chapter 129

‘Hachiman’ can distort all the injuries and chakra loss suffered by a person at a point for a certain duration, and ‘Nakisawame’ can completely remove that accumulated damage from the timeline by the backflow of time. When used in conjunction, these two abilities make a perfect match!

Sighing at just how much of a cheat all the known Mangekyou Sharingan abilities are, Kuroto can’t help but think, ‘Probably the presence of the small amount of Six Path Chakra in the Sharingan makes it possible for Mangekyou Sharingan to awaken such unreasonable techniques.’

The Six Path Chakra somehow gives birth to such abilities with conjunctions to the awakeners thought process and emotions at the time of awakening by giving it life through ‘Yin-Yang Release’ or ‘Creation of All Things’ to be more specific.

Now, it’s not that the Uchiha have mastery over ‘Yin-Yang Release’ but maybe that’s how the abilities of the Mangekyou Sharingan works, well, in theory at least.

But how that whole process works?

Kuroto isn’t sure about it!

But anyway, the possible abilities that Kuroto thought that Shinichi might have awakened weren’t that far from his guess, only a little superior to what he expected them to be.

At the same time, their limit is also what he expected, as long as the damage afflicted upon him is higher than what could be sustained by ‘Hachiman’, the consumption rate of the wear down of this ability would increase, and this is the only possible method to break through this ability, and that too unless Shinichi learns to use both of his abilities in conjunction.

But when Kuroto was thinking all these things, one thing still bugged him a little, as he asked in confusion, “Since you know that the blood loss cannot be reversed, why didn’t you take any precaution to avoid losing too much blood, even in the worst-case scenario?”

While still covering his right eye, Shinichi answered lightly, “This time the burst of damage was all too sudden, most probably due to some sort of corrosion from your Jutsu, I didn’t expect you to be able to do that, most probably that interfered with the working of my technique which significantly reduced the time limit, otherwise I would have prepared everything!”

After listening to this answer Kuroto thought to himself, ‘It turns out that Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion played a role in influencing his time limit, as I expected, heh… that’s why you can’t take any attack from the Truth-Seeking Orbs without any damage ‘Yin-Yang Release’ is also cheat.’

While Kuroto was busy analyzing this, Shinichi who was on the side covering his right eye, suddenly yelled in pain…

“Now, what’s wrong with you?” – asked Kuroto with a frowning expression.

“My eyes, aaahhhh…… it’s my eyes, they hurt so much…… shit, damn it…” – shouted Shinichi while covering his as he rolled on the ground in pain, “How can this happen…, why do my eyes hurt so much……? aaaahhhh…!”

“Bear with it for a while, it should calm down soon enough!” – said Kuroto lightly, after a little bit of thinking.

And just as Kuroto said, after a while, Shinichi shouts gradually calmed down, and he asked while taking heavy breaths, “Do you know what’s going on? Why do my eyes sting so much, it felt as if hundreds of needles are being poked into them!”

“It’s probably because of overuse of Mangekyou Sharingan, after all these eyes aren’t that stable, the more you use them, the faster you will get blind!” – Said Kuroto after a little bit of thinking.

“What…?” – Shinichi was shocked by this sudden information.

“What ‘What…?’? I thought you knew these basic things!” – after a short pause, Kuroto continued speaking, “If you didn’t know, then make sure to understand this now, make sure to not heavily rely on the Mangekyou Sharingan.”

“B-but if that happens… my power will get heavily limited… isn’t there some way to avoid going blind?” – Shinichi asked in a slightly worried tone.

Kuroto was now in a dilemma, he was seriously considering whether to really tell Shinichi or not about the method to cure the blindness… but after a little thinking, he decided to tell this; after all, Shinichi is going to learn this sooner or later anyway.

“As far as I know up to now, there are two methods… you should be aware of one of them… about the tales of how Uchiha Madara took away the eyes of his younger brother to regain his light?”

“Well, there have been such stories that have circulated within the Uchiha Clan… but what’s that got to do with this, don’t tell me it’s actually true?”

“I don’t know the specifics, but based on those stories; we can infer that one can probably gain eternal light by transplanting the eyes of your closest blood relatives, provided they too are Mangekyou Sharingan… in which case, Madara’s younger brother for him… to gain a Mangekyou Sharingan that would never go blind… that is the ‘Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan’”

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“But my parents died in the third Shinobi War… and I also don’t have any sibling or any other close blood relatives… and even if there are, I won’t take away their eyes!”

“In that case, the second method could be used on you… which is to gain a high amount of Yang Chakra… the best method to do this is by the transplantation of Hashirama Cells… to gain certain characteristics of Sage Body that will help you to revitalize your lost pupil power and cure the blindness, at the same time also has other passive benefits.”

“I get that and all, but there is one thing that has been bugging me for a while now… how come you, a Hyuga, know all these things about Sharingan, Mangekyou Sharingan, and Uchiha Clan, that even I, an Uchiha doesn’t know of?” – asked Shinichi with a curious look.

His question was more than valid, after all, Hyuga Kuroto is of the Hyuga Clan, it wouldn’t be strange if Kuroto knew all these secrets if they belonged to the Hyuga Clan, but they don’t, and being a non-Uchiha, how come he knows about all these?

“……” – Kuroto.

Seeing Kuroto’s silence, Shinichi sighed. “It’s fine if you don’t want to tell… I mean it’s not like it’s that important anyway!”

Kuroto nodded in appreciation, he really doesn’t have any accurate response for this.

The reason Kuroto choose to give all this information to Shinichi is that he will most probably learn about it from Obito during his time in the Akatsuki Organization. So, letting Shinichi know of this information in advance will only bring some more points for Kuroto in Shinichi’s books.

“Well, you don’t have to worry about going blind or anything… as long as you keep to your words and continue passing me some intelligence about the movement of that organization… I’ll make sure that you don’t go blind… because I can’t have a useful combat personnel losing all his combat power, ah… but make sure to do some sort of training that will decrease your dependency on your visual senses while in combat… this will definitely help you!”

“Alright, I guess I’ll believe it if it’s you!” – Shinichi nodded after a little bit of thinking.

Shinichi was already convinced of Kuroto’s strength because he understood that even when fighting against him, who was using the Mangekyou Sharingan; Hyuga Kuroto was holding back, so there is some sort of faith Shinichi has in Kuroto.

If anyone really has the ability to resurrect a person, then Hyuga Kuroto might actually have such power… and based on what Kuroto said up to now… even if he doesn’t at this point maybe he will in the future. So, betting on Kuroto is not without benefit.

While going through all these thoughts, Kuroto finally said, “Alright with that out of the way, the name of the organization that I want you to join is called the ‘Akatsuki!’”

“Akatsuki!?”

“Hm, Akatsuki… Don’t be too arrogant or careless after you join this organization, it’s filled with people you might as well consider as true monsters in their own right, and just for example; even the Snake Sannin Orochimaru is also a part of this organization”

Shinichi was highly surprised by this piece of information, “Someone like Orochimaru would choose to join some no-name organization?”

Like most of Konoha Shinobi, Shinichi obviously only has the five great Shinobi Villages in his eyes, the rest are just some small bunches that can’t be taken seriously.

But this thought is too wrong because Akatsuki is nothing like that.

“As I said, don’t underestimate them! This organization has more than enough power to destroy any Shinobi Village with little ease. The combined strength of this Organization is more than enough to overpower any Shinobi Village, even Konoha for all that matter, and it will actually take the combined effort of all the shinobi Villages to get rid of them! So, don’t take them lightly, I don’t want you to use your eyes on the first day you join them!” – Seeing the serious look on Kuroto’s face Shinichi gulped slightly.

“The front leader of Akatsuki is a person who is said to have awakened the mythical Rinnegan Eyes.” After a short pause, Kuroto continued, “Rinnegan is one of three great dojutsu, aside from the Sharingan and the Byakugan, and is also said to be the eyes of the Sage of the Six Path from the legends foretold in the Shinobi World. So, make sure to not take him lightly or provoke him!”

“The Rinnegan?” – Shinichi asked in awe as he didn’t believe that something like the Rinnegan actually existed.

‘But if Kuroto is saying that is the case, then it might just be… wait-’

“You said that the leader of this organization? Isn’t the bastard responsible for killing Kurumi the leader?”

“That’s a little confusing, I’ll leave it to you to figure it out for yourself during your stay in Akatsuki!” – Kuroto spoke in an amusing tone. “As for his true identity? It’s better that you try to figure that out for yourself by your own methods.”

“I understand!” – Shinichi nodded in understanding.

Finally glancing at Shinichi, Kuroto tentatively asked, “That’s all well and good, but what are you going to do if that masked man says that he can also bring Uchiha Kurumi back to life?”

Shinichi answered coldly without any thinking, “I’ll obviously not believe a single word that bastard says!”

“But what if he really could? What if he really had the ability to bring Uchiha Kurumi back to life?”

This time Shinichi was stunned when he heard Kuroto’s question, and immediately said, “If you are worried that I’ll betray you for that then don’t be, as long as you don’t break your word, I will not betray you. As long as you bring Kurumi back to life, I won’t be swayed by any of his temptations!”

Kuroto didn’t reply directly but stared at Shinichi intently.

Seeing Kuroto’s look, Shinichi turned his face to the side with a blushing look. “Don’t look at me so intently, I… I am not into men, if you stare so much at me, I’ll start feeling insecure about my chastity!”

“Cough-cough… Don’t talk bullshit, I am straight, also you know I have a fiancé, right?”

“Well, I do, but who knows if you have some eccentric habits… you know what I mean!” – Shinichi said while giving a strange look at Kuroto from the side.

Listening to Shinichi’s words, Kuroto had an unamused look, as he stared at Shinichi with ‘Really?’ expression.

“Sigh… geez, lighten up a little… Anyway, jokes aside, I am not a fool, from the moment the masked-man made use of Kurumi as if she is nothing more than a pawn whose sole role is to die for me to awaken my Mangekyou Sharingan, any room for negotiations between me and him was over.

It is simply impossible for me to not hate him; therefore, I would never be able to trust him in bringing Kurumi back to life. Besides, even if he did, he might do something extra and add some sort of Jutsu to Kurumi’s body that would leave me with no choice but to act as his puppet, therefore, I won’t trust him with something so important! There is simply no possibility for that happening!”

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Kuroto nodded in understanding and choose to believe this explanation.

“Alright, that satisfies me. Next, tell me the identity of the Kumo spy lurking in Konoha that made contact with you?”

This time Shinichi shook his head and stated, “I don’t know the identity of the other party. I didn’t meet him personally, he made contact with me through a Summon beast, that’s a small ‘Sparrow’, and all the messages were sent using that little bird!

In fact, I didn’t even trust his words, and my defection had nothing to do with him, even the matter of calling the Kumo Shinobi in the Land of Fire was initially unknown to me!”

Kuroto’s face sank when he heard this.

“So, you don’t have a method to get in contact with him?” – asked Kuroto.

“I am afraid not!” – Shinichi said while shaking his head in denial.

“Sigh, forget it then!” – Kuroto said helplessly.

Although Kuroto guessed that the Kumo spy lurking in Konoha would definitely not reveal his identity so easily, even to Uchiha Shinichi for that matter, he was still a little disappointed when Shinichi said this.

“Alright, then tell me the location where you buried Uchiha Kurumi?” – Kuroto asked inattentively.

“Why do you want to know that?” – Shinichi asked with a vigilant look.

“Seriously? You are asking me this!” – Kuroto again asked with a ‘Really?’ look.

Suddenly Shinichi remembered that Kuroto promised to bring Kurumi back to life and answered while rubbing the back of his head with an embarrassing laugh, “Hahaha… sorry-sorry… I buried her in a cave in the lower reaches of the Naka River, no one in the Uchiha Clan or Village knows of this other than me!”

Kuroto nodded and said, “Now tell me the specific location?”

This time Shinichi realized that something was up and asked worriedly, “Are you worried about something…?”

“I have already told you not to underestimate the methods of the Akatsuki.” After a short pause, Kuroto continued, “If by some chance, the masked-man found and took out her body, I won’t be able to do anything!”

Since the matter was related to the resurrection of Uchiha Kurumi, so he understood the seriousness of Kuroto’s words and without being anymore careless, Shinichi quickly described the specific location of Kurumi’s grave and then added, “You must not let Kurumi’s body fall into their hands!”