Sasuke: I Will Reclaim the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan

Without question, no ninja clan could accept having its Kekkei Genkai and secret techniques spread outside the clan. Shimura Danzō had already caused great dissatisfaction among the major ninja clans by forcing them to send people into Root. This news would provoke the clans into open revolt.

At this point, he no longer doubted Kitahara Kaede's assessment that Shimura Danzō had committed every evil imaginable.

What came next was even more explosive. What did it mean to transplant Hashirama Cells?

It had been stated so plainly that even an idiot could understand that the Hashirama in Hashirama Cells was none other than the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama.

But Senju Hashirama had died a long time ago. He had died not long after Konoha was founded, decades before the present. His corpse should have been nothing but bones by now. Where could Hashirama Cells have come from?

Could Konoha have been secretly researching Hashirama Cells all along?

At that thought, Hatake Kakashi suddenly found it difficult to breathe. As an adult Elite Jonin, he was not unaware of Konoha's darker side. Naturally, he did not believe in the so-called Will of Fire as wholeheartedly as children like Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke did.

Yet deep down, he had been willing to believe in the Will of Fire. That was why the Third Hokage had been able to pull him back into the light after Root had brainwashed him.

But now, he began to waver. Did the Will of Fire truly exist at all?

Even Senju Hashirama, the very man who had proposed the Will of Fire, had met a terrible end. After his death, even his cells had been dug up for research?

To the point that Shimura Danzō could transplant Hashirama Cells into his own body?

For a moment, Hatake Kakashi felt as though his entire worldview had collapsed, leaving him utterly lost.

Did the Konoha Higher-ups know about Shimura Danzō's deeds or not? More importantly, did the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, know?

Originally, Hatake Kakashi had wanted to report the Diary to the Third Hokage and warn him to watch out for the future Konoha Collapse Plan. But that urge had faded somewhat.

He would observe a little longer before deciding.

Compared to Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Sasuke's emotions exploded instantly. He did not know much about Hashirama Cells or what exactly they did, but he knew about the Sharingan. They were the Uchiha Clan's sacred treasure.

They were the true foundation that had allowed the Uchiha Clan to stand supreme in the world.

At present, only two and a half people in the entire Shinobi World possessed the Sharingan. One was Uchiha Itachi, and another was Kitahara Kaede, whom he believed to be an Uchiha Clan bloodline left outside the clan.

The remaining half was Hatake Kakashi, who would soon become his Jonin squad leader. Even Sasuke himself did not have one.

The Sharingan's value was obvious.

Yet something so precious had been transplanted onto an arm, covering the entire hand.

When Uchiha Sasuke imagined that sight, his first reaction was not disgust, but heartbreaking anguish.

To others, those Sharingan might have been no more than tools. But to him, every single Sharingan represented a clansman.

Some of them might even have belonged to close relatives.

"Aaaahhh!"

Uchiha Sasuke wailed in agony. If the Uchiha Clan still existed, seeing this would have only made him furious, made him feel that someone was challenging the Uchiha Clan's dignity.

But now, he was not angry. He was in pain.

It was a soul-deep, heart-rending pain.

He curled up on the ground, one hand clamped tightly over his heart. At the same time, an eerie light flickered in his eyes. Both eyes abruptly changed, becoming One-Tomoe Sharingan.

More accurately, this could not even be considered the awakening of a One-Tomoe Sharingan. He had already possessed One-Tomoe Sharingan. They had awakened on the night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre, but he had refused to accept what had happened and consciously ignored those events.

He had not even known that he had awakened One-Tomoe Sharingan.

But after being stimulated by this incident, he finally recovered the One-Tomoe Sharingan he had buried away.

It was much like Hatake Kakashi's situation. Back then, in the instant he killed Rin to help free her, Obito Uchiha, who witnessed it all, awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Yet Hatake Kakashi himself had also awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and the intense mental shock had even caused him to faint.

He simply did not know it. It was not until the Fourth Shinobi World War that he truly opened his Mangekyō Sharingan.

Though after briefly borrowing Obito Uchiha's account, he got banned again.

"Shimura Danzō!!!"

Uchiha Sasuke finally managed to catch his breath, as if he could breathe again at last. With his One-Tomoe Sharingan open, he forcefully spoke that name.

Alongside Uchiha Itachi, another name had been added to his kill list: the man called Shimura Danzō.

He would reclaim the eyes that belonged to the Uchiha Clan!

He absolutely could not allow the Sharingan to fall into the hands of such scum.

At that moment, he held even greater expectations for Kitahara Kaede's Diary. Through it, he had learned far too many things he had never known before.

Without Kitahara Kaede's Diary, he could never have known that his brother would return in the future. Nor could he have known that this Shimura Danzō possessed the eyes of many of his clansmen. He would not even have known whom to seek for revenge. That would have been utterly ridiculous.

"No, I need to become stronger. I need to become even stronger!"

Uchiha Sasuke felt his own weakness more keenly than ever. He did not know much about Shimura Danzō, but without question, the man was probably very powerful.

And he held a high position in Konoha, wielding considerable authority.

Kitahara Kaede was far stronger than him; there was no doubt about that. Yet even so, after being hunted by Shimura Danzō, Kaede had not dared to take revenge directly and could only vent his anger through his diary.

Uchiha Sasuke was not stupid. He might be arrogant, but he knew that right now, he was truly nothing.

I should seek out Kitahara Kaede and join forces with him!

That thought surfaced in Uchiha Sasuke's mind, but a terrifying consciousness immediately locked onto him, forcing him to abandon it.

If he insisted on seeking out Kitahara Kaede, he felt certain that he would die.

Kitahara Kaede carried far too many secrets. Even if Kaede possessed Uchiha Clan blood, Sasuke still did not dare approach him.

Uchiha Sasuke felt a terrible headache coming on. Another target had been added to his revenge, yet he remained so weak.

Especially since one of them was a Konoha Higher-up. If he wanted to kill him, he would likely have to prepare for war against all of Konoha.