"Uchiha Shinichi!"
The Third Hokage shouted again, "Stop! We can meet any condition you have! Konoha needs talents like you!"
Shinichi sneered. The silver-white Susanoo halted by the riverbank, moonlight stretching his shadow long behind him.
"Meet my conditions?" His voice dripped with sarcasm. "I want the lives of my clansmen back. Can you give them to me?"
The Third Hokage was momentarily speechless, his expression turning extremely ugly.
"From this day onward, I am no longer Konoha's Uchiha Shinichi."
Shinichi's voice echoed through the night wind. "I'll make this world pay the price in my own way!"
With that, he turned toward Itachi Uchiha. The taiji pattern in his Mangekyo Sharingan spun madly one final time. "Live on with your guilt, Itachi. That is the greatest punishment for you."
The silver-white Susanoo vanished with a thunderous crash, and Shinichi's figure disappeared into the darkness like a ghost.
The Third Hokage slammed a furious fist into the nearby tree trunk. "Issue an S-rank warrant immediately! I want him alive if possible, dead if necessary!"
"And you, Danzo—effective immediately, you are relieved of all duties. Disband Root at once!"
The Third Hokage could barely suppress the fury in his voice.
Danzo turned and left with a gloomy face. "Hiruzen, you will regret today's decision."
His voice was full of menace, but what he desired even more was that mysterious pair of Mangekyo Sharingan.
Itachi's Susanoo also slowly faded away. He set down the unconscious Sasuke Uchiha, gave the devastated clan compound one last look, and turned to leave.
Under the moonlight, his back was lonely yet resolute. Only his Mangekyo Sharingan still gleamed with cold light.
The Nanga River murmured mournfully, as though grieving for the destruction of the Uchiha Clan.
The night wind scattered the stench of blood, but it