Chapter 133
He could no longer call out his best friend's name.
Because tears had already blurred his eyes.
"The only one I can trust... is you... Please, you must protect Konoha, and protect... the Uchiha Clan's reputation in the Village."
Then.
Uchiha Shisui described the darkness in his heart, the method to awaken the Mangekyo.
Itachi was shocked that his optimistic and cheerful friend had once harbored such a deep, dark side.
"So... the way to awaken the Mangekyo is to personally kill your best friend... This is also the last gift I'm giving you..."
Awaken, Mangekyo, Itachi!
"Ugh..."
Itachi gritted his teeth, trying hard to suppress his sobs.
He raised his hands, trembling as he reached out to his friend.
"Don't be afraid, Itachi."
A gentle smile appeared on Shisui's blood-streaked face.
"I will... always be watching you... from the afterlife..."
"Shisui..."
Whispering his best friend's name, Itachi pushed with all his might.
Shisui... fell from the edge of the cliff.
Ah.
Shisui.
I personally killed my best friend.
Dark thoughts sprouted in his heart, mixing with immense sorrow, and then... forming an unimaginable power.
Just as Itachi felt a new source of power surge through his eyes... "Itachi!!"
His father's furious roar came from nearby.
Accompanied by footsteps, a group of Uchiha Ninjaappeared on the scene... and Uzumaki Naruto.
"Itachi! What exactly have you done~ ~!"
His father's heartbroken, disbelieving face.
And the expressions of the Clan members.
This scene was all taken in by Itachi, who had awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan.
"I didn't expect you would still harm Big Brother Shisui~ ~!"
Naruto immediately changed his expression.
He immediately started wailing.
Seeing Naruto's furious look, Uchiha Inahoimmediately stepped forward and stopped Naruto.
"Naruto! Don't go over there! It's too dangerous!"
Too dangerous... Who is dangerous?
Itachi's mind froze; he hadn't reacted yet.
"Let me go... Damn it! Itachi! Why did you kill Big Brother Shisui~! Wasn't he your best friend~?!"
Naruto's emotional questioning and shouting touched the hearts of everyone present.
Yashiro, Inaho, Tekka... and other Clan members looked at Itachi with disbelief.
Then, someone whispered in fear: "Man... Mangekyo Sharingan..."
At this moment, everyone noticed that Itachi had already awakened the Mangekyo.
Because of the Chimera incident.
Shisui's reputation spread even further.
The members of the Uchiha Clan also learned about the Mangekyo Sharingan because of this.
Now seeing Itachi possess the same eyes, they naturally felt an inexplicable awe.
But the question was, how did Itachi obtain such eyes?
"It's not me!!!"
Itachi, who had realized, immediately shouted loudly.
"I didn't do it! Don't look at me with those eyes!!!"
Itachi's almost hysterical reaction made the Clan members believe even more that he had killed Shisui.
And then.
Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan captured a fleeting 'cruelty' in Naruto's'sad' eyes.
In that instant, Itachi understood.
Ah... it was Uzumaki Naruto!
It turned out to be Uzumaki Naruto!!!
And as the events unfolded, Uchiha Fugaku finally confirmed one thing.
"Itachi..."
His voice carried extreme anger.
"You... indeed killed Shisui!!"
Awakening his eyes due to the death of his best friend.
To gain the Mangekyo, he didn't hesitate to personally push his best friend off a cliff!
"His eyes... He has Big Brother Shisui's eyes in his hand!!"
Naruto alerted everyone.
Itachi had dug out Shisui's left eye.
Everyone looked at Itachi in unison.
Who else could be the culprit holding the warm Mangekyo Sharingan in his hand but Itachi?
A chill ran from Itachi's feet to the top of his head.
Looking at the Mangekyo entrusted to him by Shisui in his hand, Itachi knew that this time, even jumping into the Valley of the End wouldn't clear his name.
Everything, everything, began to connect.
From first meeting Uzumaki Naruto, to the second time... to... all of this made Itachi realize that his feelings were never an illusion.
Uzumaki Naruto... is a born devil!!!
"Itachi, why did you do this?!"
Just then, another group of people appeared.
It was Kakashi, Tenzo, and Yūgao Uzuki.
These members of Anbu Squad Six arrived a little later, looking shocked at Itachi holding the bloody Mangekyo.
"It's not me~! Captain Kakashi! It's not like that... Father, everyone...!"
Itachi's cries were drowned out by the hostile gazes of the people, and he could no longer be absolved... Seeing this scene.
As a mischief-maker.
Naruto's eyes immediately showed a cruel smile.
Delight.
He was overjoyed.
Chapter 77. You Unfilial Son! Arrest the Murderer, Itachi!
Naruto was overjoyed in his heart, watching Itachi fall into hysteria.
The Uchiha Clan's desire for a coup would inherently lead to their destruction.
Because Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi were both double agents.
The Sandaime's idea was to resolve it peacefully, to stall for as long as possible. See the end of the Third Great Ninja War where he didn't demand compensation from Iwagakure, and in the original story, how the Chunin Exams were dragged out until Orochimaru allied with Sunagakure to launch the Konoha Crush.
Utatane Koharu had the hottest temper, and in the original story, she was also the first Konoha elder to jump out and declare that the Uchiha should be annihilated. However, her overly aggressive decision was destined not to receive simultaneous approval from the other three.
Homura Mitokado was relatively cautious, so he would agree to Uchiha Shisui's plan to modify Uchiha Fugaku's thoughts using Kotoamatsukami.
Danzo, the old bastard, was the darkest of them all.
He disagreed with Uchiha Shisui's mind-control plan; for Danzo, Uchiha Shisui's plan was too gentle, not extreme enough.
So Danzo chose to eliminate Uchiha Shisui to facilitate his own relatively extreme plan of... using someone else to do his dirty work, letting Itachi massacre the Uchiha.
Of course, Kotoamatsukami was also involved. After all, as long as this ocular jutsu existed, Danzowould definitely not be able to sleep. So simply killing Uchiha Shisui was the best arrangement.
And in this plan.
The consensus he and Danzo reached was to kill Shisui.
But Danzo greatly underestimated his intelligence.
He thought he was just a 3-year-old child.
He would never have dreamed that he would turn around and use Danzo's plan.
Danzo's original idea was that after killing Shisuiand getting his eyes, he would let Itachi carry out the Clan massacre.
Because once Uchiha Shisui died, no one could stop the Uchiha coup.
The escalating conflict between the Uchiha and the Village, which had become irreversible, could only be severed through such dark means.
And coincidentally, Itachi was the kind of good person who would kill his entire family for the sake of the Village.
He and Danzo hit it off immediately, and a complete annihilation of the Uchiha would surely follow.
Danzo would profit from the conflict, happily acquiring a bunch of Sharingan and the achievement of wiping out the Uchiha.
Unfortunately, Danzo did not anticipate that he would suddenly make a move.
Yūgao Uzuki's role was to inform Kakashi and the others, to have Kakashi and others witness the event. This resolved the possibility of Uchiha Fugaku privately discussing things with Itachi and learning the truth. With Kakashi and the others present, Itachi would inevitably be directly arrested, thus escalating the conflict and giving Itachi no chance to refute.
Hyuga Natsu's role was for positioning. The Byakugan's maximum scanning range of 10 kilometers allowed him to observe the movements of Danzo, Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Itachi... most people. At the same time, the people of the Hyuga Clan are all excellent at calculations. By calculating the timing, and informing Uchiha Fugaku to lead his group there, they would arrive just as Itachi was killing Uchiha Shisui.
The Priestess's role was equivalent to geomancy, asking about good and bad fortune. It's normal to have a major event divined, isn't it? Through her forced activation of future prediction, he ultimately achieved the desired outcome. Uchiha Shisui... was destined to die.
Yakushi Nonou's role was that of a double agent, responsible for transmitting intelligence from Danzo's side to him, so that he could accurately grasp what Danzo intended to do. After all, the Byakugan could only see others' superficial actions; what they were actually thinking still had to rely on this 007-esque female bond.
Besides this, Uchiha Izumi and others also had corresponding roles.
They would appear one by one later, helping to fuel the escalation of this incident.
Naruto thought about these things, and his malicious thoughts grew stronger.
"It's getting darker and darker..."
The Nine-Tailed looked at the again darkened and expanded cage, and couldn't help but think.
This Uchiha boy [Itachi] is truly tragic.