Everyone, tonight marks the final wrap-up for Uchiha Itachi. I'd had an idea before: let this guy live. Let him watch the Uchiha grow stronger, let him see how childish his thoughts and ideals were, and let him drown in regret. Seeing that everyone more or less supports me puts my mind at ease.
After all, I've always felt that it wasn't as though he had no other way to handle the clan's problems. And even if the clan had truly reached that point, did the Uchiha who weren't shinobi, the children, even the infants, all have to die too?
Leaving behind only one younger brother might look like great love, but it was control from beginning to end. He even prepared Kotoamatsukami so Sasuke could protect Konoha forever. I honestly have no favorable impression of someone like that.
Besides, I think what someone said in the book reviews was quite right: the zealotry of a convert is probably his current state. Killing him outright like this would be letting him off too easily.
But if he lives, someone will have to pay the price. And Obito has already come.
Lastly, I'm really not padding this out. Things need buildup as they develop step by step—
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