Uchiha Genjutsu Ultimate Technique

"You're Xiu, right?"

Uchiha Fugaku stood at the door, forcing a stiff smile as he tried to look friendlier.

However, his overly stern face only had the opposite effect.

"Ah, the clan head is here." Xiu looked at Fugaku knowingly. "Are you here to deliver the Ninjutsu?"

"Haha, that's right." Seeing Xiu being so direct, Fugaku laughed heartily. He rather liked this sort of personality. "I already heard the details from Sasuke. I'm truly sorry that child caused you trouble."

"It's fine, as long as he's willing to accept the loss." As he spoke, Uchiha Shu held out his little hand toward Fugaku.

Uchiha Fugaku: "..."

Although he had long heard that this child had a somewhat nasty personality, seeing it today... he certainly was quite the character.

That morning, Fugaku had seen Sasuke run home with red eyes and assumed an adult had bullied him.

As his father, Fugaku knew his son's strength better than anyone.

Although Sasuke's talent could not compare to Itachi's, he was undeniably a genius compared to everyone else. Fugaku had never imagined Sasuke could be bullied by someone his own age until he cried.

But after learning the truth, Fugaku could no longer sit still.

What did a six-year-old with Three Tomoe mean? Knocking shuriken away with his bare hands?

He had a deep impression of Uchiha Shu.

At first, Sasuke had complained to him that Shisui took the two brothers to make a friend, only for the other party to say nothing and casually shut them outside.

Because of that, Shisui had come to apologize several times, saying Xiu had merely been in a bad mood that day.

Yet the brothers were shut out again.

Fugaku still remembered Sasuke's muttering when he returned that day—something about how he had not really wanted to be friends with him anyway, and whether anyone had told him he was really full of himself...

Now, it seemed this child truly had the right to act that way.

Fugaku had originally wanted to speak with Xiu alone, strengthen his sense of belonging to the clan, and draw him closer to Sasuke while he was at it.

But judging by the child's attitude, the conversation would probably be difficult to continue if he did not get what he wanted.

Realizing this, Fugaku took a scroll from his robes. "I copied this out today. It contains every Sharingan-related Ninjutsu in the clan, including forbidden techniques, as well as notes on how to use them. I hope you'll use them properly."

A handwritten copy?

That was quite sincere!

Seeing Fugaku's straightforward attitude, Xiu was somewhat surprised. "Including Izanagi and Izanami?"

So his goal was the forbidden techniques?

Fugaku's heart stirred. Though he did not know where Xiu had learned of those two forbidden techniques, both Izanagi and Izanami required a Sharingan to lose its light forever after each use.

In his view, that price was far too heavy for an Uchiha.

"It includes Izanagi and Izanami." Fugaku nodded and reminded him, "Those two forbidden techniques are powerful, but each use comes at the price of one Sharingan permanently losing its light."

"According to clan rules, these techniques should have remained sealed forever. But I believe someone with your talent would not be so short-sighted. I only hope you can promise me that you will not spread these forbidden techniques."

"Alright." Xiu readily agreed, reaching out to take the scroll. "Thank you for making the trip. Then I won't waste any more of your time. Goodbye."

Click...

Looking at the door that had suddenly closed before him, Fugaku froze for a moment. Then his face darkened, and the corner of his mouth began twitching uncontrollably.

He had thought that personally coming to apologize as the clan head would be enough to establish himself in Xiu's eyes as an approachable and trustworthy leader.

All he needed to do next was casually say, "Won't you invite me in for a seat?"

Then, with the poise of a mature adult, he could take control of the conversation, tell Xiu about his former glory, show concern for his life, and easily draw this genius to his side.

Instead, Xiu took the scroll with his right hand and smoothly pulled the door shut with his left. The movement had been utterly seamless!

At this point, how could Fugaku fail to notice Xiu's rejection of him?

But what Fugaku could not understand was—why?

The last time he had received such cold treatment was after the Nine-Tails Attack, when the Uchiha had been suspected and the upper ranks joined forces with the various clans to drive them into the village's corner.

But at least the Uchiha had been suspects then. This time, there was not even a reason!

And it was not just him. Itachi and Sasuke had been treated the same way back then. Could there be some reason he did not know about?

Fugaku stood outside Uchiha Shu's home, looking as though his entire worldview had collapsed.

All one could say was that no one could endure cold violence...

Xiu did not know Fugaku was reflecting on himself. Even if he did, he would not have cared.

In his view, none of the three men in Sasuke's family had normal brains.

First was Itachi Uchiha. There was nothing to say about him—he was simply a beast.

Then there was Uchiha Fugaku, who took his four-year-old son to the battlefield, swayed between rebellion and restraint, and repeatedly jumped between the hawks and the doves.

When faced with his son's betrayal, he did nothing, and even dragged the entire clan along to stack up his son's kill count...

Xiu had originally thought Sasuke was the only normal one among the Uchiha.

Yet in the original story, after learning that Itachi had slaughtered the entire clan just to save him, the guy immediately started worshipping his brother again.

Fucking idiot...

As Xiu washed up, he grumbled inwardly.

After washing up, he returned to bed and found the section of the scroll concerning Izanagi.

According to the scroll, one needed the Power of All Creation to master this technique.

"Bullshit."

Xiu remembered clearly that after Madara fought Hashirama in the original story, he used Izanagi to fake his death and escape. Madara had not transplanted Hashirama Cells at the time.

Xiu figured some predecessor had added that restriction to prevent later generations from abusing it. It was not as though such things had never happened before.

Or perhaps Black Zetsu, that sneaky bastard, had altered it in secret. After all, the Rinnegan was already the path to invincibility; an extra pair of eyes meant another path...

Izanagi was not difficult to learn, and the stronger one's ocular power, the longer the technique's delayed activation could last.

The only troublesome part was that the technique had to be set in advance.

Put simply, it was like a game save.

Once the predetermined conditions were triggered, it would automatically load that save at the cost of sacrificing one Sharingan.

But if the save was successful and the conditions were never met, the eye did not necessarily have to go blind.

The ancestors had still left room to delete the save. Otherwise, later generations would have had no way of knowing whether they had truly succeeded in casting the technique.

If their skill was lacking and the save failed, turning a fake death into a real one would be rather awkward.

Or if the save succeeded but was never used, then the eye would truly have been wasted in the most literal sense.

Compared to Izanagi, Izanami was the one that was truly difficult to learn.

Its activation conditions were more demanding. One had to record two similar bodily sensations in succession, after which the technique would extract everything that happened between those two points and form a loop.

It was rather demanding in terms of execution, making it quite unfriendly to someone like Xiu, who had bulldozed his way through everything with cheats.

Still, if he had the chance, Xiu thought he could try combining the effects of this technique with Usurper Marquis.

The first slash would steal memories, while the second would bestow memories.

Those caught in Izanami still had a chance to break free, but anyone hit by this move would likely be trapped in a cycle of memories and amnesia until death...

Or he could first seize a massive amount of lust from elsewhere.

The first slash would dump it all into the target at once, then the second slash would swiftly strip it all away!

Ultimate Technique: Infinite Edging!!!