Suguru arrived near the Root headquarters. Unfortunately, he could not get any closer. Hiruzen had just arrived, and so had several squads of Anbu.
'Damn,'
With such a lineup, there was no way that Suguru would be able to profit. He even had to retreat a little further. Otherwise, some sensor shinobi would notice his presence.
He was a little too focused on the fight between Fugaku and Danzo.
Fire and wind turned the underground headquarters into a furnace. Fugaku's Amaterasu had long burned several squads of Root shinobi. Black flames continued to burn throughout the battlefield, limiting Danzo's movements.
Now, the Root headquarters looked like a tunnel that led to hell.
However...
'Bishamonten: Heaven and Earth Reconstruction,'
In just a moment, everything reset. However, the lives that were lost did not come back. Their ashes became dust in the wind.
It was at this moment that something went horribly wrong.
—Ssuk!
Danzo, instead of reappearing near himself as he had been several times before, now appeared right in front of Fugaku. In such close proximity, Danzo's wind-enhanced arm found no obstruction given his appearance within the half-formed Susanoo.
It pierced into Fugaku's right eye socket, taking the eye for himself.
"You're not in your right mind, Fugaku. Was this caused by the Kotoamatsukami?" Danzo scoffed, "So even such a powerful Dojutsu has its flaws. I was right to not have trusted in that cursed Shisui brat."
Staggering back, Fugaku collapsed onto the ground. His Susanoo flickered out of existence — extinguished by his lack of chakra. By grabbing Fugaku's neck and lifting the man back up, Danzo plucked out his other Mangekyou Sharingan.
—Snap!
Then, with a swift snap, he broke Fugaku's neck like a twig.
Unbeknownst to Itachi, the first time he used Kotoamatsukami had worked... But not the way he intended. Due to the presence of [Bishamonten] in Fugaku's right eye, some unexpected changes occurred in Fugaku's mind.
Fugaku's current bloodthirsty and ignorant nature was the result of that.
"The Wicked Eye hides a dangerous darkness within it, it seems."
With those words, Danzo went to face the concerned Hokage.
***
"...What the—"
Suguru retreated further from his position.
"What happened to Fugaku? How did he lose? Was it a loophole in his Dojutsu? Some effect that doesn't overlap with Izanagi?"
Realizing his thoughts, Suguru chuckled, "I've created a stronger Danzo and a stronger Itachi in this timeline... Oh dear,"
The implications of tonight's madness were beyond Suguru's pay grade at the moment.
'Luckily, I still benefited.'
His clone had dispersed himself in his lab, and the memories of its escapade returned. The looting was a success. Ten Uchihas were now stored in his laboratory, each with a pair of fresh Sharingan.
Furthermore, Suguru learned something from reading Danzo's lips.
The Kotoamatsukami wasn't an absolute Genjutsu as he had known.
The intricacies of the human mind were incomprehensible. Someone could take drastically different actions should even a single thought process change. Especially when that person also bore a Mangekyou Sharingan.
Itachi must have realized that by now.
'Perhaps Itachi must have imbued the thoughts to stop the rebellion in Fugaku's mind. The result was Fugaku's attempted assassination of the Elder who was most keen on suppressing the Uchiha.'
Thinking of the possibilities, Suguru shook his head.
Tomorrow was going to be an interesting day.
For now, there were a few Sharingan he wanted to experiment with.
***
Suguru wanted to know the answer to the question:
"Can I mirror the eyes of the dead?"
The answer was yes. It was possible. At least, it should. Unfortunately, he could not mirror a complete Sharingan just yet. Then came the next question.
"What if I use my real eyes instead of Clairvoyance to mirror their eyes?"
The answer was something interesting. Chakra began to flow from the Sharingan that he had pulled out of an Uchiha's body. Suguru then watched as the pair of Sharingan melted into nothing but a special chakra.
All of that special chakra was absorbed by his Kaisugan.
'I see,'
Now...
'Kaisugan,'
Suguru's irises shattered into pieces. Then, he glanced at the Sharingan he had kept preserved in a jar.
The complete Sharingan was now mirrored in his eyes.
'So this was the condition to strengthen my eyes.' Suguru finally understood. His original Kaisugan — without Dark Release — was already capable of stealing other people's eyes.
Furthermore...
'Sharingan!'
Without mirroring another Sharingan, Suguru could reform his eyes and replicate the chakra that his Kaisugan had absorbed. Thus, he now had Sharingan of his own in all senses of the term. Perhaps the only restriction was the fact that they wouldn't evolve on their own.
'Now, I need to get a hold of a Hyuga and absorb their Byakugan. I'll have to deal with the Caged Bird seal, however... Unless,'
Unless he targeted someone from the main family. In that regard, Hiashi was a good target.
'Perhaps in the future.' Suguru concluded.
Suguru began to run more experiments with his Kaisugan. It turned out that he could still activate [Clairvoyance] even with his Sharingan active. Thus, he could now mix his abilities.
He could copy people's jutsus even when he wasn't near them. It was a great power-up.
However, other than that, his eyes weren't much use. The moment he activated his Sharingan without being an Uchiha, many would start asking questions.
Furthermore, the stronger variants of the Sharingan were kept away from him. All he had was the base, three-tomoe Sharingan to use.
'Even then, it's a pretty powerful tool.'
After all, he didn't suffer from the exact same problems that a non-Uchiha would have with an implanted Sharingan. After all, he could activate and deactivate his Kaisugan, and therefore, his Sharingan. However, if he could assimilate an Uchiha, that might be a different topic altogether.
'Danzo should be another one of my targets. I want Fugaku's Mangekyou Sharingan for myself.'
Suguru was getting greedy. With these new revelations, he realized that he could also target those with the Ketsuryugan and a certain person called Ranmaru.
At least those Dojutsus didn't have evolutions at all. Therefore, the moment Suguru took some for himself, he would already have the strongest version of them. Plus, the more Dojutsus at his disposal, the merrier.
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