Chapter 57: Uchiha's Bride

The guests from the clan who came to attend the banquet were politely asked to leave early after finishing the dinner.

Only Uchiha Fugaku, still dressed in a black formal attire, remained quietly in place, then hesitantly walked towards the door of his former fiancée, now his wife, but not fully married.

"Mikoto, I'm coming in?", Knocking on the door, Uchiha Fugaku waited outside for his wife's response.

But there was no answer.

Pushing the door, it was firmly locked from the inside.

If he forced the door open, the noise would surely attract the guests and ninjas outside, and then...

Where would his face as the Uchiha clan leader be?

"Mikoto, it's been so many years, Itachi is about to grow up, the person you're waiting for won't come anymore," Helpless, Uchiha Fugaku could only humbly beg his wife inside the room to open the door. [T/N: Itachi is the name of Mikoto's sister's child not her. In this world]

"He doesn't exist at all, how could there be someone in this world who activates the Mangekyō Sharingan in their teens? Stop fantasizing. Open the door, I promise I won't do anything, we can still respect each other as before..."

But there was still no response from inside the room.

Until a scream came from inside the room, and the sound of a kunai falling to the ground, Uchiha Fugaku hurriedly used ninjutsu to break open the locked door.

But what he saw was...

Another man grabbing his wife's wrist and holding her slender waist in his arms.

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[Few Minutes Before]

"What a heartless person...", In the newly arranged bridal chamber, Uchiha Mikoto, who was forced by the female ninjas of the clan to change into a bridal shiromuku, sat dazedly on the edge of the bed, staring at the petal-covered floor, silently shedding tears.

"We clearly agreed to wait for you in the future, but..."

After waiting for so many years, she had never heard of a boy named "Kage" being born in the clan.

'Liar.'

'You are not from the future at all.'

'But, no matter where, even if it's a parallel world, shouldn't you come to see me?'

'Or was that last confession of love just to comfort me?'

After crying quietly and silently for a long time.

Uchiha Mikoto still hadn't waited for the young man she had been longing for, but she heard the coercive voice coming from outside the room.

So many years of resistance, but the result remains unchanged.

'Is it really going to...'

"No, I've already said, I want to change my future. Even if it means death..."

After making up her mind, Uchiha Mikoto took out the kunai she had hidden in the sleeve of her shiromuku and pressed it against her swan-like white neck.

She was ready to end her life with this kunai as soon as Uchiha Fugaku broke through the door.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The knocking on the door by Uchiha Fugaku outside grew louder.

Like a death warrant, it plucked at Uchiha Mikoto's heartstrings.

"It seems this is the end."

'What a heartless young man, then I... will also make up my mind to die for you!'

The gentle yet resolute Uchiha Mikoto raised her slender neck in resignation, then held the kunai high with both hands, "Farewell, Kage... I will hate you for a lifetime!"

Uchiha Mikoto closed her eyes, then forcefully thrust the kunai towards her body.

"I don't want... to be remembered by you like this."

"?"

The hands holding the kunai paused on the snow-white skin of her neck, Uchiha Mikoto found that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't push the kunai any further.

And the culprit causing all this was standing in front of her, smiling at her.

"You..."

Uchiha Mikoto felt as if she was in a dream at this moment.

At the last moment of her life, she actually saw the young man she had been missing for years.

And he looked exactly the same as in her memories, as if they had just met yesterday.

"A dream? Even if it's a dream, at least... I got to see you at the last moment, but, but I can't hold on anymore. I'm sorry," The bitterness of so many years, Uchiha Mikoto couldn't even confide in anyone.

She could only wait alone with hope, until today's despair...

"Wait, such a young and beautiful wife, it's too much of a pity to die like this," Seeing Uchiha Mikoto still foolishly trying to commit suicide with the kunai, Uchiha Kage quickly threw away the kunai in her hand and pulled her into his arms.

'However, this dream space is really something, why didn't it let me come earlier, only allowing me to enter at this critical moment.'

Looking at the woman who, compared to her lively self in the copy, now appeared much more fragile and haggard, Uchiha Kage also understood that she had probably been waiting for him for a long time.

"You... are you really... Kage?"

With her hand held and her waist captured in a warm embrace, Uchiha Mikoto finally realized something was wrong.

'It's real, he really came!'

She stared blankly at the man in front of her.

Excited, or rather, resentful tears began to stream down her cheeks uncontrollably.

"Yes, I'm here."

Although crying, the woman dressed in shiromuku, with a piece of wedding veil covering half of her face, was still incredibly beautiful and moving.

Uchiha Kage was deeply captivated after just one glance.

'A more mature body, gentler eyes, more charming, and more fragile, making one want to hold her in their arms.'

'Paired with this pure white shiromuku...'

It made one want to immediately lift the wedding veil off the female ninja's face and fiercely press her down, achieving the complete conquest of her that was most desired at this moment.

"Great... I finally waited... for you," Although there was still a lot of resentment in her heart for Uchiha Kage not coming to see her for so many years, the gentle lady still tried her best to show her most beautiful side to her long-lostered lover.

"Take me away, let's leave the Uchiha, leave Konoha," Enjoying the gentle touch of Uchiha Kage wiping away her tears, Uchiha Mikoto held onto his body without any reservations.

She now only wanted to escape from the shackles of the Uchiha and elope with him.

"Alright."

Although unsure if they could leave, facing such a pitiful and beautiful newlywed wife, Uchiha Kage couldn't bring himself to say no.

"Who are you? You! You two?"

CRASH!

Just as Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Kage embraced each other, Uchiha Fugaku finally broke through the door and barged in.

"Is this your fiancé?", Uchiha Kage was seeing a living Uchiha Fugaku for the first time.

"Yes, he's the fiancé the clan forced on me, but soon he'll be someone irrelevant to me," Seeing the aggressive Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Mikoto quickly shielded Uchiha Kage.

"Uchiha Fugaku, the person I've been waiting for has arrived, please let us leave!"

"You... he, he's that guy?", Thinking his new wife was under attack by a villain, he instead saw her shielding that man.

Uchiha Fugaku felt as if the world was spinning, the anger and frustration in his chest raging like a beast.

"Step aside! I-I'm going to kill him!"

Uchiha Fugaku activated his three-tomoe Sharingan and recklessly charged towards the man shielded by Uchiha Mikoto.

But he suddenly stopped midway.

"Mangekyō Sharingan? It's real?"

For no other reason than the man in front of him, who had his wife back in his arms... the eyes he looked at him with.

Those eyes, the Mangekyō Sharingan he had dreamed of but never obtained.

"Mikoto, have you forgotten, with my strength, I don't need to care about anyone," Pulling the female ninja in the wedding shiromuku into his arms, Uchiha Kage faced Uchiha Fugaku directly and activated his Mangekyō Sharingan.

However, he didn't expect that as soon as he opened his Mangekyō, Uchiha Fugaku stopped his attack.

As if frightened, he stood still, unmoving.

"What? Just seeing these eyes, you've lost the courage to attack?"

"I...", Facing the stranger's mockery, Uchiha Fugaku finally raised his head again.

But just looking at those Mangekyō eyes, he felt inexplicably scared.

"No, you can't really have the Mangekyō, you're a fraud, a liar!", But in the end, he mustered what little courage he had left.

"Let me expose you, the guy who deceived Mikoto!"

'Genjutsu: Sharingan!'

Uchiha Fugaku used his three-tomoe Sharingan to brazenly launch a genjutsu attack at Uchiha Kage, who had the Mangekyō Sharingan.

This scene was akin to stabbing a kunai at a Susanoo.

"Genjutsu: Mirror Heaven and Earth Change."

Facing this senseless genjutsu attack, Uchiha Kage simply used his Mangekyō Sharingan to reflect the genjutsu.

And then...

Pfft!

Uchiha Fugaku, suffering from the genjutsu backlash, spat out blood, his face red, and nearly fell to his knees.

"This is the difference in pupil power, in front of my Mangekyō Sharingan, none of your techniques will work."

'What a fragile Uchiha clan leader.'

Looking at the blood-spitting Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Kage didn't feel the slightest sense of defeating a strong enemy.

"It's real, the true Mangekyō... Sharingan!", While wiping the blood from his mouth, Uchiha Fugaku trembled as he stood up from the ground.

In his eyes, besides fear, there was also an inexplicable admiration and excitement.

'The Mangekyō Sharingan truly exists!'

"Step aside, we don't want to harm you, just let us leave."

Although Uchiha Mikoto didn't like the new clan leader, she didn't wish for his death.

Over the years, it was thanks to this man's presence that she could hold on until the day Uchiha Kage arrived.

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