Completely different existence

His legs were numb from kneeling for too long, so he propped up his upper body by supporting himself on the ground. Then someone who had been standing behind him for who knows how long came forward to support him.

"Thank you."

The boy still lowered his head and patted his knees without saying a word. Uchiha Yuji wanted to say something but stopped. He swallowed the words he had thought about for a long time and only asked one question: "You and Madara, are you okay?"

Izuna's accident was regrettable, but the clan leader's attitude was also worrying. In just four or five days, Uchiha Madara and his men had two or three large and small battles with the Senju.

Especially Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, the two clan leaders fought for half a day. Although there was no winner in the end, the conflict between the two clans was intensified.

Uchiha Tobi rubbed his forehead, not knowing how to respond to Yuji's concern, because he had just had a fight with Madara and was ordered not to leave the clan territory.

The incident happened on the day after Izuna was injured. After another group of Uchiha left on their reporting mission, Uchiha Madara picked up the cold tea and drank it all in one gulp.

Uchiha Tobi walked out of the room, his long hair tied up, but his face was still haggard. After a sleepless day and night, he still had some doubts after getting Izuna's answer.

When he saw Izuna injured, his mind inevitably lost control. But after calming down, he found some doubts.

Although he was not familiar with Hashirama Senju, he did not think that the latter would launch a sneak attack or collude with other ninja clans.

Senju Hashirama is powerful enough. If he really wants to kill Izuna, I'm afraid just one person would be enough.

After much thought, he decided to talk to Ban.

"I think the culprit this time is not Senju Hashirama." The young man said calmly, "I have been in the Senju clan for the past few days. Although I am not always by his side, it is impossible for him to..."

Before he finished speaking, Uchiha Madara, who was sitting, stood up suddenly, staring at the person in front of him with his red Sharingan: "Do you know what you are talking about?"

Uchiha Tobirama swallowed his words, and finally said with certainty: "I know, but as Hashirama Senju said, if the Senju and Uchiha form an alliance, they can achieve the goal of a temporary ceasefire."

Looking at the shoulders that were becoming increasingly angry and shaking with anger, Uchiha Tobi realized that now was not the best time to bring up this matter, and it might even be like adding fuel to the fire.

But he must take the first step, otherwise if he keeps dragging it out, it will be disadvantageous to Izuna's injury.

After taking a deep breath, Fei told him everything he had done in the past few days, as well as his plans and considerations. The atmosphere was very solemn, and after he finished speaking, he realized that the person in front of him lowered his head and covered his eyes with his hair.

“Bang!”

With a series of crisp sounds, five clasped fingers brushed across the boy's cheek. Because the force was restrained at the critical moment, the slap that should have landed firmly on the face instead brushed across the cheek and flicked across the white hair on the side of his face.

The pair of scarlet eyes gradually widened, and although he used less force, a few red marks were still left on his face.

The burning sensation brought Uchiha Tobi back to his senses. The man in front of him bit his lower lip and almost yelled: "Do you know what you are doing?! Uchiha Tobi!!"

Tobi had never seen Madara so angry. Although his elder brother had a very fierce face, he was actually quite easy-going.

He went to the clan of his mortal enemy alone, and afterwards he had a nonchalant expression, not realizing that he had made a mistake. Uchiha Madara couldn't imagine that he was almost going to lose a younger brother.

Whenever he thought of Izuna who was still lying there, he felt guilty and annoyed that he could not protect his two younger brothers.

There was a loud bang, and most of the clan leader's yard was gone in an instant. Uchiha Madara, who was extremely angry, strode away. Judging from his posture, some deserted place was about to be destroyed.

Uchiha Yuji was not far away. He rushed over when he heard the sound and looked at the red spot on the boy's cheek in surprise.

"Door?"

Uchiha Tobi waved his hands and responded casually: "No problem."

He was confused, although he knew that Madara would not give in so easily and the gap between ninjas would not be easily eliminated. But he did not expect Madara to react so strongly, so he had to be more cautious.

So he went out overnight.

After successfully making an appointment with Senju Hashirama, he went straight to the point and stated his purpose.

The two men were standing at a distance from each other, and the night blurred their figures, so he couldn't see Senju Hashirama's expression clearly.

The wind was somewhat cool, but the silence all around made Uchiha Tobi's heart sink a little.

Senju Hashirama did not answer. As time passed, Uchiha Tobi forced himself to calm down from his annoyance: "Did you interfere in Izuna's affairs?"

Before he could get a reply, Uchiha Tobi, who had been on alert, noticed something was wrong. He thought it was Hashirama Senju who brought his men with him, but when he saw the angry face that jumped out, it was his turn to get nervous.

“Brother!”

"Senju Hashirama! It's you!" Uchiha Madara was furious, and then started to attack without hesitation.

Senju Hashirama did not deny it. He just looked at Uchiha Tobira again and then started to fight.

Although there were only two of them, they caused a huge commotion. A huge fireball lit up half the sky, and Uchiha Tobiki's eyes went dark before he could see.

In the chaos, he was too close and didn't know he was affected by the attack. Looking at Uchiha Tobi with a bloody face and bleeding nose, Uchiha Madara finally stopped.

Although it was not a serious injury, the matter of Izuna had already made Madara overly nervous. He cursed angrily and then left without saying anything, carrying the white-haired boy.

Senju Hashirama wiped his nose. As the culprit who kidnapped someone's brother, he didn't know how to explain. But it was indeed him who arranged for the tribe members to intercept Huquanna.

"You were the one who led the people from the Feathered Clan over there, right?" The man with long black hair said in a cold tone, looking back with cold eyes, "If the Feathered Clan hadn't intervened, Uchiha Izuna wouldn't have been injured so badly."

A dark figure emerged from the darkness. His voice was a little sharp, but he was very determined: "This is also for the Senju. The Uchiha clan should not exist. They are bigoted and crazy, and their existence that is not conducive to peace should be eliminated."

The man with half-closed eyes remained silent, but finally sighed and said as if to compromise: "It's up to you."

The black existence named Black Zetsu suddenly appeared. He thought he was doing something good for Senju and wanted to impress him. But Senju Hashirama only felt annoyed, but this guy was a great escape technique and could not be surprised.

Let him jump around self-righteously for a while until we figure out his plan.

At this time in the Uchiha clan, many people fell silent because of the clan leader's rage.

The people on the night watch reduced their presence one after another. They didn't know why the clan leader was so angry, so they all looked at Uchiha Tobi for help.

But the person who was most capable of calming the clan leader's emotions was kneeling and was not allowed to stand up.

Uchiha Yuji looked at the blood-stained Kai with some reluctance and walked forward, but before he could open his mouth, he was glared at.

"From today on, Uchiha Tobiki is not allowed to leave the clan! If anyone violates this rule, anyone who knows about it will be punished together!"

In the days that followed, everyone in the clan was very depressed.

"Bara didn't punish you on purpose. Did you do something wrong?" Uchiha Yuji, who secretly brought food, asked, "You have always been smart, why don't you just give in?"

Uchiha Tobi, who was locked in the ancestral hall, did not move. This kind of treatment was something he had never experienced before. However, no matter how angry he was, Madara acquiesced to Uchiha Yuji coming to deliver food.

"How is Izuna?" After eating, Uchiha Tobi asked as usual.

Uchiha Yuji packed up his things, stood up and answered: "He was awake for a while today, but..."

Seeing the person in front of him seeming to want to say something but hesitated, Uchiha Tobi wiped his mouth and prepared to move out of the ancestral hall.

After enough "reflection", he went home to take care of Izuna openly. As soon as he got home, he saw Madara with his sleeves rolled up and a basin of water in his hand.

"Brother, I was wrong."

The apology made Uchiha Madara look better, but he still snorted coldly: "Stay at home obediently."

Uchiha Kai nodded and went to visit Izuna. Compared to yesterday's situation, Izuna was not any better.

The wound was getting worse, but more importantly, Izuna herself was rarely awake.

A few days later, after staying with him day and night, Uchiha Tobi finally talked to Izuna when he was conscious.

"Izuna?" He called softly and gently wiped the cracked corners of his mouth with a hot cloth.

Izuna's tone was weak, but she still smiled subconsciously: "Second brother..."

The two of them talked to each other intermittently, and before they fell asleep, Izuna grabbed Tobi's hand tightly.

"Eyes... Mangekyō, please give my eyes to Madara-nii after I die." Izuna struggled and said with a slight smile on her lips, "Please, second brother... Madara-nii will never agree, but... Uchiha, cannot lose to Senju."

After opening the Mangekyō, Izuna felt firsthand how heavy the burden on Madara was. In front of him were his clan members who needed to be taken care of, and behind him were the powerful enemy Senju Hashirama and the Senju clan.

After awakening the Wood Release, Hashirama Senju became even stronger. However, overusing the Mangekyō would only make the situation worse.

Izuna couldn't bear to see his elder brother fail. In his impression, Madara should be the strongest one.

And it doesn’t matter if I leave, because Brother Ban still has his second brother to accompany him.

The young man lying on the bed, gasping for breath, was only seventeen years old. It was too early. He shouldn't have died so early.

Uchiha Tobi finally understood that the reason for the wound's deterioration was not only physical, but also related to his will. Izuna didn't want to recover, he didn't even want to live.

As long as Izuna is alive, Madara will never accept his eyes. Even if Madara really accepts the twin Mangekyō, this Eternal Mangekyō was obtained at the cost of his brother's life.

How cruel and heavy this was for him.

Uchiha Tobi didn't know what had caused Izuna to have such an extreme idea. Finally, looking at the closed eyes, he reached out and touched Izuna's eye sockets, and vaguely understood.

It's because of the Mangekyō Sharingan. Izuna and Madara are the only ones with the Mangekyō, and that's the commonality between the two. So there are things that only the Mangekyō can see through, and the other two are hiding it from themselves.

Uchiha Tobi sat there for a long time, and finally the feeling of soreness and moisture in his eyes made him make up his mind.

Izuna is his family, so he will not allow his family to leave. Tobi bowed deeply, leaned down and whispered: "Sorry, Izuna, wait for me, I will definitely find a way to wake you up."

The book with a black cover was found again. Uchiha Tobi was confident that he had memorized the contents inside, but because the user of the technique was Izuna, he became cautious again.

Complex patterns were carved into the floor, and with the last stroke, a never-before-used technique was activated.

Lu Ren vaguely understood that this black-covered book was specially prepared for him. The techniques that he had read and did not understand at that time came in handy in the future.

He wanted to live freely, but now there was something more important than living.

It's family.

The heartbeat slowly stopped, along with the breathing. The sleeping person's face was peaceful, and under the influence of the magic, he could no longer feel pain.

But he did not die. The function of this technique is to turn people into "living dead", but as long as the technique is released and there is a powerful medical ninja to help, he still has a glimmer of hope of survival.

Uchiha Tobi's hands were trembling as he gouged out Izuna's eyes, then he wrapped layer upon layer of sealing paper and put Izuna's body into a specially made scroll.

After everything was over, he was surprised to find that he was covered in cold sweat.

Without time to clean the blood stains on his body, Uchiha Madara returned in a rage. He only saw ten bloodstained doors holding a pair of eyes in the empty room.

"Where's Izuna?!" Uchiha Madara realized something and asked with a trembling voice.

Uchiha Tobi was very cold, so cold that he was a little numb: "Izuna is dead, I hope the clan leader can replace his eyes."

Without hesitation, Uchiha Madara pulled up the person who was kneeling on the ground: "What nonsense are you talking about! When I left, he was still, he was still..."

It was only half a day, and he was fine before he left. Angry and sad, Uchiha Madara lost control for a moment, and when he came to his senses, he was annoyed and heartbroken.

"Door? You..."

Uchiha Tobi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and repeated once more: "Patriarch, please don't let Izuna's sacrifice go to waste."

"Master Patriarch!" Uchiha Yuji was shocked after witnessing everything, but he still knelt down and begged for mercy immediately.

In the past few days, Uchiha Tobi, who had been staying indoors, had heard some rumors. It was like brothers killing each other, and the action was cruel and uncharacteristic of an Uchiha.

He was somewhat used to it, but after taking off the bandage on his eyes, Uchiha Madara dealt with these things immediately.

The surroundings suddenly became quiet, but there were still a lot of tasks to be dealt with. Uchiha Tobi sat in the sunny room, stopped writing and rubbed his hands subconsciously.

"How's it going?" Tobacco raised his head and asked. The person at the door nodded, "It's OK."

Uchiha Yuji held a pile of scrolls, looked at the boy in deep thought, and coughed lightly to remind him.

Fei was still distracted, wondering which Flying Thunder God marks he had left behind.

In the book, there is a technique without a name. But its pattern is very familiar, similar to the completely reversed Flying Thunder God Technique.

The above introduction to it is that it can play the role of "going back in time", but the requirement is that there must not be the Flying Thunder God Mark.

So Uchiha Tobi called this technique the Reverse Flying Thunder God Technique, and because of its miraculous effect, he decided to give it a try.

Relying on his memory, he dealt with most of the remaining Flying Thunder God marks. Flying Thunder God was convenient, so he left a lot of them.

Things are extremely stressful now, and with various things happening within the clan, he is somewhat overwhelmed.

"Ah." Uchiha Tobi sighed, swept the things on the table and sat there for a while, "Where is the clan leader?"

"He is in the clan. Should we go and inform him?" Uchiha Yuzhi reminded, "The clan leader hasn't been back for four days. He hasn't rested for four days either."

After getting Izuna's Sharingan, Madara started working day and night almost as soon as his eyes got used to it. Uchiha Tobi, who stayed at home, was responsible for handling paperwork and other tasks that did not require leaving the house.

As the middleman, Uchiha Yuji was very concerned about the indifference between the two brothers.

Uchiha Tobi stood up, put the things on the table in order, and then said as if he had made up his mind: "I understand."

The two brothers had not talked since the last time. The elder brother was probably still angry, so Uchiha Tobi did not take the initiative to look for him.

"The patriarch? He doesn't seem to be here."

After finding a place to sleep, Uchiha Tobi didn't leave immediately. He walked into Madara's office skillfully and started searching.

He found the kunai engraved with the Flying Thunder God's mark, and then used a fire escape to destroy it.

The last one has been dealt with, so there should be no more now. Uchiha Tobi picked up the pen while recalling the past.

He was very familiar with the mark of Flying Thunder God, and could almost draw it with his eyes closed. But today he was going to do it completely in reverse, and in order to experiment with this reverse Flying Thunder God technique, Uchiha Tobi found an empty place.

The pattern looked a little strange. For some reason, Uchiha Tobi felt that the patterns seemed to move. Then he felt that all the chakra in his body was drained away. His face turned pale and he knelt down again.

At this time, far away from the Uchiha clan's territory, after a fierce battle, several huge trees rose from the ground and twisted to form a suspended tree house.

"What nonsense are you talking about?! Do you think what you see with the Mangekyō Sharingan is also fake?" Uchiha Madara asked angrily, his body covered with wounds of varying sizes.

"The guy who calls himself Black Zetsu knows the Uchiha clan very well. I just suspect that the stone tablet you mentioned has been tampered with." Hashirama analyzed rationally. He also had wounds of various sizes on his body. "And it was Tobi who discovered the existence of Black Zetsu. Don't you believe in Tobi either?"

Uchiha Madara was silent for a moment. When he thought about what happened during this period, his eyes dimmed.

He lost one of his brothers, Izuna, and became estranged from his other brother, Tobi. But it wasn't that they were estranged, it was just that he didn't know how to treat Tobi.

He was so useless. Not only did he fail to protect Izuna, he even wrongly blamed Tobi. Regret, remorse, and deep guilt made him not know how to get along with Tobi.

So he had a big fight with Senju Hashirama. But he really couldn't defeat Hashirama, even if he replaced his brother's eyes.

But now, Hashirama Senju told him that there was a hidden story behind everything. His brother's death was all planned by a creature called Black Zetsu. And that Black Zetsu was planning to attack Tobi!

There was a brief silence between the two, but when Uchiha Madara was about to speak, he suddenly felt his chest getting hot.

When he surprisingly took out the kunai with Flying Thunder God printed on it, he saw Hashirama in front of him also holding a piece of cloth with Flying Thunder God printed on it.

Ban's mood suddenly became complicated. He snorted coldly: "You really have evil intentions towards Fei!"

But before Hashirama could explain, the neat patterns suddenly began to twist, and then more than half of the chakra in his body was instantly drained away -

Dazzling lights lit up simultaneously in two places in the Land of Fire, corresponding to each other from a distance, and then completely dimmed after a moment. When they looked again, the person at the center of the light had disappeared.