Whenever I think back, beneath the shrine to the Fox Who Conquered the North, the crows cawed and the drums beat.
The saddest thing in this world was that, more often than not, people with no moral bottom lectured those who still had some sense of morality, teaching them how to be virtuous.
At Konoha, the Third Hokage was in the midst of his final mobilization for the sacrificial ceremony.
Uchiha Kei had made a rare appearance in the shrine hall at Naka Shrine. He stayed out of public view, however, listening to the Uchiha report on their day-to-day affairs while Oboro and Shujen supported him. At the same time, he waited for the final outcome of an operation.
Hyoma and Azusai had returned, bringing back more than twenty-five hundred pairs of Red Eyes.
The slaughter, an attempt to wipe out an entire clan, had made the Red Eye Clan vanish from the Shinobi World. Before long, no one would remember them. Yet the massacre had also brought Uchiha Kei a surprise: quite a few of them had awakened their eyes, and one had even developed a Three-Comma Pattern.
When Red Eyes awakened, they developed tomoe with gaps in the middle, like commas. When the Sharingan awakened, it developed Magatama, with no gaps in the middle.
Uchiha Kei toyed with the Three-Comma Pattern and joked with his subordinates.
"How interesting. Do all bloodline abilities involving unusual eyes evolve when their users lose control of their emotions? I wonder if killing those Uchiha in Konoha would let us evolve a few Mangekyo, too!"
The Uchiha under him clearly had no idea what was funny about Kei's joke. They didn't even think their lord's words had gone too far.
In their hearts, they were the true Uchiha. The Uchiha in Konoha were