Hazy moonlight spilled across the earth.
Bathed in the lunar glow, the ground was kept from plunging into complete darkness, allowing those caught out in the night to find their way forward.
A group of ninja holding weapons, clad in blue-black robes and wearing red guarded armor over top, ignored the rugged and winding terrain as they quietly reached the boundless plains outside the Rain Village.
At the lead was a handsome, black-haired young man of seventeen or eighteen. A straight blade two fingers wide and half a meter long was tucked diagonally at his waist, and he wore a deep-blue kimono with an extremely prominent flaming war-fan crest emblazoned across the back. He was none other than the reincarnation of Indra, Sasuke Uchiha.
"Clan head!"
"Ahead lies the central battlefield."
"If we continue forward, there is bound to be the risk of discovery."
An Uchiha dressed in a blue-black robe with the same flaming war-fan family crest embroidered on his back spoke respectfully to Sasuke Uchiha.
Sasuke Uchiha had already become the current head of the Uchiha Clan.
Fugaku Uchiha had been completely inactive as clan head, while Itachi Uchiha had acted as the young master with a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs, turning his back on his family and forgetting his ancestors.
Such behavior was something the entire clan intensely loathed.
It was only because Wang Ming, acting as the Great Elder, had suppressed the situation at the time that they had not vented their anger onto the young Sasuke, yet the resentment and hatred in their hearts remained very heavy.
Under normal circumstances, Sasuke would have been completely cut off from the position of clan head.
Yet when the Akatsuki raided Konoha, Sasuke Uchiha's actions in resisting Nagato won the recognition of his clansmen.
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