Chapter 74: The Final Mangekyo Dojutsu
"It's over, Uchiha Itachi!"
Ignoring Uchiha Itachi's movement of taking out a signal flare, Danzo directly declared his victory.
"Kotoamatsukami. This is Shisui's strongest genjutsu. Once locked on by it, your consciousness will no longer belong to you."
As long as I have this eye, let alone Uchiha Itachi, even if Hiruzen came in person, he would have to obediently listen!
Uchiha Itachi's finger was just about to press the signal flare—
"Caw—"
Without any warning, and before even Uchiha Itachi could react, a pitch-black crow seemed to rush out from Uchiha Itachi's collar out of thin air.
A Mangekyo Sharingan with the same pattern suddenly opened in the crow's left eye, locking gazes with Danzo's right eye.
Kotoamatsukami!
Danzo's body stiffened, his ferocious expression frozen on his face, as if a pause button had been pressed.
The ocular power that was about to be unleashed was forced back, like a flood cut off by a dam.
The red light flickering in the Mangekyo Sharingan dimmed, then reverted to a normal Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
The crow flapped its wings, landed steadily on Danzo's shoulder, and looked at Uchiha Itachi with that Mangekyo eye.
"Shisui... you had already..."
The Mangekyo Sharingan; this was the final gift Shisui left for Uchiha Itachi.
It was also the contingency plan Shisui had left behind.
Before handing the eye to Uchiha Itachi, Shisui had sealed all of his remaining ocular power into it, preparing an unprecedented Kotoamatsukami.
And the trigger condition was for the holder to come into contact with his eye.
Clang—
The cane in Danzo's hand fell to the ground.
As if the play button had been pressed again, Danzo moved—
"I... I was wrong."
But words he would never have said came out of his mouth.
"I am guilty." Danzo's voice trembled with deep repentance, "In my life, I have committed despicable acts in the name of justice. I was jealous of Hiruzen, I persecuted my colleagues, I even laid hands on children... I truly deserve to die."
If he hadn't witnessed the whole thing with his own eyes, Uchiha Itachi would have absolutely thought that the Danzo in front of him was an impostor.
This is... Kotoamatsukami?
Although he had heard Shisui talk about it, this was his first time seeing its actual effect.
"Uchiha Itachi, you are a good boy."
Danzo suddenly stepped forward, causing Uchiha Itachi to tense up, almost slashing him with his blade.
Ignoring the sharp blade before him, Danzo slowly raised his hand and removed Shisui's eye from his eye socket.
That was the symbol of his ambition for half a lifetime, yet at this moment, he handed it to Uchiha Itachi.
"This is Shisui's eye; it should not be tainted by a filthy person like me. Let it return to its rightful owner."
Uchiha Itachi numbly took the eye, which still carried body heat, and looked at Danzo, who seemed like a different person, his mind going blank.
Is this... it?
What kind of command did Shisui give using Kotoamatsukami?
"Don't worry about me."
Danzo turned around, his back appearing exceptionally desolate yet revealing a sense of relief, "There is still a lot of incriminating evidence in Root; I must go back and organize it..."
This 'Darkness of the Ninja World ", who had dominated the Ninja World for half a century, picked up the guard lying on the ground and walked lightly toward the direction of the Root base.
Watching Danzo's departing figure, Uchiha Itachi's eyes flickered.
He did not kill Danzo, but this outcome, for Danzo, might be even crueler than death.
He trusted Shisui; no matter what command Shisui had given, there must have been a reason for it.
Uchiha Itachi carefully put away the eye and looked up at the night sky.
"It seems the backup plan won't be needed. Let's go rendezvous with Haruko..."
...
The Third Hokage wanted to stop him, but his exhausted body made it impossible for him to stand up for the moment, and he could only watch helplessly as Obito's hand grabbed Fugaku.
Space twisted, and Fugaku was sucked into the vortex—
A cold light flashed.
The blade of a Kunai severed Obito's neck, with such force that the sound of bone scraping could even be heard, and blood splattered.
Obito reacted extremely quickly, instantly abandoning the use of Kamui to activate intangibility, which allowed him to avoid the fate of being completely beheaded.
He stumbled a few steps, clutching his neck, a flash of unprecedented shock and anger in his eyes.
Obito looked at the unscathed Fugaku who had ambushed him, while the other charred Fugaku turned into a phantom and disappeared.
"You... actually willing to..."
Izanagi.
The Uchiha Clan's most forbidden Ninjutsu, the ultimate dojutsu that can rewrite reality, with the price of sacrificing an eye.
But Fugaku used it without hesitation, at the cost of his Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Anyway, this eye can't see the future of the Uchiha Clan," his voice was calm and firm, "It's better to use it to create the future."
Failing to finish off Obito in one blow, Fugaku immediately stepped forward to continue his attacks, preventing Obito from ending his intangibility.
Facing Fugaku, who was attacking with full force without needing to defend, the heavily injured Obito had no power to shake him off.
While Izanagi was in effect, any counterattack was meaningless.
And the Izanagi for which Fugaku used his Mangekyo as a sacrifice would certainly last longer than his own intangibility time.
Once the intangibility time ended, or if he tried to use Kamui to escape, he would be completely killed the moment he materialized.
Obito's hands trembled as he formed the seal for Izanagi.
The price was likewise the light of one eye.
Intangibility was dispelled, and Obito activated Kamui.
Fugaku tried to stop him with an attack, but it was meaningless; the Obito he hit simply turned into a phantom and disappeared.
"He shouldn't be coming back," Fugaku said, helping the Third Hokage up, "His target was my eye, but now that I've spared no cost to use a Forbidden Jutsu, he won't be able to get it."
The Third Hokage looked at Fugaku's face: "Fugaku... your eyes..."
"This is the price of using a Forbidden Jutsu." Fugaku touched his eye, which had turned white and blind, "At least we drove him back. And..."
Fugaku recalled the final image transmitted back by his eye that could predict the future—
At the very last moment before going completely blind, at the edge of his blurry vision, he seemed to have seen something.
It was no longer the Uchiha Clan's corpses flowing with blood.
Nor was it the tragedy of Uchiha Sasuke and Uchiha Itachi killing each other.
Instead, it was a future full of hope.
"Is this... the new future of the Uchiha Clan?"
However...
That white-haired young man should be Haruko, but who is the Uchiha girl beside him?
Wearing the Uchiha Clan uniform, with long, spiky hair reaching past her waist, and two Mangekyo Sharingan eyes exuding unruliness.
A clan member he had never seen before.
"Hokage-sama—"
Several figures swept across the ruins and landed steadily in front of the two.
The person in the lead wore a plain white robe, the veins at the corners of his eyes bulging, and that pair of pure white pupils appeared exceptionally striking in the night.
Hiashi.
Behind him were four elites of the Hyuga branch family who had also activated their Byakugan.
Hiashi's Byakugan quickly swept across the battlefield, and he could not help but frown.
"Hokage-sama... what is this..."
Before he could finish speaking, more black shadows gathered from all directions and landed on the tops of the surrounding surviving buildings.
Those were Anbu wearing animal masks, followed closely by family Ninjas wearing various clan uniforms—Nara, Akimichi, Aburame...
The originally deathly silent ruins were instantly filled with human presence.
The crowd that had arrived looked at the scene before them, each stunned in place, and the air was permeated with a sense of awkwardness and tension called "at a loss."
What did they see?
A devastated, blood-stained battlefield, the Uchiha who intended to rebel lying dead everywhere, and the Uchiha Clan head and the Third Hokage who had just experienced a great battle.
An Anbu squad leader wearing a fox mask hesitated for a moment, jumped down from the high platform, and knelt on one knee before the Third Hokage: "Hokage-sama... what happened here?"
Everyone's gaze instantly focused on the old man.
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