Itsuki looked at Itachi, a little confused.
What was wrong with this kid?
I was clearly talking to you about the Hokage issue, how did you bring it up to your father's position?
"I was wrong, I was very wrong before!"
Itachi said word by word, "Shisui and I hoped to become a bridge between the village and the clan, to communicate with both sides, and to integrate the clan into the village, truly becoming a part of it."
"I hope they can understand the Will of Fire."
"I hope their vision isn't so narrow."
"I hope the village and the clan can understand each other."
"I hope..."
...
"But!"
"I was wrong!"
Itachi said in a deep voice, "Brother Itsuki's words reminded me, in what capacity am I doing all this?"
"If I'm just an ordinary Uchiha, an ordinary Konoha ninja, who would listen to me?"
"The only identity I can rely on is that of a genius of the Uchiha clan, and that's not enough!"
"I need to rise to power!"
"I need to become the Uchiha clan leader!"
"Only by becoming the clan leader can my voice be heard throughout the entire clan."
"Only then can I change the clan and gradually change the village!"
He clenched his fists and said to Shisui and Itsuki, as if also to himself, "Saving the Uchiha starts with becoming the clan leader!"
Shisui 'glared' fiercely at Itsuki.
What have you done?
Kurenai also had a reproachful expression, "Look, what have you done to the child?"
Itsuki had a confused expression.
Wow!
As expected of a genius who could think from the Hokage's perspective at the age of seven.
You're so outstanding, does your father know?
If he knew, he would definitely break your legs.
"Sigh!"
Itsuki sighed deeply and said, "I'm impressed, Itachi, I'm truly impressed. You can actually draw inferences from one instance and connect it to all this. I admit, I underestimated you."
"I just raised a question, but you learned to answer it before anyone else!"
Itachi smiled slightly and said, "I know, Brother Itsuki, you think I'm talking nonsense, but I believe in myself, I believe I can go on, and I also hope you can help me!"
"Clap!"
Itsuki held Itachi's hand and shook it vigorously, "I will definitely support you in this kind of thing. You can rest assured, even if you don't want my support, I will still support you. From now on, my life is in your hands."
Shisui: "... Itachi!"
"Brother Shisui?"
"Aren't you scared?"
"Scared?"
Shisui said faintly, "When I'm with Itsuki, I feel like I'm being stared at by the abyss. What about you? Haven't you been swallowed yet?"
"Go, go, go!"
Itsuki waved his hand, interrupting their conversation, "Since Itachi has made his decision, you two should go out. I'm going to transplant my eyes now."
"Now?"
Shisui hesitated for a moment and said, "Won't you wait? The clan will definitely provide us with a pair of strong eyes. Yours..."
His expression was doubtful, even with a hint of disdain.
He didn't believe that the eyes Itsuki had obtained himself could be stronger than those collected by the clan.
With his and Itsuki's talent and strength, even if Itsuki wasn't reliable, the clan would find the strongest eyes for them.
Itsuki shook the container in his hand at Shisui, "Mine are definitely strong, you can rest assured."
His expression was a bit strange.
At this moment, he felt a little uneasy.
Holding Shisui's eyes and shaking them back and forth in front of him...
He wanted to say to Shisui, "You should have confidence in your own eyes!"
Hmm, would he get beaten up for saying that?
Shisui probably wouldn't have thought that Itsuki was planning to transplant his eyes.
Taken yesterday, transplanted today!
Shisui thought it was more likely that the Sharingan in Itsuki's hand was his own.
Taking out the eyes was just a smokescreen.
Shisui didn't know about the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
Itsuki estimated that in the entire Uchiha clan, probably only Fugaku knew about it.
This couldn't be helped. Before today, there hadn't been a single Mangekyo Sharingan in the entire Uchiha clan.
Uchiha Fugaku had the Mangekyo Sharingan, but he hid it.
Besides Uchiha Fugaku, looking back, in all the records, there were only two pairs of Mangekyo Sharingan, belonging to Madara Uchiha and Izuna Uchiha.
The Mangekyo Sharingan was already so rare, let alone the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
It was truly unique.
Itachi found out later, most likely because Obito told him.
Or maybe he took some secret Uchiha scrolls when he killed Fugaku.
So, Shisui wouldn't know that the Mangekyo Sharingan of blood-related brothers could create a pair of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
Seeing the two of them go out, Kurenai nodded, got up and went to the next room, not wanting to disturb Itsuki.
With Itachi and Shisui protecting him, there shouldn't be any safety issues.
As for Kurenai, well, she was pleasing to the eye!
Her strength was another matter.
Only after sitting down did Itsuki have time to sort out his recent gains and losses.
[Mission: Obtain two pairs of Mangekyo Sharingan and protect them!]
[Mission completed!]
[Mission reward: Increased ocular power!]
[Ocular power: Level 6 (35% -> 36%)]
This mission was issued to him immediately after Itsuki knocked out Shisui.
Then, Itsuki proceeded to gouge out Shisui's eyes, created a clone to gouge out his own eyes, and sent both pairs of eyes to Kurenai's house.
The mission wasn't difficult.
Because Shisui had already fainted, it was easy to obtain a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan.
It was even easier for Itsuki to gouge out his own eyes.
The only difficulty was probably protecting the Mangekyo Sharingan.
However.
Although everyone in Konoha knew about the relationship between Itsuki and Kurenai, they wouldn't have thought that Itsuki would just leave two pairs of Mangekyo Sharingan on Kurenai's bedside table in her bedroom.
Moreover, Konoha was so chaotic at the time, who would care about an extra scroll in Kurenai's house?
Therefore, his ocular power increased by 1%.
Itsuki didn't mind that the reward was small for an easy mission.
When he was younger, it was impossible for him to complete difficult missions, so he often issued himself small tasks.
For example: Walk ten thousand meters, reward increased chakra...
Throw a thousand kunai, increase taijutsu...
Use the Great Fireball Jutsu three times, reward increased ninjutsu...
Each mission wasn't difficult, and the rewards were also insignificant.
But!
It was these insignificant rewards that, accumulated over more than ten years, gradually made him into a top-level ninja.
Even now, Itsuki was still persisting.
His strength was still slowly increasing.
And then...
[Mission: Eliminate Root ninjas!]
[Mission completed!]
[Mission reward: Increased ocular power!]
[Ocular power: Level 6 (36% -> 38%)]
Itsuki knew Danzo quite well.
He concluded that Danzo wouldn't let it go and would definitely send some Root ninjas to deal with him!
So, he issued this mission.
The facts proved that he was right.
If he had guessed wrong... then he would just find a random Root ninja and kill him, no big deal.
Finally!
[Mission: Give Danzo a big slap in the face...]
(End of Chapter)