Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

Moreover, the remaining power of the eyes is insufficient to directly resolve this matter; it can only be accomplished indirectly through a simpler event.

"The enemy will soon bypass the Black Flame and surround this place."

She knelt on one knee, skillfully gripping the short knife in reverse, her pale face devoid of color.

"Moon, you go. I'll stay here to cover your retreat, using the Eight Thousand Spears and Amaterasu to detonate the entire underground water vein. Although I will die, it will be enough to hold them off. Your chances of survival are..."

"Shut up."

Yue interrupted her without any politeness.

Instead of tapping her head as usual, he calmly, even with a touch of madness, pulled out two secret scrolls from his pocket, along with the corpses of two Sarutobi scouts he had killed on the run.

"Light, in this world, to survive, besides relying on brute force to fight, you also have to rely on this."

Yue pointed to her head, a sly smile playing on her lips.

He had already thought of a way to indirectly escape using his limited eye power.

Orochimaru and Root's commonly used "Eliminating Face Technique" and "Death Soul Technique" are top-tier disguises that can even fool the Hyuga clan's Byakugan!

There's a chance to deal with this manhunt.

He can't die, but he knows the art of erasing faces.

The Warring States period, as it is now, has not yet been fully explored.

While rapidly forming hand seals, Yue smeared her own and Guang's blood onto the two corpses of Sarutobi Scouts.

"You're going to... fake our bodies?" Guang stared blankly at his fluid movements.

"No, it's a fake, a fabrication. It's the illusion that we've been sealed away by them. This place happens to be a cave, a predicament with only one exit, which perfectly matches their geographical needs for sealing us off."

Yue took a deep breath and formed a cruel secret technique hand seal with his hands, a technique that had absolutely not yet been created in this Warring States period and belonged exclusively to the future Orochimaru.

The principle is not complicated. Yue developed it a long time ago to deal with the Konoha Anbu who were constantly hunting him down.

Moreover, he improved the technique so that it no longer required removing one's face.

"The Art of Erasing Faces!"

Yue's fingers made a grasping motion in the air on his own face and Hikaru's face. An invisible chakra, like a precise scalpel, replicated the features of the two faces and then pressed it onto the faces of the two Sarutobi corpses.

With a sound of flesh writhing, the two corpses, which were originally unrecognizable, twisted and reformed their faces, eventually becoming exactly the same as Yue and Guang!

Even the pale, bloodless light and the blind mark in Yue's left eye were exactly the same.

"That's not enough."

Tsuki knew all too well the Senju clan's abnormal sensory abilities; two similar-looking corpses were simply not enough to fool those battle-hardened elites.

“We can’t be found dead; that would be too fake. Only when the prey is struggling desperately in a desperate situation will the hunter drop the cage without suspicion.”

Yue formed hand seals once more, this time a masterpiece belonging to the future Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju.

Shadow Clone Technique!

boom!boom!

As the two puffs of white smoke dissipated, two physical clones with chakra fluctuations completely identical to those of the moon and the light appeared in the same spot.

"What... is this a clone? The chakra is distributed so perfectly?"

A hint of shock finally flashed in Guang's empty eyes.

In this era, there are only extremely crude water clones or earth clones. Such advanced ninjutsu, which even the Uchiha clan cannot detect, is simply unheard of.

"Stop spacing out." Yue commanded her shadow clones to hide the two fake corpses in the shadow of the stalactites behind her, and to make the shadow clones look like they were exhausted of chakra and at their wits' end.

Then, Yue turned her head and took a deep look at the underground river deep in the cave with her only remaining right eye, and took a deep breath.

Now, the required pupil strength is just right.

Yue suddenly ripped off the bandage that had just been wrapped around her left eye.

In the dark cave, the nearly depleted left eye lit up with a star pattern for the last time!

"Eight meanings combined!"

"Increase the success rate of 'Senju and Sarutobi recognizing the shadow clone as our true selves and completely sealing the cavern along with the fake corpse without touching the physical body' to 100%."

"Click".

An extremely crisp cracking sound rang in Yue's mind.

"Ugh!" Yue groaned, kneeling down on one knee, her left eye completely losing focus.

Hey, he's one-eyed again.

"Let's go! Get in the water!"

Yue grabbed the still-dazed Guang, suppressed her heartbeat and chakra to the lowest level, and silently sank into the underground river at the deepest part of the cave.

Almost half a second after they entered the water.

"Over here! I can sense their desperate chakra!"

Commander Senju and Captain Sarutobi led a large number of elite troops into the end of the cave.

Carried by the moon, and frantically using the light flowing outward from the underground river, and with the refraction of the water waves, they could clearly see the scene on the shore underwater.

The shadow clone of the moon was coughing up mouthfuls of blood, desperately protecting the shadow clone of light behind it, gripping a broken straight sword, and letting out a final roar:

"Thousand Hands' lackeys! You want to take our eyes? Dream on! Light, prepare for total destruction!"

"Don't give them a chance to unleash their eye techniques!"

"Seal off this cave immediately!" the Thousand Hands Commander roared.

"Understood! Earth Release: Barrier - Yellow Springs Swamp! Four Purple Flaming Sun Formation!"

Dozens of ninjas simultaneously formed hand seals, and their massive chakra surged forth instantly.

The top of the cave collapsed with a roar, and countless hard rocks mixed with sealing runes crashed down like a waterfall!

"Boom—!"

The entire cave was completely sealed off.

The Senju-sensing ninja stepped forward, carefully sensing the sealing rock layer that was tens of meters thick in front of him.

"Commander, the faint signs of life inside have completely disappeared, leaving only two traces of the Uchiha's characteristic cold chakra..."

"It seems to have been successfully sealed. It can sense the physical body, so is it definitely not some kind of earth clone?"

Sarutobi, a ninja with sensory abilities, sensed for a moment and confirmed that the two human figures inside were very similar in appearance.

Fortunately, it wasn't a sensory ninja from the Hyuga clan, otherwise the corpse without chakra would still have raised suspicions.

"Yes, leader, you have a physical body."

The Thousand Hands Commander gave a satisfied snort and waved his hand, "Fall back! We've won this battle!"

The loud footsteps gradually faded into the distance until they disappeared completely.

Dead silence.

After a long period of deathly silence.

"Splash—"

At the far end of the underground river, two dark figures emerged from the water.

They narrowly escaped the area just as the sealing spell was about to take effect.

Uchiha Yue gasped for breath in the air, which was thick with the smell of mud and fish, and collapsed onto the moss-covered riverbank.

Blood flowing from his left eye socket had stained half of his cheek red, and his right eye was half-open and half-closed due to extreme exhaustion.

But he was smiling.

He laughed so hard his chest was shaking violently.

The feigned death wasn't just for the Senju clan; it was also for the Uchiha clan.

Only in this way can they gain their freedom.

However, the price was equally painful; he returned to his previous state of being half-blind.

Fortunately, with the right method, restoring pupil power is not too difficult.

However, without the pupil technique in the left eye, this process will take a little longer.

He sat blankly in the mud, completely soaked.

Once things calmed down, a mix of complex emotions, including shock and bewilderment, enveloped the light.

"Why...why won't you let me die in battle?"

Yue stopped laughing, struggled to prop himself up, and with his muddy hand, ruffled Guang's wet hair without any restraint.

This time, he didn't hit her head; his actions could even be described as rude.

“I told you so, light.”

The moon's only remaining right eye quietly watched her.

"In this messed-up world, no one is anyone's tool."

He grinned, revealing a smile that looked more like a grimace.

"Standing here is just a blind, bastard adult and a brat who can't even understand how to eat a roasted sweet potato. We are all living, breathing people; we are... comrades!"

Chapter 23 Grilled Fish

The smoke of battle in Cherry Blossom Valley gradually dissipated with the continuous drizzle.

Inside the Uchiha clan's front-line camp, however, there was no joy whatsoever despite the relief of the supply line crisis.

"Is it confirmed?"

"Reporting to the Grand Elder, the spies from the Senju and Sarutobi sides have sent back accurate intelligence."

The Jonin kneeling on one knee below lowered his head and spoke rapidly, "Those two 'weapons' have been confirmed to be sealed, but their exact location has not yet been found."

"idiot."