Chapter 35 Previous Mission 2: Just Go to Bed with Your Mouth
After Itachi's explanation, Shinon finally understood the whole story. It turned out that the eye on the crow was given to Itachi by Shisui, and the other eye was taken away by Danzo Shimura, a high-ranking official in the village.
Shingon had heard that Danzo Shimura was the leader of the village's roots and was now in charge of the commercial department's cargo transportation. Shingon didn't know this person, but he felt that it was excessive to steal other people's attention.
"Itachi, let's help Shisui get his eyes back." Shingon said.
Zhenyan is very familiar with debt collection. Before, he collected chakras, and now he collects eyes. It's just an expansion of the business.
However, after hearing what Shingon said, Itachi did not agree immediately, because he understood Shisui's wish. If Shisui was willing, he could have taken his eyes back, but Shisui did not do so. Now that Shisui is gone, it is meaningless to take back his eyes. What's more, Shingon and Sasuke still have to live in the village...
"Itachi, what are you thinking about?" Shinon didn't understand why Itachi didn't answer.
"Shisui may not want this." Itachi said.
Shinyan couldn't help but frown: "I know, Shisui-kun didn't tell me anything before, but I think it would be very inconvenient to live without eyes. What's more, it's wrong to steal other people's things. It's right for us to take them back."
"Have you seen Shisui?" Itachi suddenly spoke, his face full of surprise and astonishment.
"Ah..." Shingon just remembered that he seemed to have forgotten to tell Itachi that Shisui was rescued...
"Brother Shisui was rescued by Bai, and is now recuperating at Zabuza's place." Shingon explained quickly, and then said, "So let's help Brother Shisui get his eyes back."
The news that Shisui was still alive had a great shock to Itachi. He was silent for a long time before he sorted out his thoughts.
Itachi was shaken, but he still didn't want Shingo to be involved in this matter.
Shingon looked at the Akatsuki Organization uniform on Itachi and said, "Don't worry, I will also wear this uniform and a mask when the time comes, so no one will recognize me."
When the Akatsuki organization was mentioned, Itachi's face froze again. Thinking of the purpose of his return this time, he couldn't help but ask, "Do you know who are the people in the Akatsuki organization?"
"They are all talented." Shinon didn't understand why Itachi suddenly became so serious. Was he unhappy getting along with everyone?
Itachi: “…………”
Itachi knew that Mangon's thoughts were different from those of ordinary people. His words and actions were always simple and direct. In addition, Mangon had never received any ninja training and lacked knowledge about ninjas, which made him easily trust others. Now that Mangon had come into contact with so many rebellious ninjas, Itachi was very afraid that Mangon would also go down the path of a rebellious ninja in the future.
"Those are all renegade ninjas from various ninja villages. Although an armistice agreement has been signed between the ninja villages, trust has not yet been established and the situation between the ninja villages is still very complicated. If you come into contact with those people and are discovered, you will be in a difficult situation." It was rare for Itachi to say so many words at once. He hoped that Shingon could understand the interests involved.
But Shingon was staring at Itachi's forehead, or more precisely, the ninja forehead on Itachi's forehead.
The styles of the ninja forehead guards of each ninja village are similar, the only difference is the pattern carved in the center of the metal plate. For example, the Konoha forehead guard is carved with a leaf pattern.
Now, in the center of Itachi's forehead, which represents his identity as a Konoha ninja, there is a scratch that runs through a leaf pattern.
Shingon knew what this meant. Any ninja who defected from the village would have a line like this drawn on his forehead.
"Is Itachi a traitor?" Shinon asked Itachi back.
Itachi had already noticed Shingon's gaze. He was silent for a while, but finally said, "Yes." Shingon smiled and said, "A traitor can also be a good person."
Itachi: “…………”
[Host, what did you do again? The deviation rate suddenly increased to 18%.] The last time Zhenyan's transmission behavior scared the spiritual system out of its mind, and this time when it found the deviation rate increased, it thought of Zhenyan.
[I didn’t do anything.] Zhenyan said subconsciously.
[But the deviation rate suddenly increased.] The inspiration system was very depressed. Originally, the node of this task had passed and the task could be submitted, but the deviation rate had dropped from 10% to 8%, so the system was a little lucky. It thought that if it waited a little longer, the deviation rate might drop. However, the deviation rate did not drop, but increased instead.
Shingon thought about it and soon figured it out: [I see, it must be because of Shisui-ge. When I help Shisui-ge get his eyes back and send him to the moon, the deviation rate should go down.]
Inspiration system: […………]
Shingon insisted on helping Shisui get his eyes back, but before that, he needed to get some chakra back from the tailed beast.
In order to open the teleportation array, he used the chakra of the Ten-Tails, which caused the Ten-Tails to get angry with him and refused to tell him how the Tailed Beast Ball was made...
In order to appease the Ten-Tails, Shingon has been consuming his own chakra to feed the Ten-Tails during this period of time, which has caused his chakra to be in a state of depletion.
And sending Shisui to the moon will also consume chakra, so asking the tailed beast for chakra is a necessary thing to do.
Shingon discussed with Itachi, "Let me take Xiao Ju to get some chakra back first, then we'll go."
"What chakra?" Itachi couldn't help but frown.
"It's the Xiao Shi I told you about before. Xiao Shi has been hungry for many years. I promised it that I would take it to other tailed beasts to ask for chakra." Zhenyan said.
Itachi: “…………”
"So you did it?" Itachi knew that Shingo had a talent that ordinary people didn't have, but he never thought that Shingo would be so bold as to go to other ninja villages to contact Jinchūriki...
Shingon knew what Itachi was worried about, and he quickly explained, "I always wear a mask when I go there, and I have help."
"Did Akatsuki organize those people?" Itachi quickly connected everything together. Somehow, Shingo had sensed the crisis of the Uchiha clan. In order to stop the rebellion of the Uchiha clan and save them, Shingo found a way to send people to the moon. However, to do this, he needed to consume a lot of chakra, so Shingo signed a contract with the monster in his body. Shingo was probably forced to contact Akatsuki in order to obtain chakra...
Thinking of this, Itachi suddenly felt very guilty. He still remembered that when Mango wanted to open his eyes, he said he would protect Mango. But in the end, he seemed to have done nothing. Instead, it was Mango who put himself in danger for the sake of his family.
"I'll go with you." Itachi said suddenly.
"Huh?" Zhenyan was a little unresponsive.
"I'll go with you to find the Jinchuriki." Itachi repeated it again. No matter what, he couldn't let Shingon go on the adventure alone.
"Yes." Mana agreed happily. Itachi was a genius ninja who graduated from the Ninja School when he was less than ten years old. With Itachi following him, Mana felt more confident.
According to the information given by Black Zetsu, the Four-Tail and the Five-Tail are in Iwagakure Village, so he can collect debts twice by going there once. Managi thought it was very convenient, so he chose Iwagakure Village as his first stop. Managi also chose the second stop, which is Takigakure Village where the Seven-Tail is located, which is on the same route as Iwagakure Village.
With a plan in mind, Shingo and Itachi disguised themselves and set off.
The Sharingan can naturally restrain the Tailed Beast, and Itachi's Sharingan is the Mangekyō Sharingan, which is very useful whether it is for controlling the Tailed Beast or confusing and disturbing ninjas.
With the combined efforts of Mana and Itachi, they successfully retrieved the chakras of the Four-Tailed, Five-Tailed, and Seven-Tailed in less than three days. After retrieving the chakras of the three tailed beasts, Mana discovered that his eyes had been upgraded again.
Shingon's eyes originally had three magatama, but this time they were upgraded to four magatama instead of a kaleidoscope...
The first three magatama are on the inner circle, and the newly grown fourth magatama is on the outer circle.
Shingon was not very familiar with how to upgrade the Sharingan, so he thought it was natural for the Sharingan to be upgraded from level three to level four.
However, Itachi couldn't help being surprised, because the Sharingan upgrade routine was not like this at all...
Itachi explained to Shinyan that there had never been such a way of upgrading in the history of the Uchiha family.
Zhenyan couldn't figure it out, so he asked Bai Jue to pass on the news. After asking Hei Jue, he found out that his eyes had regressed to their original state...
When Otsutsuki Kaguya ate the fruit of the sacred tree, his third eye opened on his forehead. This third eye is the Rinnegan with three circles and nine magatama. Judging from the current situation, it is very likely that Shingon's eye is growing towards the nine magatama.
The reason for this situation is that Shingon has the blood of both Uchiha and Senju, and happens to be the jinchūriki of the Ten-Tails, the incarnation of the sacred tree.
At this time, Zhenyan didn't know that he was actually half a Thousand Hands. Through this upgrade, he summarized the upgrade rules of his eyes.
Previously, when Shingon asked for chakra from the Nine-Tailed Beast, the Three-Tailed Beast, and the One-Tail, his eyes became two magatama. And this time, when he asked for chakra from the Four-Tailed Beast, the Five-Tailed Beast, and the Seven-Tailed Beast, his eyes were upgraded again. This means that every time he asks for chakra from the three tailed beasts, his eyes can be upgraded by one level. At least that's the case from the current situation. I don't know if the experience required for upgrades will increase in the future.
Shingon accepted the upgrade of his eyes well. He explained to Itachi: "Xiao Ju upgraded my eyes to thank me for helping me get my chakra back."
Itachi: “…………”
Itachi was still very suspicious, but he couldn't think of any other reason. Thinking of the monster in Mana's body that went crazy due to lack of chakra, he decided to help Mana get back the remaining chakra of the Two-Tails, Eight-Tails and Six-Tails. This was also a good opportunity to verify whether Mana's eye upgrade was related to the absorption of the tailed beasts' chakra.
Shingon was naturally happy to do so. With Itachi's help, debt collection became an easy task. Sometimes he didn't even need to use the chakra chain. Itachi's Mangekyō Sharingan could make the tailed beast pay back the debt obediently.
But this time they encountered some difficulties. First, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki defected and his whereabouts were unknown. Black Zetsu secretly sent out thousands of White Zetsu to find him.
Although it was a little more troublesome than other tailed beasts, Shingon and Itachi still successfully obtained the chakra of the Six-Tails. The most difficult one was still the Eight-Tails.
The Eight-Tailed Gyu-ki is different from other tailed beasts. It does not hate humans, at least it does not hate the jinchūriki who trapped it. On the contrary, it was infected by the optimism of its jinchūriki Killer Bee, and the man and the beast became good friends who understood each other.
Because of their telepathy, Killer Bee can transform into a tailed beast and fully unleash the power of the Eight-Tails. Of course, Shingon and Itachi came to ask for chakra, not to fight. No matter how powerful the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki is, they will not fight. They also used Itachi's Mangekyō Sharingan to avoid fighting with the previous Jinchuriki, but This time Itachi's illusion didn't work.
It's still the same question. The relationship between Kirabi and the Niugui is special. Once Kirabi is caught in an illusion, the Niugui who has a close relationship with Kirabi will wake Kirabi up.
Therefore, if Shingon and Itachi want to avoid fighting this time, they have to make the Eight-tailed Jinchuriki Killer Bee and the Eight-tailed Gyuki fall into the illusion at the same time.
The sealed space of Niu Gui inside Killer Bee's body is equivalent to another small dimension, so it is difficult to cast illusions on both of them at the same time.
Before, Itachi had always been the one who took action, and Mangon just followed behind and absorbed the chakra easily. This time, when he encountered a difficult problem, Mangon wanted to try it himself, because after his eyes turned into four magatama, his ability of mouth-to-mouth was also upgraded.
When Shingon first developed the mouth-to-mouth technique, he referred to the Sound Interference Ninjutsu of the Sound Village, so strictly speaking, the mouth-to-mouth technique is also a type of illusion.
After upgrading his eyes, Zhenyan discovered that his mouth-to-mouth ability had a hypnotic function, and he could now control other people through voice.
Compared with sound and sight, it is even more pervasive.
Shingon wanted to try whether he could control the Eight-Tails and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki at the same time with his mouth, and how long he could control them.
Itachi still had some concerns. When they went to Iwagakure and Takigakure before, they used illusions to control the Jinchūriki and quickly evacuated after the Shingon absorbed the chakra. Both times, they did not alarm the other ninjas in the village.
This time, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki Killer Bee is in the Hidden Cloud Village. If Zhenyan's mouth-to-mouth doesn't work and Killer Bee loses control, it will definitely attract other ninjas from the Hidden Cloud Village. Even if they can escape at that time, they will probably be wanted by the Hidden Cloud Village.
After listening to Itachi's concerns, Shingon only said, "Isn't there still Itachi?"
Itachi used his illusion combined with his mouth-to-mouth, he didn't believe that he couldn't control the Eight-Tails and its Jinchuriki, not to mention that they were all in disguise, so it didn't matter even if they were wanted.
Itachi still couldn't rest assured, because the recognition rate of Zhenyan's persuasion was too high. No matter who kept the same voice in his mind for several months or even years, he would not easily forget this person...
As the founder of the verbal persuasion technique, Zhenyan has never experienced what it feels like to be verbally persuaded. After this upgrade, he only feels that his control over sound and chakra has been enhanced. Now he can make the sound loop and use it for hypnosis.
Zhenyan named his hypnotic mouth-to-mouth approach "Go to sleep", meaning that he wanted his opponent to be obedient and not put up unnecessary resistance.
In order to reassure Itachi, Shingon decided to let Itachi experience the hypnotic effect of mouth-to-mouth talk and go to bed.
Shingon opened his four-magatama Sharingan, looked at Itachi, and said slowly: "Itachi, remember to use eye cream."
Itachi: “…………”
After the mouth-to-mouth technique is upgraded, the truth is a combination of sound and the power of the Sharingan. The sound will no longer circulate in the brain of the person who hears it, because the sound of the truth only penetrates the consciousness of the listener once, and the person whose consciousness is penetrated by the sound will unconsciously obey the words of the truth.
Itachi instinctively opened his Mangekyō Sharingan. He tried his best to suppress the urge to apply eye cream, but he couldn't resist and took it out in the end...
Itachi used eye cream, and this was even after he used the power of his Mangekyō Sharingan to offset most of the power of Shingon, he still lost control...
Itachi had never expected that the power of Mango's Four Magatama Sharingan was comparable to that of the Mangekyō Sharingan, and even had a stronger tendency. Such a powerful mental control ability reminded him of Shisui's Kotoamatsukami. The most important thing was that Mango's eyes seemed to be able to continue to upgrade, and his ability had not yet reached its limit...
"How is it?" Shingon asked Itachi.
Itachi: “…………”
Itachi was convinced by Shingen's words of "Just go to bed"...!