"Shisui!"
At the edge of the cliff, Itachi Uchiha stared in shock at the blood-soaked Uchiha Shisui. "What happened?! How did you get hurt so badly?!"
Uchiha Shisui remained calm. "It was Danzo. I failed to control him. Instead, he stabbed me with a kunai and took one of my eyes."
"W-what! Why did you try to control Danzo?!" Itachi Uchiha was utterly bewildered.
Uchiha Shisui looked at him with his remaining eye, blood still pouring from his right eye socket. "Because I wanted to weaken the clan's ceremonial guard and use that to dispel their desire to rebel."
"This..."
Itachi Uchiha clenched his fists and said in a low voice, "Shisui, those among the clan who were willing to let go of their pride and hatred have already left the clan grounds. The ones left are all hawks! You know how mad they are. Why are you still doing this? Why not just stick to what the Hokage and I agreed on and let me eliminate them all?"
Uchiha Shisui stared blankly at him, bloody tears streaming from his surviving left eye. "Itachi... I... I can't bear to see those innocent elders and children slaughtered with them... They're innocent..."
"But they can't stop their families from rebelling, and they won't let go of their hatred. For Konoha, for the greater good, these are necessary sacrifices, just like..."
Itachi Uchiha lowered his head, his back to the setting sun. "Just like Father's sacrifice. It was inevitable..."
After experiencing Uchiha Fugaku's death, his ideals no longer fully aligned with Uchiha Shisui's. He had now become more extreme.
His extreme devotion to the greater good had twisted and crushed the humanity within him.
"Itachi... you..."
Uchiha Shisui wanted to say something, but in the end, he merely shook his head and said