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"Bang!"
Suddenly, Itachi felt his eyeball swell, followed by a sharp pain in his brain.
"Ahhh!"
The unbearable pain, beyond the human body's limit, made even Itachi scream.
His small body was momentarily unable to stand firm, but even in this situation, Itachi's arms instinctively exerted force to prevent Sasuke from being in danger.
Itachi's Sharingan instantly closed, but suddenly, a sound echoed in his brain.
"Chi!"
It was the sound of the Sharingan opening.
"Why is this happening?"
Even through the excruciating pain, Itachi stared at the tragic scene before him, his heart roaring with indignation.
He had once embarked on a path that violated the ethics of this world, so that more innocent civilians and ninjas would not be caught up in the flames of war and lose their lives in vain.
So, after witnessing what had happened before, Itachi was once again deeply shocked.
At Itachi's noise, some of the civilians still running ahead of him and Izumi turned their heads.
These civilians, uninitiated by the brutality of combat, reacted no better than Itachi and Izumi upon witnessing the horrific scene behind them.
However, a courageous individual among them, suppressing their nausea, reached out to Itachi and Izumi, helping them to their feet.
Izumi remained dazed.
"Are you alright?"
A civilian man, roughly thirty years old, lifted Itachi to his feet, his trembling gradually subsiding.
"Thisā¦"
His eyes trembled slightly as he saw the blood and tears streaking across Itachi's cheeks.
"Boom!"
At this moment, the sound of two powerful forces clashing reverberated through the village once again.
Faced with such force, the civilians and ordinary ninjas alike could only tremble in fear.
Itachi, however, was startled awake by the sound.
He suddenly raised his eyes, his gaze slowly shifting from the horrific scene before him to the wooden golem still wreaking havoc in the village.
He frowned slightly and turned to look at Izumi beside him.
Someone was comforting Izumi, but the effect was not significant.
"Izumi."
Itachi came in front of Izumi, stopped Sasuke with one hand, and patted Izumi's shoulder with the other hand.
Izumi shrugged subconsciously, and the shadow of the boy gradually condensed in her dull eyes.
"Itachi?"
She was stunned at first, and then began to notice the bloodstains and scratches on Itachi's cheek.
"Are you okay?"
Izumi finally remembered that it was Itachi who pushed her away and saved her at the most critical moment.
She asked with great concern.
Itachi shook his head, lowered his eyes, and glanced at Sasuke in his arms.
"Can you do me a favor?"
Sasuke's swaddle was hanging diagonally on Itachi's body.
He lowered his head slightly and took the swaddle off.
"Take care of Sasuke for me for a while."
Itachi handed the swaddled Sasuke to Izumi, glancing back.
"This location is safe now."
Konoha's shelter was already within sight.
Izumi paused for a moment and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Even as she spoke, because it was Itachi's request, she slowly extended her arms and took Sasuke.
"Wah!"
Sasuke burst into tears once more as soon as he was free from Itachi's arms.
Izumi had never taken care of a child before, so she looked a little flustered.
She followed Itachi's previous position, holding Sasuke tightly in her arms.
Sasuke sobbed uncontrollably, his eyes gazing longingly at Itachi.
Itachi suddenly raised his arm, extended his right index and middle fingers, and gently tapped Sasuke's forehead.
"Alright, Sasuke, be good," he said softly and gently.
"Brother will be back soon."
Sasuke's sobs seemed to have subsided, and Itachi felt a little relieved.
He raised his eyes to Izumi and whispered, "Trust me, this will all be over soon."
With a swish!
After the words fell, Izumi, still looking somewhat stunned, remained where she was, while Itachi's figure had already rushed towards the wooden statue in the village.
The surrounding Konoha ninjas had not expected Itachi to leave so suddenly, and when they tried to stop him, the latter's speed suddenly increased, and he had already swept a long distance.
"Boom!"
The extended Adamantine Staff swept across fiercely before the wooden figure.
Its movements seemed slow, and before it could defend itself, Hiruzen Sarutobi's attack landed heavily on its massive frame.
The wooden figure trembled and fell backward.
"Bang!"
At that moment, a massive figure behind it suddenly leaped from its original position, descending from the sky and bearing down heavily.
"Boom!"
The entire ground of Konoha shook violently.
The wooden figure was crushed, and the ninjutsu concentrated in the five mouths on its forehead was interrupted.
"It has released a large amount of ninjutsu, and its power is beginning to weaken," Jiraiya muttered above Gamabunta, who was crushing the wooden figure.
However, the continued battle with it had consumed Hiruzen and Jiraiya's strength.
"Jiraiya, the time for summoning is about to come," Gamabunta said from below.
If it were just a summoning, Jiraiya's chakra would certainly be able to sustain Gamabunta for a longer time.
However, he had been consuming a significant amount of chakra during this time, significantly shortening the summoning time.
"Bang!"
Gamabunta had barely finished his words when a huge cloud of smoke rose from Jiraiya's feet.
"Damn it, at this very moment!"
Jiraiya gritted his teeth.
Gamabunta vanished, and his body naturally fell.
Simultaneously, freed from Gamabunta's restraint, the wooden figure suddenly rose to its feet and extended its massive hand, striking Jiraiya in mid-air.
In mid-air, Jiraiya had no time to effectively dodge and could only cross his arms across his chest, adopting a defensive stance.
"Clang!"
Suddenly, chains as if forged from iron and steel rose from the wooden figure's surroundings, wrapping themselves around its body and the hand striking Jiraiya.
Seeing this, Jiraiya exclaimed in surprise.
"Kushina!?"
This was a unique ability of the Uzumaki clan.
At the peak of Kushina Uzumaki's power, she could even lock the Nine-Tails within her body with it.
"Ahem."
At the source of the chain, a pale Kushina coughed violently.
She had just given birth to Naruto, and the Nine-Tails had been attacking the seal during the birth, which consumed a large amount of Kushina's chakra.
But even so, Kushina's power was still enough to temporarily restrain the wooden man.
"Minato."
Although others couldn't sense it, Kushina could clearly feel that Minato Namikaze was fighting somewhere in the village.
The man fighting Minato was none other than the black-clad man who had attacked her during childbirth.
That man's chakra aura was also quite astonishing.
All the masters of Konoha were fighting with all their might to stop the wooden man.
Whoosh!
Therefore, no one noticed that a small figure, carefully concealing itself, was approaching here.
...
Swish!
Itachi swiftly approached the location of the wooden figure.
As he drew closer to the area severely damaged by the wooden figure, he saw the bodies of civilians and ninjas tragically dead in the wrecked streets and houses.
He wasn't afraid, but his gaze grew increasingly heavy.
"Chi!"
His dark pupils turned blood red, and a magatama slowly spun within them.
The magatama spun relentlessly, showing no sign of stopping, yet Itachi could sense his strength rapidly draining away.
"It seems this reborn body can produce incredible things."
Itachi raised his palm to his eyes.
As the magatama spun in his vision, the meridians flowing through his arm gradually became clearer.
A look of surprise gradually crossed his face.
Then, Itachi raised his head and gazed at the towering wooden figure before him, muttering to himself.
"Using that power now, with this body, could cause unimaginable damage."
"Butā¦ I can't let it go on like this. I have to find a way to stop it!"
At this distance, and due to certain changes in his body, Itachi could conclude that the masked man's ability to remotely control the wooden figure was due to him channeling his eye power into the ninjutsu.
This method was somewhat similar to the "Sealing Technique: Amaterasu" that Itachi had injected into Sasuke's eyes before his death.
Itachi had previously been able to direct a small amount of his eye power into the summoning beast, the crow, to cast genjutsu.
But even at the peak of his eye power, he couldn't remotely manipulate such a powerful Wood Release ninjutsu.
"You're truly a difficult guy!"
The masked man's image surfaced in his mind.
Only then did he finally understand that the power he had left in Sasuke before his death was incapable of killing him.
Although Itachi's Sharingan now displayed only a single magatama, his insight was astonishingly strong.
Under these circumstances, Kushina, Jiraiya, and the others, who were focused on the wooden figure, were completely oblivious to him.
Soon, he approached the wooden figure.
"How lucky!"
Itachi raised his head, gazing at the wooden figure, temporarily restrained by Kushina's chains.
Otherwise, approaching so rashly, in his current state, would easily put him in danger.
In that case, the method he had in mind would be a catastrophic failure.
No matter how powerful a ninjutsu, without the caster's control, it would only revert to its most primitive form of chakra.
"If it's as I imagine," Itachi murmured softly, gazing at the wooden figure.
"Chi!"
Immediately, his blood-red pupils suddenly swelled, and the black magatama began to spin violently.
As it spun, a gradual pain surged through Itachi's brain.
And then, as the magatama continued to spin, new magatama appeared!
A double magatama Sharingan!
In a moment, Itachi's Sharingan transformed into a double magatama.
But even after the two magatama appeared, the whirling within the blood-red pupils did not cease.
"Sure enough, it's still there!"
The changes in the Sharingan confirmed one thing for Itachi.
His former eye power hadn't vanished after his rebirth!
Otherwise, with his five-year-old body, it would have been impossible for him to awaken the Sharingan to the level of two magatama.
With each evolution of the Sharingan, as its eye power and abilities increased, the energy consumption inevitably increased.
As the two magatama spun, the pain in Itachi's brain grew stronger.
"Whoosh!"
His breathing became rapid, as his current body simply couldn't sustain the energy consumption of the higher-level Sharingan.
This was why Itachi hadn't initially chosen to attempt this from a distance from the wooden figure.
Itachi gritted his teeth, resisting the excruciating pain.
As the Sharingan's power grew, his eyeballs quickly filled with bloodshot.
When the pain reached a certain point, Itachi's eyes changed again.
Within his blood-red eyes, three magatama slowly spun.
As the three-magatama Sharingan appeared, Itachi had no time to experience the surge of his pupil's power.
He shuddered and collapsed to his knees.
With his current condition, barely opening the Sharingan to its three-magatama form was already pushing it to its limit.
His chakra was about to give out.
"I can't stop!"
However, Itachi forcibly maintained this power.
By this time, his chakra had been completely depleted.
As he maintained the three-magatama Sharingan, another wave of pain surged through Itachi's brain, pounding his brain and nearly causing him to faint.
But the horrific scenes he had just witnessed flashed through his mind.
Tears of blood once again streamed from Itachi's eyes, and his face had turned a pale white.
This indicated that if he attempted to forcefully increase his eye power any further, he would likely die.
The tiny body trembled violently, yet Itachi's vision was crystal clear.
"Boom!"
The massive wooden figure struggled mightily, trying to break free from Kushina's restraints.
Within the mouth on its forehead, the power of the five elements once again began to gather.
Standing at the foot of the wooden figure, Itachi couldn't see any of this.
Yet, the same scene replayed itself before his eyes.
"Ahhh!"
Screams echoed in Itachi's ears, and the image of blood and bone flying everywhere filled his vision.
"I've decided to stop this."
"So, I won't let you continue to act recklessly!"
His heart roared loudly, and pain violently assaulted Itachi's brain.
The pain, which would have instantly crushed any ordinary person, couldn't shake Itachi's resolve.
"Chi!"
The three magatama in his blood-red eyes finally connected, forming the shape of the MangekyÅ Sharingan!
"Bang!"
When the MangekyÅ Sharingan appeared, Itachi's brain felt like it had been struck hard.
Forget Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi.
When the MangekyÅ appeared, Itachi felt as if he were torn between life and death.
The aura of death washed over him, yet his heart remained unwavering.
"Stop!"
Itachi suddenly shouted from beneath the wooden figure.
He jerked his head up, and the patterns in the MangekyÅ in his eyes suddenly froze.
A powerful force descended upon the wooden figure.
"Sizzle!"
"Boom!"
The powerful ninjutsu emanating from the wooden figure's mouth suddenly stopped at this moment!
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