Hokage: I Confronted the Five Kage Before the System Arrived

Chapter 157: Sharingan?! Who Are You?

"Time is limited. Everyone, finish this quickly."

Just after Sasuke had dealt with Naruto's shadow clone army, Captain Hagoromo's reminder echoed across the field.

Sasuke's previously casual expression turned serious.

He moved in an instant.

Sai, not far away, only saw a blur.

In just a blink, Sasuke was right in front of him.

"So fast!"

Thanks to the harsh training in the Root, Sai drew his short blade in time.

After a few high-pitched clashes.

Splat!

Blood splattered everywhere.

The sharp tip of the blade pierced through Sai's left shoulder like lightning.

"Sai!"

Seeing this, Sakura's pupils shrank. She clenched her right fist and charged forward to stop Sasuke from further action.

Ignoring the electric shocks paralyzing Sai from the blade, Sasuke glanced back, and with the three tomoe Sharingan spinning, he saw Sakura's movements as if in slow motion.

"Too rough."

With a faint comment, Sasuke, who could predict Sakura's next moves, stepped forward with his right foot, disrupting her rhythm, and closed the distance. Before Sakura could react, he grabbed her wrist with his left hand and pressed down on her right shoulder with his right hand, flinging her away.

Boom!

Sakura was thrown against the base's wall behind, creating a large crater.

Dust and gravel quickly scattered.

"Sakura!"

Just recovering from the Lightning Release, Naruto saw this and angrily swung a punch at Sasuke.

Slap!

Sasuke extended his left hand, pressing down on Naruto's fist, and said indifferently:

"Naruto, you should go back to playing your ninja games."

"Bastard!"

Naruto gritted his teeth and continued to attack.

However, at that moment, something unexpected happened elsewhere.

Upon hearing Hagoromo's order, Uchiha Kei didn't immediately respond but avoided Yamato's attack and asked in surprise:

"If we need to finish this quickly, we'll have to go all out. Are you sure about this, Captain?"

Fighting against Akatsuchi, Hagoromo replied without looking back:

"The orders from above are clear, there's no need to hide anymore."

"I see!"

Uchiha Kei couldn't help but grin widely.

Yamato didn't understand why the person in front of him was laughing, but he had a bad feeling.

Before he could do anything.

"In that case..."

Uchiha Kei spoke again, looking at Uchiha Izumi, who was fighting Kurotsuchi.

Uchiha Izumi smiled brightly:

"Then let's do it."

As her words fell.

Both Uchiha Izumi and Uchiha Kei closed their eyes.

When they opened them again.

"Sharingan, activate!"

A pair of blood-red, three tomoe eyes appeared in their eye sockets.

"Sharingan!"

Noticing this, both Kurotsuchi and Yamato's faces changed drastically.

Yamato was somewhat prepared, having often sparred with Kakashi, who was his captain in the Anbu.

Knowing the power of the Sharingan, he quickly avoided direct eye contact with Uchiha Kei.

Kurotsuchi, who had never fought an Uchiha before, was a step too slow.

Habitually meeting Uchiha Izumi's gaze, she was about to use her kekkei genkai when she saw the blood-red eyes and immediately felt her body stiffen before being sent flying.

Yamato quickly created a wood clone to catch Kurotsuchi.

He then clapped his hands to the ground.

"Wood Release: Tree Bind Flourishing Burial!"

A long row of wooden vines rose from the ground, forming a wall to separate him and Kurotsuchi from the two Uchiha.

Boom!

Soon, the wooden wall collapsed.

The sight of Uchiha Kei and Uchiha Izumi with their Sharingan activated reappeared in his view.

Taking a deep breath, Yamato couldn't help but ask:

"Sharingan?! Who are you? How do you have the Sharingan?"

"Sharingan?"

Not far away, Naruto, fighting Sasuke, heard Yamato's loud voice and glanced at Sasuke, thinking that the Sharingan was right here.

Then, seeing Sasuke's rare change of expression as he looked toward Yamato, Naruto followed his gaze.

He saw those two familiar pairs of Sharingan.

"Eyes like Sasuke's and Kakashi-sensei's! Those are the Sharingan!"

"But didn't the Uchiha clan cease to exist? How do these people have the Sharingan?"

Knowing much about the Uchiha massacre, Naruto was as puzzled as Yamato.

Meanwhile, Sakura, tending to Sai's injuries, noticed this scene and, with a girl's keen perception, saw Sasuke.

Seeing Sasuke's normally indifferent face becoming expressive, she seemed to understand why he didn't want to return to the village.

The intense battlefield suddenly quieted down at the mention of "Sharingan."

Facing Yamato's confused and surprised inquiry, Uchiha Kei laughed: "Why do we have the Sharingan? That's the funniest joke I've heard today."

"If outsiders can have the Sharingan, why can't the Uchiha?"

Yamato knew well that the Uchiha could awaken the Sharingan.

However, with the Uchiha clan supposedly wiped out, how could there be other Uchiha survivors besides Sasuke?

Wait, there was one before.

During the Fire Temple, the battle on Mount Katsuragi, the man accompanying Sasuke.

Thinking of this, Yamato scrutinized the two Uchiha in front of him, feeling they looked familiar but couldn't place them specifically.

He couldn't help but ask again: "Are you from the Konoha Uchiha clan?"

"Konoha..."

Uchiha Kei chuckled, and after a nod from Hagoromo, he smirked and introduced himself:

"Uchiha Kei."

Uchiha Izumi followed calmly:

"Uchiha Izumi."

Hearing this, Yamato's expression changed slightly.

He had no impression of Uchiha Kei.

But Uchiha Izumi, due to Uchiha Itachi's time in the Anbu and working with Kakashi's squad, he had seen Uchiha Itachi and a girl Uchiha together after work.

If he remembered correctly, that girl's name was Uchiha Izumi.

Could this woman be...

"So, is today's battle an internal conflict of Konoha?" Finally, Kurotsuchi, waking up, couldn't help but comment.

Unclear about the Uchiha massacre's details, she saw her enemies were all Uchiha.

Everyone knew the Uchiha were part of Konoha.

Kurotsuchi wanted to question the nature of this battle.

With the overwhelming information, Yamato took a deep breath, returning to his senses.

Though unlikely, he spoke with a glimmer of hope:

"Though I don't know what happened in the past, the Uchiha and Konoha are one. If you wish, you can return to Konoha."