Chapter 782: Chapter 13: A Maiden’s Heart, Izanami to Test Tobirama’s Love!
After lying in bed with a blanket over her head for nearly two days, Izuna got up in irritation and began pacing around the room.
Her heart was in turmoil; all that time spent thinking hadn’t helped Izuna sort things out at all. The more anxious she was to untie the knot in her heart, the more flustered and clumsy she became, until it almost turned into a dead lock.
Izuna unconsciously picked up the rose in the vase on the table.
A rose as crimson as the Sharingan, its stem lined with sharp thorns—Izuna felt it was very much like herself...
Beautiful, proud, and dangerous.
As the strongest and most beautiful woman of the Uchiha Clan in this timeline, compared to Uchiha Madara, Izuna was the ninja who truly enjoyed the title of "Battlefield Rose" in the Ninja World.
"Was he telling the truth, or lying? True... or false?" She plucked the rose petals one by one; they drifted up and down in the air, like the tangled complexity inside a girl’s heart.
Even with Izuna’s mentality as the one who presided over the entire Uchiha Clan, what she was facing was simply too absurd and full of reversals.
The man Izuna regarded as a lifelong enemy, Tobirama, actually said he had secretly loved her since childhood? Someone she’d always assumed she must kill, yet right before the great battle he suddenly laid everything bare...
Who the hell is supposed to handle that?
Under normal circumstances, the hatred between the two sides had lasted so long... Even if it was a secret crush, Izuna and Tobirama had already objectively done things to each other that could never be forgiven. By rights, this should be a fight to the death.
But the problem was, all of the above logic depended on Tobirama and Izuna being roughly equal in strength.
If that were the case, then even if Tobirama had other feelings in his heart...
From his past performance—directing Senju and Uchiha into a deadlock without losing ground, clashing head‑on with Izuna in battle—he’d acted no different from a mortal enemy.
Everything flipped the moment Tobirama’s hidden strength was revealed!
This man, Izuna’s arch‑nemesis, completely overwhelmed her in Taijutsu and kenjutsu, even in Fire Release, the element the Uchiha were most proud of...
He had even given the proud Izuna a lesson in the usage of the Mangekyo Sharingan—this is how to wield Dojutsu and Susanoo...
Izuna had no doubt: if the former Tobirama had ever truly harbored killing intent toward her, then he’d had thousands upon thousands of chances to completely kill her!
So why hadn’t Tobirama done it?
Izuna pondered for a long time; following logic to its end, there was only one possible truth left—that Tobirama really did like her!
As for why he’d waited until now to say it, Tobirama had explained that very clearly...
Now, those two stubborn old Clan Leaders, Senju Butsuma and Uchiha Tajima, were both dead.
If they were still alive, then this kind of heretical relationship would absolutely be exploited and suppressed, never accepted... And with the shackles of being father and son, even as strong as he’d become, Tobirama would have found it hard to do anything directly to Senju Butsuma.
But once the remnants of the previous generation left the Ninja World, and Tobirama and Izuna took the reins...
Tobirama had indeed declared his feelings immediately, without delaying even the slightest bit of time.
Objectively speaking, if Tobirama bore ill intent, then with this hidden strength of his he could easily have orchestrated an ambush to annihilate the entire Uchiha Clan!
Izuna racked her brains trying to find evidence that Tobirama was lying.
But the ironclad facts lay heavy in her heart, leaving this cool‑headed, intelligent Uchiha Bara unable to deceive herself...
Especially when she thought of Tobirama’s ocular power, so nearly identical to her own...
A storm of complicated feelings surged through Izuna’s chest... Just how much emotion did a man have to pour into her for even his ocular power to become so similar to hers?
This was no longer something that could be summed up as simply "thinking of her day and night."
"My heart is a mess? What am I even thinking..."
Her hand grasped at air for an instant; her fingertips bumped together, pulling her briefly out of her chaotic thoughts.
She looked down, and saw that the rose petals she’d unconsciously torn off were scattered all over the floor. There was a faint blood mark on her finger where it had grazed a thorn on the stem...
This bewildering scene struck Izuna like she had fallen under some sort of Genjutsu, the overwhelming sense of atmosphere slamming into her heart.
Her Mangekyo Sharingan responded unconsciously; intense emotions rampaged through her mind, and the pattern in her scarlet eyes spun rapidly, the segments linking together into one!
In that instant, Izuna awakened a Mangekyo Dojutsu—"Totsuka: Izanami"!
Feeling the power surging through her eyes, Izuna slowly stroked her eye socket, exhaling a long breath with a complicated expression.
With this Dojutsu...
She could determine whether Tobirama was lying or not!
The original version of Izanami required sacrificing a Three‑Tomoe Sharingan, to trap the enemy in an endlessly looping sequence of events—moments they had experienced together with the Jutsu Releaser.
Only by accepting the "original," which was in fact the fate predetermined by the Jutsu Releaser, and truly acknowledging it from the bottom of one’s heart and sincerely repenting, could one escape from this infinite loop.
The creator of this Jutsu was Uchiha Naori, but now Izuna had already sublimated this Dojutsu to the level of the Mangekyo!
Its function was largely the same as Izanami’s. So long as the target failed to pass the Illusion Realm’s trial within a set period, they would, under the combined power of her ocular energy and the Sword of Totsuka, sink into eternal downfall, their spirit and soul becoming nourishment for Izuna!
And it could be charged and used multiple times...
Uchiha Izuna had already made up her mind—she would not conserve her ocular power...
She would stand before Senju Tobirama and forcefully demand to test his heart! She would use the full ocular power of a complete Mangekyo Sharingan to interrogate him within the Illusion Realm!
