Konoha's streets.
"Big brother, who was that bad uncle?"
Sasuke clung to Itachi's back, tightly gripping a little Itachi figurine in his hand as he asked curiously.
Behind them, Mikoto Uchiha followed along, equally curious. Someone with such odd habits could not be allowed to lead little Itachi astray.
Itachi smiled. "That was the village's Special Jōnin, Senior Tobitake Tonbo. He's not a bad uncle!"
"Yes, he is! He bullied me." Sasuke refused to accept it. He had even made him cry.
"A Special Jōnin?" Mikoto Uchiha was rather surprised as well. She had not expected a single mission to deploy two Jōnin. Seeing that Itachi was completely unharmed, she finally relaxed.
It seemed Itachi's teammates were all quite reliable.
"Mm. He's a powerful Genjutsu user. I think he can rival Brother Shisui."
Ever since the members of his previous team had been killed and Shisui had saved him, the two had become friends. He knew Shisui's Genjutsu was immensely powerful. In his eyes, Shisui was the strongest Genjutsu user in the Uchiha clan.
It was not until Tobitake Tonbo appeared that he learned there were formidable Genjutsu users even without the Sharingan.
Mikoto was startled. "Th-this... How is that possible?"
As the clan head's wife, she had heard Fugaku say that Shisui was the Uchiha clan's greatest genius in the past decade. His Genjutsu was even stronger than that of Fugaku, the clan head himself.
Could Tobitake Tonbo, merely a Special Jōnin, truly rival Shisui in Itachi's eyes?
Could such a genius really exist?
Sasuke played with the figurine and asked curiously, "What's Genjutsu?"
Tobitake Tonbo's home.
"I used Genjutsu as a feint, sending the enemy to their grave amid gorgeous cherry blossoms. In the end, I won a complete victory, taking them out with traps while remaining