I, Naruto Uzumaki, don't need your approval.

"I think..."

As the Uchiha Jonin spoke freely, Shisui's expression changed slightly.

He wasn't angry because his clansmen had devised a coup plan, but because the disparity in strength between his clan and the village was undeniable; no matter how perfect the plan was, the Uchiha clan had no chance of winning.

Naruto frowned repeatedly, somewhat disappointed by the Uchiha's so-called coup plan.

The Uchiha's plan was to deliberately release the imprisoned prisoners to draw the attention of the Anbu and other defense forces, and then take the opportunity to attack the Hokage Building, carry out the decapitation plan, and control the Third Hokage.

The plan seemed perfect.

However, the biggest problem is that the Uchiha clan does not have the strength to defeat the Third Hokage. Behind the Third Hokage are powerful clans such as Sarutobi and Shimura. Once they get a chance to catch their breath, the Uchiha clan will be wiped out.

As Naruto continued listening, he heard his own name.

To increase the chances of the coup succeeding, the Uchiha planned to take control of themselves in advance and use the power of the Nine-Tails. They even said that sending Sasuke was to win over the Jinchuriki.

Feeling a bit bored, Naruto yawned and began to peruse his training memories.

The Jonin meeting lasted about an hour, and with a flurry of footsteps, Fugaku and the other Jonin left the Naka Shrine.

After sensing their departure, Naruto and Shisui walked out of the secret passage, the latter's face clouded with worry.

Naruto noticed Shisui's expression and deliberately said, "What do you think of their coup plan? Maybe they can really bring out the Fifth Hokage ahead of schedule, provided they can kill the Third Hokage."

Shisui remained silent as he approached the altar and collected the Sharingan eyes into a special container.

After collecting all the Sharingan, Shisui slowly said, "You're right. If the clan continues like this, it will only bring about its own destruction. The only way to break this deadlock is to lead the clan members away from Konoha."

"These Sharingan eyes absolutely cannot be wasted in a coup; they should be used to establish a firm foothold."

Naruto smiled meaningfully and continued, "What do you plan to do next? Will you secretly contact your best friend, or will you contact the moderates of the Uchiha clan and try to persuade them to join your escape plan?"

"The gentle and reasonable Shisui of the past is dead. All that's left is the cold and ruthless Shisui. Since we're all Uchiha, let's settle things with our fists. I'll make them listen to me."

Shisui's gaze became increasingly firm, and his goal became clearer and clearer.

After packing up the Sharingan, the two planned to leave the Naka Shrine.

Before leaving, Naruto discovered the stone tablet that recorded the ultimate power of the Uchiha clan. After pausing to look at it for a while, he said, "Shisui, is the bottom of this stone tablet always blank?"

Zhi Shui also stopped in his tracks: "The very end is still blank; it seems we haven't had time to write anything yet."

"I really want to know what happened next. Why wasn't it written down in time? Is there some earth-shattering secret hidden inside?"

Hearing this, Naruto felt a pang of regret, then said meaningfully:

"But the secret above is shocking enough. The way to activate the Mangekyou Sharingan is to kill the one you love. Your Uchiha clan is truly cruel. Could it be that someone deliberately caused an accident to create these eyes?"

"Some people in the family tried, but they all failed in the end. How could someone who opens the kaleidoscope in that way care about the family?"

Zhi Shui gently shook his head, denying the feasibility of this method.

He was deeply afraid that Naruto might impulsively try to create the Mangekyou Sharingan, which would lead to another tragedy in the clan where only fathers and sons or brothers could become disabled.

……

After Naruto and Shisui left the Naka Shrine, one of them went back to the underground of the Naka Shrine.

This person was none other than Fugaku, the head of the Uchiha clan.

Fugaku glanced at the stone tablet at the entrance, narrowed his eyes slightly, and walked towards the room where the Sharingan were stored, gazing at the containers containing the Sharingan and falling into deep thought.

As the head of the Uchiha clan, he mastered many forbidden techniques of the Uchiha.

Izanagi and Izanami, as well as the transcription seal that transfers eye power, are forbidden techniques that go beyond the scope of ordinary ninjutsu. Users will pay an enormous price, causing their Sharingan to go blind.

Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of the clan, only a very few people know these forbidden techniques.

Fugaku hesitated, wondering whether he should tell the Jonin in his clan about these forbidden techniques. If they mastered these forbidden techniques, the success rate of the coup would be greatly increased, but it would also lead to an uncontrollable proliferation of forbidden techniques.

While pondering, Fugaku casually opened a container, only to find that the Sharingan inside had vanished.

The Sharingan is gone... Fugaku's eyes widened as he frantically looked around. When he found no one else around, his expression gradually became uncertain.

The Sharingan is stored underground at the Nanga Shrine; this is a secret known to very few people.

Aside from him, the clan leader, there were only a few retired clan elders. Who misappropriated the Sharingan, or did an outsider come to the Naga Shrine and steal the Sharingan?

But why steal the Sharingan? For those outside the Sharingan bloodline, it's actually a burden.

Only those who have mastered forbidden techniques can fully utilize the Sharingan.

Chapter 54 The Turning Windmill

Fugaku had many suspects, but he first suspected his son, Itachi Uchiha.

Itachi awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan and should have been able to take over his position as the next clan leader, but he wavered between the clan and the village, and was reluctant to reveal information about the ANBU members to him.

He has the ability to steal the Sharingan from the secret vault.

However, Itachi should not have known about the existence of Izanagi and Izanami, so he had no reason to commit the theft.

Could it be the Uchiha generation that was close to the Hokage lineage?

Fugaku was puzzled, but he still left the Naka Shrine without telling anyone about the stolen Sharingan.

The theft of the Sharingan is a major event that destabilizes the morale of the army. What's even more critical is that someone was able to freely enter the heart of the Naga Shrine. If the clan members find out that someone can enter the Naga Shrine at will, it may shake their determination to launch a coup.

For a fleeting moment, Fugaku even considered reporting the matter to the Hokage Building.

However, the conflict between the Uchiha clan and the village had become irreconcilable, with no room for reconciliation.

Either they are successfully overthrown and their clan is wiped out, or the coup fails and they are forced to fight to the death. No matter how long they keep fighting, their strength will only be slowly eroded until they can no longer even protect the security forces.

……

On the way back to the Forest of Death.

Shisui gripped the summoning scroll containing his Sharingan tightly, glancing occasionally at Naruto beside him.

For Shisui, stealing the Sharingan was a high-stakes gamble. He not only had to accept the risk of being discovered by his clansmen, but also had to prevent his Sharingan from being taken away by his opponents.

Although the opponent possessed a more advanced Mangekyou Sharingan.

On the black market, its price is second only to the Byakugan, making it an extremely rare bloodline limit.

But along the way, the other party did not attack my shadow clone, nor did they ask too many questions about the use of the Sharingan. It seemed that, as the other party said, they were only looking forward to the change and had little interest in the Sharingan.

However, if the other party truly had no desires, why would they steal his Kotoamatsukami?

Upon successfully arriving at the base within the Forest of Death and seeing Naruto's true form, Shisui's shadow clone breathed a sigh of relief and then proactively handed over the summoning scroll containing the Sharingan to Naruto.

As a prisoner, he had no choice at that moment.

Naruto glanced at Shisui, who had offered up his Sharingan, and snorted, "I thought you would take this opportunity to make a move, or leave a coded message in the clan compound... You didn't even have the thought of resisting. How boring."

Zhi Shui looked somewhat embarrassed, then said, "My eye transplant surgery still depends on you."

Naruto was somewhat taken aback, but upon reflection, it made perfect sense. Even if Shisui escaped, he wouldn't be able to find anyone else to perform the eye transplant surgery, and there was still the risk of falling into Danzo's hands.

Without much preamble, after obtaining the Sharingan, Naruto began performing an eye transplant on Shizuku.

Compared to the warm eyes I received last time, the Sharingan I received this time is much colder. Long-term storage has greatly reduced cell activity and increased the difficulty of the surgery.

The surgery lasted for several hours and consumed an unknown amount of Yang Release chakra.

The transplantation of the three-tomoe Sharingan is now complete. After an adaptation period of only two or three days, one can successfully obtain the Sharingan.

However, the rejection reaction during the surgery was still beyond Naruto's expectations.

Shisui was a Jonin with Uchiha blood, yet his rejection reaction was so astonishing. No wonder no one else besides Kakashi and Danzo had their Sharingan transplanted.

Compared to that, the process of transplanting the god of the other world was practically like hot-swapping.

However, one cannot generalize about the constitution of different people. He is a descendant of the Uzumaki clan and has the chakra of the Nine-Tails and Ashura within him, so the rejection reaction will not cause much of a stir.

Pulling his wandering thoughts back, Naruto looked at Shisui, who had fallen unconscious to the side, and then glanced at the remaining Sharingan.

He really looked down on the ordinary single-tomoe and double-tomoe Sharingan. The triple-tomoe Sharingan was somewhat useful, but not much, and could be considered an added bonus.

As for the Uchiha secret techniques, Izanami, and Izanagi.

The former is a special genjutsu targeting the Uchiha clan, with extremely demanding activation conditions; the latter is a genjutsu capable of altering reality, but there is always an upper limit to how much it can alter reality.

If the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki had the Ten-Tails extracted, it certainly wouldn't change the fact that Izanagi had the Ten-Tails extracted.

However, adhering to the principle of not leaving empty-handed, Naruto still took a pair of three-tomoe Sharingan eyes, and then used the Body Flicker Technique to defeat Shisui's shadow clone.

Before the shadow clones dissipated, they left the makeshift underground base.

Nearly half a year has passed since I intercepted Shisui's Kotoamatsukami Sharingan, and now I have obtained a pair of three-tomoe Sharingan. After completing all the arrangements, it is time to say goodbye to Shisui.

However, before leaving, Naruto left behind a scroll filled with information that Shisui might find useful in the future.

Shisui woke up earlier than Naruto had estimated.

Around dawn the next day, Shisui woke up on the operating table. Feeling dizzy and achy all over, he quickly discovered the scroll left on the table and Naruto's disappearance.

Shisui picked up the scroll, opened it, and glanced at it. It contained some simple farewell phrases.

The last few lines of small print on the scroll are covered by a sealing spell; forcibly breaking the spell will destroy the scroll along with it.

Suppressing his intense curiosity, Shisui found the summoning scroll that was placed next to his Sharingan.

After a careful count, Shisui discovered that two pairs of Sharingan were missing. One pair had been transplanted into him, and the other pair was probably taken away by a mysterious ninja. However, this number was still within Shisui's acceptable range.

In his mind, even if all the Sharingan were taken away, it wouldn't be too bad.

At least the theft of the Sharingan could serve as a wake-up call for the clan, making them realize that there were traitors and external enemies within the clan, and causing them to temporarily abandon their plans for a coup.

This also bought him time to formulate a detailed escape plan and lead his clan to flee Konoha.

As for why the mysterious person appeared out of nowhere, took away Kotoamatsukami, and then subtly offered him a way to escape, Shisui didn't have time to think about it for the time being.

Compared to the fate of their clan sliding into the abyss, Kotoamatsukami and a pair of three-tomoe jewels are nothing.

The repeated theft of his Kotoamatsukami Sharingan served as a constant reminder that he should not trust others too easily, nor should he appear overly gentle or weak, as such a personality would only harm himself and his family.

After the soreness in his eyes lessened considerably, Zhishui took one last look at the underground base where he had lived for nearly half a year, and then formed a hand seal.

A fire dragon appeared out of thin air and surged into the underground passage, activating the explosive tags around the passage and causing a sizable explosion.

After completing these tasks, Zhi Shui flickered a few times and disappeared into the Death Forest.