Reborn into Naruto World with Tenseigan

by Little Merger

The trembling Hyuga Kuroto finally got the treasure that he dreamed of! How exactly will the world of Naruto be perceived with his glowing Royal Blue Tenseigan

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Under the Red Demonic mask, the Tenseigan was glowing with a brilliant light as Kuroto was thoroughly observing the changes in the Dragon Vein.

Whish… whish… whish…

In the whistling sound of the breaking wind, the rising storm was getting stronger by the second.

The surrounding gravel was blown up and spun around the center of the altar as the eye of the rushing storm.

The waking up of the sleeping Dragon Vein chakra shook the earth, spreading cracks in the ground and walls. In moments, the buildings started collapsing.

Queen Sara who was barely managing to stand, finally couldn't hold it and fell to the ground.

In the high-speed storm winds, it was getting difficult to even keep your eyes open as she covered her face with her hands and spoke with all her strength, "The Dragon Vein seems to be getting irritable by the second… I… I can't control it any longer!"

Hearing her say this, Kuroto flashed by her side protecting her from the effects of the storm, and calmly spoke, "Don't worry! This is just the initial rush of the Chakra just like a volcanic eruption, the Dragon Vein will calm down gradually."

Sara who being protected by Kuroto reluctantly got up with his support, and asked with a strange expression, "Why aren't you scared at all?"

The scene before Sara makes her think that the end of the world has come, she doesn't even know if she will be surviving this ordeal, and here this person is all too calm?

She was sort of suspicious of the identity of the person with the Red Demonic mask. In her opinion, people who can face the Dragon vein so calmly have to at least bear the name of the 'Kage' of a village.

Kuroto didn't mind the strange look he was getting.

ROAR...

By the time the last of the sealing symbols disintegrated, there was a breath-taking roar from the abyss.

Kuroto's eyes flickered as he muttered, "Looks like it's about to come out!"

Sara who was hiding behind Kuroto, and barely managed to stand, by tightly clutching his cloak said with difficulty under the stormy winds, "I… I can… I can alr-already feel it!"

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Ding…

As soon as the Flying Thunder God kunai that was used as the center point of the core seal collapsed, the altar that covered the seal flew out because of the rising pressure from the abyss.

A huge amount of Chakra, much larger than the towering pillar a few seconds ago spewed out from the abyss shattering the dome that covered the area, and like a Chakra pillar, it rushed straight towards the sky, lighting up the entire night sky in a mysterious violet light!

Kuroto was ecstatic seeing the rushing Chakra.

In his perception, the Chakra of the Dragon vein was extremely majestic and powerful, the quality of chakra was so pure that he was literally salivating in jealousy.

At the same time, the magnitude of the movements caused after the complete unsealing of the Dragon vein was also far beyond his expectations.

Looking at the Towering Pillar of Purple Chakra, Kuroto knew that soon the Sand ninjas will be rushing here to investigate the cause, therefore, he didn't have much time left.

Suppressing all the speculations and doubts in his mind, he started the second last step of the artificial tailed beast plan.

With his handprints, the core of Purple Clay gradually bulged and became bigger and bigger.

"Open!"

Instilling his own Chakra into the core, Kuroto crouched on the ground.

Accompanied by Kuroto's shout, a purple glow flashed across the seals spread on the core, and something akin to a mouth slowly opened from it.

"This…!?" Sara was so shocked by all this that she couldn't bring the words to understand just what was happening here.

Not minding her shock, Kuroto continued printing hand signs, and finally tapped his hand on the floor as he muttered, "Fuin!"

Instantly, a sealing circle spread on the ground, and like a spider web, it covered all the area.

This technique is the 'Chakra Sealing method', recorded in the scroll of artificial tailed beast project handed to him by Orochimaru.

Taking a deep breath, Kuroto started transferring all his chakra into the seal and shouted towards Sara, "It's now or never, suppress the Dragon Vein like your life depends on it!"

Looking at the Purple Core that started to swallow the pulsing Dragon Vein, Sara realized what it was doing, 'It's devouring the Chakra of the Dragon vein!'

In the shock of the events, she fell into entanglement.

The Dragon Vein is the symbol of the ancient city Roran. A treasure passed down from generation to generation. She was still unwilling to let the Dragon Vein be taken away by some unknown person.

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But finally remembering the people who left Roran and followed her, she finally steeled her heart.

"The people of Roran are its greatest treasure!"

With the firm expression, there was no more hesitation in her eyes.

At this time Kuroto was already having some difficulty in suppressing the Chakra.

In just a few moments, the Purple Clay Core has already expanded more than ten times, its huge body broke through the surrounding walls.

Seeing this Kuroto shouted hurriedly, "What are you staring in a daze for? Hurry up!"

"G-got it!" Without any more hesitation, dropping a trickle of her blood on the seal spread, Sara shouted, "In the name of the Queen of Roran, I order the sleeping Ryuumyaku, restrain your power!"

With Sara's chanting, the chakra pressure of the Dragon Vein gradually subsided, following which the fierce howling winds also calmed down.

The Chakra pillar that was rising in the sky also shrank a little-by-little, resulting in the controllable state.

'Phew… it really worked!' Breathing in relief, Kuroto ordered Sara, "Don't let your guard down, make sure to keep the Dragon Vein Chakra as much suppressed as possible."

Sara nodded heavily.

Under her control, the Dragon Vein calmed down, this made the process of transferring the chakra much easier for Kuroto.

In the blink of an eye, 20 minutes passed.

Under Kuroto's urging, Purple Shell continued devouring the Chakra, and soon its body was already big enough to cover the sky, its current size was probably even many times larger than that of the Kyuubi.

'I guess, it's almost reaching the limit!' – Kuroto thought with a serious expression while looking at the inflated balloon-type Purple Clay Core.

The Dragon vein Chakra rushing out of the ground has also become very weak, as a result, the sharp wind has also stopped.

With the continuous transfer, the Chakra beneath the crumbling altar has almost dried up.

Sara had a melancholic expression, she could feel that her connection with the Dragon vein was severed, and gradually she could no longer feel the presence of Dragon Vein.

ROAR…

Accompanied by the last roar, the chakra pillar of the dragon vein faded away.

As soon as the transfer was complete, Kuroto printed several hand signs and shouted, "Stop!"

All the sealing symbols on the now gigantic body of the inflated balloon glowed, as a result of which the balloon that had already expanded multiple times that of before started to shrink as it gradually started taking a form…

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Kuroto looked at the gigantic form of the artificial tailed beast as it shrunk under the restraint of seals engraved on its body with an eager smirk.

But before he could be joyful for very long, his expression froze due to the unexpected change.

The form of the Purple Clay balloon gradually started changing as the chakra inside it condensed.

This was contrary to his expectations, as the form shrank, it took the appearance of a Western Dragon!

However, that wasn't all, because the core was initially shaped into a sphere by Kuroto, and the sentient shape of the Dragon Vein had the form of a dragon, so a conflict between the physical and metaphysical state began.

Under the pressure of the Dragon Vein Chakra, the original sphere was forced to change, but because the core was originally spherical, the final form that came out to be was that of a Chubby Baby of a Western Dragon, in short, it was fat and cute.

At first glance, it looked quite adorable.

Seeing such a cute appearance, Queen Sara gave a weird look to Kuroto. She had no idea that the big bad ninja who blackmailed and threatened her to such an extent had such an interest.

Under the strange glance of Sara, Kuroto couldn't bring himself to look at her and tried explaining with an indifferent voice, "T-this is actually an accident, it wasn't meant to look like this!"

Turning her head to the side she snorted quietly, "Yeah right! Sure, I believe you." Her tone clearly expressed that she didn't believe him at all.

"I told you this is unexpected… damn it!" – Kuroto stomped in frustration.

Seeing the frustrated look of the Big Bad Ninja, Sara chuckled silently.

Taking a deep breath while trying to ignore the girl, Kuroto hurriedly completed the next set of seals to seal the Artificial Tailed Beast inside him.

The cute and chubby body of the Ryuumyaku was probably of the same size as the Kyuubi after condensation now entered inside Kuroto's body without any resistance.

This was because the self-awareness of Ryuumyaku isn't that high. After all, it's only been born for a very short time, and Kuroto also applied pressure from the Tenseigan, so the sealing process went without a hitch.

This was just a temporary seal, as he is currently unable to borrow chakra from the artificial tailed beast. Only after completing the True Jinchuriki fusion seal will he be able to use the Chakra from the Ryuumyaku.

It's just that he can't stay here for much longer as the Sand ninja should soon be arriving, so the matter of the fusion seal can only be handled later.

Finally, after checking the surroundings with the Tenseigan to make sure no traces of his or Sara's presence were left, Kuroto left the Roran city.

A few hours later, by the time the morning light started to fall upon them, Kuroto had already returned to the Manto Oasis.

Sara noticed that they would soon be arriving back at the site where her people were staying and sternly asked, "You promised me that you will not harm my people if I go with you!"

Kuroto nodded, "Yeah I did! I am not going to kill your people because there is no need to!"

Sara's expression eased with Kuroto's assurance, then finally taking one look towards the site, she turned towards the masked person and said with all the courage she could muster, "Alright then, I am grateful that you are keeping your words… so there is no need to go any further… I have already seen them… s-so if you are going to kill me, then k-kill me now!"

Kuroto folded his hands and asked with doubt, "Why would I kill you? That wasn't part of the Deal!"

Sara asked with a hopeful expression, "You aren't going to kill me?"

"When did I say I would? You didn't trust my words at all, did you, Dragon Maiden?" Only now Kuroto understands that Sara never believed that he would in fact pay her once the ordeal was completed, but no matter, even if she was scared because of the incoming death, Kuroto's purpose was completed.

Realizing that the masked person really had no interest in killing her, Sara sighed in relief, but asked in doubt, "But I know you stole the Dragon Vein, aren't you afraid I will reveal your secret?"

"Do you know my name?"

"No!"

"Do you know what I actually look like?"

"No!"

"Do you know what are my abilities?"

"No!"

"Do you know anything from which you can identify me if I appear before you without this disguise?"

"No!"

"You don't know anything about me, so even if you reveal that a masked person threatened you and stole the Dragon vein, what good would that do? It's not like that's going to have any impact on me" After a pause, Kuroto said coldly, "Besides, I know you wouldn't reveal anything about me, because you are very clear of what might happen if you go out to blabber without any thinking, after all, your people would still be alive at the time wouldn't they? And you wouldn't want your daughter to accidentally die by being eaten by some wild animal, would you?"

Sara desperately shook her head while sweating. She couldn't even begin to imagine the last part of the threat. "I… I promise… I swear I wouldn't reveal anything even if my life depends on it!"

"Aren't you smart!" Kuroto said with a chuckle.

"But I am afraid I wouldn't leave you off so easily, at the very least, you can't stay in the Land of Wind anymore!" – said Kuroto after thinking a little.

"W-what!? B-but you promised!" – Sara asked with a panicked expression, but when she thought of what the Sand Village might do because of the sudden disappearance of the Dragon Vein, she also realized that the people of Roran can no longer stay in the Land of Wind and asked with sadness, "But where else can we go? We are already living as nomads!"

Kuroto began to think of a suitable place.

In terms of safety Konoha and the territory of the Land of Fire is good, but their identity as the Roran survivors is too sensitive for Kuroto's comfort. So, once they hide in Konoha, Sandaime would immediately order an investigation.

After all, the Dragon Vein was personally sealed by Konoha's Yondaime Hokage, not only was someone able to successfully unseal it, but the Dragon Vein was stolen, it would be impossible for Sandaime-Sama to ignore this.

Not to mention the sand spies hidden in Konoha would send this information to Sand Village and that could lead to a potential conflict between Konoha and Sand Village.

So Konoha and the Land of Fire is a big NO-NO.

Excluding Konoha, Koroto can't think of any safe place for Roran's people, they could definitely go to other smaller countries too, but safety from Sand Shinobi would be the biggest issue.

Hmmm….

Hmmm…

Think… Think…

There's got to be someplace that would be safe for Roran's people.

And suddenly the perfect and safest place flashed in Kuroto's mind: "The Land of Rain!"

As the base of Akatsuki, the Land of Rain may as well be one of the most dangerous places in the world for a shinobi of any other village, but for ordinary people, it could even be considered the safest and most peaceful land.

There was a reason why Pain and Kanon were treated as God and Angel in the Land of Rain.

Because of Pain's strength, very few ninjas who dared to venture into the Land of Rain could escape alive.

Coupled with the closed policy under Pain's rule, it is closed to impossible for a ninja to sneak into the core towns of the Land of Rain. So, once Roran's survivor enters the Land of Rain, catching them would be a very difficult task for either Sand or Konoha.

And the most important point is that Nagato with the Rinnegan wouldn't care about something like Dragon Vein, as far as Kuroto knows, Nagato doesn't have that greedy nature within him, and continue to concentrate on the Tailed Beasts, although Kuroto can't be sure of Obito, meh… maybe his arrogance would make him ignore such a thing…

After thinking this Kuroto told Queen Sara his thoughts and said again that he would pay her a good sum of money as the agreement.

Now Sara also believed that the person in front of her really had the intention to pay, so she asked meekly after gulping in nervousness, "S-so, how much are you going to pay?"

After considering a little, Kuroto immediately stretched out five fingers.

Staring at the Five fingers stretch out by the masked person, Sara asked herself, "Five thousand Ryo? Well, it's quite a lot actually!"

Kuroto shook his head speechlessly.

Sara asked tentatively, "Not Five thousand? Then is it Five hundred thousand Ryo?"

Kuroto ridiculed, "It seems that you don't take Dragon Vein too seriously!"

Sara couldn't resist her excitement as she asked in surprise, "I-is it actually five million Ryo?"

Kuroto nodded casually, "Although five million isn't much, it is more than enough to improve the lives of your people, giving too much money will also attract trouble towards you, so you'll have to make do with this!"

In Kuroto's view, five million Ryo is actually not much, but it would really be enough for her and her people. With this amount, she would even be able to hire a good doctor to heal her illness. After all, her age is still too young, and as long as she receives proper treatment, then recovery is still a possibility…

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Now that everything was decided, Kuroto told that they can't delay any longer.

Otherwise, if Sand ninja intercepted the Convoy of Roran Survivors, and Queen Sara was threatened by them just like he threatened her, then it would be impossible for her to not reveal all the details.

Although she doesn't know his true identity, she has still witnessed the whole process of the birth of the artificial tailed beast, so Kuroto doesn't want to risk it for now.

After collecting his thoughts, Kuroto immediately said to Queen Sara, "Time is of the essence now, go to your camp and set off towards the Land of Rain, Sand Village will definitely send ninjas here after checking the ruins, I will eliminate them."

According to common sense, Sand Village should definitely send an elite team to investigate the situation at the Roran City first as soon as they notice the abnormality of the Dragon Vein.

This process could take as short as half a day to as long as 2 days, depending upon their reaction speed and how much importance they put on the Dragon Vein.

Once they discover that the Dragon Vein was stolen, the information will be sent back to the village, and the village will appoint ninjas to search for the Roran Survivors. These tasks could take up to 1 to 2 more days.

Therefore, the Roran survivors have up to 3 days for a safe breakthrough.

As long as this opportunity is grasped, The Roran survivors will most likely escape Sand's chase and smoothly enter into the territory of the Land of Rain.

Queen Sara also realized the preciousness of time, so she hurriedly nodded and asked, "You will be escorting us out of the Land of Wind, right?"

After thinking a little, Kuroto said lightly, "I can't guarantee that I will be there all the way!"

If anything, Kuroto wants to personally escort them out of the Land of Rain in secret, but if the Yondaime Kazekage personally leads a team to chase after the Roran survivors, then Kuroto can only opt to protect himself.

Queen Sara nodded silently. Although a little disappointed she was still relieved that the masked person at least doesn't have any intentions to deceive her.

Queen Sara no longer hesitated and after giving a final look to the masked person, she ran towards the Oasis in the distance.

While running she stopped midway and shouted after turning around, "I am no longer Queen of Roran, you must call me Sara from this moment on!"

And without waiting for his reply, she rushed towards the caravans.

Kuroto silently stood at his pace, watching her go away.

Neither did he agree nor disagreed.

Not long after, the Caravans of the Roran survivors that were camping at the Manto Oasis set off.

Kuroto didn't immediately follow them but turned his gaze towards the sand dunes.

Sand Village has arranged 2 ninjas to always monitor and keep track of the Roran Survivors. Kuroto discovered this when he was searching for the whereabouts of the Roran Survivors along with the Grass Shinobi team.

So, to ensure that the Sand Village doesn't immediately discover the whereabouts of Roran Survivors, he must first eliminate these two Sand ninjas responsible for monitoring work.

… Byakugan…

Activating the Byakugan, Kuroto glanced at the distant sand dune and confirmed the presence of two very weak Chakra reactions from one spot.

Judging from their Chakra levels, the two ninjas are Genin Class, since the enemy strength isn't very high, Kuroto didn't bother to personally go after them, rather he summoned the Kazekage puppet and used it to kill them.

It didn't take long for the Kazekage puppet to easily get rid of the two Sand ninjas in the distance.

After dealing with this issue, Kuroto resealed the Kazekage puppet and chased after the Caravans from a distance.

While there wasn't much to do, Kuroto's mind wandered to the possible cause of the origin of the Dragon Vein.

Although he doesn't know the possible cause of the origin of the Dragon, this doesn't stop him from theorizing his guesses.

As far as he thinks, the Dragon Vein is not a natural occurrence, or to be more precise, the Dragon Vein isn't completely a natural product.

The best possible explanation states that the core of the Dragon Vein, or better yet its 'Origin' should be a foreign existence just like Otsutsuki Kaguya, i.e., it came from outside the Shinobi world.

However, unlike the Otsutsuki Kaguya who came to plunder the energy of the planet, the arrival of the origin of Dragon Vein might actually be accidental, and at the same time the existence 'who or which,' arrived in the Shinobi World accidentally; might actually be injured at the time, because of this it had no choice than to form a contractual relationship with the Royal family of the Ancient Kingdom Roran.

This might explain the contractual relationship between the two.

After the contract, the existence sneaked into the depths of Earth to recover itself by steadily absorbing energy from the Ley Lines.

However, that didn't go as smoothly as one might expect, and for a certain reason that is difficult to explain, the injured existence was possibly attacked by something that resulted in its disintegration, but just before fading away, it managed to leave behind a sentience metaphysical trace, and that Very trace grew over the course of the next millennia by steadily absorbing the natural energy, giving birth to the ignorant Dragon Vein.

The Dragon Vein might have actually forgotten everything related to its past but because of the Contractual relationship with the Royal family of Roran, it was instinctively loyal to them.

This also explains why the Queen of Roran can maintain an unequal contractual relationship with the Dragon Vein.

Otherwise, it should be practically impossible for the Royal Family of Roran to control the majestic Chakra of the Dragon Vein that is no inferior to a high-tier Tailed beast.

And as just mentioned before, a normal human without any strength; like Sara isn't qualified to have such an unequal relationship without the necessary strength.

As for the origin of the original core Kuroto does have some guesses but let's take that for some other time.

While Kuroto focused on the protection of Roran Survivors, Yondaime Kazekage of the Sand Village received the news that the Dragon Vein of the ancient city of Roran was stolen.

Staring at the information in his hands, Yondaime Kazekage Rasa asked the two advisor elders around him with a thoughtful look, "Could it be Konoha's handiwork?"

Chiyo, one of the elders of the Sand Village snorted coldly, "Who else can steal the Dragon Vein so quickly besides Konoha? The Dragon Vein was personally sealed by Konoha's Yellow Flash and it's not so easy to break that seal."

Listening to Chiyo's analysis, Kazekage crushed the intelligence report in his hands with a cold look…

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Outside Konoha Village.

Eating a rice ball from the bento he received, Shinichi muttered grumpily, "Didn't I already told you to not bring me bento, I have prepared Military Ration Pills."

The girl sitting on the side responded with a calm smile, "Eating Military Ration Pills all the time isn't good for your health Shin-Kun."

The girl is about fourteen or fifteen years old, with chin-length raven color hair, wearing a chunin ninja vest with Uchiha Clan Crest on it. From the appearance alone it can be judged that she has decent strength.

Uchiha Shinichi who was grumpily eating the rice balls brought by the girl just shook his head helplessly. After hurriedly swallowing the last piece of Rice Ball, he said with a serious expression, "It's not safe outside the village. Don't come here again, understand?"

The girl frowned slightly at Shinichi's words and asked angrily, "If it's not safe around here then why do you come to train here Shin-Kun? Aren't there so many training grounds in the Clan, why come here when you can train there?"

Shinichi said with a cold snort, "I don't want to train with those bastards!"

The 'those' in Uchiha Shinichi's words are the Uchiha people who mocked and laughed at him for losing to Hyuga Kuroto.

In the eyes of the people of the Uchiha Clan, Uchiha Shinichi who couldn't even stop Hyuga Kuroto's one move; lost the face of the Uchiha Clan, so most of the people of the Uchiha Clan ridicule him openly.

Listening to this, the girl said with anger, "I will visit Patriarch today and ask Uncle Fugaku to teach them a lesson!"

Shinichi felt that his self-esteem was being violated, he furiously said, "Kurumi, you don't need to bother about my personal affair!"

The girl 'Kurumi' was a little aggrieved by Shinichi's response. Snatching the bento boxes from Shinichi's hands, she said with anger, "You don't want me to interfere in your personal matters? Fine, see if I care!"

Leaving this sentence, she walked away in anger.

On a nearby tree branch, the masked was seated while dangling his legs as he observed the daily fights between Uchiha Shinichi and Uchiha Kurumi.

As Uchiha Kurumi started going away, Zetsu's body rose from the tree trunk and said in a comical voice, "I have arranged everything as you asked!"

"Let's start then!" – masked man said coldly while looking towards Uchiha Kurumi going away.

Zetsu also looked towards her while asking in a doubtful tone, "Will this method really be effective?"

The masked man glanced coldly, "What do you think?"

Zetsu said with a smile, "Perhaps!"

After packing the bento box in the camping basket, Kurumi ignored Shinichi and walked towards the direction of the Village.

Shinichi wanted to say 'Be careful on the way back!' but he couldn't bring himself to be the first one to apologize, so lowering his head he sighed heavily.

On the other hand, after leaving the training area, Kurumi was sulking while wondering how to complain to Patriarch and let him teach a lesson to those people for bullying Shin-Kun.

"Stupid Shin-Kun!" – muttered Kurumi with a pout.

Halt…

At this moment Kurumi suddenly stopped and the basket in her hand also fell to the ground with a soft noise.

No matter how much she tried Kurumi couldn't even move a single step.

As a kunoichi of the Uchiha Clan, Kurumi naturally realized that she had been attacked by some sort of technique, her first thought was, 'Could it be Nara's Shadow Imitation Technique?' but looking around there was no shadow that restrained her, so obviously that idea was immediately discarded.

Then the thought clicked that her position was still not very far away from Shin-Kun, she tried to shout for help but even if she opened her mouth, no sound came out of it!

'How is that possible!?' – now Kurumi was a little panicked.

However, without waiting for her to calm down, she felt something attached to her body and suddenly she lost control over her body.

Now all she could do was watch as her body moved under someone's control and no matter how she resisted, it didn't have any effect.

On a nearby tree.

The Root ninja responsible for monitoring Uchiha Shinichi also noticed the abnormality of Uchiha Kurumi, while frowning a little he muttered in confusion, "What's wrong with her?"

Before he could clearly deduce what might be happening to her, the stagnated Kurumi suddenly moved and rushed towards him at an astonishing speed.

Because of the mysterious disappearance of the previous Root Ninja responsible for monitoring Uchiha Shinichi, this one was extremely vigilant of the other party, so even if Uchiha Kurumi acted a little strange and rushed towards him, he didn't panic much and directly took out a Kunai to meet the incoming strike.

While blocking her attack he asked her sternly, "What are you doing girl? Do you want to betray Konoha?"

However, he received no reply from her.

Although there was clear panic in Kurumi's eyes, this didn't stop her from carrying out swift and clean attacks. Without even the passage of a moment; more than a dozen shuriken were already shot towards the Root Ninja, cutting off all of his escape routes.

Ding… Ding… Ding…

After blocking the shuriken attacks from the girl, his doubts intensified.

As a Shinobi of Darkness, he has heard of all types of weird Jutsu under Danzo-Sama's teaching, so the moment he noticed the panic in the girl's eyes, he understood that the matter isn't as simple as it may seem.

While continuing to dodge and block her attacks, the Root ninja asked authoritatively, "What's wrong with your state?"

Kurumi wanted to speak, she tried hard to shout, to answer, to tell him that she was being controlled, that her body wasn't responding to her, but no matter how much she tried, no sound came out, she could only carry out attacks like a puppet.

In desperation, tears started to stream out of her eyes.

She didn't want this! What wrong did she do to go through this? With no hope whatsoever left she could not even think of a way out of this.

Seeing the tears coming off of the girl's eyes, the Root ninja was now sure that she is being controlled, so to avoid causing any unnecessary damage, he decided to move away from her for now.

After all, the scene before him is definitely being played under someone's directive, which means there are definitely more enemies hidden somewhere and they are using the girl to meet some purpose that he doesn't understand for now but that doesn't mean he is going to play as per their script.

So, avoiding will be the best option or lead her towards that Uchiha kid, maybe he could help her calm down!

But just as the Root ninja was about to flicker away, he found that his body wouldn't budge, even after applying all his strength, the Root ninja couldn't move an inch.

"This!?"

As soon as he realized that his body was out of his control, his heart went into a frenzy!

Now he realized just what was happening to Uchiha Kurumi.

But even if he realized, it was too late already.

Uchiha Kurumi's body rushed towards him in straight, and the Kunai that he was tightly holding in his right hand was raised-even after the resistance he tried to put-and slammed into her chest.

Puff…

Blood spurted out of her chest and mouth as the Kunai pierced her chest.

Uchiha Shinichi who rushed over to this place upon hearing the noise of the metal collision froze for a second as soon as he saw this scene.

His mind went blank at the scene of Kurumi being pierced.

In panic and anger, Shinichi roared angrily, "What the hell did you do to her!?"

However, the Root ninja couldn't take care of the Uchiha's brat, he was more panicked than he ever was in his life as a shinobi, because the moment his Kunai pierced the girl's chest, he found out that he has regained control over his body.

Realizing just what has happened; his heart shuddered, he understood that they were all acting in the palms of some third party who might just be having the time of his life as he /she watched them all kill each other.

Uchiha Shinichi's look clearly dictates that he wouldn't listen to any explanation, after all, why would he? The kid literally saw the girl being pierced through the chest by him! So, without bothering to even try, the Root ninja rushed towards the village with everything that he had.

Uchiha Shinichi stumbled towards Uchiha Kurumi's body, hugging her he shouted in desperation as he ran towards the village while carrying her "Kurumi, y-you are going to be okay! I swear… just stay with me… you hear… We will rush to the Konoha hospital immediately and they are going to treat you… it will take some time… but you are going to recover… just stay with me!"

Kurumi was already dying, even the last bit of her consciousness was about to fade away, but feeling the sensation of warm tears on her cheek, she mustered the last bit of the strength and stretched her hand to wipe the tears on Shinichi's cheek as she weakly murmured, "Shin-Kun, be… ca... re…. f…. u…. l…. th-…"

However, before she could finish, the last of her breath disappear and her hand fell lifelessly.

Shinichi who was running towards the village with all his strengths stopped midway.

"No! No! No!"

"Kurumi! KURUMI!"

"Kurumi! It's not good to joke around like this… please wake up Kurumi… I am sorry! I promise I wouldn't ever shun you… please just wake up! Kurumi! A-At least complete the sentence, DAMN IT!"

However, no matter how much Shinichi shouted, nothing worked, the girl in his arms was already gone.

Kneeling to the ground Shinichi cried hoarsely. His mind was completely blank as he couldn't think of anything at the moment. There were only memories of the time he spent with Kurumi that continued to flash before him.

He didn't even notice that the 3 tomoe in his Sharingan were spinning rapidly as they started to join together…

On the tree.

Zetsu asked curiously, "Looks like they are going to change! By the way, how did you know that he is qualified? His strength is obviously not the best in the Uchiha Clan, right?"

After pondering a little masked-man replied, "Opening Mangekyou has nothing to do with the strength. It depends upon innocence, of course, it doesn't matter whether a person is simplistic or complicated, good or evil, the more innocent and purer one's emotion, the greater the probability of them opening the Mangekyou…"

While explaining, masked-man seems to have fallen into some memory…

Zetsu looked around curiously, but he seemed to disagree with the masked man's words…

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After a sorrowful cry, the spinning speed of the three tomoe in Shinichi's eyes gradually slowed down, while tears continued to flow out of his, dripping on Kurumi's cold body.

Seeing the scene from a distance, Zetsu said with some regret, "Unfortunately, it still didn't succeed!"

However, the masked man wasn't disappointed with the result, "Don't worry…"

Zetsu asked the masked man, "But your plan failed, didn't it?"

"This is just the beginning." With a cold chuckle, the masked man said funnily, "Do you think Uchiha Shinichi will let go of the Root ninja who killed the girl?"

Zetsu shook his head.

This was obvious. Anyone who encounters such a thing won't let go of the murderer, not to mention Shinichi is an Uchiha.

And being the straight forwards person he is, he might not even be able to figure out the complexity of the situation.

Then the Masked man asked with a smirk, "And do you think Shimura Danzo will hand over the Root ninja?"

Zetsu shook his head negatively.

With Shimura Danzo's character, even if the Root ninja didn't actually kill the girl, he wouldn't hand over his men. For Danzo, to agree to hand over the culprit would actually mean to bow to the Uchiha Clan, which is something he won't do even if it means death.

As if to realize what might happen in that case, Zetsu nodded, "No wonder you wanted me to let the Root ninja escape!" as he talked, Zetsu suddenly became anxious, "But wouldn't Danzo notice our involvement if the root ninja reports the situation to him?"

To this, the masked man stated indifferently, "They have already noticed us a long time ago."

During the Kyuubi's rebellion, the masked-man fought against Yondaime Hokage of Konoha, and that fight left a lot of traces in the surroundings, so the Konoha advisors have long since noticed that someone was manipulating the whole incident by hiding in the Darkness.

It's just that they can't actually confirm whether this man behind the scenes was a shinobi hidden within the Uchiha Clan of Konoha or some third party outside the village.

As for Danzo's opinion on this?

Shimura Danzo didn't conceal his malice against the Uchiha clan for a very long time, so even if he knows that it might just be a third party outside the village, he wouldn't mind putting the blame of it all on the Konoha's very own Uchiha Clan, after all this would give him an excuse to target them!

At this time Zetsu asked while tilting his head to the side, "Then what are we going to do now?"

"Hahaha… wait for the show!" With a chuckle, the masked-man said jokingly, "The seed of hatred that had been sowed into Uchiha Shinichi's heart has sprouted, witnessing Kurumi's death was all the water the sprout needed, not being unable to exact revenge for her death would be the manure and fertilizer, and finally he will bear the fruit of disappointment!"

Zetsu asked in an impressive voice, "Then what will he do with that fruit?"

"He will hate! Hate Danzo, hate Konoha, hate Uchiha, and hate the world itself! The disappointment with the world will finally give birth to the Mangekyou and that will be the fruit we will reap!" the masked man said with surety as if he had already anticipated the future.

Zetsu asked with wonder, "Will the fruit be tasty?"

"That's something we will find out soon enough!"

Zetsu turned to look towards Uchiha Shinichi who was walking towards the village holding Kurumi's cold body and asked casually, "But what happens if he isn't able to awaken Mangekyou Sharingan? I think you are wasting too much time on him."

The Masked-man looked towards Shinichi's departing back and murmured with coldness in his eyes, "A good and useful chess piece is always worth the effort."

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Land of Wind

In the desert with no end in sight, Kuroto continued walking while silently observing the Caravan of the Roran Survivors from a distance.

It has already been 10 days since the time he sneaked out of the Konoha Village.

According to his estimates, it would take around 6 days more to successfully escort them to the Land of Rain, and then he would use the remaining 4 days to return to Konoha as fast as possible.

'Fortunately, Shisui agreed to cover for my absence for 20 days!' – thought Kuroto as he continued to watch the surroundings.

Just then an Eagle cry sounded from a distance!

Kuroto paused and turned over towards the direction of the sound and saw an eagle hovering in the sky. From its flight path, it seemed to be searching for something.

Obviously, this Eagle is no ordinary bird, but a trained summoned beast.

Watching the Eagle from the distance, Kuroto's lips curled into a smirk under the mask as he muttered, "As expected of one of the great Shinobi Village, Sand Village's reaction speed isn't any slow either, already discovered our tracks!"

Shaking his head helplessly, he didn't do any unnecessary actions and just stood quietly on his spot, seemed to be waiting for someone.

Without much delay, a figure appeared in front of Kuroto and knelt on one knee respectfully, and spoke with a mechanical tone, "Kuroto-Sama, a four-men team of Sand Village is chasing!"

This person is none other than the Sandaime Kazekage puppet.

Over the past few days, since he was following behind the Roran Survivors, Kuroto took advantage of that time to temporarily complete a fusion seal with the Ryuumyaku, as such he became the Ryuumyaku's Jinchuriki.

Since then, Kuroto has deeply realized that the Ryuumyaku Chakra is vastly different from the ordinary.

Firstly, since the chakra of the Ryuumyaku contains a large proportion of the energy from the ley lines, which is pure natural Energy, therefore its density is significantly higher, which is not something easy to use by ordinary shinobi.

Because of this Kuroto can't directly use the Ryuumyaku Chakra to fuse it with the Tenseigan, so whenever he wants to use the Ryuumyaku Chakra, he has to first refine it to avoid the corrosion of natural energy.

And it takes some time to refine the Ryuumyaku Chakra into Tenseigan Chakra.

Secondly, Kuroto discovered that the Ryuumyaku has an instinctive self-healing ability, it was probably because the intention of the first generation 'Origin' was to heal itself, therefore without even a need for medical treatment Kuroto's wounds will now heal much faster.

Finally, since Ryuumyaku has no resentment towards the humans; like that of the nine-tailed beasts, and because of its weak sentience, taming it is much easier, especially for Kuroto with the Tenseigan.

After refining a large amount of Tenseigan Chakra, the first thing he did was to infuse it into the Kazekage Puppet.

Kuroto wanted to try and see if using a large amount of Chakra can somehow improve the self-consciousness of the puppet.

Although the soul of the original Kazekage didn't appear much to Kuroto's disappointment, the autonomy of the puppet still improved, as a sense of self; started to develop in it.

And not long after, the puppet even became capable of speech which came as an unexpected surprise.

Kuroto has already completely studied the Kazekage puppet when he obtained it, and back then he noticed that the voice box in it has been removed by Sasori, therefore Kuroto was much surprised because of the speech ability.

In curiosity, he obviously checked what could be the cause of it?

So, observing it carefully with the Tenseigan, he discovered that the Kazekage puppet used the chakra to stimulate the shape of the voice box that gave the puppet speech ability, but because of missing the original organ, the tone of voice is still mechanical.

If it was previously, Kuroto would obviously not allow such waste of Chakra, but now that he has Ryuumyaku as an artificial tailed beast, he isn't that much troubled with a little waste of chakra for convenience's sake.

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"A four-man team?"

Understanding that it was just a four-man team behind him, Kuroto pondered a little and finally decided to deal with the trouble himself.

After all, it will still take around 5 to 6 days for the convoy of Roran survivors to enter the territory of Rain. If their traces are exposed then it would bring an endless number of Sand Ninja here which is something Kuroto isn't interested in dealing with.

Making up his mind, Kuroto ordered the Kazekage puppet, "You'll follow the convoy from a distance!"

"Yes!" Kazekage puppet responded with a courteous nod and disappeared with a body flicker.

… Tenseigan…

With Kazekage's disappearance, Kuroto activated his Tenseigan to confirm the position of the four-man team of the Sand ninjas, as soon as he found their exact position, Kuroto also disappeared with a body flicker and rushed towards them.

In just a few breaths, he was already standing in front of the coming four man-team of Sand ninjas.

As soon as the ninjas of Sand Village saw a person appear in front of them; they didn't talk any nonsense and immediately scattered around and fired a signal.

The person standing in front of them was covering his body with a pure black cloak and a red demonic mask on the face, clearly highlighting the term 'Suspicious' no matter where you look.

Kuroto also didn't stop their action and let them send a signal to notify other search parties.

Kuroto can guess that the Sand Village is definitely going to carry out a comprehensive search of different regions, if he kills this four-man team, then he would literally be notifying them that there is some problem in this direction.

So, his aim is not to kill them but disrupt Sand's Search operation by confusing them, which would delay them as much as possible.

Not making them wait much longer another four-man team soon rushed over.

The leader of the team who was a chunin guarded himself with a defensive stance and asked sternly, "Who are you? Why are you here in the middle of nowhere?"

Kuroto noticed that the attention of all the sand ninjas presents around fell upon him, so tilting his head sideways he laughed comically, "Hehehe…"

"Me!? I am Oni-Man! As for why I am here…?" The last part of the sentence was said in an intimidating voice to increase the hype.

Waiting for Kuroto to complete the sentence, traces of sweat started to flow out of the ninjas present.

"I am here because…"

"I am here to…"

"Just speak already would you!" shouted the chunin in frustration.

"Alright, alright, don't get angry ninja-san it's not good for your health, hahaha..!" – Kuroto.

"That's it, I am done liste…"

"Wait-wait, you can't kill me don't kill me, at least… at least, before I die, let me at least speak my last words before I die…"

"Fine! Just get on with it already!"

"I am here…" whish… "Phew, that was dangerous!" Kuroto said as he wiped the fake sweat on the top of his mask.

"That was the last chance, next time instead of one shuriken, dozen will come, you hear."

"Hai hai, so as I was saying until leader-san interrupted me midway, which is not a very good thing, interrupting others midway could… cough-cough.. alright- alright… I get it… so I was here just to… play-catch-with-you-people…" – Kuroto stated the last part in one breath and immediately ran away and disappeared in the sand dunes in the blink of an eye.

The eyes of everyone were like buttons because of the unexpected action, all this hype just for this!!!

The person was obviously dressed as a suspicious person, not to mention his current actions actually ticked off the chunin leader so he naturally wouldn't let go of him so easily.

As a result, the scene became with Kuroto running in front and a large group of Sand ninjas chasing behind, while shouting constant insults at him, and this number kept on increasing.

While teasing them occasionally, Kuroto smiled secretly.

Kuroto's intentions are obvious, to disrupt the movements of the personnel involved in the search. And that's just exactly what he has done… Although he understands that some sensible ones would have noticed what he is doing but because they are ticked off, complementing with his suspicious identity, doesn't allow them to let him escape.

For the next few hours, Kuruto and Sand ninja played a game of catch, the number of chasers became as much as 40 Sand ninjas, Kuroto was very happy with this, the more the people chasing him, the more their search directions collapses.

"Assuming that the one four-man team is in charge of one region, by now I have disrupted about ten regions." – thought Kuroto while analyzing the results as he observed the chasing ninjas behind him.

By now the search of ten regions has already been disrupted, and become a mess, even if Sand wants to sort it out again, it will take time, not to mention they will have to start from scratch.

With his purpose achieved, Kuroto suddenly came to halt, following which all the 40 ninjas also came to a sudden halt, while everyone was catching their breaths, Kuroto spoke while raising his hand, "Alright everyone… it was fun playing catch with you all… let's play this game some other time again… until then goodbye…!!!" – after a courteous bow he immediately used the body flicker technique adding the effect of Rein Wheel interaction, his body turned into an afterimage and disappeared in the sand.

Looking at the figure that disappeared, everyone's eyes were like saucers and by the time no trace of his presence was left, mayhem broke out.

"Where did he go all of a sudden!?"

"How come disappeared in the blink of an eye?"

"I saw him, he suddenly accelerated and fly away!?"

"What nonsense are you talking about, how could he fly!?"

"Aww man, I was starting to enjoy this game of catch!"

"I know right!"

"Can we please eat now? I am hungry!"

The sand ninja who suddenly lost their target became a mess.

These sand ninjas are mostly genin class and a few chunin rank.

It is very easy for them to catch the Roran survivors who are just ordinary civilians, but it's a dream to catch Kuroto.

On the other side, Kuroto who just left behind the dumbfounded Sand ninjas was galloping on the desert alone.

Before he obtained the Ryuumyaku, Kuroto always needed to be mindful of his chakra consumptions, so playing such a game of Catch was never possible for him as it causes severe chakra loss, but now he can be a little unscrupulous.

After a while of running, he stopped and gasped for breath.

Although playing with the Sand ninjas was fun, Kuroto still can't be messy, after all, continuous use of the Body Flicker technique is also not very easy, so his body was a little overwhelmed.

"Heh… seems like I still can't be so careless!" – muttered Kuroto helplessly.

After a short rest, Kuroto sensed the position of the Kazekage puppet, then went towards it making a big circle around.

Three and a half days passed quickly.

These days, the Roran Survivors didn't stop at all and continued their travels for 24 hours a day, because of continuously rushing they managed to walk out of the deserts of the Land of Wind.

Now the land was hard and dried, therefore it was relatively easy to walk around in these areas.

Spreading a map on the ground, Kuroto muttered to himself, "As long as they cross the dried lands, they will successfully cross the border and enter into the territory of the Land of Rain."

After escorting the Caravans into the Land of Rain, Kuroto would no longer care about them.

At this point, he has already done everything he could for them. As for how Sara and the rest of the Roran Survivors live their lives in the Land of Rain, Kuroto neither has the ability nor any interest to intervene.

While he was thinking, Kazekage puppet who is in charge of the investigation came back with his report, "The Sand ninja have caught up!"

Listening to Kazekage's, Kuroto glanced in that direction coldly.

His previous plans successfully disrupted Sand Village's entire search operation, but as time passed, and based on the intelligence reports they must have gathered in the past few days; the high level of the Sand Village must have realized that the Roran Survivors are trying to escape into the territory of the Land of Rain.

Therefore, Sand Ninjas rushed in this direction and caught up with them.

Looking at the Sand ninjas that kept getting closer and closer, Kuroto muttered calmly, "Since you all have a death wish, then I might as well help you all with it…"

Initially, Kuroto had no interest in killing these Sand ninjas, not only would their death be meaningless but he would also be giving away intelligence of his abilities, but at this point, Sand Village has basically locked the position of the escape route Roran Survivors are taking, so simply disturbing their search directions would be useless, therefore Kuroto has no choice but to kill them here…

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Wheeze…

A gust of wind blew past rolling up the yellow sand into the sky.

Standing alone on the ground, Kuroto glanced coldly at the incoming 8 Sand ninjas.

Without moving his gaze from their direction, Kuroto completed handprints for the Tenseigan Chakra Mode.

Huala…

Instantly, Kuroto's body was covered in the cyan-blue chakra cloak.

As soon as he entered the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Kuroto's temperament changed completely, he appeared to be a God looking indifferently at some mere mortals while hovering in the air.

For him, these 8 ninjas were nothing more than some ants, although unworthy, they will still have to make do with being his test subjects.

While silently experiencing the consumptions of his chakra, Kuroto concentrated on condensing Truth-Seeking Balls.

First…

Second…

Third…

After condensing the third one, Kuroto frowned slightly.

He could feel that his body was feeling a little strained with the condensation of the third black orb. He feels that if he continues to bring out more truth-Seeking Balls, his chakra refining speed might not be able to keep up with the consumption speed.

"But why is that the case?" – Kuroto muttered with a thoughtful expression.

In actuality, Truth-Seeking Ball is the condensation of the 7 Chakra Natures. Therefore, theoretically, the basic requirement of condensing Truth-Seeking Ball should be mastery of the changes of all 7 chakra natures. If that isn't done then condensing Truth-Seeking Ball is even beyond some dream.

This is also the reason why only a handful of people were able to condense the truth-Seeking Ball, even in the original series.

Excluding Kaguya, Hagoromo, Hamura, and Otsutsuki Asura were the only three people capable of such feat for the next millennia, and after that too, only, Obito, and Madara, who became the Jubi's Jinchuriki, and Naruto because of the power given to him by Hagoromo and finally Toneri, who awakened the Tenseigan dojutsu could use Truth-Seeking Balls.

Among all these people only Kaguya and her two sons Hagoromo and Hamura were the three capable of condensing the Truth-Seeking Balls without relying on any external factors.

As for Asura, Obito, Madara, Naruto, and Toneri, they all relied on some external source to have the qualitative improvement of their strength.

Each of them needed to be in some special state where they borrowed Chakra from some source to be able to use Truth-Seeking balls.

When thinking of all this, Kuroto suddenly realized something.

Only by strengthening his control over the 7 basic chakras natures will he be able to easily and more freely use truth-Seeking Balls, otherwise he can only condense them forcefully using the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, but that would put a burden on his body.

And unlike the superb talent of Toneri, Kuroto is obviously quite mediocre, so his struggle will be much more than what Toneri went through.

But this didn't worry him much, after all the lack of talent can still be supplemented with hard work and science.

Understanding his next course of actions, Kuroto finally directed his attentions towards the Black Orbs floating around him.

In these upcoming tests that he would be conducting, Kuroto intends to see what his current upper limit is after becoming Ryuumyaku's Jinchuriki!

Therefore, even if burdensome, Kuroto still condensed more Black Orbs.

Fourth…

Fifth…

2 more black orbs condensed around him and floated by his side.

After reaching the fifth, Kuroto felt that this is his current upper limit, if he condenses any more black-orbs, he will be forced to exit the Tenseigan Chakra Mode due to being overwhelmed.

But he was still very satisfied with the result.

After all, previously without relying on the Ryuumyaku's Chakra, Kuroto couldn't even completely use one Truth Seeking ball, and now he has access to 5 orbs, such an improvement is not just considered at the level of 'Rapid' anymore.

At this time the 8 Sand ninjas finally arrived in front of Kuroto.

Judging from the Chakra reaction he perceived, Kuroto judged that 2 of them are Jonin while the rest are chunin.

While Kuroto was observing the ants, Sand ninjas were also analyzing the person.

From just the fact that the person was floating and the heavy chakra pressure that was being emitted around him, their scalp felt numb.

Chakra pressure aside, the ability to fly alone indicated that the enemy wasn't some ordinary shinobi, after all, the ninjas that are known to be capable of flight in the shinobi world are obviously beyond Jonin Class, whether it the Sandaime Tsuchikage or the Kazekage with their magnet Release, all are known to have Kage-Class strength.

Therefore, all 8 of them were feeling kind of nervous.

Although nervous, but ninjas are ninjas, for shinobi tasks are more important than their own as well as the team's life.

So, gritting his teeth, one of the Jonin asked sternly, "Are you the person who stole the Ryuumyaku?"

Kuroto didn't bother to answer but slowly drifted towards the Sand ninja who asked this question.

The Sand ninjas were obviously ignorant of what the Tenseigan Chakra Mode is and how horrifying the Truth-Seeking Ball could be, but this didn't prevent them from feeling the instinctive fear of death like any creature does.

To calm down the other ninjas around him or probably to ease his own nervousness, the Jonin leader hastily shouted, "Do it!"

Even before his words were finished, he completed the seal and roared in an aggressive tone,

Ox – Rat – Ram – Tiger – Dog – Tiger -

"Fire Release: Great Tiger Flame Technique!"

At the same time, the three Chunin of his team also co-operated with him tacitly and shouted in unison:

Dog – Horse – Bird –

"Wind Release: Breakthrough!"

Boom…

Fire style was complemented with Wind Style.

The heat of the flame grew with the wind and the huge fire tiger dashed towards Kuroto at extreme speed while riding on the Breakthrough winds!

However, Kuroto wasn't impressed, he just raised his hands slightly.

Instantly, one of the black orbs circling around his back appeared in front of him, and under his command, it morphed into a hemispherical shield to block the attack.

Bang…

Taking advantage of the wind, the flame tiger pounced on the black hemispherical surface and exploded upon impact.

Seeing the attack connect with the person, the three chunin were immediately happy.

"It hit!"

"Success!"

"He should be dead!"

In their opinion, the flame tiger that was supplemented with the Wind Breakthrough from the 3 chunin, leading to a combined Jutsu isn't something that even the Kage's would dare resist, and here this person dares to face this Jutsu openly?

Obviously, he shouldn't survive this!

Too bad there were in for a harsh awakening!

Whoosh…

The dust scattered due to the explosion was blown away because of the sharp wind that passed by.

With the disappearance of the dust, the black hemispherical shield appeared in the vision of the sand ninjas. From the looks of it, there was neither a single crack nor any change in its shape. The powerful combined Jutsu was like a simple firework for it.

Seeing this scene, the chunin all gulped heavily.

"How come?"

Even the Jonin were shocked. Although they all felt instinctive danger from those circling black orbs, no one expected that their attack couldn't even cause slight damage to it!

Feeling that the situation might get worse, the second Jonin hurriedly shouted, "Nobu, those black orbs are weird!"

The Sand Jonin named Nobu who just used the Fire Style Jutsu also suppressed the shock in his heart and shouted towards the other Jonin while trying to restore his composure, "Yusuke, as expected this guy isn't easy, let's attack together!"

The Jonin named Yusuke nodded and immediately bit his hand and pressed on the ground lightly, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

Puff…

With a loud noise, the entire sand dune began to shake as the vague presence of a monster appeared in the sand…

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With his Tenseigan vision, Kuroto confirmed that there was a huge sandworm crawling in the sand dunes.

The amazing thing to note is that not only the size of the Sandworm is especially large but it also has a high chakra, and among some of the ninja beasts Kuroto has personally seen, this sandworm would only be inferior to Orochimaru's summon snake, Manda!

And such strength is no joke, after all, Manda is the Boss summon of the Snakes of the Ryuchi Cave, therefore, obtaining such a summon beast is quite rare.

Therefore, Kuroto was impressed, it's just that he was only impressed and nothing more.

While curiously observing the Sandworm, Kuroto decided to wait and see what will the enemy ninjas do.

Obviously, these ninjas don't know that Kuroto has no plans to let them escape, all they will be useful is for Kuroto to measure himself, especially in using the Truth-Seeking Ball, he still needs to get familiar with it.

After all, starting from the point when Kuroto learned to use the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, he has had only a few opportunities to come into the contact with the Truth-Seeking Ball, and most of the time, he was either in a desperate state or didn't have enough chakra at his disposal to be able to successfully familiarise himself with the use of Truth-Seeking Ball.

This is the first opportunity when he has both the necessary time and enough Chakra, so Kuroto doesn't plan to let this opportunity go to waste, otherwise who knows when will the next chance come?

So, while Kuroto was curiously observing the Sandworm crawling beneath, Yusuke gave Nobu and other Chunin ninjas a glance around and nodded in tacit understanding.

In just a short eye contact the eight Sand ninjas discussed their tactics.

"Wind Release: Twin Tornado Technique!"

All the chunin released the Twin Tornado techniques instantly, and at the same time, the giant sandworm hiding in the sand dunes spit out a giant sand pillar under Yusuke's command, the sand spiraled along the various small tornadoes circling around and covered the entire area in shoot and sand causing a sandstorm effect.

Seeing this Kuroto shook his head in pity for them, "So, they are trying to deprive me of my vision by the sandstorm?"

While Kuroto was analyzing the changes around him, Nobu took out two scrolls.

Puff… puff…

With a puff of smoke two puppets appeared in front of him under the cover of the sandstorm.

By appearance, one of the puppets looked like that of a snake, however, instead of a smooth body, it had several joints along its body. And from the looks of it, each of the sections was movable to some degree. It was quite strange, to say the least, but what else can you expect from a puppet?

The other puppet appeared to be like a giant umbrella, with the diameter of the canopy being around 2 meters, at first glance Kuroto mistook it for a Kasa-Obake!

But that confusion was gone instantly.

All this happened under Kuroto's observation.

Glancing slightly, he perceived that the joints in the snake puppet were full of detonation charms while the belly of the umbrella-shaped puppet was filled with thousands of Senbons, and there was no need to guess that these Senbons would definitely be poisoned.

After Nobu was ready with the two puppets, his voice echoed in the Sand Storm, "Choose, whether you will surrender or die, I would be careful if I were you, underestimating us will only get you killed!"

And without waiting for any reply, he launched the attack.

The first to move was the snake puppet, it crawled inside the sand under Yusuke's command.

At the same time, a continuous barrage of poisoned Senbons was fired at Kuroto.

Seeing the incoming Senbons, Kuroto indifferently waved his hands and used the two Truth-Seeking Ball floating around him to block the barrage of poisoned Senbons.

Ding… Ding… Ding…

Countless Senbons hit on the wall of the morphed Black Orbs with a metal crashing sound.

But without any surprise, they all broke like a bamboo stick, and there was no change in the state of Black-Orbs.

While the Senbons keep on coming at him, the snake that went inside the sand crawled out of it beneath the point that Kuroto was hovering over.

Seeing the snake that was too difficult to notice for any ninja with a normal vision because of the sandstorm, Kuroto curled his lips condescendingly.

If it were any other ninja, he/she might have suffered quite damage from that hidden attack because the detonation charms in its joints were already lit and as soon as it appeared out of the sand it jumped to entangle Kuroto and caused a massive explosion.

Boom… Boom… Boom…

The explosions were so violent that it even stopped the sandstorm, resulting in the huge shock waves that even forced all the ninjas to retreat at a distance and cover their faces to meet the impact.

Boom… Boom… Boom…

The explosions continued for the next 1 minute…

It's a pity that Kuroto is no longer ordinary!

After everything became quiet, seeing that there seemed to be no movements and the scene was covered in the sand and dust, a chunin asked nervously, "D-do you think he is dead…?"

Gritting his teeth Nobu shouted to reassure the others, "Don't worry, he has to be dead by now, in that explosion I used more than 10,000 detonation charms, nobody could survive something like tha-…"

However, before he could complete his sentence, Yusuke exclaimed, "No!"

"What now? What's wrong?" – Nobu asked worriedly while the attention of all the chunin ninja was focused on him.

Shaking his head nervously Yusuke muttered in horrifying expression, "H-he is still alive… his chakra reaction hasn't disappeared!"

"What!? Are you sure? Nobody could survi-…"

"I know what I am saying, the sandworm can clearly feel the enemy's chakra reaction!" – Yusuke.

"How can this be!?"

"Who can survive such an explosion?"

"Even Kazekage-Sama wouldn't be able to escape unscathed in this situation!"

The chunin ninjas muttered one after another.

Even, Nobu frowned slightly and asked Yusuke tentatively, "Yusuke, could it be possible that the sandworm made a mistake?"

Looking at the sky that was covered in smoke and dust, Yusuke's expression became more solemn, and he muttered in a serious breath, "I am afraid not, I can clearly feel that it… it is scared of the thing that is inside there!"

Nobu was stunned hearing Yusuke's words and murmured to himself in surprise, "This disaster demon could also be scared of something?"

In the deserts of the Land of Wind, the giant sandworms have close to no natural enemies, all the birds, beasts, and humans are in its predatory range, and this specific giant sandworm was actually one of the King, for such an absurd existence to feel dread of something, Nobu felt that he was hearing something preposterous.

However, without waiting for Nobu to calm down, the sand that covered all the area was blown away by the sharp winds that originated from the center of the explosion site, as the view got cleared, the enemy's completely unscathed figure appeared before their very eyes.

Seeing that there was not even a wrinkle on the opponent's clothing, all Sand ninjas looked at each other with just one thought in their mind, 'H-he is a monster!'

All they could think of was that such a monster shouldn't even exist, how come they have to face him!?

Ignoring the horrifying looks that he was getting, Kuroto silently observed the changes in the truth-Seeking Balls, now again circling around him.

As soon as the Snake jumped out of the sand to coil around him, Kuroto wrapped himself inside a cocoon of morphed Truth-Seeking Ball, so even in the face of explosions caused by the combustion of thousands of Detonation Charms, Kuroto wasn't any troubled, other than some chakra consumption.

And indeed, as the Chunin muttered if it were anyone below the strength of a Kage, they would be dead if anything in the face of such an explosion!

But it's a pity that that's not the case here!

After confirming his state, Kuroto glanced indifferently at the Sand ninjas that were looking at him in a dumbfounded expression, "is that the best you can do?"

If this was all, then Kuroto was already bored, even if he had the intentions of continuing the tests, he still can't continue with it as they are still in the territory of the Land of Wind, and the more movements he causes, the more enemy ninjas will be attracted here, which would be a hassle to deal with, Kuroto has to also maintain the caution that a ninja should have.

Looking at the unscathed appearance of the masked person, Nobu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "This monster is not something we can deal with, Retreat!"

Following Nobu's order, all the Sand ninjas immediately fled in separate directions.

Curving his lips mockingly, Kuroto muttered, "Why are you all in such a hurry, don't you all want to dance!?" and clawing his right hand in the void, Kuroto made a grip to attract something backward.

All the eight ninjas that fled in different directions were immediately back to their original positions.

"Wh-What the hell!?" Even if it was the experienced Jonin like Nobu and Yusuke, they were left flabbergasted with the experience just now.

However, not minding their panic, Kuroto spoke sarcastically, "Why the hurry, let us dance, shall we?" then with a sudden 180-degree change of attitude he spoke with a cold voice, "Or maybe not!?" – as soon as he spoke, Kuroto pointed his hand towards Nobu.

With Kuroto's indication, one of the black orbs circling around his back shot out towards Nobu.

Upon seeing one of those horrifying things shot towards him, Nobu's skin crawled with panic, and instinctively he took out a Kunai to try to block that black orb.

Bang…

However, the black ball that was morphed into the shape of a sword directly cut through the kunai just like a hot knife slicing through butter, and without any resistance, it passed through Nobu's brain…

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"Nobu!"

Seeing the companion being turned to dust in just one blow, Yusuke and the other Sand ninjas were filled with grief and anger.

But even more than the grief or anger, there was the feeling of dread, in the desperate state they were all trembling with fear and lost their will to fight.

Everyone eyed the black Orbs with horrifying expressions!

No one could have imagined that these balls not only have the impeccable defense but also such an offense that the victim will instantaneously turn to dust!

That's practically cheating!

Beckoning back the orb that turned Nobu into dust, Kuroto remained calm all the while.

Using a simple Kunai to block Truth-Seeking Balls is beyond idiotic, so he wasn't much surprised by the result, it was all too reasonable.

But there was still a problem that Kuroto frowned upon.

A mere sand Jonin who was already in a panicked state could actually carry out the action of blocking by taking out a kunai in the mere moments it took for the black Ball to strike him under Kuroto's command, even if the defense didn't actually succeed, this still shows a problem!

What that problem is?

This shows that the speed of the attack wasn't fast enough, it is still too far from what Kuroto expects them to move.

Truth-Seeking balls are amazingly strong but if the attack doesn't even hit the target, what good would they do?

There is no shortage of fast people in the shinobi world, so unless his attack hits the target, otherwise it is all meaningless.

"It is still my lack of control!" Kuroto feels that improving his control over the truth-Seeking Ball should be put on the agenda as that is the best method through which he can advance to the combat class of Super Kage and beyond.

While Kuroto was mulling over these thoughts, the only remaining Sand Jonin Yusuke shouted to the six chunin around him, "I'll make sure to hold him off and you guys will run in a separate direction, remember we must pass on the information about him back to the village!"

The six chunin have long lost any will to continue to fight, additionally, they also know that waiting here means to be simply waiting for death, so without any need for a reminder, they all separated in different directions.

Kuroto was also bored with the continuous entanglement, so while still in the Tenseigan Chakra Mode he flew high in the air and telekinetically directed the five Truth-Seeking Balls towards the five fleeing Chunin at the fastest speed possible.

As soon as the black orbs came in contact with the five chunin, the ninjas one by one crumbled into dust, and after all the five were gone, all the five black orbs surrounded the last chunin, cutting off all his escape routes, and slowly divided his body into several parts that further turned into dust.

Without even a moment to pass, all the six chunin were already dead!

Seeing them all die so suddenly, Yusuke shouted hysterically, "You bastard, didn't I say that I will be fighting with you!"

Kuroto glanced at Yusuke thoughtfully.

Using all the Chakra, Yusuke formed several hand seals.

Bang…

Accompanied by a muffled noise, a huge sand wave rushed out of dunes blocking Kuroto's path.

Immediately afterward, the giant Sandworm crawling under the sand dunes also raised half of its body; and with its mouth opened in Kuroto's directions showing the large teeth, it appeared as if it will swallow him whole.

At this time Yusuke completed his seal printing and shouted in agitation, "Secret Technique: Sand and Earth Net Binding!"

Followed by the shout, a very viscous type of clayey soil was sprayed from his mouth, and at the same time, another type of viscous liquid was sprayed out of the Sandworm's mouth.

The two types of spray collided and merged together in mid-air and turned into a giant net that covered hundreds of meters in the sky, accompanied by the wind, the net was directed towards Kuroto who was hovering in mid-air as he observed everything carefully.

Since Kuroto wasn't sure whether this slimy net was poisonous or corrosive, so using the black orbs he immediately blocked the section around him.

While Kuroto defended against the attack, his attention was directed somewhere else as he curled his lips scornfully.

In the Tenseigan vision, Kuroto perceived that taking the advantage of Kuroto's attention being diverted, the Jonin Yusuke immediately jumped into the belly of the Sandworm, which dived directly into the sand and sneaked several meters below ground.

There is no doubt that Yusuke planned to escape by hiding in the stomach of his summoned beast Sandworm from the beginning.

Even the order he gave to the chunin ninjas of himself staying behind and letting them all escape was just a method to divert Kuroto's attention but unfortunately for him the six chunin died too fast that they couldn't even stall enough time for him to take any action.

The bait was useless, as Kuroto was too fast, so Yusuke had no other choice but to rely on some secret technique to try and escape.

But it's just that it was still all pointless.

"Pathetic!" – while muttering in disdain, Kuroto immediately got rid of whatever this secret technique was.

And at the same time, he flew parallel to the sand and followed the sandworm from above the ground.

The position of the Giant Sandworm was quite deep inside and its traveling speed was also rather fast; if it were any other ninja in Kuroto's stead then Yusuke would have definitely escaped but it's a pity that he got unlucky!

For Kuroto with the Tenseigan, tracking the giant sandworm and Yusuke was no big deal.

Conforming their trajectory, Kuroto stretched out his right hand slightly in a gesture of holding a sword.

Immediately all the Black Orbs floating at his back merged together at his palm, to which Kuroto focused a tremendous amount of his Chakra and muttered in a cold and indifferent tone, "Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"

Instantly, out of the spiraling large black orb, a Giant Long Sword of several hundred meters, made of pure Chakra that looked as dazzling as the sun itself appeared in Kuroto's hand.

"whew… Now that's what I call amazing!" – muttered Kuroto in the awe of his own power. Even if he knew of it, even if he expected it, but when the real thing was in his hands, Kuroto can't help but wonder at the power the sword holds in it.

With this sword in his hands, Kuroto felt omnipotent!

He felt that he could split apart continents!

In a sense, he now understands why the world was too small for Madara and Hashirama to play around with!

Faintly glancing at the sand dune below to reconfirm the Sandworm's position, Kuroto swung the Golden Sword that was hundreds of meters long without any hesitation.

Huala…

It felt as if space itself would be divided by its power!

There was a deep divide in the entire land; up to several kilometres.

From the divide, a huge amount of blood was sprayed out.

Kuroto glanced below only to find that the giant sandworm that was hidden more than a hundred meters deep had been cut in half along the vertical axis, i.e., from head to tail, by the swipe of the Golden Sword.

And the blood and fluids that flowed out of its body continued filling the divide.

No matter how powerful the summoned beast was, it couldn't resist even a single slash of the Golden Sword. This just goes to show how powerful this attack was.

After all, Toneri was able to cut the moon in half with this technique! What is just a mere giant King Sandworm!?

Just as Kuroto was about to deactivate the Golden Sword, he suddenly discovered that the Chakra reaction under the sand dunes hadn't completely disappeared yet!

With a quick confirmation, he found that the Sand Jonin that was hiding in the belly of the Giant Sandworm was lucky enough to escape the range of attack of the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!

Is this irony?

Kuroto murmured with a helpless expression, "Sure enough, even if you become a God, one can never be too careful in this forsaken Shinobi World!"

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A Sand four-man squad that was rushing towards the next checkpoint assigned to them for finding any traces of the missing Roran Survivors stopped suddenly.

The captain of the squad quickly questioned the last man at the back, "Hey, Akira! What happened? Why did you stop all of a sudden? Did you find anything?"

The Sand ninja named Akira who stopped all of a sudden pointed at the horizon on the left side in a daze, "Captain, look there! How come there is that golden light shining?"

Hearing Akira's words not only the captain but the rest of the members of the squad also turned to look at the left horizon only to find that it was shining brightly with a dazzling golden light. The brilliance wasn't any inferior to that of the Sun itself.

"Golden Glow?"

"Could it be the Sun?"

"Don't be idiotic fat chump, the Sun is shining above, how could it be Sun?"

"Then is it a Mirage?"

'Could it really be some sort of Mirage?' – thought the captain while observing the distant sky with a frowning expression.

And a similar scene was taking place around the other checkpoints where Kuroto's fight took place. Many four-man squads that were rushing to find the traces of Roran Survivors along the border connecting the Land of Wind and the Land of Rain all stopped and looked at the brilliant Golden Light Shining in the sky.

After some deliberation, the captain of the squad who was a Jonin asked the ninja next to him thoughtfully, "Check the map, see which squads are responsible for that direction?"

The ninja nodded and immediately answered after checking the map, "According to the details, Squad – 78 and Squad – 91 are responsible for that direction!"

"Squad – 78 and Squad – 91?... hmm...… If I didn't guess wrong, Nobu and Yusuke should be the Jonin captain of these two squads!" – muttered the captain while tapping his chin with a thoughtful expression.

As soon as the rest of the ninjas heard the Captain's words, everyone's expression sank as the captain muttered with a gloomy look, "Neither Nobu nor Yusuke can make such big movements in the battle, for something to have caused such a scene that its traces are visible all the way here means that something isn't right!"

"But captain are you really sure that the golden light might be coming because of some battle?" – asked a ninja in worry.

"Although I am not sure, this is still the most logical explanation, Akira check; if you can sense any chakra signature being emitted from that direction!" – ordered the captain in a hurry.

Nodding at the captain's words Akira crouched down and placed his hand on the sand as he concentrated on sensing the chakra fluctuations from the direction where the golden light was being emitted.

Not long after, Akira opened his eyes in a horrifying expression, and seeing his expression; the captain understood that he is right.

To confirm his guess, Akira muttered, "This is the first time I have sensed such dense Chakra, there is definitely someone there and he/she is very strong, but because of too heavy chakra pressure, I can't determine anything else."

The Jonin captain nodded, he already expected as much.

The Sand Village has already mobilized a majority of its forces to not only chase down the Roran Survivors but also to find the person responsible for stealing the Ryuumyaku and also to search for traces of the person named 'Oni' responsible for disrupting their entire search operation in the starting.

There is still no confirmation whether the same person is responsible for all these things or maybe more than one person or an entire organization, so without taking any chances Yondaime Kazekage mobilized most of the ninjas of the Sand Village.

After all, the Ryuumyaku was personally sealed by the Yondaime Hokage of Konoha, someone was not only able to successfully break through the seals; that their entire village couldn't accomplish in so many years, but also stole it overnight.

This alone shows that the person they are dealing with is not some ordinary ninja; if Sand Village can catch them then not only can they obtain the Ryuumyaku but also torture out the much-needed knowledge of Fuinjutsu from him.

This is the reason why all the ninjas were ordered to be extremely serious for this mission. Therefore, the spectacle in the distance made the sand ninja all over the border realize that something is happening in that direction, and this also worried them for the safety of the two squads that were responsible for searching there.

Everyone more or less guessed that ordinary ninjas can't make such a scene, so the only possibility is that the person who stole the Ryuumyaku is in that direction.

Realizing this, the Sand shinobi squads did not dare to delay any longer and immediately rushed to the place where they might find the person responsible for stealing the Ryuumyaku.

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On Kuroto's side.

"Damn it, the chakra consumption of the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion is too high!"

Just now, a single slash from the Golden Sword exhausted most of the Ryuumyaku Chakra that Kuroto has refined, so at this time he was a little reluctant to maintain the Tenseigan Chakra Mode.

But Kuroto can't afford to deactivate the Tenseigan Chakra Mode currently, at least not until he kills Yusuke, because no other attack could reach down to hundreds of meters below the ground, therefore Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion is his best bet!

After all, at that depth, no simple attack would eliminate the guy.

Gritting his teeth, Kuroto directly used the Ryuumyaku Chakra without refining and forcibly urged the Golden Sword to accurately slash the target using the weak Chakra he had at this time.

Anyone who has witnessed his Tenseigan Chakra Mode must be eliminated, otherwise, the intelligence of his abilities will be revealed, Kuroto doesn't want his existence to be known yet, so eliminating any and all witnesses is necessary and will save him from the unwanted hassle.

Huala…

The Golden Sword again cut the deserts into a deep divide, easily slashing hundreds of meters this time, and at the same time completely eliminating any signs of life in its path.

wheeze…

After confirming that the Sand Jonin Yusuke was dead, Kuroto sighed lightly.

But before he could relax, the golden Sword in his hands automatically collapsed.

Not just that, starting from his fingers, the Tenseigan Chakra Cloak started fading away following which his fingers started turning grey bit by bit.

"This!?"

In shock Kuroto hurriedly landed on the ground and used the remaining of the Tenseigan Chakra to resist the petrification effect that began to spread from the tip of his fingers.

However, because he has already used most of the Tenseigan Chakra that he had refined previously in using the truth-Seeking Balls and finally in the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, therefore the Tenseigan Chakra in his body wasn't enough to resist the petrification.

As a result, the petrification gradually started to spread from the tip of his fingers up to his wrist and down to the elbow.

"I-it's the corrosion from the invasion of Natural Energy!" – Kuroto was suddenly panicked because of the situation.

If someone hasn't mastered the Senjutsu, then the person will be gradually returning closer to nature by the invasion of the natural energy, so the petrification effect that is slowly spreading along his right hand will eventually turn him into a stone!

The reason why Kuroto's body is petrifying is that the natural energy present in Ryuumyaku's Chakra has invaded inside him.

If he refines the Ryuumyaku's Chakra into the Tenseigan Chakra before using it then there's no problem, but because he didn't have any option left at the last second, Kuroto had to directly use the Ryuumyaku Chakra for the second slash of the Golden Sword, so this is the result.

Initially, he thought that just using it once shouldn't be that much harmful but because the chakra consumption of Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion is too high, so he unconsciously allowed the invasion of a large amount of natural energy inside him, and since Kuroto is a complete stranger to Senjutsu, therefore, his body is being petrified.

Even after trying to resist the corrosion of Natural Energy, the petrifying effect didn't stop and continued to spread up to the shoulder!

Seeing that the situation was getting worse by the second, and if the petrification spread to his internal organs then everything will be over, so gritting his teeth Kuroto used the Secret Technique of Physical Regeneration to extract more Tenseigan Chakra from the new cells in his body to resist the Natural Energy's invasion.

It will cost him his lifespan but Kuroto can't care about it for now.

As soon as the chakra from the newly divided cells was extracted; the Cyan flames of the Tenseigan Chakra Cloak again lit and resisted the petrification effect.

Slowly but surely, the greyish hands started to turn normal, and finally, after a few minutes passed, his hand returned to normal once again.

After a while, the natural energy inside his body was also cleared off.

"Phew…"

Breathing a sigh of relief Kuroto thought to himself, 'Fortunately it happened now, otherwise if the invasion of Natural Energy were to take place during a battle, then I would have been done for!'

While being attacked by the Natural Energy, let alone fighting, even defending or escaping would become impossible while resisting the corrosion of the Natural Energy, so experiencing this now although scared him, he was still glad that he did.

After all, it's a blessing in disguise; with this prior knowledge, Kuroto can try to see if he can find any countermeasure or simply try to learn Senjutsu.

With that decided, Kuroto glanced at the battlefield one last time to confirm that everyone was dead and he didn't leave any traces of his identity, and after putting away all his thoughts he quickly disappeared with a Body Flicker.

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With his right eye closed, the face of Yondaime Kazekage was as dry as the surrounding desert while he observed the surroundings with a gloomy look.

Elder Chiyo who was pacing back and forth behind him came over and asked, "Are there any clues?"

Kazekage Rasa shook his head negatively.

Just now Rasa was scanning the surroundings using the Third Eye of Gold Sand, even after searching around several miles, he found no useful clues.

Listening Kazekage-Sama's response Chiyo sighed lightly… she wasn't much surprised by it as this wasn't beyond her expectation, because the desert is like this!

Over time, the wind and the surrounding sand naturally cover everything in the desert. So, even if the mysterious person did leave any traces, it would be almost impossible to find them as they would have gradually been covered in the sand.

After deactivating the Eye of Golden Sand, Rasa walked to the edge of the solid divide and looked at its depth with a frowning expression.

The kilometers-long thin divide is still the same as it was when Kuroto created it using the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion. Only because of the deposit of the blood and other colloidal body fluids, the edges were solidified, and the fact that the divide stretch for several kilometers, it was still very clearly visible.

Crouching at the edge of the divide, Kazekage lightly pressed his hand on the solidified surface and transferred Chakra into it.

While charging Chakra into the nearby sand he closed his eyes and sensed the situation at the depth, "The sandworm below is dead, and there are no other traces of any life left!"

Ebizo, another elder of the Sand village wrinkled his face upon hearing this, "Even if the King Sandworm was cut in half, it shouldn't have died, right?"

Sandworms by nature are the type of beasts with high self-healing ability. So, even if the body was cut in half, as long as the vital organs are fine, it should have survived.

What's more, the sandworms when hidden inside the desert sand are nearly invincible, so even with his rich experience, Ebizo finds it hard to believe that a Giant King Sandworm that was hidden hundreds of meters underground actually died, and what's more difficult to imagine is just how strong would have been the attack to cause such a creature's death?

Chiyo also asked Rasa with some doubt, "If I didn't guess wrong, only you are capable of doing such a thing in the village, right?"

After groaning a little Kazekage shook his head, "This sandworm died at a depth of several hundred meters, sure I can trap it at such a depth, but killing it would be difficult even for me, not to mention this one died with a single attack!"

The Honored Siblings were left speechless upon hearing Kazekage's reasoning.

In just a few words, they have already understood just what degree of strength does this mysterious person has!

After a long silence between the three, Ebizo asked with a thinking expression, "Who could it be?"

In the eyes of the three, the mysterious person who stole the Ryuumyaku definitely has strength higher than the Kage level, so, such a person shouldn't be unknown in the shinobi world!

Chiyo was still insistent on her judgment, "Only Konoha is capable of unlocking the seal used by Yellow Flash, so it has to be a Konoha Shinobi!"

While the three were discussing, a Sand Anbu ninja arrived in front of the three and reported, "Kazekage-Sama, Elder Chiyo, Elder Ebizo, we have followed the tracks left by them all the way and found that the survivors of Roran have crossed the border and entered into the territory of the Land of Rain!"

Rasa's eyes sharpened as soon as he heard Anbu ninja's report and muttered to himself, "Could it be the Demi-God, Hanzo's handiwork!?"

"Although it's hard to believe, the matter would still get troublesome if it was him!" – Ebizo said with a frown.

Under Pain's closed policy, all the external transmission of the Land of Rain was cut off, therefore, all the villages still believe that the demi-god Hanzo of the Salamander is still the leader of the Rain Village.

Even in the original story, the news of Hanzo's death was always covered by the Akatsuki, and it wasn't until Jiraiya personally sneaked into the Rain Village that he found a piece of shocking news that the demi-god had long been dead at Pain's hands.

"Kazekage-Sama, do we have to sneak into the territory of the Land of Rain to hunt down the Roran Survivors?" – asked the Sand Anbu ninja respectfully.

Kazekage shook his head after a little thinking.

Even if Kazekage Rasa is the leader of one of the five great shinobi Village, he wouldn't dare to underestimate the man known as the demi-god, so taking any action that might offend Hanzo of the Salamander without any solid proof is not possible!

After groaning a little while, Yondaime Kazekage said to the two advisors around him, "Inform Konoha's Hokage of the fact that the Ryuumyaku was stolen and see their reaction to this new!"

Both Chiyo and Ebizo nodded at the same time.

What can Sand Village do without having solid proof of who the actual culprit is?

Nothing!

All they can do for now is to inquire from other villages and judge the identity of the culprit from their reactions.

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On Kuroto's side.

While sitting cross-legged at the back of the Sandaime-Kazekage puppet, he hurried towards the village while summing up the whole experience from the previous battle.

"Truth-Seeking Balls have very strong defensive power, but as always the chakra consumption is too high, although I have Ryuumyaku at my disposal, it still doesn't give me an excuse to waste chakra needlessly, so it wouldn't be wise to solely rely on Black-Orbs for defensive purpose.

Moreover, the attack speed of the black-orbs is also not optimal, at least for now, it isn't. Using Black-balls for a sneak attack is fine, but for frontal combat, it is still not the best choice; as the enemy can avoid it if he/she is fast enough, not to mention, there is only a 70-meter range up to which the black-orbs are controllable. So, although extremely deadly, Black-Orbs are still not the most efficient!

It is also hard for me to maintain 5 Black-Balls for now, so three would just be fine, anyway, there are already techniques like Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion with excess power, there is hardly anyone in the current Shinobi world who can survive in the face of such attacks, so consuming too much chakra only to increase the intensity and degree of attack damage is not necessary for now."

While summarizing these short details, Kuroto glanced at his right hand again.

Undoubtedly his mentality was a little affected after becoming Ryuumyaku's Jinchuriki.

Lack of Chakra has always been his major limitation, lack of chakra is what has always held him back, after becoming the Ryuumyaku's Jinchuriki Kuroto got a little emotional by the sudden gain of power, and didn't pay enough attention to the enemy, and made some mistakes.

"Even a moment of carelessness will get you killed in the Shinobi World!" – Kuroto warned himself silently.

There are countless examples of such people that Kuroto knows.

Orochimaru was defeated twice by Itachi, even Madara, and Obito with Jubi's power suffered a similar fate, not to mention even Kaguya also suffered at the hands of Naruto's Reverse Harem Jutsu!

This teaches Kuroto that, no matter how strong a person becomes, he/she will face the same ending as these people if he/she becomes careless.

It's just Kuroto's luck that the mistake this time gave him some deeper insight into the chakra nature of Ryuumyaku. So, this incident could actually become an intermediary for him to develop an understanding of Natural Energy through Ryuumyaku!

Although Senjutsu users are rare, it is still not too unknown. As long as someone can use the Natural Energy present in nature without any negative effects upon them, they can more or less be classified as Senjutsu users.

And as known, there are various methods of learning Senjutsu including the Toad practitioner method of Mount Myoboku, the Snake practitioner method of Ryuchi Cave, and the Slug practitioner method of the Shikkotsu Forest.

Even the people of Jugo's clan can have direct contact with Natural Energy, although it affects their psychology, it is true nonetheless.

And the Cursed Seals developed by Orochimaru using the enzyme he collected from Jugo, is actually a method to attain Senjutsu, even if only by a percentage, it is Senjutsu nonetheless.

Regardless of the variety of methods to learn Senjustu, there is a common requirement of a 'Medium'.

For practicing Mount Myoboku's Toad Sage Mode, you need the Toad Oil to sense the Natural Energy.

Naruto was able to sense and absorb the Natural Energy present in the atmosphere with the help of the unique Toad Oil.

Kuroto has access to Ryuumyaku and since the Ryummyaku's chakra contains a very high amount of Natural Energy, and coupled with his Tenseigan's perception, Kuroto can sense this Natural Energy, so direct absorption of Ryuumyaku's chakra is akin to using Mount Myoboku's unique toad oil for him.

Tapping his chin Kuroto continued to ponder.

Learning Mount Myoboku's Sage Mode will make the user have the obvious characteristics of a Toad, and similarly using Ryuchi Cave's Sage Mode will make the user have obvious Snake characteristics.

These two points obviously illustrate a problem, and that is their suitability, these Senjutsu methods are devised for their own species and not actually for humans. Although Humans can learn and practice them, it doesn't mean that they were devised for humans.

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Konoha Village, Uchiha Clan.

Uchiha Shinichi knelt outside the Patriarch's mansion with a solemn face.

The death of Uchiha Kurumi has changed him into a cold and silent person, but he still didn't give up hope, because Shinichi firmly believes that the glorious Uchiha Clan would definitely not let the damn murderer go away.

Uchiha Shinichi firmly believes that the people of the Uchiha Clan will never die in vain!

Shinichi looked at the closed door in front of him with a hint of expectations in his eyes.

Currently, a meeting of the elite shinobi of the Uchiha Clan is being held past that door. The elites are discussing how to resolve Uchiha Kurumi's murder at the hands of the Root Shinobi.

While waiting for the meeting to complete, Shinichi frowned at the strangeness of his Sharingan.

Shinichi has noticed that his Sharingan has been acting strangely ever since Kurumi's death, sometimes it is a little uncontrollable and his insight has also increased significantly in the past few days.

If such a thing happened in the past, Shinichi would have definitely been very happy, and even arrogantly show it off to the other Uchiha, but with Kurumi's death, even if his pupil power increased, he has no mood to focus on such meaningless things.

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Inside Patriarch's Mansion.

Shisui was sitting at a corner with a tired expression.

This exhaustion was by no means caused due to maintaining a Shadow Clone to cover for Kuroto's absence for the past few days. All he feels is mental exhaustion and worry because the situation between the Uchiha Clan and Hokage-faction is at a more acute point.

If something isn't done, then no doubt, the two sides will fall apart.

And Shisui was able to sense the involvement of the third party in this scenario of Kurumi's death.

Firstly, Shisui also agrees with Kuroto-San's judgment that, the Advisory Council wouldn't want to test Uchiha Clan's patience before the Village successfully signs the peace treaty with the Cloud Village.

Another reason being that Danzo-Sama had no reason to issue an order to kill Uchiha Kurumi. Kurumi's Sharingan was also at 2 tomoe state, so Danzo-Sama wouldn't have done it for the Sharingan.

And even if, by some chances he did give such an order, then with the style of how Root Anbu operates, they would definitely go for a group attack, a quick ambush, and assassination, it is impossible to let Shinichi discover the incident and then flee in panic.

'No matter how I think about it, it most certainly is a trap!' – thought Shisui.

Kuroto-San did mention that there might be Uchiha descendant outside the village planning to harm the Uchiha Clan and Konoha, although Shisui understood that it could be possible, he still felt a little absurd about it, but upon rethinking and with how the pieces of the puzzle involving the Kyuubi's Rebellion, and now Uchiha Kurumi's death are being connected one by one leading to an unfavorable situation of the Uchiha Clan, Shisui has started to believe that might just be the case.

Even he has felt that there is some third party, hiding behind the scenes and secretly controlling everything for the Uchiha's doom!

"Danzo's Root Anbu dared to do such a thing and now Danzo refuses to hand over the murderer, this is a provocation to the Uchiha Clan, Faguku-Sama!"

"Yes, if we spare them, then next time he'll again do something like this!"

"Moreover, other Clans will also believe that the Uchiha Clan is a coward that bowed before that piece of trash!"

"We can't let go of this matter!"

All the Uchiha ninjas in the meeting room were agitated at Danzo's dirty means.

The Patriarch of the Uchiha Clan also had a serious face as ever.

"Silence!" – With Fugaku's order, everyone quieted down.

After pondering a little Fugaku glanced in Shisui's direction and asked, "What was Sandaime's response?"

Bowing his head, Shisui replied with a helpless expression, "Please forgive me Clan head, but my request for a meeting was denied."

Since the Anbu Team-11 was temporarily suspended, so Shisui lost his right to directly meet Hokage-Sama. Therefore, if he wants to meet Hokage, he needs to request a meeting appointment similar to all the other ninjas.

However, this time Shisui's request was straightforwardly rejected by Sandaime.

Hearing Shisui's reply; Fugaku's expression darkened.

Even Uchiha Fugaku can judge that something is amiss in this situation, but whether this matter is really related to Danzo or not, the Konoha Council's distrust towards the Uchiha Clan is clearly displayed here, if this continues, the Uchiha and Hokage-faction will eventually reach a point when there would be no option left other than the Rebellion.

Unlike the other people of the Uchiha Clan, Uchiha Fugaku is clearer about the situation of the Village.

Although Sandaime's strength has begun to decline due to old age, he is still one of the strongest shinobi of Konoha Village with a Kage Class strength, even Uchiha Fugaku himself with the Mangekyou is not sure to win one sided against Sandaime.

Coupled with the presence of the other three members of the Advisor Council, the Sannin Jiraiya, as well as other Anbu and Root elites, it is nearly impossible for the Uchiha Clan to successfully overthrow the Hokage faction.

More importantly, the intentions of the other Clans of Konoha are also ambiguous, if the Uchiha Clan is in a dilemma, they might just support the Uchiha, but if the Uchiha were to initiate a Coup D'état, Fugaku can be more than sure that they will never support the Uchiha Clan. And just to make the matters worse, most of the Clans might even side with the Hokage faction without any hesitation.

Therefore, Fugaku is also not sure what to do!

Looking at the agitated faces of the people, Fugaku sighed helplessly.

Fugaku doesn't want to restore the glory of the Uchiha Clan and become the Hokage at the cost of his people's lives. As someone who has awakened the Mangekyou, he knows full well what is the pain of losing your loved ones.

Although Fugaku doesn't express this, he is really worried about Uchiha's situation. If such a situation continued, the whole Uchiha Clan will be destroyed…

…

Konoha Village, Hokage Office.

While a meeting was being held in the Uchiha Clan to discuss what to do about Uchiha Kurumi's murder.

Another meeting was being held at the Hokage Office with the presence of Sandaime and the three Council Advisors.

Tuck… Tuck… Tuck…

Seeing the looks he was getting, Danzo tapped the cane on the ground in annoyance and said grumpily, "I said it already, this matter wasn't under my instructions!"

Hearing Danzo's answer, Utatane Koharu questioned with a cold expression, "Then how come a ninja of your Root killed the girl of the Uchiha Clan?"

After a slight hesitation, Danzo told the other three in the office about the exact situation reported to him by the Root ninja and added angrily, "I suspect that this incident was enacted by the Uchiha Clan!"

Listening to Danzo's explanation and his analysis, Homura asked solemnly, "Do you have any evidence to prove your words?"

"I don't have any and I don't care! I have already said that this must be their enactment to threaten us!" with an angry roar, Danzo continued, "I say that the Uchiha are just trying to threaten us by causing unrest while the village is negotiating with the Cloud Village!"

Shimura Danzo has always been the person to play his cards while hiding behind the scenes and use others as his scapegoat, this time, he was inexplicably blamed for the death of an Uchiha brat, so this made him extremely annoyed.

Although he vaguely realized that there might be some hidden forces manipulating strings from the shadows, now Danzo can only point his finger towards the Uchiha. As for who the person hidden in the shadows is?

That is another matter altogether, and he swears to find the person who dared to be more shameless than him!

Danzo's words made Sandaime a little upset.

The peace talks with the cloud village have been going unsuccessfully. It has already been several months since the conflict subsided but the differences between the representatives of both parties have made the negotiations quite unproductive.

As the attacked party, Sandaime's approval of the peace agreement has already put him in a tough spot, if he were to make concessions based on the terms stated by the Raikage-kid, it would be difficult to suppress the criticism he would receive even with his prestige as the longest-reigning Hokage, especially when you have Shimura Danzo as your second in command!

However, Cloud Village's attitude has been very tough and they have been continuously refusing to compensate the Konoha Village for the losses, and this has made Sandaime more annoyed.

Putting down his tobacco pipe on the ash-tray at the side, Sandaime stated firmly, "This matter you have reported just now, leaving out your personal analysis, must be clearly explained to the Uchiha Clan, no questions asked, I do not want any chaos in the village during the peace talks, is that clear?"

Listening to Hokage's order, Danzo asked coldly, "What explanation should I give them?"

Sandaime also knew that forcing Danzo too much is also counterproductive, so said with a calm voice, "Let your Root ninja go and explain the whole situation to Uchiha Fugaku personally. I believe that Fugaku is both wise and calm enough to not take any stupid action!"

"I will arrange it!"

Narrowing his eyes, Danzo nodded while gritting his teeth with a frustrated expression at the fact that he'll have to bow to the despicable Uchiha Clan.

If only he was the Hokage instead of Hiruzen!

This time Shimura Danzo lost half of the battle…

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Under Shimura Danzo's orders, the Root ninja who was responsible for Uchiha Kurumi's death appeared in the lands of the Uchiha Clan.

His arrival immediately caused an uproar, if not for the fact that Uchiha Fugaku himself came forward, it wouldn't have been strange if the Root ninja died under the siege of Uchiha Clansmen before he could even reach the Clan Head's house.

Uchiha Fugaku took the Root ninja into a secret room and only allowed Shisui to be present during the interrogation.

After all the clansmen left the secret room, Fugaku crossed his arms over his chest and questioned coldly, "So, why did you come here? I don't believe that with his character; Shimura Danzo would just send you here to die!"

The Root Ninja gulped nervously in the presence of both Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Shisui, without any hesitation, he immediately explained every detail of the incident, and finally added, "I was worried that the person hidden in the shadows would control either me or Uchiha Shinichi to cause more damage, so I left in a hurry without any explanation."

Listening to the Root ninja's explanation both Fugaku and Shisui fell into contemplation.

If what the Root ninja said is really the truth, then this matter is really not as simple as it may seem at first glance, and according to Fugaku's analysis, it also means that aside from the Hokage Faction, there is someone else that is targeting the Uchiha Clan while being hidden in the shadows.

After a bit of reasoning, Fugaku questioned, "So, according to your explanation both you and Kurumi were being manipulated?"

The Root hurriedly nodded.

Fugaku asked again, "Then can you tell me what kind of Jutsu controlled you? Was it some kind of Genjutsu? Or some kind of secret technique like the Shadow Possession Jutsu? Or some kind of Body Possession Jutsu?"

The Root ninja shook his head with embarrassment, "I am sorry, I don't know!"

Fugaku frowned, and a fierce light appeared in his eyes. Obviously, he didn't believe the Root Ninja's words.

At this time, Shisui suddenly activated his Sharingan and asked in a deep voice while looking into the eyes of the Root Ninja, "Was everything you said just now true?"

Without even realizing it, the Root ninja was already under Shisui's genjutsu and stated with a sluggish expression, "Yes!"

With the Root ninjas confirmation, Shisui nodded towards Fugaku, "Everything he spoke is true, as for the better understanding, he is either himself not clear or just doesn't know it all!"

Nodding at Shisui's confirmation, Fugaku asked in return, "What is your personal opinion on the matter?"

Shisui replied without any hesitation, "The fact that someone wants to provoke conflict between the Uchiha Clan and the Village is without a doubt true, Fugaku-Sama, we mustn't let that person's motive succeed by playing along with his script!

Even when I was in the Anbu, through some investigations I have found that even the Kyuubi's rebellion was under someone's directive, if we aren't careful then things would get worse!"

While contemplating over Shisui's response Fugaku waved his hand and added, "Alright, send him out!"

"Yes!" – With a courteous bow, Shisui deactivated the genjutsu applied on the Root ninja and left with him.

…

Outside the building.

Uchiha Shinichi who heard that the Root Ninja who killed Kurumi right before his eyes dared to arrive at the Uchiha Clan, was now feeling very excited. Initially, he also wanted to join the interrogation along with Patriarch, but since Fugaku-Sama only allowed Shisui inside, so he was impatiently waiting outside to take revenge against the bastard.

'Anyway, it's not like he will be allowed to leave here alive, so it's fine if I wait for a little, after all, revenge is a dish that's best served when cold.' – thought Shinichi when he remembered. Shinichi completely believes that Patriarch will not let the bastard leave and let him have his revenge!

Squeak…

At this time the door of the building slowly opened.

Shinichi Uchiha who was impatiently waiting outside the door immediately stared at the Root ninja who followed behind Shisui's back, with clear rage in his eyes.

Driven by his emotions, even his Sharingan activated itself.

Looking at Shinichi's raging expression, Shisui felt sad, he could more or less understand how Shinichi would be feeling right now, but even if wanted to help him, Shisui had no choice and said apologetically, "Shinichi, calm down, the matter of Kurumi's death is not as simple as you think it is, so don't act impulsively!"

Shinichi was taken aback by Shisui's words, but then he suddenly realized something and shouted with anger, "What the hell do you mean, by don't act impulsively!?"

"Don't let anger cloud your judgment, the patriarch ordered me to send him away!" – Shisui stated helplessly.

"How is this possible!? You can't be serious Shisui?" – Shinichi took a step back in a shocked expression, and muttered in a monotonous voice with his head bent, "Could it be that even Patriarch gave in?"

Shisui noticed that Shinichi's emotions were getting unstable by the second and his chakra was flaring ragingly, so Shisui was getting worried about what kind of action Shinichi might take while being clouded in emotions, so taking a step forward Shisui immediately activated his Mangekyou and cast a simple genjutsu on Shinichi.

In just a moment, Uchiha Shinichi fainted while being under Shisui's genjutsu.

Shisui stabilized Shinichi's fall and whispered calmly, "Now stay asleep, and let your emotions calm down!"

The Root ninja looked at Uchiha Shinichi who was easily subdued by Uchiha Shisui and finally relaxed a little. He also knows that the Uchiha Clan is not something he can deal with without Danzo-Sama's backing!

So, even if he is a Root ninja, he isn't acting arrogantly while being inside the enemy territory, after all, his identity is useless when facing a rogue who doesn't give a damn about it!

After seating Shinichi on a bench on the side, Shisui urged the Root Ninja, "Let's go!"

There is no shortage of the raging Uchiha around, Shisui knows this full well that the longer the Root Ninja stays here the more complicated variables will pop out in the simple equation of his life; making it extremely difficult to determine the final result.

So, as soon as he leaves, the safer the Uchiha Clan will be!

The Root ninja also nodded hurriedly and began to walk.

But before they can take even a single step forward, a cold and indifferent voice suddenly came from the side that sent chills down Shisui's spine, "Does that mean Kurumi's death was meaningless?"

Shisui was taken aback and turned around abruptly.

The person who spoke was none other than Shinichi, and this shocked Shisui even more.

Although Shisui didn't use a very strong genjutsu on Shinichi, he did cast it using his Mangekyou. And according to common sense, Shinichi Uchiha with his fully matured Sharingan should not be able to recover so quickly, at the very least half an hour of sleep was a must.

But here he is standing with an indifferent expression in less than 15 seconds!

And contrary to his previous shock and rage, the indifference in his eyes at the moment sent shivers down Shisui's spine, he had a feeling that something bad was going to happen, even a single wrong move might just lead everything into Doom!

Calming his heart, Shisui tried explaining, "Shinichi, I will explain everything to you later, things are far complica-…"

"Shut up!" – Shinichi interrupted Shisui coldly. "I know what you want to explain but I don't care! Does it really matter? I saw him kill Kurumi with my very own Sharingan, will the Sharingan also lie to me?

Every time I see Kurumi's heart being pierced, there is only one thought in my mind, 'He Must Die!' I don't care what sort of conspiracy is being brewed behind the scenes, HE-MUST-DIE-FOR-HE-KILLED-KURUMI!"

Word by word Shinichi revealed his determination to kill the Root ninja along with the intense blood lust oozing off of him.

Even looking at him was scary, coupled with the three tomoe that were rapidly spinning in Shinichi's Sharingan, even Shisui couldn't help but gulp nervously.

Shaking his head to come back to his senses, Shisui shook his head, "I am sorry Shinichi, I can't let you kill him!"

Shinichi nodded and slowly stretched his hands into the ninja bag round his waist, and drew two Kunai in each of his hands, and muttered while taking a fighting stance, "Then I guess I'll have to start with you!"

However, before the matter could escalate any further, Uchiha Fugaku walked out of the building and shouted in an authoritative tone, "That's enough both of you!"

Seeing the appearance of Patriarch, Shinichi's indifference wavered as he asked expectantly, "Patriarch, y-you will definitely avenge Kurumi's death, right?"

But unfortunately, he got nothing but disappointment as he heard Patriarch's flat response, "He is not the murderer."

Shinichi tried arguing, "But Kurumi was killed by him, I saw it with my own eyes, who do you trust more; a Root member or a shinobi of the Uchiha Clan!?"

Fugaku looked deeply at Shinichi, and from just one look he determined that Shinichi couldn't be convinced with words alone so waving his hand, he ordered the Jonin standing around him, "Send him to the prison room and let him stay there until he calms down!"

"Yes!" – several Uchiha Jonin took action at the same moment and quickly subdued Shinichi, and dragged the desperately struggling Shinichi to the Konoha Police Station.

While Shinichi was being dragged away, Fugaku spoke to Shisui, "Take him away!"

Shisui nodded immediately and without delaying any longer, he quickly led the Root ninja out of the Uchiha Clan.

…

Outside Uchiha Clan Gate.

Shimura Danzo stood by; along with several Root Anbu; while tapping his crutch impatiently as he waited for some signal.

Noticing that the Root ninja was successfully brought out by Uchiha Shisui, Danzo's brows frowned and he sighed, seemingly disappointed with the result.

Shaking his head, Shimura Danzo left with his men after giving a cold glance at Shisui from the corner of his eyes that went unnoticed by Shisui…

…

On Kuroto's side.

Hyuga Kuroto, who secretly sneaked back into the village and rushed towards his home thought in confusion at the changing atmosphere of the Village, "Huh, what unexpected thing happened while I was away? Why does it feel that the atmosphere of the Village has changed greatly?"

As a former member of Anbu under Hokage, Kuroto is naturally aware of many secrets routes that can be used for sneaking in and out of the village, so while secretly entering the village, Kuroto was quite surprised at the tight security that was obviously strengthened compared to normal times, so he is little doubtful as to what situation is being brewed in Konoha during his absence…

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Arriving at his home, Kuroto breathed a sigh of relief after noticing that the Shadow Clone left by Shisui was still there.

The Shadow Clone also noticed Kuroto's arrival and quickly greeted him, "Kuroto-San, you are finally back!"

Nodding in response, Kuroto spoke with a smile, "Thank you for the hard work Shisui!"

While Kuroto put some stuff aside, Shisui's Shadow Clone took out a hand note and passed it to Kuroto while explaining, "This is a list of the people that visited you while you were away Kuroto-San, I have recorded their names by the order of their visit."

Shaking his head helplessly, Kuroto reached out his left hand and took the note while saying, "Ah… thanks for the extra hard work I guess!"

As Kuroto read the list while holding it in his left hand, Shisui's clone noticed that Kuroto-San's right hand was bandaged, so he asked with a slightly worried tone, "Kuroto-San, your right hand?"

Kuroto didn't mind Shisui's question and replied casually while still looking at the list, "Oh this? There was just a small accident, nothing major to get worked up about, it should back to normal functioning in less than a week."

Most of the Natural Energy accumulated in his right hand has already been cleared because of continuous Tenseigan Chakra circulation that Kuroto carried out in the past few days.

Initially, his entire right hand up to the shoulder was petrified, but now most of the petrification has fallen and there is only slight skin hardening left that restricts his hand movement.

Therefore, according to Kuroto's estimates, his hands should be back to full working condition within three to five days.

Soon Kuroto read the list of visitors recorded by Shisui's clone.

In the twenty days that Kuroto was out of the village, the one to visit most frequently was obviously his fiancé Hyuga Yui, then there were Kakashi and Guy who are also part of the same Team-11, and finally, there were some other Hyuga people that visited him these days.

Obviously, all of them were turned away by Shisui's Clone, under the pretext of learning a Jutsu in isolation, even Yui was turned away, Kuroto smiled helplessly while wondering how he will make it up to her.

Anyway, that aside, based on this information and other things, Kuroto judged that no one other than Shisui was aware or noticed his absence in Konoha, which is a good thing.

After some more small talk, Shisui's Shadow Clone said goodbye and disappeared with a puff of smoke.

At this time, Kuroto unwrapped his right hand that was bandaged carefully, and started to silently circulate the Tenseigan Chakra Mode around his right hand to wash out the Natural Energy.

Although he was pretty casual about it but with the movement of his right hand being restricted, Kuroto's combat effectiveness has dropped significantly.

The most important point is that he can't use his right hand to print hand seals in this state, so until his hand recovers completely, Kuroto can't even enter into the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, as that also require hand seals!

Not only that, but he also can't use other ninjutsu or Fuinjutsu, and his taijutsu will obviously be limited.

Therefore, putting every other thing aside, his top priority is to restore his right hand into the best working condition as soon as possible.

Knock… knock… knock…

Before long there was a sudden knock at the gate of his house.

While sitting in the drawing-room to continue the chakra circulation, Kuroto glanced towards the gate with the Tenseigan and noticed that it was none other than Shisui who arrived here.

After simply covering his hand with a wet cloth, Kuroto opened the door and led Shisui inside while asking, "Looking at you, you seem to be in a panic Shisui!"

Shisui said while still catching his breath because of rushing here hurriedly, "Kuroto-San, someth-something happened!"

Kuroto wasn't surprised by Shisui's answer because while sneaking inside, he felt that there was something wrong with the Village's atmosphere, and looking at Shisui's serious expression his guess was only confirmed, "Alright, come in and explain everything that happened while I was away."

As soon as both were seated, Shisui immediately informed him of Uchiha Kurumi's death at the hands of a Root ninja, then the Root ninja's subsequent explanation as well as his personal guesses on the entire situation.

After listening to Shisui's explanation, Kuroto muttered to himself, "Why is this Uchiha Shinichi involved again?"

Even about 20 days ago when Kuroto was about to sneak out of the village, Shisui mentioned to him that the Root ninja responsible for monitoring Shinichi; strangely went missing, which caused some tension between Uchiha Clan and the Village.

And now after 20 days, as soon as he sneaked back into the village, there is another matter involving Uchiha Shinichi that has escalated the conflict between the Uchiha Clan and the Village to a more serious degree.

This series of events made Kuroto pay more attention to Uchiha Shinichi.

Although never mentioned in the original series, Uchiha Shinichi is around the same age as Kuroto, even if his strength is not among the best within the Uchiha Clan at this stage; but the fact that he has already awakened the three tomoe Sharingan for quite some time so his talent is also quite evident considering his young age.

After all, If that were not the case, then how come; the proud and arrogant Uchiha Clan send him to confront Hyuga Kuroto?

And now that he thinks about it, Uchiha Shinichi's personality is also quite straightforward, and straightforward people are the best high-class mob class chess pieces to have.

With all that clear, Kuroto muttered to himself, "Could it be possible that Obito has set his sight on Uchiha Shinichi?"

He thinks this because Shinichi shouldn't be the type of person to kill the girl he loved, Kuroto can be sure of this.

And since, Obito often played around Konoha and even sneaked into the Uchiha Clan's Naka Shrine several times, so Kuroto can't rule out the possibility that this is all Obito's handiwork.

'But how come; that idiot decided to act now? Shouldn't he be making his moves for Itachi a few years later? Or is it the legendary butterfly effect that's caused because of my presence? – thought Kuroto.

Kuroto can't even be sure about it, because even if there wasn't any mention of such a thing happening in the original story, it doesn't mean that it didn't happen, so Kuroto is a little confused.

And there is also the fact the current Konoha is quite different than it should have been, the most important point is the time of defection of his teacher Orochimaru and the changes following that!

Kuroto has still not figured out the real reason for his teacher's early defection!

Putting aside the thought about a certain Snake, Kuroto focused on the matter at hand and asked Shisui, "So, where is Shinichi now?"

Shisui didn't expect Kuroto-San to ask this suddenly, but even if he was surprised, Shisui quickly answered, "He was temporarily locked inside a prison room by Patriarch's order to let him stay there until the situation is resolved and his emotions calm down."

After nodding a little, Kuroto asked again, "Has there been any significant improvement in his Pupil Power? I mean did you notice it?"

"Yes, he was even able to break through a genjutsu that I cast upon him, which surprised me completely!" – Shisui nodded while recalling the scene where Shinichi easily broke through a genjutsu that Shisui cast upon Shinichi.

As soon as he heard Shisui say this, Kuroto flicked Shisui's forehead and chided him a little, "Haven't I already told you to not get overconfident of your genjutsu skills? This time you got lucky that it was a person who didn't have any hatred or bad intention towards you, otherwise, you will suffer!"

While rubbing the spot that was a little itchy due to Kuroto-San's flick, Shisui smiled lightly.

"Still not taking me seriously, are you?" – Kuroto spoke helplessly noticing Shisui's naughty smile. After sighing lightly, he removed the cloth covering his right hand and showed it to Shisui, "Look incidents such as these happen with even a bit of carelessness!"

Looking at Kuroto-San's hand, Shisui gulped nervously and finally nodded repeatedly and promised, "Okay-okay, I'll be careful from now on!"

"It's good that you understand, anyway putting that aside." Nodding at Shisui's response, Kuroto asked while going back to the topic, "Why do you think that the person hiding in the shadows used the Root ninja to kill Uchiha Kurumi, and also let Shinichi witness the scene?"

After a little bit of thinking, Shisui replied while looking away from Kuroto-San's right hand, "He wants to provoke conflict between the Uchiha and the Village?"

Shaking his head helplessly, Kuroto replied with a smile, "That's half of the intentions, I suppose!"

"Only half? Then what is the other part?" – Shisui asked in confusion.

"Yeah, this reminds me of a similar incident, a Bad Routine!" – muttered Kuroto.

Why is this a bad routine?

Because so many people use them!

But why do many people use them?

Because the freaking thing always works!

"The Routine?" – But Shisui was confused as he didn't understand what in the Sam Hill was Kuroto-San talking about!

Without any intention of explaining, Kuroto said, "Come on, take me to meet him, I would like to have a talk with him!"

…

Konoha Police Office, Shinichi's Prison Room.

A spiraling vortex appeared in the gloomy confinement cell, and our very own masked-man walked out of it leisurely.

Uchiha Shinichi who was sitting in the corner while covering his head and busy in some thoughts didn't notice the arrival of the masked man.

Chuckling comically while looking at Shinichi's depressed look, he spoke in a deep voice, "Hey there, I heard about all things that happened with you, and I figured I should pay you a visit, and now I am looking at your gloomy state, so I can't help but speak. Do you want some help?"

Upon hearing the voice of the person who left a deep impression on him, Shinichi stood up slowly and asked while turning his eyes to look at the masked-man, "It was you, wasn't it!?"

As soon as he spoke this sentence, the three tomoe rapidly spinning in his Sharingan finally merged together and changed into a strange pattern.

The masked-man was surprised at the sudden change and spoke with a chuckle, "Since you have awakened those eyes, then it's time for you to see through the truth of this false world!"

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While wearing a simple Yukata and keeping his right hand in the side pocket, Kuroto was casually walking down the streets as if he was on a casual shopping trip.

Following behind him was Shisui, who tried his best to not let the depression get on his face.

Midway down to their destination, Shisui couldn't help but ask in confusion, "Kuroto-San, why do you want to meet Shinichi?"

Shaking his head lightly Kuroto murmured only for Shisui to hear, "Not something troublesome, just to check his status!"

"Status!?" Shisui repeated the word in more confusion and asked with a little doubt, "What status?"

But instead of giving much of an explanation, Kuroto diverted the topic as he whispered softly, "Listen Shisui; when we get there and if I say to someone, 'So it's you' then you will immediately use Kotoamatsukami on that person, don't hesitate for even a single second and use all your pupil power on him, understand?"

Shisui was a little surprised when he heard this, "But Kuroto-San, Kotoamatsukami is a forbidden technique that can modify a person's will, how can I use it so casually?"

Glancing slightly at Shisui, Kuroto shook his head and sighed helplessly, "If you haven't even considered using Kotoamatsukami in battle, then why did you even bother talking about it to others?"

Shisui was silent hearing Kuroto-San's words.

No longer bothering to play anymore, Kuroto bluntly said, "I suspect that Uchiha Shinichi may have been in contact with the person who is pulling all the strings from the shadows, therefore, we can't rule out the possibility that we may encounter that person when we are visiting Shinichi!"

For Obito who has access to 'Kamui', Konoha Village is just like his personal back garden, he can come and go freely whenever he wants, wherever he wants, and however, he wants!

So, if Uchiha Shinichi was really being targeted by Obito, then it's not impossible for Kuroto and Shisui to bump into him when they are going to check Shinichi's status, and Kuroto can be sure that Obito shouldn't be aware of Shisui's Kotoamatsukami at this point in the timeline, so if this plan really worked then most of the problems will be solved instantly!

Listening to Kuroto-San, Shisui smiled disapprovingly, "You are kidding, right Kuroto-San? Shinichi is locked in the prison cell of Konoha Military Police Office, how can the person hiding in the shadows come there?"

From Shisui's perspective, the security of the Konoha Military Police office is second only to that of the Hokage Office. So, no matter how strong the man-behind-the-scenes maybe, it's impossible for him to sneak into Shinichi's prison cell silently without alerting any of the Uchiha ninjas presents there!

Kuroto didn't try explaining, and said directly, "Of course, I am saying for 'just in case', if by some chance we do encounter him, make sure to not hesitate at all, and also don't make any tentative attacks, directly use Kotoamatsukami and solve the biggest problem once and for all. Make sure to use all the strength in that one attempt, because the other party is more than likely to have Mangekyou, so if you don't go all out, you might not be able to control him!"

Although Shisui was still not very sure; he nodded nonetheless.

If what Kuroto-San is saying is really true then it might just be the best option!

With that decided, both of them continued traveling towards the Konoha Military Police Office.

…

Konoha Military Police Office, Shinichi's Prison Cell.

"The truth of this False World…?" – Shinichi muttered the masked man's words with confusion clearly visible in his eyes.

By now he has already realized that he has awakened the dojutsu above three tomoe Sharingan, but awakening Mangekyou didn't please him in the slightest.

On the contrary, Shinichi fell into self-blame, guilt, and loneliness.

Because after he was put into the prison cell, Shinichi realized with hindsight that the person to be actually responsible for Kurumi's death is he, neither was it the Root ninja, nor is it the masked-man, but he, Uchiha Shinichi!

If not for him then Kurumi wouldn't have become a target of their play in the first place.

So, the root problem is he!

Uchiha Shinichi is the one who caused Kurumi's death!

And this was the moment he finally awakened those cursed eyes!

After a long silence, Shinichi said with his fist clenched, "I don't know about this False World or whatever you are speaking and I guess I should be grateful to you for letting me clearly see the true face of this Village and the Clan, but all that aside, you'll still have to die for manipulating that Root ninja to kill Kurumi!"

The masked ignored Uchiha Shinichi's last words and said while crossing his hands over his chest, "Go to Naka Shrine, there you will learn the truth on the stone tablet in the secret room!"

Leaving these words, the masked-man didn't give Shinichi any other opportunity and directly vanished into the spiraling vortex.

Obviously, Masked-man doesn't know what kind of technique Uchiha Shinichi might have awakened in his Mangekyou, so unless he understands that, the masked-man is not sure to win Shinichi in the shortest time possible, so he didn't want to risk fighting Uchiha Shinichi in the middle of Konoha Village and attract the attention of all parties.

Besides, most of his goal has already been achieved.

The birth of Uchiha Shinichi's Mangekyou that is full of hatred for the Konoha Village and the Uchiha Clan, is more than enough to satisfy him for now, even if the masked-man is unable to bring Shinichi under his command, he has nothing to lose anyway.

So, without paying any mind to Shinichi's words, he simply disappeared.

After the masked-man left, Shinichi glanced at the spot the other party disappeared at with a gloomy expression.

Initially, he thought that with the Mangekyou Sharingan, he might be able to see through the other party's weird Jutsu, but unexpectedly even when the masked-man disappeared right in front of him, Shinichi still couldn't see the slightest of clue on the guy's techniques!

'Just who in the hell is he…?' – thought Shinichi as he deactivated the Mangekyou and sat back at his previous spot.

"The Truth! False World! Naka Shrike…! I guess I'll have to check that out." – murmured Shinichi before returning back to the gloomy silence.

…

Outside Konoha Military Police Office.

When Hyuga Kuroto arrived at the front of the Konoha Military Police Office, he was subject to both hostile and curious attention of the Uchiha Clansmen working around!

Noticing that everyone directed their attention on Kuroto-San, especially not in a good way, Shisui said with a little awkward expression, "Kuroto-San please don't mind them!"

Kuroto just smiled and said nothing.

Obviously, he was expecting this, his reputation in the village was built up by stepping over the Uchiha through several challenges.

This series of defeating Uchiha's flared up his reputation into one of the strongest of his generation to the extent that his name also became a hot topic during tea conversations throughout the village.

It wasn't just because of his strength but also his identity.

The collision between the shinobi of Konoha's two mightiest Clan has always been an attractive topic of discussion.

And this was also the reason why Shimura Danzo personally came to invite him to join the Root Unit, if not for Kuroto to have stepped over the Uchiha, then even if he became Special Jonin, Danzo might not have paid special interest in personally recruiting him.

Therefore, Kuroto wasn't troubled by all the stares he was getting, rather he was amused, and was wondering about who to step over next time for increasing his reputation further!

While Kuroto was busy musing, Shisui thought of the grudge that Uchiha Shinichi has with Kuroto-San, and he couldn't help but feel a little headache because of it.

To not make the matters worse, Shisui had to warn Kuroto-San in advance, "Kuroto-San, Shinichi may have some enmity with you, so if he says something he shouldn't; please ignore that, with Kurumi's death, his emotional state has been quite unstable lately, so please don't mind his aggressive behavior!"

Kuroto nodded in understanding, "Don't worry, it's not like I am here for that anyway!"

Breathing a sigh of relief at Kuroto-San's understanding, Shisui led Kuroto into the Police Office.

After obtaining permission from the Patriarch Uchiha Fugaku, Shisui, and Kuroto went to the prison cell where Shinichi was being held.

Noticing Uchiha Shinichi sitting in the corner of the dark and gloomy cell, Shisui immediately called the guy, "Shinichi I am here to explain the entire story to you!"

Shinichi raised his head and looked at Shisui with an indifferent expression, then moved his gaze past Shisui and finally landed on Hyuga Kuroto.

Shisui was a little afraid that Shinichi might attack Kuroto-San, so he hurriedly stepped in front of Kuroto-San.

The very reason why Shinichi was going out of the Village to practice was to defeat Kuroto-San, so Shisui was a little worried, how will Shinichi respond to Kuroto-San's presence!

But unexpectedly, Shinichi didn't stare at Kuroto for too long and brought his head back to its previous position. The way he responded to the presence of the two was like he was completely ignoring them.

Noticing Shinichi's behavior, both Kuroto and Shisui glanced at each other with the same expression that stated – "Something's wrong with him!"

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For an instant, both Kuroto and Shisui felt that there was something wrong with Uchiha Shinichi.

The reason for such thinking was that according to their understanding, Shinichi was acting quite differently from how his personality is. With Shinichi's bold and straightforward type of personality, it would have been normal if he got a little hysterical and shouted at both of them, or maybe even cry a little with what he has experienced, but he shouldn't be so calm and indifferent!

Shisui couldn't help but feel sadness looking at Shinichi's condition. Undoubtedly, Kurumi's death has had a severe blow on him!

Even Kuroto was a little thoughtful at the moment.

At this time Shisui decided to explain the situation to Shinichi but before he could start, Shinichi waved his hand and said indifferently, "Someone has already told me the entire story, so you don't have to repeat it, please just go away, I want to stay alone!"

Shisui turned to look at Kuroto seeking any help in the matter.

After pondering a little at what Shinichi's said, Kuroto nodded towards Shisui while adding, "Let's go."

Sighing helplessly Shisui followed Kuroto out of Shinichi's cell, after taking one last glance at him, both Kuroto and Shisui left.

Walking out of the Police Station, Kuroto asked Shisui, "When will he be released?"

"The Patriarch only wanted to let Shinichi calm down, so he should be released by tomorrow." – replied Shisui.

Kuroto nodded silently at Shisui's response as both of them began to walk down the street.

While following Kuroto-San's footsteps, Shisui suddenly recalled how Shinichi's temperament has changed drastically and he asked Kuroto in a puzzled manner about something that Kuroto-San said, "Kuroto-San, you mentioned that you wanted to check Shinichi's status, what did you mean by that?"

Waving his hand slightly Kuroto added a perfunctory sentence, "Oh, I just said that casually, as I was just a little curious is all, don't worry too much about it." And as if he remembered something suddenly, Kuroto reminded Shisui, "Be careful during this period and do not forget what I said while we were coming here, if by some chance you encounter the man behind the scenes, do not hesitate to use Kotoamatsukami, understand?"

Although a little sceptical, Shisui nodded nonetheless, it's not like he has any better option, and if what Kuroto-San said is really true, then it's the best they have.

Upon reaching an agreement, Kuroto bid farewell to Shisui, and without wasting any time by wandering around the streets, he directly returned home.

While he visited Shinichi's prison Cell, Kuroto was able to perceive the severe increase of Yin nature within Shinichi, so even if Kuroto isn't sure whether Shinichi really awakened Mangekyou, he still has to think of corresponding countermeasures in advance.

"If I were him, what would I do just after awakening Mangekyou Sharingan?" – while continuing to wash out Natural Energy from his right hand, Kuroto tried to think of Uchiha Shinichi's follow-up actions by putting himself in Shinichi's position, and also considered how he can gain benefit from this whole fiasco.

But after thinking a little, Kuroto discarded putting himself in Shinichi's position.

This is not because he finds it troublesome or anything, but it's just that, grasping the thinking process of an Uchiha is not what others can do, let alone an Uchiha who is highly unstable by having possibly awakened the Mangekyou.

So, changing his course of thinking, Kuroto muttered, "No matter how paranoid his thoughts get, or how cold and indifferent he become, there is one thing that I can be sure of that he would not give up and is revenge, no matter what, he wouldn't give up revenge! Not every Uchiha has an 'Uzumaki Naruto' for him, so revenge is the likely course, therefore, the next thing to consider is who will be his first target?"

…

Next Day.

According to Shisui's guess, after noticing that Shinichi has calmed down quite a lot, Uchiha Fugaku released him from prison.

Uchiha Shinichi, who had gained his freedom didn't cause any trouble anywhere and directly returned to his house.

The whole day passed by silently with nothing changing, Shisui made sure to check up on Shinichi once in the evening and reported his situation to Kuroto.

Nodding at Shinichi's silent behavior Kuroto was more sure of his guess.

Late at night, Shinichi sneaked out of his home dressed in black attire and rushed towards the Naka Shrine.

…

At the Naka Shrine.

The two Uchiha-nin who were responsible for keeping watch at the Shrine were chatting casually.

"By the way, do you think the war with the Cloud escalate again?"

"Humph, does it matter? We Konoha aren't afraid of Cloud Village, if things get worse, then the Uchiha will support Konoha like always!"

"Hahaha… that's true!"

As the two were chatting casually, suddenly the sound of footsteps was heard.

Both of them became a little alert, while one of them muttered with a frown, "It's already so late, who will visit here at this time?"

While both of them looked in the direction of footsteps alertly, the gate of the shrine opened and Uchiha Shinichi dressed in a black vest walked inside.

"Shinichi!!?" – after an exclamation, both of them relaxed their guard and asked in a confused manner, "Shinichi, it's too late already; how come you are visiting here, did Patriarch send you?"

Without bothering to respond, Shinichi just looked at the Uchiha-nin who asked him the question.

Bang…

With just Shinichi's gaze, the person fainted and fell to the ground with a muffled noise.

Another Uchiha-nin noticed that Shinichi didn't cast any attack but just a simple genjutsu, so even if he was more alert, he didn't attack immediately but asked strangely, "What are you doing, Shinichi?"

But before he could get any response, he too fainted just like the other one.

Both of them were put in genjutsu and fainted.

Walking past the two fainted clans-men, Shinichi activated his Mangekyou, and after carefully scanning the surrounding with his eyes, he finally found the entrance to the secret room under a stone brick.

Entering the secret room, he stumbled upon his target 'The Stone tablet'

After a long time passed, Shinichi finally muttered to himself, "Is this the truth you speak of?"

…

A few days later.

"Huh, finally done!" – exclaimed Kuroto in joy as he moved his right hand with a relieved expression.

After several days of hard work, Kuroto was finally able to expel the remaining of the Natural collected in his right hand, therefore, restoring it to its peak state.

With the right hand recovered, his combat ability was back to his peak state.

And dealing with Natural Energy for the past few days also gave Kuroto some understanding of it.

The most critical thing that he has realized is that Natural Energy is way too dangerous.

Thinking of what happened to his hand, Kuroto couldn't help but think, "It's no wonder that there are very few people who have learned Senjutsu!"

Even in the Original Story, even by the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War, there were only a handful of known people to have mastered Senjutsu in the past millennia.

And Kuroto can bet that out of all those whether known or known, most of them would definitely be Asura's reincarnation!

After all, both Hashirama and Naruto were!

Just imagine that even shinobi like Orochimaru couldn't use Senjutsu, from this alone one can imagine just how difficult it is.

So, Kuroto decided to put that aside for now, because he doesn't have any clue on how to advance in Senjutsu, and if he tried rashly, the danger is too high.

Although Kuroto knows that without taking risks it is difficult to experience adventure, he still can't be too carefree about it.

But even if he put aside Senjutsu for now, Kuroto still won't be free as he has had a whole new idea.

From his last combat in the Land of Wind, Kuroto was able to gain more insight into the characteristics of the Tenseigan Chakra Mode and at the same time judge many of his shortcomings.

Using Truth-Seeking Ball, for example, he is able to condense Truth-Seeking Ball in the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, but this is actually a little bit of cheating because by nature Kuroto doesn't have access to all the seven Chakra nature, much less fusion of the seven to give birth to something like Truth-Seeking Balls.

Therefore, Kuroto said that's it's cheating.

Although it doesn't matter when looking at the big picture but sometimes to have a quality improvement, one has to consider and focus on many small details.

So, to completely solve this problem, he has to get down to its route cause!

In short, he has to gain these seven Chakra Natures and fuse them into one; to successfully achieve Kekkei Mora i.e., Bloodline Encompassing.

Being able to do such a thing is obviously next to impossible according to common sense!

This is because, in the current Shinobi World, only Otsutsuki Kaguya's Byakugan and Otsutsuki Hagoromo's Rinnegan can be classified as Kekkei Mora, while all others are Kekkei Genkai or Kekkei Tota.

But Kuroto has come up with a method that is close to fantasy, but if this fantasy can be realized, then it wouldn't be impossible for him to reach Godhood!

However, to bring this dream to fruition, Kuroto needs to make a lot of preparation, many of which are also unrealistic from a certain perspective and it is still unknown whether they can be realized, but that's what a researcher does, right…?

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Staring at the long list stacked with so many requirements in his hand, Kuroto couldn't help but already feel a little discouraged.

To complete his grand vision, there are too many requirements, including things like pieces of equipment, the latest technological devices, various types of material requirement, and all other types of tricky stuff, and the paper in his hand only contain the list he just sorted out casually and it's already so much.

Kuroto can be sure that even if this list is so long, it is still not even one-tenth of all that would actually be required.

"It's almost impossible for me to realize this fantasy on my own!"

Kuroto shook his head in annoyance as he put the list aside.

No doubt if he really wants his dream to become a reality, then it can't be completed on his power alone, Kuroto would definitely need the support of his Clan, the support of Konoha Village, and most important of all, he would need the support of his teacher, 'Orochimaru.'

And playing with the snake is too dangerous!

After brainstorming a little, Kuroto muttered while destroying the list in his hands, "It looks like I am going to rebuild a new laboratory."

The laboratory that Orochimaru left to him is just a simple laboratory that focuses on genetic observations. Although Kuroto did make some small modifications to it on his own, they were only limited to adding some Petri dishes and genetic extraction.

At the core, the laboratory doesn't have any condition to carry out large-scale experiments and in vivo testing, that will be involved in his grand vision.

Although this is also the main reason why even if Orochimaru has been aware of the changes in Kuroto for some time, he still believes that it is unrelated to Kuroto's research on Hyuga Clan's Genetics, as Orochimaru still doesn't believe that Kuroto would have obtained and significant result in his research of the Byakugan.

Because the laboratory left to Kuroto by Orochimaru simply doesn't have the conditions to carry out large-scale experiments!

From Orochimaru's perspective, all successful test results are stacked upon a countless number of failures, so he doesn't believe that Kuroto would skip the most important part of a scientific study, i.e., test on live subjects.

Of course, this is only because Orochimaru isn't aware of the existence of the Tenseigan and his disciple's reckless approach to it.

After all, Kuroto being able to survive genetic recombination is all thanks to Lady Luck. Even in retrospect, Kuroto himself is scared of the reckless action that he dared to do at the time.

After surviving the incident, Kuroto tried estimating the general probability of his survival removing the 'Luck' factor.

And the results were nothing short of horrifying.

Based on his mediocre aptitude, Kuroto had to survive 16 genetic recombination's. Being able to survive single genetic recombination is nothing short of a miracle as it's already a deal with death, not to mention 16 times in a row, the success rate of the experiment is even less than 0.001%.

But he hit the jackpot as a result he survived.

However, even if Kuroto succeeded once because of his luck doesn't mean that he can always rely on it, so he will not gamble it all on luck from now on.

All the subsequent experiments will first go through rigorous demonstration and many in-vivo testings' once all the safety is confirmed, only then will he use those results upon him.

With that decision, Kuroto took out the scroll of the artificial tailed beast project he obtained from Orochimaru, and after recording some data and his personal experience in creating Ryuumyaku he sealed it again.

Kuroto can hide his possession of Ryuumyaku from the rest of the world but not from his teacher, Orochimaru!

After all, Kuroto obtained the scroll of the artificial tailed beast from Orochimaru.

And since Kuroto has already promised to share the data he obtains, at the beginning and considering that he still needs the teacher's support for the completion of his grand vision in the future, so doesn't want to break away from his cooperative relationship with Orochimaru yet.

Besides, Kuroto speculates that Orochimaru wouldn't be very interested in the artificial tailed beast anyway.

It should be known that even if Orochimaru wants to learn the secrets of the Shinobi World, he still has too many research projects at his hands, whether it is 'Curse Seal of Heaven or Earth', 'Impure World Reincarnation', 'Living Corpse Reincarnation', or "Eight Branches Technique', etc., are all promising projects and require too much time investment even for someone as genius as Orochimaru.

Therefore, Kuroto is more assured.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

With a puff of smoke, the one-eyed viper, slithering its tongue appeared in front of Kuroto.

After inserting the scroll into the one-eyed viper's mouth, Kuroto said nothing extra and directly undid the summon, sending away the scroll.

Of course, Kuroto has one more intention by sending the data on the artificial tailed beast to Orochimaru. And that is to let Orochimaru vaguely understand that since he has become Ryuumyaku's Jinchuriki, therefore the two sides will no longer have a superior and subordinate relationship.

Kuroto would no longer be Orochimaru's one-sided spy, so further cooperation will be based on an equal relationship.

After sending away the summon snake, Kuroto thought of the need for an assistant.

All of his ideas are too complicated; therefore, he needs an assistant who is both loyal and competent at the same time, just like Kabuto was to Orochimaru.

But extraordinary geniuses like Kabuto are too hard to find, Kuroto can be sure that it would be close to impossible to have someone of Kabuto's level at his side.

After all, aside from his scientific achievements, the guy was able to learn Senjutsu, so his strength is also nothing to be scoffed at, in this field, his talent might have even surpassed Orochimaru and Jiraiya!

After thinking of the need for an assistant, Kuroto's thought diverged to the problem of funds.

"It's true that as a shinobi of the Hyuga Clan, Kuroto has no financial problem, as well as the inheritance left by his parents, but all that combined is also not even close to what would be actually required.

"Sigh… Funding is also a big problem!" – muttered Kuroto while sighing.

It looks like his dream has so many hurdles that for a moment it feels better to just give it up!

Knock… knock… knock…

While Kuroto was being helpless at the lack of resources at his hands, there was a sudden knock that brought him out of the gloomy mood.

Looking past the gate by his Byakugan, Kuroto found that it's none other than his fiancé, Yui, waiting outside with a basket.

Letting her inside, Kuroto said with a cheerful smile, "It seems that today my luck is good, I get to have your cooking!"

Passing a sweet smile, Yui placed the basket she was carrying on the table, while asking curiously, "So, Kuroto-Kun, what kind of Jutsu were you studying these days that you didn't even let me in?"

"Heh… that's a secret!" – said Kuroto while nervously scratching his hair.

Kuroto suspects that she would see through his lie, so it's better to just divert the topic.

After some casual conversation, Kuroto tasted the dish Yui brought.

He has to agree that Yui is very talented when it comes to cooking. The taste of some simple dishes is, in fact, comparable to that of the famous restaurants in the village.

Yui saw Kuroto-Kun savor her cooking and she smiled happily while looking at him.

Keeping one hand over her cheeks, she said lightly, "Hizashi-Sama asked me to thank you for Uncle Haruto's successful promotion to Jonin rank."

Waving his hand indifferently, Kuroto nodded slightly, "I didn't help much in the matter."

After eating up his fill, Kuroto and Yui talked to each other about all sorts of things.

It's been so long since he enjoyed such a peaceful day.

Undoubtedly, he has been mentally exhausted with all sorts of events, so, before Kuroto even realized it, he was already asleep with his head laying on her lap.

…

Yui's P.O.V.

Seeing Kuroto-Kun sleeping peacefully while resting his head over her lap, Yui couldn't help but remember the time from their childhood up to now.

The life of a Shinobi is really not easy, ever since their graduation, one after another, all sorts of events kept happening.

Becoming a genin was supposed to be the big day, but on that very day, she learned that Kuroto-Kun's parents have passed away.

Ever since then, Kuroto-Kun changed slightly, the previous sleepy expression of his changed to what he is now.

Sometimes Yui feels really sad and worried at how hard he has been pushing himself.

Kuroto-Kun might think that she doesn't know it, he thinks that he can hide it from her, but she could see it clearly.

The struggle he has been putting in is not something that's been hidden from her.

Thinking of what Kuroto-Kun might have to go through, silent tears escaped her eyes and dripped along her cheek.

Yui instantly wiped away the tear and did not let it fall on Kuroto-Kun's face, she doesn't want to make him worried about her in the slightest.

What else can she do other than silently supporting him?

Kuroto-Kun might think that she hasn't noticed his absence for the past 20 or so days, but on the first conversation with the person who was covering for his absence, she deduced that it wasn't Kuroto-Kun but somebody else.

Initially worried, but she put faith in the person whom she loves more than anything in the world and kept it all a secret within her heart.

While lightly rubbing Kuroto-Kun's sleeping face, Yui kissed his forehead with a promise, 'No matter what you become, I promise Kuroto-Kun, I'll always stand behind you to ease your loneliness!'

Is that her own resolution? Or is it her belief? Yui doesn't know, but what she knows is that if it's for Kuroto-Kun, then she would do everything in the world because Kuroto-Kun is more important for her than the world itself!

…

P.O.V change.

The good time always comes to an end faster, before they even noticed, the sun has already set and the sky started getting darker.

Clatter…

Kuroto's sleep was broken by the noise that came from his rooftop.

Judging from the sound, it should be caused by the footsteps of a ninja passing over his rooftop.

Yui frowned at the noise that broke Kuroto-Kun's sleep.

"It's rude to pass over other's house!" – Seeing Kuroto-Kun wake up, Yui said in slight irritation.

Getting up and stretching a little, Kuroto calmed down Yui and walked up to the window to check the situation.

Under normal circumstances, the ninjas in the village would definitely not pass over the roof of other people's houses casually, at most it would be done only during an urgent mission or some emergency circumstances.

And since someone did it, then that means some emergency situation is taking place.

Reaching up to the terrace, Kuroto looked out to check if he could see what's the situation.

And strangely enough, he saw that many figures were moving through the rooftop of houses all over the village in the cover of night. With a single glance, Kuroto noticed that they were all rushing towards the center of the village, i.e., towards the Hokage Building…

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"Did he start already?" – Kuroto muttered while looking at the ninjas rushing towards the Hokage office.

If there really is some disturbance within the village at this time, then it proves that Kuroto's guess that Uchiha Shinichi who was a nobody in the original series might have awakened the Mangekyou in this time space is indeed correct.

Although the fact that Shinichi acted so quickly still surprised Kuroto.

After all, whether getting used to the sudden increase in strength or to gather all sorts of intelligence and make other preparations, all requires quite some time, and Kuroto doesn't believe that Shinichi could have prepared everything in such a short period.

But the fact that Shinichi still acted, must mean that either he is doing it all recklessly without complete preparation or he has Obito's support behind him.

While Kuroto was busy analyzing, Yui also noticed that something was wrong and walked to the terrace and asked Kuroto, "Kuroto-Kun, what happened?"

While lightly stroking Yui's hair, he spoke in a gentle tone to ease her nervousness, "The Village is heavily guarded and Hokage-Sama is also present in the Village, what can happen with him around? Don't worry about it."

"But what about them?" – asked Yui in a worried tone.

Looking in the direction of Village, Yui also noticed that there were still some ninjas rushing towards the Hokage Building, and she couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

For her who has experienced the third Shinobi War and the follow-up Kyuubi's rebellion, even a little bit of disturbance in the village would produce anxiety and instinctive fear, and the situation just now seems to be turning exactly what fears her.

"Don't worry, nothing's going to happen, perhaps Sandaime-Sama ordered an urgent task!" – while casually joking around, he added, "Now listen, you will go to your home and rest, with the presence of Patriarch and Hizashi-Sama, the clan will be safe, and after checking around the situation I'll be joining you, understand?"

Seeing Kuroto's look, Yui suddenly held his sleeve and said quickly, "Please, l-let's go to the Clan together, Kuroto-Kun, please…"

Kuroto noticed that Yui was being quite emotional and feeling a little uneasy, so bringing her into a gentle hug, Kuroto patted her back to ease her nervousness and said softly, "It's alright Yui, haven't I already promised that I would always come back to you? No matter how far I go, I will always come back to you… so rest assured…"

Kuroto's promise did ease her a little and she finally nodded.

Seeing that Yui agreed, Kuroto explained, "Although the squad I am part of is under a temporary suspension, as an Anbu direct under Hokage-Sama, I should remain on stand-by for any notice."

Yui also knew of Kuroto-Kun's identity as an Anbu Shinobi so she nodded in understanding.

"Shadow Clone Technique!"

Kuroto created 2 clones and sent one clone to escort Yui to her home, while he left his other clone at his home and he disguised himself in a black cloak coupled with a black mask, to cover his entire face.

With his cover set, Kuroto immediately swallowed the fruit of the Snake Grass.

This fruit is nothing too powerful, but it can effectively change the smell of a person and therefore make any method of tracking using odor useless.

Kuroto was once ambushed by the Rock Beheading unit because of his smell and the other time found by the Cloud shinobi in the Land of Hot water because of being tracked due to the odor, so to not repeat that mistake again, he searched for a method to hide his odor.

And now he makes sure to have this fruit every time he moves to hide his tracks.

After everything was ready, Kuroto's figure disappeared with a flicker in the night.

First Goal is Hokage Building, only after confirming what actually happened can he proceed to take personal actions.

After easily sneaking into a house with a vintage view of the movements occurring around the Hokage Building, Kuroto observed the entire situation with his Byakugan all while the owner of the house has fainted peacefully on his bed.

The lights in the Hokage Building were brightly lit, with dozens of ninjas already gathered at the square, with more coming from time to time, indicating that the situation was really serious.

Moving his gaze from the square outside to the Hokage building, Kuroto was able to discern that at least 10 Anbu squads have already been assembled and waiting for the order.

Tapping his chin while analyzing every detail, Kuroto thought to himself, 'There was no attack at the Hokage Building must mean that Uchiha Shinichi's target for revenge should be the base of the Root!'

Sandaime-Sama has already assembled so many elite ninjas, but he still did not order for civilians to take refuge.

From this alone, it can be judged that Shinichi's actions are independent with no involvement of the Uchiha Clan in the rebellion, therefore these ninjas assembled by Hokage-Sama should be called for monitoring and guarding against any possible attacks from the Uchiha Clan.

Otherwise, a single Uchiha's rebellion wouldn't make Sandaime-Sama call for so much combat force; unless Sandaime knows of Shinichi's great secret…

After understanding this, Kuroto again disappeared with a flicker and arrived at the base of the Root Unit.

Upon arriving at the Root Base, Kuroto found that the guards at the entrance were already fallen in the pool of blood.

"His goal really is Root!" – muttered Kuroto silently as this confirmed Kuroto's guess.

After nodding to himself, Kuroto also entered the Root Base without any delay.

The silence at the Root Base was deafening, with the smell of fresh blood permeating the air. The situation clearly narrates a very tragic tale of several battles that must have occurred here not very long ago.

Following the underground passage, Kuroto stepped into the deepest part of the root base.

On the way here; he didn't find even a single Root Shinobi alive, each and every single one of them was dead by a sword cut, even when he removed their masks to check the situation, Kuroto discovered that there was no extra expression on their faces.

This implied that either they all died under the effect of Genjutsu or that they couldn't even respond to Uchiha Shinichi's attack speed, that is to say, Shinichi was too fast for them to even notice.

"That guy's strength has improved to such a degree?" – muttered Kuroto as he raised his guard, the degree of Shinichi's improvement in strength actually seems beyond Kuroto's expectations!

After turning a few corners, Kuroto finally saw signs of alive people.

Seeing the four Root ninjas stood on guard in an alert state, Kuroto immediately retreated backward to not let them discover his presence.

"If there is still a team here guarding something with such alertness, so in all likelihood, it has to be the storehouse of the Root Base!" – nodding himself that he finally found the right location, Kuroto put his hand in the ninja bag and readied his Kunai.

Kuroto's entire purpose of sneaking into the Root Base at this time was to use the golden opportunity that Shinichi presented him with to rob Danzo!

After all, whether they are the scrolls of Forbidden techniques from Danzo's collections or the test results of Human Experimentation carried out under Danzo's orders, all are of an urgent need for Kuroto.

So, having made up his mind, Kuroto immediately rushed out, his current strength has long surpassed the level of a Kage, so even if he doesn't enter into the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, there wouldn't be any problem fighting just four Root ninjas.

"Who?"

"Be careful it's an enemy attack!"

As soon as Kuroto's figure appeared before them, the Root ninja exclaimed immediately, strangely enough, the reason for their exclamation wasn't Kuroto, but another man wearing a swirl mask, who suddenly appeared out of thin air from some sort of spiraling whirlpool.

Two died under Kuroto's kunai while the other two were thrown into the spiral whirlpool by the orange masked-man. With the continuous appearance of two strangers, four Root ninjas inexplicable died even before they could initiate an attack.

After solving the four mobs, the two guys; each wearing a black cloak and a mask over their faces stood opposite each other.

With the two of them facing each other, the atmosphere turned a little embarrassing.

Even Kuroto wearing a black mask couldn't help but curse in annoyance.

Undoubtedly encountering Obito here really frustrated him!

And same was the case for the orange masked-man. He obviously didn't expect someone to suddenly jump into the game, not to mention it was also a guy wearing a black cloak and a mask just like himself.

This is a surprise!

Neither of the two sides back off and stood opposite to each other at the suspected door on the Root Base's storehouse…

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Walking through the road in the Uchiha Clan while carrying his younger brother on his back, Itachi looked a little dazed.

The Uchiha Clan was very noisy at the moment, with the crying and screaming of children, arguing of adults, and all kinds of rushing around.

Everything seems to indicate that something bad was about to happen.

Even before he reached his house, Itachi could already see the silhouettes of several Uchiha shinobi in a combat-ready state waiting excitedly at the door of his house.

From a single glance, they all look excited and happy about something!

Looking at these people, Itachi silently walked through the door to not attract their attention upon himself or Sasuke.

After entering the house, he was again surprised to find that the yard of his house was also full of Uchiha Clansmen.

The only difference was that all the clansmen gathered here were either Shinobi of Special Jonin Rank or Jonin Rank, there was no sign of even a single Chunin or Genin present here.

"How come so many elites gathered here at this time?" – Muttered Itachi as even he was a little worried seeing all these people gathered here.

His guess was only confirmed when he heard the vague sounds of an ongoing argument, down the lobby.

Noticing the familiar voice, Itachi stopped and listened attentively.

…

In the Lobby.

Shisui who was in the presence of several Elite Uchiha Jonin said decisively, "You are all crazy! I will never allow this to happen!"

One of the Uchiha's Elite was furious at Shisui's words and shouted angrily, "Shisui, are you going to betray the clan? Do not forget that you too are an Uchiha!"

"It is because I am Uchiha that I would not allow you all to trample our pride only to bring ruin to the Uchiha Clan!" – after a short pause, Shisui turned towards the Patriarch Fugaku who was sitting silently and said with the sincerest expression, "Patriarch, you must have considered the consequences of the Coup! Once the Village falls into a Civil War, Cloud and Rock wouldn't hesitate to intervene to attain benefits, by then even if the position of the Hokage is in the hands of the Uchiha Clan, how will we resist the entire shinobi army of four great villages?"

Even before Fugaku could speak a word, another Uchiha elite Jonin said with an arrogant snort, "As long as the Uchiha are here, Konoha doesn't need to fear either of the Rock or Cloud!"

Immediately the group of Jonin present here nodded in agreement, "Yes, with Uchiha Clan in Konoha, there isn't any threat that we can't deal with!"

Seeing that the situation was being escalated beyond control, Uchiha Fugaku raised his hands and calmed down everyone, then said to Shisui, "Shinichi has already rebelled, we don't have any other choice Shisui!"

Shisui shook his head and silenced everyone with his voice, "No! We do have a choice!"

Seeing that everyone was silent, Fugaku stared at Shisui, waiting for him to explain whatever he wanted to say.

After taking a deep breath, Shisui stated, "Shinichi's behavior is his personal choice to pursue revenge for Kurumi's death, and his actions don't have anything to do with the Uchiha Clan. Don't you all see, he didn't notify any of the shinobi in the Clan before carrying out the rebellion, it just shows that neither does he has any intention of relying on the Clan nor does he want us to get involved in his personal matter!"

One of the Jonin who has been quiet throughout the discussion finally asked Shisui, "But Shinichi has awakened the Legendary Mangekyou Sharingan! Are we just going to let him die in the hands of the village like this?"

Before Shinichi started acting, he knocked down this Jonin who was in charge of monitoring Shinichi, because of what Shinichi did to the two Uchiha-nin at the Naka Shrine.

And this Uchiha Jonin was able to notice Shinichi's Mangekyou very clearly, therefore all the elites of the Uchiha Clan have learned that Uchiha Shinichi has awakened Uchiha's Legendary Eyes!

This is also the main reason why they are all clamouring here to launch a Coup, the people of the Uchiha Clan are convinced that the Legendary Mangekyou Sharingan is unmatched in the Shinobi World!

Shisui begged by bowing before everyone present, "Please just trust me, I will definitely bring back Shinichi with my own hands and then I will persuade Hokage-Sama to spare his life for the actions he took! Please just have faith in me!"

The current Konoha severely lacks Kage Class Combat personnel, therefore Shisui believes that as long as he successfully brings back Shinichi, it is very likely that Sandaime will forgive him, in order to preserve important combat personnel for the village!

After all, the threat from the Cloud Village hasn't been lifted and until the peace agreement is signed by both parties, a war may break out at any instant!

Glancing at Shisui who was too eager Fugaku indifferently stated, "I am sorry to disappoint you Shisui, but with Shinichi's current strength you stand no chance against him!"

Fugaku knows full well just how powerful Mangekyou can be, after all, he also has those cursed eyes, so in his opinion, even if Shisui is the most genius shinobi of the Uchiha Clan, he still wouldn't stand a chance against Shinichi who has awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Patriarch's cold words made him understand that he can no longer hide his Mangekyou, so after taking a deep breath, he immediately opened his Mangekyou and again said with a bow, "Now, I believe that you can trust my words Fugaku-Sama, please give me a chance, I will definitely bring Shinichi back safely!"

At this moment Shisui has made up his mind to bring Shinichi back to the village even if he had to use Kotoamatsukami to do it!

"Shisui, when did you…?" – Everyone looked at the four-pointed pinwheel with shock, amazement, or awe in their eyes.

Even Fugaku was a little dazed for a second.

Looking at Shisui's Mangekyou, at this moment a sudden thought sparked in Fugaku's mind, 'With the presence of three Mangekyou Sharingan, it may not be impossible for the Uchiha Clan to take the position of Konoha's Hokage!'

…

At the Root Base.

Staring at Obito standing opposite to him, Kuroto started thinking of all the countermeasures he can use.

The strength of Obito was fully revealed on the night of Kyuubi's Rebellion.

Not only was he able to control Kyuubi with a single Mangekyou but also get past all the Anbu squads of the Sandaime-Sama, even when fighting against Minato-Sama, he was sturdy enough to stand the blow of several Rasengan attacks and still not suffer any serious damage.

'It would be too difficult to kill him without Kakashi's Mangekyou!"

Kuroto reached this conclusion without any complicated analysis.

Although it is easy for Kuroto to repel Obito with his strength, Killing is another matter altogether and Kuroto knows that even if not impossible, it is still very difficult.

After all, Kuroto doesn't have any method to stop Obito if he tries to escape. Kuroto has no means to interfere in the Kamui Space, this is also the reason why Kuroto wasn't able to feel Obito's presence even a moment ago when he just came out of that space.

This is because Kamui space is a space parallel to the Shinobi World. And neither his Byakugan nor the Tenseigan allows him to interfere or see through the parallel space, at least, yet, it doesn't!

And in this case, even Minato-Sama, who is extremely proficient in Space-time Jutsu, Fuinjutsu, and other Kinjutsu; could only watch Obito leave helplessly without any means to stop him.

Chain clanging noise…

Bored of the staring contest that's been going on between the two for a while now, Obito took out a chain and leisurely fixed its two ends on his wrists, his behavior was all too calm and clearly indicated that he didn't care about the other party's presence!

Perhaps in his eyes, no one in the Konoha village is competent enough for him to get serious!

Noticing that Obito was already ready, Kuroto also turned serious. In fact, he was a little emotional when facing Obito, Kuroto still can't understand just what kind of mentality Obito had when he was facing Yondaime-Sama, but it didn't matter anymore, here and now, Obito was an enemy, no matter how pitiful, an enemy is an enemy!

Whooossh…

The two of them disappeared at the same time turning into after images and pounced against each other at a sound-breaking speed.

The flying iron chain that didn't leave any trace of sound and the Kunai that reflected the light of a candle; lit in the gloomy underground passage collided. Neither of them uttered even a single word from beginning to end.

Neither of them wanted to say anything, nor was there any need to.

The two shinobi who both stood at the last of their class in the ninja academy were now engaged in a silent confrontation…

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As soon as the two sides were about to collide, Kuroto's figure directly phased through Obito's body, but as he expected the follow-up iron chain that came had to be avoided by crouching down.

In this short bout, the position of the two was exchanged.

flashback*

"Hey, the guy with the Byakugan, I am Uchiha Obito, what is your name?"

"Hyuga Kuroto!"

"Hah… Hyuga Kuroto, remember this, I am the one who is going to become the Hokage in the future, tell you what, how about I let you become my guard at that time, hmm…, how about it?"

"Oh, I don't know about the future, but I guess I should be grateful to you for now!"

"Huh, grateful for what?"

"I am grateful to you for being the last rank in the exam, because of you I am not the dead last!"

"Pft-… Hahaha… hahaha…" – the sound of laughter of the whole class echoed as soon as Kuroto finished this sentence.

"You… you… you… argh, damn it… when I awaken the Sharingan; I'll let you all know that Uchiha Clan is the greatest, and I'll be the first Hokage from the Uchiha Clan, Hokage Uchiha Obito-Sama!"

"Yeah, sure whatever… but for that, you'll have to pass the graduation exams and become a shinobi first, which you clearly suck at!" – said one of the academy students in their class.

"Hahaha…"

flashback end*

Looking at the opposite figure of Obito rushing towards him, the first memory of the interaction between the two flashed in Kuroto's mind.

Back when they were both in the Ninja Academy, Kuroto and Obito were always hovering at the last of class in all of the practical tests, Kuroto was naturally very good at theoretical tests because of his good understanding of theoretical concepts, but when it came to practical application; whether it was Shurikenjutsu, Taijutsu or Ninjutsu, Kuroto was only slightly better than Obito, and that too because of his cunningness.

But now everything's changed, both of them have grown into powerful shinobi who can control the chain of the events happening in the villages.

The changes that take place in the world are also marvellous.

Two dead last kids are now some of the strongest ninjas one could find.

Unable to succeed in the first attack left Obito a little dejected, so after taking a look at his hands, he shook the chain and prepared to launch another strike.

Kuroto also got ready for another clash, throwing away the Kunai in his hands, he put his hand inside the ninja bag at his waist.

The silence between the two continued…

Whoosh…

With just a wave of his hand, Obito rushed towards Kuroto; and following behind him was the chain.

Kuroto didn't rush up this time but leaped backward quickly to dodge the attack, however just as soon as he avoided the incoming chain, he was grabbed on the shoulder by Obito.

With just a single touch the spiralling whirlpool started appearing on Kuroto's shoulder but without any worry of it, Kuroto pressed his hands against Obito's chest.

Noticing that the opposite party attached a detonation charm on his chest, Obito thought with disdain, "It's my win!"

In Obito's opinion, as long as he touches the other party, the guy is bound to die, as for the matter of the detonation charm on his chest?

Obito has no worry about it.

The spiralling vortex kept growing in size, and soon Kuroto's figure started to get a little blurry.

'Except for the dead Yellow Flash, no one can avoid my Kamui!' – thought Obito with a slight smirk.

However, suddenly something sent him flying afar along with the Iron Chain, and since this happened too suddenly Obito didn't have time to avoid it by transferring himself into Kamui's space at the moment of flying out.

And in the process of being repelled, the detonation charm on his chest also exploded.

Boom… boom…

A series of explosions resounded, but it didn't make Kuroto any happier.

"Too bad I guess!" – muttered Kuroto in disappointment.

Although the smoke of the explosion hasn't dissipated, Kuroto already knew that just before the explosion, Obito transferred into Kamui Space, so he wasn't injured in the slightest.

After the smoke cleared, Obito's figure appeared out of the spiralling void, but this time, he didn't have his previous indifferent calmness.

Looking at the person standing opposite to him with a black cloak and mask, Obito finally decided to break the silence, "Well, that surprised me, so, who are you? Or rather, why are you here anyway?"

Obito who knows of the existence of the Rinnegan understood that the previous technique used by the opposite party was very similar to that of Pain's Shinra Tensei.

In the current Shinobi World, as far as Obito knew, only Pain could use such a technique, therefore he was quite interested in the identity of the other party.

The guy was dressed in a black cloak and wears a mask too just like himself, but Obito also knew that he wasn't Pain.

This made him interested in the other party's identity.

Listening to Obito's gloomy voice, Kuroto smirked playfully and decided to speak in a hoarse and heavy accent, "I could ask the same question, who are you and why are you here?"

Although Obito with Kamui is indeed really difficult to deal with, that's only for ordinary Shinobi, Kuroto could easily repel him using the Rein Interaction.

So, even if he was about to be pulled into Kamui Space, as long as Kuroto is conscious, he can instantly avoid being targeted by Kamui.

There was an awkward silence between the two following Kuroto's question, and after a little bit of consideration, Obito finally spoke while pointing towards the gate of the storeroom on the side, "Forget about it…, if your goal is that place, we don't need to have any conflict."

Kuroto also glanced towards the gate of the storeroom and nodded after a little bit of pondering.

In the short bout the two had, Kuroto was able to notice the embedded Simple Sharingan in Obito's left eye socket, this means that even if Kuroto uses a surprise attack by entering the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, and luckily succeeds to kill Obito using the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, Obito would still change the reality of his death and come back to life at the cost of that Sharingan by casting the Uchiha's forbidden Jutsu; Izanagi, and then quickly escape into the Kamui Space.

So, this again clarified that this battle would have no result without Kakashi's assistance.

Since Kuroto understands this full well, so he will naturally not give out too much information about his abilities to the other party by engaging in a pointless battle, if Obito becomes interested in him more than he already is, it would make Kuroto a bit uncomfortable, as he didn't want to end up like Yondaime-Sama.

Therefore, he decided to play along.

So, the two sides looked at each other and nodded in agreement for a temporary truce.

Both of them are aware that instead of dragging down each other and attract the village's attention here, it is better to take the advantage of the chaos that Uchiha Shinichi has caused and rob Danzo's base.

Since the of them reached an agreement, although still alert against each other, the weapons were put away nonetheless.

Casually walking towards the gate of the secret library, Obito once looked at the sealing technique engraved on the door and after a little once over, he glanced in the direction of Kuroto.

"See you on the other side…" – leaving this sentence, he phased through the gate and entered the storeroom.

Undoubtedly, the real reason why Obito didn't directly enter the storeroom previously was that he wanted to confirm the sealing technique engraved at the door, and now that he confirmed that it wouldn't threaten him in the slightest, he directly phased through the gate after a little bit of teasing Kuroto.

Shaking his head helplessly at Obito's playful actions, Kuroto lightly walked towards the gate and murmured, "Kai!" while putting his hand at the gate.

Cluck…

With a soft sound, the door opened.

The seal engraved at the gate was derived from the Uzumaki Four-Symbols Seal that Kuroto has mastered by heart, so releasing it was no problem for him.

As soon as Obito saw the other person lifting the seal instantly and followed in without any trouble, he became a little annoyed.

Ignoring Obito's disappointment, Kuroto looked around the room.

In the warehouse-size room, rows and rows of glass refrigerators containing a variety of materials, many types of chemical reagents, Petri dishes containing tissue samples, and various other experimental equipment were clearly visible to him.

Kuroto could even see a big jar containing several Sharingan dispersed in a preservation solution, and just by a rough count, there were nine of them present.

Seeing so many Sharingan lying there, Kuroto secretly murmured, "Shimura Danzo actually has so many Sharingan already? Were some of them left by Nidaime-Sama? Or is it that he has been secretly collecting them through the previous three Great Shinobi Wars?"

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A large number of Sharingan were found in the storeroom, at first, it might be shocking but after a little consideration, it didn't seem that surprising.

The research on Sharingan must have been started by Nidaime-Sama, which was later carried out by Danzo in cooperation with Orochimaru.

In this regard, Nidaime-Sama can actually be regarded as the founder of this all. And since Danzo supported many of Orochimaru's experiments so he naturally enjoyed the results of his research.

Perhaps it was during this process, Danzo discovered the true power of the Sharingan, or maybe it could be from Uchiha Kagami, a teammate, and therefore he was determined to eradicate the entire Uchiha Clan to have a greater number of Sharingan at his disposal.

Obito noticed the other party's gaze at the vessel containing the Sharingan and spoke in a voice that wouldn't accept any argument, "I'll take all the Sharingan, you can choose whatever you want, I won't interfere in that…"

Kuroto pondered a little hearing Obito's words.

If it was Mangekyou Sharingan, he would definitely not let Obito take it, this is because each Mangekyou has a cheat ability so letting a future enemy have it would be really troublesome, but since they are simple three tomoe Sharingan, then they aren't very useful for Kuroto for now.

After all, Kuroto isn't an Uchiha, is he?

So, at least for now, he doesn't need them, and even if he does, there is a whole Clan in the Village.

Besides, with Obito's ability, it isn't very difficult for him to take away Sharingan from the people of the Uchiha Clan, so it's better to let him have the Sharingan of the already dead ones, rather than making him go after the other Uchiha.

Moreover, in terms of value, the cell culture dishes are more precious for Kuroto.

So, after a moment of analyzing, Kuroto nodded and said, "Alright!"

The two who reached a consensus immediately became busy.

Kuroto quickly walked through the shelves containing the cell culture dishes and after looking through them attentively, he took out the storage scrolls in his ninja bag.

Obviously, Kuroto still can't judge whose cells are present in the culture dishes, so he decided to take them all, and find the right pieces of equipment to later distinguish them one-by-one.

But considering that Danzo never stopped researching Hashirama Cells, Kuroto can at least make a guess; that these culture dishes must contain Hashirama Cells.

After removing, the culture dishes from the cooling shelves, Kuroto carefully placed them on the Storage Scroll and muttered softly, "Seal!"

Puff…

With a puff of smoke, all the cell culture dishes placed on the scroll were sealed in it one-by-one.

On the other side, Obito was also doing the same thing.

The two of them worked in a tacit understanding, neither interfering with the other nor helping each other, just simply and straightforwardly robbing Shimura Danzo…

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Uchiha Clan, Patriarch's House.

At the moment Shisui revealed his Mangekyou in front of all the Uchiha Clans-men present in the meeting, the ambitions were suddenly lit in the heart of Uchiha Fugaku.

However, Fugaku also understood that Shisui wouldn't support their idea of Coup, and may even side with the village which would be disadvantageous, and since the whereabouts of Shinichi are already unknown, so he has to be patient and look for the right opportunity, by setting up the pieces in the right direction.

For a bloodless Coup, Fugaku would have to at least persuade Shisui to take Uchiha's side and find and bring back Shinichi.

Only when the power of all three Mangekyou users is concentrated within the Clan, will they be able to eliminate the elders of the Konoha Council instantly, and seize the position of the Hokage while the other Clans in the Village haven't reacted.

With that in mind, Fugaku straightforwardly rejected all the opinions and arguments and ordered Shisui, "Go and bring Shinichi back safely!"

"Yes!" – Shisui repeatedly nodded. The fact that Patriarch opted to trust him with the task of bringing Shinichi back safely really made him happy and he breathed in relief.

"Please rest assured everyone, I will definitely bring Shinichi back safe and sound!" – said Shisui with a bow.

And just as soon as he was about to leave, one of the Uchiha Chunin suddenly came inside running in a panic and shouted, "Please forgive me for the discourtesy of intrusion, but the situation is not good Captain, Sandaime and his Anbu have surrounded us!"

"What!?" – everyone was taken aback by the sudden news.

Shisui immediately knocked the Uchiha chunin who brought this news on the wall by the collar and shouted furiously, "What nonsense are you talking about? How can Hokage-Sama lead the Anbu to surround the Uchiha Clan!?"

The Uchiha Chunin who was suddenly knocked on the wall struggled to get rid of Shisui's grip and roared, "Go and see for yourself, outside the Clan Land, there are so many of the ninjas surrounding the entire territory of the Clan."

"How can that be?"

"Is the Village going to deal with us?"

"If that's the case then what are we waiting for? Patriarch, please give the order!"

"Yes, Patriarch, please give the order to fight, it's better to die while fighting rather than silently!"

"Yes, with you, Shinichi, and Shisui, we can definitely win, Sandaime is getting old, he wouldn't be able to stop the Uchiha, we definitely have a chance!"

The meeting room that was quiet for some time was again filled with chaotic noise, the fire of rebellion was burning in the eyes of all the Uchiha present, and Shisui's expression was really horrified.

'What do I do? I need to stop them, if this goes on; then the entire village will be destroyed!'

Looking at the faces of people that were clamouring Shisui couldn't think of anything at the moment.

'What would you do in this situation Kuroto-San?'

This was Shisui's thought.

While Shisui was searching for some hope, Fugaku who sat at his seat also had a gloomy face as he was brainstorming.

Perhaps it's because he has awakened the Mangekyou, Fugaku was still calm and analyzing the situation.

And precisely because of his calmness; he quickly figured out Sandaime's intentions behind this move.

If the Village Leaders really decided to exterminate the Uchiha Clan, then the battle would have already broken right now, their attack would have been silent and decisive, and they would definitely not allow all the Uchiha elites to gather in one spot and excitedly discuss the idea of rebellion, as well as letting a Chunin discover their move, therefore losing the element of surprise.

With that understood, Fugaku muttered silently, 'Seems like Sandaime just wants to deter us and stabilize the situation to the best of his ability!'

This was Fugaku's conclusion.

After thinking this, Fugaku slowly got up from his seat.

Seeing the Patriarch stand up, the eyes of everyone fell upon him, waiting for the order.

Shisui who was in a panicked state also cast his eyes at him, at this moment his palms were sweating in nervousness and his heart was beating so fast that it would literally explode.

'If you have never thought of using the Kotoamatsukami then what's the point of having it in the first place?'

These words that Kuroto-San spoke kept resounded in his mind.

And at that moment Shisui finally understood that he has only one method to solve the situation from escalating.

He has made up his mind; if Uchiha Fugaku gave the order of a Coup d'état, Shisui will immediately use Kotoamatsukami and control him with the ultimate genjutsu.

Controlling Fugaku would be the best option.

But thinking this is one thing, being able to actually do is another.

Therefore, every second felt like an eternity as Shisui waited to listen to Fugaku's response.

Facing everyone's gaze Fugaku said solemnly, "Calm down everyone…, you three will stay here, and the rest will follow me while I talk with Sandaime to understand the situation!"

Patriarch's words relieved Shisui a little, at least, he didn't directly give the order for rebellion.

Leading a group of Uchiha-nin, Fugaku soon went outside.

…

Outside Uchiha Clan.

At this time hundreds of Konoha ninjas gathered around and surrounded the Uchiha Clan territory from all sides.

There were also about 2 dozen Anbu squads who stood on guard at various points.

All these ninjas were in a battle-ready state and as long as Sandaime gave the order, they will immediately rush into the Uchiha Clan to apprehend Uchiha Shinichi.

Of course, aside from the Anbu and some of the elites; most of these shinobi were not completely aware that their purpose here was not to hunt down Uchiha Shinichi but to suppress the Uchiha Clan if necessary.

Fugaku Uchiha who led a group of Uchiha-nin had a gloomier mood when he looked at the Konoha-nin surrounding Uchiha Clan.

Taking a deep breath to calm down his anger he said to his people, "You all stay here, only Shisui will follow me!"

After giving this order to the Uchiha-nin behind him, Fugaku led Shisui towards the point where Sandaime stood under the protection of an Anbu squad.

Fugaku and Shisui's arrival also alerted the Anbu-nin, all the Konoha may not know but this very squad was aware of Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyou Sharingan, therefore they were prepared for any attack.

After approaching Sandaime, Fugaku asked coldly but courteously, "Hokage-Sama, what are your intentions by surrounding my Clan?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi's hawk-like eyes swept past Fugaku and Shisui, and said calmly, "By now you must have received the news that Uchiha Shinichi has betrayed the Village!"

Fugaku nodded coldly, there was no need to deny this.

Shisui hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Hokage-Sama, please rest assured, I will go and bring back Shinichi now!"

Shaking his head, Hiruzen denied Shisui's request, "Now is a special time, none of the Uchiha-nin are allowed to leave the territory of the Clan, until the matter of Uchiha Shinichi is resolved!"

Fugaku who heard Sandaime's words thought secretly, 'It seems that Sandaime also knows that Shinichi has awakened the Mangekyou!'

Sandaime brought so many Konoha-nin just to deter the Uchiha Clan to give up the idea of Coup, and not get influenced by Shinichi's Mangekyou, if the Elder Council wasn't aware of this, they wouldn't have mobilized so many ninjas to deal with an ordinary Uchiha.

Listening to Sandaime's words, Shisui tried explaining, "Hokage-Sama, please trust me, I'll bring back Shinichi!"

Taking a puff from his tobacco pipe, Sandaime shook his head and said in a calm and unquestionable voice, "I have already sent Anbu to hunt him down, he will be brought back soon whether dead or alive!"

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Crush…

Uchiha Shinichi who crushed the neck of the last Anbu ninja with one hand looked in the direction of the Village indifferently.

His actions this time weren't assisted by anyone.

For this reason, even when he sneaked into the Root Base, he couldn't find Shimura Danzo, and that Root Shinobi, being disappointed; had to make do with killing all the other ninjas at the Root Base, and then fled out of the village under the chase of several Anbu.

Releasing his grip from the neck of the now-dead Anbu, he observed the four Anbu ninjas that fell around him.

For Shinichi; defeating these four Anbu wasn't a big deal, and if anyone noticed the situation of the surrounding, then they can easily conclude that it was a one-sided defeat of the four Anbu, with no exaggerated signs of battle.

Other than the Anbu whose neck was crushed by Shinichi, the other three died with clean simple Sword Strikes.

Noticing something, Shinichi suddenly turned his attention towards the direction of the Village with a noticeable frown on his face.

Ever since awakening Mangekyou Sharingan, his perception and insight have increased drastically, so he was able to notice another Anbu team rushing towards him.

And among the Anbu in the squad, one particular Chakra caught his interest.

Initially, he thought of leaving, but now that he noticed that particular chakra signature, he stopped again and drew out the short sword on his waist and patiently waited for them to arrive.

Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh…

With the sound of breaking wind, one after another Anbu ninja flickered around Shinichi and surrounded him from all sides.

Not minding their actions, Shinichi calmly observed all the Anbu with squinty eyes.

Noticing Uchiha Shinichi's calmness, one of the Anbu with a Dog Mask said seriously, "Uchiha Shinichi, surrender and come back to the Village with us, you will receive a fair trial for your actions!"

While tapping his sword on his shoulder, Shinichi only muttered coldly, "So, it really is you, Hatake Kakashi?"

Being the only non-Uchiha to use the Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan, Hatake Kakashi is no stranger to the members of the Uchiha Clan, so most of the Uchiha knows about him and some even believe that the reason for his strength is the Sharingan.

Taking off his mask dog-mask, the Anbu ninja revealed himself before Shinichi, and as per expectations it really was none other than the captain of the Anbu Team-11, Hatake Kakashi.

Putting away his mask, Kakashi said seriously, "Uchiha Shinichi, things haven't yet turned irreversible, you still have the chance to turn back on your actions and come back with us!"

"Yeah, I am not interested." – muttered Shinichi with a yawn in boredom while waving his hands indifferently and asked indifferently as he cleaned off some dirt in his ear, "By the way, why are you the only one that came here, where are Hyuga Kuroto and Shisui?"

The identities of the Anbu members of the Team-11 are not a secret to the members of the Uchiha Clan because of the information given by Shisui, and generally, therefore, all the Uchiha-nin above chunin rank are informed of such details.

And in Shinichi's eyes, Kakashi alone is nothing, the one he wanted to defeat was the pride of the Uchiha Clan, Shisui, and Hyuga Kuroto, to whom he lost previously.

As for the last member of their class?

It's just some monkey with the green tights whose name Shinichi can't bother to remember, and he doesn't care about that freak!

Kakashi said while shaking his head, "They are on other tasks!"

This was obviously a lie, it's because Hokage-Sama didn't call either of the other three of Team-11 and only sent him alone, so Kakashi knew very well, that both Shisui and Kuroto would be at their homes respectively.

Hearing Kakashi's reply Shinichi shook his head in disappointment, "A pity, thought that I might be able to have a good battle, but looks like I'll have to be disappointed…, man, nothing's going as planned… But I guess it doesn't matter anymore."

Understanding that Uchiha Shinichi didn't have any intention of surrendering, Kakashi's frowned. He knew just what it means to have the power of the Mangekyou Sharingan, therefore Kakashi still tried to persuade him, "Uchiha Shinichi, you'll have to understand that your actions will not only harm you but will also affect the entire Uchiha Clan, so think clearly wh-…!"

Whoosh…

Even before Kakashi could finish his sentence, the two Anbu standing at the side launched a surprise attack at Shinichi from the two sides and penetrated through Shinichi's body…

Drip…

The red blood flowed along the body of the two swords and dripped on the ground.

Successfully piercing Shinichi from both sides, one of the Anbu ninjas turned towards Kakashi and said coldly, "What are you wasting so much time with talking nonsense? He is a traitor, just kill him and be done with it!"

Not paying attention to the Anbu's words, Kakashi observed Shinichi with a frown.

'It's not a Genjutsu, neither is that any type of Shadow Clone… does that mean he is really dead?'

Kakashi was extremely shocked, he obviously didn't expect the Anbu on the side to make the sudden move much less succeeding in the surprise attack!

'No! This can't be right! Dealing with a Mangekyou Awakener would definitely be difficult than this!' – was Kakashi's thought.

Noticing Kakashi's shock, another Anbu said with an arrogant smirk, "Heh… I don't think the legendary Mangekyou Sharingan is that big of a deal, in fact, there wasn't even any need for Hokage-Sama to send so many Anbu to hunt him down!"

"Really…?" – came the chuckling voice of Uchiha Shinichi who still had two swords passing through his ribs.

Even before the two Anbu could turn or retreat, and before Kakashi or the other Anbu could warn them, the heads of those two were cleaved off their body with a single swipe!

No one expected this…

Uchiha Shinichi who should have already been dead because of being pierced by the two swords was not only not dead, but his movements too fast and rhythmic to not even be considered injured!

With a solemn expression, Kakashi again wore his Anbu Mask and was alert more than ever.

Observing, Shinichi's condition with the Sharingan he was a little confused.

Kakashi can be sure that the wounds Uchiha Shinichi received were indeed real, as there is still blood on the ground, and it's definitely not some kind of Genjutsu, so he couldn't understand how Shinichi was acting as if he didn't suffer from any injury.

Clang…

Clang…

Shinichi calmly drew out the two swords penetrating his chest and threw them on the ground casually.

And immediately following that the sword wound disappeared instantly, the speed was so fast that it far surpassed the limit of 'Regeneration'.

Looking at this Kakashi muttered to himself, 'Is Regeneration his Mangekyou ability?'

Not paying any mind to the alert Anbu still surrounding him, Shinichi smirked arrogantly as he declared with a slight chuckle, "Today, I will let you all understand the true power of the Sharingan!"

Understanding that negotiation was no longer an option, Kakashi ordered the surrounding Anbu without any more hesitation, "Everyone be ready for one of the most difficult of your life, and make sure to not directly look into his eyes!"

"Yes!" – the Surrounding Anbu responded and immediately launched their coordinated attacks on Shinichi.

Whiiish… Whiiish… Whiiish…

Clang… Clang… Clang... Clang…

Boom… Boom…

Instantly, the sound of shuriken, kunai, and sword metal collision sound and the explosions of detonation charm resounded in the forest.

The howling ninjutsu and a rapid clash of swords and fists caused mayhem in the gloomy night.

All the while the battle kept on going, Kakashi who was hidden in the environment; carefully observed Shinichi's movements throughout the clash while waiting for a perfect opportunity for the insta-kill and to better understand Shinichi's Mangekyou ability.

As far as Kakashi understands, only by understanding and countering Uchiha Shinichi's Mangekyou Sharingan ability, will they be able to subdue, defeat, or kill Shinichi, otherwise, all their attacks would be wasted just like it happened previously.

"That time was definitely not a Genjutsu, he was indeed pierced through the chest by the two swords, but why did he heal instantly? If regeneration is really is Mangekyou ability, then how am I supposed to counter it?"

Although Kakashi is not an Uchiha, he still believes that only a Sharingan can deal with another Sharingan, therefore, currently only he with a Sharingan can deal with Uchiha Shinichi…

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Root Base.

After robbing the secret storeroom, Kuroto and Obito both again faced each other.

Their previous fight was although short, still made both of them understand that neither of them could kill the other party in a short amount of time.

Now that they don't have much time in their hands, as the Anbu ninjas may arrive here at any time, then it would be troublesome, and once such a golden opportunity is missed then it wouldn't be easy for the next one to arrive.

With that understood, Obito asked in a deep voice, "You should know that there is more than just one storeroom here, so how about we continue our truce and continue the work we were doing?"

Kuroto nodded in agreement, "As long as you don't interfere with me, we can continue!"

Both of them are cunning since they understand that fighting each other will be fruitless, so it is better to work in a truce and act separately to continue robbing the old coot Danzo rather than hindering each other and go back empty-handed.

After reaching a consensus, Obito nodded and distorted into the spiraling whirl.

Observing the entire process with his Tenseigan Kuroto couldn't help but mutter in wonder, "Kamui is indeed both convenient and weird. And it's truly amazing to even be able to break through Truth-Seeking Balls!"

From this alone, the true power of the Kamui can be determined, and it's perfectly unreasonable.

At the same time, it also shows that Truth-Seeking Balls cannot defend against spatial shredding.

Thinking upon just how much of a cheat various abilities of the Sharingan can be, Kuroto couldn't help but sigh…

Putting away his thoughts, Kuroto also disappeared with a flicker and rushed towards the other secret storeroom to continue robbing Danzo.

Obviously, it's not the right time to care about the true power of Kamui, if he doesn't take advantage of the opportunity that Uchiha Shinichi presented him with, then his plan to build a new laboratory would take a lot of time, and Kuroto can't have that.

Quickly traveling through various underground passages, Kuroto stopped at a corner.

Using the X-Ray vision of the Byakugan, he observed through the wall only to find a large laboratory past the wall.

And from the looks of it, the laboratory specializes in live; in-vivo, and in-vitro experimentation.

And strangely enough, neither was there any test subjects in any of the incubators; nor any researcher or other staff, and from the condition of all the equipment, either the laboratory was newly designed or that there was a temporary pause in its operating.

Kuroto sneaked into this lab past the seal at the gate after repeatedly confirming that there was no presence of any enemy in the surroundings.

As soon as he arrived inside the lab, there was a visible sparkle in his eyes while greedily looking at all the things with literal saliva dripping from his mouth.

'This is a large Cell Incubator!'

Moving past that, he came to a row of MicroArray.

'I have never seen this type of Nutrient shells, is it newly developed?'

Stroking the glass cover of nutrient shells, Kuroto walked towards the test bench and his eyes fell upon a microscope.

'Holy Shit! Orochimaru only had one of such a high-power microscope!'

With just a short walk around, Kuroto roughly understood the level of this laboratory.

If by standards, the laboratory left to him by Orochimaru was Level: 1, then this lab can easily be graded as Level: 5.

Kuroto isn't even sure what many of the devices here are used for!

This shows just how high-end and advanced this laboratory is.

'If I can have such a lab…'

Suddenly such a thought ignited, but suddenly Kuroto realized that he doesn't have enough Storage Scrolls with him.

The amount of space in each storage scroll is limited, and especially when you are sealing delicate equipment space has to be reserved accordingly to avoid any damage.

Therefore, Kuroto wouldn't be able to store and carry away much of the equipment.

'If only I had Obito's Mangekyou Sharingan!'

But unfortunately, that's not possible for now, so Kuroto was now fishing in troubled waters, initially, he thought that the storage scrolls he brought with him should be enough, but now he clearly can't do that.

At this moment Kuroto was a little jealous of Obito, who could just transfer these all inside the Kamui Space!

'Damn, I underestimated Danzo's background!'

While slandering the old coot in his heart, Kuroto started to choose the equipment. Since he can't steal everything, then it's better to choose the most advanced and valuable ones…

…

In a Dense Forest Outside Konoha.

Boom… Boom… Boom…

The wind waves generated by the explosions sent everything flying around.

Kakashi flickered backward and paid close attention to Uchiha Shinichi's movements with his Sharingan.

Through this period of observation, Kakashi found that Uchiha Shinichi is not only very strong in Genjutsu but also a master of Taijutsu, Shurikenjutsu, Kenjutsu, as well as Ninjutsu, his Kenjutsu is especially profound!

Ding… Ding… Ding…

While deflecting some of the shurikens that were shot at him easily, Shinichi sneered coldly, "Your shuriken and kunai feel like a child's throw to me, are you guys even serious?"

The five Anbu ninja ignored Shinichi's ridicule while panting in silence.

This series of fierce attacks consumed most of their Chakra and seeing that it didn't bring any result made all of them feel frustrated.

There was not even a scratch on Uchiha Shinichi's body!

An Anbu noticed that the morale of the team was dropping so he shouted in encouragement, "Don't worry, as long as we hold him back, more reinforcements will soon be coming from the Village!"

"Hahaha… Hold Me? That's a nice one, I didn't know that Anbu ninjas are taught to be a comedian, but still, I gotta say you really are funny, do they teach you to kill the enemy by making them die of laughter?" – Mocked Shinichi as if he heard the funniest joke.

After a light chuckle, he continued with a cold tone, "You all think you can decide that?"

Followed by his voice, a dark green Chakra phantom started taking form around Shinichi and slowly it turned into a half skeletal figure.

No doubt, it's the first stage Susanoo!

"You people don't understand just how scary can the Mangekyou Sharingan be! But you all don't have to worry, why? Because I'll teach you all before sending you all to meet these two!"

As Shinichi's voice fell, the roar of the Susanoo resounded in the forest.

With just a wave of his Susanoo's single all five of the Anbu ninjas were swept away!

"W-what is that…?" – Kakashi who was silently observing Shinichi was shocked.

After knocking away the five Anbu ninjas, Shinichi didn't go after them but simply glanced towards Kakashi.

Facing the gaze of the Demonic figure, even Kakashi can't help but feel the cold sweat simply because of the heavy and cold chakra pressure.

Smirking towards Kakashi who couldn't even move due to shock, Shinichi roared, "Hatake Kakashi, die you bastard!"

'This kind of Power is not something that ordinary ninjas can resist, if all the members of Team-11 are here, then there might even be a chance of a victory, but with me alone, it's completely impossible to defeat him!" – The panic of being in the presence of a monster was building up within Kakashi.

Initially, Kakashi thought that with the Mangekyou Sharingan in his left eye, he would somehow be able to resist and subdue Uchiha Shinichi but now he understands that he was thinking too much.

At this moment, Uchiha Shinichi who roared towards Kakashi frowned suddenly.

Then without waiting for Kakashi to react, he releases the Susanoo, and without saying anything, just turned and left in quite a hurry all while completely ignoring Kakashi's presence.

His action seemed like he had more important things to do than just killing Kakashi.

Kakashi who was preparing himself to fight to the death was stunned on the spot and could only flap his lips like a fish in awkwardness.

"What happened? He clearly had the upper-hand and could have easily killed me, so why go away? Is it that I am unworthy for him to even bother about killing me?"

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'There are definitely no signs of any injury on his body…'

'Neither is there any weirdness in his Chakra Flow, and he also has a large volume of Chakra left…"

'Then why? What made him leave the battlefield so suddenly…?'

Watching Uchiha Shinichi leave, Kakashi didn't rush to pursue him but tried to analyze the reason for Shinichi's retreat.

Analyzing and Evaluating the opponent's ability and strength are some of the qualities that every good shinobi must-have.

Being White Fang's son, Yellow Flash's disciple, the baptism he received in the third shinobi great war, coupled with the teachings of the Anbu department, and finally his personal experience as a shinobi, that adding with his incredible talent makes Kakashi one of the best battlefields analyzer.

Therefore, the reason why he didn't chase after Shinichi is not that he is afraid of death.

He didn't chase after Shinichi, because Kakashi understood that even with his Chidori he wouldn't be able to break through the defense of the dark green chakra phantom.

Therefore, it is better to stay alive and pass on the information about Shinichi's ability to the village rather than dying a meaningless death.

Once accurate information is passed back, then using that information as a basis a more targeted team can be organized to increase the success rate of hunting Shinichi.

Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh…

While Kakashi was considering these things, few figures flickered at his sides one-by-one.

The leader of this group was none other than the leader of Root Unit, Shimura Danzo.

Accompanying him were the patriarchs of the Ino-Shika-Cho clans, as well many other elites' ninjas including Hyuga Hizashi as well as other elite chunin and Jonin.

Scanning the entire battlefield coldly, Danzo's already gloomy expression only became gloomier.

At this time; the entire battlefield was already in a mess with burning forest on one side, muddy ground on the other, the trees on the left were embedded, broken, or pierced with Kunai, Shuriken, and Senbon, while the right side was a straight-up empty because of the Susanoo's attacks.

All the Anbu ninjas were either dead or severely injured, and only one non-Uchiha Anbu with a Sharingan seemed to be okay.

The situation here clearly dictated the tale of a tragic failure of the hunting operation organized by Sandaime.

Kakashi who was wearing his Dog Anbu Mask respectfully greeted Danzo and spoke with a guilty expression, "Please forgive us Danzo-Sama, we weren't able to suppress Uchiha Shinichi"

Danzo stared at Dog-Masked Anbu with a cold expression and muttered in a gloomy voice, "Which way did he go?"

Dog pointed in the direction Shinichi escaped and continued, "Danzo-Sama, it wouldn't be a good idea without targeted planning, Uchiha Shinichi's Mangekyou ability is quite strange, I think-…"

However, before Dog could finish speaking, Shimura Danzo ignored him and disappeared in the direction Shinichi left.

Being ignored by him, Kakashi could only sigh helplessly.

To pursue Uchiha Shinichi, Sandaime dispatched three Anbu squads.

Unfortunately, the four members of the first Anbu squad died without putting much of a resistance, then the two members of the two squads that Kakashi led died because of underestimating the enemy while the other five are injured critically leaving only him who was still fine.

But even after the sacrifice of so many trusted ninjas of the Anbu unit, nothing was achieved. Not only did they fail to subdue and bring Shinichi back to the village for the trial or kill him but they couldn't even obtain all the information about Shinichi's Mangekyou Sharingan and his other abilities.

Their deaths were more or less meaningless.

Soon the news of the failed hunt was passed back to the village.

Sandaime who was outside the Uchiha Compound along with several Anbu and Konoha ninja had an unconsciously serious expression upon learning this news.

Frankly speaking, the degree of growth of Uchiha Shinichi's strength is somewhat beyond his expectations.

And Shinichi's defection is like a sudden pebble, that stirred up the calm lake, i.e., Konoha is now again engulfed into the ripples of chaos.

The unstable balance between the Hokage Faction and the Uchiha Clan is again disturbed.

Not to mention the weakness of Konoha was again revealed, an Uchiha brat who just awakened the power of the Mangekyou can already mess around the village and walk away indifferently, this just goes to show how rotten the tree planted by Shodaime has become.

Sandaime who was playing with the tobacco pipe glanced towards Uchiha Fugaku's expression from the corner of his eyes.

Sandaime was indeed worried that Anbu's failure to hunt down Uchiha Shinichi might even make the Uchiha Clan more hardened for the Coup.

And Sandaime already knows that aside from Shinichi, Shisui has also awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan.

After shifting his gaze from Fugaku to Shisui, Sandaime observed the young genius of the Uchiha clan with a calculating gaze and finally reached a conclusion, 'We must draw Shisui to our side, otherwise, Konoha might even become a history!'

With that thought in his mind, Sandaime left the Uchiha compound. Since the Uchiha Clan didn't participate in Shinichi's rebellion, so after calming down the agitated Uchiha Clan and reassuring Fugaku a little; Sandaime left and the other Konoha ninjas that surrounded the Uchiha Clan parameter dispersed under his order.

And around the same time, Kuroto also returned to Yui's house after robbing Danzo!

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Next Day.

As soon as the first ray of the morning light fell on his courtyard, an Anbu ninja arrived at his house and informed Kuroto, "Special Jonin Hyuga Kuroto, the temporary suspension of Team-11 is lifted, report to Hokage-Sama's summon immediately!"

Kuroto who was already somewhat prepared nodded immediately and after simply dressing up in his combat vest, he arrived at the Hokage Building.

After entering the Hokage Office, Kuroto nodded towards the other three members of Team-11 who had already arrived and were waiting for him and then stood before the desk patiently.

With Kuroto's arrival, Sandaime nodded towards Kakashi.

Kakashi who received Sandaime's permission immediately described the entire information and his side of the story.

After Kakashi finished speaking, Sandaime exhaled the smoke and ordered with a sharp eye, "With that said, the mission of Team-11 is to hunt down the missing-nin, Uchiha Shinichi, is that clear?"

"Yes!"

After leaving the Hokage Building, Kakashi ordered the three members of Team-11, "Time is limited, everyone will have only half an hour to prepare for the mission, we will gather at the meeting point in thirty minutes and set off for the hunting mission, as for the other information on Uchiha Shinichi's ability, I will describe it in detail on the way!"

All three nodded and dispersed to prepare for the mission.

Back at his home, Kuroto who was preparing the ninja equipment and Military Pills thought to himself, "The cooperation between Shinichi and Obito is still not clear, if they are really working together, then I'll have to be careful of Obito too while on this mission!"

According to the information that Kakashi told the team, Kuroto understood that Shinichi wasn't able to find Danzo last night.

And this is precisely why Kuroto was a little confused.

Because not only can Obito freely enter and exit the village but he also has access to information because of Zetsu by his side, so if Shinichi and Obito were in a cooperating relationship, Shinichi would have definitely found Danzo just like Sasuke did!

And since this didn't happen, so it could only mean one thing, 'Shinichi took actions on his own and didn't have Obito's direct support!'

Although Kuroto is more or less sure of his guess, it is still not 100% confirmed.

But anyway, Kuroto also decided to take an extra storage tank filled with green nutrient solution.

This mission is also a chance to obtain a pair of Mangekyou Sharingan for research, as long as Shinichi's Mangekyou ability is not too exaggerated, Kuroto is sure that he can take away that pair of Mangekyou.

After all, as long as the situation permits Kuroto wouldn't mind collecting something that has incredible research value as well as high trade value with Orochimaru!

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All the four members of the Team-11 were already gathered at the meeting spot within 20 minutes.

The first one to arrive wasn't the Captain Kakashi, but Shisui.

Shisui has been continuously blaming himself for Shinichi's defection, if only he used a different approach to explain to Shinichi the entire story, then maybe things would have turned out differently. To correct his mistake, Shisui had already made up his mind to bring Shinichi back to the village even if had to use Kotoamatsukami to do it.

Unfortunately, Hokage-Sama didn't allow him to go after Shinichi last night.

This is why when he received the news that the temporary suspension on Team-11 has been lifted, Shisui was very happy and immediately rushed towards the Hokage Office.

Although Shisui doesn't understand the exact reason why Sandaime allowed him to return to the Anbu, it is still not too important for now and his only concern right now is to safely bring Shinichi back to the village.

Kakashi also had a rare serious expression and said solemnly, "I am afraid that the mission this time is very dangerous, everyone must stay alert all the time!"

Shisui hurriedly bowed to everyone in a guilty tone, "I apologize for Shinichi's actions, a member of the Uchiha Clan has caused so much trouble for everyone in the Village!"

Guy smiled heartily behind his monkey-mask and said in a youthful tone, "Heh… don't worry too much about it, we are a team, and your problems are our problems, besides, with this team; completing this mission shouldn't be that difficult!"

Noticing that time was already up, Kuroto said boringly, "I think we should depart; all the other things can be discussed en-route."

Everyone nodded and immediately set off.

On the way, Kakashi described the details of the other Anbu team's battle against Shinichi that took place in the forest outside Konoha and emphasized one detail with a deep voice, "He can also summon a huge chakra phantom that has a skeletal shape, I still don't have any method to break through that!"

Shisui immediately said, "That Chakra Phantom is a Mangekyou specific ability, it's called Susanoo."

Kakashi muttered in shock, "Susanoo? A Mangekyou specific ability?"

Kakashi was obviously a stranger to Susanoo before he witnessed Shinichi use this technique, this is because both the time Shisui used Susanoo, Kakashi didn't get a chance to witness it, one time it was inside the cave of the Demon Mountain in the Land of Swamp, to fight against the Demon Moryo and the other time was at the valley at the Land of Lightning, and at that time Kakashi was already unconscious and retreated under Guy's protection.

And since, Shisui didn't mention the Susanoo in the later detail, therefore Kakashi didn't know about it.

Therefore, Kakashi is more shocked, and since Shisui mentioned that it's a Mangekyou Specific ability, does that mean; can he also use Susanoo? After all, he also has a Mangekyou Sharingan!

Shisui noticed Kakashi's distraction and misunderstood it as a worry about Shinichi's Susanoo so said in reassurance, "Don't worry Captain, I can also use Susanoo!"

"If that's the case, then this mission just got a lot easier!"

With Shisui's confirmation that he can also summon the Susanoo, Kakashi was greatly relieved, at the same time he again felt that only Sharingan can effectively deal with Sharingan, in which case, only an Uchiha is best to deal with another Uchiha!

With that out of the way; Kakashi again mentioned, Shinichi's extra fast regenerative/recovery ability.

Feeling Kakashi's expectant gaze, Shisui was silent and considered what could be the technique.

In the millennial year history of the Uchiha Clan, countless types of Jutsu have been developed and an unknown number of Mangekyou awakener have been listed, so even if he wants to guess; there are so many abilities that even Shisui doesn't know where to begin with to guess the possible Mangekyou Jutsu that Shinichi might have awakened, after all, there isn't any specific basis to guess what ability one would awaken, right?

On the other side, Kuroto was also silently considering the Mangekyou Technique that Shinichi might have awakened.

The Sharingan as per Nidaime's words is actually, 'The Eye that Reflects the Feeling', so the possible ability that an awakener gain has some basis to it.

When Obito awakened Mangekyou, he fell into a state of despair and wanted to escape the reality of Rin's death, so he awakened 'Kamui', a personal pocket space to which he could escape from everything.

When Shisui awakened Mangekyou, the contradiction between the village and Konoha was starting to become intense, and he urgently wanted to change people's will and make everyone reconcile to let the peace last, therefore he awakened 'Kotoamatsukami', the strongest and unique genjutsu that allows him to modify other's will without letting them discover it.

As for Itachi, when he awakened Mangekyou, the relation between the Village and the Uchiha Clan was already past the point of reconciliation and one side must be destroyed for the peace to continue, therefore he awakened 'Amaterasu', the undying flame of Hell that can destroy everything in his right eye and since there was still a desire of a world where things could have been different so he awakened 'Tsukuyomi' in his left eye, one of the most power genjutsu where Itachi had absolute control of everything even the esoteric space and time!

And finally, when Sasuke Awakened Mangekyou, he was consumed by hatred and a desire for revenge, for which he wanted to completely destroy Konoha, so he awakened 'Amaterasu' and 'Kagatsuchi' in his left and right eye respectively.

So, if Shinichi's mentality at the time of awakening Mangekyou or his base emotions that led to him awakening Mangekyou can be guessed then it is possible what ability he might have awakened.

With that thought in his mind, Kuroto asked, "Shisui, explain to me the process of Uchiha Kurumi's death again…"

Shisui didn't ask much and quickly explained the entire that Shinichi described at the clan.

Listening carefully to Shisui's explanation, Kuroto suddenly asked, "Wait a minute, you are saying that Uchiha Kurumi didn't die immediately when she was pierced by the Kunai but she died in Shinichi's arms while he was bringing her back to the village?"

Shisui nodded seriously, and added, "Shinichi did mention that the last words she spoke were for him to 'Be Careful!'"

Understanding this Kuroto thought to himself, 'The girl he loved took her last breath in his arms, but he was helpless and couldn't do anything and just watch her die, moreover even in her death she warned him to be careful of something! So, the moment he awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, his ability should be 'Recovery'? Recovery does make sense but it isn't the entirety of it… and the next question is whether the ability of both his eyes are the same or are they different?'

While Kuroto was busy thinking, Kakashi suddenly seemed to remember something and said with a solemn expression, "Uchiha Shinichi's genjutsu mastery has also increased a lot and most of the Anbu and Root ninjas he has killed using genjutsu combined with Kenjutsu, so be careful of that…"

"Hahaha!" – Hearing Kaksahi's words, Guy laughed loudly.

Shisui was puzzled by this asked in confusion, "Guy-San, why are you laughing?"

Guy rubbed the back of his head sheepishly and said with a triumphant thumbs-up, "Recently I have been practicing a trick to not look into the enemy's eye while fighting and still be able to judge their movements, with this I will finally be able to defeat Kakashi, didn't expect that it would come in handy for this mission, when I meet Uchiha Shinichi, I must defeat him!"

Kakashi said helplessly hearing Guy's words, "The one I am most worried about is you, Guy!"

Shisui also nodded, "Well, when we meet Shinichi, let me take care of him, I can use both Susanoo, and in terms of Genjutsu also, I should still be better than…"

Half-way stopping in his sentence, Shisui turned towards Kuroto who was still busy with his analysis.

Noticing Shisui's gaze, Kuroto looked at him and asked with a gentle smile, "Just speak whatever you want to, there's no need for any hesitation."

"Kuroto-San, you must promise me!", After a pause, Shisui continued, "If you can, please try to save Shinichi, although a little arrogant; his nature is not bad, it's just that recently he has been…"

Hearing Shisui's words, both Kakashi and Guy looked at Kuroto with visible confusion in their eyes.

The way Shisui asked for Kuroto to promise felt quite strange to both.

His manner of speaking clearly implied that if Kuroto wants he can easily crush Shinichi, but Uchiha Shinichi with the Mangekyou Sharingan caused such chaos at the Root Base, and then defeated 3 Anbu squads chasing after him with complete ease, this just goes to show how strong he has become.

And even if they know that Kuroto has also become incredibly strong, and has already surpassed the level of a Jonin, both of them still don't think that Kuroto could be so strong that he could easily crush Uchiha Shinichi!

Hearing Shisui's request, Kuroto shook his head helplessly, "Mangekyou abilities can get too weird, so if I don't fight with the determination to kill him, the battle might just get troublesome!"

In the shinobi world, no one has the qualification to underestimate the enemy.

And this rule even applies to the likes of the 'Jubi Jinchuriki' Madara and the 'Chakra Ancestor' Kaguya!

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Kakashi frowned while looking at the communication scroll that the communication eagle delivered.

Shisui who was intently looking at Kakashi asked quickly, "Captain, did Danzo-Sama caught up with Shinichi?"

Kakashi passed the scroll to Shisui while shaking his head and spoke, "Danzo-Sama and the other ninjas of the chasing team were led away by Shinichi's shadow clone, so they lost track of Shinichi's movements."

Shisui breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

Shinichi's actions at the Root base not only caused damage to the village manpower, disturbed the balance between the Uchiha and the Village but also directly harmed Shimura Danzo's prestige. It was sort of a direct slap in the face of Danzo's authority.

The entire cause of Shinichi's actions this time was to kill Shimura Danzo.

Danzo's malice towards the Uchiha Clan is not hidden and since Uchiha Shinichi caused such a heavy blow to Danzo's prestige, so Shisui was very worried that if Danzo and Shinichi meet, one side would definitely die, which would be very harmful to the Village.

If Shinichi were to die, then controlling the restless Uchiha Clan will become next to impossible.

And if Danzo were to die, then again controlling the restless Uchiha Clan will become next to impossible.

So, the best scenario would be that both of them don't meet until Shisui uses Kotoamatsukami on Shinichi.

When Kuroto took the scroll and slightly glanced at the content, he couldn't help but chuckle lightly, "Heh… looks like we will be getting busy!"

Kuroto believes that all the shinobi with Dojutsu Kekkei Genkai can be a master of tracking and anti-tracking.

Even in the Hyuga Clan, the children of the Clan have trained the art of tracking and anti-tracking, so as long as the strength of the member of the Hyuga Clan reaches a standard Chunin Class, it wouldn't be surprising to find that they have become a master tracker. Kuroto himself has received such training not only from the Hyuga Clan but also personally from his teacher Orochimaru.

After all, a snake has to always be careful of the path he treads!

And this fact also applies to the Uchiha Clan with their Sharingan, although the Uchiha specialize more in anti-tracking.

So, tracking the movements of an ordinary Uchiha Jonin with a three tomoe Sharingan is already a very difficult task not to mention Uchiha Shinichi who has awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Because this incident took place all too sudden, so Danzo only had time to bring Hyuga Hizashi of the Hyuga Clan with him.

The impatient Danzo didn't wait for the arrival of the other expert ninjas from the Inuzuka and Aburame Clan that live on the edge of Konoha and hurriedly went after Shinichi with just Hyuga Hizashi.

Obviously, Danzo wanted to kill Uchiha Shinichi as soon as possible to not only minimize the impact of this storm but also to obtain a fresh pair of Mangekyou Sharingan for him.

But unfortunately for him, his impatience backfired, and without the assistance of the Aburame and Inuzuka that can track through smell and by receiving signals from the insects.

With just a pair of Byakugan, it is very difficult to track Shinichi who specializes in anti-tracking because of his Mangekyou for Hyuga Hizashi, even if he is one of the strongest shinobi of the current Konoha.

And this, here again, reflects the lack of Kage-Class powerhouses in the village to effectively deal with such emergencies.

There is no shortage of elites in Konoha, but there is really a lack of Kage-Class shinobi.

Sandaime needs to sit in the village, Jiraiya is still at the battlefront against Cloud to defend against any possible raid and participating in peace negotiations.

So, when Shinichi made such a mess, Danzo is the only one that Sandaime trusted enough to chase after Shinichi.

But the fact of the matter is that Danzo has already stayed in the shadows for too long, by now he has already lost most of his Natural Strength and Will, but there is still an unrealistic obsession of becoming the Hokage and uniting the Shinobi world.

But because he lacks the Natural Will, he always avoids dangerous scenarios.

After all, even in the original series, Danzo shrank away during the Kyuubi's Rebellion, Danzo shrank away during Orochimaru's defection, later he shrank away during the Sand's Konoha Crush Plan, and finally, he again shrank away at the time of Pain's Assault.

From beginning to end, no matter how much damage Konoha suffered, Danzo would always hide in the Shadows and watch it all happen with cold eyes with the hope of one day coming to the light!

But how can that happen?

If he isn't even willing to dedicate himself to the cause and safety of the village how can he ever become the light of Konoha?

Shaking his head helplessly, Kuroto turned towards Guy who asked with a frowning expression, "Since Danzo=Sama's team lost his tracks, then where do we find him?"

Kakashi didn't answer just directly summoned.

"Ninpou: Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

Puff…

When the white smoke disappeared, eight Ninken of different sizes, colors, and appearances appeared before the four members of Team-11.

Taking out a small piece of cloth that was stained in blood, Kakashi handed it to the eight Ninken while saying, "Pakkun, please help me find the owner of this smell."

This piece of cloth was found by Kakashi at the battlefield last night, the owner of the blood on it is none other than Uchiha Shinichi, although Shinichi's injuries recovered instantly, the blood didn't disappear.

Pakkun sniffed the cloth for a short while and then said, "Follow me!"

With that, Pakkun led the way.

After several hours of tracking everyone stopped at a spot.

"Kakashi, the owner of that smell should be hiding there!"

Following the direction, Pakkun pointed at, all four of Team-11 looked over and saw nothing but a very large tree.

At this time, everyone's gaze turned towards Kuroto.

And Kuroto who has already activated the Byakugan observed the large tree then shook his head negatively, "There is only one hole, Shinichi isn't there, although several signs are indicating that he was there not too long ago!"

Nodding at Kuroto's guess, everyone came to the tree hole and was slightly taken aback by what they saw inside it.

There were several stains of blood that has coagulated in the tree cave, along with many blood-stained bandages scattered around, from the mess that was spread around, it wasn't hard to guess that a severely injured person was here and bandaged his wounds while hiding in this tree cave.

Shisui asked with a puzzled expression, "Did Shinichi suffered such serious injury? And Danzo-Sama could still not find his tracks?"

Kakashi turned towards Pakkun and asked in confirmation, "Does the smell of blood in this tree cave match the smell of the blood on that piece of cloth?"

After sniffing a little to check, Pakkun nodded, "Yes, no doubt about it!"

Kuroto who crouched down at a spot to check something said lightly, "The blood here is already coagulated and turned blackish, that means that it was dripped on the ground last night at the latest, so Shinichi definitely left here before today!"

Putting some pieces together, Shisui muttered solemnly, "Is there any other group chasing after him? Shinichi didn't even bother removing the blood and bandages here…"

"We can't rule out that possibility." After a short pause, Kuroto turned towards Kakashi and asked in confusion, "Are you sure Uchiha Shinichi has some sort of recovery/regeneration ability? And are you really sure that he didn't have any injury when he left the battlefield yesterday?"

Kakashi nodded seriously, "Yes, during the battle he did receive several serious wounds, but they all disappeared too fast, it was a complete recovery with not even any scars left behind!"

Kakashi's insight is also not any worse than Shisui's with his Mangekyou, so he had confidence in what he saw.

What's more, he was intently observing Shinichi during the entire course of the battle, so close to no detail escaped his eye.

'He didn't have any injury when he left, the chasing team under Danzo's command was led away by his shadow clone, then how come he suffered such injuries even with his recovery abilities? Who could injure him to such a degree? Was it Obito? Or someone else that I don't know of…?' – Kuroto thought quietly while putting his one hand on his chin.

In Kuroto's understanding, if it was Obito then Shinichi is either already dead or escaped at the cost of his Mangekyou Sharingan so he lost his recovery ability.

In whichever case, there shouldn't have been a fierce battle, this isn't in line with Obito's methods.

'Unless Shinichi could force Obito to use Wood Release!' – But then Kuroto immediately shook his head in denying that possibility, this idea sounds almost too absurd to be true.

Firstly, there is no need for Obito to have a death match against Shinichi, and secondly, Obito wouldn't risk letting Shinichi escape alive if he exposed the Wood Release, after all, Obito is pretending to be 'Uchiha Madara!'

And by general Uchiha Standards, Madara wouldn't give up his pride to obtain the Senju's Wood Release whom he hates very much!

With that thought in his mind, there is only the last possibility that remains.

So, containing his thoughts, Kuroto said to the rest of the Team-11, "The most likely explanation, points towards a third group that has intervened in this matter, we should be more careful in this mission!"

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After concluding that there might be an intervention of a third party, every one of Team-11 except for Kuroto became a little worried.

They were worried both about the intentions of the third party as well as the safety of Uchiha Shinichi, if Shinichi were to fall into the hands of that third party, then things could get worse.

After all, it's not difficult to estimate the true value of Mangekyou Sharingan, and it's still possible to transplant those eyes to others, with Kakashi being the best example.

Now, considering that the power of the Mangekyou Sharingan might fall into the hands of people outside Konoha, Shisui quickly asked Pakkun, "Can we continue tracking him?"

Pakkun went around the tree cave and said, "It's hard to say, the smell is mostly concentrated inside the tree hole, and the smell outside is very weak…"

Kakashi still asked Pakkun, "Please try it."

Pakkun nodded and instantly the eight Ninken spread in and around the tree cave to search for any trail they could find that is left by Uchiha Shinichi.

And not long after one of the Ninken raised its paw and said, "Found it."

Pakkun immediately hurried over to the side and nodded after carefully sniffing, "Well, it's the trail he left behind."

Since Shinichi's tracks were again discovered, Team-11 didn't delay any longer and immediately followed after Pakkun.

The day passed quickly as Team-11 took a short break.

At the temporary camp.

Kakashi, Shisui, Kuroto, and Guy sat together and carefully studying the route they took on a map.

"From the escape route Shinichi has followed up to now, he seems to be going in the direction of the Land of Lightning, so the possible location he might escape to are, The Land of Hot Water, The Land of Frost, The Land of Moon, and finally The Land of Lightning."

Kakashi's words made everyone fall into silence.

The four members of Team-11 are still a little familiar with this territory because of completing the mission of destroying Cloud Village's secret warehouse as well as disturbing Cloud Village's transportation line in the Land of Hot Water, so they more or less understand just what could this territory mean.

If Shinichi's intention is to hide in The Land of Hot Water, the Land of Moon, or the Land of Frost, then it is still not too worrisome but if he is going into the territory of the Land of Lightning, then this matter would get way too troublesome.

As a Special Jonin, Shinichi has much access to many secrets of the Village, additionally being a Shinobi of the Uchiha Clan, Shinichi also has secret intelligence about the Uchiha Clan and Konoha Police, and most of all, he is perfectly aware of the rift between the Hokage Faction and Uchiha Clan!

In other words, even if his Mangekyou is not counted, the intelligence he holds with him is still very important. If such secret information falls into the hands of the Cloud Village, then it would be too detrimental for Konoha.

With a sigh, Shisui muttered helplessly, "He must not be allowed to cross the territory of the Land of Fire."

Guy also nodded in agreement, "Well, we can't allow him to make mistakes again and again…"

Kakashi also stated, "I will send a message to Jiraiya-Sama at the border camp, so they will be prepared to intercept him…"

While they were all discussing these things, Kuroto was silent and thought silently to himself, 'Does he want to defect to the Cloud Village? But the more important question is, will the Cloud Village give shelter to Shinichi? Will Cloud Village even trust Shinichi?'

If Cloud Village did give refugee to Uchiha Shinichi, then the ongoing peace talks will all become meaningless, and the relationship between Konoha and Cloud will again return to the previous state of war, and this time, Konoha would not have any other option but to fight Cloud Village until the end.

However, considering just how cheeky Raikage is, they might just secretly give refugee to Shinichi but on the surface, they wouldn't reveal anything and simply say that they don't know anything about it.

After all, they did dare do such a thing twice in the original series, when they attempted to steal children from Konoha Village, therefore, another village might not do such a thing because of their pride but Cloud will definitely do such a thing.

And it wouldn't even be strange if Shinichi is used to breed another Uchiha Clan in the Cloud Village!

Although Kuroto doesn't believe that Shinichi would agree to such a thing…

…

Next Day.

After taking the short break, Team-11 continued chasing again for the entire night and the following day.

Initially thought that it was just a simple task of hunting a missing-nin, but now there are signs of involvement of the mysterious third party, and the fact that Shinichi's goal might actually be the Cloud Village, this simple mission has become way too complicated until everything clarifies.

All four already understood that if Shinichi is allowed to defect to the Cloud Village then the matter would definitely escalate to another Shinobi War, and they can't have that.

But all that aside, one thing has started to bug everyone now.

After chasing for continuously 2 days, Kuroto was the first one to speak with a frown, "This is too strange."

Guy also said from the side, "Yes, if Uchiha Shinichi is seriously injured then how could he travel without any rest, not to mention his speed is too fast? This is totally unreasonable!"

Shisui said with an impatient tone, "We can't control this, for now, keep Chasing."

It's not really the time to worry about these things, once they caught up with Shinichi, everything will be cleared.

With that thought, all four increased their speed.

In the evening, when the Sun gradually sunk, leaving a warm glow on the horizon, the Ninken Pakkun who had been leading them for the whole day suddenly said, "The smell is increasing, the target is not too far ahead."

As soon as Pakkun stated, all four of the Team-11 immediately became alert and raised their guard.

Although they are indeed happy that they caught-up with Shinichi within the territory of the Land of Fire, this interception also means that a big battle is up ahead, and considering that there might also be the presence of the mysterious third-party force, Team-11 had no expression of excitement.

However, this still didn't slow them down and they increased their speed again.

After traveling for another short while, Kuroto suddenly shouted, "Everyone, scatter."

Boom… Boom… Boom…

As soon as Kuroto's words fell, all four instantly separated in four different directions, and immediately after that, a series of explosions covered the area they were at.

Kuroto who landed on a tree safely; observed everything with the Byakugan.

The explosion just now was obviously an Ambush, but what's surprising is that the detonation Charm used for designing this Ambush had definitely undergone a special treatment that decreased their chakra emission readily.

If It was any Hyuga ninja other than Kuroto, they would have definitely suffered…

But this also gave him a piece of intelligence and that is the fact that whoever set up this ambush seems to be aware of the presence of a Hyuga in the team chasing after them.

And it's not too strange either, after all, Hyugas are some of the best trackers in Konoha Village, so the enemy preparing a trap with the thought in mind that a Hyuga Shinobi might be part of the chasing team just shows that he has good analysis ability.

And since that's the case, 'Then this is definitely a targeted ambush."

In just a moment Kuroto reached this conclusion.

At this time, the smoke and dust produced by the explosion of the detonation charms had not yet disappeared.

Because of Kuroto's warning, Kakashi, Shisui, and Guy did avoid the explosion, but the four of them still scattered in four different directions.

And Kuroto is also able to perceive many live chakra reactions surrounding all four of them, but that's not it, each and every shinobi surrounding them is at least a Chunin Rank, with several Special Jonin and Jonin are also part of the fray.

Immediately noticing this, Kuroto's expression shrank, it's not that he was worried about himself, but he was worried about the other three and hurriedly shouted towards the other them, "Be careful everyone, there are a lot of ninjas on the other side, and they are all chunin or higher."

As soon as Kuroto's voice came out, there was a sound of something coming towards him.

Based on the sound alone, Kuroto judged that several Kunais were coming towards him, and based on the fact that there was such an Ambush here, these Kunai must have detonation charm tied to them.

Without waiting for even a second to pass, as soon as he noticed this, Kuroto flickered away, easily avoiding the Kunai; and retreated to relatively open space.

At this time, the silhouette of the person responsible for all this trouble came into view, and Kuroto was a little surprised seeing this person because it was none other than Shinichi that calmly walked towards him, whom Team-11 was chasing after.

Getting out of surprise that was only a momentarily one, Kuroto said with a smirk, "Showing up here all alone? You wouldn't happen to want to single out with me, do you? Because if that's the case, then all this trouble you caused was unnecessary, you could have just let me know and I would have accepted the challenge, after all, I have been itching to step-up on another Uchiha for a while now."

Shinichi calmly pulled out the short sword at his back, and said with a contemptuous tone while ignoring the last part of Kuroto's sentence, "Yes, defeating you was my goal for training from the beginning, so I want to get done with it before I finally cut all ties with the Uchiha and Konoha! But you needn't worry, after defeating you, I'll leave you be by sparing your life; because in a way, I am grateful to you for breaking my arrogance…"

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Rising up from the ground, the half body of Zetsu came out of the ground and asked the masked-man who stood on the side with a puzzled expression, "Why are you helping that kid even now?"

The main reason why the team lead by Danzo couldn't discover Uchiha Shinichi's tracks was because of the indirect help the masked-man provided him.

Otherwise, it would have been extremely difficult for Shinichi to get rid of the chase simply depending on his own skills.

The masked-man who carefreely stood with his hands crossed at the back of his head, replied calmly without moving his gaze, "Simply because he is a useful chess piece."

Zetsu frowned a little and said in a disapproving tone, "But we have lost control of him!"

"No!" – muttered the masked-man, and continued in a flat tone, "So long as he continues to live, that is already more than enough…, for now!"

The Masked-Man is very clear about the contradiction between the Uchiha and the Village, therefore, as long as Uchiha Shinichi remains alive outside Konoha as a missing-nin, the rift between the Hokage faction and the Uchiha Clan will never be solved.

At this time, Zetsu said while pointing in one direction, "Konoha has sent the Team-11, so it is hard to say whether he can successfully escape out of the Land of Fire!"

The Masked-Man asked in a dissatisfied tone, "Didn't I tell you to let your clone watch him?"

However, completely ignoring, the masked man's dissatisfied tone, Zetsu just shrugged, "His perception has increased too much, my clone can't get any closer."

Ever since Shinichi awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, his perception and other sensory skills have become so apt that even being a non-sensor type, he already exceeds the ability of many sensor class, therefore, it is difficult to monitor him without letting him discover.

"Fine, but make sure to keep watch of him, even if from afar, it's not yet time for him to die!" – After speaking this sentence, the Masked-Man fell into deep thought as he remembered the mysterious black-masked man that he encountered at the Root Base.

Zetsu noticed the Masked-man's change and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

The Masked-Man didn't hide it and simply described the events that took place at the Root Base, "I encountered a mysterious person at the Root Base, his strength was very strong, I had a short bout against him and in that short bout, I couldn't take advantage for even an instant!"

Zetsu was really surprised and asked in confusion, "Konoha still has such a shinobi?"

The Masked-Man shook his head as he said, "There shouldn't be, apart from the few old men and Jiraiya, there shouldn't be anyone else in Konoha with such strength, what's more, for some reason that I am unable to comprehend, that person gave me a familiar feeling, its as if I know him but at the same time I don't!"

"Familiar!?" – After a short pause, Zetsu continued, "So, you are saying that you know him?"

The Masked-Man shook his head in denial, "That's what bugs me, among the people I know, there shouldn't be any such person!"

From that time, the Masked-Man has been trying to recall if he can find anything, but he has still not found any identity that could match that person.

Among the people he knows, except for Yondaime Hokage, no one has the strength to match that mysterious person, not even Kakashi, who has his left eye.

And what makes Masked-Man cautious is the confidence the other party revealed, for a moment the confidence the other party showed did remind him of Konoha's Yellow Flash!

And that could be troublesome.

Zetsu was a little intrigued by this and said with a chuckle, "If there's someone that can even make you feel cautious, I am a little curious as to who that person might be."

…

Boom… Boom… Boom…

The sound of explosions and metal clashing metal can still be heard, just listening to the movement Kuroto can more or less judge that the rest of the members of Team-11 are fiercely fighting there.

Uchiha Shinichi standing opposite to Kuroto drew his short sword and waved it casually while saying, "Hyuga Kuroto, in fact, as I said, I don't hate you, but the regret I feel for losing to you back then still makes me unable to forget."

Observing everything going around in the vicinity, Kuroto could only sigh, "We all underestimated you big time!"

The identity of the mysterious third-party is no longer hidden now, and this also confirmed that the scene at the tree cave might actually be a part of their plan to lead Team-11 or the other chasers here into an ambush.

Moreover, from just one look Kuroto can confirm that Shinichi is not injured as they thought, this explains why his traveling speed was still too high.

But the next surprising thing is just how was Shinichi able to come in contact with Cloud Army and let it infiltrate into the Land of Fire?

Was it Obito's work?

After all, this ambush was prepared by their combined effort, so there is no doubt that Shinichi has some sort of cooperative relationship with the Cloud Village.

Otherwise, the Cloud Village would definitely not have the time and opportunity to send so many elites ninjas here.

Kuroto speculated that the spy Cloud Village planted in Konoha somehow came into contact with Shinichi and helped him plan this all out.

This Kumo spy hidden in Konoha not only perfectly understood Shinichi's resentment towards Konoha but also managed to approach the guy, and was able to induce Shinichi to form a cooperative relationship, from just this alone, it can be guessed that the identity and status of this spy are not ordinary.

After all, this spy is probably the reason why the accurate information of the members of Team-11 is printed in the Bingo Book.

Now understanding that; Kuroto would have to find who that person may be.

But Kuroto was also glad on the fact that he didn't yet reveal the information about the Tenseigan and Ryuumyaku to the Village.

And now this thing has benefited him, after all, most of the intel about him in the Bingo Book is incomplete.

And, same is the case with, Shisui and Kakashi.

After all, the spy wouldn't have been aware of Shisui and Kakashi's Mangekyou Sharingan.

So, this makes most of the information the spy provided sort of useless.

And this is exactly one of the reasons why Kuroto never revealed the secret of his Tenseigan to anyone.

'But finding and disposing of him is something I'll have to take care of!'

After suppressing all these thoughts, Kuroto slowly brought out his Kusanagi sword as he spoke to Shinichi, "I understand, let's change places, I won't be able to give you the battle you want here…"

Shinichi was startled by what Kuroto said, and immediately shook his head with a helpless smile, "No, you don't seem to understand, in fact, I don't need much time to deal with you."

Kuroto didn't pay any attention to Shinichi, and directly left in a direction after dropping just two words, "Follow Me!"

Shinichi misunderstood Kuroto's actions, as he muttered, "Don't you feel embarrassed to run away from a battle?"

And with a chuckle, Shinichi chased after Kuroto.

Whether it was Kuroto or Shinichi, the strength of both the Shinobi has already surpassed the level of a Jonin, therefore, both their speed was extremely fast, so it didn't take long for them to leave the battlefield at the ambush point.

Noticing that they were already quite far away, Shinichi asked impatiently, "Hey…, where are you trying to escape?"

Kuroto who was at the front didn't bother turning back, "I am not trying to escape, I just want to deal with you at a place where no one else is present!"

Shinichi just snorted, "Baka…, you don't understand what it means to awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan. Your Byakugan is nothing in comparison to my eyes!"

Kuroto simply ignored Shinichi's rambling and finally stopped after moving a little more distance.

As soon as Kuroto stopped Shinichi also stopped, and while tapping his sword over his shoulder, he said with emotion, "Ever since I awakened these Cursed Eyes, I have changed!"

At this time, Shinichi was completely immersed in emotion and self-monologue that Kuroto felt a little dumbfounded.

But Kuroto could understand what Shinichi meant, an Uchiha who just awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, a sudden gain of such incomprehensible power must make him feel a little intoxicated, he was able to easily slaughter away the Root and Anbu ninja, so obviously, his confidence would inflate.

After all, Kuroto also experienced this phase back when he just awakened the Tenseigan, so he is no stranger to it, and it was only because of some of the difficult experiences he went through; did Kuroto learned to never overestimate himself.

Unfortunately for Shinichi, he hasn't experienced such a thing yet, so he doesn't understand this.

And Kuroto would obviously not shy away to use this to his advantage.

'This is obviously an opportunity!'

Kuroto didn't miss this opportunity and directly used Rein Pull to draw Shinichi and rushed towards him along with positioning the Kusanagi Sword.

Mangekyou Sharingan can have all sorts of weird abilities, so if Kuroto has the opportunity to land a surprise attack then it's better to utilize it.

Slash…

Shinichi was shocked as his body suddenly flew towards Hyuga Kuroto and was stabbed through the heart by the sword.

Look at his chest through which the metal sword pierced his heart, Shinichi asked in confusion, "What was that just now?"

Listening to Shinichi's murmur, Kuroto immediately pulled out his sword and retreated backward.

Retreating backward, Kuroto observed that just as Kakashi described, the stab wound on Shinichi's chest quickly healed. If not for the blood on his sword and the cut on his clothes, Kuroto wouldn't really be sure whether he stabbed Shinichi or not.

"It is definitely not a genjutsu effect, because even if somehow I couldn't resist it with the Tenseigan, Ryuumyaku would have definitely woke me up!"

Since Kuroto is already the Ryuumyaku's Jinchuriki, and since the young form of Ryuumyaku is quite docile, therefore, Kuroto can fully use the power of Ryuumyaku, as long he doesn't exceed the upper limit that would cause the invasion of Natural Energy, so he can more or less be regarded a perfect Jinchuriki.

Therefore, most of the Genjutsu attacks are ineffective on him…

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'If it's not a genjutsu then why did my attack turned invalid?' – thought Kuroto while holding the Kusanagi Sword.

The special ability of this Kusanagi Sword is to inhibit healing, moreover, the blade has been specifically treated in a Poison that Kuroto concocted himself. Therefore, Shinichi should already be dead; based on the fact that Kuroto stabbed through his heart.

But Shinichi recovered instantly, moreover no scars?

But Kuroto can be sure that Shinichi hasn't used the forbidden technique 'Izanagi', for one Shinichi didn't have the opportunity to cast it, and second, his chakra is still normal.

Now, this makes Kuroto quite interested in what kind of ability Shinichi has awakened, it is definitely not simple 'Regeneration'.

Based on the smell, Kuroto can judge that the bloodstains that were present in the tree cave were indeed Shinichi's, however, if his Mangekyou Sharingan ability is 'Regeneration' then he shouldn't have suffered such serious wounds.

Therefore, his Mangekyou ability is definitely not simple 'Regeneration!'.

'Is it quick healing? No, it's not quick healing… because if that was the case then why the bloodstains in the tree cave…? Is it the removal of the state of injury? That's not it either… one ability is to temporarily negate all damage, but he must suffer from them at a later period, so his ability is to transfer the injuries into the future?'

"Yeah, that makes sense…" – Analyzing all the information, Kuroto made this guess, after all, Uchiha Kurumi couldn't even get to finish her last words before her death, so he must have the guilt regarding that.

Shinichi on the opposite side recovered quickly and said at this moment, "See? You can't beat me!"

Ignoring Shinichi's words, Kuroto asked tentatively, "It's postponement! The ability of one of your Mangekyou Sharingan is to transfer damage into the future, right?"

Shinichi's expression shrank as soon as he heard Kuroto and finally muttered with a defeated sigh, "As expected of the person who defeated so many Uchiha, your insight and analysis is really sharp, but now that you know about it, I can't leave you alive, it seems that now I have no option but to KILL YOU!"

Whoosh…!

As soon as he finished, Shinichi's figure turned into after image as he rushed straight towards Kuroto like an arrow released from the bow.

'Heh… Shinichi's speed has definitely increased quite a lot!' – thought Kuroto as he calmly greeted Shinichi's sword with his.

Clang… Clang… Clang…

And finally, the clash between them started.

For a moment, the sound of metal and metal slamming sounded in the forest as both Kuroto and Shinichi fought purely in nothing but simple speed, insight, perception, and Kenjutsu.

Shinichi was a Special Jonin before awakening Mangekyou Sharingan, and if not for the Hokage Faction to deliberately reduce the number of Uchiha promoting to Jonin, then he should have definitely been promoted to Jonin.

And Kuroto is someone who has awakened the Mythical Tenseigan Dojutsu, which is comparable to the Rinnegan, so long as Kuroto's prowess keeps increasing, his strength will continue to rise.

In the war period, Kuroto acted as the sensor-Class whenever he had to go on the missions, so insight and perception are some of the strong points that have only improved ever since he awakened the Tenseigan.

Therefore, the simple Kenjutsu battle between the two is a sight to behold.

After dodging away from a wind-enhanced sword slash that cut off several trees far away, Kuroto retreated sideways and dashed towards Shinichi!

'His Kenjutsu skills are really good, definitely better than Uchiha Hiiragi and Shisui's!' – thought Kuroto while analyzing Shinichi's Kenjutsu skills with his Tenseigan, Kuroto was really enjoying such a pure Taijutsu and Kenjutsu battle.

And now Kuroto understands why Shinichi was able to crush the Root and other Anbu shinobi. It wasn't just thanks to the Mangekyou Sharingan, Shinichi has definitely surpassed the level of an elite Jonin without even using extreme Mangekyou Techniques.

While Kuroto was impressed by Shinichi's progress and enjoying the battle, Shinichi didn't have the same state of mind.

Shinichi thought that he would easily be able to kill Hyuga Kuroto, but now he is shocked.

Even with the insight of Mangekyou Sharingan, he was barely able to keep up with the Kenjutsu battle against Kuroto.

This caused a storm in his heart.

Ever since he awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, Shinichi became indifferent towards other Jonin, even the Jonin of the Uchiha Clan were not in his line of sight, Shinichi is sure that he can easily deal with most of the Jonin, and he wasn't wrong, Shinichi is sure that he can easily deal with Hatake Kakashi.

And this is the reason why after slaughtering a large number of Root and Anbu ninjas, Shinichi felt that even if it is the Sandaime Hokage personally, Shinichi can deal with him easily, and dealing with Hyuga Kuroto would only be much easier.

But here he is now, giving his all just to keep up with Hyuga Kuroto. Sometimes even capturing Kuroto's movements is difficult for him, so this naturally freaked him out.

'Just what in the hell is going on…!?'

Clang…

All while these thoughts were going on in each of their minds, the battle didn't stop even for a second, and the forest area around was already a mess, while they continued clashing.

After one big clash, both of them retreated backward.

Both of them panted with a heavy breath while intently observing the opposite side, trying to find flaws in the other party's defense.

With how Kuroto operates, after confirming that no one was around, he should have already used the Tenseigan Chakra Mode to directly kill Uchiha Shinichi using the Truth-Seeking Orb or Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

But two things stopped him from doing so, for one, Shinichi's Mangekyou Sharingan ability is quite weird since he can postpone injury so this makes Kuroto a little cautious to not yet reveal his secret cards.

And second, is that he is actually enjoying this battle, so he wants to take his time and have the most out of it to increase his own strength and see if he can recruit Shinichi, after all, if you have someone of Shinichi's strength working for you, then many things would become much easier.

While Kuroto was mulling over this, Shinichi was getting angry at himself.

Looking at the newly added cuts on his clothes, but no damage on Hyuga Kuroto on the opposite side, Shinichi suddenly roared in anger, "Damn it, don't think that this is all my Mangekyou Sharingan is capable of, I am going to make you kneel before me as you realize which one of us is superior!"

Shinichi is obviously finding it difficult to keep up with Kuroto in a battle of pure insight, taijutsu, and Kenjutsu, even when he used Mangekyou Sharingan, so this makes him really angered at himself!

"Daaamnn it all to hellllllllll!!!!" – Accompanied by Shinichi's roar the dark green skeletal figure of Susanoo was projected out of his body.

Standing in the Susanoo's ribcage, Shinichi looked towards Kuroto coldly and shouted, "Hyuga Kuroto, you were a good opponent, but now die!"

Kuroto didn't say a word, just silently observing Shinichi's Susanoo while dodging the chakra blades that were fired towards him.

At this time, Shinichi's Susanoo wasn't an incomplete ribcage version that Kakashi described but an upper-body skeletal version.

'So, he has already reached Stage-2 of Susanoo!'

As long as Shinichi is inside the Susanoo's defense, most of Kuroto's simple attacks would be useless.

Sheathing back the Kusanagi Sword, Kuroto raised his arms and formed the Seal.

When Shinichi saw that Kuroto trying to cast some Jutsu he coldly stated, "Huyga Kuroto, don't waste your effort, in the face of the mighty Susanoo, nothing you do will be effective!"

The sheer power of Susanoo again reverted Shinichi's mentality to be the superior one.

But Shinichi still waited for Kuroto to complete the seal print because he wants to totally crush Hyuga Kuroto.

Initially thought that having a fair battle with Kuroto would be best as he didn't believe that Hyuga Kuroto would have any means to fight against Susanoo, therefore, Shinichi didn't start the battle with the Susanoo, but now that he found that conventional means wouldn't work, and the fact that Kuroto was able to somewhat guess his Mangekyou ability, so he had no choice but to resort to using Susanoo.

Whoosh…

With the completion of Seal, the cyan-blue chakra flames wrapped around Kuroto's body; like a cloak, and instantly his body started hovering in the mid-air while 3 Truth-Seeking Orb floated around his back.

"You…?"

Shinichi was dumbfounded at the state that Kuroto was in at the moment.

Shinichi was shocked but there was still more to come, as Kuroto muttered, "Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"

Announcing its majestic presence, a ten meters long dazzling golden chakra sword emerged in Kuroto's hand.

This time, Kuroto only used one Truth-Seeking Orb to condense Golden Sword, and deliberately suppressed its length, after all, if repeated events of the land divide were to appear in many countries then those dots can be connected to him.

Therefore, Kuroto chose to control his strength to defeat Uchiha Shinichi, as that's his current goal.

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Shinichi fell into a daze as he saw Kuroto hovering in mid-air, with his body wrapped in what appeared to be a Cyan-Chakra Cloak and carrying a Golden Chakra Sword.

He couldn't he but mutter in wonder, "You… what kind of ninjutsu is this?" – As he said that, Shinichi paused and finally said after shaking his head, "No, this isn't some ninjutsu, this should be your pupil technique, right? But Byakugan shouldn't have any such ability."

"There are so many things that you don't know of." – said Kuroto with a light voice.

Kuroto would obviously not explain just What is the Tenseigan? What is Tenseigan Chakra Mode? What is the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion? Etc, after all, protecting his intelligence has become a sort of an instinct for him.

"Is that so? I guess I wasn't wrong, you are really not an ordinary Hyuga, now I can be sure of that." – taking a deep breath; Shinichi gradually calmed down.

Although the Chakra pressure emanating from Kuroto in the Tenseigan Chakra Mode was extremely powerful, it still didn't affect Shinichi too much, but only aroused his eagerness to win against Hyuga Kuroto even more.

Looking at the current state of Hyuga Kuroto, Shinichi was now reminded of the time when he first duelled against him.

Even back then after his loss, Shinichi was able to grasp something that led him to doubt that Hyuga Kuroto is not some ordinary Hyuga, but because Shinichi's loss was too miserable that it even made him embarrass about it; so, he chose not to speak anything about it; because even if he said anything the other Uchiha Clansmen would not pay any attention to his words and just think that he is making excuses to cover his failure.

So, that wasn't worth it, but Shinichi still didn't let go of that.

And now that he has seen the unique pupil technique, Shinichi understood that his initial guess wasn't wrong.

At this time, Kuroto slowly raised his hand to lift the dazzling Golden Sword.

"Well now, this kind of battle is fair." – Shinichi muttered with a strong will, and then shouted, "Hyuga Kuroto, I, Uchiha Shinichi will not lose to you twice."

After leaving this sentence Shinichi exerted more of his Chakra to further enhance his Susanoo that started growing muscles over it and transformed into a half-body warrior Susanoo.

Due to overexerting his eyes, even blood started to drip out of them. But that stops Shinichi to continue…

And a ROAR… echoed throughout the forest following which two more sets of arms appeared on the Susanoo.

As soon as this transformation was completed, Kuroto who was observing all the changes happening immediately slashed the Golden Sword.

At the same time, Susanoo's arms were also raised while a sword made out of dark-green chakra appeared to match the Golden Sword's slash.

Wouch…

With the sound of breaking wind, two chakra-blades projection meet each other sending intense wind pressure to the surroundings.

"Blocked!"

Shinichi was happy that his Susanoo projection sword could block that Golden Sword.

Break…

However, before he could be too overjoyed the sound of cracking reached his ears.

And immediately afterward, one set of arms was cut through and faded away.

And that wasn't it, just moments later the entire Susanoo also started breaking away as various cracks appeared in its skeletal defense.

Although it is said that Susanoo Armour has an almost perfect defense, it still couldn't resist the cutting effect of the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

Shinichi was highly shocked that Kuroto could cut through Susanoo's perfect defense and immediately flickered away from that spot, as he suddenly had a bad feeling.

As soon as Shinichi disappeared from his spot, the entire Susanoo crumbled.

"Cough-cough…"

Shinichi who appeared on the other side wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth and mutter in shock, "This… how could it be possible!?"

Susanoo was easily cut in half?

Shinichi even wondered whether he is under a genjutsu attack.

After all, Susanoo should have a perfect defense! It is the symbol of Absolute.

But contrary to what he thought, the absolute was now broken.

On the other side, Kuroto's expression remained calm.

Since he used only one Truth-Seeking Orb to summon the Golden Sword, so it is understandable that it couldn't cut through Susanoo's defense in one swipe but took a bit of effort.

Glancing on the other side where the rest of the members of Team-11 were fighting, Kuroto muttered inwardly, 'I can't drag this for too long.'

Although both of them are far from the others, it is still possible to sense the movements of the other side, therefore, Kuroto was able to perceive that some of the Cloud ninjas are rushing here.

Shinichi who was ignored for a moment roared in frustration, "Damn it, where do you think you are looking? I still haven't lost yet."

Without waiting for Kuroto to turn over, Shinichi urged his Mangekyou and again the projection of Susanoo covered his body and immediately punched Kuroto with all four of its arms.

Punch… Punch… Punch… Punch…

…

At the same time on another part of the Battlefield.

Shisui who was surrounded by a dozen or so Chunin and Jonin looked anxiously in the direction where Kuroto and Shinichi were fighting.

Although Shisui isn't a sensor-class, he was still able to perceive Susanoo's Chakra Fluctuation and understood that Shinichi has used the mighty Susanoo armor.

Shisui perfectly understands the power of Susanoo and that's why he wasn't worried about Kuroto-San's safety.

In Shisui's mind, Kuroto-San, who could flatten an entire valley along with hundreds of Cloud ninjas in a few minutes has long surpassed the level of Mangekyou Sharingan and is undoubtedly the current strongest in Konoha.

Therefore, Shisui wasn't worried about Kuroto-San's safety but Shinichi's safety, Shisui doesn't want Shinichi to die!

While Shisui was worried about Shinichi's safety, a young Kunoichi walked in from the other side.

From just a single glance, Shisui realized who she is and his face sank.

It's because the person is none other than the Nibi's Jinchuriki, Yugito Nii, a Jonin of Kumo.

As Yugito Nii walked in, the clear anger and coldness in her eyes didn't escape Shisui's perception as she said, "Huh… Konoha Anbu Team-11, this time I finally caught you guys!"

Shisui immediately questioned with anger, "Are you Kumo shinobi so shameless that you again want to break the Peace and start the War!?"

"Peace? War?" With a cold smile, Yugito Nii continued, "If not for your rat tricks in the Land of Hot Water, Konoha would have already been under our control"

"And what about the destroy-…"

Before Shisui could finish his words, a sudden golden light flashed across the horizon that not only attracted his attention but also attracted Jinchuriki's attention as both of them wondered, 'What happened over there?'

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The dazzling golden light that was shining like a golden curtain looked especially magnificent in the dimming dusky sky. It appeared as if the Sun that has just sunk a few moments ago climbed up again leaving a golden hue in the night-blue sky.

Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom…

Before anyone could react to the sudden golden light, there were a series of loud rumbling noises from the place where the golden curtain shone

The earth trembled and the forest shook.

From the intense vibrations that disrupted everything around; it felt as if two titans were fighting in the distance, causing massive shock waves in the entire forest.

Shisui's face was solemn at this moment because he was aware that these vibrations were all coming from the direction where Kuroto-San and Shinichi were fighting.

Yugito Nii also frowned with an unsure expression.

As the commander who led the response this time, she was initially sceptical of Uchiha Shinichi's insistence on singling out Hyuga Kuroto.

But considering that he had what Raikage-Sama described as a dojutsu called the Mangekyou Sharingan, led her to have no choice but to agree.

Yugito Nii doesn't know what actually is Mangekyou Sharingan, but it should be something highly valuable for the Kumo, considering that Raikage-Sama sent them all here just to retrieve it.

But as a perfect Jinchuriki, Yugito Nii obviously looked down on the Uchiha brat, but now she is unsure of that thought and muttered in surprise, "Could it be that Uchiha Shinichi and Hyuga Kuroto are fighting there?"

The entire ambush point is under her perception and she can't sense either of them here, so only the distant battlefield that is outside the ambush point, and also the place where those vibrations are coming from is the place where those two might be fighting.

But this further confused her, because as far as she believes; neither Uchiha Shinichi nor Hyuga Kuroto should be capable of causing such big movements.

After all, in Yugito Nii's concept, only Jinchuriki with their tailed beasts are capable of such large-scale terrain damage.

Noticing Yugito Nii's confusion, Shisui hardened his gaze and understood that he couldn't delay anymore, choosing to believe that Kuroto-San would definitely not kill Shinichi, Shisui resolved himself to take care of the Jinchuriki to avoid the continuation of War.

After making up his mind, Shisui activated the Mangekyou Sharingan

Immediately following this, an Emerald-Green Susanoo was projected from his body!

Yugito Nii was shocked seeing such a scene and immediately retreated backward, "W-what is that? Wait, his eyes look different from a normal Sharingan, i-is that a Mangekyou Sharingan? D-does that mean he also has a Mangekyou Sharingan?"

The Kumo ninjas that witnessed Shisui's Susanoo were all buried by Kuroto at the Valley in the Land of Lightning, so the accurate information about Shisui's Mangekyou Sharingan and Susanoo is unknown to most.

And since Shinichi didn't describe what Mangekyou Sharingan is capable of, so Yugito Nii wasn't much aware of what's Susanoo!

Shisui ignored Yugito Nii's shocked expression and declared, "I'll never let Shinichi defect to Kumo!"

With that declaration, Shisui's figure flickered and rushed out. In just an instant the chakra needles fired by him pierced through many chunin and Jonin, killing them immediately.

Undoubtedly, with the increasing age, physical development, and repeated usage, Shisui's body is slowly but steadily adapting to Susanoo, and now he has become more comfortable in controlling the powers of his Mangekyou Sharingan.

…

On Kakashi's side.

The sharp sound of Chidori mixed with the wailing and grunting sounds of ninjas echoed in the surroundings.

While supporting himself and releasing Chidori, Kakashi squatted himself on a tree, panting lightly, and observed his surroundings with the Sharingan.

Kakashi has of course noticed the Golden Light on the horizon, therefore, he didn't have any more interest to play hide and seek with these Kumo ninjas.

Swish…

At this moment a kunai with a detonation charm was shot towards him from behind.

Kakashi easily avoided the Kunai and destroyed the detonation charm tied to it with the Chidori.

The ninja who threw the Kunai was hiding behind a tree frowned as the expected explosion didn't occur.

The moment he poked out his head to see the reason, a Kunai wrapped in thunder Chakra pierced through his head, killing him instantly before he could even react.

…

On Guy's side.

"Sixth Gate: Keimon – Open!"

After opening the Sixth gate of Hachimon Tonkou, Guy's body was wrapped up in a greenish aura as the surrounding leaves and gravel flew away or hovered in the air from the sheer pressure he emanated.

The Kumo ninjas who surrounded Guy looked at each other in wonder. Initially, they all thought that they could easily complete the task of killing this Anbu.

After all, according to the information they have of the members of Anbu Team-11 only Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Shisui, and Hyuga Kuroto are worth noting, while the miscellaneous fourth member of the team is just a tail of the crane, nothing to be taken seriously.

But the scene here is clearly contrary to what is shown in the intelligence.

Glancing at the dazzling golden light shining on the horizon, Guy who was wearing a monkey mask shouted, "My companions are all fighting for the safety of the village, I can't stay behind any longer!"

Some of the Kumo ninjas were offended by Guy's words and shouted angrily, "Boy, are you underestimating us?"

Guy obviously didn't bother to answer just jumped into the air with a distinctive stance and shouted, "Morning Peacock!"

And instantly he started punching in the air repeatedly, the speed of his punches was so fast that they were set ablaze by sheer speed and friction which in turn created a peacock-like fan of flames fired towards the Kumo ninjas.

The Kumo could hardly react to the fan of flames and one by one they all flew out or burnt by the attacks.

After solving all the enemy at his end, Guy took a breath to relieve himself and vanished in the direction of the golden light.

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On Kuroto's side.

Kuroto continued easily dodging the barrage of punches that Shinichi threw at him with the four massive arms of his Susanoo.

Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom…

Each punch, when collided with the ground, caused a massive earthquake and shook the entire forest.

But Kuroto wasn't just dodging, whenever he got the right opportunity, he would wave his golden chakra sword to cut off Susanoo.

He was also very careful so that his sword doesn't cut through Shinichi or the Mangekyou Sharingan because he doesn't want to destroy the Mangekyou Sharingan.

But because Shinichi's offensive was increasing continuously, so it was getting a little difficult for Kuroto to make sure that his attacks don't damage Mangekyou Sharingan.

Roar…

With a wailing cry, the Susanoo whose head was cut off by Kuroto disappeared.

And Shinichi who was almost going crazy because nothing he did worked; in frustration, he once again summoned the Susanoo while wiping away the blood that spurted out of his mouth.

"Damn it, this is already the fifth time he has Summoned the Susanoo, is he some sort of Jinchuriki? Where is he getting so much Chakra from?"

Although Kuroto was still calm, he still started to feel doubtful.

The two sides have yet not fought for too long, but in this short battle, Kuroto has already destroyed the Susanoo summoned by Shinichi four times already.

Shinichi should definitely be exhausted by now.

But every time Kuroto destroys the Susanoo with the Golden Sword, Shinichi is again able to summon the Susanoo, and even if that's the case, why has his Chakra not dropped? This fact really bugged Kuroto.

'It seems that my initial guess is wrong, his Mangekyou Sharingan ability is not as simple as postponing the injury, damn, the Mangekyou Sharingan abilities are all really broken… none of them could be simple…!'

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"Hoh… is the fight fierce to such an extent?"

Looking at the golden light that dazzled from time to time at the horizon along with the loud rumbling sounds that echoed in his ears, White Zetsu's Clone was really surprised at this moment.

Because the main body and the Masked-Man are constraining the main pursuit unit led by Shimura Danzo in the surrounding forest of Konoha, therefore only he and some other clones were responsible for monitoring and keeping track of Uchiha Shinichi.

But unfortunately, the Masked-Man and Zetsu didn't take Shinichi's perception ability into account, which led to most of them being killed by Shinichi, leaving only him in this area.

Ever since awakening the Mangekyou Sharingan, Shinichi's perception has far surpassed the level of an elite-sensor team, therefore, it is very difficult for Zetsu's clone to get close to Shinichi, as the guy will most likely notice him too.

Zetsu Clone has already confirmed this several times during the follow-up along the way, so at this time; he didn't dare to get too close to the battlefield and was only observing it from far away, therefore, he wasn't aware of the specific situation on the battlefield.

"Can't let him die!"

The fierce battle happening there is far beyond his expectations, and in order to ensure that no accident happens to Uchiha Shinichi, Zetsu's clone decided to take the risk and get closer after a little hesitation.

Coming out of the ground, he jumped onto a big tree to have a higher elevation so as to increase his field of vision for a clear view.

Wouch… Wouch… Wouch…

The moment he landed on the canopy of the tree; several iron spears rained upon him from all directions!

'What happened?'

Even before White Zetsu could react, he was nailed to the tree trunk with all the iron spears.

White Zetsu who was restricted noticed that some of the iron spears were wrapped in detonation charms.

Boom…

'Oops!' – that was his last thought as he was drowned in a series of explosions.

Boom… Boom…

As the explosions subsided after a few seconds, the Sandaime Kazekage puppet that has been watching over Kuroto while flying high in the sky; examined the wreckage to confirm that the White Zetsu Clone was indeed destroyed.

Since Team-11 departed for the mission, the Sandaime Puppet has been continuously flying in the air to watch over the team and take care of all the snoopers.

Obviously, Kuroto has confirmed that Shinichi has been in contact with Obito, so Kuroto would naturally take measures against Zetsu's intelligence gathering.

So even when he is fighting with Shinichi, Kuroto made sure to not neglect to keep watch over the surroundings, and precisely because of this; he was able to perceive the presence of White Zetsu trying to observe their battle.

And Kuroto would obviously not let him do that.

When Zetsu is merged with the ground he is able to perceive and spy on chakra reaction and emission through the conduction of Earth so it is difficult to catch him, but when he is above the ground, his sensing ability is not good enough to protect against air attacks.

Therefore, he wasn't aware of the Kazekage puppet that was lurking in the air, and as soon as he got out of the ground, he was killed before he even had any time to react or check out who the enemy is.

…

On Kuroto's Side.

The battle between him and Shinichi continued.

Through his careful observations, Kuroto discovered that Shinichi can not only undo his injuries but can even constantly maintain his chakra Volume and pupil power even after his Susanoo has been repeatedly destroyed by Kuroto.

'It is impossible to constantly maintain Chakra Volume if his Mangekyou Sharingan ability allows him to only heal injuries or postpone them into the future!'

Thinking of this Kuroto again recalled the description of Uchiha Kurumi's death.

'The girl he loved died in his arms, but he was powerless to do anything, even if he tried.

Based on this, I initially thought that the Mangekyou Sharingan ability he awakened would somehow be related to 'Healing', but now it seems that the keyword here is not 'Healing' but 'Protecting' or 'Guarding', probably.'

'Guarding' is obviously very different from 'Healing'.

From this, more guesses can be derived, and Kuroto thinks that Uchiha Shinichi's Mangekyou Sharingan ability gives him a locked state in which there is some 'Guardian' effect.

As long as he is in this state, no matter how many injuries he gets, and no matter how much Chakra he consumes, his state will continue to keep him in his peak form, so that he can continue fighting.

'But how long does that state lasts is difficult to infer, and it's even hard to guess that whether he would even go blind while he is in this state.'

'But it is still a Mangekyou Sharingan ability, so it must depend on his Mangekyou Sharingan, and there has to be some way to break through it!'

After roughly analyzing this, Kuroto thought of two methods to break through it.

First is that there is probably a time limit to how long this state lasts, as long as that time passes, it should be possible to subdue him unless he activates that state again.

The second is that there must be an upper limit to how much damage the 'Guardian' can restore, if the total damage inflicted upon him exceeds the upper limit; then it should be possible to subdue Shinichi.

Of course, both of these possibilities are only limited to Kuroto's guesses, whether they are really true or not, have to be verified.

Up until now, Kuroto was continuously holding back so as to not damage the Mangekyou Sharingan in Shinichi's sockets.

But now he feels that the more restraint he is; the longer will the battle continue, and he won't even be able to do anything to Uchiha Shinichi considering Shinichi's possible eye ability, so now he will be changing his approach and use more of his strength to make a quick decision.

As for whether Shinichi's Mangekyou Sharingan will remain intact?

Kuroto will leave that to Shinichi's luck!

After making up his mind, Kuroto immediately flashed and rushed towards the Susanoo armor, and pierced the Golden Sword through the Susanoo, the target this time was directly Shinichi.

Boom…

With an exploding sound, Susanoo's armor broke to pieces and his body was directly cut in half by the Golden Sword.

Shinichi, whose body fell into two parts on the ground, coughed up blood and murmured, "So fast…"

While Kuroto was watching Shinichi's recovery intently, he distractingly sensed the surroundings.

Kuroto was able to sense many Chakra reactions rushing towards him, and these Chakra signatures included the familiar ones of the Team-11, as well as, unfamiliar ones.

"Can't delay any longer!" – Kuroto muttered with a frowning expression.

At this time, a line of blood tears came out of Shinichi's eyes, and a whole new lower half sprouted from his upper body.

Kuroto was obviously shocked seeing this scene.

'It can recover such a degree of Damage!?' – he thought in shock, this type of recovery is as amazing as to how Jubi Madara easily recovered from Death Gate Guy's final attack.

Moreover, the whole process didn't even take a second, and when he recovered there was not even any decrease in his Chakra level.

Sure enough, Mangekyou Sharingan's abilities are all cheats on their own!

Shinichi who was back to his peak didn't attack immediately this time but blurted out in a confused tone, "How could Hachiman's time decrease so much at once!?"

According to Shinichi's guess, his peak state should have continued for at least five more minutes, but after being directly cut in half by that Golden Sword this time limit has decreased by so much.

Ruling out all the possible scenarios, Shinichi's gaze finally landed on the Golden Sword in Kuroto's hand, and asked, "Just what Kind of Ninjutsu is that Golden Sword in your hand, Hyuga Kuroto!?"

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