Unlike the warm atmosphere at the school, a horrific tragedy had unfolded inside the Uchiha Clan Compound.
Well, that morning, a member of the Uchiha clan discovered that his neighbor had not come home.
Although his neighbor often went out at night to hang around with a group of older clansmen, he always returned in the middle of the night and still turned on the lights and went about his day in the morning.
This caught the concerned neighbor's attention. What exactly had kept his neighbor out all night?
Was it a wolf's temptation? Or a snake's sex appeal?
And so, following his neighbor's usual route, he headed toward Naka Shrine.
As he walked, he discovered that he was not the only one whose older neighbor had stayed out all night. Quite a few clansmen were traveling along the road toward Naka Shrine, filled with curiosity.
But ahead lay the scene of a tragedy.
"Blood! It's blood!!!"
Uchiha Ye's body trembled slightly. The sight before him dealt a devastating blow to his soul.
The inside of Naka Shrine was covered in blood, and severe scorch marks surrounded it, yet there were no clansmen's bodies.
Entering the shrine, he found a man in a black robe sitting on a chair inside.
Hearing Ye's shout, the clansmen behind him hurried after him and were likewise stunned by the ghastly sight.
"What exactly happened?"
"Where's the grand elder?"
"How could something like this happen within the clan?"
As the discussion continued, the clansmen activated their Sharingan in case anything unexpected happened.
"That man! It's Itachi!"
One clansman spotted Itachi sitting on the shrine's stone chair, and a trace of bewilderment and delight flashed through his eyes.
He was bewildered as to why their clan leader's eldest son, Uchiha Itachi, was here, and delighted