The sky grew darker and darker.
Shisui also felt his vision becoming increasingly blurred.
Finally, before a forest, Shisui could no longer hold on.
He collapsed, but he fell into Itachi's arms.
Shisui was somewhat surprised. "Itachi, why are you here?"
Itachi said, "I guessed you were in danger. Was it Danzo?"
Shisui nodded. "That's right. I persuaded the Third Hokage, but Danzo didn't believe me. He took one of my eyes. Because of my Uchiha identity, I couldn't make a move against him..."
Itachi nodded. "I understand. Let's go back first."
But Shisui gave a miserable smile. "Itachi, I can't go back."
"Danzo will definitely spread news about me. When that happens, the Uchiha will no longer trust me, and neither will the Third Hokage's side."
Shisui staggered toward the edge of the cliff.
He said to Itachi, "The village's suspicion toward the Uchiha clan will not disappear, nor will the Uchiha clan's ambitions recede.
"My right eye has already been taken. Now, I will give my left eye to you as well."
After saying that, Shisui dug out his left eye and handed it to Itachi.
Itachi said nothing. Shisui smiled faintly.
He leaped off the cliff. Itachi watched Shisui's figure vanish beneath it, tears streaming from the corners of his eyes.
The next moment, three tomoe emerged, merging and transforming as the Kaleidoscope Sharingan appeared!
At the age of ten, Itachi awakened the Kaleidoscope Sharingan!!
At the same time, elsewhere.
Two hours earlier, Sasuke had been feeling restless.
Sasuke found Fugaku and said to him, "Father, come take a walk by the Naka River with me."
Fugaku said, "Be good. Father is busy."
Sasuke tugged on Fugaku's sleeve. Helpless, Fugaku said to him, "All right, but only for a little while."
Beside the Naka River, one side was a towering cliff that pierced the clouds, while the other was covered in rugged boulders.
Sasuke stepped across the rocks, his mind filled with thoughts.
Even with the Simplification System now, he had no way to accumulate enough power in such a short time to directly oppose Danzo.
So he could only rely on his father.
According to the original plot, Shisui should have already persuaded the Third Hokage.
But he had failed to persuade Danzo.
It was precisely because of Danzo that Shisui committed suicide. Shisui, whose talent surpassed even Itachi's, had died just like that. It was truly a pity.
Therefore, Sasuke had brought Fugaku beneath the Naka River to save Shisui.
Sasuke's heart pounded rapidly.
It foreshadowed that something bad was about to happen. The Uchiha clan's instincts were highly accurate.
Suddenly, the sound of something cutting through the air came from above.
Sasuke saw a figure falling from the cliff.
Sasuke said excitedly, "Father, someone fell!"
Fugaku frowned. "What the hell does that have to do with me?"
Sasuke said, "It's Brother Shisui!"
Fugaku was greatly shocked. "What?"
He looked closely, and it really was Shisui.
Shisui was falling from the cliff. Fugaku frowned as three tomoe appeared in his eyes, transforming into a Kaleidoscope.
Then, before Sasuke's eyes.
Fugaku leaped up and jumped into the air. Perhaps it was Sasuke's illusion.
Sasuke felt that Fugaku was falling very, very slowly.
By the time Shisui fell beside Fugaku, Shisui's descent had also slowed.
Fugaku seized the chance to catch Shisui, then landed safely on the ground.
Shisui was already delirious from the poison.
When he saw that both of Shisui's eyes had been gouged out.
Fugaku flew into a rage and cursed, "This is utterly outrageous!"
Immediately afterward, Fugaku carried Shisui and hurried toward the Uchiha clan grounds.
Shisui could not die.
Whether for public or private reasons, Shisui could not die.
For the clan, Shisui was a genius of the Uchiha clan.
Personally, Shisui was a junior Fugaku thought highly of.
Along the way, Sasuke could not help asking Fugaku, "Father, what is your Kaleidoscope ability?"
Fugaku said, "It's not much of a secret. The ocular technique of my Kaleidoscope Sharingan is called [Heavenly Standing]. My left eye can triple the flow of time within three meters around me.
"My right eye can reduce the flow of time to one-third within that same range, which is why I fell so slowly just now."
Back at the Uchiha clan grounds.
Fugaku found a doctor to treat Shisui's injuries.
The doctor pushed up his glasses. "Who injured Shisui this badly?"
Fugaku's expression was grim. "I don't know. It was probably the Konoha higher-ups."
At the same time.
Elsewhere, Itachi walked toward the clan with grief filling his eyes.
On the way, an Uchiha elder asked Uchiha Itachi, "Itachi, you're back?
Why do you look so upset?"
Itachi raised his head, and the Kaleidoscope Sharingan appeared abruptly!
"The Kaleidoscope! Itachi, you awakened the Kaleidoscope!?"
But Itachi said coldly, "Shisui is dead."
"What!!??"
News of Shisui's death quickly spread throughout the Uchiha clan.
All the adult clan members surrounded Itachi.
"Itachi, how exactly did Shisui die?"
"Itachi, why didn't you save Shisui back then?"
"Could it be that you killed Shisui?"
Itachi glanced at the clan members. Genjutsu activated instantly, and Itachi left this sorrowful place.
Itachi felt equally disgusted with these clan members who shared the Uchiha surname!
Fugaku arrived here.
Yet he saw everyone standing in place with vacant eyes.
As the Uchiha clan head, Fugaku recognized at a glance that they had been placed under genjutsu.
Fugaku used his ocular power to dispel the genjutsu. He asked one clansman, "Kento, who used genjutsu on all of you?"
Uchiha Kento was stunned at first. He had just been berating Uchiha Itachi, but it had been genjutsu?
Uchiha Kento flew into a rage and began complaining to Fugaku. "Clan Head, Itachi awakened the Kaleidoscope Sharingan, and now he doesn't even respect me, his uncle! Clan Head, you have to stand up for me!"
Fugaku was stunned at first, then said happily, "Itachi awakened the Kaleidoscope?"
Then Fugaku said coldly to Uchiha Kento, "And Kento, you need to recognize your place. Itachi has awakened the Kaleidoscope. You need to understand your standing!"
After Fugaku finished speaking.
Kento broke out in a cold sweat.
That was right, this was the Uchiha clan. Itachi had awakened the Kaleidoscope, so his status was naturally higher than mine. I was wrong.
I always wanted to lecture Itachi as an elder, but what right did I have? He was a genius who awakened the Kaleidoscope Sharingan at only ten years old!