Naruto: I'm in Konoha, my name is Uzumaki Menma

Chapter 49 Conversation with Aunt Snake
With a dizzying sensation, the ninja captain used the power of the Sharingan to 'invade' Menma's mental space.

"Hmph! This is the Sharingan bestowed upon us by Lord Orochimaru! Let me show you!"

The ninja captain grinned maliciously, already picturing the scene of brutally killing this arrogant brat in his mind.

suddenly!

A strong smell of blood mixed with the pungent smell of gunpowder hit him, choking him and causing him to stagger backward.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself in the middle of a brutal battlefield!

This was a huge crater with a diameter of several kilometers, littered with all sorts of severed limbs and ninja corpses, with the headbands of ninjas from various villages gleaming coldly in the pool of blood.

The number of corpses was so large that it numbered in the tens of thousands!

The scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood shocked the ninja captain so much that his hair stood on end and his whole body trembled!

He suddenly looked up and saw in the center of the pit, under a crimson moon, a dark red fox coiled on a mountain of corpses piled up from countless ninja bodies.

Nine tails swayed in the moonlight.

The reclining fox resembled a throne, while the piled-up corpses looked like steps.

On the throne, a spiky-haired boy slowly raised his eyes, his three-tomoe Sharingan radiating a cold indifference that looked down upon all living beings.

"Get out." The single word, spoken softly, resonated like a thunderclap in the ninja captain's mind.

puff--

In the real world, the ninja captain was so shocked by that shout that he bled from all seven orifices, and his chest convulsed violently as if his lungs were about to explode.

He struggled to lift his head, only to find that his two subordinates were already dead, and a masked mystery man was standing in front of him, looking down at him.

"I'll accept Orochimaru's gift." Before he finished speaking, two fingers dug into the ninja captain's right eye, gouging out the two-tomoe Sharingan.

"Ahhh—" The screams didn't last long.

Menma examined the bloodstained eyeball in his hand, and a red-haired little girl wearing a black hat emerged trembling from the shadows.

"M-Master... Lord Orochimaru requests your presence." The little girl looked to be only four or five years old. The pale green liquid in the glass container she was holding swayed slightly.

"Orochimaru's considerations are quite thorough." Menma took the glass container and placed the Sharingan inside.

"Let's go, lead the way." Then, Menma looked at the little girl in front of him.

Judging from her hair color and age, if I'm not mistaken, she should be Tayuya, one of the future Sound Five.

However, she is still just a little girl who hasn't even refined her chakra yet.

"Yes, sir." Tayuya bowed respectfully, then walked ahead to lead the way for Menma.

Orochimaru's base entrance is located in a stone house in the very center of the village, which looks like the future Sound Village.

However, this is just one of Orochimaru's bases. Orochimaru officially established the Sound Village after he defected from the Akatsuki.

The two walked down the passageway inside the stone house one after the other, and soon arrived at the second-floor corridor of a huge underground plaza.

In the center of the square, several experimental subjects were engaged in a gladiatorial combat. Around them, in rooms resembling prison cells, various other experimental subjects were imprisoned. Some of them had begun to show severe deformities in their limbs, and some had even lost their minds, constantly banging on the cell bars.

On the second-floor corridor, a long-haired woman was gazing at the experimental subjects fighting in the arena.

Hearing the noise behind her, she slowly turned her head, her pale face appearing particularly eerie in the dim indoor light.

"Orochimaru, when did you become the director of an orphanage?" Menma's flippant voice came from behind the mask. "I knew I couldn't hide it from you." The woman smiled slightly and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.

"You can go now," Orochimaru said to Tayuya.

"Yes."

After Tayuya left, Menma walked to Orochimaru's side and, together with him, or rather, with her, watched the two 'experimental subjects' fighting in the middle of the plaza below.

"I searched for a long time before I found a ninja who could match the Sharingan, but unfortunately, his strength was too weak and his talent was not good either." Orochimaru's voice also became somewhat soft and delicate.

“It’s normal that ordinary people can’t withstand this kind of bloodline limit.” Menma knew that Orochimaru had probably discovered the importance of bloodlines by conducting live experiments on ninjas when he was in Konoha.

"This batch of test subjects is also incomplete." Orochimaru looked down at the experimental subjects below who were fighting to the death to please him, his eyes as cold as if he were looking at garbage.

Then, Orochimaru said casually, "I heard there's a village in the Land of Water where the villagers are infected by something and have superhuman strength, but they're also prone to going berserk and losing control. I'm going to go check it out."

"You actually want to go and see Kirigakure, don't you?" Menma directly exposed Orochimaru's lie.

Although Menma had already guessed that the village must belong to the Jugo clan, the natural energy there was too concentrated, causing the villagers to mutate and giving them superhuman abilities, but they would often go out of control and go berserk.

Among them, Jugo, who is born with the ability to absorb natural energy, often goes berserk and kills people.

An uncertain village wouldn't warrant Orochimaru's personal intervention, especially given his recent resurrection.

Therefore, Orochimaru's real purpose was probably to visit Kirigakure, which had become the "Village of Blood Mist," and see if he could recruit a few children with bloodline limits.

"As expected, I couldn't fool you." Orochimaru stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, never expecting to deceive this 'Shura from the future'.

“The power of bloodline is certainly important, but I suggest you put some effort into cloning technology.” Menma took out a glass container and shook it; the Sharingan in the liquid swayed slightly with the movement.

"Cloning technology?" Orochimaru looked at the Sharingan and pondered.

Orochimaru values ​​every word he says to Shura, who is "from the future," because perhaps it contains "information about the future."

Take, for example, the cloning technology that Shura is talking about now.

"I also tried to clone the Sharingan, but those clones... were unable to awaken the Sharingan." Orochimaru couldn't help but recall his past experiments.

This precious Sharingan with two tomoe was obtained from Danzo.

Since establishing Root, Danzo had been collecting the corpses of the Uchiha clan. During the Third Shinobi World War, Danzo acquired quite a few Sharingan.

However, the biggest gain was on the night of the massacre. Danzo's Root ninjas collected at least two-thirds of the Sharingan, including many three-tomoe Sharingan, enough for Danzo to use Izanagi to his heart's content.

"The Sharingan is the ultimate external manifestation of Yin Release and spiritual energy. Whether or not one awakens it is related to Yin Release." Menma revealed some secrets because of this Sharingan.

"Does that mean... he can clone the Sharingan with three tomoe?" Orochimaru became interested. If he could clone the Sharingan with three tomoe, it would mean that he could mass-produce ninjas with the strength of a special Jonin!
Moreover, he was very interested in the Sharingan, which was known as the strongest bloodline limit in the ninja world, but ordinary Sharingan could no longer satisfy him.

It would take at least a three-tomoe Sharingan to arouse his desire to study it.

Menma didn't tell Orochimaru about the evolution beyond the three-tomoe Sharingan; his gaze, hidden behind the mask, swept over the experimental subjects in the hall.

Their chakra levels are at most at the genin level, and many of them have already lost their bodily functions and won't live much longer.

"So, tell me, what kind of deal do you want to make by coming to me this time?" Perhaps because he had used a woman's body, Orochimaru's tone had become alluring.

It made Mianma feel nauseous and physically uncomfortable.

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