He blinked hard.
Kabuto finally confirmed that he was not seeing things.
There were clearly three spinning tomoe in Gua's eyes!
It was unmistakably a three-tomoe Sharingan, just like Itachi's!
Kabuto gasped inwardly once again. The Uchiha were truly terrifying!
It looked like Konoha would definitely belong to the Uchiha in the future!
Meanwhile,
the situation outside continued to unfold.
After appearing, Five-Tails Kokuō charged toward Fugaku.
With each earthshaking stride,
he drew closer and closer.
Fugaku's Susanoo slowly moved as well.
He lowered his hands to either side of his waist.
Only then did Gua and the other two notice that Fugaku's crimson Susanoo had a sword hanging on each side!
Shing!
Both swords left their sheaths at once, one radiating a deep black aura, the other a deep white.
The black and white swords bore crimson markings on their hilts: knee and beard, respectively.
Kabuto's pupils contracted again at the sight of them.
"Hizakiri and Higekiri?!"
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Gua only thought the Clan Leader's two swords looked rather cool. He had no idea what they were. Even Fugaku's son, Itachi, had said nothing, yet Kabuto had recognized them.
Gua gave Kabuto a curious look.
"You recognize them?"
Kabuto nodded, his gaze grave.
During his intelligence work, he had read widely and come across all sorts of information.
"Hizakiri and Higekiri are two legendary swords that symbolize protection and the slaying of evil demons. But aside from those two names, they share another name-
"Oni Kiri!"
"Oni Kiri?"
At that moment, Itachi remembered something too.
They were the two treasured swords said to have slain Shuten Dōji and Ibaraki Dōji.
Another legend claimed that Oni Kiri itself was a sword formed from a demon.
He had once stumbled across those accounts in his father's study.
Boom!
Itachi's mind reeled.
*So