Obito and Shisui (Part 2) (Seeking Subscriptions~)

In Konoha, within the Uchiha Clan compound, night was approaching as Uchiha Itachi left his home alone.

This time, he had not called his younger brother, nor had he informed his parents.

He silently made his way toward a training ground. He remained highly vigilant, moving through the shadows and only suddenly accelerating after ensuring that no one was following him.

This time, he did not want anyone to discover him—whether they were clan members, his parents, or his younger brother. Above all, he did not want Uchiha Kei to notice.

Uchiha Kei. That name held an unimaginable place in Itachi's heart.

Even now, he remembered facing that man as a child. He still remembered how the man had rejected his father's proposal and refused to take him as a disciple.

In the past, Uchiha Itachi had been unable to understand it. But after speaking with him once, Itachi had come to understand many things.

Everything he had done, everything he had understood, seemed so childish and so worthless in that man's eyes.

The man had not even been particularly willing to answer his questions.

Yet even his father had wholeheartedly approved of the answers that man gave.

Itachi still remembered those answers to this day. He had constantly used the answers Uchiha Kei had given him back then to analyze the wars of previous years.

The facts proved that once he had such a clear answer, he could now understand many things that had once baffled him.

As time passed, Itachi also learned many relatively secret matters concerning Uchiha Kei.

For instance, almost none of the turmoil that had occurred within the Uchiha Clan back then had been unrelated to him.

Whether it was the fire in the Uchiha bamboo forest, the mutiny within the Military Police Force, or