Xuandou strode into Hanyu's room.
The door was gently pushed open, and the afternoon sunlight bathed the entire room in a warm orange glow.
But the boy lying in bed cast an uneasy shadow over that warmth.
Uchiha Hanyu, eleven years old, was Xuandou and Kushina's eldest son.
He lay quietly beneath the covers, his eyes closed and his breathing steady, as though he were merely asleep.
But his slightly furrowed brow and occasionally trembling eyelashes showed that he was not sleeping soundly, but in some deep, involuntary state.
Kushina followed behind Xuandou, clutching the hem of her clothes, unease showing on her face.
Although she believed what Xuandou had said,
as a mother, she could not suppress her worry when she saw her son like this.
Xuandou crouched beside the bed, reached out, and gently pressed his hand against Hanyu's forehead.
He closed his eyes, his Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan slowly rotating in their sockets.
This was the form his eyes had evolved into after he swallowed the God Tree Fruit, with dōjutsu power far surpassing what he had possessed before.
In his perception, the chakra within Hanyu's body was fluctuating violently, like undercurrents in a river, surging yet orderly.
That chakra was converging toward a single destination-Hanyu's eyes.
Xuandou's brow twitched slightly.
This phenomenon was so similar to the evolution he himself had just experienced through the God Tree Fruit.
Back then, after he swallowed the God Tree Fruit, the raging chakra had also surged into his eyes, driving the evolution of his Rinnegan.
And although Hanyu's current condition was not as intense as his had been, it was essentially the same.
His eyes were absorbing chakra, undergoing some kind of transformation.
"So that's it..."
Xuandou opened his eyes, a faint smile rising at the corners of his mouth.
Kushina