Madara Uchiha: ... (⊙o⊙)!!!
This guy was sick. Absolutely sick!
"Young clan leader, what do you think? How about I give you a demonstration?" Uchiha Naoto was especially excited. In his eyes, Madara Uchiha was like a piece of meat. Taking a bite out of him was as good as biting the clan leader, which was as good as biting Indra.
"No, I need some quiet." Madara Uchiha's face was livid. He refused to accept that the lunatic before him was an Uchiha. His eyes had to be fake, gouged out of another clan member.
"You want Quiet?" Uchiha Naoto deactivated his three-tomoe Sharingan, tilted his head, and looked at Uchiha Fuliu as she packed away the medical supplies. "Did Quiet go back to Asagiri Mountain with the second branch?"
Madara Uchiha: !!! That wasn't what he meant! He hadn't said that!
"Shut up. Don't activate your Sharingan without a reason from now on. Having the same eyes as you is humiliating."
Uchiha Fuliu could only pray that the young clan leader would leave soon. He absolutely must not discover that the Uchiha of Asagiri Mountain in the Land of Fire were all mentally unstable.
Otherwise, she might even be recalled to the clan, assigned to support duties, and married off to a clansman to have children.
Serving the young master, she had never been treated as a woman.
No, more accurately, he had never treated any of them as human.
As long as the work wouldn't kill them, he worked them to death.
Never mind a woman-even a pig had to be dragged out every day to fight dozens of rounds.
She still remembered what the young master had said as a child: he didn't keep useless people.
Compared to returning to the clan, she preferred following the young master.
Even if he was an abandoned Uchiha, destined never to be accepted by the clan.
"Hiss..." Feeling returned to Madara Uchiha's hand, and the medicine stung the split skin between his thumb and forefinger. Seeing Uchiha Naoto driven out of the tent, he turned to Uchiha Fuliu. "Thank you. I've never seen you at the clan compound."
"I came to Asagiri Mountain twelve years ago. I've been taking care of Young Master Xia in Asagiri Town ever since, and I've never returned to the clan."
Uchiha Fuliu studied the young clan leader renowned as a genius. Deep down, she believed only Young Master Xia was a true genius. He had awakened his eyes as a child, taken on the running of Asagiri Town alone, and brought the Kaguya and Uchiha forces under his control.
Not wanting to discourage the young clan leader, she searched her mind for something reasonable to comfort him with. "Young clan leader, you're actually very strong. You just aren't as strong as Young Master Xia. You're brothers, after all. One day, you'll be able to withstand a single slash from him."
Madara Uchiha's mouth twitched. It sounded like she was comforting him, yet every word stabbed him straight in the heart.
Step! Step! Step!
Indra entered Madara's tent and asked, "How are his injuries?"
"The joint has been reset. The wound between his thumb and forefinger will take a few more days to heal. He can't hold a sword for now."
Uchiha Fuliu answered honestly, silently lighting a candle for Madara Uchiha in her heart. That tone of Young Master Xia's was unmistakable-the enslavement was about to begin.
"It's fine. He still has his left hand, and it won't interfere with forming hand seals."
Indra decided to teach Madara himself. Whatever he did, Madara would do too. Teaching by word and example was bound to work.
"There are four Sarutobi ninja and three Shimura ninja in the neighboring Sarutobi and Shimura camps. You're coming with me to capture them."
"Young master, are you going yourself? Naoto and I could go instead. You can rest here for a while."
Uchiha Fuliu didn't think seven people were much of a problem. Those two ninja clans barely qualified as clans anyway. They didn't even have bloodline limits and were only a little stronger than samurai.
"It seems we captured someone important from the Senju earlier. They've sent a squad to investigate. I'm going to wipe them out myself and take Madara along for practice."
Indra had no intention of releasing anyone. He had already captured them, so what else was there to do? If anyone refused to accept it, he would eliminate whoever refused.
If his body were at its peak right now, he would go straight to the Senju Clan Compound and raze it.
That would save him the trouble of having that lump of Asura's chakra awaken.
And then there was Madara. So useless. Couldn't he show a little ambition? He had spent all those years getting beaten down by that lump of Asura's chakra.
At that thought, his gaze toward Madara grew a little colder. "Your training will be doubled from now on."
Feeling the pressure, Madara nodded obediently. He had learned that from Izuna.
He had a feeling that if he didn't nod, he would get beaten. Beaten to death, literally.
He was somewhat arrogant, not stupid. He could still sense killing intent that obvious.
Uchiha Fuliu gave Madara Uchiha a pitying look and silently left the tent before she got caught in the crossfire. She had no desire to go back to riding a pig and trading sword blows with those Kaguya lunatics.
That was Young Master Xia's way of letting those Kaguya lunatics burn off their energy. Cruel though it was, it worked remarkably well. Even the pigs were lean and wiry.
After losing contact with Madara Uchiha, the Uchiha Clan sent out some ninja to gather intelligence. Among them were the twin brothers Uchiha Xing and Uchiha Yue.
But Indra had also secretly transported Senju Kawarama and over a dozen Senju clansmen away, so the Senju Clan had sent ninja to search for them as well.
During their searches, they frequently ran into the Uchiha. Both sides suffered heavy losses, and the Senju began bringing in more and more outside support.
In the forest near the mine Indra had seized, the Senju Clan's ninja joined forces with nearby Sarutobi and Shimura ninja to hunt down the Uchiha they encountered. Under the protection of four adult ninja, the brothers Uchiha Xing and Uchiha Yue began a desperate struggle for survival in the forest.
A day and a night of pursuit had left them utterly exhausted. Their explosive tags, military rations pills, and ninja tools were all used up, and their chakra was nearly depleted. They could only use the terrain to hide and wait.
Three of the four adult ninja were already badly wounded. Clearly, they could no longer cover Uchiha Xing and Uchiha Yue's escape.
The most severely wounded of them suggested, "Liuhuo, our injuries are too serious. We won't last much longer. Take Xing and Yue and go. We'll try to draw them away."
"Understood. Hachishaku, take care." Uchiha Liuhuo didn't waste time on sentiment. This was the wisest choice now. Besides, he had discovered that the Senju were also looking for someone. That information had to reach the clan.
The instant he turned, a single tomoe appeared in his jet-black eyes.
"Liuhuo, your eyes." Uchiha Xing and Uchiha Yue noticed the change in Uchiha Liuhuo's eyes. Even as joy rose in their hearts, they bitterly hated their own weakness. If they had enough strength, they could surely turn the situation around.
"Let's go." Uchiha Liuhuo raised the kunai in his hand. Realizing he had awakened his Sharingan and improved their chances of survival, he hurried through the forest in search of a suitable hiding place.
Inside his tent, Madara Uchiha had been molding chakra, but he couldn't settle his mind. Even when he tried to sleep, he couldn't drift off. Left with no choice, he left his tent and went to Indra's. Seeing the candle still burning inside, he hesitated for a long time before speaking.
"Big brother, can I come in?"
"Come in."
Indra put down his book and set rice cakes and flower tea on a small table, gesturing for Madara Uchiha to sit. Noticing his agitation, he said, "You look very unsettled."
"Yes. I can't calm down at all, and I can't sleep." Madara Uchiha felt as though he was about to lose something, but he had no way to describe the feeling. No matter what he did, he couldn't put his mind at ease.
But his younger brothers were all back at the clan. Izuna had been wounded on the battlefield earlier, so he couldn't possibly be sent on a mission.
Xing and Yue weren't good at fighting. They were better at gathering intelligence and tracking, so even if they went on a mission, it shouldn't be too dangerous.
"So... you have insomnia?" Indra was a little surprised. He suspected that Uchiha Fuliu had given Madara Uchiha too much pain medication, causing side effects.
But...
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