Robbing Eyes

Squelch!

The eyes were gouged out.

The Great Elder stared greedily at the eyes in his hands. This was the Uchiha clan's supreme pursuit—the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Though he was tempted, the Great Elder was not senile. At his age, keeping this pair of Mangekyō Sharingan for himself would be a complete waste. If it were peacetime, he might have tried them for himself, but now, they had to be put to the best possible use.

So in the end, he handed the eyes to Uchiha Fuyue.

Fuyue took the eyes and hesitated for a moment. Should he use them himself, or give them to someone else?

However, the others had no such patience. They all stared at the eyes in the clan head's hands, the greed in their gazes almost impossible to hide.

"Fusing an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan takes time, and time is precisely what the Uchiha lack right now. We can only let that guy have them."

After hesitating inwardly, Fuyue ultimately chose not to fuse them into an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. Instead, he handed the eyes to Stealfire.

"Take them. I hope you can bring out this pair of eyes' true strength."

"Thank you for the Clan Head and Great Elder's trust. I definitely won't disgrace the Uchiha name."

Stealfire accepted them with an excited expression.

Neither side wasted any time. Since the decision had already been made,

they swapped the eyes on the spot.

Uchiha Shui could handle it.

At the same time, Itachi Uchiha was also his son. After thinking it over, Fuyue took out a pair of three-tomoe Sharingan.

Even within the Uchiha clan, three-tomoe Sharingan were rare.

The eyes of clan members who died in battle had to be recovered. Most were cremated along with their owners' bodies, and only a few exceptional individuals left their eyes behind.

In the Shinobi World, with a miraculous power like chakra, replacing eyes was nothing difficult. A minor operation was quickly completed.

After an unknown amount of time, Itachi Uchiha groggily regained consciousness.

The moment he opened his eyes, he felt a burst of pain.

At the same time, he sensed that something was different about his eyes.

Every pair of eyes possessed its own ocular power. Itachi Uchiha immediately knew that these were not his own eyes.

"Father..."

Itachi Uchiha moved his lips, but for a moment, he did not know what to say. His expression was somewhat complicated.

He looked around his room. There was no one here. Itachi Uchiha got up and left.

He had to report this situation to the Third Hokage as soon as possible.

Itachi Uchiha quickly adapted to his new eyes.

He also arrived at the Hokage Building.

"Itachi, what is it?"

The Third Hokage frowned when he saw Itachi Uchiha's expression.

"Lord Hokage, my eyes were replaced."

Itachi Uchiha lowered his head.

The Third Hokage froze, unable to process it for a moment.

But his expression quickly darkened.

"What happened?"

Itachi Uchiha then recounted everything that had happened the day before.

Yet after hearing it, the Third Hokage remained expressionless.

His first suspicion was whether Itachi Uchiha, this traitor, had betrayed them.

After all, the thoughts of a traitor were the hardest to predict.

Seeing the Hokage fall silent, Itachi Uchiha did not dare speak.

Suppressing the urge to question him, the Hokage's expression became terrifyingly grim.

Unlike those ignorant fools, Hiruzen Sarutobi knew just how terrifying the Mangekyō Sharingan was.

He had even personally witnessed the battle between the First Hokage and the Demon of the Shinobi World when he was young.

Originally, he had not taken the Uchiha clan seriously. They were nothing more than a group of brutes with neither strength nor brains.

With Itachi Uchiha as an insider, destroying the Uchiha clan had only been a matter of time.

He had not expected trouble to arise one after another.

First, Uchiha Fuyue had suddenly grown a backbone. Now, Itachi Uchiha had lost his Mangekyō.

"You may leave for now. You no longer need to involve yourself in the Uchiha clan's affairs."

The Third Hokage's expression was calm.

Without the Mangekyō, Itachi Uchiha had completely lost his value.

Moreover, with the precedent of a traitor, even the Third Hokage no longer dared to place complete trust in him.

Itachi Uchiha was politically naive, but that did not mean he was an idiot.

The Third Hokage's words had made his meaning very clear.

Itachi Uchiha opened his mouth, but nothing came out.

He wanted to say that he still had one Mangekyō Sharingan.

But in the end, he said nothing.

He silently took his leave.

Watching the spot where Itachi Uchiha had disappeared, the Third Hokage furrowed his brow.

Could Uchiha Fuyue also possess a Mangekyō Sharingan?

Otherwise, why had his temperament changed so suddenly?

Coupled with Itachi Uchiha's pair of eyes,

the Uchiha clan now possessed two pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan.

For a moment, even the Third Hokage began to feel wary.

Two pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan definitely could not destroy Konoha, but they could kill him, the Hokage.

Naruto knew nothing of what was happening on the Third Hokage's side.

At this time, Naruto was living a perfectly normal life.

He went to school during the day and trained at night.

His current training involved plundering the Nine-Tails' chakra.

He converted it into his own chakra and stored it within his body.

In terms of chakra quantity alone, Naruto had now surpassed a jonin.

But there was little point in comparing him to an ordinary jonin.

Name: Naruto Uzumaki

Bloodline: Uzumaki Bloodline

Cultivation Method: Threefold Reversal

Skills: Fire Release, Twin Hands, Adamantine Sealing Chains, Kagura Mind's Eye.

Chakra Quantity: 130 cards

Restriction: Cinnabar Seal

Draws: 1

Looking over his panel, Naruto was quite satisfied.

He had already developed every ability he could develop on his own.

Other than the Nine-Tails.

As for the Nine-Tails, Naruto planned to wait a while longer until he became stronger. Then he would directly use Twin Hands to erase the Nine-Tails' memories and implant his own, just like Ma Xianhong.

As for his number of draws, Naruto intended to save them up. He was not in any danger right now, and Twin Hands was already ridiculously powerful.

He only needed to wait for time to nurture his growth.

Time flowed like water, while tensions built.

Rather than being eased, the conflict between the Hokage faction and the Uchiha clan grew increasingly intense.

Even the other villages sensed it.

They all waited gleefully to watch the show.

After all, this was indeed far too entertaining.

The struggle between both sides gave Naruto an opportunity. He used it to control even more shinobi.

At the same time, Naruto's database collected more ninjutsu.

He also uncovered some interesting things through his research into sealing techniques.

In the blink of an eye, a year passed.

No matter how fierce the winds in the sky were, they could not affect the lives of the ants on the ground.

To Naruto, the struggles among the upper ranks were merely a grand show. No matter what happened, they would not affect him.

But Naruto had not expected that while the Third Hokage and the others failed to notice him,

another group had taken notice of him.

With two pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan, the Uchiha clan gradually became arrogant.

And after obtaining the Mangekyō, the first person they thought of was not an enemy, but their ancestor, Madara Uchiha.

Thus, the Great Elder proposed that if they could control the Nine-Tails, could they stage another Nine-Tails Rebellion?

The last Nine-Tails Rebellion had killed a Fourth Hokage. What about this time?

Hearing this proposal, Uchiha Fuyue was immediately tempted.

But Fuyue knew his own limits. He had witnessed the last Nine-Tails Rebellion, and after comparing things in his heart, he knew that his current ocular power was probably insufficient to control the Nine-Tails.

The reason Obito Uchiha had been able to control the Nine-Tails was because of the contingency Madara Uchiha had left behind.