The Origin of All Eye Techniques, Leaving the Village Again

Steam filled the bathroom.

Ryusuke stood beneath the shower, washing away the fatigue of the past few days.

With his head tilted back and his eyes closed, he was recalling the main storyline.

Tazuna was an important character in the Land of Waves arc and the client for Team 7's first C-rank mission.

However, this mission was far from simple. The one who wanted Tazuna dead was Gato, one of the Shinobi World's few great tycoons.

Not only did Gato have a large number of ronin and rogue ninja under his command, he had even hired "Demon of the Hidden Mist" Zabuza Momochi, someone on the same level as Raiga Kurosuki.

But Ryusuke did not care about Gato or Zabuza Momochi. What he cared about was the boy following at Zabuza Momochi's side—Haku.

Ryusuke still could not remember the name of the boy with the Red Eye who had been by Raiga Kurosuki's side.

But Haku's name, and Haku himself, had left a deep impression on him.

It could not be helped. This character had been far too popular. Before the official reveal of his gender, countless netizens had believed he was a woman.

In certain forums and videos, he was often ranked as one of the most beautiful women in the Naruto world.

During the youth arc, many geniuses had shone even brighter than Naruto and Sasuke Uchiha, the reincarnations of the Child of the Sage.

Haku was one of them!

Bloodline Limit: Ice Release, along with One-Handed Seal—Ryusuke coveted both of them greatly.

Ice Release was a Kekkei Genkai formed by fusing Water Release Nature Transformation and Wind Release Nature Transformation. As long as Ryusuke obtained this Kekkei Genkai, he would not only gain Wind Attribute Chakra, but his mastery of Wind Release Nature Transformation and Water Release Nature Transformation would soar from nothing to an extremely high level.

Combined with Sakura's Chakra Control, Ryusuke was very confident that even without Sage Mode, he could develop a complete Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

Not just the Rasenshuriken—he was also confident that he could develop the true Hard Vortex Water Blade.

There was even less need to mention One-Handed Seal. Before hand seals were simplified into clapping both hands together and shouting whatever technique one wanted, it was the best method for catching people off guard.

The moment he thought of this, Ryusuke immediately made up his mind.

He wanted to take part in the Land of Waves arc. He had to obtain those two things from Haku.

After drying his hair, Ryusuke summoned the Virtual Panel and fused the Red Light Cluster in his Space Backpack.

As a red beam flew out from the backpack and seeped into Ryusuke's body.

On the Virtual Panel, which he had yet to put away, the words Red Eye appeared beside Sharingan in the Kekkei Genkai section.

Whoosh—

Unlike when he fused Asura's Chakra and the Bloodline Limit: Sharingan.

The moment Ryusuke fused the Bloodline Limit: Red Eye, his eyes, now free of their Colored Contact Lenses, immediately shone with a dazzling red light.

That red glow made Ryusuke's beautiful crimson eyes resemble glowing rubies, adding a trace of eerie charm.

The objects before Ryusuke also changed from color to shades of red.

His perspective even changed from first-person to Omniscient View. His gaze could penetrate everything, using X-ray Vision and Telescopic Vision to observe things in every direction.

The range of his Telescopic Vision was at least one kilometer!

After disabling X-ray Vision and Telescopic Vision, Ryusuke suddenly increased the output of his Yin Release Chakra.

Red powder appeared out of thin air.

Then Hinata's figure materialized before Ryusuke.

The Hinata before him was merely a mirage-like illusion, yet whether it was the Byakugan, the Sharingan, or even advanced sensory abilities, they would all perceive her as a real person.

Because to those senses, the illusion before him possessed chakra-flowing meridians within its body.

That was a trait only living people possessed!

I never expected the Byakugan to refuse to drop for so long, yet I got this knockoff Red Eye first, Ryusuke thought as he deactivated the Red Eye.

Ryusuke did not know where the Red Eye came from, but this ability was indeed very similar to the Byakugan.

The only difference was that the Byakugan saw things in black and white, while the Red Eye saw everything in red.

If it saw in color, it would practically be a Red Eye version of the Jōgan.

Moreover, the Red Eye possessed illusion abilities that the Byakugan lacked. It could not only create human illusions, but also illusions of objects, allowing one to evade senses on the level of the Byakugan. Its concealment ability was even more useful than Invisibility Release.

After all, Invisibility Release could only hide oneself, whereas the Red Eye could hide an entire group.

It was precisely this illusion ability that made the Red Eye known as the Byakugan's natural enemy.

At first glance, the Red Eye seemed to be even more advanced than the Byakugan.

If the Byakugan could not evolve or mutate, and did not have so many branches, then the Red Eye really would be superior.

Unfortunately, there were no ifs!

So far, the Byakugan was the origin of all eye techniques.

Whether it was the Sharingan, the Rinnegan, the Reincarnation Eye, or the Jōgan, all of them had evolved or mutated from the Byakugan.

Ryusuke even suspected that the Red Eye and Ketsuryūgan might both be mutated forms of the Byakugan, though he had no proof.

The fact that the Red Eye could be used immediately after fusion was good news for Ryusuke.

This way, he would know when Tazuna left Konoha.

Lying on his bed, Ryusuke activated the Red Eye again. After locating Tazuna in Konoha, he closed his eyes and rested.

He slept until seven the next morning.

The moment Ryusuke woke up, he activated the Red Eye to search for Tazuna.

After seeing that Tazuna was still asleep, Ryusuke washed up and then conducted his morning training in his courtyard.

After finishing his training, he had a Shadow Clone prepare breakfast as usual while his main body went to take a shower.

By the time Ryusuke finished breakfast, it was already eight-thirty.

Tazuna had long since gotten up. Holding the bottle of alcohol he had been reluctant to finish yesterday, he headed toward the Hokage Building.

As it happened, not long after Tazuna entered the Hokage Building, Team 7 appeared at its entrance as well.

Sakura was even holding a little cat in her arms.

The moment Ryusuke saw this, he understood that the first arc of the main storyline was about to begin.

Ryusuke went into the bathroom and put on his Colored Contact Lenses. Then, after checking the items in his Space Backpack, he took a marker and left his house. He wrote "Out Training" on the sign by the entrance, then entered an alley and formed hand seals with both hands. "Transformation Technique!"

When Ryusuke emerged, he had become a plainly dressed middle-aged man with a straw hat on his head.

"...You may pass."

Upon arriving at the village gate, Ryusuke exchanged glances with the two chūnin guards.

In an instant, the expressions of the two chūnin became dazed, and they let Ryusuke pass.

Konoha was the Land of Fire's military base and possessed the Shinobi World's best sensory barrier. Its only entrance and exit was the village gate.

The conditions for entering the village were not difficult. Sometimes registration was required, and sometimes it was not even necessary.

But for outsiders and villagers alike to leave the village, they had to apply for a Village Exit Permit at the Hokage Building. Villagers also needed a valid reason for approval.

That was why Ryusuke and the others had never left Konoha since birth.

There was no way Ryusuke could apply for a Village Exit Permit, and doing so would leave a trace.

So he directly used the same method Uchiha Itachi had used to return to the village, hypnotizing the gatekeeping chūnin with genjutsu and making them let him pass.

After leaving Konoha, Ryusuke climbed a tree several hundred meters from the village gate. He activated the Red Eye and created an illusion to hide himself, waiting for Team 7 and Tazuna to appear.

Not long afterward, Team 7 and Tazuna emerged from the village gate and set off toward the Land of Waves.

Along the way, the three genin of Team 7 curiously observed everything outside.

Kakashi Hatake held Make-Out Paradise in his hands, reading as he walked without watching the road.

Only Tazuna kept taking small sips from his nearly empty bottle, trying to conceal the unease in his heart this way.

He knew very well what kind of enemies he would encounter on the way back.

He also knew very well that he had lied about the mission's rank when he made the request.

So Tazuna now feared both the appearance of enemies and the possibility that these ninja would discover he had misreported the mission and abandon him.

If he died, then the Land of Waves truly would have no hope left!