Early the next morning. Many people had not yet awakened from their dreams when a storm that swept across the entire ninja world had already shaken all the ninjas. One of the five great ninja villages, and the one with the strongest military power and most preserved combat strength, Hidden Cloud Village, was completely destroyed yesterday. Countless ninjas and villagers were killed or injured, and even the Two-Tails Jinchuriki was among the casualties.
However, the perpetrator was only one person—the one who left Konoha not long ago, known as the strongest genius in Konoha's history and the strongest puppet master in the ninja world, Scarlet Yu.
As soon as this news broke, it was as if an unprecedented plague had erupted across the entire ninja world. Nations were shocked, and ninjas everywhere were frantically discussing the matter.
Regardless of the reactions of other countries and ninja villages, on this day, another event that would soon shock the entire ninja world was quietly unfolding in Konoha...
Konoha, Uchiha Clan's Territory.
The moon had just risen, and Sasuke was walking home from school as usual.
"I can agree to help you take revenge on the Uchiha Clan, but you must also promise me that you won't harm Sasuke or the village."
In the empty courtyard at night, Uchiha Itachi, who had been promoted to Konoha ANBU Squad Captain at the age of thirteen, was staring at a mysterious person standing in front of him. His young and calm face showed no emotions.
"Of course, I promise you..."
"I help you eliminate the entire Uchiha Clan, and after this is over, you will join my organization..."
The mysterious man standing in front of Uchiha Itachi wore a spiral mask, from which a single blood-red Three Tomoe Sharingan could be faintly seen.
I'm sorry, Shisui...
Things have come to this point. Between Konoha and the Uchiha Clan, I can only choose one...
Fingernails deeply embedded in his palms, Itachi's Three Tomoe Sharingan finally shone with a determined light after making an excruciatingly difficult decision.
"Alright, I hope you keep your word..."
With those words, the resolute Itachi turned and immediately vanished from the spot.
"Hmph, Uchiha..."
"This sorrowful clan... from now on, will completely disappear from this world..."
Standing still and quietly watching Itachi leave, the mysterious masked man seemed to murmur to himself, a faint glimmer of hatred in his eyes.
Immediately after, the Mangekyo Sharingan's Dojutsu activated, causing the space around his body to spiral and distort. He too disappeared from the spot, as if no one had ever been in the courtyard...
Corpses lay everywhere, and rivers of blood flowed.
From one end of the Uchiha Clan's territory to the other, Uchiha Itachi himself did not know how many clan members he had killed.
Watching one familiar face after another fall beneath his long sword, Itachi felt as though everything before him was red, while his heart, frozen in ice, sank deeper into the abyss of darkness.
With his hands stained with the blood of countless clan members, Itachi, dragging his heavy body, finally arrived at his own home. Through the door, illuminated by the light inside, he saw two familiar, blurry silhouettes. No one could understand the emotions Itachi was feeling at that moment.
Ever since Shisui had drowned himself in the Naka River, Itachi's relationship with Fugaku had nearly frozen over in the past two years. However, having to kill his closest kin, Itachi's hands, gripping the long sword, couldn't help but tremble slightly.
Pushing the door open, Itachi had originally thought that his father, the powerful head of the Uchiha Clan, would be the final and most difficult challenge in his mission to annihilate the clan. But Itachi never imagined that his father, Uchiha Fugaku, had already awakened the same Mangekyo Sharingan as he had.
What surprised him even more was that despite possessing the powerful Mangekyo Sharingan, his father, after their conversation, made no resistance and willingly died by his sword.
"Itachi, you are truly a kind child..."
"Although our thoughts differ, you will always be our pride. Take care of Sasuke for us..."
As the sharp long sword pierced through the bodies of his father, Uchiha Fugaku, and his mother, Uchiha Mikoto, Itachi listened to his father's final words of forgiveness. For perhaps the last time in his life, he cried, tears streaming down his face.
After killing his own parents in their home and using Tsukuyomi on his younger brother Sasuke, planting a seed of 'revenge' in him, Itachi put on his ANBU mask and donned a black cloak.
At the same time, Danzo, who had orchestrated this massacre, was in the Uchiha Clan's territory, commanding his subordinates to madly collect Sharingan. The greed on his face was unmistakable as he obtained such a large number of Sharingan at once.
"Yakushi Yu... hahaha... Yakushi Yu..."
"So many Sharingan... I will return the humiliation you brought upon me tenfold..."
The disdainful and mocking expression and words from Yu when he left Konoha two years ago seemed to haunt Danzo constantly. Whenever he thought of the white-haired boy who had condemned him to a fate worse than death, Danzo's face would twist with a fierce hatred.
Whoosh!!
A slight gust of wind blew by. While Danzo was engrossed in collecting Sharingan, immersed in his revenge and hatred, he failed to notice a mysterious ANBU ninja had appeared behind him.
"To obtain so many Sharingan..."
"Judging by your expression, you must be very pleased, right?"
A sudden, unfamiliar, and cold voice from the mysterious ANBU ninja behind him snapped Danzo out of his vengeful thoughts.
"It's you..."
Just as he was about to rebuke this uninvited subordinate, Danzo suddenly saw the mysterious ANBU ninja lift his head slightly, revealing a pair of Sharingan behind the mask under the black cloak.
Moreover, the Three Tomoe in the pair of blood-red Sharingan quickly spun and gradually transformed into the shape of a black shuriken-like Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Remember, if you lay a hand on Sasuke..."
"I will sell the village's secrets to enemy nations..."
With an icy intensity in his eerie Mangekyo Sharingan, Itachi stared fiercely at Danzo, as if he wanted to forever remember this man who deserved death long ago.
"Take care..."
"I will always watch you with these eyes that Shisui gave me..."
Sensing the ANBU ninja rapidly approaching from all directions, Itachi, after delivering his threatening words, vanished from the spot with a Body Flicker Jutsu.
"Uchiha Itachi..."
Under the twilight sky, ignoring the ninjas rushing around him, Danzo muttered to himself in a low voice, his sinister eyes gleaming with deep and crazed light in the darkness.
"Whether it's you or Yakushi Yu..."
"Anyone who stands in my way will be utterly destroyed with no place to be buried!!"
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