"The founder of the Uchiha Clan, Madara Uchiha, was Izanagi?"
By now, after weathering countless storms, Uchiha Senmon believed he had the composure to face anything. Yet the earth-shattering secret Uchiha Itachi revealed still made his expression change drastically.
Japan's creator god, the father of the gods, Izanagi-this had to be a great deity no less powerful than the Lord of Mount Tai!
Although it sounded somewhat far-fetched at first, it also vaguely fit the scattered clues from before.
The complicated, wary attitude that the Kage Level powerhouses and deities from the Heavenly Realm held toward the Uchiha Clan; the absolute violence called "Susanoo" and the forbidden Dojutsu "Izanagi"; the stone statue of the Nine-Tails and the murals inside Naka Shrine...
It made sense, yet came as a surprise.
"Since there are Dojutsu named after Amaterasu and Susanoo, there must also be a 'Tsukuyomi.'"
Uchiha Senmon probed.
Uchiha Itachi neither confirmed nor denied it, seemingly acknowledging it in silence.
Izanami had been burned to death while giving birth to the fire god Kagutsuchi. Missing his deceased wife, Izanagi had pursued her into Yomi, only to witness her gruesome, maggot-covered corpse and flee back to the human world in panic.
After returning from somewhere as filthy as the Land of Yomi, Izanagi had washed his body in a river.
The god born when he washed his left eye was Amaterasu Omikami; the god born when he washed his right eye was named Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto; the god who appeared when he washed his nose was Susanoo-no-Mikoto.
The three gods born as Izanagi washed his face were the Three Noble Children, the highest-ranking of the eight million deities.
Uchiha Senmon's expression grew somewhat odd.
Even if the Uchiha Clan descended from Izanagi, using the divine names of the Three Noble Children to name Sharingan