But Uchiha Itachi had overestimated Lord Uchiha Yin. After choosing his father as clan head, Yin had stopped involving himself in clan affairs altogether, leaving everything to Fugaku while taking the post of ANBU captain for himself.
Itachi and Yin had rarely spoken much to begin with. Now they had even fewer chances to talk, so this rare stretch of free time mattered.
To Itachi's surprise, though, Uchiha Fugaku was not in his room. He was about to go looking for him when he sensed something strange: a powerful twist of Chakra swept right past him.
Something was wrong. Itachi sprang after it. Whoever it was clearly did not belong to the Uchiha Clan; a clan member would have no reason to sneak around like that. Nor did the intruder seem intent on killing him. That fleeting moment had been the perfect chance to strike, yet the person had simply left. It looked like an attempt to lure him away.
By the time Itachi reached that conclusion, he had chased the intruder far beyond Konoha.
He stopped and called out, "This should be far enough!"
The air ahead of him warped, and someone appeared in an instant. "You're sharp!"
Itachi scoffed. "Or you made it far too obvious. You didn't risk coming all this way just to compliment me, did you, Obito Uchiha?"
The eye visible through Obito Uchiha's mask narrowed slightly. "Of course not. I wouldn't have come all this way for something so trivial."
"Then say what you came to say!" Itachi had no patience for his theatrics.
The amusement faded from Obito's eye. "Are you really content to stay here, doing their bidding and watching war break out again and again?"
Itachi frowned but said nothing. He kept his gaze fixed on Obito, waiting to hear what