Visible shock crossed Sasuke's little face.
Then a surge of irritation welled up out of nowhere.
He immediately stood up, trying hard to put on the Uchiha Clan's trademark cold, expressionless face, his gaze fixed firmly on the other boy.
Sasuke furrowed his brow and demanded, "What the hell are you talking about? Are you trying to slander the Uchiha Clan?!"
Sasuke would not let anyone bad-mouth his older brother!
As the top prodigy in the Ninja Academy's first year and the Uchiha Clan Head's second son, Sasuke was intimidating enough to make the Academy kids opposite him shrink back a little when he got serious.
One of them answered timidly, "That's what everyone outside is saying! Someone said-Uchiha Itachi killed everyone in the Uchiha Clan. He didn't spare anyone, whether they were old people or children."
Sasuke: "...???"
Just as he was about to say something, a startled shout came from the classroom doorway, and Haruno Sakura came rushing back inside.
She hurried to Sasuke's side and said urgently, "Sasuke, lots of people are saying something happened to your Uchiha Clan."
Someone else ran over-Yamanaka Ino. She pushed Haruno Sakura aside and hurriedly said, "Sasuke-kun, someone said your parents died at... at the hands of your older brother, Uchiha Itachi."
Sasuke suddenly grew anxious.
The expression on his little face shifted slightly.
As one "ridiculous rumor" after another reached his ears, Sasuke gradually realized that something might really have happened at home!
But this was too absurd!
Killing all his clansmen, killing his parents... how could my brother possibly do something as monstrous as what those rumors say? He's the gentlest Uchiha I know!
There's absolutely no way!
Though his mind refused to believe it, Sasuke could no longer control his legs. Ignoring the stares of the Academy students