"Let's dance."
The moment the words left his lips, Kadoya surged forward like a bolt of lightning. The nearest Uchiha shinobi barely had time to react before he was sent flying, crashing into a wall with a thud.
The fight erupted instantly. The remaining Uchiha didn't hesitate; they rushed him all at once, their Sharingan eyes flaring to life.
But Kadoya wasn't fazed.
Harnessing his Hamon-infused strength, sharp-taijutsu, and the battle instincts from the other soul within him, he met them head-on. Surrounded by thirty-seven Uchiha shinobi, he stood tall, calm, and unshaken.
He twisted into a spinning kick, his leg extending with precise force, smashing into one man's jaw and sending him sprawling. Ducking low under a kunai swipe, Kadoya planted his hand on the ground and flared his body in a wide arc, both feet slamming into ribs and stomachs like battering rams.
He flipped back to his feet with flawless grace. His eyes scanned the chaos around him.
One came too close, Kadoya's hand shot out, grabbed the man's wrist, and slammed him to the ground with a brutal judo throw. As another charged, Kadoya's heel smashed into his face mid-turn, breaking the momentum of the others.
With a Blink, he repositioned instantly, reappearing just in time to drive an uppercut into another attacker's chin, then launched into a backflip, his heel crashing down in an axe kick on another's skull.
Summoning his Water Blade, he intercepted a flurry of kunai, his movements sharp and deliberate. He let the edge graze his enemies on purpose, carving shallow cuts across their skin. Scars, not fatal wounds, but a message:
I could've ended you.
He followed up with an elbow strike, cracking ribs, then jumped and delivered the iconic Uchiha Double Side Kick, smashing two faces in one motion.
A volley of kunai and shuriken flew toward him. Kadoya flipped back, evading effortlessly. As he landed, he clapped his hands together, creating his water shuriken before throwing it back, his hand blurred through seals.
"Water Style: Water Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Massive water shuriken rained down on his opponents, crashing like cannonballs. As they scattered, Kadoya launched into a triple spin kick, cracking into one ninja's jaw, then springboarded off the dazed man's face to drive a knee into another.
Watching from a distance, both Fumo and Setsuna stood frozen, wide-eyed and pale. Every motion, every strike Kadoya made reminded them of one name, one terrifying memory.
Madara Uchiha.
Suddenly, five Uchiha formed a line.
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
The night lit up with roaring flame, five massive fireballs surged toward him, the heat rippling through the air.
Kadoya didn't flinch.
He calmly pulled out a scroll and unfurled it with a flick of his wrist.
A roaring surge of water exploded from the seal, drowning the incoming flames and extinguishing them instantly. The battlefield was flooded, streets, rooftops, walls, all soaked as water crashed through the area.
Nearby homes groaned under the sudden wave.
The shinobi stood soaked and gasping, steam rising around them from the clash of fire and water.
Kadoya stepped forward slowly, each movement deliberate, his black sandals splashing lightly in the shallow flood.
He glanced down at the dazed group of Uchiha shinobi, once proud, now coughing and soaked.
A faint chuckle escaped his lips.
"I'm impressed you didn't all choke and die on me. That would've been disappointing... wouldn't it?"
He looked up, past the battered fighters, toward the stunned Uchiha elders watching from afar, and smiled.
Such powerful Water Release... damn it! Are you even an Uchiha at this point!? Are you sure your name is Kadoya Uchiha and not Kadoya Senju? Were those rumors about your mother actually true?
Right now, many of the beaten Uchiha have random thoughts like those, but none of them dare to say it out loud. What good would that do?
Can't you see they have already been beaten? Speaking out now would only earn them a longer stay in the Konoha Hospital.
They obviously didn't expect Kadoya Uchiha, a 9 to 10-year-old boy who hasn't even graduated from the Ninja Academy, to beat up all of the Uchiha ninjas from the Hawk Faction.
Is this really the level of an Academy Student?
Are Genin these days so powerful that they knock down Chunin and bully Jonin while having time to dance?
Obviously not, Kadoya is anything but regular, something that is already well established in the Ninja School.
With Kadoya's base strength already reaching Chunin to Jonin Level, adding his cheats, even Kage Level opponents have to worry when facing him.
Without Water Release or Senjutsu, they couldn't even dream of harming him.
"Indeed... it seems the Uchiha Clan may have overlooked a true genius." Setsuna's voice remained calm, but a flicker of unease danced behind his eyes. Still, he wasn't ready to give up, not on the idea of forging Kadoya into a weapon aimed at Konoha itself.
"However," he continued, his Sharingan spinning into full Three-Tomoe, locking eyes with the younger Uchiha who stood across from him, smiling without a care in the world, "you're still far too green to challenge me, boy."
"Wanna test that out?" Kadoya's reply was smooth, laced with venom. His smile twisted, growing wide, sharp... unnatural. The more one stared at it, the more it felt wrong.
Suddenly, cracks spread across Kadoya's face, thin, eerie fissures crawling down like a porcelain doll breaking apart. One ran through his left eye… then, disturbingly, the eye shifted, sliding along the crack and repositioning itself as if it no longer obeyed the anatomy of a human body.
'Genjutsu?' Setsuna's eyes narrowed. His hands instinctively moved to form the release seals, but something was off.
'Why... why did my leg move?' His Sharingan spun faster. He willed his hands to move, but his legs twitched instead. He tried turning his head, only for it to tilt upward without his consent.
His limbs no longer obeyed him.
His breath hitched. His lungs weren't filling properly. He tried to speak, but his vocal cords refused to cooperate. Panic set in, not just in body, but in mind.
Around them, the other Uchiha stared, frozen. They had fought Kadoya earlier. They had seen what he could do. And now, watching Setsuna, the elder of the Hawk Faction, one of the most feared in the clan, struggling to breathe.
They chose silence. None dared intervene, they didn't dare test their luck.
So what if he was a clan elder? So what if he led a powerful faction?
They weren't stupid enough to walk into that monster's genjutsu.
Setsuna fell to his knees, trembling. Every breath sounded wrong. His eyes darted wildly, his mind screaming as his body betrayed him.
Kadoya simply stepped forward, looked down at the kneeling man, and let out a cold chuckle.
"It hasn't even been a minute... and you already look like you're shitting yourself."
His voice dripped with mockery. But behind the smirk, there was something worse: amusement.
The kind you only saw on a predator toying with prey.
Reverse Control Lapse, a genjutsu born from Kadoya's twisted understanding of human nature and the fragility of the mind.
Unlike traditional illusions that cloud perception or alter the senses, this technique embedded a command structure, a coded override, directly into the victim's brain. It didn't just distort their reality; it rewired their very motor functions.
The result?
Total neural disarray.
Under the influence of Reverse Control Lapse, the victim's body began betraying them in the most disorienting way possible: reversed response. Attempt to look up, and your head tilts down. Try to raise your left arm, and your left leg lifts instead. Turning left forces your body to turn right. Even blinking might trigger an unintended muscle spasm elsewhere.
Every instinct, every learned movement, flipped.
This wasn't just disorienting. It was crippling.
In such a state, even basic mobility became a challenge. Coordinating chakra to break free was near-impossible, as the mind fought against the body's false feedback. It was like asking someone to relearn how to walk, while on fire, while under attack.
And if a shinobi couldn't even stand straight, how could they hope to fight?
And whether this was intentional or not, if the victim possessed the Sharingan, the moment they tried to use those eyes to understand and try to break the genjutsu, they would end up learning the new setting place on their body.
And once they adjusted to it and broke the genjutsu, they would have to relearn how to control their body again.
As expected of Tobirama Uchiha, using the Uchiha's Sharingan against them.
Kadoya simply ignores the kneeling old man in front of him before narrowing his gaze toward Fumo, the current Clan Head.
The moment their eyes met, Fumo flinched, seeing Kadoya's calm smile as he slowly approached him.
"Is this the new pride of the Uchiha? Having thirty-seven ninjas facing off against an academy student?" He said in his usual mocking tone.
"My apology, this is my negligence as Clan Head, Kadoya-sama." The old fox said begrudgingly before kneeling down on one knee.
Although this was humiliating, he couldn't make his own force attack Kadoya. In terms of taijutsu, they just saw him beat up thirty-seven shinobi like he was dancing not too long ago, and it looks like he could go for another round or two, their fire ninjutsu is completely useless against a Water Release user like him, and genjutsu... Looking at the kneeling Setsuna struggling to breathe, they quickly dismissed those thoughts.
"Pathetic." Kadoya's voice cut through the silence like a blade.
"The Uchiha are a warrior clan. As Clan Head, you should have full command, not scraps of loyalty and fractured authority." His gaze swept across the injured shinobi clutching their ribs and bloodied faces, each one a testament to the chaos within the clan. "If you can't lead... then step down."
His crimson cape billowed in the wind, painting a stark contrast against the moonlit battlefield. With slow, measured steps, he turned his back on the broken elders and shinobi alike.
"If the Uchiha continue down this path, it's only a matter of time before one of you fools drags us into ruin."
He stopped beside Fumo and calmly placed a hand on his shoulder, his voice soft but absolute.
"From this day forward, leadership of the Uchiha will change."
He turned again to face the gathering crowd, young, old, loyalist, skeptic. All of them.
"The Uchiha will no longer be a clan of whispers and shadows. We will have a voice among the village's higher powers. Starting now, I will assume the role of Clan Head."
Gasps rippled through the crowd, but Kadoya raised his voice before anyone could speak.
"If you're dissatisfied, you're welcome to raise your blade and challenge me for it." His eyes glinted, cold, unyielding. "If you truly believe you have what it takes to save this withering clan... then step forward."
"Just don't come crawling to me when it all falls apart, begging for salvation."
With that, Kadoya turned and walked away without another glance.
He had said what needed to be said. His claim was clear. Whether the Uchiha followed or resisted, that was their choice. But one thing was certain, he would not beg for their loyalty.
And as he vanished into the distance, many among the older generation could not shake the haunting image now etched in their minds: the silhouette of Madara Uchiha, once again walking away from the clan he sought to save… now mirrored in the back of the young man they had all underestimated.
Congratulations!
Quest Complete: "Dance With The Uchiha!"
Hidden Quest Complete: "My Clan Won't Fall: Act 2: New Clan Head!"
Title Unlocked: [Uchiha Clan Head], [Dancing Uchiha]
Reward: + 6 System Points + 2 Sharingan Level + Skill: Dancing Mastery + Sensoo hata: Uchiha War Flag
After returning home, Kadoya looked at his system reward with a smirk.
Damn, if he knew dancing with the Uchiha would earn him such rewards, Kadoya might have dragged the Uchiha off to dance a couple more time.
"Hmmm, now that I think about it. I could open up a Dance Club in Konoha once the war ends... or a Crematorium." He began speaking nonsense.
Although he is now the Clan Head of the Uchiha and the Uzumaki, his first order of business is to bring the two Clans together, forming a relationship similar to the Ino-Shika-Cho.
Although there aren't many Uzumaki left, Kadoya is confident that with the help of his system, the butterfly effect created by him, he could at least keep the Uzumaki Clan from being reduced to a single digit number.
This was a promise he made with Mito that he would keep the Uzumaki Clan from dying.
Kadoya recalled that there are more female Uzumaki than male Uzumaki left in this world. If force comes to shove, Kadoya might have to make Minato and Kushina breed a few more Uzumaki.
As for him? Kadoya already considers himself a bad person. How could those innocent, kind-hearted Uzumaki girls ever be interested in someone with a dim heart like him?
With their Kagura Mind Eyes letting them see into people's chakra, the chance of them having any interest in a dark person like him was close to zero.
The Uchiha... they got in his way, so he decided to deal with them sooner rather than later.
Now then... the most important part of the day.
Kadoya quickly performed a 10x roll.
Congratulations! [New!] Millennium Ring, [New!] Water Style: Water Jet, [New!] Dark Plate, Blank Summoning Contract, [New!] Crafting System, [New!] Mirror Attribute: Unlocked, [New!] Ninja Art: Fake Out, [New!] Master Cook Book, Ninja Art: Blink, [New!] Drink Mixer Mastery, [New!] Giant Spoon