A dark yellow tail extended from the base of his spine, its scale-covered tip swaying slowly in the air.
His face had lengthened and twisted. Fangs curled out, his canines sharp, giving him the look of a cross between a weasel and a human.
Curse Mark Stage Two.
Uchiha Itachi.
He wore a tattered black robe. The Cursed Seal patterns across his chest and arms raced and shifted, while a dark red glow shone from beneath his skin like coals hammered over and over.
His head was lowered. The Mangekyō Sharingan stood out on his elongated face, their gray-black boulder patterns turning slowly against a scarlet background, their edges gleaming dully in the sunlight.
His voice came from his distorted mouth, hoarse and ragged, as though dragged by force from somewhere deep within:
"Uchiha Yongye... you don't belong in this world!"
Yongye still lay in his bamboo chair. He had not even changed position, merely turned his head a little to look at the figure.
He sensed the faintest hint of a threat.
Only a hint, so Yongye decided to take what he could first.
His eyes turned scarlet in the sunlight. The Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan silently blossomed in his pupils, the Nine-Tailed Fox pattern spreading across the red, the tips of its nine tails lifting slightly.
Fox Deity Rebirth—activated.
Eye Power poured from his eyes and silently seeped into Uchiha Itachi's rapidly spinning Mangekyō Sharingan.
The copying began.
The All-Beings Stone—the gray-black boulder pattern—was peeled away under Fox Deity Rebirth's grasp, like a thin layer lifted from a painting, and flowed into the Nine-Tailed Fox pattern in Yongye's left eye.
All nine tails swayed at once.
New ability recorded: All-Beings Stone—Exile.
Before Yongye could examine the nature of this new power, a force unlike anything he had ever felt