Eternal Eyes + Sage Arts: The Pinnacle of Super Kage!

[Ding! Congratulations on becoming Hokage and rewriting the Uchiha's destiny. Uchiha clan fortune has increased. Rewards: eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, sage arts.

Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan: as the host has no siblings, the unlocked abilities will be selected from those shown in the anime. For sage arts, the host must choose the arts of one of the Three Great Sage Lands. They can be used perfectly upon learning. Please choose!

Sage arts: Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, Shikkotsu Forest

Eternal Eyes abilities: Dual Kamui (Obito), Kotoamatsukami (Shisui), Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi (Itachi), Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi (Sasuke), Future Prediction (Fugaku), Remote Control (Shin)]

The senjutsu of the Three Great Sage Lands, plus the abilities of six pairs of Mangekyo Sharingan?!

First, he ruled out Uchiha Shin's Mangekyo Sharingan, the worst of the lot.

Madara Uchiha's and Uchiha Hikari's Mangekyo Sharingan abilities didn't seem to be included.

With these choices, was there even anything to hesitate over?!

Hesitating for even a second would be an insult to Dual Kamui.

Kamui was an ability Kakashi had only gotten a chance to use at the anime's conclusion.

It was practically a game-breaking cheat.

Even after Obito died, with encouragement from Konoha's ghost girl...

He had used Dual Kamui to open a spatial passage into Kakashi's mental space and lend him his abilities for a while.

That had given Kakashi his moment to shine in the finale.

It could even sever Kaguya's arm.

Granted, that was partly thanks to some lingering Six Paths power.

But it still proved how powerful Dual Kamui was. After all, it could even open passages into other dimensions.

In fact, if Obito had obtained Dual Kamui, there would have been no contest in the early and middle stages.

So Dual Kamui was the obvious choice for his Mangekyo Sharingan ability. Paired with his own ability, he would have both time and space.

There was no need to agonize over anything else.

As for Kotoamatsukami's mind control, its ridiculously long cooldown aside, it probably wouldn't work on Six Paths-level opponents.

So Kotoamatsukami could be ruled out immediately.

As for Sasuke's, Itachi's, and Uchiha Fugaku's abilities, Future Prediction was somewhat better than the rest, but he could jump through time. Predicting the future wouldn't help much.

Besides, even if he could foresee the future, what good would it do without the strength to change it?!

And... he'd watched the anime. Why the hell would he need Future Prediction?

As for Amaterasu, which never burned anyone to death, and Tsukuyomi, which had only worked on Kakashi once, he needed neither.

What really required thought now was which of the Three Great Sage Lands' senjutsu he should choose.

He already had a sage body.

Once he added sage arts, his sage body would be complete.

Together with his Eternal Eyes, his combat strength would essentially rank among the very best.

Later, he could awaken the Rinnegan as long as he obtained Indra's and Asura's chakra.

And not just the Rinnegan. If possible, Bai Ye also wanted to get the Tenseigan down the line.

However, he wasn't a member of the Hyuga Clan, and he didn't want to replace his own eyes with someone else's.

His abilities were already broken enough. There was no need to swap eyes.

So he felt his only real option was to get it from the system.

Otherwise, he could simply do without the Tenseigan.

Setting those extraneous thoughts aside, Bai Ye focused on choosing his sage arts.

Mount Myōboku's senjutsu primarily enhanced offensive power and sensory abilities.

Ryūchi Cave's senjutsu leaned toward vitality, insight, genjutsu resistance, and terrain manipulation.

Shikkotsu Forest's senjutsu had never been revealed. Hashirama Senju's senjutsu was suspected to have possibly originated there.

And judging by its characteristics, it most likely enhanced strength and recovery?!

Looking at those aspects, ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu corresponded respectively to Shikkotsu Forest for genjutsu, Mount Myōboku for ninjutsu, and Shikkotsu Forest for taijutsu?

Much of that was Bai Ye's speculation.

Still, he could roughly infer the outlines from each sage land's abilities.

Viewed that way, the choice depended on what he wanted to focus on later.

At present, he lacked neither staying power nor offense.

In terms of offensive abilities, Perfect Susanoo and Kamui could both make up for his current lack of damage output.

For staying power, he had a sage body and could also jump through time.

So if he had to name something he lacked, it was genjutsu.

But if he could awaken the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan, he wouldn't need that either.

Once he had Infinite Tsukuyomi, the strongest genjutsu, why would he need this stuff?!

Besides, whether he obtained the Rinnegan or the Tenseigan, genjutsu would become rather redundant once he reached Six Paths-level combat strength.

So improving his ninjutsu and staying power was definitely the priority.

After thinking for a while, Bai Ye finally said slowly, "System, I choose Dual Kamui and Shikkotsu Forest's senjutsu!"

Although Shikkotsu Forest's senjutsu had barely been shown in the anime...

Judging by the current version, Ryūchi Cave's senjutsu had put on a very impressive showing.

But Bai Ye ultimately hadn't chosen Ryūchi Cave.

Mainly, he felt that a raw-stat monster seemed stronger than a gimmick-based one.

Someone like Naruto, with pure stats, could simply brute-force his way through a gimmick-based fighter like Sasuke.

The same went for Hashirama Senju.

Once those stats stacked up, just two hands of that giant Buddha dwarfed the Nine-Tails many times over.

So strength and staying power were what Bai Ye needed most. He had no shortage of ways to attack.

Besides, neither Mount Myōboku nor Ryūchi Cave had much synergy with his abilities.

He only needed to improve his basic physical attributes.

He could leave the other abilities to the evolution of his Sharingan.

Once he obtained the Rinnegan, his arsenal would probably revolve around its abilities.

Besides, as far as senjutsu went...

Its performance in the later stages hadn't been all that extraordinary.

Hadn't Madara Uchiha felt it wasn't particularly useful after absorbing Hashirama's senjutsu chakra?

After reaching Six Paths level, he would naturally have to use Six Paths power.

So choosing senjutsu with decent staying power, complementing his sage body, was better than picking up a few extra abilities.

[Ding! Selection successful. The abilities have been issued. Please receive them.]

His mind and body began undergoing constant changes.

Bai Ye's Mangekyo Sharingan spun wildly. In the next instant, a trace of Kamui's pattern appeared in its design.

"My chakra has increased more than tenfold at the very least, and my ocular power is much stronger too. My Perfect Susanoo seems stronger, and I should now be completely immune to Kotoamatsukami..."

He felt the changes in his body.

His strength was now actually close to invincible.

[Uchiha Bai Ye]

[Strength]: Super Kage

[Abilities]: eternal Mangekyō Sharingan (Amenotokotachi, Kamui), Fire Release Ninjutsu, Uchiha Style Taijutsu and other basic ninja arts, sage body, Shikkotsu Forest senjutsu

[Clan fortune]: 5,000 (Achievement unlocked: the Uchiha Clan's first Hokage. Please lead Konoha and the Uchiha to greater strength.)

The strength listed on his panel had reached Super Kage.

And his strength was at the very pinnacle of the Super Kage level.

At this point, he should have been roughly on par with Hashirama Senju.

After all, he could essentially do everything Hashirama Senju could.

He had a sage body, Eternal Eyes, and senjutsu.

Apart from sage-art Wood Release, he had it all.

The only thing he needed to be wary of was Hashirama Senju's sage-art giant Buddha.

After all, back at the Valley of the End, Madara Uchiha had lacked both a sage body and senjutsu, and Hashirama had beaten him down.

Now that Bai Ye had a sage body, he should have had a slight advantage against Hashirama.

After all, he could match Hashirama's staying power and use a senjutsu-enhanced Perfect Susanoo to fight Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands.

He estimated that he was roughly equal to Hashirama, while Madara with the Rinnegan would be somewhat stronger.

After all, Madara had Limbo: Border Jail-an unfair ability in the earlier stages, though essentially an advanced shadow clone technique once Six Paths power entered the picture.

Half-step Six Paths level corresponded to Obito after he absorbed the Ten-Tails.

Strictly speaking, Obito hadn't been a full Six Paths-level fighter.

Still, his strength had already overwhelmed Super Kage-level fighters.

Then came the true Six Paths level: Madara Uchiha after absorbing the Ten-Tails, the Sage of Six Paths, Kaguya Otsutsuki, and the like.

As things stood in the Shinobi World, unless Madara Uchiha came back to life...

Bai Ye could take on anyone.

More importantly, the Uchiha's clan fortune had finally become positive.

Now that he had become Hokage, the Uchiha naturally no longer needed to face the problems they had before.

That meant he needed to adjust his main direction for improvement a little.

Instead of improving the Uchiha, he would improve Konoha.

The Uchiha's progress had essentially hit its ceiling for now.

After all, their predicament had been resolved, and an Uchiha had become Hokage.

From here, he could either improve the Uchiha's overall strength-which probably wouldn't offer particularly substantial rewards, with the real focus still being Sasuke-

Or expand Konoha's power. After all, the larger Konoha became, the more ninja clans, nations, and shinobi would join it.

Then the Uchiha's standing would rise accordingly.

So he had two approaches available: improve the Uchiha's overall strength, or recruit every fighting force he could and unify the entire continent.

Both would increase clan fortune.

At that thought, another idea emerged in Bai Ye's mind: the Land of Fire.

If he was going to do this, he would first have to control the Land of Fire.

After all, once word of his becoming Hokage reached the Land of Fire, the daimyo would probably summon him.

But Bai Ye had no intention of being the daimyo's dog.

So he knew what he needed to do.

After all, Madara Uchiha had controlled the Third Mizukage, and Obito had controlled the Fourth Mizukage. Surely he could control a mere daimyo?!

He would control the daimyo first. Once he had dealt with all the other villages, the daimyo would no longer serve any purpose.

Then he could have the daimyo exit the stage of history.

With that, Bai Ye gradually settled on what he would do next.

Meanwhile, as news of Bai Ye becoming Hokage spread throughout Konoha...

The Shinobi World Daily began publication right on its heels.

Because the direction of subsequent developments had been uncertain earlier, the Konoha Daily hadn't been published that day.

Its content had already been decided.

Once Bai Ye's appointment as Hokage was confirmed, and the discussions established that no one opposed his proposals...

The prepared newspaper naturally required few changes and was released directly.

And once that edition came out, all of Konoha erupted.

For the villagers and ordinary shinobi, even those at the Ninja Academy and everyone else...

They had actually known a little from the beginning.

After all, the commotion had been far too big.

It was impossible that they hadn't heard anything at all.

They simply hadn't known as much detail as the newspaper provided.

Now, the newspaper had brought everything that had happened yesterday, along with the secrets previously buried, out into the open.

When they first saw the news, they thought it was false.

But after receiving confirmation from multiple sources, they established that all of it was true.

That left countless people utterly shocked.

So the people they had once considered righteous and great were actually like this, committing so many terrible deeds behind the scenes!

"I used to think Danzo was a good man. I never imagined he'd do things like this. He didn't even spare the First Hokage's corpse!!!"

The revelations about Danzo were the most shocking.

Mainly because what that man had done was utterly deranged!

Even those who had held grievances against the Uchiha and felt that their taking action at a time like this couldn't possibly be a good thing suddenly began to feel that perhaps it wasn't so wrong after all!

So they had already been persecuted to this extent.

It turned out that the reason they had fought back like this was that lunatic Danzo.

He had actually begun stealing other people's bloodline powers!

Even civilians knew what that meant to a clan.

And the man had even tricked Uchiha shinobi into taking missions, ambushed and killed them along the way, then stolen their Sharingan.

More importantly, he had done it together with Orochimaru, a rogue ninja from their village.

The two had even researched the Uchiha's and the Senju's kekkei genkai together.

Everyone knew that Konoha had been founded by those two clans together.

How had Danzo dared to go this far?!

"Wasn't that because the Third Hokage tacitly approved it?! Look at what this newspaper says!!! Without the Third Hokage, how could Danzo possibly have dared to do these things?!"

One of them picked up the thread and immediately chimed in.

It was all spelled out clearly in the newspaper.

Hiruzen Sarutobi had tacitly permitted these things. Even Orochimaru's escape from Konoha back then had only been possible because Hiruzen Sarutobi had let him go.

Hiruzen Sarutobi had brought so many Anbu with him that day, and he had been there himself. If he had wanted to stop Orochimaru from leaving, there was no way Orochimaru could have escaped.

"And the Uzumaki Clan! They were wiped out because those people refused to send help! White Fang's death was also caused by the rumors they spread until the whole village was repeating them. The Third Shinobi World War never even had to happen!"

With the White Fang of Konoha and the Sannin together, they felt that as long as those shinobi were still around, how could any other village have dared attack them?!

But under this lot's leadership, those shinobi had ended up either driven to their deaths or driven away.

"Exactly! Look at why Lady Tsunade left Konoha! Wasn't it because she'd lost all faith in it?! And Nawaki's death back then... tsk..."

Nawaki's death was dragged back into the spotlight once again.

Still, it had to be said that this really was rather surprising. There had been so many secrets behind what had happened back then.

In fact, quite a few people had known nothing about it before. This was their first time hearing of it.

But so what?!

That hardly stopped them from passing judgment.

"No wonder the Hyuga Clan supported the Uchiha Clan this time. Look at what those people did! Was any of that remotely decent?! They actually gave in to kidnappers. Unbelievable!!!"

"And Naruto!! Naruto is actually the Fourth Hokage's son, not a demon fox at all! I'm definitely going to treat him better when I get back. I never imagined the Third would even hide that!!!"

"Exactly!! He's a hero's son! The Fourth Hokage sacrificed himself because of the Nine-Tails. He protected the village, yet his son was branded a demon fox!!!"

Now that everything had been laid out in the open and everyone knew the truth,

the situation had begun to change.

Within Konoha, quite a few people were overcome with emotion.

So all these things had happened without me knowing?!

And here I'd thought Konoha's F4 were good people!

Who would have thought they'd done so much behind everyone's backs?

And the Uchiha... they were an honest bunch, too!

How much injustice had they suffered all these years!