Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha lacks motivation.

Chapter 10 People Who Shouldn't Exist

Under the darkness, the pale moonlight shone on the face of the Uchiha clan member who had captured him.

His sinister smile, combined with his sinister expression, made the already timid Senju Itama tremble uncontrollably, his mouth gagged with a foreign object, only able to emit mournful whimpers.

"You brat from the Senju family, if I were you, I'd eat right now."

The Uchiha "demon" in front of him rolled his dead fish eyes and said.

Upon hearing this, Senju Itama subconsciously licked the contents of his mouth with his tongue, his tongue tasting a salty and savory flavor.

He then bit down hard and found that he could bite it. After chewing a few times, he realized that what was stuffed in his mouth was actually jerky.

Having not eaten or drunk anything for two days, Senju Itama didn't care whether the food the enemy gave him was poisonous or not, and began to chew it heartily, quickly swallowing a large piece of jerky.

After finishing his meal, he smacked his lips, seemingly still wanting more, and asked...

"Is there anything else?"

Upon hearing that this prisoner was so shameless, Uchiha Gin's forehead creased with a #, and then he gave the prisoner a sharp rap on the head.

"Kid, don't you understand the situation?"

"The Senju clan will never be slaves! If you have the guts, kill me. My father and brother will avenge me." Senju Itama was also defiant.

Looking at the kid's fearless expression, Uchiha Gin, who had originally wanted to tease him, suddenly felt bored.

In his previous life, he also had brothers and sisters. Boys as young as Senju Itama probably spent their days watching cartoons and eating snacks, living a carefree and happy childhood. But in this era, children that young are already killing or being killed on the battlefield.

"What a detestable era."

This was a somewhat somber expression of Uchiha Gin's feelings.

After all, he was a modern person with normal values ​​just a few days ago. It's impossible for him to be assimilated by this era all at once. It would be too strange for a protagonist to be able to adapt to the new rules right after transmigrating!

"Ah, what did you say? I'm telling you, I won't utter a single word about the family!"

Senju Itama, guessing that the other party had captured him to extract information about the Senju clan, still spoke defiantly, his small face revealing a maturity beyond his years.

"What an arrogant brat."

Uchiha Gin suddenly looked down at him, his eyes radiating a cold and sharp aura. Senju Itama felt a chill run down his spine under his gaze, but the pride inherited from the Senju clan made him stubbornly meet the Uchiha's gaze.

"Good eyes. We won't kill you for now, but don't even think about running away."

"."

"Of course, don't even think about suicide, because if you die, we'll just have to go and capture your brothers."

"!!!"

Seeing the boy's murderous gaze, Uchiha Gin slowly crouched down, drew closer, and whispered in his ear,

"Kid, you don't want your brother to get caught because of you, do you?"

Like the whispers of an ancient god, it left Senju Itama momentarily in a state of utter confusion, instantly shattering any nascent rebellious thoughts he might have had.

"I hope you cooperate well. The Uchiha clan has always treated prisoners well, and they might even spare your life in the end," Uchiha Gin continued to tempt him, his words still a bit off.

"Can you guarantee that?" After a moment of silence, Senju Itama raised his head, his small face filled with determination.

"I swear on the honor of my Uchiha ancestor." Since the ancestor is currently inside that brat Uchiha Madara's body, Uchiha Gin feels no burden in swearing on him.

"Achoo!" A spiky-haired boy practicing skipping stones by the river suddenly felt a chill down his spine and sneezed loudly.

Beside him, a boy with a mushroom-shaped haircut was teaching him how to throw a pebble to the other side. Seeing him suddenly sneeze, the boy asked with concern,

"Are you alright? Don't panic if you can't throw it over there; you need to find that upward pulling feeling."

"It's all your fault, you weirdo, standing behind me! I'm the kind of person who's so sensitive I can't pee if someone stands behind me!"

"sorry"

The mushroom-headed boy, dejected after being scolded, sat down on the ground.

[The two are entangled in a fateful encounter, and the era of ninjas begins.]

Senju Itama compromised. Now the other party held his weakness in their hands. The young Senju Itama could not analyze whether the other party's words were true or false like his precocious second brother, Senju Tobirama.

If Uchiha Gin had said those words to Senju Tobirama, he probably wouldn't have seen the sun rise the next day.

Because Senju Itama cooperated, Uchiha Gin removed the chains from his body. After all, he had been carrying this kid on his journey, and the chains, which weighed over ten kilograms, were a burden.

Returning it to the scroll greatly reduced the burden, and then simply tied Senjubutama's hands together with rope.

The tent was definitely not a place for the other party to sleep in, so Uchiha Silver Circle cleared a space behind the tent, planted a wooden stake, and tied Senju Itama to the stake in the same way that Hatake Kouji tied Naruto when he first tested Team 7.

After settling everything in, Uchiha Gin was a little tired, so he went back to his tent to rest.

While pondering how to trick Uchiha Taro into "fighting" him tomorrow and get some Heart Steel Treasure Chest's worth of Heart Energy, he stretched.

Just as he was about to walk around the open space behind the tent back into the tent, he suddenly noticed that the atmosphere around him had become still, and he sensed that someone was watching him from behind.

He subconsciously glanced back at the wooden stake binding Senju Itama. In the pitch-black night, a figure stood silently on the stake, while Senju Itama, who was bound to the stake, had already disappeared.

"Enemy attack!"

Uchiha Gin's pupils widened in shock. This mysterious person had actually managed to appear in their camp silently, without being detected by the three-tomoe Uchiha Fuuka.

His first thought was to shout a warning and call out to the Uchiha members around him, but as a ray of moonlight shone down, the other person's figure was revealed.

As the other person slowly unveiled their face from the darkness, the words that Uchiha Gin wanted to shout stuck in his throat.

The person before him struck Uchiha Gin, who hadn't been particularly surprised since his transmigration, as if struck by lightning. A chill ran from his heels to his forehead. As the moonlight completely pierced through the dark figure, Uchiha Gin dryly revealed the newcomer's identity.

"It's impossible for the Uchiha to fight seven people at once. There's no way you could exist in this era. Could it be the Dragon Vein?"

A black-haired youth dressed in a black outfit with red clouds stood there quietly with his eyes closed. His pale, handsome face had two deep nasolabial folds, and he wore a headband that did not belong to this era, with a clear scratch on it.

Having read and watched Naruto for many years, Uchiha Gin immediately recognized the man as Uchiha Itachi, the indispensable man in the life of the female protagonist Sasuke in the original work.

While shocked, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but wonder if the Akatsuki organization had also discovered the dragon vein deep within Loulan, and if Uchiha Itachi had been sent to this era by the dragon vein.

Seeing that Uchiha Itachi neither spoke nor made any move, Uchiha Gin was about to call for Uchiha Fuuka and the others.

Just then, the young man on the wooden stake slowly opened his eyes, and his Sharingan eyes, which resembled shojutsu swords, emitted a faint light.

A strange scene unfolded around Uchiha Gin: the pure white moon in the sky seemed to have vanished.

A scarlet full moon rose in the sky, and then the entire space around him was filled with a blood-red hue, and an oppressive atmosphere swept over him.

In a moment of distraction, Uchiha Gin felt as if he were being hoisted high into the air, and in the blink of an eye, he was tied to a cross.

"Blood moon, cross... Could it be???"

When Uchiha Gin came to his senses, he was too shocked to speak. He had seen all of this in books, but this was the first time he had experienced it firsthand.

[Illusion Technique: Tsukuyomi]

Uchiha Gin looked up and around. One by one, Uchiha Itachis slowly appeared, each holding a katana. One of the Uchiha Itachis said expressionlessly,

"In the world of Tsukuyomi, space, time, and mass are all under my control. For the next seventy-two hours, I will keep stabbing you with a knife."

With each screech of a blade piercing flesh, the entire Tsukuyomi space was filled with Uchiha Gin's helpless and pitiful screams.

In his previous life, Uchiha Gin, who would make a huge fuss even over a minor scratch, was on the verge of collapse.

Even though he knew it was an illusion, the blows that struck him were real pain, each stab causing him to tremble with agony.

The nature of the illusion space prevented him from fainting from the pain; he could only watch helplessly as the blood hole that had just healed a second ago was pierced with a sharp knife again.

Uchiha Gin was in so much pain that tears streamed down his face, and he even lost control of his bladder and bowels. He didn't know how much time had passed when, just as he thought his time was up, a ghostly voice reached his ears:

"Seventy-one hours remaining."

"Aa ...

(End of this chapter)