Genjutsu Ineffective? Fugaku's Dōjutsu / Shock and Tsunade's Disappointment

In an instant, it turned into vines and shot out.

They pierced the pair of bloody eyeballs.

With a rustle, astonishing Chakra and powerful ocular power flowed into Rikuto's body one after another.

Rikuto's Mangekyo Sharingan began to forcibly absorb and merge with them.

Their strange Mangekyō pattern began spinning rapidly.

But by the time Uchiha Fugaku's Mangekyo Sharingan shriveled up and crumbled into ash,

Rikuto's eyes showed no other changes.

Their pattern had not changed into a new one.

"Did it fail?" the Wood Clone watching the scene asked in surprise.

"No, it worked..."

He felt the unprecedentedly vast ocular power.

It was as if it really could let him do whatever he wanted.

Rikuto clenched his fists and grinned excitedly. "My eyes have reached the level of the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Even without the perfect power of Yang Release in my body, I won't go blind from overusing them!"

"As for why the pattern hasn't changed, it's probably because I didn't directly transplant that pair of Mangekyō Sharingan!"

"But that doesn't matter!"

Chapter 37: Genjutsu Ineffective? Fugaku's Dōjutsu

"I heard that, besides the Dōjutsu of the original and transplanted Mangekyo Sharingan, the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan can also give birth to a new Dōjutsu..."

"Original, do your eyes have a new Dōjutsu?"

"I haven't sensed one yet..."

The brilliant patterns in his scarlet eyes slowly rotated.

Sensing his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, Rikuto frowned slightly. "Maybe it's still developing and hasn't matured yet!"

"Or perhaps I need to train my ocular power to its limit before an entirely new Dōjutsu can be born!"

He speculated.

He remembered that, in the original timeline, Sasuke Uchiha had soon been unable to hold out because he had overused his Mangekyo Sharingan not long after awakening it.

Then he had impatiently transplanted Uchiha Itachi's eyes and obtained the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

But during the Fourth Shinobi World War, before he had fully adapted to it and thoroughly trained his ocular power,

he had received the Sage of Six Paths' gift and awakened the Six-Tomoe Rinnegan.

It was very likely that his ocular power had not been sufficiently trained and he had advanced too quickly, directly snuffing out the Dōjutsu that should have belonged to his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

In any case, Rikuto had never seen Sasuke Uchiha use it.

Aside from the Rinnegan's basic abilities and the space-time Dōjutsu Amenotejikara,

the only Dōjutsu he used in battle were those of his own Mangekyo Sharingan.

Those were the supposedly inextinguishable flames of Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi, which specialized in controlling flames.

Of course, this was only his speculation.

It was not necessarily correct.

"But in any case, Fugaku's Mangekyō Dōjutsu alone gave me a pleasant surprise..."

Rikuto smiled.

"Oh?" The Wood Clone was astonished.

He knew how high his own standards were.

The original would never think much of an ordinary Dōjutsu.

Clearly, Uchiha Fugaku's Dōjutsu, which he had never revealed to anyone, was extraordinary.

"While he was alive, Shisui Uchiha planned to use Kotoamatsukami on Uchiha Fugaku, the clan head, to stop the Uchiha rebellion. But Danzo, who had long coveted his Mangekyo Sharingan, disrupted his plan, and he killed himself in despair..."

Rikuto chuckled.

Narrowing his eyes, he said mockingly, "But Shisui didn't know that even if he used Kotoamatsukami on Fugaku, he couldn't have affected Uchiha Fugaku's will!"

Uchiha Fugaku's Dōjutsu had truly taken him by surprise.

With this trump card, he could face Shimura Danzō and Uchiha Itachi without fear in the future.

"Wait, isn't Kotoamatsukami known as the strongest Genjutsu, capable of directly invading someone's brain without being detected and permanently and completely altering their will?"

The Wood Clone was thoroughly puzzled and somewhat bewildered. "No matter how powerful Fugaku's Genjutsu was, it couldn't have been stronger than Shisui's Kotoamatsukami, could it?"

"You're right. Aside from the Infinite Tsukuyomi that a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki can cast, Kotoamatsukami could be called the highest-level Genjutsu currently known..."

Rikuto did not deny Kotoamatsukami's power. "In fact, without Fugaku's Dōjutsu, even I, with the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, wouldn't dare say I could resist Kotoamatsukami with absolute certainty!"

"But Fugaku was different. The Dōjutsu in his left eye was called Uganomitama..."

"Uganomitama?"

The Wood Clone raised an eyebrow.

"It can directly reflect any Genjutsu harmful to its user..."

Rikuto spoke plainly. "Most importantly, whether the user is on guard or not, once someone targets him with a Genjutsu, it can activate on its own and nullify it..."

"Although I haven't tested it yet, I'm certain Kotoamatsukami won't work!"

As for a Genjutsu on the level of Infinite Tsukuyomi,

whether it could nullify that as well was unknown.

At least, Rikuto was not confident of it yet.

Nor did he intend to try.

"Wow, a Dōjutsu that directly reflects Genjutsu. Incredible..."

The Wood Clone marveled.

He had never imagined that Uchiha Fugaku's Dōjutsu would be so unusual.

He asked curiously, "What about the Dōjutsu in his right eye?"

"The Dōjutsu in his right eye was Tsukuyomi..."

He shrugged. "Although Tsukuyomi can't forcibly alter another person's will like Kotoamatsukami, I have to admit it really is a Genjutsu that's very hard to counter!"

Tsukuyomi was a Dōjutsu that could directly pull an enemy's mind into a Genjutsu space and control everything within it.

In the Tsukuyomi World, all factors, including time, location, and mass, were controlled by the caster, and the enemy would suffer immense physical and mental pain in the Genjutsu world.

They really were father and sons.

The Mangekyo Sharingan Dōjutsu each possessed

overlapped to varying degrees.

Both Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Fugaku had Tsukuyomi among their Mangekyō Dōjutsu.

And both Sasuke Uchiha and Uchiha Itachi had Amaterasu among theirs.

"Especially with my current ocular power, if I used Tsukuyomi on someone, even an ordinary Mangekyo Sharingan wouldn't be able to break out of it easily!"

"If used properly, it could let me toy with a target in the palm of my hand!"

Chapter 38: Shock and Tsunade's Disappointment

"Have you heard?"

"The Uchiha Clan has been wiped out!"

"What? Is that... true?"

"I didn't much like those arrogant people, but the Uchiha Clan was Konoha's undisputed foremost great clan. How could they suddenly be gone?"

"Apparently, it was the Uchiha Clan Head's son, Uchiha Itachi, who did it!"

"He didn't even spare his own parents. That guy's a beast!"

"I remember he's only thirteen, right? Did he really do it all by himself?"

"Isn't that a bit too unbelievable?"

"I heard he's a real genius. He awakened his Sharingan at eight and became an Anbu squad leader at thirteen!"

The next day.

Early in the morning.

Konoha was shaken.

News that Uchiha Itachi had wiped out the Uchiha Clan spread throughout the village.

And at an astonishing speed, it spread to every corner of the Shinobi World.

Countless people were shocked and could hardly believe it.

But somehow,

Uchiha Itachi's record was made public.

He had graduated from the Ninja Academy at seven, awakened the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan at eight, taken and passed the Chunin Ninja Exams alone at ten to become a Chunin, joined the Anbu at eleven, and even become an Anbu squad leader at thirteen!

It left people dumbfounded and scarcely able to believe it.

The Third Hokage was furious.

He personally went to Konoha Hospital to visit Sasuke Uchiha, the Uchiha Clan's only known survivor, who remained unconscious.

Then he hurried back to the Hokage building and convened an emergency meeting for Jonin.

He immediately listed Uchiha Itachi as an S-rank missing-nin of Konoha.

He was wanted throughout the country, dead or alive.

But whatever the case,

the Uchiha Clan had been Konoha's foremost great clan.

Almost anyone could see that its conflict with the higher-ups led by the Third Hokage had been growing increasingly intense.

There was no way the clans, large and small, would have no thoughts about its sudden destruction.

They would never believe that the higher-ups had nothing to do with it.

Even the Hyuga Clan, the Aburame Clan, the Ino-Shika-Cho, and other clans that had always supported the Third Hokage felt a chill from head to toe.

While intimidated by the higher-ups' ruthlessness,

they could not help feeling panic and dread, as well as sorrow at another's misfortune.

The Uchiha had been Konoha's foremost great clan.

Along with the Senju Clan, they had been one of Konohagakure's founders.

Even if their relations with the higher-ups had been strained, how renowned and prosperous had they once been?

They could also be said to have rendered distinguished service in successive battles.

And just like that, they were gone.

What if their turn came someday?

To reassure the village's clans, whose members had grown uneasy after the Uchiha Clan's sudden destruction,

Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Hokage, had to announce that he would select outstanding ninja from the various clans to form a new Konoha Military Police Force responsible for maintaining order in the village.

The interests that should have belonged to the Uchiha

would be distributed among the restless clans

to put them at ease.