Meanwhile, after returning home, Uchiha Itachi immediately went to find his parents.
"Itachi, you're back. What did Lord Torikaze say to you?"
"Father, Lord Torikaze showed me a choice."
"A choice? What choice?" Uchiha Fugaku was confused by his son's abrupt words.
"A choice concerning the clan and the village. He showed me what would happen if you hadn't asked Lord Torikaze for help."
Fugaku grew serious at those words. "What would happen?"
Uchiha Itachi activated his Mangekyō Sharingan. "The outcome is that the entire Uchiha Clan dies."
Fugaku and Mikoto stared at Uchiha Itachi's eyes in shock, too astonished to speak.
After a long while, Fugaku finally cried out, "Itachi! Your eyes! What exactly is going on?!"
Uchiha Itachi told his father and mother about what he had seen, as well as what Torikaze had said to him.
Fugaku and Mikoto remained silent for a long time after hearing it.
"If Lord Torikaze and the others had not come to this world, then Minato would have died on Nine-Tails' Night... and the Uchiha Clan would have been destroyed in the future."
That was the ending Fugaku least wanted to see. At that moment, he was incomparably grateful—grateful that Torikaze had come to this world, and grateful that he was willing to help the Uchiha Clan.
As for Itachi, in the choice he had seen, he had personally killed Fugaku and Mikoto.
Fugaku did not blame Itachi for this. No one knew his own son better than he did.
As the genius of the Uchiha Clan, Itachi must have made the choice he believed was most right.
Fortunately, they no longer needed to make such a painful choice now.
Fugaku had once still felt a trace of pity for those Elders, but after hearing everything Itachi had described, he no