The Uchiha Tradition

"Ah? The Prime Minister has left!" White Zetsu, who had been watching the brothers' battle from the sidelines, suddenly said.

"What's going on?" Black Zetsu asked in confusion.

"Hmm... perhaps it was for his younger sister? Compared to that, the Prime Minister really is a good brother!" White Zetsu said in a flippant tone.

"Keep a close watch on him. We absolutely cannot let our guard down around Akira Kurama," Black Zetsu said after thinking it over.

"Yes, yes," White Zetsu replied casually, clearly unconcerned.

"You'd better take this seriously. Akira Kurama's Genjutsu is so powerful that even Itachi admits he is inferior," Black Zetsu said, his tone growing harsher at White Zetsu's attitude.

"Understood. I'll be careful." White Zetsu was not afraid to talk back to Black Zetsu, but his tone became much more serious.

Meanwhile, Sasuke looked at Itachi and asked, "Besides controlling the Nine-Tails, does the Mangekyō Sharingan have other secrets?"

"That's right. Another secret—the most important secret of all." Itachi looked at Sasuke, but he could only make out his outline. After years of using the Mangekyō Sharingan, Itachi's eyesight had deteriorated rapidly. He was practically at the point where he could not distinguish male from female within five meters, or man from beast within ten.

"What secret? Answer me!" Sasuke asked coldly.

"Then let me tell you a little story from the past. A story about Uchiha history." As Itachi spoke, his Mangekyō Sharingan slowly turned. Sasuke only felt the scene before him shift, and he was transported from the hideout to the Uchiha Clan compound. As Itachi explained, Sasuke came to understand his clan more deeply. Only then did Sasuke realize just how dark the clan he had once been proud of truly was. In order to regain the light, an elder brother had