Chapter 234: Transplanting the Mangekyō Sharingan

Chapter 234: Chapter 234: Transplanting the Mangekyō Sharingan

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

One swift figure after another raced through the forest beneath the cold moonlight, leaping from treetop to treetop.

Though these figures were arriving from every direction, they were all heading toward the same destination—the already-collapsed Mount Haruki, where a raging forest fire was still burning!

"Water Style: Water Bullet Technique!"

"Water Style: Water Formation Wall!"

"Water Style: Water Dragon Technique!"

The first shinobi to arrive endured the choking smoke and began casting various Water Release ninjutsu, extinguishing the blazing forest fires one after another.

However, it wasn’t long before someone noticed a peculiar golden flame mixed among the fires.

These golden flames were not only dazzling, but also extraordinarily fierce. Ordinary Water Release ninjutsu could barely extinguish them.

Fortunately, for some unknown reason, the golden flames were gradually dying out on their own, saving everyone quite a bit of trouble.

Before long, Danzo, who was in charge of Root, arrived at Mount Haruki with his forces.

Accompanying him were not only a large number of Root shinobi, but also Jiraiya, one of the Legendary Sannin, as well as elite jōnin drawn from the village’s various major shinobi clans.

Gazing at the devastated ruins of Mount Haruki, Danzo stood silently atop a massive boulder, leaning on his cane. His expression was gloomy, and no one could tell what was going through his mind.

Jiraiya, meanwhile, crouched beside a long trench, deep in thought.

At that moment, Hyuga Hizashi approached him and asked, "What kind of ninjutsu created this trench? Could it have been some kind of Wind Style technique?"

Jiraiya shook his head and replied with absolute certainty, "This is a sword mark!"

Unlike most people in the village, Jiraiya’s summon, Gamabunta, was skilled at wielding a tantō—though, of course, it could only be called a "short sword" relative to Gamabunta’s enormous size.

To a shinobi, it was a gigantic blade dozens of meters long.

Because of this, Jiraiya had personally witnessed countless times the marks left behind on the ground by the swings of a gigantic blade. That was why he could tell at a glance that the long trench before him had been carved out by the slash of some enormous weapon.

"A sword mark...!?"

Hizashi froze for a moment before murmuring, "What kind of sword could leave a mark like this?"

The Sensor Division soon arrived at the scene as well.

The captain of the Sensor Division, who had some sort of strange talisman attached to his face, closed his eyes and carefully sensed the area for quite some time. Then he slowly said, "There are traces of three different chakras here. Two of them are extremely similar. They should belong to members of the same clan... No, they should be blood relatives. The third chakra feels very calm and is completely different from the other two."

An Uchiha jōnin hurriedly asked, "Can you tell who they belong to? Can you track them?"

The captain of the Sensor Division shook his head. "These three chakras..."

Halfway through his sentence, he suddenly stopped, seemingly struggling to find the right words to describe them.

Jiraiya walked over and asked, "What about those three chakras?"

Seeing Jiraiya seemed to give the Sensor Division captain a point of reference, and he immediately replied, "Lord Jiraiya, the intensity of all three chakras is no weaker than yours. I’ve sensed many different kinds of chakra before, but this is the first time I’ve encountered something like this. I can say with certainty that the three shinobi who fought here just now were extremely powerful!"

Jiraiya was momentarily stunned by this, while the surrounding Konoha shinobi all reacted with varying expressions.

As one of the Legendary Sannin, Jiraiya was currently one of the strongest shinobi in the entire village.

Yet all three people who had fought here possessed chakra whose intensity was no weaker than Jiraiya’s.

That realization sent a chill through the gathered Konoha shinobi.

Hyuga Hizashi said worriedly, "Since when did so many powerful shinobi appear in the ninja world?"

Akimichi Choza, who had once been a teammate of the Fourth Hokage, looked downcast. "If the Fourth were still alive, how would these bastards dare act so arrogantly? Sigh..."

Seemingly displeased by Choza’s lament, an Uchiha jōnin snorted. "As long as the Uchiha Clan is here, Konoha will remain the number one shinobi village in the ninja world. No one will be allowed to humiliate Konoha!"

With that, the Uchiha jōnin once again approached the captain of the Sensor Division and asked, "Is there really no way to track those three bastards?"

The Sensor Division captain shook his head. "They left far too quickly and have already moved completely beyond my sensory range. I suspect they have some kind of flying summon!"

"Damn it!"

After cursing under his breath, the Uchiha jōnin said, "If only we could track them down. With the Clan Head and Shisui’s strength, capturing them should be a piece of cake."

Danzo, who stood off to the side listening to everyone’s conversation, had a question lingering in his mind.

Just who exactly were the two sides that had fought here?

If one side consisted of members of Kamigami, then who was the other side? And why had they fought against Kamigami?

......

Inside Hyuga Kagami’s secret laboratory.

Looking at the two small nutrient tanks on the laboratory table, each containing a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan, Hyuga Kagami let out a soft sigh of relief.

Although his whimsical "stimulation experiment" had been filled with all kinds of accidents and unexpected variables, in the end, it had still produced a satisfactory result.

Compared to the two pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan sitting before him, the exhaustion accumulated over the past several days was nothing worth mentioning.

Soon, Hyuga Kagami’s gaze passed over Uchiha Ryota’s pair of Mangekyō Sharingan and settled on Uchiha Hideki’s.

"What unique dōjutsu does this pair of Mangekyō Sharingan possess?"

The moment that thought arose, Hyuga Kagami could no longer suppress it.

Curiosity was perhaps the one desire Hyuga Kagami found hardest to restrain. It was also the reason he was so obsessed with conducting all kinds of experiments.

Uncovering secrets and exploring the unknown gave him an unparalleled sense of accomplishment, and that sense of accomplishment was one of the main driving forces that pushed him forward, step by step.

Once the thought occurred to him, Hyuga Kagami immediately acted on it.

He quickly placed the remaining clone body from the two he had specially prepared earlier onto the laboratory table, then used a scalpel to remove the incomplete Byakugan from its eye sockets.

Next, he transplanted Uchiha Hideki’s Mangekyō Sharingan into the clone.

After finishing everything, he sat down in a chair and formed a series of hand seals.

"Secret Technique: Soul Descent!"

In an instant, Hyuga Kagami’s Yin Release true body slumped to the side and collapsed into the chair.

At the same time, the clone lying on the laboratory table suddenly shot upright.

The moment Hyuga Kagami descended into the clone, he was struck by an unprecedented wave of dizziness. Supporting his forehead with one hand, he took quite a while to adjust before slowly opening his eyes.

Within his eye sockets, the pair of Mangekyō Sharingan with triangular patterns gleamed with an eerie light.

Hyuga Kagami’s expression was somewhat dazed. He shook his head vigorously, trying to focus, but the feeling of disorientation simply refused to disappear.

He couldn’t help but sigh.

"Eyes that aren’t your own really are difficult to use!"

Even a genius like Kakashi was overwhelmed by the burden of a single Mangekyō Sharingan—one that had even been awakened through his own chakra.

It was easy to imagine just how unfriendly the Mangekyō Sharingan was toward shinobi without Uchiha blood...