"Move aside?"
Uchiha Yashiro suddenly let out a shrill laugh, "You want me to hunt down those children? You want me to extinguish the last hope of the Uchiha?"
" Yashiro, this is the last chance."
Kakashi Hatake lifted his Forehead Protector, revealing his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
"Shut up!"
The Uchiha Yashiro abruptly turned to Kakashi Hatake, "You thief who stole the power of the Uchiha!"
Then he looked at Itachi again, the anger in his eyes gradually turning into deep sorrow.
"Itachi... have you forgotten how your father taught you to use Shuriken? Have you forgotten your clansmen? Yakumi, Izumi, Jing, Teyaki, they are all your comrades."
Thinking of his clansmen, Uchiha Itachi's pupils contracted almost imperceptibly, but quickly returned to their coldness.
Choosing between national duty and personal responsibility is sometimes difficult, and sometimes easy.
" Tsukuyomi "
Five Uchiha Jonin instantly, enduring endless torment within the Genjutsu world.
"Stop!"
The Uchiha Yashiro shouted sharply, simultaneously Hand Seals, " Fire Style: Great Fire Dragon Technique!"
Three fire dragons roared out, but Uchiha Itachi easily dodged them.
"It's no use, Yashiro Elder," Uchiha Itachi said. " Mitsudomoe cannot defeat Mangekyō Sharingan."
"Then let's give it a try!"
Two Uchiha Jonin simultaneously, one from the left and one from the right, targeting Itachi.
" Amaterasu!"
The black flames instantly engulfed one of them.
Another person's Kunai was about to pierce Itachi's back when it was intercepted by Kakashi's Lightning Blade.
"For the future of the Uchiha!"
The Uchiha Yashiro roared and led the remaining clansmen in a final charge.
However, the battle turned out to be one-sided.
The power of the Mangekyō Sharingan is simply beyond the capabilities of ordinary Sharingan.
As the last of his clansmen fell, the Uchiha Yashiro suddenly smiled.
Hahahaha!
How ridiculous!
Those haughty old dogs were afraid of getting their hands dirty.
So they thought of using a scenario where their own people kill each other to shift the blame.
If I had known this would happen, I should have left Konoha with Lord Madara back then.
The Uchiha Yashiro staggered to his feet, blood gushing from the corner of his mouth, and the pattern in his Three-Tomoe Sharingan began to fade.
"Itachi... you disgust me... but... it's already..."
Boom boom boom--
A violent explosion suddenly engulfed the entire battlefield.
The Explosive Tag, which had been set up at the beginning of the battle, suddenly detonated, and the towering Kakkō dyed the night sky blood red.
When the smoke and dust cleared...
All that remained was a charred crater thirty meters in diameter and more than twenty Uchiha corpses, still in their fighting poses even in death.
Uchiha Itachi stood on the edge of the explosion, his Mangekyō Sharingan slowly closing, two lines of bloody tears streaming down his face.
Why resist? Why can't we just obediently die?
A bunch of people who don't understand the big picture; you know nothing and know absolutely nothing.
There's no point in dying like that.
A short while later.
He wiped away the blood and tears from the corners of his eyes and said sternly, "Chase them! We must not let any Uchiha clan member leave the Land of Fire alive!"
Kakashi Hatake nodded silently, and the two quickly passed through the gap in the blasted barrier.
"Southeast." After examining the traces, Uchiha said coldly, "They're using the Naka River Ancient Road, hoping to reach the sea by water."
Upon hearing Kakashi Hatake immediately gave orders to the Anbu behind him.
"Order the ninja forces stationed on the border of the Land of Rivers to immediately proceed to the southern coast to intercept and kill missing-nin who have left their villages and spies from other villages, and at the same time, control all ships that have sailed offshore."
After one of the Anbu received orders to leave, the rest of the group continued their pursuit southward.
Traces of fierce fighting were constantly visible along the way.
An ANBU Anbu impaled on a tree trunk by an ice spike, Root ninja whose body had turned black, and several Uchiha corpses who were still clutching Kunai until their deaths.
Uchiha Itachi and his companions traveled rapidly along the Naka River Ancient Road, with the trees along the way rushing past them.
Before long, intense fluctuations in Chakra began to appear ahead.
Five Uchiha ninjas who stayed behind to cover the retreat were clashing with several patrol squads.
When the battle comes to an end.
The leading Uchiha ninja had his right arm severed, and four other clan members were seriously injured. More than a dozen Konoha Ninja corpses lay around them.
This is the Uchiha: one-on-one, they can kill; one-on-two, they can hold their own; only one-on-three, they have a chance to turn the tables.
Five Uchiha were facing more than ten Konoha Ninja; the advantage lay with us.
Uchiha Itachi accelerated instantly, passing through the last patch of bushes and rushing straight into the crowd.
"It's Uchiha Itachi!" a Uchiha Chunin surprise, "Elder Yashiro and the others..."
" Tsukuyomi "
Without any warning, the two Uchiha ninjas instantly collapsed to the ground.
Before the remaining three could react, Kakashi's Lightning Blade had already pierced through one of their chests.
" Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
A massive fireball hurtled towards them.
Uchiha Itachi merely turned slightly to the side, and black flames erupted from his Mangekyō Sharingan.
" Amaterasu!"
The black flames instantly engulfed the fireball, and with undiminished momentum, they rushed towards the caster.
The last Uchiha ninja desperately raised Kunai, only to be stabbed through the heart from behind by Kakashi in the next second.
The battle ended in ten seconds.
Uchiha Itachi slowly walked towards the only injured Uchiha who was still convulsing, looking down at him from his superior position.
"Why... Itachi..." the dying ninja coughed up blood, "What did those children... do wrong..."
Uchiha Itachi's eyes flickered slightly as he said, "They shouldn't have defected."
Having said that, a Kunai precision.
"Chase."
After standing up, Uchiha Itachi's voice became even colder, "There are many of them, including children; they won't be able to move quickly."
The group set off again, this time at a faster pace.
The signs of fighting along the way became increasingly frequent, clearly indicating that the fleeing group was constantly being intercepted.
Before a mountain pass, they discovered a new battle site.
More than ten Konoha Ninja were pinned to the rock wall by ice spikes, each of them having their throats precisely pierced.
Uchiha Itachi stood before the rock wall, his fingertips lightly touching a blood-stained ice spike.
The ice crystals gleamed with an eerie blue light under the sunlight, and their chill was bone-chilling.
"It's Ice Release Ninjutsu," Kakashi Hatake said in a deep voice. "Could it really be Kirigakure Ninja? I wonder how many of them have come!"
Uchiha Itachi did not reply, his gaze following the mountain path.
It's still twenty miles from the coast.
No living Uchiha shall be allowed to leave the Land of Fire.
That would increase the overall strength of other ninja villages and leave Konoha with a huge hidden danger.
Just then...
A Anbu suddenly received a message and came to Kakashi Hatake, saying, "Captain, there's a message from the border garrison."
"Ten miles away, two hundred border troops have already engaged the deserters in battle, but the ninjas providing support include Swift Release, making them very strong. They are about to be overwhelmed!"
Upon hearing this, Kakashi Hatake frowned.
Swift Release? Isn't that Kekkei from Kumogakure? How come it's here?
Could it be that Kirigakure and Kumogakure have joined forces to seize Konoha's Uchiha Kekkei? Are they truly fearless?