A line of small text appeared on the Canopy Screen: Thirty minutes earlier.
Inside the Uchiha Detention Room, Izumi Uchiha sat curled in a corner, hugging her knees.
The commotion outside in the Uchiha Compound, the screams and explosions growing ever more frequent, pounded against her heart like drums. Her sense of dread grew stronger.
Then she felt an evil presence swelling around her, making every hair on her body stand on end.
Suddenly, the Detention Room's cold stone walls seemed to melt, turning hazy and transparent! The scene around her dissolved and re-formed like a fading oil painting!
To her horror, Izumi Uchiha found herself no longer in the Detention Room. She was suspended in a strange space filled with roiling purple-black mist.
This was the Mental Domain Naraka had created with his powerful Demonic Power!
"Heh heh heh... Can you feel it, little Uchiha girl?" Naraka's malicious voice came from every direction. His true body seemed even more powerful than before.
"Hatred, fear, despair, and lives fading away. Such exquisite nourishment!"
Izumi Uchiha watched as visible threads of black-purple energy gathered from the outside world and flowed into Naraka's body. His presence grew stronger with every passing second!
"Thanks to your clan's 'contribution,' my power has finally been fully restored!" Naraka's voice brimmed with delight and cruelty.
Then Naraka tossed out two severed heads. They belonged to Izumi Uchiha's parents.
Before Izumi could react, the scene before her changed again!
The roiling mist became a vast screen, clearly showing the horrific slaughter taking place in the Uchiha Compound!
She saw familiar streets engulfed in flames. She saw her clanmates fall one by one.
Then the image froze, zoomed in, and focused on someone she knew intimately, someone she missed day and night!
Itachi Uchiha!
He held a blood-dripping