Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Attack
"[12:00 PM]"
You and Grandma Yukina arrived at the Great Elder's house.
To your surprise, Grandma Yukina directly pushed open the Great Elder's front door, and the surrounding guards entered the courtyard without announcing them.
Seeing you, the Great Elder smiled slightly at Grandma Yukina, inviting you to sit down and eat with them.
You introduced yourself to the Great Elder, intending to mention your precognitive dream, but the Great Elder stopped you, signaling that you could speak slowly after lunch.
It seems Grandma Yukina's status within the Uchiha Clan is much higher than you imagined!
"[1:00 PM]"
With Grandma Yukina's additions, you recounted the events of your precognitive dream to the Great Elder. This essentially connected your awakening of the Sharingan with your dream of Itachi massacring the clan and Shisui's death.
After listening to your account, the Great Elder frowned deeply, then let out a long sigh.
"[2:00 PM]"
The Great Elder took out a pot of sake from the inner room, sat at the table, and watched you in silence, pouring himself another cup after each one until he was completely drunk.
Grandma Yukina saw that you were getting restless, so she told you to go outside and practice your swordsmanship for a while. As soon as you stepped out, a loud slap reached your ears. You didn't dare to stay, running away to an open space outside the house to practice swordsmanship against the air.
"[3:00 PM]"
A guard ran out of the Great Elder's house, then returned with two middle-aged men and one young man, and you were also called back into the house by Grandma Yukina.
"[4:00 PM]"
You learned that the three Uchiha Jonin who were called were all the Great Elder's sons, and you recounted your precognitive dream to them again.
Immediately, the three fell into a fierce dispute, but fortunately, the Great Elder suppressed them, patiently explaining the reasoning bit by bit, which prevented the impending farce.
"[5:00 PM]"
Grandma Yukina suggested to the Great Elder that your talent was exceptional and that proper cultivation might preserve hope for the Uchiha Clan. Seeing this, you voluntarily activated your Sharingan.
The Great Elder and his sons were also extremely shocked that you had awakened your Sharingan at the age of three.
But after the shock, the Great Elder still shook his head, explicitly telling you to activate your Sharingan as little as possible before the age of five.
This was because there had been super geniuses in Uchiha history who awakened their eyes at three, but without exception, these geniuses, due to premature awakening, either suffered from a bloodline disease, became insane and bloodthirsty, or, if lucky enough to appear normal, had shockingly low Chakra levels, and the few normal ones died from targeted assassinations!
You agreed to the Great Elder's request and stated that you were already diligently practicing Taijutsu to prevent future problems.
"[6:00 PM]"
Grandma Yukina left the Great Elder's house, entrusting you to his care.
The Great Elder led his three sons into the room and assigned them tasks separately.
You continued to practice swordsmanship under the Great Elder's guidance.
"[7:00 PM]"
The night of the massacre seemed not to have arrived.
You continued to practice swordsmanship, with the Great Elder occasionally giving you pointers while snacking on melon seeds.
"[8:00 PM]"
While practicing, you heard shouts of battle from the edge of the Uchiha Clan, and then, the Great Elder's three sons, followed closely by the Second Elder and Third Elder, arrived at the Great Elder's house with a large number of Patrol Guard Ninja.
Behind this group of Uchiha Ninja, piles of masked Ninja corpses were visible, three of whom had their masks removed and tongues pulled out, all bearing the Root's "Tongue Sealing Curse Mark."
The enraged Third Elder immediately proposed taking the opportunity to storm the Hokage Building and assassinate Hiruzen, winning strong approval from the surrounding hawkish Uchiha!
But at this moment, a black-clad Ninja clutching a severed arm suddenly appeared beside the Great Elder. After an exchange of glances, the Great Elder sighed helplessly and instructed everyone to dispose of the Konoha Anbu corpses with Fire Release.
"[9:00 PM]"
Watching the people burning the corpses in the square, you suddenly felt an urge to join them, and your Sharingan activated. However, remembering what the Great Elder had said earlier, you promptly restrained your strange desire.
"[10:00 PM]"
After finishing your swordsmanship practice, you returned to the room the Great Elder had arranged for you to rest.
But as you passed through the courtyard, you saw the black-clad Ninja talking to the Great Elder. The black-clad Ninja called you over, and you then realized that not only had he lost an arm, but his right eye was also a blind grayish-white, clearly having just faced an extremely strong opponent. You didn't know if it was Obito or Itachi.
However, since this person could survive against Obito and Itachi, his strength was clearly immense. Was there a Kage-level expert hidden within the Uchiha Clan that you didn't know about?
The person introduced himself as Uchiha Setsuna, and you then recalled that in a previous simulation, you and Grandma Yukina, with no other options, had sought refuge with him.
Uchiha Setsuna asked you a few questions about Uchiha Fugaku, and you revealed that you had vaguely seen in a dream that Fugaku's Sharingan was not a normal Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
Uchiha Setsuna nodded, then raised his teacup and drained it, before leaping onto the eaves and disappearing. The Great Elder then led you back to your bedroom to rest...
"[Detected that the holder successfully survived a death trap]"
"[To conserve simulator energy, the simulation accuracy for this session has been changed to one day]"
Uchiha Kirin rubbed his eyes, then closed his activated Sharingan. According to what the Great Elder said in the simulation, his awakening, though seemingly genius, actually had considerable side effects, even being a kind of pathology!
Given this, Kirin decided to avoid activating his Sharingan in reality as much as possible in the future.
"[Day Two]"
You woke up as usual and continued to practice swordsmanship, but you learned from the Great Elder that Fugaku had been severely injured.
And Uchiha Setsuna quietly appeared beside you just as the Great Elder spoke. This time, he had thick bandages wrapped around his abdomen, but the seeping blood still stained the outermost layer. Even though you could feel Setsuna's weakness, his happiness was evident on his exceptionally aged face.
The Great Elder asked you to draw Fugaku's Sharingan from your precognitive dream on paper, and you complied.
Seeing the pattern you drew, Uchiha Setsuna burst into laughter, then reached into his sleeve and took out a box containing a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan identical to the one you remembered Fugaku having!
The two discussed for a while, then Uchiha Setsuna, in front of you, removed his own blind eye and replaced it with Fugaku's eye.
Despite the gruesome scene, you found yourself feeling no repulsion. Uchiha Setsuna and the Great Elder also noticed this, and they both agreed that you were a born Ninja.
Uchiha Setsuna placed his blind eye into a small bottle and threw it to you, saying it was for remembrance, then quickly left.
It was afternoon, and you kept Uchiha Setsuna's eye in your Ninja pouch. Under the Great Elder's guidance, you continued to practice swordsmanship, while the Great Elder occasionally threw Shuriken at you. You had to block and counter them using swordsmanship or Shurikenjutsu. During the practice, you felt your combat ability improving rapidly.
Suddenly, a huge sound came from the side of the Hokage Rock, and the massive tremor reached the Uchiha Clan, making you feel as if there was an earthquake.
Suddenly, the Great Elder's movements paused, and two lines of tears fell from his eyes. After sealing your Chakra, he hid you in a secret room filled with food and water and quickly departed.
That night, the Uchiha Clan was filled with the sounds of battle.
Hiruzen and Danzo, regardless of the negative consequences, directly led Anbu Ninja to forcefully attack the Uchiha Clan!
Initially, only some Anbu and Root main forces participated, but later, due to the lack of Kage-level experts, even with the combined efforts of several elders, the Uchiha Clan was steadily retreating under Hiruzen's assault.
With the Great Elder's death, the Uchiha Clan's decline became evident, and some smaller Ninja clans, seeing the opportunity, also joined in to get a share. In just one night, the Uchiha Clan's protective Barrier was completely breached.
"[Day Three]"
Almost all of the Uchiha Clan Ninja were killed. Itachi then suddenly appeared, injuring Hiruzen, then feigning defeat by Danzo, and thus defected.
Root and Anbu withdrew from the Uchiha Clan, but the surrounding smaller Ninja clans were deliberately allowed into the Uchiha Clan to burn, kill, and loot.
Blood flowed into the secret room where you were.
Your eyes were about to burst, but you found that you could no longer activate your Sharingan. It seemed that what the Great Elder said before his death was indeed true; activating your eyes too early was not entirely beneficial.
You suppressed your nausea and forced yourself to eat the food and drink the water in the secret room while submerged in blood. At the same time, you rummaged through the room's contents and finally found a box of Exploding Tags and a box of Ninjutsu scrolls.
You activated your Sharingan and forcibly memorized the Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique.
You forcibly memorized Wind Release: Gale Palm.
Your eye power was overused, and you passed out...
"[Day Four]"
As soon as you woke up, you heard people moving and carrying things outside. You held your breath, not daring to move.
But the secret room's door was still pried open, and an Anbu Ninja walked in.
You immediately attacked him. The opponent dodged your Shuriken, and you activated your Sharingan, attempting to match his speed, but you found that seeing clearly does not equal being able to keep up. The opponent cut your throat with a single slash and kicked you against the wall.
Looking at the box full of Exploding Tags beside you, you quickly formed hand signs to release the Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, but due to your severe injuries, you failed to release it, and the Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique exploded inside you.
However, the explosion ignited the Exploding Tags, and you took a Root Ninja with you in your self-detonation before you died!
You died...
"[Simulation End]"
"[Calculating Rewards...]"
"[System assessment of both sides' strength]"
"[In this simulation, the holder attempted to change the course of destiny with foreknowledge, but the Uchiha Clan's uprising failed, and they ultimately could not escape their fate of death...]"
"[Overall result judged as a hard-fought battle!]"
Looking at the text before him, Uchiha Kirin took a deep breath to calm himself. He hadn't expected that directly informing the Great Elder about the clan's extermination would lead to a much worse outcome than his previous simulation's accidental progression.
Fortunately, this was just a simulation; there was still hope.
Uchiha Kirin turned his attention to the recently settled rewards.
"[Rewards Settled!]"
"[Holder may choose two from the following three rewards]"
"[1] Simulation attempts +1"
"[2] Basic Uchiha Swordsmanship (includes insights and muscle memory)"
"[3] 500 Exploding Tags"
"Five hundred Exploding Tags, those must be the ones in the Great Elder's basement. What a pity this simulation was."
He failed to achieve a 'life-and-death struggle' rating, which meant the Ninjutsu and Uchiha Setsuna's eye obtained in the simulation were blocked.
He had no choice but to select rewards 1 and 2.
Feeling the hot current of muscle modification surging through his body, and the constant flash of swordsmanship techniques in his mind, Uchiha Kirin suddenly thought:
"Where's my loot system? Is Uchiha Okaban dead or alive!"