Chapter 63: Amabie

In the folklore of the shinobi world, there exists a creature known as the 'Prophetic Beast.' These creatures would occasionally appear among humans, speaking human language, predicting future calamities such as wars, epidemics, droughts, and even providing methods to avoid these disasters.

After making an accurate prophecy, these creatures would immediately die, their lives short but legendary, filled with an aura of mystery.

Some scoff at the legends of the Prophetic Beasts, while others believe in them wholeheartedly. Fugaku Uchiha was one of the latter. Because within his Mangekyou Sharingan, resided a power akin to that of the Prophetic Beasts. It was called Amabie.

This technique allowed Fugaku to glimpse into someone's destiny, seeing fragments of their future. The target could be himself or others, as long as he recorded their chakra with his Sharingan.

The inertia of destiny is powerful, but not immutable. As long as one knows their destiny in advance and makes enough effort, it is possible to change it, thus achieving good fortune and avoiding disaster. This is the power of Amabie.

However, such a heaven-defying eye technique naturally has its drawbacks. Firstly, the future that Amabie sees is limited and incomplete. To be precise, it shows the most likely path among the countless possibilities of a person's destiny. Secondly, like Kotoamatsukami, Amabie requires a cooldown period of several years, even decades, after each use. Moreover, it has a more significant side effect - it consumes a large amount of the user's lifespan. This is the price one must pay for peering into the future with a mortal body.

The last time Fugaku used Amabie was six years ago, on the night of the Nine-Tails' rampage. At that time, the Nine-Tails attacked Konoha. That night, the newly appointed Fourth Hokage, who was on good terms with the Uchiha clan, unfortunately died, and the Uchiha clan was suspected by Konoha's higher-ups of being involved in the chaos of the Nine-Tails. Because many people saw that the Nine-Tails' eyes had turned into Sharingan, indicating that the Nine-Tails was controlled by the power of the Sharingan.

Facing the suspicion and hatred of the entire village, in order to resolve the crisis of the Uchiha clan, Fugaku had no choice but to activate Amabie. As a result, he saw the Uchiha clan initiating a coup due to dissatisfaction with the village's suppression, but in the end, they were tragically exterminated.

Therefore, as the clan leader, Fugaku chose to compromise, obeying the arrangements of Konoha's higher-ups, and moved the Uchiha clan to the edge of the village. He endured the suppression of the higher-ups in the following days until the date of the prophecy passed. He saved the clan once at the cost of five years of his own lifespan.

But as mentioned before, the inertia of destiny is powerful. Sometimes, it may be delayed by some force, but it will eventually come. This is the so-called "destiny." For example, the destiny of the Uchiha clan. Although the Uchiha survived a disaster, the problems they faced were not resolved, but became more serious over the years. Fugaku knew this well.

Every choice made by a person or a clan affects their future destiny. Now, it was time to make a choice again. He took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and murmured to himself, "Then, let me see again, to see where the Uchiha clan will eventually go

!"

As soon as his words fell, Amabie was activated. This time, Fugaku did not target himself, but... Dan Uchiha.

In fact, it was Dan's emergence and his ability to suppress the entire Uchiha clan single-handedly at the clan meeting that prompted Fugaku to make up his mind and activate Amabie this time.

Images appeared in Fugaku's eyes, flashing by like a fast-forwarded movie, reflecting a vivid world. At this moment, he saw the future. But this future did not seem to be a good one.

Fugaku saw the familiar Hokage building and Konoha streets, and the two sides fiercely fighting on this battlefield. One side was the Anbu and the ninjas of various clans in Konoha defending the Hokage building, including the Ino-Shika-Cho, Hyuga, Inuzuka, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans...

And their opponents were, shockingly, the Uchiha clan. Did the Uchiha eventually walk the path of rebellion?

Next, Fugaku saw himself in the crowd, activating Susanoo to protect his clansmen, fighting back and forth in the encirclement of Konoha's ninjas. Under his leadership, the clansmen fought bravely, killing a large number of enemies. But facing enemies ten times their number, the Uchiha also suffered heavy losses. Many of Fugaku's familiar clansmen had become cold bodies lying on the ground.

"Roar!"

A roar came, and the rampaging Nine-Tails, once again controlled by the power of the Sharingan, was wreaking havoc in the village. The entire Konoha was a scene of carnage: bodies everywhere, rivers of blood, it had become a living hell.

Fugaku suddenly realized something was missing. Right, where was Dan?

His eyes moved quickly, scanning every corner of the image, and finally found him. Dan was surprisingly not participating in the war, but for some reason, he was standing in the Hokage's office, overlooking the battlefield through a large floor-to-ceiling window.

He saw Dan spread his arms wide, laughing uproariously at the sky, his eyes a bright red, revealing a Mangekyou pattern Fugaku had never seen before.

Then, it seemed that Dan had finally laughed enough, he directly smashed the floor-to-ceiling window, and leaped out of the Hokage building.

Boom.

A powerful chakra erupted from Dan's body, shooting straight into the sky.

Everyone on the battlefield looked up at him in shock.

At this point, Fugaku's eyes suddenly stung, and the images in front of him quickly blurred, he couldn't see anything clearly.

The next second, his eyes were streaming with terrifying bloody tears.

What did these images imply?

Fugaku covered his eyes, trying hard to recall the fragments of the future he had just seen, and tried to draw a conclusion.

Could Dan be the one to save the Uchiha?

Fugaku couldn't see clearly.

He really... couldn't see clearly.

In the vast uninhabited forest in the north of the Land of Fire, the Mountain Graveyard.

Obito lay in bed, listening to Zetsu's report.

When he learned that Shisui had activated the Mangekyou, he was only slightly surprised; but when he heard that Dan had disassembled Susanoo with his bare hands, he couldn't help but frown, looking wary; finally, when Zetsu said that Dan had used something akin to Shinra Tensei to repel all the Uchiha clan members, Obito's expression management completely failed.

He sat up in shock. Shinra Tensei? Wasn't that a power of the Rinnegan?!

During this time, while Obito was bedridden, he couldn't figure out how Dan had reversed the situation that night and torn off his two arms. Now it seemed, could Dan have used the power of the Rinnegan?

Not just Obito, but Zetsu also looked shocked. He, the puppet master behind the scenes, had been stirring up trouble for over a thousand years, repeatedly inciting the reincarnations of Indra and Ashura to fight each other, and finally managed to get a pair of Rinnegan on Uchiha Madara.

Who was this Uchiha Dan, who could silently activate the Rinnegan?

No, it couldn't be that easy. The activation of the Rinnegan not only required the Eternal Mangekyou, but also the transplantation of the First Hokage's cells, and after obtaining the power of the Six Paths, it also required decades of gestation.

Even Uchiha Madara only managed to open his eyes when he was on the brink of death.

Dan couldn't possibly do it.

Obito and Zetsu finally came to a conclusion - the so-called Shinra Tensei was probably just a trick Dan had come up with.

But no matter what the truth was, one thing was 100% certain:

The Uchiha clan now had three pairs of Mangekyou.

"This is a problem," Zetsu said in a deep voice.

Obito also looked serious.

All along, one of his biggest concerns was that more Mangekyou would appear in the Uchiha clan. After all, as the one who opened his eyes, he knew how powerful these eyes were.

The abilities of the Mangekyou were varied and could create infinite possibilities.

No, he couldn't let the Uchiha exist any longer, they had to be exterminated as soon as possible.

With this thought, Obito's eyes turned cold. He tore off the bandage on his arm, got out of bed, and said coldly, "To Konoha."

He put on his cloak, picked up his tiger-striped mask, and walked out of the Mountain Graveyard.

As for how to exterminate the Uchiha, Obito already had a plan.