Responding to Change with Constancy-If You've Got the Guts, Come Find Me at the Uchiha Clan

Naruto Uzumaki's words revealed a great deal of useful information.

Uchiha Ensei only needed a moment of thought to piece together most of the situation.

Kushina Uzumaki had probably been sent because of her exceptional skill in Sealing Jutsu.

Resurrection from the dead...

There were very few ninjutsu in the Ninja World that could truly bring back the dead, and none of them were something Konoha currently possessed.

Taking everything into account, Impure World Reincarnation was the only explanation.

Danzo had the Reverse Four Symbols Seal on him. Logically speaking, he should not have left behind a corpse, which meant this could only have been a preparation Danzo had made while alive.

Of course, there was also the possibility that Danzo had never died at all.

After all, Uchiha Ensei had never personally seen Danzo's corpse. A few false reports were perfectly normal.

But news of Danzo being brought back through Impure World Reincarnation emerging at this time...

There was no point to it!

Forget that messy nonsense. He just needed to stay alert himself.

As Uchiha Ensei pondered, he returned home and instructed Zero-Two, the Nohara Rin Unit responsible for keeping watch, to raise the alert level to its highest setting and expand its coverage to the entirety of Konoha.

Anyone within Konoha who harbored ill intent toward him would be detected by Zero-Two.

If the malice was especially severe, Zero-Two would notify Uchiha Ensei and mark the person's location.

Soon after, Uchiha Ensei spotted a blinking red dot on the map of Konoha hanging in his room.

"Uh... was it really this easy? I'm starting to wonder if it's a trap."

After giving it some thought, Uchiha Ensei decided not to get involved for the time being.

If it had been the original Shimura Danzō, with the power of Root under his command and his covetous gaze fixed on the Uchiha Clan, he would have been a major threat.

But now, he was a commander without troops, and he was in the state of an Impure World Reincarnation.

He was certainly still a threat, but not a particularly significant one. He was the kind of threat that could be completely ignored.

Moreover, Uchiha Ensei suspected that some sort of trap might be waiting beside Shimura Danzō at this very moment—a trap specifically aimed at him.

He did not think himself invincible, capable of fearing nothing.

Therefore, Uchiha Ensei not only had no intention of going himself, but also did not plan to send a Shadow Clone Technique or any artificial humans he had created. He would simply pretend he knew nothing about it.

Respond to change with constancy. If you've got the guts, come find me at the Uchiha Clan.

That night, a former Root operative secretly infiltrated the Uchiha Clan and received a thorough turn being handled by the genjutsu of several pairs of Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Only at daybreak was he tightly bound and openly escorted to the Hokage's Office in full view of all Konoha's residents.

In this world of ninja, information was valued to an excessive degree, to the point that civilians and ninja often lived in two entirely different worlds.

Thus, when Uchiha Ensei ordered that the prisoner be publicly escorted before all the villagers, he encountered opposition from nearly everyone.

But opposition was clearly of no use against Uchiha Ensei. By now, no one in the entire Uchiha Clan could challenge his authority.

After all, even the clan head had taken the lead in surrendering.

All of this led to the exceptionally lively scene that day. Villagers, merchants, and nobles alike watched the Uchiha Clan escort the prisoner as though they were watching a show.

Hiruzen Sarutobi found the situation quite troublesome as well.

He could only keep comforting himself inwardly: as long as they did not betray the village, he would let them do as they pleased...

It made the Hokage seem somewhat pathetic, but in truth, that was also a kind of wisdom.

That night, the Uchiha Clan once again held its regular clan meeting.

Uchiha Ensei had not originally planned to attend, but because of what had happened during the day, he needed to keep things under control. He could not allow those people in the Uchiha Clan to run wild.

And as expected, the outcome did not surprise Uchiha Ensei.

At the clan meeting, certain signs had already appeared. Some people were always treating power that did not belong to them as their own.

Since such a situation had arisen, Uchiha Ensei naturally needed to let those fools blinded by vanity understand what true power was, lest they cause unnecessary trouble.

The will of the strong was not something they could fathom.

Next, Uchiha Ensei laid down several rules to prevent certain troublesome people from causing him problems.

Hokage? He was merely the leader of a small village. What was worth becoming one for?

After the clan meeting ended, Uchiha Ensei noticed that two or three members of the Uchiha Clan had released some summoned beasts.

Hmm, they were probably reporting to Hiruzen Sarutobi.

It was truly laughable. The people who had been shouting about rebellion and nominating Uchiha Ensei as Hokage one moment were informing Hiruzen Sarutobi the next.

However, Uchiha Ensei had no intention of punishing them. None of it mattered to him.

He briefly checked Shimura Danzō's location and discovered that it seemed not to have changed at all. Had he still not been found?

After that, Uchiha Ensei ignored them and began reading through some of the Uchiha Clan's records concerning the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Setting aside the Uchiha Clan's worship of the Mangekyō Sharingan, the records themselves were somewhat useful.

Furthermore, in order to recreate the glory of the Mangekyō Sharingan, the ancestors of the Uchiha Clan had truly made quite a few attempts.

These naturally included using genjutsu, conducting human dissections, and deliberately or passively creating love, tragedy, and similar circumstances.

But as for the results, one only needed to look at Obito Uchiha.

Izanagi and Izanami had emerged during that process, and the Uchiha Clan had nearly been wiped out because of it.

So the later generations of the Uchiha Clan simply gave up trying.

It would be best if a Mangekyo appeared, but if it did not, that was fine too.

As for why the Uchiha Clan only had some Three-Tomoe Sharingan in storage, rather than any Mangekyō Sharingan...

That was naturally because nearly every generation of the Uchiha Clan exhausted the ocular power of their Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving nothing behind.

"It seemed that exchanging eyes between brothers to awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was a phenomenon only discovered during Madara Uchiha's era."

"That made sense. Mangekyō Sharingan were rare enough, and it was even rarer for brothers to both awaken them. For both of them to awaken Mangekyō Sharingan and then exchange eyes was rarer still."

"Still, Izuna Uchiha was already dead when Madara Uchiha exchanged eyes. If he had still been alive, would exchanging both pairs of eyes have awakened two Eternal Mangekyo?"

This question arose in Uchiha Ensei's mind. After all, the process of awakening the Eternal Mangekyo did not involve fusing the ocular power of two Mangekyō Sharingan, but replacing one pair of eyes.

After all, during Madara Uchiha's era, Madara Uchiha's original Mangekyō Sharingan had already exhausted their ocular power and completely lost their sight. That was why he inherited Izuna Uchiha's eyes.

Madara Uchiha had originally intended to inherit his younger brother's eyes and continue fighting. He had never expected to awaken the Eternal Mangekyo...

After thinking for a long while, Uchiha Ensei decided that he would conduct an experiment in the future. For now, he needed to figure out how to clone Mangekyō Sharingan first.

Mangekyō Sharingan could definitely be cloned. There had already been successful cases in the original story; all he needed to do now was find the specific method.

At worst, he could use brute-force trial and error, spending a little more money and time.

The existence of the Mangekyō Sharingan was not merely a Kekkei Genkai. It was connected to things such as the soul, or perhaps emotions.

As for souls, Uchiha Ensei currently had no solution.

But emotions...

Uchiha Ensei remembered that, in his previous life, there seemed to be something called endocrine hormones that could influence a person's joy, anger, sorrow, and grief.