His admiration for and longing to emulate Uchiha Itachi made Shin desperately want to become a member of the Uchiha Clan.
The most obvious proof was that he had given himself the Uchiha name.
And since the Sharingan was a kekkei genkai unique to the Uchiha Clan, Shin naturally wanted to obtain more Sharingan.
In his view, if he could find more Sharingan, the world would increasingly acknowledge him as a descendant of the Uchiha Clan.
As for Sasuke Uchiha, Shin believed that Sasuke, who had killed Itachi, did not deserve to bear the Uchiha Clan's name at all.
Another key point was that the Sharingan, as an extremely rare kekkei genkai, truly possessed very powerful abilities.
Its outstanding ability to track motion could easily discern an enemy's movements and even copy ninjutsu, along with casting and reflecting genjutsu.
These abilities shared by all Sharingan alone were already nothing to scoff at.
After all, many ninja in the shinobi world might never possess those abilities in their entire lives.
Yet members of the Uchiha Clan could master them simply by awakening the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
Of course, awakening and evolving the Sharingan was not that simple or easy.
But to outsiders, the Uchiha Clan gained powerful strength with just that much ease.
And that did not even include the advanced abilities of the Mangekyō Sharingan.
However, awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan was far too difficult.
Throughout the Uchiha Clan's entire history, only a handful had awakened it, let alone outsiders.
But even the Three-Tomoe Sharingan was enough to make Shin covet it.
He had joined Orochimaru in the first place to learn cloning technology, and when he defected, he had specifically taken several of his own clones with him.
After that, as long as he continued to clone more subordinates and implanted