"System." His voice was hoarse. "Scan Uchiha Izumi."
Ding! [Scanning...]
[Uchiha Izumi :)
A gentle, kind, and... capable young woman.
Exceptional talent.
[Rank: Mid-Chunin]
[Love for Uchiha Itachi: 87%.]
[Transfer success rate: 70%.]
System, stop teasing me.
70%.
I'll do it. As long as I complete the prerequisite task of getting married, I can at least raise my strength to Jonin.
Since I couldn't cultivate, I'd have to find another way.
Uchiha Mu lowered his head to look at the pink card in his hand, then gazed at the last ray of dusk on the horizon.
In three hours, the slaughter would begin.
I don't have time.
[Host, please act as soon as possible. Two hours remain.]
Two hours?
As he spoke, his gaze shifted to the third item.
It was a seven-colored orb about the size of his thumb.
It felt warm and soft to the touch.
The moment he touched the orb, he knew what it did.
It was actually an All-Attribute Chakra Seed.
As long as he absorbed the different types of attributes and became strong enough, he could use them all in battle.
"How can something this powerful exist?"
Wasn't that even stronger than a Kekkei Genkai?
Wind, fire, lightning, water, earth, yin, and yang. How terrifying would it be to use all seven at once?
At that moment, Uchiha Mu didn't hesitate.
He swallowed the seed in one gulp.
For Izumi, the gentle girl, and to become stronger.
The next instant,
Uchiha Mu's whole body convulsed,
and intense pain struck him like lightning, tormenting him beyond belief.
But twelve-year-old Uchiha Mu gritted his teeth and endured it. He didn't make a sound.
At the same time,
the powerful energy of the All-Attribute Chakra Seed flowed into Mu's eyes.
The next instant,
a comma-shaped mark began to spin in Mu's eye, followed by a second and a third.
Buzz, buzz, buzz.
The chakra in his body grew stronger as the three tomoe appeared.
A mighty surge of chakra from many different attributes rushed toward him like a flood.
His body, which should have still been that of a boy,
grew half a head taller as the energy poured through him.
At that moment, Uchiha Mu
could clearly feel the various kinds of energy around him rushing into his body.
But his "chakra-immune constitution" meant he couldn't obtain chakra through training at all.
After only fifteen minutes, the pain faded. The three tomoe stopped spinning.
Most of the chakra around him dissipated. Since his chakra pathways hadn't fully developed, his chakra could only reach the peak of Chunin..
But his fighting strength might now rival that of an Elite Jonin.
Uchiha Mu opened his eyes and slowly exhaled.
His gaze fell to his status panel.
[Host: Uchiha Mu]
[Age: 12]
[Chakra: 400]
[Rank: Peak Chunin]
[Talent: Special All-Attribute Constitution]
[Skills: None]
[Special Ability: Three-Tomoe Sharingan]
[Items: Kage-Level Replication Card, Love Transfer Card]
He glanced at his stature, which was slightly taller than Itachi's.
Feeling the strength in his body,
Uchiha Mu quickened his pace
and entered the Uchiha Clan Compound.
But as soon as Uchiha Mu reached the clan compound, he suddenly felt a pang of unease.
The atmosphere in the Uchiha compound was strange.
It felt as if something big had happened.
"Could that guy Itachi have already started his killing spree?"
System? It isn't even dark yet. Has the night of the massacre started early?
<Ding; it hasn't started early. The atmosphere is just being set. Thirty minutes remain.>
All right.
In that case, the side quest the system issued—to save the Uchiha—
"Forget it."
The Uchiha Clan's decline must have had its reasons. With my measly Chunin strength, I'd be like an insect trying to stop a chariot. I couldn't change much.
He glanced at the sky. It was still early. His parents should be killed only after everyone else had died.
And Izumi's home was on the way back.
With that in mind, Uchiha Mu made up his mind.
He quickened his pace and headed straight for Izumi's home.
"Izumi, wait for me."
I'll definitely get you out of here.
A while later.
Outside a small courtyard.
"Izumi, Izumi!"
"Are you home?"
Huh? Why isn't anyone answering?
Uchiha Mu was frantic with worry. He strode into the living room of Izumi's home.
The moment he opened the door, the smell of blood hit him.
Several bodies lay scattered across the floor.
Their deaths looked strangely peaceful.
"Izumi."
"No way! The wife I just chose is already gone?"
"No, it can't be."
I remember that in the original story, Itachi didn't kill Izumi.
When Izumi went looking for Itachi, she ran into the Masked Man, Obito.
In the end, Obito killed her.
If that's what happened,
then Izumi should be near the Police Station right now.
Looks like I'll really have to use that card when the time comes.
Around the corner from the Police Station,
Uchiha Izumi had cautiously followed the Masked Man here.
Her heart was racing.
Her Three-Tomoe Sharingan glowed faintly red in the darkness.
She had seen it.
She'd seen this Masked Man kill her clansmen.
One after another, none of them able to fight back.
She had to find Itachi.
Only Itachi could stop all this.
Suddenly, a figure wearing a single-eyed mask appeared in front of her.
Izumi stared intently at the Masked Man.
"It's you."
"You're the one who killed the Uchiha."
As she spoke, Uchiha Izumi flung three kunai at him.
But the kunai seemed to pass through the air, going straight through the Masked Man's body.
The Masked Man turned to look at Izumi.
"Those are impressive eyes. You've already awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan."
"Too bad you're on the death list too."
At those words, Izumi's gaze sharpened. She immediately formed Hand Seals, ready to use a jutsu.
But the Masked Man stretched out his right hand, and a chain shot out, binding Izumi.
Then a kunai flew out of the void, aimed straight at Izumi's beautiful face.
Pinned in place, Izumi knew her death was inevitable.
Tears streamed from the corners of her eyes.
The name she called out at the end was still that of the man she loved. "Itachi..."
Uchiha Mu had just arrived at the Police Station and saw the whole thing.
His heart ached.
"She really loves him that much?"
"That's fine. Once I transfer her love, I'll protect her."
As he spoke, he acted without hesitation and blocked the kunai that would have killed her.
There was a sharp clang.
His right hand trembled slightly, showing how much effort it had taken to stop the kunai the Masked Man had casually thrown.
Izumi, lying on the ground, heard the sound too.
She opened her eyes.
A figure with a silhouette seven-tenths like Itachi's stood in front of her.
"Itachi, is that you?"
Mu didn't answer.
He simply kept his eyes fixed on the Masked Man.
The black card in his hand slowly disappeared.
He crushed the black card in his hand.
[The Kage-Level Replication Card has been used successfully.]
[Target detected: Uchiha Obito.]
[Replicated abilities: Kamui (space manipulation), all skills.]
In an instant, the power of space awakened within him.
Feeling the savage power inside his body,
"I've always wondered how I'd react the first time I faced a powerful figure I'd known from a book."
"But now that I've finally had the chance, I'm not even that excited."
"Still, choosing to kill Izumi was the worst decision you could have made."
At that moment, Uchiha Mu looked up.
A cat-faced mask appeared before Uchiha Obito.
Obito frowned at the figure in front of him.
"You, a Chunin?"
"Are you here to die?"
Let's see...
As he spoke, he fired two more shuriken, sending them in from both sides.
Obito's body erupted in flames.
Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Flower Nail Crimson swept out, intercepting the shuriken while locking onto Mu's position.
Uchiha Mu held Izumi and leaped aside.
The area was too wide; carrying someone made it impossible to dodge completely.
"Kamui."
He activated the replicated space-time ability, briefly turning intangible.
The flames passed through his body without causing him any harm.
Seeing this, Obito felt a familiar sensation well up inside him.
"Interesting."
"Let's see how long you can keep that up."
Uchiha Mu's heart tightened. Obito was right.
Kamui's intangibility consumed an immense amount of chakra. With his current reserves, he could maintain it for three or four minutes at most.
The Kage-Level Replication Card would only last ten minutes, too.
Time was slipping away, second by second. "I have to end this quickly."
Uchiha Mu gently set Izumi down in a corner by the wall and shielded her with his body.
Then he straightened and faced Obito.
"Obito, you're still as arrogant as ever."
"Rank doesn't mean everything."
Hearing someone call him by name, Obito was startled. But his expression beneath the mask didn't change.
He had already marked Uchiha Mu for death.
"Die."
As the word left his mouth, Obito stopped holding back.
The giant Kamui Shuriken flew out again.
It glinted in midair, rapidly closing in on Uchiha Mu.
The shuriken was as large as a door panel. As it passed, it tore a pitch-black rift through space.
"Interesting. A Giant Kamui Shuriken." Uchiha Mu smiled. "
"I can do that too." With a buzz, he suddenly flung his hand forward, though it held nothing.
The next instant,
A giant shuriken identical to Obito's appeared out of thin air. The two shuriken, both imbued with the power of space, collided.
Not a sound rang out. They vanished into nothingness at the same time.
"The Kamui Shuriken requires the power of space-time to activate."
"You can even do that?" For the first time, Obito's voice wavered.
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