Why had Itachi suddenly returned to Konoha?
After Itachi slaughtered the entire Uchiha Clan, leaving only Sasuke alive, he had left Konoha, become a rogue ninja, and later joined the Akatsuki.
But throughout all that time, Itachi had maintained secret contact with someone in Konoha.
And that person was Shimura Danzō, who had only recently died!
Itachi had been willing to kill the entire Uchiha Clan not because he was coldhearted, but because it had all been part of a deal.
Itachi would kill the Uchiha Clan, who were plotting a rebellion, for Konoha. In exchange, Konoha had to take good care of his younger brother, Sasuke Uchiha!
He had kept in contact with Danzo because he hoped to receive news of Sasuke at all times. Even though he was no longer in Konoha, his heart had always stayed by Sasuke's side.
Recently, however, Uchiha Itachi had suddenly begun to panic.
The scheduled time for their exchange had arrived, yet he had received no word from Danzo!
This instinctively led Uchiha Itachi to believe that the old bastard was going to break their agreement!
Aside from Su Yu, only four people had witnessed Danzo's death. Although there had been several hundred witnesses afterward, none of them would go out of their way to publicize it.
Likewise, Konoha would not voluntarily announce that one of its senior officials had been killed by an outsider in its own village, even right in front of the Hokage.
That would have been far too damaging to Konoha's reputation in the shinobi world.
But if Uchiha Itachi truly investigated, he could still have learned about it.
However, he no longer had the time or the inclination to investigate. The possibilities surfacing one after another in his mind had frightened him.
Itachi, who had always been