"Brother? Oh my, Sasuke-sama has an older brother too!" Hearing that, Boruto immediately perked up, staring intently at Sasuke.
But as he kept watching, he suddenly realized something was off.
When Sasuke mentioned his second brother, Uchiha Jin, he'd looked wistful and fond. But when he mentioned his older brother, Uchiha Itachi, his expression had been incredibly complicated.
That complicated... Boruto couldn't make sense of it at all.
He wanted to ask, but Jiraiya patted him on the shoulder.
"Uchiha Itachi... Uchiha Itachi..." That pat jolted Boruto back to his senses. He shook his head hard, his bright blue eyes widening. "I remember! He's the one who wiped out the Uchiha Clan, the S-rank rogue... ninja..."
His voice dropped sharply for the last two words. He suddenly understood why Sasuke-sama looked the way he did.
"Sasuke-sama..."
He looked at Sasuke, then up at Jin, who was chatting and laughing with Pu Shi. His mind slowly turned to mush.
How could this seemingly powerful young man be fellow disciples with that kind of rogue ninja? And how had he even resolved the problem?
How... had he managed that?
He couldn't figure it out. He really couldn't!
Boruto now desperately wanted to return to the past and see that history with his own eyes.
Sasuke, too, was instantly transported back to those deeply buried memories.
That name—the name etched in Uchiha blood—came from Jiraiya's mouth, and the pain it brought him was like a knife to the heart!
The fragments of memory he'd buried were stirred up once more, turning everything upside down!
On the Night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre, when the dazzling red light in Itachi's Mangekyo had flared for the last time, what he'd seen was his second brother's back as he fell in front of him...
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