In the downstairs bedroom, Sosuke Uchiha's eyes snapped open.
As an elite jonin, he was extremely sensitive to chakra fluctuations.
And what came from the second floor now was not merely a violent surge of chakra, but a... storm of mental energy!
"Izumi! Wake up!"
Sosuke shook his wife awake beside him.
"Something's wrong upstairs!"
Izumi was instantly alert. Her instincts as an elite jonin let her immediately sense the abnormal fluctuations on the second floor.
"It's Xiao Ye!"
The couple rushed out of their bedroom and bounded up the stairs.
When Sosuke flung open Genya's bedroom door, the sight sent both their hearts plummeting.
Their son knelt on the tatami, clutching his head with both hands, all ten fingers buried deep in his hair.
Bloody tears streamed steadily from the corners of his tightly shut eyes.
Genya's body shook violently, and cries of pain he could no longer suppress tore from his throat.
Most terrifying of all, even with his eyes tightly closed, a horrifying blood-red light still shone through his eyelids.
It was a sign that his Sharingan was running at full power, completely out of control!
"Xiao Ye!!!"
Izumi screamed and lunged forward to embrace her son, but when she came within three feet of him, an invisible mental shock made her vision go black. She nearly fainted.
"How is this possible... What level of mental power is this?!"
Sosuke's pupils constricted sharply.
As an Uchiha jonin, he had witnessed the pain of the Sharingan evolving and seen clan members lose control of their mental power, but he had never seen such a terrifying mental storm!
This had gone far beyond merely being "out of control"!
"Xiao Ye... Xiao Ye, don't scare Mommy..."
Izumi knelt on the floor, tears spilling from her eyes.
The raging field of