"Fa..."
"Father, you... you're actually alive?"
"Then what about Mother? Where is she?"
When Uchiha Yue returned to the Uchiha Clan compound to find Uchiha Sasuke, he sensed Uchiha Fugaku's presence inside Sasuke's home. He immediately exposed Fugaku's hiding place, forcing him to reveal himself before Sasuke.
Seeing that his father, the former Uchiha Clan head, Uchiha Fugaku, was actually alive, Sasuke's feelings were beyond imagining.
In Sasuke's eyes, Uchiha Yue keenly detected several emotions: excitement, fear, and hope.
The excitement came from longing. Upon seeing that his father had not died as he had believed, and learning that his family was still alive in this world, Sasuke desperately wanted to know whether his father and mother were both truly alive. The excitement came straight from his heart.
The fear came from Sasuke's worry that the Uchiha Fugaku before him had merely been created by Uchiha Yue's genjutsu. Thus, the hope in Sasuke's eyes was his hope that everything before him was real, rather than an illusion fabricated by Uchiha Yue.
Uchiha Fugaku, on the other hand, was filled with guilt as he looked at Sasuke.
Making a child only a few years old bear the so-called tragedy of the Uchiha Clan's annihilation, and bear the blood-deep hatred between brothers—Uchiha Fugaku felt that he had truly failed Sasuke.
But before Uchiha Yue, Uchiha Fugaku was not a father. He was the head of the Uchiha Clan.
Therefore, as Sasuke stared at Uchiha Fugaku with excitement, fear, and expectation, Fugaku let out a deep sigh, walked over to Sasuke, and placed a hand on his head.
Sasuke had barely enjoyed the warmth of his father's palm when he heard Uchiha Fugaku say in an indifferent voice, "Sasuke, go inside and wait for a while. Yue and I have matters to discuss."