"Heh... heh heh heh..." After hearing Danzo's words, Naraka gave a low, knowing laugh full of mockery.
"Just as I thought! Humans are fascinating. They always need a noble-sounding excuse for their cruelest acts, even if someone else forced that excuse on them."
Then it seemed to remember something, and its tone grew even more scornful and teasing:
"Normally, to end an uprising, you'd only need to eliminate the Radical Faction leaders—those four old fossils, for example—and the Uchiha ninja who've awakened their Sharingan and can fight!"
"At most, you'd add Fugaku Uchiha, that indecisive clan head."
"But the elderly, the women, and the children who haven't awakened their Sharingan... What's the point of killing them? What does it accomplish besides adding to the stench of blood and the weight of resentment?"
"No matter how irrational Itachi Uchiha is, no matter how much he wants to protect his little brother, surely even he would have trouble agreeing to a massacre that makes no distinctions?"
Shimura Danzō replied coldly, "Perhaps he believes that only by wiping out the Uchiha completely can he spare his brother any future trouble."
"The Uchiha Kekkei Genkai and their hatred are the greatest sources of instability. Leave even one ember, and the fire could reignite someday. This is the safest course."
"The safest? You mean the cruelest, don't you? Hahaha!" Naraka laughed harder, as though it had heard the funniest joke in the world.
"But that suits me perfectly! The more complete the despair and death, the more delicious the resentment and fear they produce!"
Then it looked at Danzo with interest. "One last little question?"
"Danzo, you went to all this trouble to make him slaughter his entire clan, yet you're leaving his brother—Sasuke Uchiha—alive."
"That seems a little contradictory, doesn't it? Don't tell me