Inside Konoha Hospital, a figure was walking unhurriedly through the brightly lit corridors. This person appeared extrely ordinary—wearing common dark casual clothes, average build, unremarkable features—the type who would blend into a crowd and be instantly forgotten, just like any random villager coming to visit patients or seek dical care.
Of course, this unremarkable effect was intentional. This was one of Naruto's shadow clones, using the most basic Transformation Jutsu to cleverly alter his appearance and presence, silently infiltrating Konoha Hospital.
The hospital corridors bustled with activity and noise. There were patients in hospital gowns walking slowly with family support, worried relatives speaking in hushed tones, and doctors and dical ninja hurrying about with charts and dical equipnt.
Naruto's shadow clone blended perfectly into this background. He kept his eyes downcast, walked naturally, and made no attention-grabbing movents. None of the passing crowd gave him a second glance.
He silently navigated through corridor after corridor, finally stopping outside a room with a particularly heavy atmosphere—the special care unit where Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto lay unconscious.
After waiting quietly at the door for a mont and catching a gap when no one was passing by either end of the corridor, the shadow clone quickly and deftly turned the door handle, slipped inside, and gently closed the door behind him, shutting out the outside noise.
The hospital room was silent except for the regular, soft beeping of dical equipnt. On two beds, the Uchiha couple lay quietly with pale faces and weak breathing.
The shadow clone slowly walked to the position between the two beds. Due to Crazy Diamond's strict range limitations, he needed to get closer.
The next mont, with a thought, a robust figure radiating brilliant blue light that only he could see—Crazy Diamond—appeared behind him.
As Crazy Diamond's palm gently covered Uchiha Fugaku's body, a surge of ntal energy that only Naruto could clearly perceive began to fluctuate.
Under the influence of this power that defied common sense, Fugaku's extrely weak breathing began to beco steady and strong at a visibly rapid pace.
It gradually transford into an even rhythm, like natural breathing during deep sleep.
Naruto carefully sensed this change, understanding in his heart.
Good... the situation had changed from a dangerous coma to normal deep sleep. The internal organ damage should be completely healed now.
He breathed a slight sigh of relief, then imdiately moved to Uchiha Mikoto's bedside.
Looking down at this woman's pale but still discernible features—a face that bore a striking seven-tenths resemblance to Satsuki—the gentle radiance that once graced it was now gone, leaving only sickly weakness.
Naruto wasted no more ti. Crazy Diamond raised its arms again, gently enveloping Mikoto with light containing the power of "restoration."
The sa miraculous change began to occur. Mikoto's thread-like breathing quickly beca full and steady, and her face gradually regained so color.
Watching both their conditions improve at an amazing speed, Naruto's tense nerves finally relaxed sowhat. But in this brief mont of relief, his thoughts unconsciously drifted to mories of the original Naruto series.
He rembered a scene often discussed by fans, filled with tragic undertones. During the Fourth Great Ninja War, Uchiha Sasuke encountered Uchiha Itachi, who had been summoned by the Reanimation Jutsu. Sasuke had demanded emotionally, "Why... why was I the only one left alive?!"
This question was often interpreted as Sasuke's confusion and anger about Itachi sparing his life.
But on the night of the massacre, little Sasuke had been crying and running away, shouting "Don't kill ," which ford a stark contrast to this later question.
However, Naruto always felt that Sasuke at that ti might not have ant it purely literally. What he was questioning might not have been "why didn't you kill too."
Instead, he was painfully asking, "Why... after making such an extre decision to massacre the clan, did you leave only alone? Why couldn't you spare a few more clan mbers? Why... couldn't you leave my beloved mother?"
"Why did I have to bear this loneliness and heavy burden all by myself?"
In Naruto's view, leaving one more person—Mikoto—in Itachi's extre plan wouldn't have made much difference. Since he had decided to spare Satsuki anyway, a mother who deeply loved her daughter would naturally accompany her through that most difficult lonely childhood, which would actually better ensure Satsuki's psychological well-being.
Was it fear of the plan being exposed? Or did he think... that leaving behind bonds would weaken the "hatred" Satsuki needed?
Even more ridiculous was that in the original story, Fugaku and his wife's final words to Itachi before dying were actually "take care of Sasuke"... and then this guy turned around and subjected his own little brother to seventy-two hours of Tsukuyomi torture.
Just as his thoughts wandered aimlessly—
"Mmm..."
An extrely soft sound with the characteristic breathing of soone waking up suddenly interrupted Naruto's contemplation!
She's awake?!
Naruto's heart tightened, and his instinct was to imdiately dispel the shadow clone.
However, just as his intention stirred, his gaze inadvertently swept over Aunt Mikoto's slowly opening eyes, still filled with the confusion and fatigue of awakening—
That one glance made his movents freeze completely.
Mikoto struggled to open her heavy eyelids. The coma had left her vision sowhat blurry and her mind in chaos.
She seed sowhat puzzled looking at this "strange" figure standing by the bed, instinctively trying to identify who it was.
However, in her unconsciously opened eyes that hadn't yet fully focused—what appeared in their depths wasn't the common tomoe Sharingan of the Uchiha clan!
Instead, it was an incredibly complex, eerie pattern slowly rotating.
The Mangekyo Sharingan.
This ti... because Clan Leader Fugaku had seen hope for peace, he hadn't willingly cooperated with Itachi's plan to die like in the original story... The situation had beco... he was personally killed by his own beloved child...
As a mother... witnessing her husband struck down by their own child, then being burned by Amaterasu by that sa child... such extre emotional trauma... had actually awakened her Mangekyo Sharingan?!
At that mont, perhaps because she had just awakened and her body was still too weak, enormous fatigue surged over her like a tide. Mikoto's just-opened eyes containing terrifying power slowly, weakly closed again, falling back into deep sleep.
Naruto's emotions beca extrely complex.
But ultimately, he made his decision. He took a deep breath, and behind him, another golden phantom radiating brilliant life energy quietly appeared.
I'm sorry, for now... please forget this power.
He silently apologized in his heart. The next mont, Gold Experience's ability activated, and those newly awakened eyes containing ominous power were skillfully extracted.
Imdiately after, vigorous life energy was injected, and a pair of ordinary, healthy black eyes were perfectly created, covering the original void.
After completing this, Naruto wasted no more ti. He ford hand seals, and with a puff of white smoke, his form rapidly changed into that masked figure wearing a fox mask and black robes—"nma."
Then, the light of the Flying Thunder God technique flickered briefly, and nma's figure instantly vanished from the quiet hospital room, racing toward the distant base in Hot Water Country.
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