Chapter 45 (Patreon)

The terrifying Wood Style attack closed in.

The solid ground was violently pierced apart.

One after another, sharp wooden branches twisted wildly, surging forward like living spears.

It was a wide-range, indiscriminate attack.

“Yujiro-san!!”

In the distance, Uchiha Itachi shouted when he saw Yujiro swallowed by the storm of trees.

Suddenly, Itachi felt his eyes grow hot.

As if tears were about to spill out.

A sharp, intense pain shot straight through his eyes and into his brain.

The pain was so strong that his eyes clenched shut on instinct.

At the center of the chaotic Wood Style attack…

Yujiro swung his black blade, cutting through the hardened trees closing in on him.

“One-Sword Style… Black Blade: Great Tornado!”

Yujiro released a massive wind-blade attack in every direction.

In an instant, black wind blades tore through the surrounding trees.

Kakashi also reacted at once. He gathered chakra in his hand again, formed Chidori, and broke through the wooden encirclement together with Yujiro.

After they forced their way out, Yujiro immediately spread out his senses.

Obito was gone.

“Ah!”

“Yujiro-san!”

A voice came from the distance.

Yujiro narrowed his eyes and instantly moved to Itachi’s side.

When he arrived, he paused slightly.

Because two clear trails of blood were slowly flowing from Itachi’s eyes.

Kakashi’s expression also changed when he saw it.

Itachi slowly opened his eyes.

A pair of two-tomoe Sharingan appeared clearly.

Awakened.

Uchiha Itachi had awakened the Sharingan.

Two years earlier than in the original timeline.

In the original story, he awakened it at eight years old.

But now, Itachi was only six.

And the moment he awakened it, it was already the two-tomoe Sharingan.

As expected of a true genius of the Uchiha Clan.

【Ding! Congratulations to the Host. Limiter unlocking progress increased by 1.2%.】

【Limiter: Level 2. Distance to Level 3: 12.8%.】

After hearing the long-awaited system prompt, a faint smile appeared on Yujiro’s face.

It actually increased by 1.2% at once.

“Yujiro-san…”

Itachi hurriedly wiped away the blood beneath his eyes. Only after confirming that Yujiro was safe did he finally relax.

“I’m fine,” Yujiro said with a smile. “Looks like the ones who came after the scroll weren’t ordinary shinobi.”

They did not know that the masked man just now was Obito.

And Yujiro had no reason to tell them.

“That last technique…” Kakashi’s expression gradually turned serious. “Was that Wood Style?”

Wood Style ninjutsu.

An ability that should have belonged only to the legendary First Hokage.

“Most likely,” Yujiro said with a nod.

With a Wood Style attack on that scale, any shinobi with basic knowledge would recognize it.

After all, during the Warring States Period, Senju Hashirama’s Wood Style had shaken the entire shinobi world.

Kakashi would definitely report this matter to Minato.

But Yujiro did not believe Minato would be able to find anything.

None of that mattered right now.

Itachi had awakened the Sharingan.

With this, their side’s combat strength had risen sharply.

The danger of the mission had also dropped.

After resting briefly, Yujiro and the others prepared to continue traveling through the night.

Because of this sudden assassination, Yujiro understood something clearly.

His current strength was still not enough.

He had to speed up the unlocking of his Limiter.

If he could unlock the fourth level…

And then master the four fundamental powers…

Matter, energy, space, and time.

Time might be the hardest to control.

But as long as he could control space…

Then against Uchiha Obito, killing him would be effortless.

Once space itself was sealed, Kamui would lose all meaning.

For the next two days, the three of them encountered several more groups of shinobi attempting to assassinate them.

But every attack was dealt with.

During these three days, Yujiro’s strength underwent another clear improvement.

He no longer needed to train deliberately.

As long as he continued pushing to unlock his Limiter, he would keep growing stronger.

Along the way, Yujiro’s growth was the fastest.

Kakashi and Itachi could only watch with envy.

Almost every time they encountered an enemy attack, Yujiro dealt with them alone.

In the end, Kakashi and Itachi could only stand there and stare.

…

…

In an unknown underground passage.

Uchiha Obito walked forward slowly.

His damaged right arm had already been replaced with a new White Zetsu arm.

“News from the Land of Rain has arrived.”

At that moment, a figure resembling a pitcher plant slowly emerged from the side of the passage.

“I know,” Obito said calmly. “We’ll move out immediately.”

The plan for the Infinite Tsukuyomi had begun.

Obito knew very well that he could not carry out the Infinite Tsukuyomi alone.

He needed to build his own organization.

But before going to the Land of Rain…

He had to meet Shimura Danzō first.

Konoha Village.

A dark underground chamber.

Uchiha Obito slowly appeared inside.

Beside him were several shinobi from the Uchiha Clan.

All of them were trapped under genjutsu.

As long as Obito did not release it, they would remain unconscious.

“You didn’t leave any traces, did you?” Shimura Danzō asked in a low voice, his gaze falling on the unconscious Uchiha on the ground.

“No.”

Obito sneered faintly at Danzō’s excessive caution.

“Where is the information I asked for?”

“Uzumaki Kushina’s delivery date should be around October,” Danzō said slowly, narrowing his eye. “Come to me then. I will give you the exact information.”

“Uchiha Madara…”

Danzō spoke those four words very clearly.

“I look forward to our next cooperation.”

Obito paid no attention to it.

His figure distorted with Kamui and vanished without a trace.

“Uchiha Madara…”

Shimura Danzō lowered his gaze slightly and looked at the unconscious Uchiha Clan members lying on the ground.

Then he whispered coldly,

“He would never lower himself to something like this.”

After that, he ordered his men to send all the Uchiha clan members to Orochimaru.

At that moment, two Root shinobi slowly appeared beside Shimura Danzō.

“How is it?” Danzō asked in a low voice. “Have you investigated that so-called new force in the Land of Rain?”

“We have.”

One of the Root shinobi took out a scroll from his robe.

After Danzō accepted it, he said calmly,

“Gather several squads. We’re going to the Land of Rain.”

“Yes.”

Perhaps it was the irony of fate.

From this moment on…

Danzō’s path of taking the blame had officially begun.