Throughout Uchiha history, the Mangekyo Sharingan's awakening had always come from an intense longing deep within the heart.
A desperate desire to change reality, to change something that had already happened.
After all, the Uchiha's Mangekyo Sharingan awakening was inevitably accompanied by intense emotional turmoil, which generally represented the death of a beloved person.
Unfortunately, awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan could not change reality or fate. It would only bring more pain and regret.
Sasuke wanted to heal Itachi, to change him.
But could Itachi truly be changed?
Sasuke's motivation to survive and grow stronger had once been to kill Itachi.
Now that he knew the truth, Sasuke still could not forgive Itachi. Yet deep in his heart, he wanted to cure Itachi's illness. That was why he had awakened Huang Jin-jian, a healing ocular technique.
But Itachi had never been sick in body. His illness was in his heart.
Itachi's heart was extremely twisted. From childhood, Fugaku had taken him to witness war, giving him a different view of this world.
Fugaku was just as cowardly and twisted. He had brought his wife to willingly die by Itachi's hand without resisting, even allowing the entire clan to be destroyed by Itachi.
Simply because it had been Itachi's choice, he had chosen not to resist. No wonder he had raised such a twisted child.
Perhaps it was precisely because Fugaku and Itachi were so twisted that Sasuke had become the Shinobi World's greatest king of pressure resistance, possessing extraordinarily sound mental fortitude.
Extremes reversed themselves, making Sasuke a relative oddity among the Uchiha.
Finding Itachi would not be easy. Itachi, Kisame, and the other Akatsuki members were scattered throughout the Shinobi World, carrying out missions.
After leaving Konoha, Sasuke began gathering intelligence among several small nations.
But he quickly discovered that