"No... Hiro, it's too much to use clan members as subjects no matter what..."
"Stop talking nonsense. Think about how you treated me. If you don't create another one to accompany me in being a laughingstock, I'll go after your brother."
Uchiha Ryo instantly became serious. "However, I believe they'll understand me, and I'll work hard for it."
Uchiha Akihiko, who had listened to the whole conversation, looked at Uchiha Ryo strangely. [So it was really you who made the Mangekyo awaken!]
But his attention was soon drawn to another point. "Uchiha Ryo, you're going to the Land of Lightning?"
"Yeah, the clan has some matters related to the Ancestral Land to handle, and I also need to go to the Land of Lightning to improve my Gitai." Uchiha Ryo replied briefly, then turned to Hiro again. "As for the candidate... there are Kenji, Masaki, and Chiho. After all, there aren't many candidates of the same age with similar pupil power as you two. Who do you think is more suitable?"
"Kenji?" Hiro crossed his arms and thought for a moment. "Can you handle that shameless guy?"
Uchiha Akihiko also spoke after a brief silence. "No matter how talented Chiho is, she's a girl. Isn't it inappropriate for you to treat her like this?"
"...Then Masaki?"
[If I don't have to deal with Chiho and Kenji, I'll be a bit more relaxed.] - This was Uchiha Ryo's thought.
"Let it be Masaki."
[He's the only one among the peers who can still awaken his Sharingan. I must get him involved.] - This was Hiro's thought.
"No objections."
[Kenji and Chiho's personalities should make it hard for them to feel embarrassed. If I really want to test something, I still have to let the relatively sensitive Masaki do it. Moreover, not to mention that Masaki has a psychological shadow about Uchiha Ryo because of some things in his childhood. With such a premise, Uchiha Ryo can save some time in guiding him...] - Uchiha Akihiko was thinking a bit too much.
The three of them thus decided on the next so - called lucky (actually unlucky) guy.
After deciding on the candidate, Uchiha Akihiko couldn't help but complain to Hiro. "If it weren't for you holding me back, I could have gone to the Land of Lightning this time."
"What would you do if you went? Rush in recklessly and then ask Uchiha Ryo to bring back a pair of eyes for you?" Hiro sneered. "You'd better cooperate with my research obediently instead of wasting your time."
"Cooperate with you? Your so - called research is just a deliberate revenge!"
"Hey, come on, let's talk it out calmly. Don't quarrel..." Uchiha Ryo reached out his hand to stop them. "And Akihiko, I also agree with what Hiro said. Just now when you mentioned the Land of Lightning, the chakra fluctuations in your brain were very intense. So even after this mission is over, I hope you don't go to the Land of Lightning for the time being."
Hearing this, Uchiha Akihiko frowned tightly. "Uchiha Ryo, you know, I can't just let it go like this with them."
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"Yeah, I know. So this time, I'll help you bring back intelligence on the Hyuga clan and give you special training in Gitai. This will help you seek revenge on them in the future... But you can't go to the Land of Lightning until you fully master these eyes."
"Uchiha Ryo, are you asking me to just watch those enemies go unpunished?"
"Going to seek revenge without being able to fully control your body is just suicide! The Hyuga clan isn't some unknown small ninja clan. Do you think you can wipe them out with just your Mangekyo Sharingan?" Uchiha Ryo raised his voice a bit. "Uchiha Akihiko, do you want Akihiko's sacrifice to be in vain? And Kazuhiko is still young. Do you want to burden him with such a heavy fate?"
When his younger brother was mentioned, Uchiha Akihiko fell silent. He clenched and unclenched his hands several times, then let out a long sigh. "You're right. At least not now..."
"Kazuhiko hasn't awakened his Sharingan yet. If I die now, even with the clan's storage methods, these eyes can only be preserved for at most a year. So I have to live at least until Kazuhiko awakens his Sharingan."
Uchiha Ryo: That's not what I meant... Well, forget it. It's good that you've thought it through for now.
Later, Hiro proposed the idea of exchanging eyes with Uchiha Akihiko to see if the eye jutsu would still be preserved, but Uchiha Akihiko flatly rejected it.
Uchiha Akihiko's exact words were as follows - [Exchanging eyes is easy, but currently, there are only two of us in the clan with Mangekyo Sharingan. After the exchange, won't you still study me? And you mainly want to practice the surgery, right? Find other clan members who need it. I still need to get familiar with the combat methods using the Mangekyo Sharingan. I don't have time to fool around with you.]
This made Hiro so angry that he almost started another fight.
But despite the quarrel, both of them took the matter of the Mangekyo Sharingan seriously. Hiro also said that after he sorted out the changes in himself, he would go to the stele in the basement of the clan's ancestral hall to take a look.
Uchiha Ryo thought it over again. After realizing that he really had nothing else to say to the two of them, he bid farewell and went to The Meeting Hall to tell the chief elder about his choice of team members.
"Uchiha Masaki and Madara Uchiha...?" Uchiha Masamitsu stroked his beard. After a moment, he looked at Uchiha Ryo and said, "I can understand your choice of Uchiha Masaki, who is also outstanding among the peers. But Madara... Can you explain your reason?"
"Yes," Uchiha Ryo nodded slightly. "First of all, Madara's pupil power has been increasing since he started getting involved in the battlefield. As you know, when a member of the Uchiha clan first awakens his Sharingan, he is prone to being mentally shocked. After the outburst, he may fall into a state of fainting or weakness. I want to avoid this dangerous situation as much as possible.
"Secondly, it's also related to the information I got from the stele. It says that if a member of the Uchiha clan awakens his Sharingan before the age of ten, he is likely to develop the Blood Inheritance Disease. Currently, Madara has the highest pupil power among the younger - generation members. So I want to keep Madara by my side to observe what changes will occur to our clan members' bodies at the moment of awakening the Sharingan."
The last point can be seen as a bit of concern from the younger brother. Madara seems unable to get along well with his peers because of his extraordinary talent, so his temperament has become colder. I think it'd be better to let him integrate into our generation first and then gradually try to interact with his peers... Please approve this."
Uchiha Masamitsu gave Uchiha Ryo a meaningful look. "Got it. I'll take care of it."