"All that's left now is the final confirmation~" With a crazed, twisted smile, Sasuke dispelled his Shadow Clone and headed toward the laboratory where Neji had said the bodies were stored.
The scroll he had just read clearly recorded the truth behind the Uchiha Clan's destruction.
The Uchiha Clan had attempted an armed coup. The village leadership had discovered their intentions, then ordered Uchiha Itachi to exterminate his clan.
Uchiha Itachi had accepted the mission and turned his blade on his own clan, single-handedly stopping their coup and sparing Konoha a civil war.
The scroll's contents had opened Sasuke's eyes, answering every question that had troubled him.
Why had the village only learned of the Uchiha Clan's destruction the next day? Why had no one noticed Uchiha Itachi slaughtering his clan that night?
Why had the sounds of their battle failed to alert anyone outside? All of it finally made sense.
Sasuke vaguely remembered the atmosphere in his family back then, an eerie stillness beneath the surface. Conversations between his father, the Clan Head, and Uchiha Itachi, the clan's heir, had been charged with hostility. Those were not normal conversations between a father and son.
After joining the Anbu, his older brother had often used missions as an excuse to brush him off, while ignoring the demands of their father, the Clan Head.
Now Sasuke understood. Those so-called missions had actually involved monitoring the Uchiha Clan and reporting their movements to the leadership at all times.
The clan members seemed to have noticed something amiss with Uchiha Itachi, and rumors against him had begun spreading through the clan.
Then Shisui Uchiha, who had always been close to Uchiha Itachi, had died. Clan members had come to confront Itachi, and a clash had broken out.
Those scenes surfaced in Sasuke's mind