"Captain! What are you doing?"
The familiar voice of his teammate actually came from the boy in front of him!
The man shuddered and looked closely.
The boy's face suddenly twisted and shifted, turning into his teammate's!
And his hand was piercing his teammate's chest!
Blood spilled from his teammate's mouth, his eyes wide with disbelief.
He whipped his head around, only to see Itachi standing unharmed where he had been, the Sharingan in his eyes slowly spinning.
"Damn it... a genjutsu?"
"When did he-"
Before he could finish, his vision suddenly spun.
He saw his own body and another teammate's standing a short distance away, blood gushing from their necks, both their heads gone.
His head rolled all the way to the boy's feet.
Poof!
The boy's body suddenly turned into a flock of crows, which scattered and vanished into the morning mist.
His final thought was:
Was this a clone too?
The bodies of the three Anbu fell at the entrance to the Uchiha Clan Compound, just like that.
Itachi slowly emerged from the mist and glanced at the bodies on the ground, his expression still calm.
He carefully drew his Ninja Blade and struck each of the three bodies again to make sure they were not feigning death.
Just then.
Boom!
A violent explosion suddenly erupted in the center of the Clan Grounds!
Flames shot skyward, and thick smoke billowed!
Itachi abruptly turned, his pupils contracting slightly.
That direction...
It was Kushina's new home!
One of the locations the Clan Head had personally instructed the Anbu to prioritize protecting!
Now, it was being swallowed by flames.
The echoes of the explosion still rang in his ears as flames soared into the sky.
Without hesitation, he hurried toward Kushina's home.
His figure raced through the early morning streets,