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Chi!
The Mangekyo patterns in Shisui's left eye solidified, and his eye power surged into the mechanical figure before him.
Meanwhile, somewhere amidst the rolling hills, within a tree, a dark figure suddenly raised its head in the darkness.
"This feeling," a man's voice, slightly muffled, now filled with terror, said.
"Nagato, what's wrong?"
Then, a concerned woman's voice echoed from the darkness.
"Uchiha Shisui actually cut off my control over the Asura Path!"
"What?"
The woman said, slightly startled.
"If it was just the Asura Path's control, it wouldn't be a big deal, right? But his eye power actually affected my original eye power for a moment."
"Is his eye power that strong?"
The woman exclaimed in shock.
This had never happened before.
"While his eye power was affected, he also dealt with the Deva Path," the man's voice suddenly boomed.
"Yahiko!"
The two people in the darkness cried out excitedly at the same time.
"Konan, bring the Deva Path back immediately," the man said eagerly.
"Hmm!"
the woman replied, then hesitated, "What about Uchiha Shisui?"
"That man actually saw through Pain's secret. While his eye technique can interfere with my true eye power, it must have already consumed a great deal of it."
"We can't let him get away so easily. The power of those Mangekyo Sharingan cannot be underestimated," the man said in a deep voice.
"My true body can't stray too far from Pain. Let your paper clone carry me."
"That's too dangerous!"
The woman argued.
"Better than leaving a serious threat behind. Hurry!"
The man was determined, and the woman couldn't dissuade him.
"Okay, be careful."
As she finished speaking, the tree trunk atop the mountain gradually disintegrated into white origami and drifted away.
Swish!
Between the mountains, Shisui, carrying his only surviving companion on his back, pushed himself to the limit.
He had already seen through the two men fighting him: they were puppets controlled by someone's secret technique.
Although Shisui was curious about the secret technique, he didn't dare take the corpse he'd defeated with him.
He knew the puppeteer was nearby.
If the lingering chakra of the puppeteer could sense his location, it would be disastrous.
The linked magatama patterns in Shisui's eyes slowly faded, returning to a three-magatama shape.
"Have I reached my limit?"
He suddenly felt his body go limp, but he forced himself to hold on and continued his flight.
"I'm afraid that person won't give up just yet." Shisui muttered to himself.
Although he had a special kunai given by the Fourth Hokage, in his current situation, he couldn't quickly send word of his distress back to Konoha.
And he was almost at his limit.
"Right!"
At this critical moment, Shisui suddenly remembered something.
Because both he and Itachi's summoning beasts were crows they had raised, they had each signed a contract with the other.
Shisui formed hand seals with both hands.
Bang!
He extended his arm, and a crow appeared, standing on it.
"I hope he's in Konoha now!"
The magatama in his eyes trembled as he met the crow's eyes.
Outside the capital of the Land of Stone.
The light emitted by the blood obsidian lasted for a long time, and Izumi and Aoki Yui were both attracted by it.
Itachi always felt that something was strange in his heart.
Suddenly, he felt a sense of connection in his heart.
"Teacher Shikaku, I'm not very interested in these. I want to go back first."
Itachi looked at Shikaku beside him and said.
Shikaku had long noticed that Itachi's attention was always distracted, so he nodded.
"Then you all watch for a while, see you tomorrow morning."
Swish!
Before Izumi and Aoki Yui could say anything, Itachi turned into a black shadow and disappeared into the vast darkness.
After leaving Shikaku and the others, Itachi formed hand seals.
Bang!
He summoned a crow.
These crows were raised by Itachi and had signed a contract he had established.
Therefore, whenever their chakra fluctuated, Itachi could sense it.
Chi!
Itachi opened his Sharingan and met the crow's eyes.
Immediately, the crow's eyes transformed into the three-magatama Sharingan.
"What..."
Itachi was stunned.
Someone had imbued the crow's eyes with eye power.
However, injecting eye power into a non-Sharingan host was not something that could be achieved with the ordinary three-magatama eye power.
"Something's happened to Shisui!"
Itachi's crow was only usable by Shisui, so Itachi immediately realized something must have happened to him.
Itachi hadn't seen Shisui for two months before this mission!
Just as Itachi realized the seriousness of the situation and his expression grew serious, the magatama in the crow's eyes trembled, and a stream of information flooded into his mind.
The transfer of consciousness took only a fleeting moment.
After meeting Itachi's eyes for a moment, the Sharingan lines in the crow's eyes vanished.
Itachi's expression froze for a moment, then trembled.
"Shisui's ANBU squad was ambushed by Pain!"
He thought inwardly, horrified.
This Akatsuki leader, whom Itachi had barely even heard of before, had actually attacked Shisui.
Shisui had relayed a message for Itachi to immediately notify the Fourth Hokage.
However, Shisui hadn't anticipated that Itachi was away on a mission in the Land of Stone, a small nation located near the Land of Fire.
Even at the fastest possible speed, relaying the message back to Konoha would take hours.
Clearly, given Shisui's current situation, that was too late.
Itachi's eyes darkened.
Shisui had once been his dearest friend, someone who had once attempted suicide in front of him, yet he was powerless to stop him.
This time, Itachi would not let Shisui die at the hands of Akatsuki.
With this thought in mind, he had already entered the Land of Stone capital and entered his own room.
After a moment of hesitation, Itachi suddenly formed seals with his hands.
Bang!
He summoned two crows, then took out a small scroll from his ninja tool bag and wrote a few words on it.
Then, Itachi closed the scroll and threw it out.
It was caught by a crow in its mouth and swallowed into its stomach.
Swish!
The crow that swallowed the scroll rushed out of the window and flew rapidly in the direction of Konoha, the Land of Fire.
Next, Itachi looked at the other crow.
The magatama in its eye began to spin, and two more magatama were born.
When the Sharingan was opened to the three-magatama form, Itachi's eyes also fell on the crow's eyes.
This crow was not raised by Itachi, but Shisui's summoned beast!
...
Swish!
Shisui, under cover of darkness, sprinted swiftly along the mountainside, darting toward the Land of the Moon's border at the shortest possible distance.
Ahhh!
At that moment, the mountains behind him suddenly rang with the long, whistling cries of birds.
Immediately afterward, a massive shadow swooped down toward Shisui.
He looked up, awestruck to see a giant, bird-like summoned beast in the sky, hurtling toward the mountain where he stood.
"Does the enemy have sensory abilities?"
Shisui gritted his teeth.
His hiding spot was definitely spotless.
The only reason he was discovered so quickly was because there were sensory ninja among the enemy.
With his own sensory ninja already dead, hiding anywhere within a certain radius was meaningless.
Bang!
The giant bird's body crashed directly into the mountain, causing the small massif to collapse and send rocks tumbling down.
Swish!
Shisui dodged repeatedly.
Fortunately, the gaps in the mountains were narrow, and the bird's size made it impossible for it to launch a direct attack.
However, the situation didn't allow Shisui to be optimistic at all.
With his eyes, Shisui could clearly see a figure towering above the giant bird.
The figure was also wearing Akatsuki robes.
However, his eyes were weakened at this moment, so he couldn't see the chakra fluctuations within the figure.
Precisely because of this inability to see, Shisui immediately concluded that this person, like the two earlier figures, was a puppet controlled by someone.
The figure standing atop the giant bird was forming hand seals with its hands.
Shisui's expression was solemn, and at that moment, a sense of connection stirred in his heart.
Immediately, while dodging the bird's attacks, he formed the seal of a summoning beast.
Ah!
A crow appeared before him, its eyes gleaming with the blood-red three-magatama Sharingan.
He was startled slightly, and the crow's eyes met Shisui's.
Bang, bang, bang!
As Shisui paused momentarily, the figure atop the giant bird began to perform hand seals.
Immediately, smoke billowed around him, and three more figures appeared.
They were all clad in black Akatsuki robes embroidered with fire cloud patterns.
Their gazes, filled with gloom, cast a sullen gaze at Shisui, standing directly below.
"Itachi, you...!"
Shisui snapped back from his shock, his muttering a hint of surprise.
Swish!
The four Akatsuki-robed figures atop the bird leaped down, landing on the peaks surrounding Shisui's position.
Shisui glanced at them with his left eye and was shocked to discover that they all possessed the Rinnegan!
Facing the four identically indifferent gazes, Shisui felt a tremor in his heart.
He hesitated for a moment, then formed hand seals with his hands.
Ah, ah, ah!
The hand seals were completed, and several crows appeared beside Shisui.
"That's not his chakra," said the Akatsuki-robed man standing on the hilltop to Shisui's left.
He had long orange hair and a handsome face, but like the two men before him, his body was covered in special black rods.
Just as he saw through the chakra of Shisui's summoned beasts, it wasn't Shisui's own power.
Bang!
The crows suddenly vanished with a bang, a puff of smoke rising in front of Shisui.
"Has it been lifted?"
Asked the man on the other side, who had first soared above the giant bird.
He immediately realized it wasn't the crows' summoning technique that had been lifted.
As the crows vanished, a somewhat short figure appeared before Shisui.
"Reverse Summoning Technique."
The man realized the crows' disappearance was due to the chakra they had previously harbored, the chakra used to perform a certain ninjutsu.
When Shisui summoned the crows, a Reverse Summoning Technique would be activated.
The person who had appeared here using the Reverse Summoning Technique was, of course, Itachi.
Itachi immediately noticed the four figures towering atop the surrounding mountains, and their strange eyes.
Recalling the information Shisui had just relayed through the crow, Itachi pondered for a moment, then glanced at Shisui behind him and asked,
"Are they also puppets controlled by someone, like the ones who besieged you earlier?"
Shisui nodded, then said with a look of guilt, "I'm sorry for dragging you into such a dangerous situation."
"You don't have to apologize. This was my own decision."
Itachi shook his head.
Using the same method Shisui had used to convey his message, he instructed Shisui to summon his crows through summoning.
Itachi had already imbued the crows with enough chakra to perform a Reverse Summoning Technique, allowing him to appear before Shisui.
Shisui stared at the young man before him.
He knew only the Fourth Hokage could turn the tide in such a perilous situation.
But Itachi told Shisui he hadn't been in Konoha.
It would take time for the news to reach Konoha from the Land of Stone, where Itachi was, but Shisui didn't have time to wait.
Under these circumstances, Shisui believed Itachi's words and dragged the ten-year-old, freshly graduated from the ninja academy, into this precarious situation.
Although Shisui had long known of Itachi's many extraordinary qualities, the real catalyst for his decision was Itachi's ability to imbue crows with his eye power.
Even he had only achieved this after awakening his Mangekyo Sharingan, which had increased his eye power.
Although Shisui found it hard to believe, this single point proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Itachi's eye power was no less than his own!
Itachi gazed at the wounded Konoha ANBU ninja on Shisui's back, his eyes darkening slightly.
"Shisui-senpai, your comrade has..."
Shisui felt the stiffness of his comrade's body, and his back, pressed against his body, felt slightly cold.
The ANBU ninja's injuries were too severe; he was dead.
Shisui had never been so oblivious before.
Only after Itachi's reminder did he realize that the last comrade in his squad had also perished.
Shisui's body trembled slightly.
"Are you alright?" Itachi asked.
Shisui slowly lowered his comrade's body from his back, stood up, and looked at Itachi.
Tears streamed down his bloodstained eyes and cheeks.
He could no longer suppress the grief that washed over him, tears streaming down his face.
Yet, not a trace of pain remained on Shisui's face.
"It's alright," he said, knowing that dwelling on grief at this moment was pointless.
If you truly care about your dead companions, then you must stay strong and live on, and bring back the information you have gathered so far to the village!
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