"Patriarch!"
"Fugaku-sama is here!" – Seeing the arrival of Uchiha Fugaku, all the Uchiha Shinobi immediately felt that they had the backbone, especially the ones who have fought against Amatsukami, they knew how terrible the members of Amatsukami could be and the people were finally a little ease.
When everyone looked at Fugaku, he slowly jumped down from the tree and walked towards Sasuke and Itachi at the center of the circle with a sullen face.
When he noticed his father coming in, Sasuke clutched his stomach and stood up, "O-Otou-sama!"
Looking at the tears and snot on Sasuke's face, Fugaku's expression hardened.
Undoubtedly, Sasuke's performance made him very disappointed, crying is an emotion that a shinobi must never have, especially an Uchiha, no matter how worse the situation becomes, an Uchiha must never cry!
Shifting his gaze towards Itachi, Fugaku was relieved.
Itachi's performance made him satisfied, Fugaku could see that Itachi didn't lose his calm or vigilance from beginning to end and only asked Sasuke the key questions to find out what exactly happened here and who was the assailant.
'That's my boy!'
Thinking so, Fugaku turned towards Sasuke with a frowned expression and said, "What are you crying for Sasuke?"
Sasuke quickly wiped all the tears and snot, but the grievances and pain from his face were hard to conceal.
After Sasuke was done crying, Fugaku ordered, "Tell me everything you saw and heard, word to word!"
Sasuke, who has wanted his father's attention, quickly narrated everything, even the parts he couldn't remember because of the blurry consciousness were somehow remembered and told.
After listening to Sasuke's account, Fugaku thought, 'The one wearing the fire pattered mask is Homusubi and the description of the person wearing the black and white mask clearly matches with that of Yama, the leader of Amatsukami, but there is something odd here…'
Looking at Sasuke, Fugaku questioned, "Why did they not attack you?"
Sasuke pursed his lips and said, "T-the man wearing the black and white mask punched me hard in the face and tummy."
Fugaku was unmoved and stared at Sasuke as if asking, 'and?'
Seeing his father's cold gaze, Sasuke could only lower his head and add reluctantly, "The… the person who punched me s-said that… Since I have not awakened the Sh-Sharingan yet... s-so I am not… not even qualified to die in his hands…"
After listening to Sasuke's reason, Fugaku thought, 'Even if they were after the Sharingan, them withdrawing after kidnapping just Hideki is strange, was this just a coincidence or intentional?'
Whoosh… Whoosh…
Fugaku didn't have much time to think as the Anbu also started arriving at the scene.
Finally, Uchiha Ryota also rushed in.
When he heard that his elder brother was attacked and missing, Ryota was shocked and angry, and said to the Fugaku, "Patriarch, let's arrange manpower to rescue Hideki-nii-san and hunt down Amatsukami!"
Fugaku glanced at everyone and ordered, "Haruka, take Sasuke back to home and get his wounds treated, Ryo, give a brief over to Shisui about the matter and call him here, finally, Itachi, report the situation here to Sandaime-sama, and request him to send the support!"
In the face of Homusubi and Suijin, Fugaku isn't confident whether he would be able to easily defeat them, moreover, there is also Yama, the mysterious leader of Amatsukami who should definitely be much stronger than the others considering that he is the leader, and finally, there is also that mysterious fourth member with Wind Chakra Nature who is also stronger than Homusubi and Suijin as Shisui informed him.
Fugaku is not sure whether they would be able to fight Amatsukami even with Shisui tagging along, therefore, support from the village is a must.
The other Uchiha ninja heard that Patriarch asked for support from Sandaime and they all frowned.
But when they all thought just how terrible Amatsukami could be, they all had to admit that the Patriarch is right, and this arrangement would be the safest, besides, Uchiha Clan is also part of Konohagakure until the Coup is set off, right!?
…
In the Dungeon Prison built by Kuroto.
Uchiha Hideki slowly opened his eyes and found himself in a place that he has never seen.
"Where am I?" – this was the question plaguing him.
He couldn't exactly remember what happened before he was here, he didn't know for how long has he been unconscious.
Hideki tried moving; only to find that he was tied to a stone pillar that restricted all his movements, and he couldn't even exert pitiful of his strength.
Understanding that it wouldn't be so easy to get out of here, he tried remembering the last thing he could, "That's right, I was going to Sora-Ku, and then Amatsukami members ambushed me… then there was Sasuke-san… and then I can't remember anything…"
At this time, a person walked out of the shadowy dark corner and spoke as if he was muttering to himself, "Hmm, he woke up so soon, well that's a surprise, is it because his resistance is really good or because the sleeping poison was insufficient? Oh well, it doesn't really matter I guess…"
Uchiha Hideki stared at the figure in front of him and realized that it was Yama, and his anger was brought back, he roared, "What do you want to do!?"
Kuroto who was wearing the Yama disguise naturally didn't care about Uchiha Hideki's anger and after looking at him up and down as if he was observing a tool, he said lightly, "It's very obvious Uchiha Hideki, for a while, I have been interested in the Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan, so I thought why not just bring over an Uchiha and conduct some experiments on him, and you know the rest of the story, I hope you will cooperate with me for the next few days because I promise that you will be living in hell from now on, and it wouldn't be pretty as they tell you in Academy!"
"Humph, you bastard, so it turns out that you are just another one of those greedy ignorant people who covet the power of our Sharingan!" – After a snort, he went on to roar, "You don't understand what you have done! The Uchiha never forgets, just you wait, when I get out of here, I will skin you alive!"
Hideki said while struggling, and his chakra was flaring erratically, even the Sharingan was activated, three tomoe spinning in the red copy wheel.
Yama smiled at Hideki's struggle as his very intention was to make Uchiha Hideki angry, "Oh, you seem to be really angry, but too bad that you won't be able to do anything!" – Which was adding oil to the fire.
And boy did it have the right effect, Uchiha Hideki yelled at the top of his lungs, "I'll kill you I SWEAR!"
"No-no, Uchiha Hideki, it's not good to have false hope, you can't even move or lift your finger, can you? So how are you going to do that?" questioned Yama with a mocking chuckle.
Hideki has noticed that he has been unable to exert even a little bit of his strength and this has been troubling him, he tried circulating his chakra to see if he could move but it still didn't work, "Just what did you do to me? I can't exert even a little bit of strength."
Yama nodded, "That's good, that's good, you are finally starting to realize how utterly vulnerable you are? As for your question, all I did was use the strongest type of paralytic poison that I concocted not too long ago, in fact, you are just the second test subject, not to mention the first human I have used it upon, and the effect seems pretty good, you should be glad that you were useful enough, but I have to say, your poison resistance is a bit too high so I had to actually give you double dose to make sure that you don't move anytime soon."
Even with all the strength he put, there was nothing he was able to do, and asked while panting, "You said you wanted my Sharingan, right? So, you had it all along after you kidnapped me, why didn't you just dug my eyes out and kill me yet?"
Yama was about to answer this question, but his gaze matched with Hideki whose Sharingan's spinning speed increased.
And Yama's figure stopped in his position like a stone.
Hideki was joyed by this and thought to himself, 'Did it work?'
To check whether the Genjutsu he used has worked, Hideki ordered Yama, "Come here and untie me!"
Yama slowly started walking towards Hideki step-by-step.
Hideki still couldn't believe that this Genjutsu worked, sweat beads flowed down his face in nervousness and his heart was beating very fast, all he could think of was how to escape from here!
As for skinning him out alive?
Are you kidding?
Hideki knows that he isn't strong enough, and he wouldn't waste an opportunity to escape, who knows whether he could take the enemy by surprise again.
"Very good now untie me."
By now, Yama was just a step away from Hideki, he lifts his right hand to untie the rope, his hand slowly closes the distance and just when he was close to the rope, the speed of the hand increases several folds and lands on Hideki's guts, delivering a hard punch in the stomach.
The strength used was too much, and Hideki could feel several of his ribs cracking.
"Cough-cough… y-you bastard I'll kill you!"
"It was a good try but it's a pity that Genjutsu hardly works upon me, and your simple Sharingan Genjutsu is too pitiful!"
Hideki couldn't help but curse Yama, "Damn you bastard! How could you resist the Genjutsu of the Sharingan?"
"Sharingan is not invincible, so why can't I resist?" – Yama spoke with a smirk and added, "You can try again after you awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan, maybe that will work!"
By now, Hideki has lost his initial rage and anger because he realized that he was in a helpless situation, but when he thought of the person standing before him, Hideki couldn't help but speak coldly, "If I awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, I will make sure that killing is the first thing I do!"
"In that case, I must look forward to that day!" – Yama said and stepped forward again but this time he printed hand seals.
Uchiha Hideki frowned and asked, "What are you doing!?"
Yama who completed the hand seals didn't answer directly, just placed one hand over Hideki's chest and spoke, "Fuin: Four Symbols Seal: Chakra Sealing!"
Followed by his words, a series of black inky symbols spread on Uchiha Hideki's body, and in the blink of an eye, they disappeared as if never there.
And the next thing he knew, Hideki was flabbergasted to find that all his chakra was drained, moreover, he couldn't even refine anymore, "Y-you… how can you use Uzumaki Fuinjutsu!?"
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