Seeing Tokuma humiliate the Uchiha Clan like this, Fugaku was so furious he was ready to smash the table. Tokuma was belittling the Uchiha Clan right in front of people from other villages.
Did he really think the Uchiha Clan could no longer lift their swords, or that they could no longer cut anyone down?
[Itachi: I challenge you to a one-on-one match!]
Just when everyone thought the Uchiha would let the matter drop, young Itachi stepped forward. Although his future self looked down on the Uchiha Clan, he would never allow anyone else to treat them with such contempt.
Tokuma Hyuga was trembling. Though he had talked a lot of trash, if it came to a real fight, Uchiha Itachi had shown some strength in the footage.
With that in mind, Tokuma hesitated, unsure whether to accept Uchiha Itachi's challenge.
What if Uchiha Itachi used his future power too? He would lose a lot of face if he couldn't beat him.
On second thought, he decided to forget it. After all, there wasn't much to gain if he won, but he would suffer a terrible humiliation if he lost.
[Tokuma: Hah, we of the Hyuga Clan would never bully a little brat who isn't even a Genin.]
Hearing that, Hiashi felt this old bastard had disgraced the entire Hyuga Clan. It would have been one thing if he had accepted and taken a beating, but the problem was that he was afraid of a child only a few years old. What was he putting on an act for now?
The more he thought about it, the more the man deserved to die.
[Question: What kind of person is Uchiha Itachi in the footage?]
The question the system gave this time was both simple and complicated. It was only asking about one person's character, yet everyone found it difficult to answer.
Even Itachi's father, Uchiha Fugaku, couldn't say for certain what his own son's character was like.
[Tokuma: Why even guess? Just look at how he acts on the screen. He must be an arrogant, conceited bastard who looks down on everyone, disowns his own family, and acts all creepy and mysterious every day.]
His relationship with the Uchiha Clan was already what it was, so Tokuma Hyuga showed them no consideration at all.
And he had a point. The footage showed Itachi attacking his clansmen and even harboring killing intent toward his own father. If he hadn't been stopped, everyone might have witnessed a spectacular battle between father and son.
[Mikoto: Itachi would never be that kind of person.]
[Tokuma: Who knows? He even dared to attack his own father. Maybe he's a scheming bastard with evil intentions.]
[Shisui: Itachi would never be that kind of person. Please watch what you say.]
Itachi was also pondering what kind of person he truly was. Was he as Tokuma had described? No. He had his own concerns. Looking at his adorable younger brother in the footage, Itachi realized there had always been something he wanted to protect.
[Itachi: I am a proud person who will protect the people he wants to protect, no matter what happens. I am someone who cares about family.]
Itachi didn't know very clearly what he would become in the future. For now, he could only guess at what his future character would be like.
[Incorrect answer]
"Was I wrong?" Itachi muttered to himself.
Itachi had only made a rough guess. He wasn't sure whether he would change in the future.
[Uchiha Itachi: the man who, after returning from the Pure Land, connected the truth and hope to the future, and held the fate of his clan in his hands]
[With blood-red eyes, he saw through the three realms, concealed his long-held wish, and wove truth and falsehood together]
[A genius ninja who abandoned his clansmen and forsook his village, operating in secret amid turmoil]
[Answer: Uchiha Itachi is a person who puts the greater good first. He places greater importance on the bigger picture, and he was deeply influenced by Shisui Uchiha. He is truly capable of sacrificing the individual for the greater good. He is a very rational person; even when faced with a choice between the village and his clan, he did not hesitate to side with reason.]
[Uchiha Itachi is like an outsider, detached from both Konoha and his family, but he has someone he loves most—his younger brother!]
After reading the answer given by the Inventory System, even Uchiha Itachi hadn't expected to receive such an assessment. His clansmen had suspected him, his father had scolded him, his closest friend had committed suicide, and no one could truly understand him.
[Ding. Since Uchiha Itachi's response was close to the answer, his reward will be reduced.]
[Tokuma: Why? Why should he get a reward when he answered incorrectly?!]
Tokuma now looked at the Uchiha Clan with great displeasure.
[Choose one of the following options]
[A. Summon your future younger brother (time limit: three minutes; the age at which he will be summoned is unknown.)]
[B. Strengthen your Dōjutsu, evolving your Sharingan into a Mitsudomoe.]
[C. Learn part of a secret on the Uchiha Clan's stone tablet.]
[D. Master the Uchiha Clan's ancestral Fire Style.]
Although the reward had supposedly been reduced, which of these looked reduced? Aside from the first option, Tokuma was already growing worried. What if Uchiha Itachi chose a reward that increased his strength?
Then Tokuma would be even less of a match for him. A little brat of three or four would be lording it over him, and the Hyuga Clan would be utterly humiliated.
[Uchiha Itachi: I choose A.]
Without the slightest hesitation, Uchiha Itachi chose A.
Uchiha Fugaku was reassured about his eldest son. His son was still on the clan's side.
After Uchiha Itachi made his choice, the space and time around him shifted constantly. Before long, a figure stepped out.
The newcomer was none other than Sasuke Uchiha. But Sasuke had just stopped Urashiki Otsutsuki's plan to travel back to the past with Boruto, and was about to return to Boruto's world.
Sasuke looked around, however, and saw that his surroundings not only lacked any trace of modernity, but looked even older than the place they had just traveled to.
Itachi also noticed the middle-aged man who was missing an arm. Itachi had expected to summon a young Sasuke, so what was with this adult who had suddenly appeared?
"Are you Sasuke?" Itachi recognized him at a glance after all.
Sasuke stared in disbelief at Itachi, who was only three or four years old. Had something gone wrong while he was traveling through time, bringing him to when Itachi was only a few years old?
"Are you Itachi?" As Sasuke looked at Itachi, those long-buried memories gradually resurfaced.
Back then, his brother had fallen out with the clan's Jonin, to the point of even crossing swords with their father.
Uchiha Sasuke vanished in an instant. Since he had come to this point in time, he could surely change some things.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Yashiro and the others were still discussing Uchiha Itachi.
"Hmph, this Uchiha Itachi will definitely betray the Uchiha Clan when he grows up."
They still resented the beating Uchiha Itachi had given them in the inventory, and were now airing all sorts of complaints.
They had no idea someone had already set his sights on them.
Uchiha Sasuke had also noticed something strange about this world. Through Genjutsu, he learned that this world had something called the Inventory System, a godlike existence.
He also learned that his own brother had summoned him, and that he could only stay for three minutes.
In that case, I'll start with the three of you. With that, Uchiha Sasuke turned his gaze toward Yashiro and the other two.
Uchiha Sasuke summoned his Susanoo. Unlike an ordinary Susanoo, the one Sasuke summoned stood over a hundred meters tall.
The entire Uchiha Clan was stunned by the hundred-meter giant, and an inexplicable pressure enveloped them.
Seeing this, Fugaku hurried out of the house. Uchiha Sasuke looked down upon all of Konoha like a heavenly god.
Even Fugaku couldn't withstand the pressure. There was no question of hiding his strength now, so he summoned his own Susanoo to resist the pressure Sasuke was releasing.
But his Susanoo, only a dozen or so meters tall, was far too small compared to Sasuke's.
"Father!" Sasuke looked at the familiar man, the man he had once been able to see only in his dreams, countless times.
"Are you my son?" From Sasuke's appearance, Fugaku knew this was his second son, the one Itachi had summoned.
"What exactly are you trying to do?" Fugaku demanded.
"What am I trying to do? Show the Uchiha Clan that there are heavens beyond the heavens, and bring this conceited clan back to reality." Uchiha Sasuke waved his hand lightly.
A bow appeared in Sasuke's hand, and he aimed at Uchiha Yashiro and the other two. If it weren't for these conceited pieces of trash—
These beasts who clamored for a coup every day, every one of them unaware of their own strength—
How would Father have been swept along by them? How would the Uchiha Clan have come to that?
Yashiro and the other two were so frightened they wet their pants. There was nothing they could do. Sasuke was too strong, so strong he had already exceeded the bounds of humanity.
An arrow flew. The three were locked in place by its immense pressure, unable to move. Then, with a boom, they and the house they were in were obliterated, not even ashes left behind.
Sasuke then looked toward the rest of the Uchiha Clan. Because he had aimed only at those three, the others had not been affected by the blast.
"If anyone in the Uchiha Clan ever talks about betraying Konoha again, they'll end up just like those three." Sasuke had killed the chicken to warn the monkeys.
Sasuke then turned in another direction and charged another arrow. He aimed it at none other than Root's headquarters, where Danzo was.
With Sasuke's current strength, a single arrow reduced all of Root to ruins. It was even worse than what had happened to Yashiro and the others, because no one else had been caught up in their deaths. Root was not so fortunate; the entire place was reduced to ruins.
"If anyone in Konoha dares to have designs on the Uchiha Clan again, they'll end up just like Root!"
This move intimidated both the Uchiha Clan and all of Konoha. When Danzo heard the news, he fainted on the spot.
Sasuke realized he was running out of time. Just as he was about to dismiss his Susanoo, he suddenly remembered something he had learned through Genjutsu: someone from the Hyuga Clan had been bullying his brother.
Sasuke silently made his way to the Hyuga Clan and immediately fixed his gaze on Tokuma Hyuga.
He loosed another charged arrow. Not even poor Tokuma Hyuga's ashes were left behind.
Just then, his time ran out. Sasuke was transported back before he even had a chance to say a word to his brother.