Chapter 166: Awakening the Sharingan? A Mutated Dōjutsu!
March 18, Konoha Year 48.
After finishing his morning training with Uzumaki Ina and Shizune, Kinoshita Genichi ate breakfast as usual and then created numerous shadow clones to begin his various training regimens. For him, this had already become a habit. He would create the clones every day, and in the evening, he would dispel them and sort through their memories, adjusting the allocation for the next day based on their progress.
Even though he possessed a vast amount of chakra and could create a large number of clones at once, there was a limit to training with them, especially when considering the longevity and quality of the training. This was not a chakra issue, but a mental one. Therefore, the number of clones he created for training each day was generally kept at nine. This number could be maintained year-round without causing any mental fatigue or sudden negative impact on his main body's combat ability.
After creating the clones, Genichi went out and headed to his teacher Sakumo Hatake's house to act as a sparring partner. With his left arm restored, Sakumo also needed time to adapt, and even to develop the arm's new abilities. He wasn't trying to master Wood Release, but the White Zetsu cells in his arm brought not only regenerative abilities; as time went on and the fusion rate increased, his strength and chakra reserves were also greatly enhanced. For Sakumo, this could be the foundation for reaching a new level. So, for the past few days, Genichi had come over as a sparring partner to help his teacher develop his ability to use a sword with his left hand, as he himself was skilled with dual blades.
After the morning sparring session and lunch, during his break, Genichi sat cross-legged on his bed. It was time for the most important event of the day.
Activating his 'cheat'.
The panel in his mind exploded into a brilliant ball of purple light. Genichi's mind went blank, but just before it did, he repeatedly conveyed a single thought to the ability.
An instant later, his consciousness returned. His body and memory had not changed, but a large amount of information had appeared on the panel.
It really works! Genichi was secretly delighted.
The 'overdraft' panel had been controllable from the beginning. For example, it had initially been just a ball of light, later taking on the form of a panel, and was named by his own consciousness. It could have been called the "Future Advance Panel" or something similar; the function would have been the same.
And this 'cheat' had, by default, eliminated all unfavorable factors from the future. That is, negative things like injuries from the future would not be brought back to the present. This meant that he could selectively accept things from the future.
Today was his first attempt. Looking at the information on the panel, Genichi made his selections, and only then did he confirm.
The panel once again exploded into a ball of purple light. His consciousness went blank again, and a current passed through his body, causing a heaven-and-earth-shattering change in an instant.
At that moment, his Primordial Spirit Secret Technique could not be maintained. The soul body collapsed and re-merged tightly with his physical body. The Art of Pyo he had been maintaining also collapsed.
When his consciousness returned, the first thing he felt was: So strong!
His body was filled with a surging power. Even without the enhancement of the Art of Pyo, the activity of his cells was astonishing.
This level… Genichi silently sensed the new version of his body. "My normal cell activity is almost half that of a White Zetsu's."
White Zetsu cells were created by infusing Hashirama's cells into ordinary people who had been assimilated by the God Tree. Their cell activity, or life force, and Yang Release power were inferior to Hashirama's. That was why Madara had called them inferior products. But even inferior products were very powerful. In the original timeline, Obito, with a non-eternal Mangekyō, had used it like an eternal one. No, it was even stronger. After all, even with an eternal eye, someone like Sasuke, without Hashirama's cells, couldn't sustain a large consumption of chakra.
And compared to Hashirama's cells, his were probably at about one-eighth of their level. "Just calculating from cell activity and life force, my current chakra should only be one-eighth of the First Hokage's. But my chakra already completely surpasses the Eight-Tails."
This comparison showed just how terrifying Hashirama's chakra was. Eight times might not sound like much, but it depended on the base.
"But for me, reaching, and even surpassing, Hashirama is just a matter of time," Genichi said with a broad smile.
This overdraft was another full ten years. From age 12 to 22, he was in the absolute prime of his physical growth. He had fully cashed in on the potential brought by his previously mastered Kekkei Genkai, and with the continuous influence of the Tailed Beast power, his chakra reserves had surpassed the Eight-Tails in one fell swoop.
Currently, in the ninja world, apart from Nagato and the Nine-Tails, he believed that no one had more chakra than him. Not even Kushina. As for Madara, he was old and frail; he definitely couldn't compare. If it were Madara in his youth, then there would be no comparison at all. In terms of chakra volume, Madara was no less than Hashirama. Otherwise, their great battle wouldn't have exhausted Hashirama to that extent.
Of course, it wasn't very accurate to judge chakra volume solely based on cell activity and life force. So, Genichi felt that Hashirama's chakra reserves were at least eight times his current amount.
Awesome! Hashirama was, after all, the strongest person below the Sage of Six Paths. Madara, without the Rinnegan, was no match for him, and even with the complete Nine-Tails, he had still lost. His stamina was unfathomable.
However, cell activity and life force could be used to measure the power of one's Yang Release. In other words, the foundation of his Yang Release had been elevated by a huge margin.
What was the reason? It was definitely not related to his many Kekkei Genkai. It also had nothing to do with Hashirama's cells; the future Genichi had indeed transplanted them, but he had just rejected that result from the future.
Then the result was obvious. The Art of Pyo.
By maintaining the Art of Pyo for a long time, keeping his cells in a highly active state, with sufficient nutrition and during his body's growth period, he could gradually make his cells solidify this state. It could be said to be a way to indirectly deepen his Yang Release nature transformation. This was also one of the reasons he had just rejected the transplanted cells—to verify this point.
"In that case…" Genichi formed hand seals, and the Art of Pyo, which had been dispelled by the power-up, was cast again. His whole body's cell activity rose once more.
"Hmm, it's about the same state as a White Zetsu's cell now," he nodded with great satisfaction.
Next, he would continue to persist, year after year, using the Art of Pyo to maintain high cell activity, even if it consumed a huge amount of chakra. In any case, the Tailed Beast chakra constantly leaking from the Eight Trigrams Seal was enough to supply the cells. This was completely sufficient for the daily consumption of the technique.
As for self-healing, as long as he didn't encounter an extremely brutal battle, Genichi was confident he wouldn't need it. Although self-healing was a good ability, it cost life force.
"Genichi, Shizune and I have a mission. We're going to the Land of Grass," Ina's voice came.
"The Land of Grass?" Genichi got up and went out.
Ina nodded. "Yes. Lady Tsunade is leading the team personally. The fighting there is intense. I hear the Hidden Grass Village has allied with Iwagakure."
"I see," Genichi said. "Let's go, I'll walk you out."
Konoha wanted to swallow the piece of meat that was the Land of Grass, so of course, the Hidden Grass Village was unwilling. It was inevitable that they would side with Iwa. However, when Iwa had launched a surprise attack on the Land of Fire from the Land of Grass before, the Grass had pretended to be dead, which had earned them Konoha's secret hatred. If Konoha had been short on troops, it would have been one thing, but now, in order to unify the internal voices and end the war as soon as possible, Hiruzen had decided to make an example of them.
This was the tragedy of a small country and a small ninja village. From their perspective, staying neutral was the correct choice. Getting involved in the war, without the strength of a village like the Rain, would only lead to a miserable death. But Genichi's allegiance was with Konoha. The Hidden Grass? Let them die.
Downstairs, Tsunade and Shizune were also there.
"Genichi!" Shizune waved, very happy.
Tsunade glanced at him, a little puzzled. "You… seem a little different."
Ina and Shizune were taken aback, then they looked at him carefully. He didn't seem different.
Ina secretly sensed his chakra and was shocked. "It seems so. Genichi, your chakra feels… feels as warm as the morning sun. It feels warmer and more intense than before."
"It's cell activity," Tsunade said. "Your Yang Release has improved?"
Genichi smiled and nodded. "I had a bit of a breakthrough. And it proves that the method I mentioned before works."
"I know," Tsunade nodded. "When the war is over, I will devote all my efforts to developing that jutsu." Because of the war, the Strength of a Hundred Seal had not yet been developed.
Genichi walked them to the village gate. After watching them leave with the other reinforcements, he went home. The war situation was intense, but because of Madara, both he and Minato had been kept in the village and had not been sent to the battlefield for the time being. The deterrent power of Madara was immense.
Back home, Genichi continued to take stock of his gains. The change in his body was the foundation and the point he valued most at the moment. Without a sufficiently strong body, no matter how powerful the ninjutsu, its power could not be unleashed.
After his body, he turned his attention to his soul. Inside the Yin Seal, his Primordial Spirit re-formed.
"It is indeed stronger, but the change is not as great as the physical one." He frowned slightly. His proficiency in Yin Release had improved quite a bit, and the strengthening of his body could also feed back into his soul. So difficult. He sighed to himself, but for now, he could only rely on time to slowly grind it out.
"Perhaps I shouldn't just rely on Yin Release?" he wondered. Yin alone cannot be born, and Yang alone cannot grow. "I'll try it later." After making a mental note, his Primordial Spirit looked at his own right eye.
The three-tomoe Sharingan still had not transformed, although the feeling of wanting to erupt was even stronger, and its dōjutsu power had reached an astonishing level. It was clear that his previous speculation—that physical and spiritual power, and the deepening of his Yin Release, would naturally cause the Sharingan to evolve and awaken the Mangekyō—was incorrect.
The root of the problem was that Yin Release itself was extremely profound and extensive, and the Yin nature transformation required by the Sharingan was clearly unique. And even the Yin Release mastered by each Uchiha was different, which could be verified by the different Mangekyō dōjutsu.
Fortunately, these "ten years" had not been without gains. He had been learning the nature transformation hidden within his right eye, and with the addition of the future ten years, he wouldn't say he had completely comprehended it, but he had gotten about 70-80% of it. He still had no clue about the Mangekyō, but…
Genichi looked at his own left eye. He was going to try to awaken the Sharingan himself.
With a thought, a stream of Yin-natured chakra, different from his own normal Yin Release, appeared in his brain and then acted on the optic nerve of his left eye. The highly active cells of the optic nerve naturally "ate" this chakra. Yin and Yang combined, and the optic nerve immediately began to change.
"Hiss…" A sharp pain shot through him, and he immediately squeezed his left eye shut. When the pain subsided, he opened it. At first, it was a little blurry, but it quickly adapted, and then everything became incredibly clear. This feeling was the same as the Sharingan.
No.
"There's a clearer, more thorough feeling. And dynamic vision…"
Genichi quickly got up and went to the bathroom, looking at himself in the mirror.
"This is…" He froze.
In the mirror, his right eye was a three-tomoe Sharingan, the blood-red light almost overflowing from the socket. Its dōjutsu power was far greater than the Fugaku Uchiha he had seen before. But the key was his left eye. It also had three tomoe, but its base was not blood-red. It was… ice-blue, like a transparent, ice-blue mirror, clear and bright. It was completely different from his right eye, with no hint of evil, giving off a sense of clarity.
"Has it mutated?" He was very surprised, and then delighted. His future self had been focused on deciphering the dōjutsu power of the Sharingan, so he hadn't tried this. He hadn't expected such a result. Was this still the Sharingan?
He turned and left the bathroom, went back to his bedroom, and took out his own original right eye, swapping it with Namiichi's. This time, his right eye naturally transformed to be the same as his left.
He carefully sensed the power of these new eyes. He could see the chakra flowing in the meridians of his body. He had dynamic vision. And his eyesight had also been greatly improved; he could perceive extremely subtle things, a bit like a microscope. But it didn't have the clairvoyance or telescopic ability of the Byakugan. And the copying ability…
"Huh?" he let out a sound of surprise.
Swoosh!
He vanished from the bedroom and reappeared in the Konoha Hospital. He went to Kakashi's room. Obito and Rin weren't there. Kakashi was reading a book: The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Ninja, published by Jiraiya.
Genichi wasn't interested in that. He grabbed the unreacting Kakashi and vanished from the room.
"Genichi, what's going on?" In the wilderness, Kakashi, still holding his book, was a little confused.
"I brought you out to test a new jutsu," he smiled.
"A new jutsu? Did you develop a new genjutsu?" Kakashi's interest was piqued. He closed the book with his left hand, put it in his pocket, and said, "Let's try it."
Genichi closed and opened his eyes, and his ice-blue Sharingan activated.
"This… is this the Sharingan?" Kakashi was stunned. "Wait, why has your right eye changed too?" he couldn't help but exclaim.
"A little something I gained from researching the Sharingan," Genichi explained simply.
"You… you awakened it yourself!" Kakashi's eyes widened even more. This was simply unbelievable.
"The Third and Fourth Kazekage developed Magnet Release by researching the One-Tail," Genichi smiled. "The Third Tsuchikage learned Dust Release from his teacher, the Second. I researched the Sharingan and developed a mutated Sharingan. It's very reasonable, right? You need to change your way of thinking, Kakashi. Don't think of Kekkei Genkai as too complicated."
"You make everyone else look so stupid," Kakashi said helplessly.
"You can't blame me for that," Genichi spread his hands, then quickly said, "Alright, the test begins. Use your Raikiri."
Kakashi nodded. He raised his left arm, and lightning began to spark in his hand, quickly intensifying until it was like a ball of lightning. Genichi's eyes were fixed on him, his ice-blue pupils noticeably brighter.
The next moment, before Kakashi's eyes, Genichi's form silently changed… into another version of him with both arms.
"A unique transformation jutsu?" Kakashi sniffed. "Even the scent is the same."
Genichi looked down at himself, then touched his mask. A transformation jutsu? No, it was a mirror copy. It was different from the Uchiha's three-tomoe Sharingan's copying ability.
He raised his right hand. The next moment, to Kakashi's astonishment, lightning began to spark.
Raikiri!
"Genichi, I remember you haven't mastered the Lightning Release nature transformation," Kakashi said, shocked. "And the Sharingan's copying ability, although it can copy ninjutsu other than secret techniques and Kekkei Genkai, the prerequisite for using them is that you have to have mastered that nature transformation." Because of Obito, he now knew a lot about the Sharingan.
Genichi looked at the lightning in his hand, also very pleasantly surprised. "That is indeed true. But my copy is a mirror copy. You should know about the Water Mirror Technique, right?"
"A water jutsu you copied from the Mist," Kakashi said, dispelling his Raikiri. "It can create an identical copy of an opponent, including the ninjutsu they use."
"So, is this similar to the Water Mirror Technique?"
Genichi nodded. "Yes." But it was also different. The Water Mirror Technique was a one-time use. But he could maintain this state. And…
Genichi dispelled the Raikiri, then reverted from the mirror state. After a moment of concentration, he raised his right hand, and a brilliant flash of lightning once again appeared.
Raikiri!
"It retained the information from the previous mirror state?" Kakashi's pupils constricted. "This is… unbelievable!"
Genichi himself was also quite surprised. After dispelling the Raikiri, he couldn't help but touch his own eyes. These mutated eyes seemed to be stronger than the Sharingan.
The Sharingan's copying ability could not copy a chakra nature transformation. This was why it couldn't copy Kekkei Genkai and secret techniques, because a Kekkei Genkai was a completely new nature transformation, and even if the principle was laid out before you, it was very difficult to learn. Secret techniques, or hiden, were also different from conventional nature transformations. For example, the Akimichi clan's Expansion Jutsu was also an application of Yang Release, but it was completely different from medical ninjutsu. The Mind Body Switch and Shadow Possession techniques were applications of Yin Release, but they were also different from conventional, illusion-based Yin Release. In fact, they were almost like Kekkei Genkai, belonging to a new nature transformation. And the hand seals for Kekkei Genkai and secret techniques were often different, or even non-existent.
For the Sharingan's copying ability, the hand seals were a crucial part. For ordinary, conventional ninjutsu, even if the Sharingan user did not possess that nature transformation, they could still quickly learn it by copying the hand seals and observing the flow of chakra in the meridians of the body. However, there was absolutely no way it could be like what he had just done: a direct mirror copy, and then he had mastered a Lightning Release nature transformation that he had never mastered before, and at the same level of proficiency as Kakashi.
This was even more terrifying than the three-tomoe Sharingan. This meant he could quickly learn new nature transformations through these eyes. He just didn't know if Kekkei Genkai and secret techniques could also be mirror copied.
Huu~
Letting out a long breath, Genichi suppressed the urge to experiment further. "This should be considered a new dōjutsu. I'll call it… the Mirror Eye!"
(End of Chapter)
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