Chapter 199: This Won't Do
She looked at the bound Naruto, her eyes showing no ripple of emotion, only scrutiny and absolute control.
"The Uzumaki and the Senju are allies."
"Do you think I'm that easy to fool?"
In the history she knew, the Alliance between the Uzumaki and the Senju was tight-knit, and as the Uchiha's strongest weapon, she naturally held deep wariness toward these two clans.
Moreover, the person before her clearly possessed the aura of the Sharingan.
As a possessor of the Mangekyo Sharingan, Hikari's perception of Sharingan ocular power was very strong; the other party's Sharingan was at least a three-tomoe.
In her eyes, Naruto's previous gentle attitude was likely a more sophisticated form of deception.
"Next, I'll ask, and you'll answer."
She raised the Kunai in her hand, its sharp edge pointed at Naruto's chest.
"If you don't answer, or if I think you're lying, I'll stab you."
Don't worry, in here, time can be very long, and the pain will be very... real."
Naruto lowered his gaze, his golden hair losing some of its luster under the blood moon.
Uchiha Hikari saw the corners of his mouth slowly curl up and secretly grew wary.
"Ask away."
Naruto looked up, his voice calm. He didn't seem flustered by being imprisoned or threatened; instead, he had an air of composed acceptance, as if thinking,'Since I've been caught, there's nothing for it.'
Uchiha Hikari was slightly taken aback.
She had expected angry roars, silent resistance, or slick excuses, but she hadn't expected the other party to be so submissive.
This overly straightforward attitude made her even more suspicious.
Usually, after people entered her Tsukuyomi Space, they would either struggle in panic or stubbornly shout curses; it was the first time she had seen someone so calm.
"Who sent you?"
The tip of the Kunai lightly pressed against a spot just above Naruto's heart on the left side of his chest. Just a slight push would bring bone-deep agony.
Naruto looked directly into her eyes, seeing her weakness and stubbornness.
"No one sent me. I found records about you myself and came looking for you."
His tone was very sincere; he was telling the truth.
"Found them yourself? Looking for me?"
Uchiha Hikari let out a cold laugh, the corners of her mouth curling into a sarcastic arc.
"You're here for these Mangekyo Sharingan too, aren't you?"
The tip of the Kunai pressed slightly harder, piercing Naruto's outer clothing, a cold sensation transmitting through.
"Your greed has led to this end."
She had seen too many people coveting Uchiha eyes, whether they were so-called allies or enemies.
Naruto fell silent for a moment.
In a sense, he really had come for these eyes.
But obviously, he couldn't say that.
But he couldn't exactly say, 'I'm here to revive the Uzumaki and Uchiha Clans,' could he?
Even he felt that saying such a thing in this situation would sound like a ridiculous joke.
He finally chose to partially admit it: "If that's what you think, then so be it."
This attitude of neither vehemently denying nor fearfully admitting made Uchiha Hikari frown.
She momentarily moved the Kunai away.
"Heh, then let me ask you."
She changed the direction of her questioning, preparing to gather information about the current situation outside.
"Who is the current Clan Chief of the Uzumaki Clan?"
Naruto's answer was so simple it left her stunned: "The Uzumaki Clan was wiped out."
Uchiha Hikari:?
Even the rotation of her Mangekyo stalled for an instant.
Wiped out?
The Uzumaki Clan, famous for their massive Chakra, longevity, and Sealing Jutsu, who had been close with the Senju for generations, was wiped out?
This was even more unbelievable than the other party easily sealing Amaterasu earlier.
She suppressed the shock in her heart and immediately followed up, her voice involuntarily rising slightly: "Then what about the Senju Clan? Who is their Clan Chief?"
Naruto's expression remained calm: "The Senju were also wiped out."
Uchiha Hikari:???
Now she was completely stunned.
The Uzumaki and the Senju... both wiped out?
In her understanding, to wipe out these two great clans, it would probably take an Alliance of several major ninja clans.
But if these two clans were wiped out, no Uchiha had come to 'rescue' or 'reclaim' her, a clansman with the Mangekyo.
A suspicion she herself could hardly believe surfaced in her mind.
Her fingers tightened around the Kunai: "Then... what about the Uchiha? How is the Uchiha Clan doing now?"
Naruto looked up, seeing the light in her eyes that was almost overflowing with a mix of shock, doubt, and a faint glimmer of hope, and told her the truth:
"They're gone too."
Gone? Gone!
The tip of the Kunai instantly stabbed into Naruto's chest—not deep, but enough to cause a sharp pang of pain.
This pain was magnified several times within the Tsukuyomi Space, causing Naruto to knit his brows.
He really hadn't been injured much before.
Uchiha Hikari brought her face close, her crimson eyes locking onto Naruto's blue pupils, her voice bone-chilling with a fury that was completely ignited: "Don't lie to my face!
You say your surname is Uzumaki, and that the Uzumaki Clan was wiped out. Who was it that wiped them out? Speak!"
She needed a specific enemy, a culprit who could explain the collapse of everything.
The other party's empty words proved nothing.
Of course, if the Uchiha really were gone, that would be for the best.
"How should I know which one specifically? Many nations took part. Besides, when the Uzumaki Clan was wiped out, I wasn't even born yet."
"Your parents didn't tell you?"
Uchiha Hikari pressed on, trying to find a flaw.
Naruto answered quickly: "I'm an orphan. The surname 'Uzumaki' was told to me later by the Village Chief."
"Village Chief? What Village?"
Uchiha Hikari pursued relentlessly, the Kunai pushing in a fraction further.
"Konoha Village."
Naruto felt the pain in his chest intensifying. In the Tsukuyomi Space, this simulated mental pain was real enough to make one shudder.
Uchiha Hikari didn't show the slightest bit of softheartedness.
On the battlefield, if one were softhearted toward an enemy, they would have died long ago.
Konoha Village?
This unfamiliar name made Uchiha Hikari even more bewildered and more inclined to judge that the other party was talking nonsense.
When did the various great ninja clans she knew ever use a 'Village' as their organizational structure?
Inside the Tsukuyomi Space, the atmosphere was stagnant.
Uchiha Hikari stared intently at the blond man before her. She felt this was most likely a carefully crafted lie intended to disturb her judgment.
But deep down, an ominous premonition caused the hand holding the Kunai to tremble imperceptibly.
Could what he said... be the truth?
What exactly had happened to the world after she was sealed?
Thinking this, she decided it would be better to just use Yata Mirror to check Naruto's memories.
The other party had a plentiful amount of Chakra, which could also help her recover her own.
To her surprise, at this moment, Naruto, who was bound by shackles and seemingly powerless to resist, suddenly looked up.
"If you're going to use that technique, that won't do!"
Suddenly, a pair of red eyes opened before her, and two patterns appeared in Naruto's blood-red pupils.
It was none other than Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan!
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