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

Chapter 26 Suppressing Amaterasu

The man came and went quickly. Gin Uchiha, relieved to have escaped, closed the door and pondered the intentions of his clan leader cousin.

"Little cousin Izuna, why do you think the clan leader made me work in the dungeon?"

Unable to fathom his thoughts, Uchiha Gin turned to ask Uchiha Izuna, who was staring at Senju Itama.

"Maybe they're afraid you'll go out."

Izuna stroked his chin thoughtfully for a moment and then said...

"Because your strength is truly..."

Looking at his younger cousin who seemed about to speak but hesitated, his answer coincided with his own guess.

According to the original owner's memories, his strength had stagnated ever since the tragedy that occurred when he was a child. He didn't know if it was because his Dao heart was broken and he was not motivated to make progress, or because his talent was limited.

Since the original owner was not strong enough, Uchiha Tajima always assigned him simple tasks within the clan.

For example, positions like guarding the clan chief's building or patrolling the clan's territory were assigned to him only because the original owner threatened to kill himself.

"Is it really just a disguised form of protection? I hope I'm just overthinking it."

Uchiha Gin thought to himself.

After resting enough, Uchiha Izuna saw that it was getting late, made a face at Senju Itama, and slowly got up to say goodbye.

Uchiha Gin saw Izuna off as he left, and just before he left, Izuna suddenly turned his face away and said in a somewhat hesitant tone,

"Thank you, the food is delicious."

After saying that, he fled without looking back.

Are all Uchiha clan members tsundere?

Uchiha Gin stroked his curly hair as he thought.

Turning back into the house, Senju Itama immediately straightened up upon seeing him, his eyes moving stiffly as he stubbornly said,

"What exactly is your purpose?"

"Kid, you're safe for now, but only with me."

Uchiha Gin didn't explain much to him.

"In short, you'd better stay here quietly until the war starts."

Few people know Senju Itama's true identity, and it's unlikely that Uchiha Tajima would publicize it so openly.

Since this brat has been entrusted to his care, it means that the war has not yet reached its climax. When the decisive battle is about to break out, the fate of this brat will be hard to say.

Thinking about the tasks assigned by this crappy system, Uchiha Gin got another headache. Asking him, an Uchiha, to protect his mortal enemy, the Senju, was like asking him to play a double agent.

"Starting today, you'll sleep in the bedroom."

Seeing the bewildered kid, Uchiha Gin arranged for him to have the only bedroom in the house. He then went into the bedroom, rummaged through the wardrobe for a while, and came out carrying a stack of clothes.

"These are all from when I was a child; you should be able to wear them."

He handed the clothes to Senju Itama, whose own clothes were already tattered from the journey.

"I'm going to rest now. You can try it yourself tomorrow."

I traveled all day today and had an unexpected encounter with Uchiha Izuna.

After relaxing, Uchiha Gin was a little tired. Ignoring Senju Itama, who was staring blankly at his clothes, he lay down on the sofa in the living room and fell asleep.

Senju Itama looked at the clothes in his hand, hesitated for a long time, and then went into the bedroom. A moment later, a snoring sound came out.

At this moment, Uchiha Gin, who should have been fast asleep, quietly opened his eyes. After listening closely to see that Senju Itama was already fast asleep in the bedroom, he got up, pushed open the door, and left without making a sound.

By this time, it was pitch black, with only faint flashes of light from the watchtowers in the distance. After circling his house, he finally chose a spot in a dead corner behind the house and used a few pieces of firewood to build a simple fence.

Brushing the dust off his hands, Uchiha Gin looked at his "masterpiece" with satisfaction. After all, time was short, and it was already quite good that he could make it like this.

He then sat cross-legged inside the fenced area and closed his eyes, pretending to sleep.

After an unknown amount of time, he felt the surrounding air suddenly freeze. Having experienced this twice before, Uchiha Gin knew that this was a sign that his skills were about to refresh.

He quickly opened his scarlet eyes and looked around. With the help of dynamic vision, he could see everything in the dark clearly, but he didn't notice anything.

Just as he was frowning and pondering what this might be, a hand quietly landed on his shoulder.

In an instant, Uchiha Gin felt a chill run down his spine, and the hairs on his body stood on end. The owner of the hand did not make any move. Uchiha Gin stiffly turned his head to look at the hand resting on his shoulder.

His palms were very pale, and the knuckles of his long fingers were visible, but this was not what terrified him the most.

A glimpse of the black nail polish on his fingertips and the gem-encrusted ring on his ring finger sent a chill down Uchiha Gin's spine.

He didn't even need to look closely at the character "朱" engraved on the ring to guess who the person was.

Knowing he was no match for Uchiha Gin, he didn't want to sit idly by and wait for his death. He secretly mobilized his chakra and gathered it in his arms.

Superpower, activate!

With a hateful elbow strike from Uchiha Ginichi, the people behind him transformed into a flock of crows and scattered, later gathering in the distance to form a figure dressed in black with red clouds.

Although he already knew his fate, Uchiha Gin still wanted to beat up this filial son, who was supposed to take on seven people with one punch.

Without hesitation, he activated his Sharingan and, determined to deliver a powerful punch even if it meant being under the influence of Tsukuyomi, used his superhuman strength to smash the stunned Uchiha Itachi.

Strangely, this time Itachi Uchiha only opened his right Mangekyou Sharingan. As a tear of blood flowed down, the silver-haired Uchiha realized that he had not been pulled into the genjutsu space.

Just as he was wondering, he suddenly felt an excruciating burning sensation in his hands, as if his soul was being burned away.

Upon closer inspection, he noticed that his fists were covered in a layer of black flames. The flames weren't large, but the burning sensation was extremely intense, making him wish he could chop off his own hands.

【Amaterasu】The power residing in Itachi Uchiha's right Mangekyou Sharingan, possessing black flames said to be able to burn everything.

Damn it, what happened to Tsukuyomi? Uchiha Gin was writhing on the ground in pain, as he had no way to deal with Amaterasu.

The Fire Sealing Technique in the original work was created by the Uzumaki clan, and it was specifically designed to target the Uchiha clan, so he definitely wouldn't use it.

Does he really have to cut off his arm to survive like the Fourth Raikage?

Just as Uchiha Gin was being tormented by the flames in his hands and losing his mind, a cool sensation suddenly came from his right hand.

He barely opened his eyes and saw a faint blue light emanating from the back of his right hand, which was enveloped in black flames.

Then a swirling mark appeared, and as the mark rotated slightly, obscure runes extended from it.

As soon as the black flames came into contact with the runes, it was as if they had encountered their natural enemy. The runes forced them to shrink into a ball and were eventually completely enveloped by the runes, slowly being drawn into the vortex-shaped mark.

The entire right hand felt a huge weight lifted off its shoulders, and the vortex mark dimmed, flickered a few times, and then disappeared back into the back of the hand.

The crisis on his right hand was temporarily averted, but the black flames on his left hand were intensifying and were about to spread to his body.

Uchiha Gin had no choice but to draw his Flying Thunder God kunai with his right hand, preparing to sever his palm in an attempt to survive. He gritted his teeth and chopped down.

A short pain is worse than a long one. Anyway, everything will return to normal once the skill ends, and the severed hand will heal itself.

Meanwhile, in a small, dark space, a dark figure slowly opened its scarlet eyes.

Feeling the fetal movement in its eyes, the dark figure seemed somewhat anxious. After a moment, with a tremor in its body and heavy breathing, a bewitching pattern flashed in its eyes.

Just as he was about to "break up" with Xiao Zuo, who had been with him for many years, Uchiha Gin's left hand flashed a rose-red color, and a symbol appeared on his left and right hands in the same way.

However, unlike the marks of the Vortex Clan that he knew, he had never seen this mark on his left hand in the original owner's memories.

Although there is no memory of it, the body does not seem to reject the mark, and there is even a faint sense of closeness to it.

The logo consists of a pattern of three swallow-shaped boomerangs surrounding a central red dot.

The raging black flames became docile and obedient with the appearance of the mark, and eventually disappeared without a trace, turning into a faint red light.

"The backyard refreshes daily with a random skill [Amaterasu], granting you Amaterasu*1."

(End of this chapter)