Sasuke could no longer suppress his agitation, and his Three Tomoe Sharingan transformed into the Mangekyo.
Thinking of the burden Itachi had borne, Sasuke struggled to remain calm. "Itachi was a hero. He stopped a civil war between our clan and the Leaf Village, willingly becoming a scapegoat and living in exile."
"Those ignorant fools in the Leaf Village enjoyed the peace Itachi brought them, yet cursed him as a rogue ninja!"
"Tell me—was any of that fair to Itachi?"
Sasuke's chakra turned cold and sinister, filled with hatred and darkness, as though a demon had possessed him.
Karin took a frightened step back.
She recalled Liao Wu's words: Uchiha who awakened the Mangekyo would unconsciously gravitate toward extremes.
The more hatred they felt, the stronger their pupil power became, and the more evil their chakra grew.
Sasuke was now treating the Cloud Village ninja as if they were from the Leaf Village!
The Cloud Village ninja finally understood everything.
Their suspicions had been right.
The truth behind the Uchiha Clan's massacre was that the Konoha High Command had orchestrated it, and Itachi had merely been the scapegoat.
Excellent! They now had leverage over the Leaf Village!
The Fourth Raikage stepped forward and looked gravely at Sasuke. "I don't know what happened between you and your brother."
"But from the sound of it, your brother was a hero of the Leaf Village."
"However, another country's hero is our enemy. If a civil war had broken out between the Uchiha Clan and the Leaf Village back then, our Cloud Village would very likely have invaded the Land of Lightning."
"Your brother prevented a war from breaking out!"
"I acknowledge your brother! But he took our Eight-Tails, so we have to capture you to draw him out."
Sasuke understood. "Itachi captured the