Chapter 37: Night of the Clan Massacre
Uchiha Itachi originally wanted to use the clan massacre to make Sasuke awaken his eyes earlier, but upon hearing Naruto's words, his plan was completely disrupted.
Uchiha Itachi was silent for a long while before asking with a slightly trembling voice, "Is there any basis for the bloodline sickness you mentioned?"
"None! I'm just giving a timely reminder; you can choose to ignore it if you wish."
"Then at what age is it suitable to awaken the Sharingan?"
Naruto shook his head and said, "Awakening the Sharingan isn't about age, but about spiritual power. As long as the spiritual power of the Uchiha Clan is strong enough, they don't need any stimulation at all to awaken the Sharingan. Those like you who awakened the Sharingan prematurely were all under intense mental stimulation, pushing the limits of their bodies and bloodlines to enhance their spiritual power. That's why the Sharinganawakened, making the body and bloodline increasingly frail. How could there be no side effects? How could one not contract the bloodline sickness?"
Although Uchiha Itachi didn't know if what Narutosaid was true or false, thinking about it carefully, he felt that Naruto's words made sense.
"Do you have a method to cultivate spiritual power?"
Naruto shook his head and said, "No, but... I have a simple and crude method to increase spiritual power."
"What method?"
"Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu! Frequent use of the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu can enhance spiritual power to a certain extent, but you should be very clear about the drawbacks of this method of increasing spiritual power."
"The brain cannot handle too much information; it's easy to become an idiot!"
"Exactly! The moment you receive a large amount of information is the moment your spiritual power increases. As for how to manage this limit, everyone has to figure it out for themselves."
"Thank you!"
After Uchiha Itachi finished speaking, he summoned a crow, and in one of the crow's eyes, Uchiha Shisui's eye was embedded.
After gouging the eye out from the crow, Uchiha Itachi threw it to Naruto and said, "This eye belongs to you now, but I hope you don't destroy it. In case... in case Sasuke grows to hate the Village, I hope you use this Sharingan to bring Sasuke back to the Village."
After Naruto caught Uchiha Shisui's eye, he quickly swapped it with a wild boar's eye from the Spirit Spring Space.
After Uchiha Itachi finished speaking, Naruto shook his head and said, "Sasuke has his own path to walk. Any path arranged for him by others is not the one he wants to take. If I were to use this Sharingan to control him, how would he be any different from a puppet?"
After Naruto finished speaking, he crushed the wild boar's eye directly.
Uchiha Itachi hadn't expected Naruto to be so decisive, but he had also anticipated it to some extent; he just couldn't accept that Naruto looked down on the Mangekyo Sharingan so much.
Uchiha Itachi left Naruto's riverside cottage with a somewhat dejected expression.
His mind kept dwelling on Naruto's words: awakening the Sharingan too early leads to bloodline sickness, and the future he arranged for Sasuke wasn't what Sasuke himself wanted to walk.
The amount of information Uchiha Itachi received from Naruto was simply too much, making it impossible for him to digest it all in a short time.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. When Naruto didn't see his Shadow Clone return, he knew that Uchiha Itachi had already begun to take action against the Uchiha Clan.
Furthermore, the Shadow Clone that had been transformed into a cat within the Uchiha Clan was also dispelled.
After receiving the memories, Naruto sighed and said, "The Great Filial Son still took this step. Whatever! Why should I care so much!"
After Naruto used the Transformation Jutsu, he used the Flying Thunder God to arrive near where the Shadow Clone that had turned into a cat was.
Naruto watched as Uchiha Itachi slaughtered his way through family after family, sighing slightly in his heart.
Once Uchiha Itachi entered a house, Narutoimmediately used the Flying Thunder God to go to the houses Uchiha Itachi had already slaughtered.
Naruto looked at the people lying in pools of blood and muttered to himself.
"Gouging out other people's eyes... it's really hard to bring myself to do it! Sigh! I have to do it even if I don't want to! Otherwise, those two rats in the gutter will show up."
Naruto smacked his lips, then used two fingers to perform the Chakra Scalpel, quickly gouging out two pairs of Sharingan—one pair of Three-Tomoeand one pair of Two-Tomoe.
Naruto put the Sharingan into the Spirit Spring Space and specifically arranged a room to store them. He was afraid of mixing them up, so he separated them pair by pair to avoid using one from Zhang San and one from Li Si when he needed them in the future.
After that, Naruto's speed in collecting Sharinganbecame much faster. In the end, it was basically Uchiha Itachi coming out and Naruto going in; the two of them formed a complete tacit understanding.
When Uchiha Itachi had finished three-quarters of the massacre, he suddenly said to Naruto, "It's about time for you to leave. Someone should be coming soon."
After Uchiha Itachi finished speaking, he threw a scroll to Naruto.
"Here are the Sharingan gouged out from deceased Uchiha members in the past. They are all here. Whether you destroy them or keep them is up to you, but for now, leave as quickly as possible!"
Naruto thought for a moment, created quite a few Shadow Clones, and had them all transform into cats.
"I'll leave the rest to the Shadow Clones! Don't worry about it!"
Uchiha Itachi nodded and said, "That works too! Your main body should leave quickly!"
Naruto nodded and used the Flying Thunder Godto land on the roof of an Uchiha family's house, transforming into a crow to watch the situation unfold.
Just as the Shadow Clone transformed into a cat collected two more pairs of Sharingan, a distorted space appeared near Uchiha Itachi, followed by the appearance of Uchiha Obito wearing a tiger-stripe mask.
"Aren't you finished here yet? I've already taken care of everything over at the Police Force."
Hearing Uchiha Obito's words, the Shadow Clonetransformed into a cat couldn't help but curse in its heart.
"Damn it, how could I forget the Uchiha Police Force? Anyone who can serve in the Konoha Police Force has awakened the Three-Tomoe."
The Shadow Clone transformed into a cat walked to a corner, used the Flying Thunder God, and then quickly dispelled itself, letting the main body decide whether or not to fight Uchiha Obito.
After Naruto digested the information, he was also somewhat hesitant about whether to fight Uchiha Obito.
Primarily, Naruto also wanted to know what level his strength had reached.
After thinking it over, Naruto decided to fight Uchiha Obito first; at worst, he could use the Flying Thunder God to run away.
Having decided, he acted. Naruto used the Transformation Jutsu to turn his hair completely red, then took out a mask from his space and put it on his face.
Then Naruto used the Flying Thunder God to arrive on the path Uchiha Obito was bound to take, waiting for him.
Before long, Uchiha Obito felt the Chakraemanating from Naruto.
Uchiha Obito was also afraid of any accidents, so he used Kamui Phasing to appear in front of Naruto.