Uchiha Clan Massacre

The back hills of the Hyuga compound.

A man came to a gravestone.

The words Hyuga Natsu were inscribed on it.

"Found you..."

"But what a shame. Even after changing your name, you still died."

With a casual wave of his hand, the gravestone exploded.

The man stepped closer and immediately frowned.

The corpse in the coffin had already been reduced to a skeleton.

The Hyuga Clan's Byakugan were different. Even after death, when the body had rotted away, the eyes remained intact.

But the eye sockets of the skeleton before him were empty. Someone had clearly taken the eyes.

"Dear sister..."

"I never thought you'd end up like this..."

"If you'd agreed to give me your other eye back then, you wouldn't have ended up buried in a foreign land."

The man laughed maniacally.

Just then, a Root ninja appeared behind him.

"Who's there?!"

The man slowly turned around.

When he saw the Sharingan in the ninja's eyes, his face immediately twisted with disgust.

"I came from the moon. I am a noble member of the Otsutsuki Clan. Remember my name..."

"Toneri..."

He opened his palm slightly.

The Uchiha from Root was suddenly pulled against his will toward Toneri's hand.

"Let's see what really happened..."

Toneri's right eye suddenly trembled.

The next moment, the Uchiha lost consciousness.

Countless memories from the ninja's mind played out before Toneri's eyes like images.

"So that Uchiha Chuan Yu is the child my sister left behind."

"How could a child of my Otsutsuki Clan have someone else's surname?"

"How ridiculous..."

"Then my sister's other eye must be with Uchiha Chuan Yu."

He casually tossed the ninja aside.

Toneri slowly rose into the sky.

From the memories he'd just seen, Toneri now clearly understood the situation here.

This was Konoha.

The Uchiha Clan was in charge.

Its clan head was Uchiha Fugaku.

He landed silently in front of Fugaku's house.

Toneri slowly walked inside.

He looked around but found nothing.

Then he noticed a photograph on the table.

There were five people in it.

Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto.

Itachi Uchiha, Uchiha Chuan Yu, and Sasuke Uchiha.

Toneri slowly closed his eyes. He still hadn't fully absorbed the memories he'd taken.

But he could already make out how they were related.

He picked up the photograph and held it before his eyes.

Toneri studied Chuan Yu in the middle of the photograph.

"I have to admit, he does look a little like my sister."

He set the photograph down and turned around.

Suddenly, a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan fixed on him!

"Breaking into my home like this is rather inappropriate, don't you think?"

"And who was that sister you mentioned?"

"I've never seen you in Konoha!"

In the darkness, Fugaku watched Toneri calmly.

The genjutsu activated.

The very next moment, Toneri suddenly laughed.

Fugaku froze, then immediately frowned.

His genjutsu had failed.

The power of the Mangekyō Sharingan was no trivial matter.

"Those eyes of yours are nothing in front of me."

An immense power filled the room!

Green chakra appeared across Toneri's body.

He casually swung his arm.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The ground split open between the two of them.

The house was cleanly sliced in half as if by a gigantic blade.

It split apart and collapsed.

At the same time, the other Uchiha rushed toward Fugaku's home when they heard the commotion.

Smoke billowed into the sky.

The surrounding houses collapsed, crashing to the ground and sending violent tremors through the area.

In a daze, Fugaku stood unharmed, supporting Mikoto with his left arm and holding Sasuke's hand with his right.

"Oh?"

"The ability of your eyes really is interesting."

"But will they stop my next attack?"

Several Truth-Seeking Orbs suddenly appeared beside Toneri.

He pointed, and they shot toward Fugaku and his family.

At the critical moment, Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan spun again!

"Ling Lian!" (One of Fugaku's Mangekyō abilities: A defensive skill called Shattered Defense that can seal another person's technique and render it temporarily ineffective.)

Power surged from Fugaku's left eye.

The Truth-Seeking Orbs disintegrated into ash the instant they drew near.

Toneri paused in surprise, then quickly charged toward Fugaku.

"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"

Uchiha clan members dropped from above behind him.

"Mikoto! Take Sasuke and get out of here!"

Fugaku turned and shoved his wife and Sasuke away.

Toneri's expression grew more and more vicious. His overwhelming power wiped out several Uchiha in an instant.

"Tell me where Uchiha Chuan Yu is..."

"Or else..."

"I'll slaughter your entire clan!"

Uchiha Fugaku stood in front of Sasuke and Mikoto, staring coldly at Toneri.

He knew that Chuan Yu had only been driven to what happened that day because he and Fugaku disagreed.

But in his heart, Fugaku had always thought of Chuan Yu as his own son.

Back then, and even now, after he'd driven Chuan Yu out of the Uchiha Clan.

Nothing had changed!

"I don't know!"

Fugaku stared at Toneri and spoke, each word deliberate.

At that moment, Toneri began his slaughter in earnest.

"Father! No! Come with us!"

Sasuke clutched Fugaku's clothes and begged desperately.

As the Uchiha clan head—and now Konoha's Hokage—how could Fugaku leave?

At last, Fugaku saw the truth of what had happened.

Was power really so enjoyable?

His Mangekyō could clearly show him the outcome, yet greed had blinded him to reality.

"Father!"

Fugaku looked at Sasuke one last time, and his Mangekyō spun. (Fugaku had another ability: It allowed people to face reality and see an ending that could no longer be changed.)

Suddenly, the surroundings changed.

Every Uchiha had fallen to the ground, lifeless.

Firelight illuminated the sky, and Sasuke clutched his head in anguish.

When Sasuke came to, he was underground in Root's base.

His mother was gone, too.

In her place stood Izumi Uchiha.

"Izumi! Where are my father and mother?!"

"I have to find them!"

Izumi grabbed Sasuke by the arm.

"Sasuke..."

"For now, you're safest here."

"Can't you understand what your uncle and aunt intended?"

Tears streamed down Izumi's face.

But Sasuke desperately wrenched free of Izumi's left hand and charged outside without hesitation.

"Stop!"

Izumi grabbed Sasuke. The next moment, her Mangekyō appeared.

After she cast a genjutsu, Sasuke finally calmed down.

It turned out that the last time Itachi had left Konoha, he'd attacked Izumi.

Betrayed by the person she loved, and attacked with lethal intent, Izumi had been plunged into grief and awakened her Mangekyō.

The Uchiha compound.

Bodies were piled into a small hill.

Toneri stood at the top, searching for Sasuke.

Suddenly, the chakra around him vanished.

The next moment, he looked up at the moon and shook his head helplessly.

"There isn't enough time..."

"Looks like I'll have to wait until next time..."

"But before I go, I'll leave behind a little surprise."

"Moon Illusion..."

White smoke immediately filled the air and rapidly spread in every direction.