Kagami lowered his head, his life force slowly draining from his body.
"Brother, I can give you my eyes, but I have one condition."
Shin'yu revealed an expression of "just as I thought," and said, "Speak."
"Five years..." Kagami took a deep breath. "In five years, I will offer my intact eyes with my own hands. During this time... please don't attack the Hidden Leaf Village!"
"Just that?" Shin'yu raised an eyebrow.
"That's right, I only need five years, brother." Kagami said weakly, "The Hidden Leaf Village was not easy to establish. Before that, I lived in a world of darkness every day, worried and anxious, fearing that one day you would leave me forever, like Father and Mother..."
Shin'yu's heart stirred, the breeze brushed his long hair, and a subtle tremor flickered in his eyes, like a stone thrown into a calm lake, causing ripples.
Kagami's voice was weak, "I have tried my best to avoid their matter. I know it's not your fault, brother. You were also forced to the battlefield, forced to fight. They also had compassion and prayed for you, treating your illness, which led to their tragic deaths..."
"What right do you have to blame me?" Shin'yu's eyes twitched slightly. "It was the Senju Clan who killed them!"
"Yes, so what I resent is war, hatred, and this chaotic world! In war, everyone is a victim..."
Kagami struggled, and his internal injuries were affected, causing him to cough uncontrollably.
After a while, he calmed his breath, "The emergence of the Hidden Leaf Village not only made the two clans cease fighting and reconcile, but also ended the chaotic world, allowing all the children in the world to be spared from the suffering of war. In my heart, this is the right path to peace."
"Brother, how much I want... how much I yearn, yearn for you to live with me in the Hidden Leaf Village, we go to school together, learn from the same teacher, with your talent, you will definitely be valued, and it is not impossible to become the Hokage in the future... But the reality is that whether I walk on the streets of the village or return to the Clan Territory, I have to accept countless cold eyes and pointing fingers..."
"My companions in the village suppress me because of my Uchiha identity, and the clan ostracizes me because I am Lord Tobirama's disciple. The Hidden Leaf Village does not treat me as a friend, and the Uchiha do not treat me as a clansman..."
"At home... there is only that cold bed. For eleven years, whether in the village or the Clan Territory, I have been lonely... alone..."
"I gave you a chance." Shin'yu sneered, "But not only did you not leave with me, but you also betrayed me."
Kagami's eyes, the two bloody holes, gushed with bloody tears, "I don't understand, I don't understand why you left the village, why you crazily destroy everything, why you attacked the Hidden Leaf Village with Lord Madara, I really don't understand!"
"Brother, I never thought of killing you. The only purpose of my hard work until now is to catch up with your footsteps, so that you can return to the Hidden Leaf Village and feel the real peace... If possible, I would even be willing to die for you..."
He smiled miserably and touched his empty eyes, "For me, let alone a pair of eyes, what does it matter if I give you my life? Blame me for being too weak, for not being able to stop you before all this happened..."
"I know that now that Lord Hashirama is dead, wanting to bring you back to the Hidden Leaf Village is like trying to get fire from ice, a foolish dream..."
"War is coming, and I need strength to protect the Hidden Leaf Village, to protect this humble, hard-won peace..."
"I only ask you... brother, I only ask you to give me five years, I will protect these eyes, and I will try my best to live until I personally deliver these eyes to you..."
As he spoke, his breathing became weaker and weaker, the frequency of his chest rising and falling became lower and lower, and his fingertips to his heart became cold inch by inch.
Shin'yu was silent, quietly raising his head to look at the sky. In his clear pupils, the sky was no longer a pure ice blue, but like the undulating sea under cirrus clouds, dark blue and deep.
"So, the future you have chosen is just to eke out an existence for five years?"
"Ame no Tokotachi" slowly operated, time stood still, space stagnated, Kagami only felt that he seemed to be separated from the orbit of the world, under the action of an unspeakable mysterious force, his body recovered in the blink of an eye.
The empty and terrifying eyes were as good as new, his body warmed up, his heart resumed beating, and power flowed through his muscles, as if all the injuries on his body were wiped away in an instant, without a process.
"Brother... is this brother's power..."
His vision recovered in an instant, and he saw his brother's face again, and... that suddenly sharp look in his eyes.
Shin'yu suddenly attacked, a sword finger pierced Kagami's heart, the sword light spewed like a pillar, breaking a blood hole in his back, and blood rain rustled down.
Kagami stared in disbelief, his eyes bloodshot. Even though he had activated Garuda the moment he recovered, Shin'yu's sword had directly surpassed his absorption frequency!
"Such a powerful eye technique, yet you've used it like this. I don't even feel like adapting," Shin'yu clicked his tongue and shook his head, his tone filled with disappointment.
"Why?!"
Kagami fell to his knees with a thud, cold sweat pouring down.
What was going on? Why wasn't this scene in the future he saw?
In the fleeting future of Takama-ga-hara, there was a moment where Shin'yu, after going back in time, tried to seize his eyes at the first opportunity, but it would be in vain due to Garuda's timely coverage.
If this move had been aimed at his eyes, there was no doubt that his eyes would have been instantly blinded, his head pierced through as well.
Kagami's breathing was rapid. Even though his heart was repairing itself and his flesh was healing, he still felt cold all over, a great fear lingering in his heart, refusing to dissipate.
"What? Scared silly?" Shin'yu crossed his arms, stepping on Kagami's shoulder with one foot, tilting his head.
"I'm too lazy to go kill people in the Hidden Leaf Village. Let this venting attack be borne by you on their behalf."
"Brother, you..."
"Shut up." Shin'yu kicked him away, the line of his lips cold and hard. "My Younger Brother died forever on that night 11 years ago. I buried him with my own hands."
Kagami flipped backward, scrambling a long way before barely managing to get up.
"I..." His eyes trembled as he reached out towards the figure in front of him, probably wanting to grab his sleeve, just like he used to, but he couldn't grab anything.
Shin'yu turned away indifferently, the sunlight blurring his outline, making him look unclear. Only a slightly trembling voice came: "Starting from today, if I don't see your eyes intact in 5 years, the Hidden Leaf Village... will have no need to exist."
The ground exploded, a whirlwind rose, and a phantom shot into the sky, rippling out a circle of milky white air.
Thump.
Kagami's knees buckled, as if he had lost all his strength, and he knelt on the ground in despair, two lines of bloody tears dripping down his cheeks.
He clutched his heart, which felt very uncomfortable, as if something had been forcibly gouged out.
What he didn't know was that a Restraining Curse Seal had already been placed by Shin'yu in the deepest part of his heart.
This was the only sealing technique that Lord Madara had passed on to Shin'yu. By burying the curse seal in the opponent's heart, one could control the opponent at will. If one wanted to remove the seal, their actions would be suppressed, and they would not be able to undo the seal themselves.
However, Shin'yu's attainments in this area were too shallow, and he had only learned a fraction of it.
He couldn't freely control Kagami's body, he could only set up restrictions, so that when facing unavoidable crises, he would protect his eyes first. When the eyes were under too much burden, he would forcibly interrupt the output of eye power, preventing the Mangekyo Sharingan from suffering excessive damage.
Kagami looked at the sky, a deep fatigue penetrating into his bones. Just thinking about that resolute figure made his internal organs feel like they were churning.
He looked miserable and silently closed his eyes.
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