At the sight of the Sharingan in the test tube, Uchiha Hono felt a strange heat surge through his body.
What was going on?
He turned to Uchiha Ling.
"It isn't mine," Uchiha Ling said. "Mine has two tomoe."
"Of course I know it isn't yours. Tell me exactly how you got this Sharingan."
"I went looking for Jonin Uchiha Hiromori," Uchiha Ling said. "I couldn't find him, but I ran into two suspicious ninjas in cloaks.
"I took this scroll from them. Both had some kind of seal on their tongues. I remember roughly what it looked like. I'll draw it for you."
On the ground, Uchiha Ling drew a seal composed of broken and unbroken lines.
When Uchiha Hono saw it, he said, "This is a signature Sealing Jutsu of the Uzumaki Clan: the Yin-Yang Four Symbols Sealing Jutsu.
"After Uzushiogakure was destroyed, Sealing Jutsu of this caliber ended up in Hiruzen Sarutobi's Scroll of Seals." The moment Uchiha Hono saw the seal, he knew who was behind this.
Uchiha Ling watched him, unsure what the older man intended to do.
Uchiha Hono suddenly asked an unrelated question. "Ling, do you know who in the Hidden Leaf Village understood the Sharingan best?"
"Clan Head Fugaku?" Uchiha Ling asked.
"No. Someone who's already dead: Tobirama Senju," Uchiha Hono said. "Tobirama Senju was ruthless. He was hard on himself and even harder on others.
"He knew the Sharingan inside out because he collected some and conducted many experiments on them.
"We in the Uchiha Clan couldn't even tell which children had the greatest talent for the Sharingan, but Tobirama Senju could see it at a glance.
"When Tobirama Senju came into the Uchiha Compound and said he wanted Kagami Uchiha as his disciple, none of us had even heard the