Almost in an instant.
Fugaku's hand pressed on Shisui, sealing all his chakra, and directly gouged out Shisui's eyes.
Immediately after.
He began to seal Itachi's chakra. Five seconds later, Fugaku closed his Mangekyou.
Although it was only a mere five seconds, a trail of blood still flowed from Fugaku's eyes, enough to show that while this pupil technique was powerful, its consumption of Fugaku's pupil power was beyond imagination.
"Fugaku, what are you doing?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen shouted angrily.
Shisui and Itachi were his pawns, especially powerful ones, and now they were crippled just like that?
He stood up directly, smashed the desk with a slap, and took off his Hokage robe, revealing the combat uniform underneath.
At this moment, he was truly angry!
However, he didn't really make a move because he was also frightened by Fugaku's methods.
Yes!
The pupil techniques of the Mangekyou were strange and varied. Only a few abilities like Amaterasu and Kamui could be seen by outsiders; most abilities were actually silent.
Just like Tsukuyomi, unless it was the victim themselves, outsiders couldn't perceive it.
Fugaku's Mangekyou technique was the same. At least from Sarutobi Hiruzen's perspective, it was Fugaku slowly sealing Shisui and Itachi's chakra, and then casually taking away Shisui's eyes.
Shisui and Itachi seemed to be dumbfounded, without even basic resistance.
There was no helping it.
Fugaku's pupil power was limited to Shisui and Itachi themselves, which was also the plan with the least pupil power consumption.
So.
Sarutobi Hiruzen naturally couldn't see it, but this also made him even more terrified.
After all, he knew very well in his heart that with Shisui and Itachi's powerful strength, they couldn't resist, so if it were him, there was a high probability that he couldn't resist either.
Thinking that under Fugaku's strange pupil technique, he wouldn't even be able to put up basic resistance and would be easily stabbed to death by Fugaku with a kunai, made his scalp tingle, and his apprehension towards Fugaku reached the highest point.
"Clan Head, why?"
"Father, how could you do this?"
Shisui and Itachi spoke up one after another. Apart from anger, they were more confused.
After all...
In their hearts, Fugaku shouldn't be like this!
This kind of behavior was too inappropriate.
In response to this.
Fugaku's face remained cold and indifferent, just saying faintly.
"Jin-kun was right about one thing. No matter what your thoughts are, there must be no internal war within the Uchiha!"
"If it were usually, it wouldn't matter if one or two people died in internal strife, but now the Uchiha is in imminent danger, and all the ninja clans in Konoha are watching the Uchiha."
"The Uchiha's situation is already very bad. If news of internal strife and killing within the Uchiha breaks out, it will only make other ninja clans look down on the Uchiha even more."
"An Uchiha with internal strife under the crisis of genocide, even if Jin-kun achieves great victories in the future, other ninja clans probably wouldn't dare to defect easily."
"So..."
"This is why I had to bring you two back before the war with Danzo started."
"Of course."
"Jin-kun just wanted you not to participate. Essentially, he didn't want to imprison or seal you because Jin-kun has absolute confidence in himself. He is confident that even if you side with the Konoha higher-ups, he has absolute confidence in winning the competition with the Konoha higher-ups."
"This is his belief, more like a path of invincibility!"
"So he never disdained using conspiracies; from beginning to end, he used absolute open conspiracies!"
"But I, Fugaku, am not!"
"I participated in the entire conversation between the Hokage and Jin-kun last time. After truly realizing the attitude of the Konoha higher-ups, I discovered that I was so wrong as the Clan Head all these years."
"If Jin-kun hadn't appeared out of nowhere, the Uchiha might really have been exterminated in my hands!"
"So, I want to atone for my sins!"
"When Jin-kun is unwilling to intervene, I, Fugaku, even if I lose my reputation, will cripple you two, Shisui and Itachi!"
"I can't help Jin-kun with other things, but I, Fugaku, still have the ability to do this little thing in front of me."
"Needless to say about Itachi, my child!"
"As a father, considering your young age, I'm just trapping you at home to study properly. I think no one in the entire Konoha can say anything about it."
"As for you—Shisui!"
"Although you are not my child, I am your Clan Head!"
"Konoha must not interfere in the internal affairs of ninja clans. This is the declaration of the First Hokage, Lord Hashirama. So as the Clan Head, I have the right to discipline you, and Konoha must not interfere for any reason."
"If you choose to leave the Uchiha, that's fine too, but similarly, you must hand over your Sharingan."
"This is the clan rule!"
"So Shisui, I give you a choice!"
"If you choose to leave the Uchiha, then I will find you a pair of ordinary eyes later, and then you can follow your Hokage-sama."
"If you choose the Uchiha, then come back with me, and I will find you a pair of Three-Tomoe to replace them!"
Fugaku's tone was cold as he explained the reason for his action.
Yes!
Don't look at how disorganized the Uchiha were in the past, unlike other ninja clans like the Hyuga and Ino-Shika-Cho who were united. In fact, the real reason was just that the Uchiha were arrogant, and no one disdained using power.
Which faction one was willing to join depended entirely on one's own thoughts!
But, in reality.
Clan rules existed, and every ninja clan had them!
When Root went to other ninja clans to ask for manpower, the Clan Head decided who to hand over, and the clansmen below had no choice.
Konoha not interfering in the internal affairs of ninja clans was also a rule set by Senju Hashirama himself when Konoha was founded.
Therefore.
Fugaku's rhetoric absolutely held water!
Any ninja clan had to admit this, and Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't refute it either. In matters involving the internal affairs of ninja clans, his identity as Hokage was far from enough.
If he dared to interfere, other ninja clans would definitely stop him!
So it's still the same saying, don't take bean buns as dry food!
Now that Fugaku had truly put down the Uchiha pride and acted as the Uchiha Clan Head, he might not have the ability to interfere in the village's affairs, but he had absolute power to dispose of Shisui and Itachi.
Of course.
From Fugaku's action now, it was enough to see how huge the change in Fugaku's entire worldview was after Sarutobi Hiruzen revealed his true face last time.
Shisui was stunned.
After listening to Fugaku's words, he pondered for a long time and then sighed.
The previous anger had completely dissipated now.
Although he wanted to help the clan in his own way, he also acknowledged his identity as an Uchiha, and knew even more that clan rules must be obeyed.
Perhaps Itachi would choose the village directly, but Shisui was different from Itachi; the Uchiha occupied a larger part in his heart!
These actions now were also to help the Uchiha.
So, sigh!
After a helpless sigh, Shisui said directly: "I choose the Uchiha. I am willing to obey the Clan Head's disposal!"
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