His brief clash with the Masked Man had served as a warning.
Obito’s Kamui was genuinely troublesome.
If not for his system-enhanced Kamui, coupled with his Sage Body and Asura’s chakra, the outcome of that battle would have been far less certain.
And the future held even greater dangers.
The Nine-Tails’ attack.
The Uchiha massacre.
One conspiracy after another.
To change those tragedies…
He would need even stronger trump cards.
His current strength alone was not enough to let him rest easy.
His gaze turned toward one of the most heavily guarded places in Konoha.
The Uchiha Clan’s sacred ground.
Naka Shrine.
There lay the deepest secrets of the Uchiha.
The cover of night concealed his movements perfectly.
Yu leaped silently across Konoha’s rooftops, soon arriving near the shrine.
Members of the Uchiha Police Force patrolled the area with sharp, vigilant eyes.
Hidden deeper in the darkness…
ANBU operatives also maintained surveillance.
For an ordinary shinobi, the place was virtually impregnable.
For Yu…
It might as well have been empty.
Thanks to the Flying Thunder God Technique, he had long ago placed countless Flying Thunder God formulae throughout Konoha.
Naturally…
Several were already near Naka Shrine.
A thought flashed through his mind.
Space rippled gently.
The next instant…
He had already bypassed every layer of security, appearing soundlessly within the shrine’s shadows.
The interior was dim and ancient.
Guided by his memories of the Naruto storyline, he quickly located the entrance to the underground chamber.
He descended the winding stone staircase.
Cold, damp air greeted him.
At the end of the passage…
A massive stone tablet stood silently in the darkness.
Its surface was covered in densely packed ancient script, emanating a mysterious chakra.
The legendary stone tablet left behind by the Sage of Six Paths.
Yu stopped before it and steadied his breathing.
“System.
Check in.”
[Ding!
Check-in successful at: Secret Stone Tablet beneath Naka Shrine!]
[Congratulations!
You have obtained the Uchiha Forbidden Techniques: Izanagi & Izanami (Side-Effect-Free Version, Limited Daily Uses)!]
The notification rang clearly within his mind.
A vast sea of knowledge flooded into his consciousness.
Everything about Izanagi…
Everything about Izanami…
Instantly became his.
Izanagi.
A forbidden technique that normally sacrifices a Sharingan to rewrite reality itself, turning injury, death, and misfortune into illusion while making favorable outcomes real.
Izanami.
Another forbidden jutsu that traditionally costs the user a Sharingan, trapping the target within an endless causal loop until they accept their true fate.
But the versions granted by the system…
Removed the greatest drawback entirely.
No blindness.
Instead…
They carried only one limitation.
Izanagi: Once per day.
Izanami: Once per day.
Yu actually preferred it that way.
The restriction prevented abuse while ensuring both techniques remained true trump cards capable of overturning even the worst situations.
As the check-in completed…
The stone tablet itself changed.
Or rather…
His perception changed.
Passages that had previously remained unreadable suddenly became perfectly clear.
It was as though an invisible veil had been lifted.
The origins of the Uchiha and Senju.
The eternal conflict between Indra and Asura.
Even the earliest conception of the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
Ancient secrets unfolded before his eyes one after another.
His understanding of the world deepened once again.
Then…
As he continued examining the tablet…
He sensed something.
A chakra signature.
Extremely faint.
Yet utterly unique.
It came from somewhere even deeper than the tablet itself.
It belonged neither to the Uchiha…
Nor the Senju.
It felt older.
Far older.
Ancient.
Alien.
As though it had descended from beyond the heavens.
The Ōtsutsuki…
Yu’s eyes narrowed slightly.
So…
There truly were even deeper secrets hidden beneath the stone tablet.
He made no attempt to investigate further.
The timing wasn’t right.
With side-effect-free Izanagi and Izanami now in his possession…
Yu felt his confidence grow once again.
It was almost as though he had become someone capable of rewriting fate itself.
The tragedy of the Uchiha Clan…
Would not happen again.
Nor would Minato and Kushina’s destined deaths.
Leaving the underground chamber as silently as he had entered, Yu slipped back into the night without alerting a single guard.
A cool breeze brushed through his hair.
He looked toward the distant Hokage Monument.
Kushina’s due date…
Was drawing ever closer.
Obito…
Was undoubtedly making preparations as well.
The Nine-Tails Incident.
This time…
It would not unfold as it had before.
There was still much to plan.
Everything had to be perfect.
With another flash…
Shinzuki Yu disappeared into the darkness once more, leaving only the quiet night behind.