I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 375 and 376: Two Powers for Taming the Nine-Tails

The divine power residing within the Mangekyou Sharingan, Susanoo.

This wasn't the first time the Uchiha Senmon had witnessed Susanoo, but the Sapporo and Asakusa regions had already experienced the terror and despair it brought.

Even powerful beings like Yamata no Orochi, Kaguya-hime, and the Toad Sage would have to admit defeat.

However, there is a chance of winning!

Uchiha Senmon's eyes were fixed on Uchiha Itachi, who was enveloped in the orange-red Susanoo, his three tomoe spinning rapidly like windmills.

"Wood Release: Tree Binding for Eternal Burial!"

As soon as Uchiha Senmon formed the hand seals, a large patch of vines and saplings instantly sprouted from the ground and wrapped around the skeleton of Uchiha Itachi's Susanoo.

"Slurp!"

Uchiha Itachi remained unfazed, and with a flick of his Susanoo's skeletal arm, he effortlessly tore off the vines and branches one by one.

He stomped heavily on the ground, causing it to crack, and shot towards the Uchiha Sage Gate like an arrow.

The Susanoo, standing over ten meters tall, resembled a rampaging warship, carrying an aura of world destruction, even tearing the air apart with a deafening roar.

"boom!"

With a single strike, it was as if several tons of TNT equivalent explosives had detonated in the sealed room, causing the earth to shake violently in an instant.

A violent gale and shockwave suddenly swept outwards in all directions, causing even Sakaki Namiru and Ichimaru's assistant, who were hiding in the corner of the secret room, to feel a stinging pain on their faces and turn pale with horror.

"what?"

A slight change appeared in Itachi Uchiha's indifferent expression.

Suddenly, several large trees, each as thick as several people could hug, sprouted from the ground and tightly bound Susanoo's arm, preventing him from breaking free.

"Wood Release..."

Standing in the pit, a thin line of blood slid down from the corner of Uchiha Senmon's mouth.

The destructive power of Susanoo is truly terrifying. The only way to deal with it is to deflect its force and push it away. Otherwise, if you try to take it head-on with a defensive Wood Release ninjutsu, you will most likely die on the spot.

"The Tree Realm has descended!"

Uchiha Senmon clasped his hands together and uttered a low, deliberate shout, enunciating each word clearly.

One after another, tree roots, like writhing dragons, emerged from the ground and grew into ancient trees at a visible speed, transforming half of the secret room into a dense forest in an instant.

Countless tree roots and vines coiled around Susanoo's entire body from different directions, binding it tightly.

Even with Susanoo's incredible strength, it was unable to move for a moment.

"This is the Wood Release technique that can suppress the Nine-Tails... but it's still not enough!"

Uchiha Itachi closed his eyes, two lines of bloody tears rolling down his cheeks. He formed hand seals, and the spine of Susanoo grew taller and taller, solidifying into his entire upper body and skull.

Susanoo in its first form!

Susanoo's hands formed orange-red light swords, which, like a swift wind cutting through grass, cleanly cleaved through huge ancient trees.

"The Descent of the Tree World is merely a means for me to bind Susanoo and buy time. This is my true trump card."

Uchiha Senmon said in a deep voice:

"Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique!"

Giant logs shot into the sky, then twisted together, transforming into a wooden dragon tens of meters long, its claws outstretched.

Uchiha Senmon leaped up and stood on the head of the wooden dragon.

The wooden dragon opened its enormous mouth, like a train that had derailed, and rushed down with unstoppable force, biting down on Susanoo's neck!

Just as Itachi Uchiha was about to use Susanoo to counterattack, his face immediately turned deathly pale:

"The power of Susanoo has been absorbed?!"

The orange-red, half-skull-shaped Susanoo suddenly melted away its ice and snow, breaking through the Susanoo's absolute defense. Taking advantage of this, the Wood Dragon bit Uchiha Itachi's body and pinned him to the ground.

The Uchiha Immortal Sect did not rush to eliminate Uchiha Itachi, but instead manipulated the wooden dragon to absorb Uchiha Itachi's chakra, rendering him powerless to resist.

"You win," Itachi Uchiha said calmly.

"No, I am far from being a match for your true form."

Uchiha Senmon shook his head, showing no joy on his face.

Although he still had another trump card, Sage Transformation, that he hadn't used, the Uchiha Itachi who appeared at the Naka Shrine was clearly not the real Itachi.

The Sharingan is an eye that can see through the quantity and amount of chakra.

Itachi Uchiha's strength is less than a third of what it was when he appeared in Sapporo.

Moreover, above the first-stage skeletal Susanoo, there is an even more powerful Susanoo with flesh and blood, and even a Susanoo form that evolves into one clad in the armor of a tengu, possessing overwhelming power with every move.

The Uchiha Sage Mode is not so arrogant as to think that they can now stand shoulder to shoulder with Kage-level powerhouses.

"But I think my capacity has passed your test."

"snort."

Imprisoned on the ground, Uchiha Itachi could only move his head from the neck up. He turned his head toward the stone tablet.

The Mangekyou Sharingan in Itachi Uchiha's eyes degenerated into three tomoe, and finally reverted to black eyes.

The black flames of Amaterasu that had been lingering on the stone tablet also disappeared.

Uchiha Senmon turned his head to the side, his blood-red eyes eagerly deciphering the inscription.

The Sharingan is the eye that reflects the soul.

When a member of the Uchiha clan loses something important, they will awaken their Sharingan due to intense negative emotional stimulation.

The deeper one ventures into darkness, the stronger one's eye power becomes.

The Sharingan evolves sequentially from one tomoe to two tomoe to three tomoe. When it evolves into the Mangekyou Sharingan, it will gain its own unique eye techniques and Susanoo.

"Itachi Uchiha's Amaterasu and Tobi's spacetime teleportation are both unique Mangekyou Sharingan eye techniques," Senmon Uchiha murmured to himself.

At this moment, Uchiha Senmon finally understood what Uchiha Itachi meant when he said, "To obtain these eyes, you must kill your best friend."

If I want to obtain the power of the Mangekyou Sharingan, I must...

Uchiha Senmon's expression was unpredictable.

The forbidden thought briefly crossed Uchiha Senmon's mind, but he immediately erased it.

With his current three-tomoe Sharingan, Uchiha Senmon could only decipher less than half of the contents of the stone tablet. He finished reading the last part he could decipher, his brows furrowed.

"So that's how it is. This is the secret of the stone tablet."

Gazing intently at the divine script on the monument, Uchiha Senmon's black three-tomoe eyes slowly rotated, radiating a captivating and eerie blood-red light.

"The power of the Mangekyou Sharingan can even tame the Nine-Tails."

The Akatsuki organization went to great lengths to find the Nine-Tailed Fox precisely for this purpose.

Although Itachi Uchiha and Tobi were only Kage-level shinobi, they were able to control the Nine-Tailed Fox, who was at a higher level than Kage, using their Mangekyou Sharingan.

"What you saw was 'Nine-Tailed Fox.' Well, not exactly wrong, but more specifically, nine of them..."

Itachi Uchiha's voice was barely audible.

Uchiha Senmon frowned, about to ask a question, when he saw Uchiha Itachi looking at him with a complex and wistful gaze.

"The power of Wood Release, and the Sharingan, and in the branch family of the human world, one can even see the shadow of Izanagi, the ancestor of the Uchiha clan."

"You mean Izana... Madara Uchiha's shadow?"

Even now, the Uchiha Sage Sect remains skeptical about the secret that Izanagi was their ancestor, preferring to call him Uchiha Madara.

"In the Age of Gods, when the heavens and the human world were not yet separated and gods and humans lived together, Madara Uchiha established a small village called Konoha." Itachi Uchiha ignored him and revealed an ancient story on his own.

Leaf Village?

Uchiha Senmon narrowed his eyes, carefully considering the two words.

The name Konoha evokes a sense of vitality and burgeoning life, much like his Wood Release technique...

Could it be that...?

"Wood Release is the only power besides the Mangekyou Sharingan capable of taming the Nine-Tails!"

Itachi Uchiha never fails to make a shocking statement.

"Kuzuha, Kaguya, and Tamamo-no-Mae, these successive Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tailed Fox, were able to suppress the Nine-Tailed Fox precisely because of the power of Wood Release."

Apart from Kaguya, the Uchiha Senmon had no dealings with any other Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

The Wood Release tradition of the Uchiha Sage Clan originated from Konohana Sakuya-hime.

Kaguya, who devoured Konohana Sakuya, was naturally able to use Wood Release.

"Wood Release is actually that powerful?"

In fact, the Uchiha Sage Sect had also vaguely sensed the uniqueness of Wood Release in recent years.

Among the Twelve Divine Generals, Uchiha Senmon was not the first to become a transcendent being, but even with only a portion of his strength revealed on the surface, he was already far ahead of the other Twelve Divine Generals.

It turns out that it wasn't that the Uchiha Sage himself possessed extraordinary talent, but rather that the Wood Release power he obtained was more mysterious and powerful than other extraordinary inheritances.

"Why did you tell me so many secrets that weren't even on the stone tablet? Uchiha Itachi, are you friend or foe?" Uchiha Senmon asked solemnly, looking at Uchiha Itachi lying on the ground.

"To test your 'capacity'."

The reply, exactly the same as before, left the Uchiha Immortal Sect increasingly confused and inexplicably irritated.

tolerance? !

What utter nonsense!

Suppressing his nameless rage, Uchiha Senmon was about to question him in detail when Uchiha Itachi's figure began to blur.

Seeing that Itachi Uchiha was about to disappear, Senmon Uchiha quickly pressed for an answer:

"What exactly is this so-called 'capacity'?"

"Uchiha Sage, you already have the 'capacity' to support the Mangekyou Sharingan, but the 'capacity' we are looking for is not something so narrow."

Itachi Uchiha's entire body collapsed and disappeared.

"When you awaken your Mangekyou Sharingan, you will once again enter the Naga Shrine, located in the crevices between dreams and reality. Your Mangekyou Sharingan may reveal the answer to the mystery on the stone tablet."

"You bastard!"

After Itachi Uchiha disappeared, the Uchiha Sage finally lost his temper and uttered a curse.

After the three-year agreement of the Sekiji Tenchō expired, Itachi Uchiha's unusual behavior and the riddles he left behind before leaving filled the Uchiha Sage Clan with a sense of urgency that time was of the essence.

However, to uncover the great secrets of this mysterious side, one must possess sufficient power.

Kaleidoscope Sharingan!

The next time we meet, I must have eyes like Itachi Uchiha.

Before that, we need to take care of the beginning and the end.

Uchiha Senmon exhaled a breath of turbid air and walked towards the corner of the secret room with a somber expression.

"Brother-in-law, are you alright?" Nami Sakaki rushed over excitedly, showing great concern.

"Um."

Uchiha Senmon nodded, then gave Ichimaru's assistant, who was squatting on the ground covering his ears and trying his best to make himself inconspicuous, a cold look.

"Department Head Uchiha, I didn't hear anything, I didn't see anything!"

The assistant, Ichimaru, whose face was filled with panic and fear, jumped up as if his pants were on fire, forcing a fawning and obsequious smile, and bowed and scraped before the Uchiha Sagemon:

"My loyalty to you, Minister Uchiha, is as clear as day! If I have uttered even a single lie, may Lord Taishan cast me into the Hell of Tongue-Pulling!"

Don't kill me to silence me!

"I know."

Uchiha Senmon opened his crimson Sharingan, and with a single turn of his three tomoe, Ichimaru's assistant stared blankly, frozen in a daze.

"Brother-in-law, what's wrong with your squinty eyes?" Nami Sakaki asked in surprise.

"I hypnotized him and erased all his memories of tonight."

Letting the Japanese government know the secrets of the Uchiha clan now might lead to them being seen as spies for the Akatsuki, which could be more of a curse than a blessing.

Fortunately, from the shadowy figures they had killed earlier, Uchiha Senmon gained experience in using the three-tomoe Sharingan to erase memories.

Otherwise, he would have no choice but to take drastic measures and send his assistant, Ichimaru, to his death.

Uchiha Senmon doesn't want to break ties with the Japanese government for the time being; he still has a great use for the position of head of the Supernatural Police Department.

After dealing with Ichimaru's assistant, Uchiha Senmon did not turn off his Sharingan. Instead, he looked at Sakaki Namiryu, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping himself.

"Brother-in-law, don't you believe me? I would rather die than utter a word about what happened tonight," Sakaki Namiru said immediately, sensing that something was wrong.

"It's not that I don't trust you, but this kind of thing is too heavy for an ordinary girl. It's better to forget about it."

"No way! I don't want to forget any of this!"

Namikazu Sakaki, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, blushed and protested.

"Don't be willful," Uchiha Senmon said coldly.

Seeing the cold attitude of the Uchiha Immortal Sect, Sakaki Nami felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, her heart sinking uncontrollably.

"If it were your older sister standing here, would you make her forget everything?"

After a long silence, Nami Sakaki asked a question hesitantly.

Uchiha Senmon did not give a direct answer, but the fleeting tenderness in his eyes could not be concealed even by the cold, crimson Sharingan.

He immediately closed his eyes, pressed his finger between his eyebrows, and said:

"You and Mikoto are different..."

"As expected, only my sister is special. No matter the circumstances, my brother-in-law would never lie to her. But, but..."

Sakaki Namikazu was on the verge of tears, biting her lip tightly.

She was moved by her brother-in-law's unwavering devotion to her sister until death, yet she also hated the heartless nature of the Uchiha clan!

Knowing full well that a living person can't compete with a dead one, this relationship has driven Nami Sakaki to the brink of madness.

Sakaki Namiru pressed one hand to her chest, her emotions surging intensely:

"Look at me, even if you treat me as a substitute for your sister, it doesn't matter! Actually, all along, I..."

"Nami Ryu, you've grown up so much, but... I'm sorry."

Uchiha Senmon raised his head, his crimson pupils reflecting Sakaki Namikaze's eyes. An unprecedented tenderness appeared on his face as he said:

"Whether it's the memories of tonight, or the feelings they have for me, they will all vanish like morning dew, like a dream, by tomorrow..."

(End of this chapter)