I, Naruto Uzumaki, don't need your approval.

However, if the opponent possesses a kaleidoscope, there is a risk of failure, and the benefits of defeating the opponent are far less than maintaining the mystery.

After noticing that Obito's chakra reaction had disappeared, Shisui breathed a sigh of relief and ran to the other Uchiha.

If the other party hadn't retreated on their own initiative, he might not have been a match for the masked man. In that case, he would have been forced to use the Izanagi technique, but the three-tomoe Sharingan is becoming increasingly rare.

Seeing the masked man and Shisui clash, the other Uchiha breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that they still had Shisui on their side.

A girl named Quan walked over from the crowd, frowned, and asked, "Brother Zhishui, who was that person just now?"

Shisui didn't mince words and said directly, "I don't know, but it's very likely the culprit behind the Nine-Tails' rampage. I didn't expect him to make a comeback."

"The culprit behind the Nine-Tailed Night?!"

The Uchiha present all revealed fierce glints in their eyes. The fact that their clan had been targeted and suppressed in recent years was largely due to the Nine-Tails' rampage.

Otherwise, strict law enforcement and the Hokage faction's differential treatment alone would not have given them the idea of ​​a coup.

With a soft sigh, Zhishui didn't explain further and said, "Everyone, we need to change the content of the plan. Instead of diverting the attention of the higher-ups, we will directly lead the clansmen to break through."

Upon hearing this, the Uchiha's expression darkened, but they also knew the power of space-time ninjutsu.

If they carry out their original plan, they will only be defeated one by one by the masked man, and the elderly and children they are transferring may also be slaughtered. The crisis facing the Uchiha is far too severe.

However, after arriving at the Uchiha clan's territory from the security building, Shisui and the other Uchiha members had grim expressions.

On the streets of the clan's territory, Uchiha ninjas responsible for evacuating women, children, and the elderly were slashed by samurai swords and lost their lives, and the air was filled with a thick stench of blood.

Just as they were about to lead their people to relocate, a massacre broke out in their territory, and there was no trace of the perpetrators nearby.

As more and more bodies were discovered, Shisui and the others grew increasingly grim, their unspoken anger turning into a silent fury.

"Form teams of four to evacuate the surviving members of the tribe, and the rest of you will join me in finding the murderer!"

"Yes, Master Shisui!"

Walking from one end of the street to the other, Shisui was almost numb to the bodies of his clansmen; he simply gripped his small katana tightly.

Currently, he has discovered nearly ten corpses of his clansmen, and there are likely many more in other places.

Shisui dared not imagine that if he hadn't taken strong measures to move the child in the past few weeks, the Uchiha clan might have faced a massacre, and the thousand-year-old ninja clan would have ceased to exist.

Reaching a small courtyard on the edge of the clan's territory, Zhishui saw a woman lying in a pool of blood. She looked somewhat like Quan, and his heart skipped a beat.

Uchiha Izumi also discovered the woman lying in a pool of blood, and could no longer suppress her emotions, bursting into tears.

Because the dead woman was her mother, an ordinary person who had not yet awakened her Sharingan.

Shisui looked quietly at the sobbing Quan, unable to offer any words of comfort. He simply patted the latter on the shoulder and said, "Please accept my condolences. We have other things to do, such as relocating the other surviving members of our clan."

Izumi nodded, but his gaze was fixed on a kunai on the ground, his expression somewhat blank.

"Shisui-kun, that kunai looks like Itachi's. Only Itachi can use that kind of kunai. Was Itachi fighting the culprit here? Even he couldn't defeat the culprit..."

As she spoke, Izumi seemed to have thought of something and tilted her head to look at Shisui: "Shisui-nii, why did Itachi kill Mom? Mom did nothing wrong. She was just an ordinary person."

Shisui was startled; Izumi's doubts made him abandon his last hope.

The wound marks clearly indicate that the one who killed the clansmen was not the mysterious masked man, but his close friend Uchiha Itachi. As for Itachi's motive, only Itachi himself probably knows.

Taking a deep breath, Shisui said with a gloomy face, "Let's go. We have somewhere to go. Itachi deserves an explanation."

Quan nodded, took the headband off his mother's head, put it in his pocket, and followed Shisui's steps.

Chapter 70 You have desecrated the will of Zhishui

Raising his kunai, Itachi plunged the sharp blade into the chest of his clansman, killing him as he tried to escape.

As the clansmen lay dying, their eyes widened as they stared at Itachi with disbelief, as if they couldn't believe that Itachi would turn his sword against their clansmen.

Itachi shook off the blood from his kunai with a blank expression and looked towards the mansion deep within the clan's territory.

That was the home he had lived in for thirteen years, and also the final destination of his journey. After killing his father, the mastermind behind the coup, the Uchiha clan would no longer have to bear the stigma of the coup, and he would bear all the blame alone.

However, are there too few people in the clan's territory today? Have they all gone out on missions?

The weasel, perched on the telephone pole, noticed something amiss about the number of his clansmen, but didn't dwell on the details. To prevent any survivors from escaping the extermination, he specially invited the mysterious and powerful masked man.

Without further thought, Itachi used several Body Flicker Techniques to arrive in front of the mansion.

Pushing open the familiar door, Itachi walked step by step from the entrance hall to the living room, becoming extremely vigilant and gripping the kunai in his hand tightly.

His father was the most powerful Jonin in his clan, and even he was not certain of victory.

Soon, Itachi found Mikoto and Fugaku in the living room. They had their backs to Itachi and did not seem to have any intention of fighting.

The quiet scene made Itachi hesitate, and he began to wonder if this was a trap set by Fugaku. As the leader of the radical faction, he should have fought back with all his might.

Hearing footsteps behind him, Fugaku's voice rang out in the living room: "Itachi, you ultimately chose the village over your clan. But I'm curious, what benefits did the village promise you?"

"Did they promise you the position of Hokage, or that you'd be made the head of the Anbu? You need a plausible reason to betray your clan."

After a moment's thought, Itachi slowly said, "The higher-ups agreed to conceal the truth about the Uchiha's planned coup after the massacre of the clan, and to allow Sasuke to continue studying at the Ninja Academy."

Fugaku paused for a moment, then said in a low voice, "With these conditions, the Uchiha clan is being far too cheap."

“Father, you should know that a coup has no chance of success. Rather than both sides suffering losses, it is better to preserve the honor of the village and the clan, so that Sasuke can continue his studies at the Ninja Academy.”

Fugaku fell silent: "Of course I know all this, but I'm still somewhat unwilling to accept it. If you were willing to help me, if Shisui were still alive, we might not have lost."

"Shisui and I will not help you realize your ambitions. The Uchiha are part of the village, how can we harm the interests of the village? We proposed abandoning the coup plan at the clan meeting a long time ago."

Fugaku sighed and said, "What can I, a loser, say now? I just hope that the path you have chosen is the right one, otherwise the failure of our clan will be meaningless."

At this moment, Mikoto, who had been silent all along, smiled and said, "Itachi, you and Sasuke take good care of yourselves. Our pain is only temporary, but your pain will last a long time. You need to learn to release your stress and not keep things to yourself."

Itachi could barely hold onto the kunai in his hand; he still couldn't bring himself to harm his parents.

Fugaku and Mikoto seemed to sense Itachi's inner struggle. After exchanging a glance, they each picked up the daggers they had prepared and said with a smile:

“Itachi can’t bring himself to do it, right? We won’t let you bear the infamy of killing your parents. However, this is the last thing we can do for you. From now on, you’ll have to take care of yourself.”

With that, Fugaku and Mikoto plunged their swords into their own chests.

Suddenly, with a whoosh, a shuriken shot out from the blind spot, knocking the daggers out of Fugaku and Mikoto's hands.

Sasuke appeared in the corridor, panting, holding a kunai in his hand, and shouted, "I don't agree with your idea of ​​suicide. None of you are allowed to die."

After saying that, Sasuke arrived in front of his parents and pointed the kunai at Itachi Uchiha.

He had long known that his brother was at odds with the clan, but he never expected that Itachi would betray the clan, kill so many clan members, and even force his parents to commit suicide. It was simply unforgivable.

Looking at her young son, Mikoto forced a smile:

"Sasuke, it's not what you think. We were killed by Itachi willingly..."

"This is not a reason for Itachi to force you, and I absolutely do not accept such a reason!"

Mikoto didn't know how to comfort Sasuke, so she looked at Itachi and said, "I'm leaving Sasuke's matter to you. Help him forget what happened tonight. He's too young to bear this."

Itachi nodded, then activated his Mangekyou Sharingan and used Tsukuyomi on Sasuke.

Tsukuyomi is Itachi's Mangekyou Sharingan's eye technique, which can send the enemy's spirit into the Tsukuyomi space; it is an extremely powerful genjutsu.

Sasuke was powerless to reach this level of genjutsu.

But just before he was about to lose control of his body, Sasuke gritted his teeth and listened. His originally dark eyes also began to spin with two tomoe.

"Two-tomoe Sharingan? Sasuke actually possesses such a talent!"

Besides Itachi, Fugaku and Mikoto also noticed the change in Sasuke's eyes and were shocked by Sasuke's talent.

Then, after Sasuke had completely lost consciousness, Fugaku and Mikoto plunged daggers into his chest.

To prevent Itachi's hands from being stained with their blood and to avoid blocking Itachi's path, they had no choice but to commit suicide to become a part of Itachi's character. This was the destiny of the Uchiha clan.

After the parents' suicide, the once quiet mansion became even more eerie.

After glancing at his parents lying in a pool of blood, and then at the unconscious Sasuke, Itachi's feelings were hard to describe in words.

Half a minute later, Itachi grabbed Sasuke by the collar, put him in the closet, and pretended to have escaped by hiding in the closet before looking towards the direction of the security building.

His parents had sacrificed themselves to fulfill their own desires, so he was even less able to stop moving forward.

For the sake of the village, for the sake of his clan, for the sake of Sasuke, he could only keep moving forward, with no time to catch his breath.

Having thwarted the family coup, he only needs to meet with the Hokage once more before he can go out on a new mission to monitor the masked man and the organization behind him.

At that moment, accompanied by a whooshing sound, several Uchiha ninjas appeared in the courtyard. After looking around, they spotted Uchiha Itachi standing in the corridor.

Itachi also noticed the Uchiha members and subconsciously frowned.

Their presence here can save a lot of time, but why would the elite of the security forces be here?

Shouldn't the masked man have dealt with the main force behind this coup? Could it be that the masked man is just a paper tiger, not as strong as imagined? Was he defeated by the security forces?

While Itachi was pondering, Shisui directly removed his mask and questioned him:

"Itachi, why did you betray our ideals? Why did you turn your sword against your own people? Have you forgotten the oath we made?"

The familiar faces and voices startled Itachi, but his best friend Shisui had died six months earlier.

"Who are you? Brother Zhishui committed suicide six months ago."

“I did attempt suicide, but I was ultimately saved…”

"For the past six months, I have been reflecting on the past and have finally found a way to save my race..."

Zhi Shui tried to explain, but the person who needed an explanation right now wasn't himself. He continued with a stern face and asked, "Let's not talk about the past. Now I need your explanation: why did you attack your own people?"

Itachi, unsure of Shisui's identity, sneered, "Of course, it's to protect the village and stop a clan coup. If you were the Shisui I know, you should understand my thoughts."

Shisui's expression changed slightly, and anger rose in his heart:

His philosophy has always been to ensure harmony between his family and the village; he has never considered sacrificing his family for the sake of the village.

The utensil in front of him looked much more mature than it had been six months ago, but it was also so unfamiliar that it frightened him.

After a moment's thought, Shisui quickly said, "Itachi, I haven't told you yet, but I've actually found a way to have the best of both worlds. As long as we leave Konoha with our clan, the clan won't have to worry about being treated differently by the village."

Itachi said expressionlessly, "What's the difference between leading your clan to defect and launching a coup? You are very similar to my best friend, but you are not the Shisui I know. He was a ninja who would consider the village's interests, not someone who would try to divide the village."

Shisui fell silent. He was indeed not the Shisui of the past, but Itachi was not the Itachi of the past either.

Six months after they separated, he was freed from the influence of Kotoamatsukami, and Itachi had become unrecognizable. It seemed that only force could prove whose ideals were superior.

Thinking of this, Shisui drew his kodachi and aimed it at Uchiha Itachi.