Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha is not motivated.

Chapter 213 Worrying about the future of the Uchiha clan
"squeak~"

As the tightly closed door was opened, Uchiha Madara, who was waiting anxiously outside, felt his heart suddenly rise to his throat. He looked at Uchiha Miao, who came out of the door wearing a white coat and a mask, and asked cautiously,
"Elder Miao, how is father's injury?"

"Alas, Chief, I have tried my best, but the old chief is old and has been injured in a vital part. Please go in and see him for the last time, and then prepare for his funeral."

With a deep sigh, Uchiha Miao stepped aside to make way, and with a tone full of regret, he said to Uchiha Madara in front of him,
"Impossible! Impossible!"

Until this moment, Uchiha Madara couldn't believe that his invincible father would leave him so easily. Suppressing the grief in his heart, Uchiha Madara stepped into the ward.

As soon as I entered the room, I smelled a pungent smell of medicine. On the only bed in the room, "Uchiha Tajima" was lying peacefully. The blood on his body had been cleaned up, but if I sniffed carefully, I could still smell the smell of blood mixed with the smell of disinfectant.

"Ahem, is it Ban?"

Perhaps the footsteps were too loud, awakening the dying Uchiha Tajima. A weak voice rang out, awakening the numb Uchiha Madara.
"Father, I'm here."

Uchiha Madara's black eyes were instantly filled with deep sadness. He walked quickly to his father's bedside and looked at the man who once stood tall and strong, now lying weakly on the bed. There was no sign of life on his pale face. He stretched out his slightly trembling hands, wanting to do something, but could only stop in mid-air, helpless.

"Where's Izuna?"

"My brother is on the way. Father, please hold on. He will be here soon."

Uchiha Madara could sense that his father's vitality was about to be exhausted. He gritted his teeth, and his hatred for a certain white-haired man was about to reach its peak. Just when he didn't know how to face his father who was about to leave, "Uchiha Tajima" lying on the sickbed took a hard breath and said,
"Madara, you have to understand that there are traces of failure as a father."

"Father, please stop talking."

"No, all of this stems from the loss of my eyesight. Otherwise, how could I be defeated by that little devil?"

After forcing himself to stand up, "Uchiha Tajima" took off his reading glasses, stared at Uchiha Madara, who looked stunned, with his dull eyes, and continued,
"Your situation is not much better than mine. If you continue like this, you will die at the hands of the brothers sooner or later. By then, the Uchiha clan will be lost in the long river of history of the Fire Country."

"And you are the sinner of the Uchiha."

"Father, I..."

Facing the rebuke from "Uchiha Tajima" before his death, Uchiha Madara was about to retort, but looking at his dying father, he finally chose to accept it silently.

"I am going to die, but I won't give up."

He stretched out a trembling hand and placed it on the silent Uchiha Madara's shoulder. "Uchiha Tajima" used all his strength to slowly say,
"Madara, I hope you can take my eyes and lead the Uchiha clan to stand at the top of the Fire Nation."

"Father, do you want to?"

Uchiha Madara had a vague answer in his mind. He looked at his father in surprise, who had a resolute look in his eyes, and asked hesitantly,
"That's right, transplant my kaleidoscope and create an eternal eye that will never lose its light!"

The hand on Uchiha Madara's shoulder exerted a little force, and the words he spoke carried a tone that could not be refused.
"I don't."

Uchiha Madara was about to refuse, but was stopped by a look from "Uchiha Tajima".
"Madara, the Eternal Eye is the ultimate power of our clan. Once you possess it, your strength will increase by leaps and bounds. By then, that brat from the Senju clan will definitely not be your opponent."

"But."

Uchiha Madara still had some grudges in his heart, but the resistance on his face relaxed a lot.
"Ahem. I don't have much time left. Besides this, there is one more thing..."

"Uchiha Tajima" suddenly vomited blood, and the spurting blood dyed the white sheets red, just like the Uchiha clan's Sharingan.
He stretched out his trembling hand, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Uchiha Madara who was in a dilemma. There was a hint of pleading in his last words.
"Remember to give your cousin a raise, and let him work in the dungeon until retirement~"

"Okay, father. I promise."

Looking at "Uchiha Tajima" who was breathing in more than out, Uchiha Madara closed his eyes, as if he had made a great decision. He slowly opened his slightly red eyes and nodded to his most respected father.

"Okay, okay, then I can leave with peace of mind."

Since Uchiha Madara had agreed and Uchiha Gin had achieved his goal, he would not drag the plot any further. Facing his older cousin who was immersed in sadness, he immediately tilted his head, and his hand on the other's shoulder slowly dropped, and the whole person fell silent.

"Father!"

Uchiha Madara, who lost his loved ones again after many years, burst into tears and opened his mouth, but because of excessive sadness, he could not make a sound.

"Old Patriarch~"

Uchiha Miao, who had been watching the show outside for a while, saw that the time was right and came in to join in. This usually cold octogenarian now had tears in his eyes as he looked at the lifeless "Uchiha Tajima", and his voice trembled slightly.
"My Lord, I am deeply saddened by your loss. Does the old patriarch have any unfulfilled wishes?"

"Elder Miao, I'm asking you to transplant my father's eyes to me." Hearing Uchiha Miao's unintentional words, Uchiha Madara pulled himself out of his sorrow, looked at the old man in front of him with cold eyes, and said,

"As ordered!"

I'm waiting for you to say this~
Thanks to Uchiha Madara's cooperation, the Mangekyō transplant surgery was completed quickly. When the eldest cousin, whose eyes were wrapped in white cloth, was pushed out of the ward, Uchiha Gin, who had pretended to be dead for a long time, slowly opened his eyes, moved his stiff body, and the smile on the corner of his mouth could not be suppressed by ten wooden men.

"Ayin, the operation went smoothly. After the anesthesia wears off, the clan leader's eyes will be able to be used normally."

Uchiha Miao, who had just taken off his gloves, walked in, looked at "Uchiha Tajima" with a smile on his face, and said,

"Huh~ It's not easy, but this can only deceive my eldest cousin for a while."

Uchiha Gin waved his hand to cancel the disguise technique, jumped off the bed, and warned his partner in crime,
"Are you so sure that even after the clan leader obtains the Eternal Eye, he is still no match for that Senju Hashirama?"

As the scientific research master of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Miao knows best the power of the Eternal Eyes. The mere fact that he can use eye techniques without any side effects is already the ceiling of combat power in the ninja world, not to mention the bonus that these eyes can add to Susanoo, which can reach an extremely terrifying level.

"Wood Release."

Uchiha Gin shook his head and uttered these two words softly.

"Although the Thousand Hands' secret technique is very powerful, I don't think it can be a match for the clan leader."

"No one knows Wood Release better than me!"

As one of the only two Wood Release ninjas in the ninja world today, Uchiha Gin can clearly sense the tremendous Wood Release power in Hashirama Senju's body. He is indeed a natural sage body. He usually holds back when fighting with his cousin, for fear of beating his best friend to death.

"For some unknown reason, Senju Hashirama has been holding back, but this time my cousin has obtained the Eternal Eye, which should make that guy serious. Just wait and see~"

"Just relying on your secret technique of building a house?"

Uchiha Miao has never been very fond of Wood Release. The reason is that he knew that Uchiha Gin used Wood Release to build a house. How could such a low-level secret technique be compared with the noble bloodline of the Uchiha clan?

"Alright, alright, how's the thing I asked you to do going?"

Uchiha Gin did not blame this old man with long hair and short knowledge. After all, Uchiha Miao had never witnessed the power of Wood Release on the battlefield, so he could understand his contempt. He then skipped the topic and asked about the things he had entrusted.
"I have already designed the steel ship you requested. It is currently undergoing testing. If nothing goes wrong, it will be ready for mass production this year."

Recalling what the other party had entrusted him with, Uchiha Miao frowned. He still couldn't figure out what Uchiha Gin was up to. Why did he have to go out to sea instead of staying in the Fire Country?
"That's good, Elder Miao. The future of the Uchiha clan depends entirely on you."

Upon hearing that the matter he had been entrusted with had made great progress, Uchiha Gin immediately breathed a sigh of relief. The back-up plan he had painstakingly built for the Uchiha clan for many years was finally going to come in handy.

Just as the two were having a heated discussion on ship design, a familiar figure arrived late.

"Brother! Brother! What happened to father?"

Uchiha Izuna's handsome face was covered with anxiety. He had just returned to the camp and learned the sad news of his father's death. The sudden change made him anxious, his eyes slightly red, his hands and feet trembling. After asking a few questions, he rushed to the ward without stopping.

"My little cousin is here~"

Hearing Uchiha Izuna's cry in the ward, Uchiha Gin, who was moved, quickly formed a seal to create a wooden clone and directed it to perform the disguise technique to disguise itself as the lifeless Uchiha Tajima and lie back on the bloodstained bed. He and Uchiha Miao stood by the bed with their heads bowed and expressions of mourning on their faces.

"Cousin! Father is here."

Rushing into the ward in a hurry, he did not expect to meet Uchiha Gin here. Just when Uchiha Izuna was about to say hello, he saw his cousin's sad face, and his heart tightened immediately. Then he saw his father lying on the bed without a breath of life, and tears immediately welled up in his eyes, and his hands and feet also showed signs of weakness.
"Wow, wow, wow~ Father, how come you're lying on the board in the blink of an eye?"

Uchiha Izuna slid to his knees and instantly reached the bedside of Uchiha Tajima. He hugged the body and burst into tears. The sticky snot mixed with tears all got on the face of the wooden clone, making Uchiha Gin feel relieved that he was not playing the corpse.

"Ahem, my little cousin, I'm sorry."

Uchiha Gin couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he reached out and patted the sniffling Uchiha Izuna, and said to comfort her,
"It's all my fault. If I hadn't held that white-haired guy back, my father wouldn't have died."

Uchiha Izuna, who had already learned the cause of his father's death, fell into deep self-blame. He clenched his fists tightly, and the blue veins on the back of his white hands were throbbing.

If he could delay or defeat the hateful Senju Tobirama, his father, who was already enjoying his old age, would not leave them.

"Alas~ It's not you who is wrong, it's this world."

(End of this chapter)