"Forgive me, Sasuke, this is the last time."
Crimson Susanoo gradually dissipates.
As Uchiha Itachi's fingertips lightly touched Sasuke's forehead, the whole person lost all life and fell to the ground.
My eyes fell into darkness.
When he woke up again, he saw that although the dark clouds formed by Sasuke's ninjutsu were still covering the sky, the rain had stopped.
"I'm dead--and now a soul."
Looking at the body on the ground and his own, and then looking at his own body with a sense of transparency and illusion, Uchiha Itachi, who has always been smart, immediately understood what kind of situation he was in now.
He was not like ordinary people after learning of his death. Instead, he behaved very calmly, with a sense of tranquility that the dust had settled.
Except for the feeling of reluctance for Sasuke deep in my heart.
"Yes, Itachi, you are dead."
A dull and complicated sound, accompanied by footsteps, sounded behind Uchiha Itachi.
Hearing this voice, Uchiha Itachi's eyes widened slightly, feeling a familiar feeling that he hadn't heard in a long time.
He slowly turned his head and saw his father's serious face and his mother's face full of tears due to grief.
"Father, mother, are you here to pick me up?"
He showed softness on his face, stretched out his hand, and slowly walked towards his parents in front of him.
But I saw the tears on my mother's face couldn't stop flowing, and the grief in her voice couldn't be stopped.
"Itachi, why are you dying now - why can't you live a little longer, in this case -"
Father Fugaku also said, "Xian, since you are dead, you should pay for your sins."
"Clansmens--we are all waiting for you."
Although Fugaku's voice is still as dull and solemn as before, there is a hint of wavering and entanglement in it.
Uchiha Itachi's pace gradually slowed down. Looking at his parents in front of him, a trace of doubt arose in his heart.
They had just met, but for some reason, he sensed an obviously strange sense of disharmony in his parents' attitudes.
"Father, mother, you are——"
"Itachi, if possible, your mother and I don't want you to die so early. In this case, you might be able to face the next sanctions later."
Fugaku closed his eyes tightly and opened them again. There was determination in those scarlet Mangekyos.
"But sin cannot be forgiven."
"Those Clansmens who were killed by you, even the attitude of adults - they will not forgive you."
Uchiha Itachi stopped, and the feeling of disobedience in his heart became stronger.
When he heard Fugaku's words, he immediately noticed the most obvious doubt in his father's words.
"Father, mother, something must have happened to you, right?"
"Who does the [adult] in my father's mouth refer to?"
Mikoto could no longer suppress the feelings in his heart and held his son in his arms, sobbing softly.
Tears fell down and soaked Uchiha Itachi's shoulders.
Feeling my mother's warmth again, the softness in Uchiha Itachi's heart was touched.
He gently patted his mother's shoulder and asked in a low voice, "Mom, what happened to you?"
"Itachi, we are already dead, what else could happen?"
Fugaku sighed and was about to speak when a figure suddenly flashed beside him.
Uchiha Itachi felt a sense of surprise in his heart.
So fast Body Flicker.
He didn't notice the slightest breath at all, and he didn't see clearly the person's movements when he appeared. It was as if he appeared out of thin air.
But when he looked at this man's face, he suddenly froze on the spot.
"Shisui----"
The person coming is none other than Uchiha Shisui.
Fugaku saw a hint of surprise on his face when he saw Shisui coming.
"Where's that Masked Man?"
"And that guy Yin-Yang Face, why don't you see them?"
Shisui shook his head slightly. "They ran away."
"That Masked Man knows Space-Time Ninjutsu, and that guy Yin-Yang Face held Sasuke hostage, and he took them all away."
"That Yin-Yang Face, on the other hand, seems to be able to sense my presence."
Fugaku nodded gently and his expression returned to calm.
"It's Space Ninjutsu, no wonder it escaped from your hands."
"There's no harm in escaping. He won't remain unknown for waging such a big battle."
"He will always show up, don't rush this moment."
After hearing the conversation between the two, Uchiha Itachi's eyes fell on Shisui who suddenly appeared. His eyes flickered and his lips trembled.
"Shisui, is it really you?"
Hearing Itachi's voice, Shisui turned his head and looked at Itachi, unexpectedly without much expression on his face.
"Itachi, long time no see."
"Shisui, what happened to you, your father and your mother?"
The sudden appearance of Shisui, the strange attitude of his parents, and the conversation just now made it difficult for Uchiha Itachi to understand the situation in front of him.
There was no doubt that the three people who appeared in front of him were the three people he was familiar with.
But there was always a layer of fog shrouding the three of them, making it difficult for him to see through easily.
"Itachi, are you confused?"
"Why do we appear in front of you like this?"
Shisui and Fugaku looked at each other and recounted what happened to the Uchiha Clan after his death.
After hearing all this, Uchiha Itachi's face fell into a trance.
"After death and rebirth, go to Otherworld Soul Society--Shinigami, and Lord Kenma--"
"This----"
This is so outrageous that it is unbelievable.
But looking at his father and Shisui, whom he regarded as his brother, Uchiha Itachi clearly felt that they had not deceived him.
Everything said is true.
Uchiha Itachi suppressed the shock in his heart and quickly integrated the information he had just obtained in his mind.
He frowned, gently pushed his mother away, and walked in front of the two of them.
"So, you came here to take me back to the Uchiha Clan to receive punishment?"
"As early as the moment I swung the butcher's knife, I realized something."
"Although it's not what I thought, I won't avoid it."
Seeing Jizi accepting the punishment calmly, Fugaku's face flashed with wavering again, then he toughened up and his lips moved slightly.
"Itachi, you can't escape even if you want to."
Shisui sighed, "This time, no one can save you."
"Even adults support Clansmen's revenge, not just for you, but also for Masked Man, and even Konoha."
"Village?" Uchiha Itachi said with surprise on his face, "This has nothing to do with the village, why do you want to attack the village?"
"Itachi, the village ordered all this in the first place, how can you say it doesn't matter?"
Fugaku frowned deeply.
Seeing his son's behavior, he sighed again.
"In the final analysis, the village is most important to you."
Uchiha Itachi shouted, "Sasuke has just killed me and will return to Konoha as Hero soon. You must not attack the village!"
"Father, why are you always so narrow-minded? Even if your clan is destroyed, you still can't change this. You still can't break out of the boundaries of your clan."
"Shut up, who do you think killed thousands of people in the Uchiha Clan?" Fugaku roared in a low voice.
Seeing that his father was still so stubborn, Uchiha Itachi looked at Shisui, hoping to get some recognition.
"Shisui, please advise your father and everyone in the clan. They are all dead, so why should the dead disturb the happiness of the living."
"The happiness of those people is based on the misery of the Uchiha Clan!"
Shisui's eyes showed deep disappointment.
"Itachi, when I entrusted Uchiha Clan and Konoha to you, I wanted you to ease the conflict between them and protect the village and Clansmen."
"But how did you do it?"
After Shisui died, he obtained permission from Kenma and was able to temporarily reside in Konoha.
So I read what happened during that period in Konoha from beginning to end.
"Fugaku Clan Head is trying his best to suppress the resistance within the clan, eager to reconcile with the village and take action, but what about you?"
"Not only did he not help Clan Head, but he negated Clan Head's efforts. He even completely intensified the tension between Clansmen and the village without even knowing it."
"Abandoning Clansmen people like worn-out shoes, never putting themselves in Clansmen's shoes and understanding their difficulties, just complaining about Clansmen's narrow-mindedness."
"Uchiha Itachi, you come to accuse Clansmen, but you are so narrow-minded yourself."
"Thinking that I have a vision beyond my own clan, I look down on Clansmen from the bottom of my heart, and fall into arrogance, but I don't even know it."
Shisui's words were like sharp blades, piercing Uchiha Itachi's heart.
If someone else had said this, he might not have cared.
But the person in front of him was Shisui, whom he recognized, and such accusing words completely exposed his true nature.
He looked in a trance and said, "But if I don't do this, once Uchiha Clan's rebellion has no chance of winning, the village will be severely damaged, and other villages will inevitably start a war when they see this."
"The peace of these years will be destroyed, and there is nothing I can do--"
"So you killed all Clansmen?"
Shisui Close your eyes and don't look at him.
"If we hadn't met an adult, Uchiha Clan would have been just trash swept away in the corner. Where could we get back the grievances and hatred we have filled with us?"
"In the end, those of us who have ever existed are nothing more than the laughingstock of others."
Fugaku ignored the eldest son of whom he was once proud, and looked at his crying wife.
"Mikoto, take him back."
"Itachi doesn't have much time left, so just stay with him."
"I will take care of Sasuke's matter."
Mikoto heard this and nodded while crying.
Seeing this situation, Itachi no longer hesitated, turned around and fled from this place.
At least the information on the Uchiha Clan must be passed on so that the village can prepare.
But before he could take two steps, a huge pressure suddenly hit him, pressing him to the ground, unable to move.
Under this invisible pressure, even breathing seems to be an unattainable luxury.
"What--is--"
Uchiha Mikoto walked to him, took out a glass-like Soul Orb, and took his soul into it.
Uchiha Itachi is like an ant, trapped in Soul Orb. No matter how hard he beats it, it will be of no avail.
When Mikoto opened Senkaimon and left here, Fugaku looked away, a trace of sadness flashed across his face.
"Itachi is where he is now because of my father's responsibility."
"It was because I neglected him before that he became like this."
Shisui shook his head and said, "Clan Head, I can't blame you - maybe this is the nature of us Uchiha Clan."
Arrogant, conceited, looking down on everyone equally, but yet believing in what he thinks, and getting stuck in it.
Itachi is just one of them.
Fugaku nodded in agreement, and then said, "Next, I will track down that Masked Man and bring out Sasuke by the way."
"Soul Society's advance troops are expected to arrive in the near future, so be prepared."
"Understood." Shisui said, "Before that, I first find the person named Kabuto Yakushi."
After the words fell, the two of them stopped staying here.
In the following time, Fugaku traced the whereabouts of Masked Man, while Shisui searched for the existence of Kabuto Yakushi.
But Ninja World is so big, whether it is Masked Man or Kabuto Yakushi, they are just like Nezumi, hiding very deep.
It's impossible to find out with just two people at once.
Seeing that the time was coming, Shisui stopped his useless efforts and returned to Konoha.
When he arrived at Konoha, Konoha was encountering a big chaos.
A person named Pain is wreaking havoc among Konoha in an attempt to uncover the existence of Nine-Tails.
The rare Rinnegan appeared in front of us. After Shisui set up a barrier in Konoha, he wanted to capture one and take a look at the situation.
But when he looked from a distance, he found that the person named Pain had no soul at all.
It's just a corpse being manipulated.
This is true for all six Pain.
Seeing this situation, Shisui gave up his original plan and waited until the incident was over before taking action.
Shisui stood on Hokage Rock, looking at the farce below.
In sight, the person behind Pain, Hokage Building, and the current Hokage Tsunade were talking about something.
The Pain seemed to be irritated, and his body slowly rose into the air, suspended high in the sky.
Along with a strong repulsive force falling from the sky, the entire Konoha was destroyed in one fell swoop.
A huge roar caused by the destruction was heard, and the once prosperous village was now shaken into a deep pit by the repulsive force of Pain.
The ruins of the buildings in the village were pushed to the edge of the village by this repulsive force, and were blocked by the high surrounding walls.
Seeing this scene and feeling the strong wind blowing against his face, Shisui's eyes shrank slightly.
"What a destructive power!"
"This is the power of Rinnegan."
Such large-scale destructive power may not be a big deal in Soul Society, any Gillian or Cero can do it.
But in Ninja World, it is eye-catching.
The damage caused by Pain has basically completely destroyed Konoha.
Just as Shisui was sighing in his heart, a line of smoke caused by Summoning Technique appeared in the deep pit.
Shisui looked around, and a huge Toad appeared there.
Above Toad's head, a blond boy stood on it.
"That's--Nine-Tails Jinchuriki."
With his excellent eyesight, Shisui saw the appearance of the person coming at a glance.
There was information about this person in the previous report of Fugaku.
He remembered that the name was Naruto Uzumaki.
Such a big movement immediately attracted the attention of Pain in Sky Manipulation.
Slowly falling into the deep pit, a battle is about to break out.
Shisui, on the other hand, was sitting on Hokage Rock, quietly watching the battle that broke out below.