Strongest Shinobi

Izana finished his meetup with Naruto and went to search for Itachi. He'd heard from Mikoto that Itachi had just returned from a mission and was supposed to be back.

Izana firstly went to look at the training ground Itachi and Shisui always trained at. Itachi loved to train there and he might still go there to think of Shisui. When he found Itachi he would then think of if he should tell him Shisui was alive or not. It depended on what the situation was. Still, he would probably tell Itachi anyway.

Izana arrived at the training ground but didn't find Itachi. The training ground was empty except for the few training swords and targets. It didn't look as if someone had been there recently, so Izana went on with his search.

He looked everywhere, from the places he often visited to the places he visited least, but he still couldn't find him. Chances were, that Itachi had been called back for another mission. Izana had no choice but wait for Itachi to come back to the residence.

Izana sighed and went to find Jiraiya. If he couldn't find Itachi, he might as well ask Jiraiya about the Chuunin exams and how that all worked.

Arriving at the Hokage building, Izana quickly sensed Jiraiya's chakra and followed it to his location. It was, as expected, inside the Hokage's office. Izana knocked on the door and was soon let inside the office.

Jiraiya didn't seem to be talking about something important as both he and the Third were drinking tea and speaking casually.

"Oh, Izana-kun. What brings you here?" The Thirds said.

"Hello, Hokage-sama. I was looking for Jiraiya-sensei. It was concerning the Chuunin exams." Izana replied as he sat down beside Jiraiya.

"I see. Has he already told you about it?" The Third said, taking short puffs from his pipe.

"No, Hokage-sama. That's why I'm here."

"I see." The Third said.

"Ah, I might have forgotten. The Chuunin exams will start in two weeks. They are differ with every exam, but they are mostly to see how adept you are with team work, knowledge and combat skills. You shouldn't have any problems with that. Concerning the team challenge, I guess you will be teamed up with other Chuunin who don't have a team or are short a member. You'll be notified about that shortly."

Jiraiya with a big smile on his face.

"I see, thank you for explaining, sensei." Izana said as he was sure to remember it.

"I also wanted to mention that I've spoken with Naruto about Kurama and made sure they got along well with each other." Izana said, dropping a bomb. The pipe fell from the Thirds hands, while Jiraiya sprayed out the tea he had just taken a sip of.

"That was all, I'll be taking my leave." Before the Third could stop him, Izana had already Shunshined out of the office, vanishing from their sight.

"He wasn't joking, right?" Jiraiya said, looking a bit troubled.

The Third grabbed his glass ball and searched for Naruto. He quickly found him, alone in the forest seemingly speaking to himself and laughing a bit.

"He was completely serious. To be safe, I'll make sure to let another Anbu keep a close eye on him. Though it doesn't look like the seal has weakened. Naruto appears to be completely fine." The Third said, exclaiming in relief.

"Maa, Izana knows what he's doing. If he thought Naruto was ready for it, then he probably was." Jiraiya said, having completely regained his calm and the smile back on his face.

The Third didn't doubt Jiraiya's trust in Izana and resumed in smoking his pipe.

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Izana arrived back at the Uchiha residence and notified his uncle and aunt about the Chuunin exam. Fugaku seemed very pleased with Izana's progress and suggested he trained with Izana before the exams started.

Izana happily agreed as this was one of the few times he could spend with his uncle.

Once there he lay down on the bed and went through a couple of books describing tactics and strategies on battles. He had to prepeare as much as he could for the Chuunin exams.

He read for a few hour but soon had to stop when his eyes, that still had a slight pain during the day, began to ache even more. It felt like they were burning. Izana g.r.o.a.n.e.d in pain as he pressed his palms firmly against his eyes.

"It hurts!" Izana g.r.o.a.n.e.d, muffling his voice in the sheets of his bed.

[Your eyes are done developing. It's the final stages. Once they stop hurting, your Mangekyo will be ready. It shouldn't take more than a minute.] Ryuujin said.

Izana nodded and kept his voice down as he waited for the pain to stop. Like Ryuujin had promised, the pain stopped within a minute. They still throbbed a little, but that too was beginning to fade. Feeling a bit dizzy, Izana slowly got up from the bed and blindly searched his way to the bathroom.

Once the throbbing was gone, a cool and refreshing feeling remained. Izana slowly opened his eyes and looked in the mirror. Staring back at him was an intricate pattern in his crimson red eyes.

It were three black bars streching outward from an enlargened pupil. The middle of the bars had a wide empty space. The space between the bars were occupied but circles.

(A/N: Izana's mangekko design. aliexpress.com/item/4000994607426.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_0,searchweb201603_0,ppcSwitch_0&algo_pvid=01cca127-fd23-44c0-b204-7dfca8a58fc6&algo_expid=01cca127-fd23-44c0-b204-7dfca8a58fc6-2)

Izana pulled his lower eyelid a bit down to look closer at the design. He had heard about the Mangekyo from Shisui and Ryuujin. He had really hoped it would look decent and not to plain. He was really satisfied with how they looked.

When he focussed of which abillities he'd got, he was a bit confused. That couldn't be it, right?

If it really was those powers, how would he use it?

Izana looked at his reflection in the mirror, a bit lost on how he could train his occular powers.

[Well, it was to be expected it would become that.] Ryuujin said as he could feel what Izana was thinking.

"I mean, how am I going to train in that?" Izana said.

One eye had to power to affect anything he looked at. Thanks to the poison he had absorbed, everything he looked at would melt away throught the power of corrosion or would be petrified.

The power of the other eye should be Regeneration, though he had no idea how to test it out. He wasn't planning to injure himself. What if he was wrong and it didn't heal?

[Just test it out. You could always visit the hospital and say you got it from training. Otherwise you could use your Yang release on yourself, though it would hurt a lot as you will be activating the cells individually with high amounts of chakra. You choose.] Ryuujin said as he too really wanted to find out what Izana's occular powers were.

"The i'll first try the corrosion powers, though not here." Izana said as he quickly left his bedroom and went towards his yard. He sensed no one around and activated his Mangekyō. He looked at a rock and imagined it being doused in a lot of accid.

As soon as he imagined it, the rock sizzled and visible melted away at a high pace. Izana widened his eyes at the scene, as not even a trace remained from the rock except for a slightly melted ground.

[Nice offencive output. you could cause major damage to the enemy with that. They can't even treat it well, as if you don't want it to stop, it won't. Only way to stop it would be to cut of the skin where it hit or seal it away.] Ryuujin said as he was satisfied with the results.

"Next."

Izana grabbed a kana from his weapon pouch and decisively made a cut on his arm. The blood quickly flowed from his arm, but before it could land on the ground, it seemed to trace back its steps and flowed back into his arm. The gash visibly mended itself.

[What about bigger injuries?] Ryuujin said as he was really curious to how far this Regeneration would work.

Izana took a deep breath and steadied his trembling hand. He was about to do something really stupid. Hopefully his Regeneration would work as he thought it would, otherwise he really needed to run to the hospital.

Izana slashed down the kana and cut of his finger. Izana firmly gnashed his teeth as he held in his scream. It f*cking hurt! His finger fell to the ground and blood gushed out like a fountain. Before Izana could curse his luck and scold himself for stupid thoughts, the firger disintegrated and the finger was back on his hand, as if nothing had happened.

[Wow, you really are an idiot. Never thought you would cut of your own finger] Ryuujin said, a bit horrified.

[At least we know now that you can regrow body parts. Don't get used to the regeneration though. It's bad to get used to it and start to rely on it. It might fail in desperate situations.] Ryuujin said, as they weren't sure what the limits were yet.

"I know. I won't become reliable on it." Izana said as he still looked at his hand in wonder. There wasn't even a speck of blood on the kunai.

[Good. Now deactivate your Mangekyo, you don't want others to know you have it. It should be your trump card for difficuly enemies.] Ryuujin said.

"It won't be long before he will be gone. It's just a matter of time." Izana murmured as a sly and slightly evil look appeared on his face.

It disappeared imediately when he was called by Mikoto to have dinner. All that could be seen on his face was a happy smile, though the malicious glimmer was still seen in his eyes.