By the time Sasuke woke up, it was already the next day.
The first thing he did after opening his eyes was clutch his head. The searing pain of forcibly awakening his Mangekyō Sharingan was still fresh in his memory.
"Are these the eyes Itachi had back then?"
Sasuke took out the little mirror he carried with him, activated his Mangekyō Sharingan, and looked at his reflection.
Don't ask why Sasuke carried something like that around.
After all, those who understood a teenage edgelord's vanity understood.
"Excellent. I can feel the power!"
Uchiha Sasuke clenched his fists, his teenage delusions acting up again.
Shinji, who was beside him, couldn't quite bear to watch anymore. "These eyes have a limited supply of ocular power. If you keep wasting it like this, you'll probably go blind in less than a year."
Huh?
Sasuke looked up in surprise. "Why would that happen?"
Shinji cleared his throat, cast a discreet glance at Tobi, then put on the airs of a teacher showing off. "Only by successfully awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan can you obtain the Uchiha Clan's true power. But awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan is extremely difficult. Everyone who succeeds is a genius among geniuses, and they must suffer the agony of losing beloved friends or family before they even have a chance of succeeding."
Tobi's body suddenly trembled, as though he had recalled some painful memory.
Hearing this, Sasuke gritted his teeth. Did Itachi kill the entire clan to obtain those eyes?!
One glance was all Shinji needed to see what Sasuke was thinking.
"It's not what you think. Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan long before that incident. The trigger was witnessing the death of his close friend, Shisui Uchiha..."
At this point, he seemed unwilling to say any more about it and changed