"Sasuke, did you know there was a hot-blooded fool in the Uchiha clan, just like Naruto?"
"A hot-blooded fool?" Sasuke's eyes widened.
Doubt showed in his gaze.
Hot-blooded and fool—those two words seemed to clash with the Uchiha.
"No need to doubt it. It's true."
Cangwu smiled and patted his head.
Then he added, "You haven't reached your breakthrough period yet."
"Breakthrough period?"
"When will that be?"
Sasuke turned his head slightly.
Without realizing it, he'd come to enjoy having Cangwu pat his head, just like Naruto and Sakura.
It was almost like being with an elder he was close to...
"After you awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan," Cangwu said.
"Mangekyō... Sharingan?!"
At that, Sasuke's pupils contracted sharply.
Images from that night surfaced involuntarily in his mind.
Those eyes... that face had always haunted his nightmares.
"Teacher Cangwu... I don't want to lose!"
"I don't want to lose to Naruto, and I especially don't want to lose to that man... Because I'm going to kill that bastard with my own hands!"
Sasuke was getting worked up.
Cangwu smiled and shook his head.
"The Uchiha clan is a clan that grows stronger as its emotions change."
"That hot-blooded fool I mentioned was a dead-last, just like Naruto, ever since he was a child."
"When he saw the person he loved killed with his own eyes by the person he trusted most..."
"He awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan."
"From that point on, his strength changed dramatically."
Looking at Sasuke's stunned expression,
Cangwu smiled. "Hard to believe, isn't it?"
"But what if I told you that he had only one eye?"
"And after that, at fourteen, he dared to fight the Fourth Hokage."
"In the end, he was struck by the Fourth Hokage's Rasengan and fled, wounded."
"T-That's impossible!" Sasuke looked utterly disbelieving.
At fourteen,