"A seven - year - old with three - tomoe Sharingan... How long are you going to let such a kid be at large!"
In the Hokage's office.
The four pinnacles of power in Konoha gathered.
Led by Hiruzen Sarutobi, there was also Danzo Shimura, the Hokage's assistant, and the two senior advisors, Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado.
"The child is studying normally at the Ninja Academy." Hiruzen Sarutobi said in a deep voice, "Danzo, I've said this before, don't interfere with matters at the Ninja Academy."
"Hehe." With a sinister laugh, Danzo Shimura said coldly, "Have you forgotten what this means?"
"Have you forgotten those eyes!"
"The Mangekyo Sharingan..." Koharu Utatane murmured softly, turning her gaze to Hiruzen Sarutobi. "The talent shown by Kagami Uchiha, if stimulated, is very likely to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan."
"That kind of power... is too uncontrollable!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi took a deep drag on his cigarette, exhaled the smoke, and his face looked a bit solemn. "I have a plan."
"What plan could you have! It should be as I said, hand him over to me for training."
"I'm confident that I can make him completely side with us!"
"Hiruzen..." Koharu Utatane and the other one were clearly a bit tempted.
They had experienced the era of Madara Uchiha and only knew of this one Mangekyo Sharingan.
Subconsciously, they overestimated the upper limit of the Mangekyo Sharingan. Thinking that if they had a pair of controllable Mangekyo Sharingan...
Wouldn't that be wonderful!
A seven - year - old with three - tomoe Sharingan, even more exaggerated than Madara Uchiha recorded in history. If this kid can't awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan, even they themselves wouldn't believe it.
Hiruzen Sarutobi had originally not wanted to say anything, but seeing that his old friends all had that kind of intention, he sighed and said,
"I've already called Jiraiya back. I'll arrange for Kagami Uchiha to follow Jiraiya."
"Jiraiya, huh..." Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane exchanged a look and nodded.
In their eyes, Jiraiya was the best candidate for the Fourth Hokage, and they felt at ease entrusting things to him.
But Danzo wasn't reassured!
"That guy who ignores the village's rules and runs around everywhere, how can we let him take the Uchiha kid!"
Glancing at him, Hiruzen Sarutobi said indifferently, "He taught Minato."
Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, who had still been a bit hesitant, were completely reassured upon hearing this.
Minato Namikaze was the most perfect candidate for the Fifth Hokage in their eyes.
"That's because Minato Namikaze was outstanding himself, not because your disciple is a good teacher!" Danzo made a final struggle.
"If it really doesn't work, I'll teach him myself. After all, I taught the Sannin. There shouldn't be any problems, right?"
"You're nurturing a potential threat! That brat will definitely cause great harm to the village. I can sense the intense darkness within him!"
"I won't regret it, Danzo." Hiruzen Sarutobi said firmly.
"That child has done nothing wrong. I will definitely train him into an outstanding ninja who cherishes his comrades."
"As for you... don't think I don't know what you're up to. Stop what you're doing regarding Shisui. "
Even in decline, a fierce tiger still retains its might.
Facing Hiruzen Sarutobi's increasingly cold gaze, Danzo Shimura didn't say anything, but the door of the Hokage's office suffered.
Bang!
"Really, at such an old age, he still can't learn to close the door gently."
——
At night.
The Uchiha clan compound.
Just as he got out of the medicinal bath barrel and washed himself clean, his grandmother said that someone was visiting.
"Lord Kagami, sorry to disturb you."
"Lord Clan Chief, please come in." Kagami Uchiha's invitation was formulaic. He was a radical and wouldn't be overly respectful to Fugaku, who was a waverer.
It was Obito and Itachi who carried out the massacre of the clan, but it was Fugaku who brought things to this state.
Is it the fault of the situation rather than an individual's?
That's what they say, but as the head of the Uchiha clan, failing to change anything is a fault in itself.
"No, I'm here to send an invitation." There was a rare smile on Fugaku's poker - faced face as he handed over an invitation.
"Tomorrow is the one - week celebration of my child. I hope Lord Kagami can come if you have time."
Kagami Uchiha took the invitation and looked up, asking, "Has the name been chosen?"
"Itachi, Itachi Uchiha. It's a boy!" There was a proud father's smile on Fugaku's face.
Fortunately, Sasuke inherited his mother's beauty. Otherwise, like Itachi, he would look old at a young age.
"Okay, I'll go."
Watching Fugaku walk away, Kagami Uchiha's eyes dimmed.
The birth of Itachi marked the countdown to the extermination of the Uchiha clan.
Ten-odd years... that's enough.
Lying on the bed, having slept enough during the day, Kagami Uchiha's consciousness sank as he entered the spiritual space.
"Kid, what level is that person you saw during the day in this Konoha Village?"
Sukuna's voice sounded.
In the past two years, the strongest person he had seen was naturally Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Even in his thousand-year life, such a powerful person was rare.
It's a pity that the old man's vitality was beginning to decline, otherwise he really would have liked to give it a try.
As for Sakumo Hatake during the day... his strength might be inferior to that of the old man before. But even if he were as thin as a skeleton, the sharpness belonging to the sword still caught Sukuna's attention.
He really admired powerful people, especially those with pure beliefs.
Thinking about Sukuna's question.
In terms of raw strength, Sakumo Hatake should be slightly stronger than the current Sannin, but weaker than the Third Hokage and others.
Most importantly, there was also Kushina Uzumaki, an off-the-charts combat force.
The complete Nine-Tails definitely exceeded the sum of the current combat power, and only sealing techniques could deal with it.
To prevent Sukuna from being too arrogant, Kagami Uchiha simply included the Konoha powerhouses who had existed in the past and would appear in the future.
After all, Sukuna had asked about Konoha.
"He's outside the top twenty. That old man I saw before, euphemistically speaking, is the village chief of Konoha, but there are quite a few people stronger than him."
"Interesting!"
In the sea of blood and among the corpses, Sukuna 狞笑道 (grinned ferociously and said). "Kid, let me use your body for a while!"
"Just give me five minutes of activity time every day, and I'll teach you how to use my power!"
Uchiha Kagami pulled out a large mass of black gas from the gap of the seal, kneaded it and stuffed it into his mouth. He glanced at Sukuna disdainfully and said, "Do I still need you to teach me? In two more years, I'll be able to completely drain your power."
...
"How on earth did you steal my power!" Sukuna was very puzzled. He clearly didn't feel his power weakening. Even in this spiritual space, his curse power was still increasing. In just a few years, it had increased more than what had been accumulated in the curse technique world in hundreds of years! He had become even stronger than his original prime, but he still had no way to deal with this strange seal. Even a space slash couldn't break this seal!
After swallowing the black gas, Uchiha Kagami had a hunch that as long as he completely digested this gain, using "Release" would be much more convenient. As long as he had enough chakra, he might be able to use it as a regular attack.
He activated his Sharingan to assist in his cultivation. In the past two years, due to the medicinal bath, his physical development was probably equivalent to that of a 13 or 14-year-old Uchiha. The Uchiha clan naturally had more chakra than ordinary ninjas, which was due to their huge spiritual energy. However, it was the physical energy that determined the upper limit of chakra volume.
Some members of the Senju and Uzumaki clans could have chakra comparable to that of tailed beasts. Compared with these two clans, the Uchiha clan had always been lacking in this aspect. Even Uchiha Madara had to capture a tailed beast as a chakra battery to fight Hashirama Senju for several days.
Thinking of this, he gave Sukuna a disgusted look again. Tailed beasts were created by the Yin-Yang Release of the Sage of the Six Paths. Each of them could be used as a chakra battery, just with different upper limits. But Sukuna only had the Yin attribute. Originally, Uchiha Kagami's spiritual energy far exceeded his physical energy, and his Yin Release chakra was more than enough.
"Hey! Kid! What kind of look is that!"
Uchiha Kagami curled his lips and said, "Your power isn't that great. I'm thinking about whether to catch a 'neighbor' for you."
"Damn it! What do you mean?!"
Kagami Uchiha's mastery over the seal had reached new heights. He could now completely muffle Sukuna's incessant roars, sparing himself the cursed spirit's ear-splitting screeches. With a flick of his wrist, a swirling cerulean chakra sphere materialized above his palm. Beads of sweat formed on his brow as he channeled Fire Release nature transformation into the volatile orb.
A single tongue of flame licked the sphere's surface—
BOOM!
The explosion ripped through the training grounds, sending shockwaves that uprooted nearby saplings. Charred leaves rained down as Kagami stared at his smoldering palm, the acrid scent of scorched chakra hanging heavy in the air.