter smile. His voice was weak, but his words were firm. "The village won't let you do as you please, and neither will the Uchiha. Itachi will stop you!"
As he spoke, Shisui forced himself to summon the last of his strength. He stumbled backward twice, then fell into the waterfall behind him.
White Dove had intended to keep the body, but a flicker of danger in his instincts stopped him.
Apparently, Shisui still had enough strength left to fight back.
Most importantly, he already had the Mangekyō. A corpse wasn't worth risking his life for. Still, he flung a Kunai tied to an Explosive Tag at Shisui's head.
Destroy the evidence!
In the Shinobi World, even a corpse could talk.
Boom!
A violent explosion rang out beneath the waterfall.
That way, even if someone found the body, it wouldn't leave behind the slightest trace of him.
The magnetic Kunai he had stuck into the ground flew back into White Dove's hands, as if controlled by an invisible force. Standing at the cliff's edge, he gazed down at the waterfall's abyss-like depths and murmured,
"Shisui, I told you your naivety would be the death of you!"
If Shisui hadn't been so naive, White Dove might have been willing to work with him.
But Shisui had been foolish enough to trust the village's higher-ups and take their side. He couldn't blame White Dove for turning against him.
In the fanfiction White Dove had read before crossing over, the protagonist would usually recruit Shisui to work for him.
That was just wishful thinking. Had they ever crossed over themselves?
What nonsense!
Shisui had a steadfast will. There was no way he could be talked around. Did they think he had the "Kotoamatsukami of persuasion" or something?
If Shisui could have been persuaded, White Dove would have tried before... but what had come of it?
No matter how much White Dove said or showed him, Shisui remained utterly devoted to the village's higher-ups. He hadn't given White Dove the slightest chance to persuade him.
But... if a ninja could be persuaded so easily, their way of the ninja would never be so firm.
How hopeless!
White Dove wasn't about to waste too much time and energy on Shisui. Rather than trying to talk him around, it was better to eliminate him and take his power for himself.
The Mangekyō in White Dove's hand pulsed with a powerful chakra that felt as if it came from the same bloodline as his own.
He couldn't just pop it in and start using it, so he took out a glass jar filled with nutrient solution and carefully placed the Mangekyō inside.
After that, he cleaned up the traces of the scene before heading to another location.
The other Mangekyō Sharingan was still waiting for him to retrieve it.
Danzo had surely already exchanged the other Mangekyō Sharingan for the Three-Tomoe Sharingan White Dove had prepared in advance.
A genjutsu suggestion!
In other words, after Danzo got his hands on Shisui's Mangekyō, he would exchange it of his own accord for the Sharingan White Dove had prepared beforehand.
That way, White Dove could get his hands on it without anyone noticing.
Even if Danzo realized something was wrong after transplanting it, he would only assume that, since he wasn't of Uchiha blood, there was some incompatibility when he tried to control the Mangekyō Sharingan.
If the genjutsu suggestion had been too complicated or dangerous, Danzo might have snapped out of it. But simply switching the Sharingan in his hand wouldn't have raised any suspicions.
White Dove had only been able to plant the suggestion because he had spent time alone with Danzo and used medicinal powder to enhance the genjutsu.
The Shinobi World really did have all sorts of methods. Without the right information, it was all too easy to fall into a trap.
Danzo would certainly have noticed a genjutsu cast with only the Three-Tomoe Sharingan. But with the specially prepared medicinal powder, there was still a chance of successfully planting a harmless suggestion.
Now that was what you called "the advantage of knowing what was coming"!
Before long, White Dove reached a wooden box outside a Shimura Clan shop in the village and took out a jar containing a Mangekyō in the right eye.
Under the influence of White Dove's genjutsu suggestion, Danzo had exchanged Shisui's right eye for the Three-Tomoe Sharingan White Dove had placed here beforehand.
Sharingan for the win!
Ordinary genjutsu wouldn't necessarily work on someone as strong as Danzo, even with medicinal powder to help.
But the Sharingan was practically a cheat code.
No wonder the Uchiha excelled at genjutsu. The Sharingan gave them far too great an advantage in that area.
"Finally..."
White Dove quickly put the jar away, then disappeared.
From here on, Shisui's death would stir up a storm among both the Uchiha and the village.
After all, Shisui was no ordinary person.
He wasn't just a member of the Anbu. He was also the strongest member of the Uchiha Clan.
The death of such an important figure was bound to cause an uproar.
After quietly returning to the Uchiha Clan Compound, White Dove didn't go straight back to his residence. Instead, he gave Inabi, who had returned ahead of him, an assignment.
Spread the news that Shisui had been secretly killed by the village's higher-ups.
It wasn't fake news.
As for Danzo trying to drag White Dove into it... what evidence did he have?
From beginning to end, White Dove had only provided information that Shisui's Mangekyō was Kotoamatsukami—and he wasn't the only one who knew that.
No!
He shouldn't have known it at all.
Fewer than ten people in the Uchiha Clan knew about Shisui's Mangekyō, and White Dove wasn't one of them. So even if Danzo accused him, he had plenty of excuses to refute the claim.
Which meant Danzo would have to bear the blame himself.
Shisui's death would also cool the Uchiha down a little, like a volcano beginning to erupt, giving White Dove time to develop.
Finally, he could use Shisui's death to smear the village's higher-ups and undermine Uchiha Fugaku.
So yes, the news needed to spread.
If Root could spread rumors, there was no reason the Uchiha couldn't do the same. They might even do it better.
Once that was taken care of, White Dove finally headed toward his residence at an unhurried pace.
"Lord White Dove, these are the greens I grew!"
"Dove-dove!"
"Captain White Dove!"
The clan members he met along the way greeted him warmly.
The One Heart Chamber of Commerce was hiring again today, and it was recruiting ordinary Uchiha clan members only. No wonder they were so excited.
More than a hundred Uchiha already worked for the One Heart Chamber of Commerce. With today's recruitment, the number of employees would soon pass two hundred.
The entire Uchiha Clan had only about two thousand people, and more than half of them weren't ninja.
Now, one in ten clan members worked for him, and their influence had won him the favor of at least several hundred more.
The New Uchiha!
That was what these people were called.
As someone who had crossed over, White Dove naturally knew how to win people over.
If he tried to recruit the clan members who had become ninja, he couldn't compete with Uchiha Fugaku, the clan head, and the several elders. So he had to find another way.
He would first win over ordinary Uchiha, then use them to influence the members of the Konoha Military Police Force.
Surround the city from the countryside!
That was more or less what he was doing now.
Click!
After opening the door, White Dove looked around first. Only after confirming that no one had been there did he finally relax.
Fortunately, other than Shisui and Itachi, the Anbu couldn't enter the Uchiha Clan Compound, so he didn't have to worry about being watched while at home.
Next came the much-anticipated "unboxing" session.
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