What was the Mangekyō Sharingan? Most members of the Uchiha Clan had no idea.
But they knew one thing: Root had been destroyed by a pair of Sharingan eyes!
The Mangekyō Sharingan!
Eyes even more powerful than the Three-Tomoe Sharingan!
The Uchiha Clan did not care whether the man who had destroyed Root was Madara Uchiha. All they needed to know was that his eyes surpassed the Three-Tomoe Sharingan and were called the Mangekyō Sharingan.
There was a reason people said the Uchiha Clan's strength lay in their eyes.
And no one valued the Sharingan more than the Uchiha themselves, who took such pride in their clan's glory!
Now that they knew Uchiha Mikoto had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, excitement swept through them!
After Madara Uchiha left the clan, no one in the Uchiha Clan had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
Over time, the clan had almost forgotten that eyes more powerful than the Three-Tomoe Sharingan even existed.
Gradually, the Three-Tomoe Sharingan came to be regarded as the clan's most powerful Sharingan.
But now someone had finally broken that pattern and awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan!
For the Uchiha Clan, the news was explosive!
When word reached them two months earlier, clan members immediately began pressing Hiruzen Sarutobi to send Uchiha Mikoto back.
As for news of Uchiha Yin, they simply ignored it.
Their attention was fixed on the Mangekyō Sharingan.
And Uchiha Mikoto became the most sought-after person in the Uchiha Clan.
Hiruzen Sarutobi knew exactly what they wanted, but he could hardly let the Uchiha Clan dictate troop movements on the battlefield.
He held them off for more than two months, but finally relented after the Uchiha Clan offered him substantial concessions.
Once they learned Mikoto was coming back, countless clan members began plotting to marry their young men to