Chapter 8 – Plundering the Fallen Clan
Uchiha Clan Head's Estate
Hidden under an improved optical camouflage, Aike and Izumi arrived just in time to watch Itachi commit the final atrocity: murdering his own parents.
"That filthy animal… he didn't even spare his own mother and father!"
Izumi's hatred detonated. Her Mangekyō flared to life.
"Amaterasu!"
Black flames instantly swallowed the entire room.
"Izumi…?"
Itachi dodged in a flash of Shunpo. When he saw who had attacked, shock and a flicker of joy crossed his face.
She's alive?
But the moment he saw her Mangekyō, joy turned to unease, then to icy killing intent.
"I'm sorry, Izumi. For the village… for Sasuke…
you have to die with the rest of the clan."
Without another thought, he unleashed his strongest genjutsu.
"Tsukuyomi!"
Izumi froze mid-rampage, eyes going glassy under the infinite crimson moon.
"Using illusions in front of me?"
Aike raised an eyebrow.
Through their contract link he instantly lent her the power of Kyōka Suigetsu.
Tsukuyomi's spiritual attack reversed course and slammed straight back into Itachi.
"Guh—!"
Blood tears streamed from Itachi's eyes as the backlash hit.
Izumi snapped out of it, now even more furious.
Her left Mangekyō wielded Amaterasu.
Her right eye ability: Kunitsukami (Amplifies ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu by several folds).
An incredibly well-rounded and aggressive ability, perfect mirror of her thirst for raw power.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire!"
Under Kunitsukami's boost, the normally modest technique ballooned into a meteor storm of house-sized fireballs.
In seconds the entire estate was an inferno.
Even a genius like Itachi, reeling from genjutsu rebound, could only barely dodge. Burns covered his body.
"DIE, UCHIHA ITACHI!"
"Amaterasu!"
Another torrent of inextinguishable black flame roared toward him.
Izumi was spamming Mangekyō techniques without pause.
If not for the Yin-Yang energy Aike had given her (Yin for endless ocular power, Yang for rapid recovery), she'd already be half-blind.
Itachi was one second from death when space behind him began to twist.
"Cockroach in the sewer, always showing up at the worst moment."
Aike vanished.
His sealed Zanpakutō slashed down with perfect, unavoidable precision.
Whoosh—empty air.
"Izanagi again."
Aike clicked his tongue, annoyed but not surprised.
That one-eyed reality-rewriting cheat was just too broken.
In the instant before the blade landed, Obito had rewritten "being cut in half" into "never happened."
Thus Aike hit nothing, and the two Uchiha escaped into Kamui's dimension.
Izumi was livid, but Aike just shrugged.
"No rush. As long as Sasuke's still breathing, your 'devoted big brother' will come back eventually.
Until then, you can take out your anger on the rest of Konoha."
Hundreds of chakra signatures were already closing in, ANBU, Root, elite jōnin, even the Third Hokage himself.
Minutes later the burning estate was surrounded.
"Who are you people?!"
The lead Root ninja barked arrogantly.
He died arrogantly too, incinerated by Amaterasu the next second.
"It's an Uchiha! Kill her!"
The sight of Izumi's Mangekyō triggered an immediate swarm attack.
It didn't last long.
Roles quickly reversed.
Against a fully empowered Mangekyō, these fodder couldn't even flee.
Five minutes later only Izumi remained standing among smoldering corpses.
While she was busy, Aike quietly harvested Fugaku's intact Mangekyō pair and drained Mikoto's eyes for essence.
Waste not, want not.
"Let's go. Show me the Uchiha vault."
Izumi obeyed instantly, leading him to the clan's secret treasury.
The moment the stone door opened, Aike's eyes lit up.
Scrolls of forbidden kinjutsu, priceless ninja tools, mountains of ryō and jewels.
"Worthy of a thousand-year clan."
He swept everything into his inventory with a wave.
Better in his pocket than the Council of Fossils'.
During the looting he found an ancient sealed box hidden behind three layers of barriers.
Curiosity piqued, he ripped the seals apart.
"Final Weapon?"
Aike frowned.
The Uchiha had a final weapon? He didn't remember anything like this in the original story.
He opened the scroll inside.
Izumi leaned in, equally curious. A weapon strong enough to be called "final" would make revenge much easier.
After reading, both of them fell silent.
The scroll spoke of the Warring States era… and the "final weapon" was a person.
"Nameless…"
Aike muttered the name.
Definitely not in the main manga.
Either Boruto-era filler or some game-original character, neither of which he'd ever touched.
Unknown = hard to price.
Still…
"You want to go find him?" Izumi asked, eyes gleaming.
She clearly liked the sound of "final weapon."
"I'm interested," Aike admitted with a grin.
Anyone strong enough that both the Senju and Sarutobi chose to seal instead of kill was worth checking out.
If it's a guy: squeeze him dry or kill him and take the eyes.
If it's a girl: contract → harem → onboard. Same smooth process.
"Let's pay the Sarutobi clan a visit."
The scroll only gave vague hints about the sealing location.
The ones who tied the bell had to untie it.
Izumi's lips curved into a cold smile.
She had zero objections to robbing (and possibly burning) another elder clan.
…
Outside the Uchiha district.
Aike immediately sensed the ambush waiting several hundred meters away: Root squads, ANBU teams, elite jōnin, and the Third Hokage himself.
"Looks like the old geezers finally realized something's wrong."
He refreshed the light-bending cloak and strolled right past the encirclement toward the Sarutobi compound.
Thanks to Kyōka Suigetsu, one hypnotized Sarutobi elder happily spilled every secret.
"Tch. Their vault's even fatter than the Uchiha's. That old monkey's been embezzling for decades."
Senju relics, Uzumaki sealing scrolls, and yes, a few stolen Uchiha fire techniques too.
Izumi's face could've frozen hell itself.
"Filthy Third Hokage… You'll all pay."
Aike happily vacuumed the place clean and finally found the coordinates he needed.
"Not too far from the village. Perfect."
After tonight's work heist he still had plenty of time left on the five-day timer.
As they left the Sarutobi compound, Aike left the hypnosis on the elder intact.
A sleeper agent on the Council could be
useful later.
Busy night, great haul.
One new Mangekyō subordinate + the entire hidden treasuries of two major clans.
Time to catch some sleep.
Because tomorrow's client was the real jackpot of this whole trip.
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