Chapter 73.1- One Thousand Hands

“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard you say” I told her, even as I began to mentally scramble for some way to get out of this. Don’t get me wrong, I’df love to have a fucking Rinnegan. If I thought it was likely that swapping eyes would d lead the both of us to getting rinnegan, I would even have done it myself already. But it was already proven that the rinnegan didn’t come from just mixing Uchiha and Senju dna. You needed to mx Indra’s chakra with Asura’s to create Hagoromo’s chakra. We had examples form the show that proved it wasn’t just Uchiha and Senju dna. For one, we had Danzo. He had an arm made entirely of Hashirama cells and sharingan in that arm.

None of those eyes became the rinnegan. You could argue, it was because those sharingan eren’t Mangekyou, but then he had Shisui’s eye in his left eye socket or whatever. Even if that wasn’t enough, there was the example of Shin Uchiha. He was filled with hashirama cells and had sharingan everywhere. Not a dingle one became the Rinnegan even if they were fully evolved mangekyous. So with that context, there was little too chance that swapping eyes would give Uzume and I the rinnegan.

“But think about it Shori. I’m sure, I’ve been thinking about it. Ucxhiha plus Senju will give you the rinnegan. If I give you one of my eyes then your chakra should be what it needs to get the rinnegan. You give me one of your eyes then the chakra you have in that will flow into my body and then turn my sharingan into the rinnegan. With that, there’s no chance we lose to the Raikage”

“So that’s what you’re worried about” I surmised. Of course it had to be that. She still didn’t believe my assurances that we could take him. Sure, I hadn’t fought him myself but I knew his level from canon, and I knew his weakness. His body wasn’t as strong as his attacks were. All I had to do was redirect one of his attacks to him and his durability would not be able to handle it.

“Not just him. Everyone. We do this and we become gods, Shorirama. One god split into two bodies.”

“It won’t work, Uzume. Trust me, it won’t work”

“And how are you so sure it won’t?” Her eyes were sharp now as she assessed me. I couldn’t tell her I knew it wouldn’t because things like that had happened in canon. I also couldn’t just seem like I wasn’t even giving her suggestion any thought at all. I had to strike a middle ground.

“It’s just common sense. If that’s all it took then we’d have some record of the Rinnegan existing already. I’ve healed you multiple times. I put those eyes in your head, ‘Zume. If pumping my chakra through your eyes was what it took then those things would already have evolved” I told her, pointing out the logic— or lack thereof of her suggestion. She looked at me now, like she was trying to come ip with a counterargument. I gave her all the time she needed, and there was nothing but silence for a minute before she returned.

“Medical ninjutsu is yin chakra. You probably weren’t channeling your yang chakra and so that wasn’t enough to upgrade the eyes” She said, sounding remarkably sure.

“Do you trust in our power so little you would have us fight the Raikage with borrowed power?” I asked her instead, changing tacts. I could see the way she froze at my words. Uzume was extremely prideful. So was I. If I made this a thing of pride, she would drop it. I just knew she would.