Akaseki recounted the events of the past three hundred-odd years to Hikari.
Originally, Akaseki had never really grasped what the three hundred-odd years Hikari had spent sealed away meant. After all, he had read Warring States Sealing History long before he and the Clan Leader had looked at the records concerning the Mangekyō Sharingan, so he had never connected those two points in time.
Now, it seemed...
Over three hundred years ago, after the Uchiha Clan had created its "nameless weapon," the major ninja clans had joined forces against them. Not only had Hikari been sealed away, but the Uchiha Clan had also been crushed. They had left their ancestral lands downstream of the Naka River and had no choice but to migrate north to the peninsula in the Land of Lightning.
It was not until fifty or sixty years ago that a mission from the Land of Lightning brought the Uchiha Clan back to the Naka River region. After twenty years of fighting and sacrifice, they had finally reclaimed their ancestral lands and reopened the Naka Shrine downstream of the Naka River. Later, with Hashirama Senju's assistance, they had established Konoha nearby...
Hikari listened as Akaseki described what had happened after she was sealed away. Though she said nothing, she no longer tried to drive him off, merely listening as she walked.
Then Akaseki reached the part where the "despicable and shameless" Madara Uchiha, who had "treated his clansmen as weapons" and whose family had "held power for generations," had been driven out by the other members of the Uchiha Clan, who had even instructed Hashirama Senju to kill him...
"Oh." Only then did Hikari give a calm nod.
Hikari could tell, too...
Although Akaseki himself did not know whether Madara Uchiha's family belonged to the line that had