The four of them bounded across rooftops until they reached Cesspool in a public area in central Konoha!
Standing on a roof beam, Naruto looked around. "Where's Cesspool??"
Neji said, "You really have no common sense. Of course they'd cover up something that stinks that badly!"
After activating his Byakugan, he spotted something and pointed with his small hand. "Found it! Right underneath there!"
Yu jumped down first, leading the way, followed by Neji, Naruto, and Hinata!
Whoosh!
Yu swept his sleeve, sending a gust of air across the ground that blew away the concealing sand and dirt, exposing a cover made of four large stone slabs fitted together!
A talisman was stuck over the seams between the slabs to protect them from being moved or damaged by outside forces!
Yu peeled off the talisman, stepped back, and raised two fingers!
Rumble!
The four-piece cover slowly opened, immediately releasing a mysterious odor!
The gas masks all four wore came in handy.
Standing before the displaced slabs, Yu gazed into the bottomless Cesspool, ten meters on each side. Suddenly, he took off his gas mask!
"Hey..." None of the other three, Neji included, could quite understand what Yu was doing!
Yu stood alone beside Cesspool for a while, then put his mask back on. Ever since I stopped taking dumps, even the smell of shit has become so refreshing. What's wrong with me...?
He packed the bundles of Explosive Tags he had sorted out beforehand into a small schoolbag and tossed it into Cesspool!
Once the slabs were back in place, Yu stuck the talisman back on.
Naruto asked in confusion, "Why put that talisman back on?"
Yu said, "It protects the cover. Without it, the blast would blow the slabs away, and the shit would come out and splatter everywhere."
Naruto took that for granted. "Isn't that exactly what we're trying to do?"
Yu smiled. "But with it on, the force of the explosion will be compressed beneath the slabs, and the shit will look for another way out. Get what I mean?"
Naruto scratched his gas mask. "Not really..."
Neji understood at once. "In other words, the first option would create five fountains of shit in Konoha. Spectacular, but not very destructive. With the second option, the shit in Cesspool will flow backward through the pipes and erupt from every home, public toilet, and anywhere else connected to the sewers. Right?"
Yu smiled. "Bingo~!"
Neji smiled. "You want to flood the entire village with shit. That's going too far, but I like it..."
Naruto: "!!!"
Yu turned serious. "Next, we split up. Naruto and Hinata head north, Neji heads south, and I'll head west. We'll stay in contact over our headsets. Once we're done, we'll gather where we met up..."
Hinata walked over to Naruto. Neither her black protective suit nor her gas mask could hide her bashfulness.
"N-Naruto-kun..."
"Hinata, let's do our best together!"
"Mm..."
"Then let's go!"
Neji cautioned him, "Keep your wits about you. Don't go charging in..."
Naruto said, "I know. You sure nag a lot..."
With their explosive packs on their backs, Naruto and Hinata headed north together.
Still uneasy, Neji said, "Yu, how about switching with me? The west is where the Uchiha Clan lives, and it's also where the Konoha Military Police Force is stationed. If an outsider gets caught in there, things will be much more serious!"
Yu patted his chest. "Hey, relax~ Don't you trust me, big bro...?"
Neji said, "All right, then. If things go wrong, tell me. I'll come help you right away!"
Yu nodded. "Yeah. You be careful too, big bro~!"
Without another word, Neji became a dark blur and headed south alone, his explosive pack on his back!
"..." Yu's expression sobered. He turned his gaze west and activated his Byakugan.
The Hyuga Clan's Byakugan had a range of one kilometer. Moreover, when observing targets with sufficiently strong reconnaissance skills or exceptional sensory abilities, there was a risk of being detected in return!
But Yu had never told anyone that his Byakugan, as an Ōtsutsuki, could see over ten kilometers away. So far, no one had ever detected him while he was watching them-not even the current Third Hokage, Hiruzen!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
He immediately found a route that avoided every patrol and made his way to Konoha's secluded western area!
Outside the Uchiha compound wall, he deactivated his Byakugan!
After all, activating the Byakugan made chakra circulate rapidly. If a sensory ninja was nearby, there was still a chance he could be discovered!
Indeed... at that very moment, Konoha's Anbu were keeping the Uchiha under close surveillance!
Hidden in the shadows, he watched the concealed sentries and surveillance cameras.
Yu thought, The Uchiha Clan Massacre happened in the current Year 55 of Konoha. The original story never specified the exact date, but judging by the situation here, it'll happen within the next ten days or two weeks...
Yu liked a quiet life, but living quietly did not mean shutting out everything happening around him!
Everything was connected by cause and effect. The extermination of the Uchiha might seem unrelated to his present life, but its repercussions would be far-reaching... How could Yu turn a blind eye?
So he would not let the Uchiha Clan be wiped out!
-Divine Movement Step: Second Stage!
Whoosh...!
Yu passed straight through the compound wall and entered the Uchiha grounds!
Divine Movement Step had been mentioned in the first chapter. It was a technique Yu had learned while traveling, roughly equivalent to a top-of-the-line ninja run, allowing him to cover a thousand li in a day without tiring!
Over the years, as he mastered the skill, Yu had learned its second stage, which allowed repeated directional teleportation-in gaming terms, a "blink"!
Unlike the Joestar family's once-in-a-lifetime blink!
As an Ōtsutsuki, Yu could blink without any interval, just like Flying Thunder God!
Of course, "without any interval" merely meant there was no inherent time restriction on using it. In practice, a person had to activate the technique, and that conscious intent required a "reaction time"!
Yu's current reaction time was 0.08 seconds, faster than that of the vast majority of humans. Still, he had a considerable way to go before matching the late Yellow Flash's 0.01 seconds!
Whoosh~! Whoosh~! Whoosh~!
Blinking along the way, Yu appeared atop a large tree in the forest on the hill behind the Uchiha compound!
"Hmm, Divine Movement Step is a space-time technique, but it evolved from footwork. The second stage lets me cross ten times my stride length in one go, but my legs are too short. I still can't pass through really big obstacles all at once. If only my Byakugan could awaken a space-time ability like Kinshiki's, things would be much easier..."
The Book of the Gods did not respond.
Fine. Last time, I got Kinshiki's Hahakami for free. Looks like getting a free space-time ocular technique this time isn't happening...
The Book of the Gods encompassed everything. The possibility that it simply had no record of the ability was vanishingly small.
If it gave no response, there were only two possible explanations.
First, Yu was not yet strong enough!
Second, Yu already possessed that ability within himself, so there was no need for the Book of the Gods to do anything redundant!
The entire Uchiha compound was dark, except for one brightly lit place: the Uchiha Clan's Naka Shrine!
Are they holding a secret meeting? Well, I'll eat and listen while I wait for Naruto and the others to get in touch...
Yu took off his gas mask, brought out candy and snacks, and sat down on a tree branch.
-Secret Technique: Clairaudience!
Yu's ears grew larger~, turning him into "Big-Eared Yu-Yu." Every rustle in the area reached his ears...
"Clan head, let's do it!!!"
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