Chương 51: Chapter 51: Transcription Seal
"So that's how it is."
After listening to Kiyoshi's explanation, Tsunade and Shizune felt a sense of enlightenment—but even more, a sense of astonishment.
It was difficult to know what to say about Kiyoshi anymore. As a member of a branch of the Senju clan, awakening the Wood Release was already extraordinary.
But now it seemed his Wood Release surpassed even that of the First Hokage.
To think he could actually steal other people's Kekkei Genkai.
"Tch, you sure have guts…" Tsunade remarked, both impressed and exasperated.
"I don't know exactly what Danzo planned to do with all those Sharingan, but the fact that you managed to steal some under Root's nose, and even took the Uchiha clan's scrolls on jutsu and secret techniques—unbelievable."
"So, Kiyoshi, does that mean you awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan by absorbing those Sharingan?" Shizune, her gaze full of curiosity, couldn't help but ask as she examined his eyes.
"At first, I just wanted to see if absorbing them might awaken my Mangekyo, but I didn't expect the chakra and eye power within those Sharingan to resonate with mine." Kiyoshi shrugged, not hiding anything.
"The remnants of those emotions affected me, and in a powerful surge, I unlocked the Mangekyo Sharingan. When I integrated their power, my abilities further improved."
"I remember that overusing the Mangekyo Sharingan can lead to blindness..." Tsunade said, her tone serious, as she offered a grave warning.
"Listen, Kiyoshi, your Wood Release alone is already a force on par with the Sharingan. Don't become overly reliant on that kind of power."
She didn't harbor any prejudice against him or even the Uchiha.
Power itself, she knew, was neither good nor evil. Everything depended on the person wielding it.
Tsunade's main concern was that he would lose himself in the allure of Mangekyo's power.
"You don't need to worry, Tsunade-sensei. I have no intention of over-relying on the Mangekyo Sharingan…" Kiyoshi felt a warmth inside at her concern, and he smiled.
"With a regular Mangekyo, excessive use would definitely lead to blindness.
But with Wood Release as my Kekkei Genkai and the enhanced eye power I've gained from absorbing multiple Sharingan, I won't suffer that fate. Like Uchiha Madara, I possess the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan."
"Uchiha Madara?"
"The Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan?."
Both Tsunade and Shizune's eyes widened in shock.
"Good," Tsunade finally nodded, feeling slightly reassured.
Knowing about Madara wasn't surprising for Kiyoshi, since he'd taken much of the Uchiha's hidden knowledge and records.
"A person who embodies the powers of both the Senju and Uchiha," She looked at him with awe. "You're truly one of a kind in all of history."
"Yes, indeed…" Shizune nodded, unable to fathom the extent of Kiyoshi's current strength.
If he fully developed, he might even surpass the legendary First Hokage, known as the "God of Shinobi."
"No, Tsunade-sensei," Kiyoshi shook his head slowly, looking at her seriously.
"From what I found in the Uchiha clan's records and their secret techniques, I suspect… there's a chance Uchiha Madara may still be alive."
He needed Tsunade to help him train, so revealing this shocking information now would be necessary to gain her trust.
After all, he had visited Naka Shrine and deciphered the altered inscriptions there, left by Black Zetsu.
"What?"
Tsunade and Shizune both stared at Kiyoshi, their expressions changing dramatically.
"Kiyoshi, you're saying that Uchiha Madara, who was on par with the First Hokage, is still alive? That's impossible…" Shizune gulped, her scalp tingling at the thought.
"Stop joking, Kiyoshi," Tsunade said loudly. "After my grandfather's deathmatch with him, Madara's body was brought back! There's no way he's alive."
After that battle, even her grandfather, the First Hokage, passed away from his injuries. How could Madara, who had been killed in that fight, still be alive?
"Tsunade-sensei, please hear me out," Kiyoshi gently calmed her. "I discovered a technique among the Uchiha's forbidden jutsu known as the 'Transcription Seal.'"
"The Transcription Seal?" Tsunade furrowed her brow.
"It's a technique where the wielder can seal a jutsu into their own or another's eye through eye contact. Once certain conditions are met, the seal releases, activating the jutsu automatically."
"But what does that have to do with Uchiha Madara still being alive?" Shizune asked, perplexed.
Kiyoshi continued, "It ties into the forbidden Uchiha jutsu: Izanagi."
"Izanagi?"
"A forbidden Uchiha technique?"
Both Tsunade and Shizune were startled.
"Izanagi sacrifices a Sharingan to turn anything harmful that happens within a specific time frame into a mere illusion, making it as if it never happened and only keeping beneficial events real." Kiyoshi's tone was frank.
"Even if it's death itself, Izanagi can reverse it."
"What?"
"Even death can be undone?."
Tsunade, a Senju herself, felt her scalp prickle. The idea that the Uchiha possessed such a terrifying jutsu was beyond unsettling.
"Based on my research, Root's leader Danzo likely stole Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan.
His right arm emits a strange chakra and may have been implanted with the First Hokage's cells, along with other Sharingan.
He must have mastered this forbidden jutsu and has been scheming to eliminate the Uchiha clan to secure a supply of eyes for backup."
"That bastard Danzo," Tsunade's face darkened as Kiyoshi spoke, realizing the threat Root and Danzo posed.
"Wait, Kiyoshi," Shizune raised her hand, half in disbelief. "Are you suggesting that Madara could've used the Transcription Seal to preemptively embed Izanagi in his eyes?"
"But that's just a hypothesis, isn't it?" Tsunade said, her brows knitted.
"After all, to prevent anyone from obtaining Madara's power, my grandfather ordered his body destroyed by the Second Hokage."
Even as she spoke, her heart skipped a beat. Tsunade knew her great-uncle, Tobirama, well.
He'd never resisted the temptation to study forbidden jutsu, and it was possible he'd kept Madara's body for research.
"That, I'm not certain of," Kiyoshi said, spreading his hands.
"But Madara might have set up some unique mechanism. Perhaps if anyone tampered with his body, the Transcription Seal would activate automatically."
"However," he looked at Tsunade earnestly, "I'm not making baseless guesses, Tsunade-sensei."
"I found an ancient stone tablet in Naka Shrine that only the Sharingan's power can decipher. The more powerful the eye, the more of the inscription one can read."
"A stone tablet that requires the Sharingan to read?"
Tsunade and Shizune were taken aback.
"It's said to have been left by the Sage of the Six Paths, the founder of Ninshu," Kiyoshi explained, half-truthfully.
"It records how a divine being split Yin and Yang into two poles, and when those two poles reunite, all things in the world will come to be."
"To me, the extremes of Yin and Yang represent the Uchiha's Sharingan and the First Hokage's Wood Release. If these two forces combined, one might attain the power of the Sage of the Six Paths."
"Wait, the Sage of the Six Paths?" Tsunade's shock deepened.
Both Tsunade and Shizune's hearts raced, eyes wide with disbelief.
"I'm not sure if it's true," Kiyoshi shrugged.
"But as the Uchiha leader, Madara would surely have deciphered the tablet.
And considering his many defeats against the First Hokage, it's possible he pretended to lose just to prepare for a future battle."
Tsunade felt a chill as she listened to Kiyoshi's analysis, cold sweat forming on her brow.
"Could it be… that he's still alive?"
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Chương 52: Chapter 52: Infinite Tsukuyomi?
"By the way, that night, there was a masked guy who helped Itachi slaughter the rest of the Uchiha clan!"
Seeing that Tsunade was beginning to believe him, Kiyoshi added, "One of my Wood Clones overheard a conversation between Itachi and this masked man. Itachi called him Madara."
"What?"
Shizune, standing beside them, was utterly stunned.
Could Uchiha Madara—the man once renowned as a ruthless shinobi in the ninja world—still be alive?
"Are you telling me you actually saw a man claiming to be Madara Uchiha that night?" Tsunade's shock was written all over her face as she stared intensely at Kiyoshi.
"You brat, why didn't you say this sooner!"
Kiyoshi shrugged. "His chakra wasn't weak, but I doubt he's the real Madara. Most likely, he's some guy hiding behind Madara's reputation, pulling strings."
"No… maybe not," Tsunade's expression shifted.
She recalled Kiyoshi's logical reasoning and thought about the incident eight years ago that forced the Fourth Hokage to sacrifice himself to contain the Nine-Tails.
The Third Hokage had once told her that someone attacked Kushina, the Fourth Hokage's wife, just as she was giving birth.
Taking advantage of her weakened state and the instability of the seal, the attacker released the Nine-Tails and controlled it with the Sharingan.
With suspicions falling squarely on the Uchiha, even their annihilation didn't yield any solid answers. At the time, Shisui and Itachi were too young to be the masterminds.
So, could it truly have been Madara?
Driven by hatred for the First Hokage, it would make sense for Madara to exact revenge.
"I've heard that before parting ways with the First Hokage, Madara wanted to lead the Uchiha clan away from Konoha. But, having found peace, they didn't want to follow him," Tsunade said with a deep frown.
"To someone as proud as Madara, that rejection must have felt like a betrayal.
He's probably harbored that resentment all these years, making the idea of him destroying the Uchiha clan not so far-fetched."
The world of ninjutsu is filled with endless, strange techniques. If anyone could prolong their life, it would be Madara Uchiha.
Even if he did survive until now, his strength would likely have diminished. But with his overwhelming power, he wouldn't need schemes.
No one in Konoha could stand in his way if he were truly at full strength.
"But it doesn't matter whether that man truly is Madara or not." Tsunade pushed down the shock she felt, trying to regain her composure.
"We can't do anything about it right now."
It was best to leave such matters to Hiruzen. Even if Madara were alive, she lacked the means to take any real action.
And even if she tried warning those in power, those corrupted by authority, like Danzo, would never listen and might even treat her as alarmist.
If Kiyoshi's abilities were exposed, those same people would likely target him, especially the scheming Danzo.
"Anyway, even if you're training, do you really have to push yourself this hard?" she scolded him.
The possibility of Madara's survival was unsettling. A man as dangerous as him could be plotting anything from the shadows.
Knowing Madara, he would never accept losing his power willingly.
And then, there was that stone tablet Kiyoshi mentioned—the one in the Uchiha clan's Naka Shrine, supposedly left by the Sage of Six Paths.
The idea of Madara returning to his full power was terrifying. But if anyone could stop him, it might just be Kiyoshi, his Uchiha and Senju bloodline made him bound for greatness.
She couldn't even imagine how far Kiyoshi might go. Perhaps he really could attain the divine powers described on that tablet.
"I have no choice, Lady Tsunade," Kiyoshi replied seriously. "I need to push myself… because the Uchiha tablet holds even more shocking information!"
"More shocking information?" Tsunade and Shizune's eyes widened with surprise.
Kiyoshi explained, "According to the tablet, combining the powers of Senju and Uchiha can awaken god-like abilities.
Anyone who brings together all the tailed beasts by summoning the Gedo Statue could revive the Ten-Tails and become its Jinchuriki.
Then they'd be able to cast Infinite Tsukuyomi, trapping the entire ninja world in a dream to achieve true peace."
"What? The Gedo Statue? The Ten-Tails? Infinite Tsukuyomi?" Tsunade and Shizune were visibly shaken, their faces pale with horror.
Kiyoshi shrugged, "If it's a dream, people could have whatever they want, feeling satisfied within it.
For some people, given the choice, they might prefer Infinite Tsukuyomi's dream world, where everything feels real, and all desires and ambitions are fulfilled."
"Using Infinite Tsukuyomi to put the whole world into a dream is not peace!" Tsunade snapped, frustrated.
But then, with a stern expression, she turned to Kiyoshi, "Don't tell me you believe that to be true peace?"
If Kiyoshi had indeed been swayed by the tablet's words, things would become very troublesome. At his age, his mind was impressionable and easily influenced.
"Of course not," Kiyoshi replied without hesitation, looking straight into Tsunade's eyes. "I'm no savior. I only want to keep you,Tsunade-sensei, and those who care for me safe."
The intensity in his gaze was unwavering as he said, "But… not everyone sees it that way."
"Are you referring to Madara?"
Both Tsunade and Shizune felt a chill as they realized the gravity of what Kiyoshi was saying. If Kiyoshi could decipher the tablet, then Madara certainly could as well.
Having endured the chaotic Warring States period and helped the First Hokage establish Konoha, Madara might have turned to the tablet's plan if he had grown disillusioned with the constant wars.
"Is that why you're pushing yourself so hard?" Tsunade finally asked, her voice quiet, eyes focused on Kiyoshi.
This boy, so young, was bearing all of this alone?
"Yes… and no," Kiyoshi said firmly. "Please forgive me, Tsunade-sensei. I'm no hero. I only want to protect those I care about."
"You brat, thinking so far ahead…" Tsunade muttered, knocking him lightly on the head.
But in the next moment, she pulled him into a fierce hug, holding his head against her chest, her eyes glistening with tears of gratitude.
She knew she was one of the people he wanted to protect.
Shizune, standing beside them with a warm smile, sensed that she, too, was part of that circle of care.
"I understand. Next time you train, make sure to tell me," Tsunade said, looking down at him with fondness. "It's too dangerous to do it alone."
"Alright, Tsunade-nee but can you let go? I can't breathe!" Kiyoshi protested, both in discomfort and joy.
No doubt about it, her embrace was indeed overwhelming in every sense of the word.
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