A Dog Passing By Would Get Hit with an Amaterasu

"Success... That's wonderful!" Second Pillar murmured with satisfaction. "Now all that's left is Uchiha Itachi!"

Second Pillar was exhilarated. This time, he would definitely kill the man named Shimura Danzō earlier than he had in the original timeline.

Unlike Second Pillar, Uchiha Itachi paid more attention to the mention of the Five Kage Summit being occupied with dealing with Sasuke.

The Five Kage sitting together for a Five Kage Summit was already an extremely rare occurrence. When had the last one been?

It would have to be traced back to the era of the First Hokage.

And now, the Five Kage had gathered together in an unprecedented move just to deal with Sasuke?

What had Sasuke done to make all Five Kage join forces against him?

Uchiha Itachi cared greatly about this, because according to his plan, Second Pillar would take his head, become Konoha's hero, and restore the glory of the Uchiha Clan.

But now, it seemed that the future Sasuke had not only failed to return to Konoha and revive the Uchiha Clan's glory, but would even become a target wanted by the Five Kage.

This was completely different from what he had envisioned—perhaps even the complete opposite.

At what point had things gone wrong?

Uchiha Itachi cared deeply about that.

"Will there be a battle between Sasuke and Danzo next?"

Just as he was eagerly anticipating it, a video indeed appeared in the diary.

[Sunny Sasuke VS Darkness of the Ninja World! Iconic scene: kunai stabbing Susanoo!]

[Sasuke at this stage was still in his Sunny Sasuke form. Even a dog passing by would get hit with an Amaterasu. The fastest Mangekyo to go blind in history truly lived up to its name. The skies cleared, the rain stopped, and Second Pillar thought he was tough again.]

The moment Second Pillar saw that evaluation, his face instantly turned red. He was only twelve years old at the moment. Although he put on a cold face and liked to act cool, he had not yet reached the point of believing himself to be the greatest in the world.

He had never really understood why Kitahara Kaede called him Sunny Sasuke. Now he understood.

The skies cleared, the rain stopped, and Second Pillar thought he was tough again.

It was a joke, but it was more than enough to make Second Pillar blush furiously.

Unlike in the original timeline, he no longer shouted in front of others about killing Uchiha Itachi for revenge. Back then, he had dared to boast because he had not known how powerful Uchiha Itachi truly was.

But with Kitahara Kaede's diary right before him, he had come to understand many things. For example, the gap between himself and true Jonin such as Hatake Kakashi and Zabuza was as vast as heaven and earth.

But above those Elite Jonin was an even higher realm known as Kage Level.

Uchiha Itachi was a powerful man who stood firmly within that realm.

Just thinking about the gap between himself and Uchiha Itachi was enough for him to understand it. He had still been shouting about revenge. Others might not know, but merely thinking about it made him feel deeply ashamed.

So although he had graduated as the top student of his class, Second Pillar was unusually low-key at this point. Even though he found today's mission with Hatake Kakashi boring and believed it could not improve his strength—

Once he remembered that Uchiha Itachi had gone through the same thing, he calmed down.

If Uchiha Itachi could endure it, there was no reason he could not.

He was his father's son. Wasn't Sasuke his father's son too?

Furthermore, having seen Hatake Kakashi's battle with Zabuza in the Land of Waves in advance, he understood the gap between himself and a top expert like Hatake Kakashi. Therefore, he no longer held the faint disdain for Hatake Kakashi that he had in the original timeline.

Although Hatake Kakashi was considerably weaker than Orochimaru, Uchiha Itachi, and the others, teaching the current Second Pillar was more than enough.

The more he understood what Sunny Sasuke meant, the more unbearable his embarrassment and indignation became.

Hatake Kakashi finally understood the origin of the Sunny Sasuke nickname as well and could not help laughing. But then he remembered that Kitahara Kaede's teasing was not aimed only at Second Pillar. He had not said anything nice about Kakashi either.

Sunny Sasuke did not sound flattering, but was the nickname Hatake the 50/50 any better?

Unlike the other two, Uchiha Itachi was more concerned with the phrase about even a dog passing by getting hit with an Amaterasu.

Hatake Kakashi and Second Pillar had no particular reaction to Amaterasu, because they did not know what Amaterasu even was. But Uchiha Itachi was different. Of the unique Dojutsu of his Mangekyō Sharingan, one was Tsukuyomi, while the other was Amaterasu.

Combined with Kitahara Kaede's later joke about the fastest Mangekyo to go blind in history, he roughly understood what had happened.

First came surprise. This meant Sasuke had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, which meant his original plan of having Sasuke take his Mangekyo and advance into the Eternal Mangekyo was feasible.

Whether he was dead by then or not, that plan was possible.

And one of the Dojutsu awakened by Sasuke's Mangekyō Sharingan was Amaterasu as well?

As far as he knew, the Mangekyō Sharingan wielders throughout history seemed to have awakened different Dojutsu. As for whether there had ever been brothers who awakened the same Dojutsu, he did not know.

There were simply too few Mangekyō Sharingan. Moreover, not every generation produced one, and many records had been lost after such long intervals.

Thus, he did not know much. Still, he considered Amaterasu a good Dojutsu. It was not weak.

It could be called the strongest physical attack. Once someone was touched by it, they would burn until death, unless he withdrew it himself or it was sealed away with Fuinjutsu.

But alarm rose in his heart as well. The fastest Mangekyo to go blind in history—this evaluation had already revealed a great deal.

The Mangekyō Sharingan could go blind. Over the years, he had always conserved his Dojutsu Power, avoiding the Mangekyo whenever possible. Even so, he could vaguely feel his vision deteriorating rapidly. Now, even people appeared somewhat blurry to him, and he often had to focus before he could see clearly, as if he had developed presbyopia.

And if Sasuke truly did as Kitahara Kaede described, firing an Amaterasu at every dog that passed by, then it was entirely possible for him to exhaust his Dojutsu Power in a short time.

No, he had to find a way to warn Sasuke, or use some other method to let him know that the Mangekyo's Dojutsu Power could not regenerate.

Even with the Eternal Mangekyo as a backup plan, using Dojutsu Power so recklessly was itself a sign of an immature state of mind.

"The skies cleared, the rain stopped, and Second Pillar thought he was tough again." Hearing those words, Second Pillar felt only unbearable embarrassment and indignation. But Uchiha Itachi felt something entirely different: Second Pillar's strength had surged in a short period of time, but his mentality could not control that enormous power.

This was not good news.