Using Pseudo-Infinite Tsukuyomi, he rewrote the Capital's nobles' subconscious minds, making them his subordinates-Ye Uchiha's puppets.
Though they were no different from ordinary people in either appearance or mindset, with no visible flaws or signs of tampering, activating a specific technique would make them obey his commands.
Yet Ye Uchiha had still underestimated the side effects of his Mangekyō. After he finished rewriting the nobles' wills, its violent backlash slammed straight into his brain, leaving him nearly unconscious.
Gin Ichimaru brought Ye Uchiha back to the inn and tossed him onto the bed before returning to the castle gardens. After all, he had only watched half the show. How could he leave now?
Besides, for some reason, the boy named Naofumi Iwatani reminded Gin Ichimaru of Ichigo Kurosaki. They were clearly two entirely different people, yet certain aspects of their personalities really did have something in common.
That was what Gin Ichimaru thought.
Only Ye Uchiha's rapid breathing broke the silence of the room. Cold sweat occasionally seeped down his handsome face, and his eyelashes trembled slightly, as though he were enduring something painful.
Creak-
The wooden door opened, and a slender, graceful figure dressed in white entered. Her luminous white eyes fixed on Ye Uchiha as she slowly approached the head of his bed.
Princess Kaguya extended a delicate, jade-white hand from beneath her loose sleeve and gently pressed her fingers against his forehead. A faint light shone between her fingers, and a warm current flowed straight into his body, soothing and easing the backlash from his Mangekyō.
A short while later, Princess Kaguya withdrew her hand. Watching Ye Uchiha's breathing gradually steady, she turned and left the room without a word.
The next day dawned bright and clear, with gentle sunlight falling across Ye Uchiha's face.
Ye Uchiha stretched and yawned. His body felt better than ever, as though he had been reborn. His dark eyes turned toward the street outside the window, taking in the passing pedestrians and carriages. Suddenly, he froze, disbelief spreading across his face.
"My eyesight... recovered?" Ye Uchiha touched his clear, dark eyes and murmured in shock.
"Wait, yesterday I asked Gin Ichimaru to bring me back. What happened afterward that restored my eyesight?"
Forcing down his excitement, Ye Uchiha propped his chin on his hand and lowered his head in thought, recalling the events of the previous night.
Gin Ichimaru?
Impossible. That guy was a fighter. Neither his Zanpakutō nor his abilities had anything to do with healing. Besides, with that personality of his, he'd probably enjoy watching me suffer.
Could it have been Princess Kaguya?
As the Progenitor of Chakra, the incarnation of the God Tree, and the common origin of the Uchiha, Hyuga, and Senju clans, Princess Kaguya certainly had that ability.
At the thought of that possibility, Ye Uchiha swiftly got up and hurried toward Princess Kaguya's room.
When he opened the door, Princess Kaguya was sitting against the headboard, calmly reading an old book. A small mountain of books lay on her bed, while all sorts of medicine jars and bottles covered the floor.
Disturbed by the intrusion, Princess Kaguya raised her head unhappily and stared at Ye Uchiha in the doorway.
"Kaguya, were you the one who healed my eyes last night?"
Seemingly oblivious to her expression, Ye Uchiha eagerly ran up to Princess Kaguya and asked, his face flushed with excitement.
Princess Kaguya gave him an indifferent glance and ordered him out. "Indeed, it was I. Consider it a reward for serving me these past days. If you have no other business, leave at once."
"Kaguya, could I ask you a favor?"
Ye Uchiha suddenly reached out and clasped Princess Kaguya's delicate hand, his expression earnest and imploring.
Perhaps startled by his presumptuous gesture, Princess Kaguya turned her head away, an awkward blush rising to her cheeks.
His clear, dark eyes wide open, Ye Uchiha asked with utter seriousness, "Could you use that ability on me one more time?"
Princess Kaguya's expression instantly darkened. She raised her hand and slapped Ye Uchiha, sending him flying squarely through the doorway. A gust of wind then swept through the room, slamming the door shut.
"Honestly, I only wanted to ask her for a little help. Was that really necessary?"
Rubbing the slender handprint beneath his clothes, which had turned an angry purplish red, Ye Uchiha sucked in a breath as a faint, tingling pain shot through him.
A woman's heart really was impossible to fathom.
Even so, Ye Uchiha remained incredibly excited.
During his years in the Warring States Period, the endless battles and long-established powerhouses had forced Ye Uchiha to use his Mangekyō. His excessive reliance on its ocular power had rapidly worsened his failing eyesight, until he no longer dared use it unless he had absolutely no other choice.
Fortunately, Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju had finally brought the chaos of the Warring States Period to an end, allowing Ye Uchiha to begin enjoying his hard-won peaceful life.
Although later, during the battle at the Valley of the End, his severely depleted ocular power had forced him out of his Mangekyō state, and those two monsters, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, had accidentally beaten him to death...
If you two wanted to fight, then fight. Why did you have to drag me into it?
That remained a painful memory Ye Uchiha still could not put behind him.
After Princess Kaguya's healing, Ye Uchiha discovered that not only had his eyesight returned to normal, but his perpetually scarce ocular power had also recovered to its peak. He could even faintly sense a stirring deep within his Mangekyō.
It was an immense hunger for-and fear of-the energy within Princess Kaguya. That was the original root of chakra, an existence beyond the Shinobi World, the source of all chakra.
She could fight and heal. She was practically an all-purpose healer!
Ye Uchiha even thought that if Princess Kaguya healed him once more, he might awaken the Rinnegan.
"The Rinnegan..." Ye Uchiha murmured, touching the area around his eyes as excitement flared within him.
The ultimate Dōjutsu, originating from the God Tree's Chakra Fruit, was hailed as the "eyes of god" and the strongest Dōjutsu in the Shinobi World. It could overturn the boundary between life and death, possessed the ultimate powers of creation and destruction, and was the final form of his Sharingan.
According to Naruto, however, evolving the Sharingan into the Rinnegan required combining Indra's and Asura's powers to draw out Six Paths Power.
But when it came to Six Paths Power, whose could be purer or more authentic than that of the Shinobi World's ancient progenitor, the Progenitor of Chakra-Kaguya Otsutsuki? Even the Sage of Six Paths' power had merely been bestowed by Princess Kaguya.
If he could obtain Princess Kaguya's help and awaken the Rinnegan, Ye Uchiha felt that anything would be worth it.
After all, it was the strongest Dōjutsu!
At that thought, a fervent light blazed in Ye Uchiha's eyes as he stared toward Princess Kaguya inside her room.
Quite a few guests in the surrounding rooms got up, opened their doors, and stepped outside. Seeing Ye Uchiha standing in the corridor with a foolish grin on his face, they could not help looking at him with pity.
Poor boy. He was so handsome, too. What a shame he was an idiot.
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