Ninja Ice House

Chapter 551 Overdraft

The matter concerning Jiraiya, while somewhat unexpected and troublesome, is still within an acceptable range. The truly difficult issue is Uchiha Itachi, or rather, how to dispose of the recovered remains of Uchiha Itachi in order to fulfill the promise made to Uchiha Mikoto.

After all, they are my relatives, and it seems a bit unreasonable not to keep some promises once they are made.

With Itachi Uchiha's relentless and desperate fighting spirit, he almost completely exhausted his potential and energy in life. If it weren't for the implanted "Karma" that forcibly kept him alive and maintained the activity of his core chakra, his soul would probably have gone to the Pure Land long ago and died.

The current situation isn't that dire, but Itachi Uchiha's condition is even more troublesome than Jiraiya's. He suffers from both physical and spiritual exhaustion, with the physical problems being more severe. Apart from a few cells still retaining some activity, he is practically dead. The spiritual problems are mostly due to the overuse of the Mangekyou Sharingan's eye techniques, with a small part being mutations caused by the body's stress being transmitted to the soul.

There are other reasons as well, but they are not the main ones.

As for bloodline disease, after carefully examining Itachi Uchiha's body, Fukusugi Bokusui unexpectedly discovered that Itachi's so-called incurable disease was actually far more complex than just an illness.

"It can be roughly described as a pupillary stress response..."

The young head of the Gushan family sighed somewhat helplessly.

"Powerful forces are often extremely domineering. Let alone the coexistence of different species, even those with distant blood relations cannot be compatible..."

It is rare to hear of an Uchiha clan member "borrowing" another person's Sharingan, and there have been almost no cases of a clan member who has awakened the Sharingan having it stolen by another clan member while still alive, which shows that such a thing is somewhat taboo.

Throughout the history of the Uchiha clan, only one-tenth, or even less, of the clan members with ninja talent were able to successfully "awaken" and obtain the power of the Sharingan.

Ninja aptitude and Sharingan aptitude are related, but not the same.

If a powerful, strong, and vigorous Uchiha Jonin were to say that he couldn't even get past the "awakening" stage, let alone the Mangekyou Sharingan, he would be unable to achieve it.

He's clearly a master, but because he doesn't have the Sharingan, he can't even participate in the "Secret Clan Meeting" of the "Nanka Shrine." Will he be content with that?

If someone like Obito Uchiha in his youth happened to be a "loser," with no elders in his clan to support him and no prominent figures among his close relatives, he would be a laughing stock in the Ninja Academy, only to awaken his Sharingan by chance in a battle. If you were that Jonin who hadn't awakened his Sharingan, could you accept that?

Won't you be envious?

Should we rob it or not?

Why not rob, or even have such incidents occurred at all?

On the contrary, it was outsiders who coveted it the most, such as Orochimaru and Danzo Shimura, who secretly collected a large number of them.

When Obito Uchiha was enshrined at the memorial tablet, the Uchiha clan considered taking back the Sharingan from Kakashi Hatake's eyes, but ultimately did not act. This was not only because they valued Obito's last wish, but also because they feared the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi. At that time, the Uchiha clan was at its zenith, with numerous Jonin and outstanding juniors emerging one after another, so there was no need for them to have any ulterior motives.

In fact, they believed that time was on their side, and that it was only a matter of time before clan leader Fugaku Uchiha became the Fourth or Fifth Hokage. If it weren't for the presence of the renowned "Sannin" ahead of them, the Uchiha clan would have become incredibly arrogant long ago.

Furthermore, with the Fourth Shinobi World War raging and the Nine-Tails' attack on the village yet to occur, the relationship between the Uchiha clan and the village wasn't as bad as it later became, and their circumstances were on completely different levels.

Even so, there have been no reports of elders who haven't awakened their Sharingan snatching the Sharingan of younger generations who haven't yet matured. The clan only collects the Sharingan of clan members who died in battle for future use. There have been no incidents of forced collection or coordinated allocation. The reason is not complicated: exchanging Sharingan among distant relatives within the Uchiha clan is more dangerous than transplanting Sharingan to outsiders.

Of course, if you simply transplant it onto your arm or back like Danzo Shimura and Obito Uchiha did, using it as a consumable for the forbidden technique Izanagi, then that's a different story.

Furthermore, if one is powerful enough to approach or even surpass the level of the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, or has received White Zetsu cells and possesses a special compatible constitution, and their own formidable strength is sufficient to suppress the backlash, then the plug-and-play "hot-swap" Sharingan can be replaced at will without any problem.

However, it is generally not appropriate for members of the Uchiha clan to directly place the Sharingan of other distant relatives into their own eye sockets.

If I had to give an explanation, it would be a conflict of pupil power.

The power at the level of Mangekyou Sharingan eye techniques is essentially the power of order at the level of rules generated by the intersection of the Ten-Tails and the ninja world, which is controlled by the Otsutsuki clan. It is a de facto "divine technique," a special power that only gods can wield. This can be discerned from the names of these eye techniques.

Those with close blood ties, such as siblings, parents, or children, are highly likely to share a common source of power, allowing for compatibility and complementarity. However, if the bloodlines are too distant, such as one originating from the "God of Fire" and the other from the "God of Water," a severe conflict will occur between them, as fire and water are incompatible. On the other hand, the God of Fire, "Kagutsuchi," and the God of Thunder, "Takemikazuchi," can coexist peacefully to some extent. There is a similar overlap between the "God of War" and the "God of War," which, although not achieving a qualitative improvement when combined, still manage to achieve a synergistic effect greater than the sum of its parts, preventing each other from hindering the other or even endangering the host's life.

To reiterate, if you're not powerful enough, don't even think about using the Sharingan like a USB plug-and-play device. It's not something an ordinary person can master. For members of the Uchiha clan, exchanging eyes is, to some extent, taboo, and most of the time, it's more harmful than beneficial.

In this case, the situation becomes quite clear. The Sharingan that Obito Uchiha gave to Kakashi Hatake before his "death" was not something the Uchiha clan didn't want to take back. Rather, even if they took it back, they couldn't use it to add another skilled member of their clan to the Sharingan. It was better to accept the status quo, which would be better for everyone.

This is the least bad option, and it even balances the interests of all parties, so there won't be any complaints. In fact, it is one of the best solutions.

The problem with Itachi Uchiha lies here: his bloodline disease was an objective fact, but it shouldn't have been this severe. It was Shisui Uchiha's eye power that infected his body, and with his father's eye power adding fuel to the fire, his body reacted rapidly, like a fire being added to a thermite, igniting his body and burning fiercely. In just a few years, he was almost completely burned away.

It wasn't that Itachi Uchiha wasn't strong enough, but rather that the world didn't give him enough time to grow. You have to understand that when he awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan and gained immense power, even Orochimaru was wary of him, he was actually not even thirteen years old.

At that age, Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki were still playing hide-and-seek with Zabuza Momochi, who had no eyebrows, in the Land of Waves!

Kakashi Hatake, who was about the same age, had just become a Jonin and created the Lightning Release technique, Lightning Blade, and began to show his talent on the battlefield.

Premature maturity, excessive burdens, and premature depletion of future potential are the real culprits behind untimely death.