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Chapter 505 Uchiha Itachi, Lord Danzo told me everything!

root.

The Root Division under Danzo Shimura.

Sasuke's implication was so obvious that Itachi immediately recalled his darkest time, the days when he served as a double agent for Root.

Itachi Uchiha's expression, which had always been as cold as an iceberg, finally showed a slight change, because he knew better than anyone else the danger posed by Danzo Shimura!

This younger brother…

Did he join the Roots just like him?

there is a problem!

Danzo Shimura was a demon!

By joining Danzo Shimura's ranks, Sasuke Uchiha was essentially stepping into hell. Even though Itachi Uchiha believed he could keep Danzo in check from the outside, he couldn't protect Sasuke's safety at all times. Sasuke's life would instead become a tool for Danzo Shimura to blackmail him!

Itachi Uchiha's gaze was fixed on the black-haired boy in front of him. He could sense the arrogance and cold indifference emanating from Sasuke Uchiha...

Because roots were added…

Is that why my own brother has become such a strange person?

root.

There is no past, nor is there a future.

Root ninjas often lose their emotions and can't even use their own names, ultimately becoming tools in the hands of Shimura Danzo!

The current Uchiha Sasuke...

Aside from the arrogance inherited from the Uchiha bloodline, he looks exactly like a Root ninja, completely lacking any semblance of righteousness...

"Mr. Itachi."

"Is this your younger brother?"

Kisame Hoshigaki shouldered the Samehada sword, his tense expression relaxing as he grinned at Sasuke Uchiha: "Your stealth abilities are unusually outstanding..."

After Kisame finished speaking, his tone suddenly changed, and the smile on his face became somewhat bloodthirsty: "However, he's just a bit too arrogant. It seems he needs to be taught a lesson!"

"..."

Itachi Uchiha frowned.

"education?"

However, Sasuke Uchiha raised an eyebrow and looked at Kisame Hoshigaki, saying disdainfully, "A rogue ninja with nowhere to turn in the ninja world dares to presumptuously try to teach me how to do things?"

"!!!"

Kisame Hoshigaki's expression changed.

That brat's arrogance...

They were even a bit arrogant!

Kisame Hoshigaki couldn't understand how Itachi Uchiha, who was always very polite to him, could have such an ill-mannered younger brother!

"I killed him, you don't have a problem with that, do you?"

Sasuke Uchiha glanced back at Itachi Uchiha, seemingly asking for Itachi's opinion, but the casual killing intent in his voice suggested that he had already made up his mind.

"How arrogant..."

Kisame Hoshigaki clenched his Samehada, his shark-like eyes becoming exceptionally dangerous: "It seems I really need to teach this brat a lesson on behalf of Itachi-sensei..."

"Let me do it myself."

Itachi Uchiha stopped Kisame Hoshigaki's actions, a crimson glint reappearing in his eyes as he gazed at his younger brother before him and whispered, "Sasuke, it seems you've gained a power that makes you overconfident, huh? It's gotten to the point where you've become like this..."

"Now…"

"Let me show you the difference between us again..."

As Itachi Uchiha spoke, the Sharingan in his eye sockets slowly transformed into the shape of a kaleidoscope: "And to remind you of the fear of that night..."

"At least…"

"You'll understand what humility and politeness truly mean in the future."

next moment!

Itachi Uchiha's Tsukuyomi in his eye sockets is activated once again!

The Tsukuyomi genjutsu will bring more pain to Uchiha Sasuke, allowing his younger brother to become stronger through suffering, and it can also create an illusory space!

after all…

There is one more person here.

Itachi Uchiha needed a secluded space where he could leak information to Sasuke Uchiha, at least to make his younger brother understand that he could not stay in Root.

The world instantly turned gray.

Uchiha Sasuke stood in the gray world, as if recalling everything he had experienced that night, the smell of blood seemingly lingering in his nostrils once more.

The clansmen on the street…

The elderly and children in the home…

Finally, there's Dad and Mom at home…

In this gray world, Itachi Uchiha wielded his butcher's blade, and with each stroke, blood splattered everywhere. All his clansmen fell to Itachi's blade, their corpses lying in pools of blood...

Fresh blood…

It is the only color in this gray world.

pain…

That's the keynote of this gray world.

That night…

The whole world has been turned upside down.

No one understands the pain of loss better than Sasuke Uchiha.

As Sasuke Uchiha watched the bloody night unfold before his eyes, his eyes showed not pain, but a sadness at witnessing the tragedy.

this moment…

Uchiha Sasuke was like an outsider watching a play.

only…

He himself was also one of the tragic figures in this bloody drama.

Nothing else...

Because Sasuke Uchiha learned the truth.

Whether it's the truth behind the Uchiha clan's annihilation or the truth behind Itachi Uchiha raising his sword...

Sasuke Uchiha watched the scenes unfolding in the Tsukuyomi space with a sorrowful expression, feeling his own powerlessness that night, until he saw Itachi Uchiha standing before him like a demon, wielding a butcher's knife...

"..."

Itachi Uchiha's heart skipped a beat.

This younger brother…

Why didn't I feel fear?

This scene should be a psychological trauma for him for the rest of his life. It should cause him to have a mental breakdown at any time. Why is it that he is not afraid to experience the night of the genocide again?

"Is this your memory?"

Sasuke Uchiha looked at the gray-haired Itachi Uchiha and suddenly spoke calmly, "Let's go back a little further in time and see where you went before you wiped out the clan..."

"!!!"

Uchiha Itachi's eyes suddenly tightened!

Sasuke…

Do you know what I've found out?

No, it should be that they definitely know something!

Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked him for the truth!

Could it be that man, Danzo Shimura, told him? Did he reveal the secret truth about the Uchiha clan's annihilation to Sasuke? Such a secret shouldn't have been leaked!

"Before the massacre of your clan, you went to the Hokage's office, right?"

Sasuke Uchiha stared at Itachi Uchiha, whose expression had slightly changed, and calmly revealed the truth: "You made a decision out of your own arrogance, choosing to make a deal with the village's higher-ups, using my survival as a condition to help them wipe out the entire Uchiha clan, including our parents..."

"..."

Itachi Uchiha's eyes changed completely.

"What a disgusting world..."

Sasuke Uchiha sighed softly, extended his finger, and snapped it lightly. The scene of the massacre of his clan quickly shattered!

The genjutsu, which was at the level of the Mangekyou Sharingan, was easily broken with a snap of the fingers, and this scene made Itachi Uchiha's expression change again!

Sasuke…

When did I acquire such power?

"Kaleidoscope Sharingan..."

Itachi Uchiha stared at Sasuke Uchiha in disbelief, his face filled with astonishment as he asked, "When... did you awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan?"

"This power isn't particularly surprising..."

Sasuke Uchiha gently lowered his finger, calmly recounting the theory of Mangekyou Sharingan awakening that he had heard from the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju.

"As long as we become trapped in pain and unable to extricate ourselves, the stimulation of wanting to make up for past regrets will cause our brains to secrete more and more special chakra..."

"Until our emotions stimulate the special chakra within our brain to a certain limit, the Mangekyou Sharingan will eventually be awakened..."

"Theoretically speaking, the real reason these eyes opened wasn't because of pain and hatred, but because of an emotion deeper than pain and hatred..."

"It might sound ridiculous..."

"but…"

"This emotion will still be called...love by the world."

"This is the first time I've ever heard of this..."

Itachi Uchiha frowned, but then quickly relaxed.

This theory…

I've never really heard anyone mention it before...

I always thought that suffering would awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan…

However, Sasuke's younger brother was clearly not a figment of imagination. His ability to easily break Tsukuyomi meant that he must also possess an extremely excellent Mangekyou Sharingan, which also meant that Sasuke's theory was actually correct.

"That's normal."

Sasuke Uchiha began recounting the history of the Uchiha clan, seemingly unconcerned about discussing such matters with his older brother: "Because your thoughts and actions are so extreme, it's not surprising that you believe our power comes from suffering..."

"..."

Itachi Uchiha had a vague, inexplicable feeling.

The black-haired boy standing in the Tsukuyomi space is clearly just his younger brother, yet he speaks and acts like an elder who knows everything...

Tsukuyomi Space.

After the entire memory of the Tsukuyomi space was completely shattered, the two brothers' spiritual bodies appeared in an empty gray space.

"Let's get down to business!"

Sasuke Uchiha gazed at his brother, his emotions remarkably stable, and asked a strange question without batting an eye: "Itachi, do you think I'm arrogant right now?"

"..."

Itachi Uchiha was a little unsure how to answer.

This kind of problem…

Is there any need to ask?

Does Sasuke think he's not arrogant enough?

However, Sasuke's question seemed unrelated to their discussion. In fact, his younger brother was too calm, so calm that Itachi felt a sense of unease, like the calm before a storm…

Clearly…

Only twelve years old...

But he acted like an adult…

He even acted like a high-ranking adult.

"You have indeed... changed a bit..."

Itachi Uchiha frowned slightly, carefully considering his words to avoid completely angering his younger brother who knew the truth.

"You've become arrogant, haven't you?"

Sasuke Uchiha chuckled lightly, making no attempt to conceal his own shortcomings: "When humans think they have gained great power, they often look down on the weak and act recklessly. I am just one of them..."

"yes…"

Itachi Uchiha nodded.

"but…"

Sasuke Uchiha abruptly changed his tone, his eyes immediately turning icy as he bluntly rebuked Itachi Uchiha: "You are more arrogant than I am."

"Arrogant as you are..."

"Arrogantly deciding everyone's fate..."

Sasuke Uchiha stared at Itachi Uchiha, his voice suddenly rising in intensity: "Did you think that just because you obtained the Mangekyou Sharingan, you could decide the fate of Konoha, the fate of the Uchiha clan, the fate of Dad and Mom, the fate of our whole family?!"

"If I had known that my life was bought with the lives of my father, mother, and other elders in the clan, I would have preferred to die with them that night!"

That night…

"You should kill me!"

"Instead of arrogantly deciding my fate for me!"

"Uchiha Itachi..."

Sasuke Uchiha's voice was shrill and pained, his face contorted as if he were desperately suppressing all his emotions: "At the most critical moment, you killed Mom and Dad and all the Uchiha, bearing the immense blood debt and the torment of patricide so that your younger brother could live..."

"I'm sorry, Sasuke..."

Uchiha Itachi looked at his younger brother, a hint of pain slowly appearing in his eyes: "Back then, this was the only way to survive..."

"This is a path worse than death."

Sasuke Uchiha looked up at the blood moon in the Tsukuyomi space, his emotions gradually calming down: "Everyone in this world thinks you deserve to die, but I can't think that way. It's because of the bloody sacrifices you've borne that I've been able to live until now..."

"What a disgusting world..."

Sasuke Uchiha once again expressed his feelings about the world, his mood seemingly worse than ever before: "This twisted world lets the two of us who deserve to die live, while those who don't deserve to die are all dead..."

"..."

Itachi Uchiha was speechless.

Because he didn't know what else to say to this younger brother, or even what else he could say, he could only listen quietly to the black-haired boy's every word.

After a long while.

Itachi Uchiha then turned to Sasuke Uchiha and asked a question, still concerned about Sasuke: "Sasuke, did Danzo tell you all this?"

"yes…"

Sasuke Uchiha nodded, mercilessly splashing dirty water on Danzo Shimura's head, yet deliberately expressing his respect for Danzo in front of Itachi Uchiha: "Danzo-sama told me all of this himself, which is why I know the truth of that night, and why I know everything you've been carrying..."

"..."

Itachi Uchiha frowned, his face looking rather grim.

That man…

Is there some kind of conspiracy now?

"Perhaps I should thank Lord Danzo..."

Sasuke Uchiha didn't look at Itachi Uchiha's expression, but calmly continued, "Because of Lord Danzo, I was able to learn the truth about the night of the massacre, and was able to awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan, instead of living in hatred that made me want to kill you..."

"Speaking of which..."

"I've come here to see you..."

"That means Lord Danzo..."

Sasuke Uchiha looked at Itachi Uchiha, his expression turning serious, as if he were carrying out a very important mission: "Lord Danzo is about to become the new Hokage of the village, and he wants to see you before he takes office..."

"Danzo... to succeed as Hokage?"

Itachi Uchiha's expression turned even uglier.

One aspect was certainly the matter of Danzo Shimura leaking secrets, but another was some dissatisfaction with Sasuke Uchiha's respect for Danzo Shimura, and the fact that someone like Danzo Shimura could become Hokage.

"good."

Sasuke Uchiha nodded slightly, his eyes narrowing slightly: "However, there are quite a few people in the village who oppose Danzo-sama's succession as Hokage, and some have even suggested that Tsunade, one of the Legendary Sannin, should succeed him as the Fifth Hokage..."

"so…"

"Lord Danzo needs to eliminate some of his opponents..."

"However, it's not convenient for our base to mobilize its personnel for this matter. If it arouses the suspicion of others, it could cause trouble. We need some people from outside the village to handle the elimination of those who oppose it..."

"..."

Itachi Uchiha's eyes were strange.

It should be said that...

As expected of Shimura Danzo?

This style of doing things is exactly the same as before…

When Itachi Uchiha first came into contact with Danzo Shimura, it just so happened that one of Danzo's Root ninjas was secretly assassinating a village ninja. However, this was because one of the village ninjas brought news that was detrimental to Danzo...

Now that old guy actually wants to use me to purge Konoha's opposition, and has even extended his reach to his brother, ruining the plan I made years ago!

however…

Perhaps I have no choice but to submit...

Itachi Uchiha's gaze fell upon Sasuke Uchiha, who, even in front of him, remained exceptionally respectful to Danzo Shimura.

This younger brother's trust and respect for Shimura Danzo is so great that he has clearly fallen into Shimura Danzo's trap. In order to keep this younger brother from getting into danger, he must continue to obey Shimura Danzo's orders...

"As for time..."

"Let's set it for the day after tomorrow..."

Sasuke Uchiha calmly spouted nonsense, not caring at all whether his lies would be exposed: "If everything goes smoothly, Lord Danzo will be confirmed by the village's higher-ups as the successor to the Hokage position tomorrow, and Lord Danzo will travel to receive the Daimyo's investiture the day after tomorrow..."

No.

This is not nonsense.

Theoretically speaking, these are all things that have not yet happened in the future.

This was a future that Uchiha Sasuke had planned in advance, a predetermined fact that he had anticipated.

"At that time, Lord Danzo happened to be outside the village, so he wouldn't attract too much attention..."

Sasuke Uchiha looked at Itachi Uchiha, and, using Danzo Shimura's name, began spouting endless lies: "Lord Danzo wants to meet with you for a chat, and also to give you a list so you can help him get rid of those in the village who oppose him..."

"I see."

Uchiha Itachi calmed down and nodded somewhat indifferently.

"Be careful, don't mess things up..."

Sasuke Uchiha stared coldly at Itachi Uchiha, acting less like a respectful younger brother and more like a loyal lackey of Danzo Shimura: "Itachi Uchiha, if you can't kill the people on the list, I'll have no choice but to take action..."

"If I were to intervene..."

"They might even deal with you along with them..."

(End of this chapter)