Konoha!
The ninja village established by Hashirama Senju had undergone sixty-seven years of development, and its internal contradictions had already accumulated to a peak!
Ninjas versus commoners!
Villagers versus the Hokage!
Bloodline ninja clans versus ordinary ninjas!
Ninja clans!
From the perspective of the Hokage's ruling power, these were extremely disadvantageous for governance.
Once ninja clans existed, they created small factions, or rather political parties, that opposed the shadow's authority.
In the Hokage's view, ninja clans were unstable factors.
Consequently, ever since ascending to power, the Third Hokage vigorously developed the Ninja Academy, promoted commoner ninjas, and suppressed ninja clan members.
During his tenure, Konoha's Senju clan had nearly gone extinct, the Uchiha clan had suffered heavy casualties in the Third Great Ninja War, and the Kurama clan was practically on the brink of annihilation...
Commoner ninjas!
The Third promoted many, but ninety percent of them died on the battlefield.
The conflict between the Uchiha and the Hokage faction was set to detonate on this very night.
Combat echoed from various Uchiha outposts.
The most luxurious courtyard of the Uchiha clan.
Itachi Uchiha, holding a blood-dripping short blade, cautiously pushed open the wooden sliding door and gently stepped inside. He had killed his way all the way from the civilian residential area to the central clan district—which was to say, his own home.
Throughout this path of slaughter, those civilian Uchiha had not made a single sound when they died, sinking into an eternal slumber.
After all...
Itachi Uchiha was a genius ninja, and if he had allowed ordinary people to notice him while slaughtering them, he could have just pulled out a kunai and disemboweled himself.
At this moment, Itachi's state of mind was extremely complicated.
Because the people he now had to kill were his own biological