The Uchiha affair needed careful thought. How he told Sasuke Uchiha about it would determine the path Sasuke took afterward!
"A rebellion? How is that possible?" Sasuke froze again, then knitted his brows deeply. Otsutsuki Toneri should have had no reason to lie to him.
Up to this point, Otsutsuki Toneri had genuinely been helping him, so he still trusted Otsutsuki Toneri a great deal.
But...
The Uchiha Clan had actually been planning to rebel back then? With the strength of a single clan? What on earth had they been thinking?
"It was a desperate move, really. As one of the great clans that founded Konoha, the Uchiha had strength and roots that ran too deep. How could those in power tolerate such an existence?" Otsutsuki Toneri shook his head with a smile, explaining what Sasuke did not understand.
"Sasuke, this may make you uncomfortable, but most members of the Uchiha Clan had actually grown arrogant. They were no longer satisfied with merely serving in the police force. Do you understand what I mean?"
Otsutsuki Toneri watched the shifting light in Sasuke's eyes as he spoke. Many factors had contributed to the Uchiha Clan's rebellion.
Danzo's constant pressure was one, but the increasing arrogance of the Uchiha members was another.
Uchiha Fugaku had actually been a very good clan leader, but there were so many members of the Uchiha Clan. How could he alone control the thoughts of the entire clan?
Despite all the criticism he received, Uchiha Fugaku, who had awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, had willingly died at his own son's hands. His words before his death also proved that he had indeed been a proper father.
"That..." Sasuke's eyes flickered, a trace of complicated feeling on his stern face, as though he found it somewhat unacceptable.
But thinking