Strongest Shinobi - Volume 1 Chapter 22 Hidden Schemes Revealed

The next day, Izana yawned loudly as he didn’t get a lot of sleep. Even now his eyes still hurt.

“Ryuujin, are my eyes alright? They still hurt.” Izana said as he gently rubbed his eyes.

[They’re not fully developped yet. Give it some time, it shouldn’t be long now.] Ryuujin said, as he could already feel the chaotic chakra in Izana’s eyes slowly calm down.

Izana nodded and went to check up on Shisui. Shisui was still sleeping, but all the wounds were gone. There wasn’t any poison remaining in his body and his complexion was getting better and better.

“Shouldn’t be long now.” Izana murmured as he rummaged through the cabinets and found some clothing that would fit Shisui. The clothing he wore now was pretty torn down and were now nothing more than rags.

Izana filled a jar with water and grabbed a couple of glasses. When Shisui woke up he was sure to be thirsty, don’t even mention hungry.

Unfortuntely there wasn’t any food in the cabin, so that had to wait till after Shisui woke up.

“Aargh…”

Shisui m.o.a.ned slightly as he was beginning to wake up. Izana walked towards his bedside and waited for him to completely wake up.

“I’m not…dead?” Shisui whispered almost inaudible.

“Alive and kicking.” Izana responded.

Shisui turned his head towards Izana.

“Izana. Why are you here?” Shisui said, still a bit groggy from the state from last night.

“I treated you. You were almost gone for good.” Izana said as he looked over Shisui’s body for the last time. If there was still something wrong, Izana would use his technique again to fix it all up.

Izana was relieved to see there were no wounds or other injuries to be found. The only thing Izana was powerless to fix, for now, were Shisui’s eyes.

They were still the same hollow sockets as last night. Maybe if Izana’s proficiency in his yang technique went up, he would be able to reform Shisui’s eyes.

[Don’t get to hung up over it. It was already amazing you could completely heal his wounds and cure his poison. It won’t be long until you can regrow flesh, so be patient.] Ryuujin said as he could feel Izana’s negative thoughts.

Izana visibly perked up. No need to see everything in a bad light. He only needed a few more times to practice and increase his skill to be able to use the Creation-technique.

“Shisui. Why were you in that situation last night? If I’m not mistaken, you were attacked by the Anbu from Konoha. Why were you even attacked.” Izana said as he felt the situation was all to suspicious.

“Ah, This is not something you have to concern yourself with Izana.” Shisui said as he drank a bit of water.

“I am already involved, so it’s no used hidding it from me.” Izana said, not planning to stay out of it.

“No, you really should stay out of it. This is not something you can handle.” Shisui said, adamant to keep Izana out of it.

“Like is said, I’m already involved. Even more so when I had to save you from comitting suicide. Think of how Itachi feel right now.” Izana said, as he could already imagine how Itachi felt.

“Haah? Why do you know about that?” Shisui said.

“I was the one who saved you from falling in the Naka river. Lukily I didn’t swallow you, otherwise we would be stuck with another problem right now.”

“I don’t understand what you mean, Izana. I was caught by a beast not you.” Shisui said, not knowing what Izana was talking about.

“I’m telling you, I am that beast. Didn’t Itachi tell you about that? I was sure he had with how close you two are.” Izana said, a bit surprised.

“You’re making less sense by the minute.” Shisui sighed as he already could feel a headache coming up.

“I’m a jinchuriki. A special one of a being called Ryuujin. I’ll introduce you to him later. First tell me what happened. I won’t leave if you don’t. Even if you won’t tell, I’ll ask Itachi tell him what happened to you.” Izana said, a wicked smile in his face.

“You’re one mean kid.” Shisui smiled wryly.

“I know, more than you think. So tell me.” Izana said.

Shisui carefully sat up, leaning with his back against the headrest of the bed. He turned to Izana and started to explain what was curently happening with the Uchiha and the people who attacked him.

“So, to summarise. The Uchiha are planning a coup, you and Itachi are spying for the Third and planning to stop it. The plan was using your Mangeky Sharinga, the Kotoamatsukami, to hypnotize the heads of the Uchiha in abondoning the coup. Danzo attacked you and stole one of your eyes, while you handed the other to Itachi.

You planned to suicide to help awaken Itachi’s Mangeky and you thought you would die until I saved you. Correct so far?” Izana said as he was a bit taken aback by the seriousness of the situation.

“Correct.”

“No wonder the Uchiha residence felt so suffocating. They’ve been planning this for a while then.” Izana said to himself.

If this was already brooding for a couple of years, then it wouldn’t be long until the Uchiha executed the plan.

“I fear that the measures that will be taken will be far worse. The village might even decide to eradicate the Uchiha, especially Danzo.” Shisui said. Izana could feel the anger emanating of Shisui when he mentioned Danzo.

“Don’t worry. I’ll make sure to avoid that outcome. I’ll even try to get your eye back from Danzo.” Izana said, not mentioning he was planning far worse for that man.

Danzo had been spying on him since the Kyuubi’s attack, suspecting Izana ever since he delayed Kurama. Now Danzo was threatening hi family. He won’t let Danzo get away with this. He has gone too far.

Shisui didn’t know what Izana was thinking about and only became a bit worried.

“Be careful, Izana. Don’t let the Uchiha elders find out that you know about the coup. Only a few of the Uchiha know.”

“Don’t worry. I’ll make sure they won’t know.” Izana said, not seeing the problem.

I’ll make sure to protect my family. If Danzo touches even one hair on their heads, Izana will rip him to pieces. He will skin him alive, tear the eyes from his sockets, pull his tongue from the roots, make sure he would be alive to exprience what is to anger him and make him wish he could die.

[He won’t know what hit him. When you kill Danzo, make sure it’s as painful as it can be. At least you’ll be able to deter others with Danzo’s death and the way how he dies.] Ryuujin added as he too had been sick of hidding from that man. Let him come. If Izana wouldn’t take care of him, he sure would.

Izana and Ryuujin both smiled wickedly as they were imagining the death of the biggest eyesore of the century.