naruto-story Chapter 85 Eyes of the Thief
Chapter 85 Eyes of the Thief
The moonlight, like water, spilled across the clearing in the woods. Mianma stopped and looked around—the terrain was open and the trees were sparse, making it the perfect place in the vicinity to settle old scores.
He glanced sideways at Shisui beside him. "It's up to you now. Don't move around, everything will be alright."
Shisui frowned slightly. He vaguely guessed Menma's intention—he was probably going to be used as bait. But he didn't understand what value he still had that could attract Danzo.
Having lost her right eye, her fighting ability has been greatly reduced; she should be completely useless to that man now...
As his thoughts churned, a complex emotion spread through Shisui's heart. The fact that Menma was about to attack Danzo left him with neither the satisfaction of revenge nor the urge to stop him.
Even though Danzo took his eyes and forced him to jump off a cliff to commit suicide, he felt no hatred, only deep sorrow and disappointment.
As geniuses of the Uchiha clan and ninjas of Konoha, the Uchiha's attack on the higher-ups was tantamount to the beginning of a civil war.
But the surface texture is different.
This man was unconstrained by any principles; he simply wanted to eliminate Danzo. And I... was I already destined to become an accomplice?
A night breeze stirred, causing Shisui's black hair to sway slightly. From this night forward, he would no longer be Uchiha Shisui of Konoha, but a rogue ninja who had betrayed the village. This realization weighed heavily on his chest, yet he felt a strange sense of relief.
Menma paid no attention to Shisui's myriad thoughts. He raised his hand and gently touched the empty hole in Shisui's right eye with his fingertips—it was still pitch black, unlike his left eye, which had been re-installed with the three-tomoe Sharingan.
"【Crazy Diamonds】."
With a whisper, a deep blue Stand appeared in the moonlight. The ability to restore itself was suddenly activated, and strange fluctuations rippled through the forest surrounding Konoha.
A reaction that defies common sense is quietly unfolding not far away.
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On the stone-paved road of the Uchiha clan compound, the voice behind the Root ninja mask carried a hint of hesitation. "Lord Danzo, the number of bodies has been counted, and they all match... but..."
"But what?"
"The eye sockets of all the remains... were empty."
Danzo's brows furrowed instantly, the lines so deep they could almost trap a fly. He slammed his cane into the ground. His Sharingan—those treasures he had always dreamed of—had all vanished without a trace?
Could it be that bastard Itachi...?
A sinister glint flashed in his single eye beneath the bandages. He had thought he could kill two birds with one stone tonight: eliminate the Uchiha threat and acquire a large number of Sharingan. But now...
"Keep searching! Dissect every body and examine it!" Danzo's voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, "There must be someone—"
Before he could finish speaking, a strange tremor suddenly came from his right eye socket. His Mangekyou Sharingan, which he considered his greatest trump card—the eye he had taken from Shisui—began to twitch violently!
"Hmm!"
A wave of excruciating pain washed over him, forcing Danzo to cover his right eye. The next second, something even more terrifying happened—
"Pfft!"
With a sticky sound, the precious Mangekyou Sharingan miraculously broke free of its socket! The bandages were soaked with blood, and the crimson eyeball, as if alive, emerged from the gaps in the bandages.
"Lord Danzo!"
The two Root ninjas stared in astonishment at Danzo, who suddenly hunched over, his voice, unusually panicked, beneath his mask. Then, they witnessed a bizarre sight they would never forget.
A scarlet eyeball slowly emerged from the gap in Danzo's blood-stained bandages, clinging to nerves and blood vessels, and floated in the air as if pulled by invisible threads.
The patterns on that Mangekyou Sharingan looked eerily strange under the moonlight, and then it suddenly accelerated and flew into the distance!
Danzo looked up, his remaining left eye wide open to its limit. He had lived most of his life and had never witnessed such an absurd scene—his eyeball had detached itself?!
What kind of sinister technique is this? Who is controlling it?
But now is not the time to think!
"Never mind me!" Danzo ripped off the blood-stained bandage, revealing a hollow, bleeding eye socket. "Quickly, catch up with that eye!"
On the other side of the forest, Menma's spiritual power suddenly erupted. Invisible chains gripped the speeding eyeball tightly. The Mangekyou Sharingan left a crimson afterimage in the air, moving at an unbelievable speed.
"Swish! Swish!"
Danzo, accompanied by two trusted confidants, leaped wildly among the treetops. The old man's heart pounded like a drum, and his ominous premonition grew stronger.
The kaleidoscope suddenly detaching from the body... is very likely a trap to lure the enemy!
Even knowing it might be a trap, he had to jump in. The value of Kotoamatsukami was simply too high! It wasn't just about the safety of Konoha; it was his ultimate trump card for becoming Hokage!
"Speed up again! We absolutely cannot let—"
The words came to an abrupt halt.
As the three rushed out of the last clump of trees, the moonlight suddenly shone brightly. In the center of the clearing ahead, a figure in black robes wearing a fox mask stood silently, and the Mangekyou Sharingan that had flown away was now hovering in his palm.
"Good evening, Elder Shimura... You've finally arrived."
Menma's voice slowly echoed in the night. His gaze beneath the fox mask was icy and piercing. The Mangekyou Sharingan floating in his palm was still dripping blood, its scarlet pupil reflecting Danzo's distorted face.
The air froze instantly.
The murderous intent swept across the open space like a storm, even the moonlight seemed to be stained with blood.
"Whoosh—!"
Suddenly, the ground on both sides of the open space lit up with dazzling purple runes. The sealing techniques of the Southern Dipper Sage and the Northern Dipper Sage were activated simultaneously, and the runes moved across the ground like living things, instantly weaving into a huge barrier array.
"boom!"
A purple light curtain shot into the sky, completely sealing off the entire area.
Danzo turned around abruptly and found that he and two Root ninjas were trapped inside the barrier; more accurately, all three of them were imprisoned in this cage!
Menma slowly put the Mangekyou Sharingan into his sleeve.
"So..."
The temperature within the barrier plummeted, and the exhaled white breath became clearly visible. Menma's voice rang out in Danzo's ears like a death knell.
"—Let's stay here forever."