Chapter 541: Itachi Uchiha's Contingency

Don't be nervous; we truly have no ill intent.

Lian Ye and Zhi Cun Tuan Cang came forward, seeing the three with wary expressions, and tried to calm them.

Who are you, and what is your purpose in coming here?

Kakashi Hatake did not relax his vigilance because of Lian Ye's words; in his perception, the two before him were extremely dangerous!

Especially that dashing young man, who somehow evoked a feeling of fear in him.

If the two harbored ill intent toward them, the outcome would be unimaginable!

"My name is Lian Ye, and he is my good brother; as for his name, it's not convenient to disclose," Lian Ye explained patiently. "As for why we came this time, we do indeed have certain purposes."

"I need to take something from Naruto Uzumaki..."

As he said, his gaze fell upon Naruto Uzumaki.

This is the Destined Protagonist, who has not yet been born in his timeline.

To see him, one would have to wait perhaps a dozen years.

"Looking for me?" Naruto Uzumaki said, his face bewildered, not understanding what on him was worth the other's attention.

Kakashi Hatake seemed to recall something, instantly understood, and immediately pulled Naruto back.

"You must be members of the Akatsuki!"

Now the Akatsuki's collection of Tailed Beasts is common knowledge; jinchuriki from other ninja villages have all fallen to poison, with only Konoha's Nine-Tails jinchuriki remaining.

He assumed the two were Akatsuki members sent to capture the Nine-Tails jinchuriki.

"So you are from the Akatsuki!"

Naruto Uzumaki suddenly realized, and immediately readied himself for battle.

After defeating the two, he would go find Sasuke, hoping everything would still be in time!

"Don't misunderstand; we are not members of the Akatsuki, and we didn't come here for the Nine-Tails."

Lian Ye, seeing this, hurriedly explained, feeling a bit helpless.

He hadn't done anything, yet these people really love to fill in the blanks!

"Not for the Tailed Beast, then what for?" Kakashi Hatake squinted, still unwilling to let his guard down.

Although the people before him showed no overt pressure, they still gave him a very uneasy feeling.

Strangers who are powerful are always subject to people's suspicion!

"To be frank, I'm here for a Sharingan," Lian Ye stated his purpose. "And that Sharingan is on Naruto Uzumaki!"

"Sharingan? On Naruto?!"

When Kakashi first heard Lian Ye's target was a Sharingan, he thought they wanted his eyes.

But it turned out they wanted Naruto's Sharingan!

The crucial question is, where did Naruto's Sharingan come from?!

"Hey, are you mistaken? I don't have any Sharingan on me at all!" Naruto Uzumaki shouted.

Speaking of Sharingan, Teacher Kakashi does have one.

After all, the title Copy Ninja for Kakashi Hatake wasn't given for nothing.

Logically, they should have asked Teacher Kakashi for it; why would they find it on him…

Just as they thought the other side was mistaken, Lian Ye slowly shook his head: "I'm not mistaken; the Sharingan I want is the one on Naruto Uzumaki."

Itachi Uchiha placed a raven that housed Shisui Uchiha's left eye into Naruto's body, as a contingency to prevent his brother Sasuke from, after his death, falling into vengeance against Konoha.

That raven's eye can activate the strongest Genjutsu, "Heavenly Deity," and Itachi Uchiha pre-set the trigger condition to be seeing his own Kaleidoscope Sharingan, with the Genjutsu's effect set to "protect Konoha."

He foresaw that if Sasuke pursued the Eternal Kaleidoscope Sharingan, he would certainly choose to transplant his own eye.

Later, when fighting Naruto to destroy the village, the raven would emerge from Naruto's body to cast the Genjutsu on Sasuke, forcibly altering his desire for revenge against Konoha.

But Itachi Uchiha did not anticipate that after his death he would be resurrected by Yao Shi Dou through Impure Earth Reincarnation, and that meeting Naruto by chance would trigger this Genjutsu.

It ended up freeing him from Yao Shi Dou's control, causing the originally intended purpose not to be realized.

Although in the Fourth Battle Itachi Uchiha broke free from control and, together with his brother Sasuke, defeated Yao Shi Dou, thereby nullifying the Impure World Reincarnation technique, his role did not affect the final outcome of the war.

It was as if Itachi Uchiha shut down the shared network, yet he hadn't expected Madara Uchiha still had bandwidth.

For Lian Ye, the only trouble is that after taking the eye, Naruto Uzumaki and Qi La Bi might not be able to deal with Yao Shi Dou's Itachi and Yao Shi Dou's Zhang Men.

He is not that irresponsible.

Since Itachi Uchiha could place Amaterasu in his brother's eye, he could likewise place the eye technique that deprives the right eye onto Naruto.

Then, when encountering Itachi Uchiha, it would automatically trigger the deprivation ability, directly stripping Itachi Uchiha's Kaleidoscope Sharingan.

Naruto Uzumaki and Qi La Bi could fully use this chance to seal the two.

Without Itachi Uchiha, Sasuke Uchiha would not encounter Yao Shi Dou in the Dragon Earth Cave, and could safely wait for the Sage of Six Paths to finish him off.

As for the Sage? You have to trust the Protagonist Party!

Lian Ye met Naruto's gaze; under the shocked eyes of the three, his originally black pupils turned scarlet, the black Curved Jewel spun rapidly, and finally transformed into a Kaleidoscope pattern.

"What?!"

Kakashi Hatake's face showed shock; he never imagined that the person before him was a Uchiha clan member possessing a Kaleidoscope Sharingan!

Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno were also stunned by this sudden change.

Lian Ye's Kaleidoscope locked tightly onto Naruto, his pupil power spreading like invisible ripples.

In his sight, the flow of chakra in Naruto's body became clearly visible, and he keenly detected a faint, extremely subtle chakra imprint that clashed with Naruto's own.

That was the contingency Itachi Uchiha prepared; without careful observation with Kaleidoscope pupil power, it would be hard to notice.

One can only say Itachi Uchiha's mastery of Genjutsu is extremely high!

"Found you," Lian Ye murmured to himself.

He did not attempt to unravel that complex Genjutsu seal, as it would require time and skill, and that would be too troublesome.

He directly chose the most straightforward and brute method, forcibly activating the seal!

Lian Ye's Kaleidoscope Sharingan suddenly burst forth with an even more intense light, the massive Pupil Power like a breached dam flood, unceremoniously crashing into the Genjutsu seal left by Itachi Uchiha.

This is not a dispelling, but a destruction of the Genjutsu left by Itachi with even stronger Pupil Power.

"Ah!" Naruto Uzumaki felt a sharp pain in his brain, instinctively clutching his head and screaming.

"What did you do to Naruto?!" Sakura Haruno shouted anxiously, about to rush forward to stop, but was blocked by Zhi Cun Tuan Cang.

"Calm down, it'll be fine soon."

He knows a good brother wouldn't lay a killing hand on Konoha's ninja; a little pain here and there isn't a big deal.

At the next moment, an anomaly suddenly occurred!

A pitch‑black crow was seen, ripped out of Naruto's body by an invisible force.

In the crow's eyes, there was unmistakably the pattern of another Kaleidoscope Sharingan!

That was indeed Shisui Uchiha's eyes!