Half a year passed in the blink of an eye.
At the Land of Water Border lay a bay shrouded in thick mist.
Lin Ze slowly emerged from the mist.
He still wore the clone's signature loose black robe and a silver-white Crescent Moon Mask, but the eyes beneath the mask no longer bore Enta Uchiha's four-pointed pinwheel pattern.
Instead, they held two interwoven three-leaf clovers, dotted with tiny prisms at their centers, gleaming faintly purple and gold in the mist.
The eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
After half a year of fusion, it had finally succeeded.
Lin Ze flexed his wrists, feeling the surging chakra within him-a chakra source containing twenty percent of the Nine-Tails' chakra, combined with the eternal Mangekyō Sharingan's yin release power, had brought this yin release clone's strength to an entirely new level.
He looked toward the depths of the bay.
"It's almost time."
According to the White Snake Sage's report, Sunagakure had recently sent Pakura to Kirigakure for "peace talks."
In the original story, this was where Sunagakure's leadership betrayed Pakura, leaving her to die in a Kirigakure ambush.
And now, that scene was about to unfold.
Lin Ze flickered, becoming a dark blur that merged into the mist as he silently slipped deeper into the bay.
Deep within the bay, on a narrow stretch of rocky shore.
Pakura stood alone, gazing out over the sea.
She was a tall kunoichi with long hair, an attractive face with a touch of valor in her features, and an enormous fan strapped to her back.
At that moment, her brows were slightly furrowed, and she felt a faint unease.
There was something strange about this mission.
Sunagakure's leadership had abruptly sent her to the Land of Water for "secret peace talks" with Kirigakure, yet they had made