After Kazemori Masaki told them about the existence of Reincarnates and who the current ones were, both Uchiha Ken and Fujimura Yuki looked unsettled. Ken took it better. He had already learned from Katsuya Uchiha that he was Indra's Reincarnate, and after Lisa had helped him work through it, he had also begun to suspect Yuki's identity.
Yuki, however, was a different story. He had never heard of anything like this. He had thought he was being called in for an important mission, only to be told that he was the reincarnation of Asura, the son of the legendary Sage of Six Paths. How was he supposed to accept that all at once?
If the person telling him had not been the Hokage, but some fellow who had appeared out of a back alley, Yuki would certainly have suspected that the man had made up a story to fool him. Even so, the revelation still came as a tremendous shock.
Yuki instinctively glanced at Ken and found that his friend seemed far less shaken than he was. "Ken, what do you think?"
"I was pretty shocked at first, too, but I gradually accepted it after coming back to the village. Still, even though I had my suspicions, I didn't expect you really to be one." Ken drew a deep breath and answered once he had steadied himself.
"After coming back to the village?" Yuki repeated, then asked in surprise, "You already knew?" He had thought Ken was finding out here alongside him.
"Heh, that bastard Katsuya Uchiha told me." Ken touched his eyes. "That's why he went after my Sharingan. He wanted Indra's power."
Ken now wore bandages around his head, covering the area where his eyes were missing and making him look as though he was still recovering. In