"Itachi!"
"Big brother..."
Mikoto Uchiha clutched Sasuke Uchiha in her arms and rushed forward anxiously, gathering the pale-faced Itachi Uchiha into her embrace.
Seeing blood continuously seep from Itachi's head, Mikoto stroked his face in anguish, crystalline tears streaming down her cheeks.
Even though he had killed her with his own hands, she held not the slightest resentment toward Itachi.
But she also understood that this was what Itachi deserved.
As clan head, Fugaku had tacitly approved of Itachi's actions. Was that not equally unfair to the other clansmen?
They had no right to decide the life and death of their clansmen.
Her pain was simply a mother's love for her child.
"Itachi..."
Izumi Uchiha covered her mouth, which had fallen open in worry, her eyes filled with indescribable complexity.
Itachi had cast a fifty-year Tsukuyomi on her, allowing her to stay with him until the end of their lives in the illusionary world. She was full of love for him, but the fact remained that her clansmen had died by his hand.
(The official novel Itachi Shinden's setting is being used here. At least it gives Itachi a little humanity.)
"Itachi, why did things turn out like this..."
Looking at Itachi Uchiha, who had already collapsed unconscious from excessive blood loss, Shisui clenched his fists, his eyes full of confusion and doubt.
Before jumping off the cliff to commit suicide, he had clearly entrusted his other Mangekyō Sharingan, containing the Kotoamatsukami ocular technique, to Itachi.
As long as he used Kotoamatsukami on Clan Head Fugaku and made him suppress the clan's rebellious intentions, should the matter not have been resolved perfectly?
How had it become like this?
Could it have been Shimura Danzō?! Not only had he taken his Sharingan, but had he also used Kotoamatsukami on Itachi?
And