It took quite a while for Uchiha Itachi's emotions to settle.
Although Itachi had calmed down by then, even deactivating the Sharingan he had kept active all this time, his eyes were still bloodshot and red.
Once he had regained his composure, Uchiha Itachi suddenly looked at Shin Uchiha and asked,
"Clan Leader, what were those things you showed me?"
In truth, Uchiha Itachi already had a vague idea, but he still needed confirmation.
Shin Uchiha looked at Itachi, an odd expression in his eyes.
"Given how close you and Shisui are, I imagine he must have told you at least a little, right? Besides, I never forbade him from talking about any of this."
Uchiha Itachi was left momentarily speechless. Indeed, Shisui had said some rather vague things to him before. After what he had experienced today, he finally understood them completely.
Seeing Uchiha Itachi's expression, Shin Uchiha knew he had worked it out and continued,
"You're right. Everything I showed you was a fragment of the future I saw through my Mangekyō Sharingan's ability-Space-Time Rift. Of course, I saw some of those fragments six or seven years ago. Looking at them now, they're little more than jokes."
At Clan Leader Shin's words, Uchiha Itachi shook his head weakly and said bitterly,
"You must be joking, Clan Leader. How could those fragments be jokes? I'm no fool. I can see perfectly well that if you hadn't stepped forward back then and changed everything, those things would definitely have happened."
Neither Shin Uchiha nor Itachi specified which fragments they meant, but both knew perfectly well: Shisui's death, Shimura Danzō and the Third Hokage's schemes, Uchiha Itachi joining forces with the Mysterious Man to wipe out the Uchiha Clan, and his eventual defection.
Shin Uchiha fell silent for a moment at