Chapter 283: Awakening the Eyes(BOUNS CHAPTER)

Chapter 283: Awakening the Eyes(BOUNS CHAPTER)

Ishiro did not respond to Uchiha Sakai's words, remaining silent for a moment before saying, "Uchiha Sakai, can I speak with you as a real ninja?"

Sakai was stunned. Although he was a child, he also knew that Ishiro was now the Tsuchikage, a top figure in the entire ninja world. In terms of status, he was probably even above the clan head of their Uchiha clan.

For a figure like Ishiro to speak to him so solemnly made him a little nervous. After a long while, the calmed Uchiha Sakai said, "You can."

"Good. Then let me first ask you, although I kidnapped you from Konoha to Iwagakure back then, have I ever lied to you?" Ishiro asked.

Sakai was about to be deliberately unreasonable but suddenly remembered that Ishiro had just said they would talk like real ninjas. So he first thought about it carefully. He thought about how Ishiro had told him about the situation in the ninja world at that time and had even directly told him he was being kidnapped. It seemed he had indeed never lied. So he honestly said, "No."

"Alright then. What I am about to say next, you may not believe, but I guarantee it's all true," Ishiro said. "Previously, the Nine-Tails Rampage broke out in Konoha. Do you know what the Nine-Tails is?"

Sakai recalled what he had learned at the Ninja Academy and nodded, "The Nine-Tails is our Konoha's Tailed Beast. Your Iwagakure has the Four-Tails and the Five-Tails."

Ishiro nodded, ignoring Sakai's use of "our" for Konoha and "your" for Iwagakure. He continued, "During the Nine-Tails Rampage in Konoha, the Nine-Tails had crimson Sharingan in its eyes. It's certain that the Nine-Tails was being controlled by the Sharingan of your Uchiha clan."

"What? Impossible! You're lying to me!" Sakai immediately shouted excitedly.

"Uchiha Sakai!" Ishiro shouted sternly. "Please maintain the composure of a ninja. Regardless of whether what I'm saying is true or false, you must use your reason to judge. Don't be controlled by your emotions."

Taking a few deep breaths, Uchiha Sakai finally calmed down again. This scene, falling into Ishiro's eyes, couldn't help but make him nod. "Not bad. His disposition is very good."

Uchiha Sakai's talent in ninjutsu or taijutsu was very poor, but this level of composure was already very impressive.

"I can tell you clearly, on the day of the Nine-Tails Rampage, I was in Konoha. I also participated in it. I released the Seven-Tails that I captured from Takigakure into Konoha, adding fuel to the fire," Ishiro said with a flat expression.

"You? You despicable... Why would you do that?" This time, Sakai was not overly agitated but said in a low, gritted voice.

Ishiro nodded and continued, "Because our Iwagakure and Konoha are enemies."

This one sentence directly drained all of Sakai's anger. That's right, the two sides were enemies to begin with. Using any means was normal; that's what the Ninja Academy taught.

Ishiro did not stop, "Uchiha Sakai, you should know what it means for the Uchiha clan when the Sharingan appears in the Nine-Tails' eyes. Your clansmen have been completely isolated by the Konoha higher-ups."

"Our Iwagakure and many other hidden villages are all contacting your clan head. In the end, your clan head chose our Iwagakure. He will transfer a batch of Uchiha children younger than you over. When the time comes, I hope you can take good care of these younger brothers and sisters of yours."

At this moment, Sakai really wanted to say, "You're lying! These children must have been kidnapped by you again." But reason told him that there was no need for Ishiro to do so. Ishiro hadn't lied to him when he had kidnapped him back then.

Just as Sakai was desperately trying to recall, wanting to find a flaw in Ishiro's words, Ishiro suddenly handed over a scroll.

Sakai was not stupid. This thing must be the evidence Ishiro wanted to show him. This thing must be able to prove that everything Ishiro said was true. At this moment, Sakai suddenly had the urge to turn and run. He didn't dare to imagine what their Uchiha clan would face if what Ishiro said was true.

They might be annihilated!

But Sakai's right hand still uncontrollably reached for the scroll in Ishiro's hand.

He mechanically opened the scroll. There was only one line of words in it: "Sakai, take good care of these younger brothers and sisters. Fugaku."

"Boom." A huge wave of emotion suddenly impacted Sakai's mind. Sakai really wanted to tell himself that this sentence was written by Ishiro, but it was as if a voice in his mind was constantly telling him, "This is real, this is real."

Just like that, a roar suppressed to its limit escaped from Sakai's throat, "No~~~"

When he looked up at Ishiro again, what met Ishiro's eyes was a pair of crimson Sharingan. The left eye had a single tomoe, the right eye had two tomoe!

"He finally awakened his eyes," Ishiro thought to himself.

But in the next moment, the overly emotional Sakai fainted.

Ishiro went forward to check on Sakai's condition. He was just overly emotional, and the sudden awakening of the Sharingan had put too much burden on his body, which he couldn't handle. Ishiro placed a seal on both of Sakai's eyes to isolate his chakra.

After a long while, after Sakai woke up, Ishiro said to him, "Congratulations, you've awakened your eyes. But you can't use this Sharingan yet. I've sealed your Sharingan. After you graduate, I will help you undo the seal."

Sakai was completely unconcerned about awakening his eyes or not right now. He only felt that perhaps in the next moment, countless butcher knives would be stretched towards his clansmen who were still in Konoha.

Seeing this, Ishiro said, "You need to rest well and take care of your body. Your younger brothers and sisters still need you to take care of them."

After speaking, Ishiro left Ōnoki's house.

After that, Ishiro didn't pay too much attention to Sakai. He only heard from Ōnoki a few times later that since Ishiro had seen him, Sakai's training had become even more arduous.

But unfortunately, Sakai's lack of strength before was not mainly because he didn't train hard enough, but because his talent was truly too poor. So although Sakai's training became more arduous, the effect was not obvious.

Up to now, Sakai was firmly occupying the position of the dead-last.

Ishiro still kept the letter Fugaku had given to Sakai for himself and did not give it to him. The Anbu had been studying the Sharingan and Byakugan. Ishiro had an Anbu member with a transplanted Sharingan look at this scroll.

Sure enough, this scroll, which was originally blank with only one line of words, immediately revealed text under the Sharingan.

Ishiro had to switch between more than a dozen Anbu members before he could finish recording the Sharingan genjutsu and Uchiha ninjutsu recorded on the scroll.

He was just about to research Fire and Wind Release, and this time Fugaku had sent over so many Fire Release jutsu. Ishiro expressed that Fugaku was a true timely rain.

Besides these Fire Release jutsu, Ishiro also had two other items related to Fire Release in his hands: one was the Fire Release notes he had obtained from the basement of Orochimaru's house in Konoha, and the other was Madara's ninjutsu notes.

Ishiro believed that as long as he handled these three Fire Release-related items well, his own Fire Release could probably reach the level of his Lightning and Earth Release.

Of course, Ishiro did not forget to make a copy for Ogura Saki. Considering that Saki was about to develop her Kekkei Genkai, after obtaining permission from Ōnoki and the others, Ishiro also made a copy of Madara's ninjutsu notes for her.

As for Orochimaru's Fire Release notes, Saki had already seen them long ago.

Next, Ishiro's days slowly became peaceful. Although Nagato would occasionally contact him through the Magic Lantern Body Technique, there were no major events. The Dark Akatsuki had only recruited two new members.

One was Sasori of the Red Sand, codename: Blue Dragon. In the original story, Sasori's codename was Jade Maiden, but in this life, the codename Jade Maiden was taken by Yahiko.

The other was a character Ishiro had no impression of. He didn't pay much attention, not even remembering the other's codename. He was probably a throwaway character who would either die on a mission or at the hands of his partner.

The Akatsuki was recruiting, but with Ishiro's relationship with the Akatsuki, this was not something he needed to worry too much about.

What Ishiro cared about now was the growth of his three new disciples in Squad Five.

The three had witnessed a truly grand scene with Ishiro, and now their mentality was already like that of a qualified ninja.

Looking at the three's clearly more determined eyes during training, Ishiro called the three together and said, "Alright, it's been a while since I last arranged training tasks for you. Tell me about your completion status."

In fact, not much time had passed since Ishiro arranged the tasks for them, only about a month in total. And in this one month, for about half of it, Ishiro had taken them to the Land of Rain, and a lot of time was delayed on the road.

But the progress of the three was still noticeable.

The most obvious was Kiyoshi Ishizawa. This child might have really lacked resources before and had no opportunity to learn ninjutsu. Now with a ninjutsu scroll, he learned his first C-rank ninjutsu in just one month. Although he had not yet reached the level of proficiency required by Ishiro, it was still considerable progress.

Then there was Akino Atsumi. The little girl really liked to read, and her reading efficiency was also very high. This was different from Ishiro back then, who had forced himself to study with an adult's mentality.

The little girl read books very quickly. It seemed she could easily grasp the meaning the author wanted to convey.

Although Akino was not good at and did not like sealing jutsu, she was the only one who had completed the task required by Ishiro. She had really finished reading all the books Ishiro had given her.

Finally, there was Riori Uzumaki. This girl gave Ishiro a bit of a headache. The little girl trained very hard, but the poor results made Ishiro find it unbelievable. Up to now, her tree-climbing level was only about five meters. Ishiro's mission target was ten meters!

Rubbing the spot between his eyebrows, Ishiro said to Riori, "Riori, don't be anxious. Your foundational advantage is actually very obvious. It's just that to bring out your advantage requires a preparation process. What you are doing now is this preparation process."

"When you've learned all this, your progress will be very fast. So don't be discouraged, keep up the good work."

Riori nodded with some grievance. Ishiro could understand her frustration because Akino and Kiyoshi had both learned tree climbing. What was even more infuriating was that these two had learned it in their spare time after completing their own training tasks, with a "let's just try it" attitude.

The result was self-evident. Whatever Naruto and Sasuke felt back then when they saw Sakura easily complete tree climbing, the current Riori was probably ten times more upset.

Because Naruto and Sasuke were at least a pair; failing together made it easier to accept psychologically. Riori, on the other hand, was the only failure, which made the little girl doubt her own talent at one point. Fortunately, Riori didn't have that many complicated thoughts. As long as Ishiro comforted her a few times, this silly girl could immediately become full of confidence again.

Not knowing if Riori had taken it to heart, Ishiro taught Kiyoshi another C-rank Water Release jutsu, letting him learn two water jutsu at the same time.

As for Akino, Ishiro began to teach her D-rank sealing jutsu from scratch.

The time spent teaching disciples always passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, another month had passed, and the time for the Konoha-hosted Chunin Exams was approaching.

Although Iwagakure was sending people this time just to annoy Konoha, they couldn't just casually send a few squads to their deaths.

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