"This…"
Looking at Naruto clinging to Sasuke's clothes on the hospital bed, and Sasuke, who clearly had a look of disgust on his face but didn't stop him.
Uchiha Mikoto only felt her head buzzing, as if she had discovered something truly unbelievable.
"M-Mom?"
Sasuke also quickly noticed Uchiha Mikoto's sudden appearance at this moment. After his brain froze for an instant, he instinctively kicked Naruto off the bed.
"Ow!"
Caught completely off guard, Naruto rolled on the ground twice before steadying himself. Sitting there, rubbing the spot where he had just hit his head, he complained unhappily.
"Seriously, Sasuke, what are you doing… huh?"
"Aoba, and Aunt Mikoto?"
Only then did he notice Aoba and Uchiha Mikoto had arrived.
"Naruto… what were you two just doing?"
Aoba asked with a straight face, trying hard not to let a strange expression show.
Naruto scratched his head and explained, not really understanding what the big deal was, "I noticed that Sasuke has a pattern on his stomach that's kind of like the one on mine, so I wanted to see what was different."
"So that's how it is."
After learning the truth, Aoba also showed an expression of understanding.
When he first saw the two of them, he had thought that some kind of quantum entanglement had happened again between Indra's chakra and Asura's chakra, causing them to awaken some weird new trait.
And as Naruto explained, he could clearly feel Uchiha Mikoto beside him letting out a long sigh of relief.
Obviously, she had also heard those little stories in the past about the Third Hokage and his very close friend Shimura Danzo.
She didn't know where they started, but back then those stories had spread like wildfire among Konoha's ninja circles.
So she was a little worried her son might end up going down a crooked path.
"Mom, why did you come here?", Seeing Naruto finish explaining everything, Sasuke also returned to normal. That obedient look made him completely different from the arrogance he had just shown.
"I heard from Aoba that you fainted and were taken to the hospital, so I came to check on you. Looks like it's nothing serious."
Uchiha Mikoto smiled gently and walked to the bedside, then added, "But you still need to rest for a day or two."
"Yeah, I know."
Sasuke nodded obediently, but when he saw the barely suppressed grin on Aoba's face, his expression inevitably stiffened a little.
Aoba also smiled and explained the seal on Sasuke, "That seal was set by me. It's the same Eight Trigrams Seal as the one on Naruto, just slightly adjusted because of differences in constitution and strength, so it looks a bit different."
"Then what did you seal inside my body?"
Sasuke blurted it out instinctively. Even though he knew Aoba wouldn't harm him, he still had to know what exactly had been added to his stomach.
"The monster from the Box of Ultimate Bliss, 'Satori'."
Aoba didn't beat around the bush.
"Satori? Compared to the big fox, which one's stronger?", Naruto had gotten back to his feet and asked curiously.
"Of course the Nine-Tails is stronger," Aoba answered without hesitation. After all, even among the tailed beasts, the Nine-Tails was in a league of its own.
When the Ten-Tails' chakra was divided back then, it had even received special favor from the Sage of Six Paths.
There was no way Satori, a guy sealed inside one of the Sage's ninja tools, could compare.
"But Satori also has its own strengths…"
Seeing the trace of disappointment unconsciously appear in Sasuke's eyes, Aoba explained Satori's ability to sense malice, as well as the potential benefits it might have for the Uchiha clan.
"Thank you."
The slight disappointment Sasuke felt over Satori being weaker than the Nine-Tails was completely suppressed.
He sincerely thanked Aoba.
Compared to his own strength, he might care more about the honor of the Uchiha clan.
Even Uchiha Mikoto, upon hearing that Satori might help other members of the Uchiha clan awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan in the future, looked at Aoba with eyes full of affection.
"Thank you, Aoba."
"Given our relationship, there's no need to be so formal."
Aoba discreetly squeezed Uchiha Mikoto's hand and said with a smile.
"Mm."
Uchiha Mikoto quietly nodded, the tips of her ears tinged faintly red.
Holding hands with Aoba in front of Sasuke made this married lady feel a little shy.
"…", Watching this scene made Sasuke's eyes hurt a bit.
But seeing his mother look so bashful, he couldn't really point it out.
He could only irritably turn his head away and look elsewhere.
The only one present who didn't realize what was going on was the rather straightforward Naruto, who just felt like the atmosphere had suddenly become a little strange.
"Why did it suddenly get so quiet? Sasuke, didn't you say you were going to challenge Aoba again?"
"You still want to challenge me?", Aoba couldn't help raising an eyebrow.
'Could it be that because he got beaten while he was out of his mind earlier, he needs to get beaten again while fully conscious?'
Sasuke didn't think that much about it. He just looked at him seriously.
"In that fight just now, I lost control and didn't bring out the true power of the Mangekyo Sharingan at all. Once I fully master this power, I'll challenge you again!"
"Sasuke…", Uchiha Mikoto looked a little helpless and wanted to say something, but Aoba stopped her.
"I'm actually looking forward to it."
"Though I already have a rough idea of what your two pupil techniques do. I just don't know their names yet."
"…"
"The pupil technique of my right eye is called Land of Roots..."
After only a brief moment of thought, Sasuke explained the names of his Mangekyo techniques along with their effects.
He wasn't worried about leaking any information.
The three people in the hospital room were his mother, a friend who had grown up with him since childhood, and as for Aoba, that went without saying.
There was nothing to hide.
After hearing the details of Sasuke's pupil techniques, even Aoba, who already knew their effects, was somewhat surprised.
The right-eye technique, Land of Roots, was a recovery-type pupil technique that combined illusion and reality.
After activating it, all negative effects on the body were converted into illusions. The effect was extremely unreasonable, but it consumed an enormous amount of pupil power. Each use placed a burden on the eyes, and that burden itself could not be converted into an illusion.
So there was no way to exploit any bug in the technique.
The left-eye technique, meanwhile, was called Heavenly Young Sun Arrow, an offensive pupil technique.
When activated, it consumed pupil power to condense a gigantic golden bow, then turned ninjutsu into arrows and fired them. The arrows carried a causality-based guaranteed-hit property, one that could even pierce spacetime.
As for consumption, compared to Land of Roots, this technique didn't cost quite as much.
After hearing the full effects, Aoba quickly understood why Sasuke had awakened these two techniques.
Land of Roots was because Aoba, as a medical ninja with Uzumaki blood, excelled at endurance and recovery, while Sasuke had practically no means in that regard at all.
This was his biggest weakness.
No wonder Sasuke had said that he lacked nothing now when he awakened his eyes.
With this ability, there was no ninja in the current shinobi world with stronger recovery than Sasuke.
Even Aoba's Sage Body, if they compared recovery alone, would still fall a bit short.
Because even a Sage Body requires a process to recover.
But Sasuke's technique directly turned injuries into illusions. No matter what damage he took, it could be converted into an illusion in an instant, returning him to peak condition.
It was basically a mini Izanagi.
As for Heavenly Young Sun Arrow, that was even simpler. It could be seen as the fury of Sasuke's desire to hunt down and take revenge on Uchiha Itachi.
It could also be said to stem from Aoba possessing Swift Release and the Flying Thunder God, abilities that were practically the fastest in the shinobi world.
The Mangekyo had its limits. It was very hard for Sasuke to awaken an pupil technique that surpassed that speed, so instead, his attack was given a guaranteed-hit buff.
It could even cross spacetime.
The eye that reflects the heart truly lived up to its name.
These two pupil techniques might not have the terrifying raw numbers of Amaterasu, but their mechanics were clearly far more disgusting.
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