(Relax—Madara's just humble-bragging. When we get to "Susanoo with no eyes," the new gen is going to short-circuit.)
Itachi said nothing.
This sky-screen would spill every buried truth sooner or later.
When that happened… what then?
[Kakashi Hatake]: Sasuke—breathe.
[Sasuke Uchiha]: …
[Obito Uchiha]: Hmph. Konoha's hypocrisy never ends.
[Minato Namikaze]: Obito…
Watching Danzo's moves play out, Hashirama's brows furrowed; Tobirama's face darkened.
As for Madara? He didn't spare the clan a glance.
Back then he'd offered the Uchiha a path—follow him out of Konoha.
He walked past the village gates alone.
[Tobirama]: Monkey, if Danzo stooped this low, why didn't you stop him?
[Hiruzen]: Sensei… I…
[Izuna Uchiha]: You "I don't know," my foot—finally unmuted!
[Itachi]: Lord Ancestor Izuna… please.
[Izuna]: Please what? Why were we wiped out?
[Fourth Raikage A]: Hahahaha—bring me the popcorn!
[Orochimaru]: Heh… old man, indecisive as ever.
[Tobirama]: Monkey, Orochimaru messaged me—
Hyūga clan head killed several Cloud operatives, and to placate them you paid "compensation"?
[Hiruzen]: Orochimaru… you traitor!
[Hashirama]: Monkey, is this true?
[Hiruzen]: It was… unavoidable at the time, Lord First.
[Tobirama]: …Haa.
Tobirama wasn't blind to context; Konoha's coffers had been thin.
Still—the First Hidden Village, reduced to this?
Down in the forest, Danzo's voice was frost.
"Even if you bewitch them, as long as the Uchiha exist, suspicion will not die."
Shisui could not sway him.
Danzo surged forward—for Shisui's eyes.
For a heartbeat, Danzo fell—caught in genjutsu.
Root panicked, kunai flashing in a storm.
Shisui, mid-rotation from one clash to the next, missed it—
the switch from death to dream: Izanagi.
Danzo rose inside the lie, seized an opening—
and tore one eye free.
White-hot pain detonated behind Shisui's brow.
He snapped a smoke bomb and dropped away, sprinting through boughs, breath ragged.
A hiss—sleep gas. He inhaled just enough; the world smeared at the edges.
"Damn…"
Root closed in.
And then—chakra howled.
SUSANOO.
An emerald ribcage erupted above the treeline.
Shockwaves punched the leaves inside-out; the night went day-bright.
"Susanoo Ninety-Nine!"
Light lanced from the chest like a cannon—
and through the clearing stepped a giant of green, armor unfurling in plates.
Root operatives fell like wheat to scythes of luminous chakra.
Everywhere, jaws dropped.
[Ōnoki]: That… that's Susanoo!
Memories of Madara's pressure rolled over the old Tsuchikage like thunder.
[Fugaku Uchiha]: I have… one complaint.
[Sarada]: Grandpa?
[Fugaku]: Shisui, you planned to cast Kotoamatsukami on me? Why not control Hiruzen and save us all the trouble?
[Shisui]: …
[Boruto]: Yeah, why not Grandpa Hiruzen?
[Naruto (adult)]:Cough. Son, dial it down.
[Izuna]: Can you people focus? He just popped Susanoo with one eye!
[Madara]: Shisui's talent may… surpass even mine.
(Again: humble-brag. Later you'll see no-eye Susanoo, and the kids will faint.)
[Minato]: Incredible… Between Susanoo and Kotoamatsukami, Shisui's strength borders Super-Kage.
[Yuino Iwabe]: The Uchiha are… terrifying.
[Denki Kaminarimon]: No wonder the village restricted their records…
All eyes slid to Sarada—then away, chastened.
They'd been small. The Uchiha had been vast.
Across the clearing, Root stared, stunned, at the emerald titan's blade.
Shisui staggered inside the armor, breath sawing; the spectral plates began to flake away.
Root shifted, sensing the end—
when a fire dragon raked the ground, incinerating the ring.
Itachi caught Shisui and bore him to safety.
"Weren't you on a mission?" Shisui rasped.
"I had a bad feeling," Itachi said, eyes tight.
"Figures…" Shisui's smile was a thin curve. Sun leaked through the canopy; everything else was dark.
"I'm sorry. I've… made a mess of it."
The coup now looked inevitable.
Shisui's thoughts slid toward a cliff's edge.
If even he, the strongest among them, fell to Konoha's hand…
what chance did the rest of the clan have?
At the precipice, he pressed his remaining eye—his Mangekyō—into Itachi's keeping.
Grief hammered Itachi's chest—then fractured.
At twelve years old, Itachi Uchiha awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
The picture froze on the wet shine of a single tear.
[System]:Shisui Uchiha — segment complete.
[System]: Drawing the next subject…
Somewhere unseen, paper rustled like wings.
An ancient chakra stirred—as if amused.
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