Chapter 54: The Little Whirlpool Karin
The Uchiha’s Sharingan is actually Yin Release, and under intense emotional stimulation, it undergoes extreme changes.
Although what he plucked from Orochimaru was only a Two-Tomoe Sharingan, Menma combined his own research on bloodline limits in the ‘Limited Tsukuyomi World’ and used Yin Release Chakra to stimulate it, successfully evolving it into a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
Although this Sharingan was far inferior to the Mangekyo Sharingan, with this eye, Menma could use many illusion techniques unique to the Sharingan, even Izanagi!
As for slowing down enemy movements in the Sharingan or other dynamic capture changes, for Menma, whose strength had already surpassed that of ordinary Kage-level strong practitioners, this was the smallest improvement.
After transplanting this Sharingan and turning it into a Three-Tomoe Sharingan, Menma slept contentedly.
The next morning, upon waking, Menma left a Flying Thunder God Kunai in the stone room of the Uzu Village Ruins, while his main body performed an ultra-long-range teleport via the Flying Thunder God set up in a cave somewhere in the Land of Fields.
Such an ultra-long-range teleport spanning most of the Land of Fire could only be sustained by Menma with his massive chakra reserves.
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The Land of Grass, true to its name, has most of its territory in a vast grassland, with only a few forests in the border regions.
Kusanagi Village is located at the center of a boundless grassland in the middle of the Land of Grass.
On a small hill covered in green grass, Karin Uzumaki followed her companions in gathering herbs.
Compared to the other laughing and chatting children from Kusanagi Village, the three-year-old Karin Uzumaki was always excluded by her companions,
Even the leading genin would gently teach the other children some knowledge about identifying herbs.
But when his gaze shifted to Karin, there was only deep solemnity and wariness.
The young Karin didn’t know why everyone treated her this way, why everyone always looked at her and her mother with that complex emotion.
Every time they went out to gather herbs or fodder for the village’s livestock, Karin kept a certain distance from the others, but if she went too far, she would be scolded by the leading genin.
Today’s sunlight was a bit scorching, and Karin was driven to the sun-facing side, where she lowered her head to gather herbs, letting the blazing sun beat down on her, her small body enduring the intense heat.
A shadow suddenly blocked the glaring sunlight for her.
Karin thought it was the leading genin coming to scold her and timidly looked up.
Instead, she saw a mysterious man wearing a White Three-Eyed Fox Mask standing quietly in front of her.
This mysterious black-clothed man provided Karin with a small patch of shade, and a breeze blew across the grassland, letting Karin feel long-missed coolness.
“Karin! Get away from him!” A sharp shout came from behind Karin.
A woman with a Kusanagi Village headband on her forehead stood tensely on the high slope, her face solemn as she drew several shuriken from her ninja tool pouch and threw them at the mysterious man and Karin.
But whether intentionally or not, one shuriken flew toward Karin.
This shuriken grew larger in Karin’s eyes.
At the critical moment, a large hand grabbed it.
The masked man body flickered to in front of Karin, catching the three incoming shuriken with just his hand, and then—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The three shuriken were thrown back by the masked man with even fiercer technique in counterattack.
This Kusanagi Village genin tried to dodge but horrorstruckly discovered that the opponent’s shuriken had completely sealed her retreat.
Clang—
One shuriken hit the Kusanagi genin’s thigh, instantly drawing blood.
“Ah!” The female genin endured the pain and took out a signal flare from her ninja tool pouch, firing it into the sky.
Whoosh—
A signal flare rose into the air, visible across ten kilometers on the vast grassland.
“You’re Karin, right?” Karin was still stunned, watching the signal flare in the sky, when a gentle greeting came to her ear.
Under Karin’s glasses, a pair of red pupils trembled slightly as she timidly nodded and asked, “Who… are you…”
“I’m your clan member.” Menma reached out his palm to stroke little Karin’s head.
This head of red hair reminded him of Kushina.
“Come on, let’s go pick up your mother, then take you both away from here.” Menma tried to make his voice gentler, afraid of scaring this sensitive little guy who was like a small rabbit.
“Clan member?” Little Karin didn’t yet understand the meaning of clan member but instinctively felt a closeness.
In her heart, she developed fondness and some inexplicable dependence on this big brother.
Menma took Karin’s small hand and headed toward the hilltop.
On the hilltop, the female genin had already lost the ability to move, while the Kusanagi Village children on the back side of the hill had long been scared into panicked flight.
The female genin held a kunai in front of her chest, trembling all over, tears flowing from her eyes.
Menma slightly turned his head, and through the mask’s opening, a scarlet Sharingan glanced at her.
With just one glance, the female genin fell into an illusion technique and ended herself with the kunai.
Over the hilltop, in view was Kusanagi Village’s village protection fence.
It was a circle of defensive buildings made by erecting a large amount of wood in the ground, primitive and crude compared to Konoha’s high walls, like a primitive settlement.
Menma led Karin, the large and small figures gradually approaching Kusanagi Village.
At this time, Kusanagi Village had seen the signal flare rising outside the village and immediately dispatched a team of one jonin and three chunin to investigate.
The two sides encountered at the village entrance.
“Who’s there!” Seeing a masked mysterious person holding Karin’s hand, the Kusanagi Village jonin didn’t hesitate, immediately drew his short sword, rushed forward quickly, trying to kill the opponent!
The other three chunin also drew kunai into combat stance, attacking from three directions.
But the next moment!
The instant he made eye contact with the eyes in the mysterious masked man’s mask opening, this jonin instantly froze in place.
After a moment of stiffness, the short sword in the jonin’s hand suddenly swung toward his nearby teammate.
Caught off guard, two chunin were struck down.
The other chunin hurriedly pulled back distance and shouted in shock and fear, “Captain Koisei! What are you doing!”
However, what answered him were Captain Koisei’s vacant eyes and bloodied short sword.
If it were a jonin from one of the Five Great Nations’ ninja villages, he wouldn’t be controlled by Three-Tomoe Sharingan illusion technique for so long.
But Kusanagi Village was just a small ninja village; its so-called jonin were at best special jonin level of the great ninja villages.
After dealing with this genin, this Kusanagi Village jonin named Koisei also slit his own throat.
As the short sword fell, blood sprayed from Captain Koisei’s neck.
Facing the bloody scene, little Karin was unusually calm; in this small ninja village plagued by constant warfare, death was already commonplace.
For such a small village, war had perhaps never truly stopped.
Menma patted Karin’s head, temporarily releasing her small hand, and formed hand seals with both hands.
Sign of the Ox!
“Nine-Face Sūvarṇa!”
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