A Single Leaf Blocks the Eye

While Yukimura was experiencing life as an Anbu ninja, Sasuke Uchiha's original body was carrying out a mission in the Land of Lightning.

Just as expected, although there was a risk of attack, the likelihood was not particularly high. Team 7 successfully entered the Land of Lightning and, with the help of the Cloud ninja, reached the hard-to-find Giant Turtle Island.

Sasuke Uchiha had heard many times about the importance of this mission. Across the entire Shinobi World, only three Jinchuriki had yet to be captured.

Utakata, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, and Naruto, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, had narrowly escaped danger even under the protection of numerous powerful ninja.

The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki and the Two-Tails Jinchuriki had also been ambushed by Akatsuki. Team Guy happened to be caught up in it and nearly failed to return.

Killer B, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, had luckily escaped, but Yugito Nii, the Two-Tails Jinchuriki, had not been so fortunate.

Although Sasuke still regarded the tailed beasts as enormous summon beasts that could be controlled and did not understand the importance of the nine tailed beasts, how many people in the Shinobi World truly did?

Compared to that, what worried Sasuke most now was something he had hesitated over for a long time.

What exactly did the fusion of Yin and Yang power refer to?

The secret gradually revealed on the ancestral stone tablet at Naka Shrine, the Uchiha clan's ancestral grounds, as the Sharingan evolved had also been exposed with Sasuke's acquisition of the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

The tablet altered by Black Zetsu did not contain any outright falsehoods, but its misleading emphasis on certain secrets gave Sasuke some deeply unsettling ideas.

Anyone capable of thought would naturally interpret what lay before them within the limits of their own understanding.

Madara Uchiha's conclusion decades ago had