Naruto: Awakening Eternal Power with My Eye Techniques

Before the Cloud-nin Captain could even check his injuries, he saw a blue-green kunai and a red tanto blade flying toward him as two streaks of light. As they advanced, the two lights gradually merged into one, forming an even sharper beam.

At the exact moment when Setsuna pierced through the Adamantine Sealing Chains, it simultaneously pierced through his severely weakened Lightning Release defense, delivering a [Ci] directly into his chest and finally piercing his heart. In a last-ditch effort, the Cloud-nin Captain tried to take Shiyu Uchiha and Minato Namikaze down with him.

However, since his heart had already been pierced before impact, the force behind his attack lacked power. It only managed to send both Shiyu Uchiha and Minato Namikaze flying backward, crashing into trees—but not fatally injuring them.

Shiyu Uchiha and the others saw the enemy was dead, so they stayed down for a while before getting up slowly. Meanwhile, Kushina Uzumaki, also collapsed to the ground due to backlash from her Adamantine Sealing Chains being forcibly broken, rested for a bit too. However, her Mind's Eye of the Kagura remained active, signaling to Shiyu Uchiha's group that there was no danger anymore—which is why they didn't hurry to get back up.

Ten minutes later, the three of them stood again one after another. Despite feeling unwell, Shiyu Uchiha once again retrieved the sealing scroll and carefully stored away the corpse before the three began heading back to the village.

Half a day later, they were finally spotted by Konoha ninjas who'd been dispatched to pursue them, and signal flares were fired. To Shiyu Uchiha's surprise, the first person to arrive was actually Konoha's Anbu Commander—Hatake Sumao.

During their conversation, they learned Hatake Sumao had just completed a mission and hadn't yet returned to the village when he received Lord Hiruzen Sarutobi's order to locate Kushina Uzumaki, immediately pursuing them afterward. Upon hearing about Shiyu Uchiha and Minato Namikaze's pursuit process, he gave both young men extremely high praise, declaring them the future of Konoha.

They then encountered Shinku Yuhi next, who had been training near the village. Due to Kushina Uzumaki's prolonged absence, he had also been dispatched to search.

To avoid losing intel due to the Cloud-nin Captain's brain decaying after death, Shiyu Uchiha asked Shinku Yuhi to temporarily serve as the interrogator again—an act that naturally piqued Hatake Sumao's interest, as the Anbu leader held strong curiosity about such matters.

Shinku Yuhi then used Ninjutsu to extract vast amounts of intelligence—including Lightning Release Taijutsu—from the minds of the three Cloud-nin spies and the Cloud-nin Captain.

Looking rather strange, Shinku Yuhi told Shiyu Uchiha that this Cloud-nin Captain happened to be father and son with the previous Cloud-nin Anbu leader—the fact made Shiyu Uchiha feel quite awkward.

Shiyu Uchiha then feigned curiosity and asked whether Shinku Yuhi knew more about who else belonged to that family. Shinku Yuhi, however, told him the family records were completely erased. Hearing this, Shiyu Uchiha felt a slight sense of relief inside—after all, he's always been narrow-minded towards enemies and quick to hold a grudge.

Later, Shinku Yuhi handed Hatake Sumao a copy of incomplete intel regarding the Cloud-nin's Lightning Release Taijutsu, and in return received Hatake Sumao's promise that Shiyu Uchiha and Minato Namikaze could study sword techniques at his place during this period.

After returning to Konoha Village, the three of them, accompanied by Hatake Sumao and Shinku Yuhi, headed together toward the Hokage Tower to report their safety and complete their mission.

Although Hiruzen Sarutobi already knew Kushina Uzumaki was safe—since Hatake Sumao had reported the situation immediately after meeting Shiyu Uchiha and the others—he still hadn't learned the details.

After meeting with Hiruzen Sarutobi, all of them presented themselves before him, and Hatake Sumao reported the mission first. Then Minato Namikaze gave a detailed account of how Shiyu Uchiha had become involved in the mission. Thanks to Minato's eloquence, neither Shiyu Uchiha nor Kushina Uzumaki had a chance to say a word.

Moreover, Minato's report was very objective. He didn't embellish his own role at all. He only stumbled just a little when he got to Kushina's part at the end, but everyone probably figured out what really happened. That earned even more respect for Minato from Hiruzen, Hatake Sumao, and Shinku Yuhi.

At one point, Hiruzen even considered introducing a jonin mentor for Minato. But upon hearing that Minato had already made arrangements with Jiraiya, he could only silently mutter about Jiraiya's good fortune before turning his thoughts toward how to reward the three of them.

First, he credited both Minato Namikaze and Shiyu Uchiha with an A-rank mission, calculating their payment at maximum value. Then he assigned Hatake Sumao to tutor the two of them—along with Kushina—for a while, partly as protection. Hiruzen didn't want any more accidents.

It also gave Hatake Sumao, who had been overly busy lately, a chance to take a break. Officially, it was declared that Hatake Sumao had killed the Cloud-nin Captain—to further protect the three of them.

After all, although Hiruzen might not care much about Shiyu Uchiha's safety, he highly valued Minato Namikaze, the prodigy, and cherished Kushina Uzumaki even more.

Finally, Hatake Sumao dispatched Anbu to secretly escort Kushina Uzumaki, while publicly Minato Namikaze accompanied her to the home of Mito Uzumaki. Shiyu Uchiha returned home alone to report his safety to his mother.

Upon arriving home, naturally Shiyu received a stern scolding from Uchiha Shizhi for taking unnecessary risks. Nevertheless, Uchiha Shizhi also felt proud of his son's performance.

Around noon that day, after lunch, Uchiha Shizhi told Shiyu Uchiha and Mikoto Uchiha to prepare properly for the next few days because he planned to take both of them to attend the Uchiha clan meeting. This would be the first clan meeting Shiyu had ever attended since growing up, so he felt quite excited.

Out of curiosity, Shiyu asked, "A clan meeting? I've never attended one before. What kind of preparation do I need?"

"No special preparation is needed. We just need to listen. However, formal attire is required." Mikoto Uchiha answered Shiyu's question while asking curiously in return, "Come to think of it, I've rarely seen you dressed formally. The last time was when you were about four or five years old. Do you even have formal attire now?"

"No, I don't like formal attire. It's ugly and uncomfortable." Shiyu Uchiha strongly disliked formal wear—it reminded him of Japanese invaders from history. Of course, even if he didn't wear it, his appearance wasn't much better. But Shiyu's inner self was just stubbornly particular like that.

He even mused that if Kiba Inuzuka could become Hokage after [Infinite Tsukuyomi] and set up a Dog Festival, maybe he himself could make some fashion changes once he got the title too.

Or even better—launch a cultural enlightenment by promoting the ancient Chinese ideal of grand unification, helping others expand their worldview.

Alternatively, staging a classic "Heaven's mandate has fallen; Yellow Heaven shall rise"—that wouldn't be bad either. [This was a famous slogan from Chinese history signifying the fall of an old order and the rise of a new one.]

However, Shiyu Uchiha was soon brought back to reality by someone calling his name, shoving those thoughts aside as he began his final struggle.

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