Chapter 5: A Fleeting Bloom
"Huff—"
Uchiha Yu's strike landed, but he didn't retreat.
Instead, he endured the pain, gritting his teeth without making a sound, and forcibly removed his own Mangekyō Sharingan.
His face twisted in agony, veins bulging on his forehead.
His vision in the right eye went black.
His brain trembled violently.
Waves of unbearable pain—beyond what any normal person could withstand—assaulted him. Thick blood oozed from the fingers of his right hand.
Panting heavily, Yu didn't hesitate at all.
He stowed away his right Mangekyō, then immediately inserted the Kotoamatsukami Mangekyō into the hollow socket of his right eye.
The nerves in the eye socket, guided by chakra, connected like threads—
Successfully linking up with the Mangekyō's universal nerve adapter system.
The surrounding Uchiha all gaped with wide eyes, as if they could physically feel the searing pain Yu was enduring.
Izumi's heart clenched tightly.
Even the Root members watching this scene felt their scalps go numb—
This guy changed eyes without hesitation, and didn't even make a sound.
Even in Root, few were this ruthless.
Yu slowly opened his eyes—his right vision went from blurred to clear.
The pain remained, but had eased significantly.
The Kotoamatsukami Mangekyō quietly settled into his eye socket, watching the world around it.
It trembled slightly—returning to life.
"Big bro…"
Tamamo stared at Yu's back as he silently endured the pain. The fury on Tamamo's face deepened, and he kicked Danzo aside with a thud.
Yu swept his gaze across the Root members up in the trees.
He had burned through seventy percent of the his own Mangekyō's Yin Release chakra to impose mental control on over a hundred elite Root operatives in this forest.
Even without the Mangekyō now, once the mental branding was planted, these puppets couldn't break free without external help.
Among the Root members, eight disguised Uchiha Police Force members were mixed in.
Beneath their masks, their faces were pale.
They'd just witnessed everything below.
Their hearts pounded wildly, waves of emotion crashing inside.
On the way here, Yu hadn't explained the purpose of this mission.
He simply said:
Before leaving Konoha, he had to do one thing for the Uchiha—assassinate Danzo, and take back what belonged to them.
Until just moments ago—
Even Izumi, let alone the others, had thought Yu had lost his mind.
Assassinate the Hokage's advisor?!
That was something even the Uchiha elders who harbored treasonous thoughts didn't dare to consider—let alone act on.
Even the elite jonin from the other four great shinobi villages wouldn't dream of taking on this man known as Konoha's Darkness.
Even if Captain Yu had awakened the Mangekyō—
There was no way he could pull this off!
And yet—
The scene before them said otherwise.
Yu had exploited the chaos to infiltrate the Root ranks with them undetected.
Then launched a decapitation strike, killing Danzo.
Before this moment, only Tamamo believed Yu could get them this far.
"He actually… did it."
One of them stood frozen in the trees.
He subconsciously drew his blade from behind—
Only to realize, with shock, that he had regained control over his body.
The other Uchiha were snapping back to awareness too.
They looked toward the Uchiha compound—
Where the crying and screaming had now fallen silent.
There was no going back.
Their clan was gone.
Grief, desolation, and unimaginable agony exploded in their minds—
Under the assault of such pain, their Sharingan power surged wildly.
"Damn those Konoha higher-ups!!"
"If Shisui hadn't died, the Uchiha would've never ended up like this!"
Since they'd lost everything, they would now follow Uchiha Yu—the one who had led them this far—and unleash their fury on the true mastermind behind it all.
At this moment, even Izumi, normally gentle and kind-hearted, thought the same.
They unsheathed their blades and positioned themselves near Yu, silently waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Yu withdrew his gaze and looked at Danzo's corpse in front of him. After a quick analysis of his own condition, he realized his Yasakani no Magatama Mangekyō only had about 10% of its Yin chakra remaining.
Besides the 10% he had used to initially control nine clansmen...
Another 10% had been carried by his shadow clone, infiltrating the clan leader's mansion, and implanted into Uchiha Mikoto's body.
Even though he had now supplemented with the Kotoamatsukami eye,
his chakra reserves were on the verge of depletion.
From here on out, he needed a swift, decisive battle—
to conserve strength and prepare to escape.
But the fight wasn't over yet!
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At that moment—
"Huff—"
Danzo, staggering backward, tried to take a deep breath—
But suddenly choked.
His left eye trembled, staring at the two before him... and then lost all life.
The second the blade pierced his heart—
Danzo was dead.
But in Yu's Mangekyō vision, he caught a detail others missed—
Just before Danzo died, the corners of his mouth curled into a sinister smirk.
Just as the other Uchiha thought victory was secured—
Suddenly, the black cloak on Danzo's corpse slid off, revealing his bandaged right arm.
His index and middle fingers were raised, locked in the middle of forming a half-seal.
The white bandages on his arm unraveled in layers—
Under the moonlight, the surrounding Uchiha were shocked to see that Danzo's arm resembled withered pale wood,
with a three-tomoe Sharingan embedded on the back of his hand, slowly closing.
It was unbelievably eerie.
"Shimura Danzo… actually had another Sharingan?!"
"And that eye technique… it feels both familiar and disturbingly strange."
Minami, wearing glasses, looked at Yu in shock.
A sudden sense of dread surged in his heart.
Then—
The Kotoamatsukami Mangekyō in Yu's right eye vanished without warning, and even Danzo's corpse, previously leaning against a tree, disappeared mysteriously—
As if someone had wiped away chalk from a blackboard.
Danzo reappeared five meters away.
His hollow right eye socket now glowed with the Kotoamatsukami Mangekyō,
as if it had never been taken out by Yu.
Before Yu had attacked,
Danzo had already formed a single-hand seal with his hidden right hand—
And activated a forbidden Uchiha jutsu:
Izanagi.
It forcibly rewrote a fatal outcome—
Including being branded by Yasakani,
his physical death,
and the loss of the Mangekyō.
During that short window,
he had truly died—
And even though Yu had taken the Kotoamatsukami,
he couldn't use it to overwrite Danzo's will with the "strongest genjutsu."
For the next sixty seconds,
Danzo would control the rules—
Able to reshape any unfavorable events.
This was the forbidden technique—
Izanagi.
Up in the trees, members of the Root organization breathed a sigh of relief, while the Uchiha remained tense and alert.
"Kid, let me give you some advice—next time you try to assassinate someone, don't waste time talking!"
Danzo stepped forward, the wind swirling around his feet as he stomped down, shattering the ground and releasing a burst of wind that surged toward Tamao.
"Wind Style: Vacuum Serial Waves!"
Whoosh—!
The wind howled.
Sand and dust flew everywhere.
Tamao was sucked into the heart of the storm. The razor-sharp gales turned into countless steel-like blades, tearing through his armor and leaving dense slashes across his skin. The immense pressure crushed down on his internal organs.
Splurt—!
Tamao coughed up a mouthful of blood, thrust his ninja blade into the ground, and tried to resist the wind style with sheer physical will.
But the force of the gale was overwhelming. His body was lifted and hurled backward, crashing through numerous trees before hitting the ground hard.
A large portion of the forest was leveled by the cutting wind.
Izumi's heart tightened. With her three-tomoe Sharingan, she dodged the residual gusts with precision, leaping from the tree to grab the severely injured, unconscious Tamayo and retreat.
The other Uchiha scattered from the trees, trying to evade the crushing pressure of the Wind Style.
Boom—!
Several immobilized Root members could only watch in horror as the strongest wave of wind engulfed them. They didn't even have time to scream before their flesh was shredded to pieces, exploding into clouds of blood mist.
The Uchiha who managed to dodge looked back at the devastated forest, eyes wide, breath caught in their throats.
Danzo, having cleared the field of distractions, suddenly appeared right in front of Uchiha Yu, his hand reaching greedily toward Yu's left eye socket.
Danzo's counterattack had been executed in the blink of an eye, faster than the joint ambush Yu and Tamao had used earlier.
He wasn't just trying to kill this inherently dangerous Uchiha brat—
he wanted to steal his Mangekyō!
His subordinates hadn't reacted at all.
It had to be due to the ability of the opponent's Mangekyō!
Such a dangerous power—
It should belong to Konoha.
Only Konoha could be trusted to control it.
He would gladly accept that responsibility.
At the same time—
Clang—!
Danzo's right eye flared red, the shuriken-patterned Mangekyō of Kotoamatsukami spinning rapidly.
Silent Yin chakra surged through direct eye contact, forcefully flooding into Yu's mind.
The entire situation—
flipped in an instant.
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