Chapter 53: Uchiha Mad Laughter
While Menma’s shadow clone was accompanying Naruto and Hinata playing house.
Menma’s main body had already left Orochimaru’s base, using the Flying Thunder God mark he had previously left at a certain spot on the southern coast of the Land of Hot Water, and instantly teleported to the Land of Hot Water.
This was a dock warehouse in a coastal city of the Land of Hot Water, which had been purchased and sealed by the Kado Group.
Menma checked the Flying Thunder God Kunai in the warehouse’s stone room, as well as some alert items from the surrounding subordinates, and only after confirming nothing had been triggered did he set off along the coastline toward the Uzu Village Ruins.
Following the coastline, he soon found the island where the Land of Whirlpools had once been.
In the ruins of Uzu Village, the faint light from several campfires illuminated a corner of the ruins.
When Menma, dressed in a black robe and wearing a White Three-Eyed Fox Mask, arrived here, he immediately caught the attention of the pirates and wandering ninjas entrenched here.
“Where did this kid come from?” Several pirates were the first to approach with machetes, spiked clubs, and other weapons.
The Land of Whirlpools was destroyed during the Second Great Ninja War period, around Konoha 37, which was seventeen years ago, and a branch here had already grown some lush green trees.
Under the campfire light, weeds grew thickly among the ruins, with bushes burying the outlines of buildings remaining from the destruction seventeen years ago.
After the Land of Whirlpools was annihilated, most of Uzu Village’s assets had likely been divided up by other countries.
Even this site should have been guarded by ninjas for a long time back then, searching every inch for the Uzumaki Clan’s secret treasures.
But seventeen years later, it had now become a den for pirates and wandering ninjas.
“Hey! Kid, I’m talking to you!” Several pirates walked up to Menma, looking arrogant, one of them spitting saliva.
Whoosh—
A sound of wind whistling, and this pirate’s head fell off like a ball.
Blood sprayed from the severed neck like a fountain, staining the surrounding pirates red.
“Aaah!!!” The pirates had never seen such a terrifying scene and fled in terror, shitting and pissing themselves.
The other wandering ninjas saw this and knew the newcomer was dangerous, so they all drew their weapons.
The Shinigami, with a scythe slung over his shoulder, floated down from the darkness like a ghost.
He swung the scythe in his hand, countless wind blades shot out, slaughtering all the pirates trying to escape.
“Who are you!” A man who seemed to be the leader of these wandering ninjas shouted sharply.
But his hand holding the kunai trembled slightly, betraying the fear in his heart.
“Rogues from Kirigakure?” Menma noticed that on the headbands of these people, the symbol representing Kirigakure had a line scratched across it.
However, these wandering ninjas had very little chakra; except for the leader who was barely at chunin level, the others were just genin.
Moreover, Menma had no interest in these people, not even the interest to recruit them.
“Take them out.” A cold voice came from under the White Three-Eyed Fox Mask.
The Shinigami behind him suddenly flew forward, swinging his scythe to harvest the lives of these rogue ninjas.
The screams lasted only a short time.
Menma entered the base of these wandering ninjas and pirates and did some looting.
As expected, besides a small amount of ninja tools, there was just some food and money; nothing related to Uzu Village.
“Kagura Shingan!” Menma closed his eyes, activated Kagura Shingan, increased his chakra perception sensitivity, and began scanning the entire island.
“…” Soon, Menma sensed a faint chakra fluctuation deep in the Uzu Village Ruins.
Even when Menma had used Kagura Shingan to sense this island from the sea, he hadn’t noticed it.
It was only after increasing the chakra perception sensitivity that he detected the anomaly.
Following the direction sensed by Kagura Shingan, he soon arrived at an abandoned stone room.
The entire stone room was half-collapsed, with most of the characters on the walls destroyed, and many places hollowed out, as if someone had checked if there was space behind the stone room.
Menma walked to the stone room’s wall and looked at these destroyed texts.
That faint chakra was emanating from these texts.
“Sealing Jutsu?” Menma stopped in front of the stone wall, raising his hand to try to decipher these texts.
But when his chakra tried to invade these texts, a mild sensation and a sense of rejection came together.
“Countermeasure… but not entirely resistant…” Menma was very familiar with this sense of rejection; in the Limited Tsukuyomi World, he had always felt a vague sense of rejection.
Until he launched the Fourth Great Ninja War in the Limited Tsukuyomi World, caused a huge commotion, and was completely rejected by the world.
But these texts not only had a sense of rejection but also a mild acceptance.
“It seems it’s related to bloodline.” Menma guessed that it probably required pure Uzumaki Clan bloodline to open this sealed stone room.
And behind the stone room might be the Uzumaki Clan’s secret treasures, possibly historical records of the Uzumaki Clan, or even records of the seal on Uchiha Hikari.
That’s right, Menma’s purpose in searching the Uzu Village Ruins this time was to find records of the seal location for ‘Uchiha Hikari’.
Although he could use Kagura Shingan like radar to scan bit by bit along the Land of Fire’s coastline and probably find Uchiha Hikari’s seal location, it would take too much time.
“Pure-blooded Uzumaki Clan…” Menma pondered, raising his hand to touch his hair.
It was all because Minato Namikaze’s genes were too strong; even his hair color had been overwritten.
Among the surviving Uzumaki Clan in the ninja world, Nagato Uzumaki should count as mixed blood, but it was impossible to find him anyway.
Hokina Uzumaki from the Land of the Sea, unknown if mixed or pure blood, and she should still be a child now, maybe not even learned chakra refinement yet.
Then there was only Karin Uzumaki’s mother…
“I still have to go to Kusanagi Village.” After deciding on the next action, Menma did not head directly to Kusanagi Village.
Instead, he rested at this wandering ninjas’ camp.
Under the night sky at the Uzu Village Ruins, the campfire crackled, with the Shinigami and Celestial Maiden summoned beasts on alert around.
Menma reverted to his child form, sat by the campfire, and took out the glass vial containing the two-tomoe Sharingan he had taken from Orochimaru.
In the pale green liquid, the Sharingan eye swayed slightly with the liquid.
Menma opened the cap, reached in and grabbed the Sharingan eye, then dug out his own right eye and replaced it with this Sharingan eye.
His near-omnipotent chakra quickly linked to this eyeball.
Although his main body was only three years old, eyes are the body part that changes the least; a three-year-old’s eyeball is already 80% the size of an adult’s, and the original owner of this eye seemed to be a boy.
Menma, closing his eyes to adapt to the Sharingan, began stimulating this eyeball with yin chakra.
After a while, Menma lowered the fingers covering his right eye and opened it! The two tomoe slowly spun in the bloodied eye socket, finally becoming a three-tomoe Sharingan!
“Hmm—” Looking at the world through the Sharingan, Menma chuckled lightly twice.
“Hahahahaha!” Finally, he couldn’t help but let out Uchiha-like mad laughter.
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