Hokage: Ryo's Path

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“You’re planning to use his teacher’s death to stimulate his Mangekyo?”

“Smart! That’s my disciple!” Ryo patted Shisui’s head with an unimaginable wicked look on his face.

Looking at Ryo’s expression, Shisui realized that he had decided, and he asked: “What are you going to do, Sensei?”

“What you just said, your death will awaken his Mangekyo. Tonight, you will...”

“Wow Sensei, you’re really willing to pluck out my other eye!” After hearing Ryo’s plan, Shisui looked at him with some resentment.

“Don’t worry! Your eyes are too rare. However, we could always just do this with a replacement 3 tomoe Sharingan. You just need to hold on with me tonight.”

“Sensei. The Mangekyo is much stronger than the 3 Tomoe Sharingan. If he activates his own Mangekyo, he will know the difference.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll deal with that.”

Shisui nodded with a bitter look on his face, and Ryo activated his own Mangekyo, boosting his Lightning Chakra Mode to catch up with Danzo.

Now, while Ryo wasn’t planning to retrieve his disciple’s eye, he couldn’t just let Danzo use it.

Kotoamatsukami was an ability that’s just too overpowered, and it had to never fall in the hands of an evil man like Danzo.

Ryo even thought of replacing it by a normal 3 tomoe Sharingan.

However, Ryo did not go with that idea, as Danzo did need the Mangekyo for what’s to come. On top of that, Danzo already had several 3 Tomoe Sharingans, and he would notice that whatever eyes Ryo would give him would be nothing special.

Therefore, Ryo had a different plan. After catching up with Danzo, he immediately used his clan’s techniques to invade his mind. Obviously Ryo’s Spiritual Power far surpassed that of his target and he could quickly inside his body with no problems.

Now, Danzo’s own consciousness was out, and Ryo, with Danzo’s own hands, took out Shisui’s left eye, applying a seal to it preventing it from using Kotoamatsukami.

After that, he returned the eye to its glass container, reassumed Danzo’s last stance when he invaded him, and then leaving his mind.

This series of actions was completed very quickly, and Danzo lost consciousness for only a few tens of seconds.

After waking up, he felt that something was wrong, but he couldn’t tell what the problem was. In a hurry, he checked out the state of the eyes. Once he realized that they were ‘intact’, he had no more doubt and he continued running out of the forest.

Upon returning to his base, Danzo found a medical Ninjas, and he couldn’t want to het the transplant operation going.

It was done very quickly, and immediately, Danzo felt a lot more power from his new left eye, and was very happy.

Indeed, compared to the Sharingans on his arm, this eye was extremely powerful. Even his white arm which usually was usually ‘disobedient’, it turned ‘docile’ after this transplantation.

The combination of having the Senju’s and the Uchiha’s powers combined gave Danzo a sense of being reborn. He had always felt weak, never reaching Hiruzen or even becoming an actual contender to him.

Now, the only thing that bothered him was that he couldn’t sense what ability came with this eye.

However, this “small problem” was quickly ignored by Danzo, as he was immersed in the joy of getting a new life.

On the other side, Ryo snuck into the Uchiha’s district, getting a three tomoe Sharingan from Fugaku.

Ryo injected some of his own strength in it, making it feel, from the outside, like a Mangekyo.

“Ryo, you...” Fugaku seemed worried.

“This is a prop for Shisui.” Ryo then explained to Fugaku the use of this Mangekyo.

“That is to say, you’ve chosen Itachi?”

“Is there any better choice?” Ryo asked.

Fugaku remained silent for a moment, and then said: “No, there is really not anyone more suitable for this than him. Ryo, you go ahead, I believe in him!”

Ryo nodded, and Fugaku sighed and muttered to himself: “I’m no good father, Itachi; I’m sorry!”

Later, Ryo handed this “Mangekyo” to Shisui, and the latter prepared for his part of the play.

“Shisui, it’s so late and... Shisui! What’s wrong with your eyes?” Itachi was about to greet Shisui as usual, but then, he found his Sensei’s eye socket empty, and his other eye filled with tears and blood. The young Itachi was shaken to the bone.

“As you can see, one of them is gone!”

Itachi turned anxious and yell: “You have a Mangekyo Sharingan! How could someone take your eye?”

“That’s not important. Do you still remember what I said before? How I will change the village and the clan with my eyes? I am afraid I can no longer do that. Therefore, I’ve decided to entrust everything to you.” Shisui “dug” out his other eye and handed it to Itachi.

“In your hands, it would do better than with me!” As he said that, Shisui laid back, falling off the cliff.

Just like in the Manga, this sequence of events caused Itachi so much grief, it awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan.

“Sensei, is this really the right way? He’s just 12 years old! Such burdens should be too heavy for him to bear.” On the other side of the cliff, Shisui was watching his disciple and friend’s grief with unbearable pain.

“It is cruel, but I believe things would go according to plan. Fugaku knows and approves of this; he trusts his son, and we should do so as well.”

Shisui said nothing, watching Itachi in silence. Gradually, the crying face he was looking at began to be filled with determination.

Then, according to the arrangement between Ryo and Sakumo, Shisui returned to the Anbu, staying at Sakumo’s place himself.

At the same time, the Anbu began surveilling Danzo heavily.

In a few days, news of Shisui’s disappearance spread across the Uchiha district, and soon, the whole village knew about it.

This young promising talent was loved by the old, and worshiped by the young, for both his character and his power. His disappearance obviously caused uproar in the clan.

His admirers began to inquire about his disappearance, and eventually, according to a Patrol Squad, the last time Shisui was seen, he was near a certain cliff. On the same night, Itachi was seen there as well.

Outside of the clan, some people also claimed they saw the two having some conflicts.

This information quickly made the mood tense in the clan...