Obito's mask shattered in the wind, and the sight of his war-scarred face plunged every Uchiha into deathly silence. The sound of the Naka River suddenly became unusually clear, as though it had crossed twenty years to wash over the riverbed of their memories.
"Obito... that idiot who was always spacing out in front of the Memorial Stone?"
"The hero of the Third Shinobi World War?"
An elder of the clan suddenly began coughing violently, his wrinkled palm slapping against the stone steps.
"Absurd! That dead last who couldn't even spit out a decent Great Fireball couldn't possibly have sparked the Nine-Tails Rebellion..."
"Those are just your preconceived impressions. Shall I show you the bloody night's murderer in action again?" Obito said with effortless composure.
The reason was simple: he had let go of the past completely and was free in body and mind.
Elsewhere, Mikoto suddenly covered Izumi's ears, only to discover that the woman in her arms was already streaming tears. The memories that had been deliberately blurred suddenly became clear—there had indeed been two figures on the night of the massacre, one wielding the Totsuka Blade, the other using Wood Release to pin corpses to the clan crest.
"Why..." Izumi's eyes, which Sasuke had just restored with Yang Power, began spinning uncontrollably. The three tomoe twisted amid her tears. "Why did you shoulder all this for us? Itachi could have..."
Everyone else took the sight for granted, but a storm surged through Sasuke's heart.
Just as Naruto had restored Kakashi's eye with Yang Power back then, it should have been nothing more than an ordinary eye, yet...
The eyes I gave Izumi with Yang Power... actually awakened the Sharingan again?
*Is my Yang Power somehow more special than Naruto's? No... this power came directly from the