Chapter 243: Shisui Uchiha's Mangekyo Sharingan
Danzo took stock of his personnel. Discovering that half of the elites he'd brought were dead, and most of the remainder were injured, he was utterly unwilling to accept this outcome. He hadn't gained anything and had even lost the most valuable Mangekyo Sharingan.
Unfortunately, the disturbance caused by the Earth Release: Rising Ground Excavation was enormous. As soon as Kurotsuchi left the tomb, she immediately sent a messenger hawk back to the village for help. Upon hearing that his precious granddaughter had been attacked by Danzo in the Land of Earth, the Third Tsuchikage flew into a towering rage. Without even waiting for his subordinates to gather, he used the Lightweight Rock Technique and flew over a hundred miles to provide support.
The old man was truly furious. If his precious granddaughter had been harmed on his home turf, he would have skinned Danzo alive. Danzo had no choice; no amount of hatred could solve the immediate problem. He could only run, and he had to run fast.
The Third Tsuchikage pursued relentlessly, and Hidden Stone Village ninjas converged from all directions, chasing after him like they were crazy. During the pursuit, Danzo was hit by two Dust Release attacks, causing two more of the Sharingan on his arm to close permanently. Relying on the significant sacrifices of his Root ninjas, he finally managed to successfully escape back to the Land of Fire with Sai's assistance.
Returning to the village, he was both furious and anxious. Hidden Stone Village and Leaf Village were not allies; they couldn't even be considered to have friendly relations. He wanted to make Leaf Village attack Hidden Stone, but he truly had no justification. If he said his eye was dug out by Kurotsuchi, Jiraiya would undoubtedly ask, "Wasn't that eye of yours always blind? What's the matter? Suddenly you can see now?" If he claimed his Mangekyo Sharingan was stolen, then forget Jiraiya, even Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado would come to question him. "When did you get a Mangekyo? Why didn't we know? What does this Mangekyo do? What? It's Kotoamatsukami, capable of modifying someone's will without being detected? Alright, alright, we definitely need to have a serious talk."
After much deliberation, he could only figure out a way to get back at them himself. The Hidden Stone Village, embodying the Will of Stone, had no intention of engaging in a verbal spat either. "We only do, we don't speak." There was no need for condemnation or questioning. They would just beat the crap out of Danzo on the battlefield later. The Third Tsuchikage formulated a more rigorous training plan for Kurotsuchi, telling her to train herself to be stronger than rock, so she wouldn't fear any enemy! Afterward, it would be an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!
Although Kurotsuchi's unauthorized action led to the sacrifice of eight Hidden Stone Village ninjas, she had recovered Deidara's explosive clay scrolls and the Kamizuru clan's secret technique scrolls, and bravely foiled Danzo's scheme, making the cunning Leaf Village ninja return in utter defeat. The Third Tsuchikage still commended her.
Kurotsuchi completely forgot about digging out Danzo's eye. The rescued Kamizuru kunoichi also didn't think there was anything worth mentioning about what happened. They were enemies; ambushing an enemy to take their eye – what was the problem with that? Kurotsuchi just felt like she'd been living in a daze these past few days, her mental state was very poor. After returning to the village, she fell gravely ill and didn't recover for a long time.
On the other side, Ino transformed back into her spiritual form, enveloping the container holding the Sharingan with chakra. Taking advantage of the dead of night when everyone was asleep, she returned to her body.
She shook her head and stretched her somewhat stiff body. Kurotsuchi's habit of sticking her butt out and spreading her legs when using ninjutsu was truly uncomfortable. If you're gonna use ninjutsu, just use it properly, why are you spreading your legs? Even back in her own body, it took quite a while to correct these bad habits.
"Shiromari, I'm hungry! Get me something to eat, quick!"
Her body had been starved for days, and returning to it left her feeling incredibly weak and dizzy from hunger. She quickly had her summoned beast retrieve food from the storage space and ate something. Only then did she have the energy to inventory her gains.
Shisui Uchiha's Mangekyo Sharingan!
Even though it was only the right eye, it was still extremely precious. Apart from the inherent value of the Mangekyo itself, just being freed from the immense pressure of Kotoamatsukami made her let out a long sigh of relief. As she became increasingly outstanding, it was hard to guarantee that Danzo wouldn't turn his attention towards her, one of his own people.
A ninja clan was different from an individual. The Yamanaka clan was technically subordinate to Danzo's Root, but she personally was not; on the contrary, she was aligned with the Hokage faction. This wasn't an isolated case; weren't Kagami Uchiha, Shisui Uchiha, and Itachi Uchiha all individuals who went against their clan's will and sided with the Hokage faction?
If Inoichi retired and Ino took over as clan head, the Yamanaka clan would immediately shift allegiance to the Hokage faction. Would Danzo have no thoughts about that? Arranging a Kotoamatsukami wouldn't be too much, would it? This Kotoamatsukami posed too great a threat to Ino, and her excellence was impossible to hide. This eye was like the Sword of Damocles hanging over her head, constantly worrying her that Danzo might unexpectedly target her. Now that the threat was removed and the eye had become her own possession, her mood was beyond ordinarily comfortable!
Without ocular power infused, this eye was just a normal Three Tomoe Sharingan. Ino used her spiritual energy to sense it slightly and could feel the somewhat depleted ocular power within the eye. The Uchiha clan, including the Hyuga clan, had a limited amount of innate ocular power. Any increase through training later was very limited; it was a case of 'use a little, lose a little.'
After gaining Hashirama Cells, or the more advanced Asura's Chakra, the ocular power at the core of Sage-like eyes could slowly recover. And that was the literal meaning – a very slow recovery. Ino's current recovery speed was already faster than those who had transplanted Hashirama Cells. She had helped Hinata develop her ocular power once in the Land of Snow, and the portion of spiritual energy she lost hadn't even fully recovered yet, only about three-quarters of the way. One could imagine how slow that recovery speed was. And that was for a normal Byakugan, not a Mangekyo Sharingan.
"What an interesting organ," she thought, carefully studying the Mangekyo Sharingan. The Hyuga clan's Byakugan and the Uchiha clan's Sharingan both existed somewhat independently of the individual body. The eyes stored ocular power, contained vibrant cells, and had their own chakra circulation pathways. Aside from genetic differences in the body, theoretically, any ninja who used chakra could transplant a Sharingan or a Byakugan.
Kakashi's chakra reserves were constantly criticized precisely because he wasn't an Uchiha. His Sharingan couldn't be deactivated, constantly consuming chakra, leading to his body being severely weakened. Ino wasn't equipped for it now either. This eye was severely depleted of ocular power. If she transplanted it onto herself, she would have to expend a vast amount of chakra to replenish the ocular power, and the inability to deactivate it would also become her problem. For her, that would be a losing proposition.
She didn't plan to transplant it, but the ocular power inside the Mangekyo couldn't be wasted. The Indra's Chakra within her body could absorb this extremely pure ocular power, then convert it into Indra's Chakra, and finally use the Indra's Chakra to optimize her body, or rather, her ocular organs, at a genetic level.
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