Chapter 2 Uchiha Touhuan.
"With eyes that even someone as insignificant as you could awaken, is it strange to you that I possess it?" Uchiha Touhuan said.
"Touhuan, your thoughts are too dangerous. For the sake of the village, so... I'm sorry!" Seeing the Mangekyou Sharingan in Uchiha Touhuan's eyes, Uchiha Shisui dared not delay any longer and activated the Kotoamatsukami eye technique—originally intended for Uchiha Fugaku—that permanently altered his mind.
However, the next second, a sharp pain shot through his eyes, and Uchiha Shisui instantly plunged into eternal darkness.
"Now that I know the effect of your eye technique, how could I not be wary of it?" Uchiha Touhuan's voice rang out beside Shisui, who was now lost in darkness.
"How...did you do that?" Shisui asked with difficulty, one hand covering his empty eyes.
"My eye technique, Eighty Calamities of the Sun God." Taking advantage of Uchiha Shisui's inability to fully adjust to the darkness, Uchiha Touhuan disarmed him and sealed his chakra, explaining, "It allows me to see countless possibilities in an instant and make the most correct choice. You used your eye technique on me, and I dodged it and killed you—that's one possibility."
"How did you know my eye technique?" Although he was no longer able to fight, Shisui still tried his best to gather information.
"I've said it before, my eyes can see a future you cannot see." Uchiha Touhuan said, toying with the pair of Mangekyou Sharingan in his hands.
"A prophetic eye technique?" Shisui smiled bitterly. "It seems everything I've done has been under your control, hasn't it?"
Uchiha Touhuan didn't answer Shisui's question, but instead continued, "The clan's records of the Mangekyou Sharingan describe it as the eye of the soul, but I prefer to call it the eye of the answer. The clan elders who possessed these eyes all faced inner torment, and the eye techniques nurtured within them were their answers."
"Since you repeatedly emphasize your magnanimity, then I'd like to know why, when faced with questioning from the clan and village, your answer was to control the will of others? Do you also believe that the conflict between the clan and the village is irreconcilable under normal circumstances?" Uchiha Touhuan asked.
Faced with Uchiha Touhuan's probing question, Uchiha Shisui fell silent. Uchiha Touhuan was right; it was precisely because he couldn't see a future for the village and his clan, coupled with self-abandonment and a hidden ninja brutality, that he awakened such a near-rogue eye technique.
"Indeed, an arrogant answer," Uchiha Touhuan said calmly. "Your clan's bloodline granted you these abilities, yet you intend to use them on members of your clan."
"What do you plan to do with my eyes?" Uchiha Shisui asked through gritted teeth. "Control the Third Hokage? Your scheme will not succeed. Even if you can control the Third Hokage, the rest of the village will not stand idly by while the Uchiha stage a coup. The village's strength is not something a single clan can contend with. You will push the Uchiha clan into the abyss."
"Still so arrogant, Shisui-nii," Uchiha Touhuan chuckled, releasing Uchiha Shisui's restraints. "Even now, you still refuse to admit that my capacity is superior to yours? Directly controlling Hiruzen Sarutobi? That's merely the lowest level of use for these eyes."
With that, Uchiha Touhuan pulled a test tube from his robes and tossed it to Uchiha Shisui.
Although blind, Uchiha Shisui's keen senses allowed him to easily catch what Uchiha Touhuan threw at him: "What is this?"
"A pair of three-tomoe jade ornaments I got from the clan's shrine," Uchiha Touhuan said. "You can go now."
"You're not going to kill me?" Uchiha Shisui was taken aback.
"Kill you?" Uchiha Touhuan chuckled lightly. "Why would I kill you?"
Uchiha Touhuan patted Shisui's shoulder: "Go, go tell Hiruzen Sarutobi about the power of your eyes, and then, use these eyes inherited from your ancestors to see the new future I've created."
With that, Uchiha Touhuan turned and left the Forest of Death without looking back.
After returning to his residence on the edge of the Uchiha clan's territory, Uchiha Touhuan summoned his ninja hawk, installed the two Mangekyou Sharingan eyes on it, and then released the summoning.
"I've got Kotoamatsukami. My plan can truly begin now." Uchiha Touhuan went to the window, looking at the night outside. The brightly lit Konoha Village in the distance contrasted sharply with the silence within the Uchiha clan's territory.
Ever since he was transported to this world fourteen years ago, Uchiha Touhuan had always felt out of place in this morbid world. After all, even the evil capitalism in this ninja world was too advanced for him.
In his previous life, Uchiha Touhuan was just an ordinary office worker whose only hobby was studying "1.5" in his spare time. He never imagined that after arriving in this world, his deceased parents would give him such a loyal name.
Because of this messed-up world, Uchiha Touhuan had to learn killing techniques from a young age. Then, at the tender age of nine, he was tricked into going to the battlefield by the Will of Fire. Fortunately, the bloodline he possessed gave him the talent to survive. At the same time, in a life-or-death crisis, he awakened the ultimate power of his clan—the Mangekyou Sharingan—and managed to live until the end of the war.
However, Uchiha Touhuan knew that surviving the battlefield was not the end; the night of the clan's annihilation a few years later was something he had to consider.
However, the Uchiha clan's traditional assemblies were filled with endless, pointless arguments. Therefore, Uchiha Touhuan knew that if he wanted to change the future, he had to rely on himself.
Obtaining Shisui's Kotoamatsukami was only the first step in his plan.
Although he harbored ulterior motives, Uchiha Touhuan's assessment of Shisui today was entirely his true opinion: arrogant, foolish, and naive. Possessing the powerful Kotoamatsukami, he met a tragic end in the original timeline. He could have easily become a Damocles' sword hanging over the heads of Konoha's leadership and the Uchiha clan simply by openly displaying the power of his eyes, but instead, he chose the most foolish path.
"Fortunately, it's mine now."
Uchiha Touhuan smiled calmly by the window, looking towards the Hokage Rock. The four heads in the darkness were indistinct, and Uchiha Touhuan stared at the third one.
"So, the strongest Hokage in history, what will you do?"
(End of Chapter)