A black hole the size of a fist appeared out of nowhere, then quickly expanded.
Sasuke Uchiha's figure flew out from inside.
Looking at the expressionless Sasuke Uchiha, Izayoi simply sensed his emotions and knew the outcome of the battle. He couldn't help but ask, knowing the answer, "He's dead?"
"Yes."
Sasuke Uchiha nodded, but didn't feel the usual satisfaction after killing an enemy.
Glancing at the complicated expression on Itachi Uchiha's face opposite him, Sasuke Uchiha said to Izayoi, "I'm tired. Let's go back."
Izayoi raised his hand and patted Sasuke Uchiha's shoulder, not offering any words of comfort.
"Sasuke..."
Just as Izayoi was about to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Sasuke Uchiha away, Itachi Uchiha's voice suddenly reached their ears.
Izayoi stopped channeling his Chakra and watched Sasuke Uchiha with interest, curious about his reaction.
Sasuke Uchiha took a deep breath, then turned his back to Itachi Uchiha and said coldly, "You traded the clan for my life. Only I have no right to kill you, but... I don't care for your eyes, and I hate the thought of having them. I... will never forgive you!"
"Izayoi, let's go."
"Alright."
Looking at the stunned Itachi Uchiha, Izayoi nodded with a hint of lingering satisfaction, then teleported back to the Hokage's Office with Sasuke Uchiha.
Staring at the spot where the two had disappeared, Itachi Uchiha's mind kept replaying Sasuke Uchiha's words, "will never forgive you."
The spiritual pillar that had kept him alive until now felt as if it had snapped.
*Pfft...*
The hot liquid he had just swallowed surged up his throat again. Itachi Uchiha could no longer bear it and spat out a mouthful of blood.
His already weakened body's vitality and spirit instantly plummeted further.
A pain more intense than death itself would torment this true ninja every minute and every second of the future.
...
"Izayoi-kun, Sasuke, you're back."
Hinata and Karin, who were helping Izayoi with his work, immediately stood up and walked over.
Izayoi nodded, then looked at the downcast Sasuke Uchiha and asked, "Do you want revenge? I can help you."
While the others didn't understand what Izayoi meant, Sasuke Uchiha knew Izayoi was asking if he wanted to retaliate and destroy the families of those who participated in the Night of the Massacre.
Sasuke Uchiha's heart warmed, and he was incredibly moved.
Despite being Konoha's Sixth Hokage, he was willing to help him get revenge. Izayoi's action of siding with him without hesitation brought a sense of comfort to the now very fragile Sasuke Uchiha.
At the same time, he shook his head and said, "No need. I'm not Itachi Uchiha."
Itachi Uchiha could bring himself to harm innocent people who were unaware, but Sasuke Uchiha couldn't do such a thing.
After all, in the original story, when the Konoha ninja cursed Itachi Uchiha, the darkened Sasuke Uchiha still didn't kill them, and even restrained Suigetsu Hozuki from killing indiscriminately.
It was precisely because of this that Sasuke Uchiha would never forgive Itachi Uchiha.
If his choice had been to spare Sasuke Uchiha and let the Root organization slaughter the rest of the clan, including his parents, Sasuke Uchiha would have forgiven him and retaliated without hesitation.
However, Itachi Uchiha's choice was to do it himself.
This was unforgivable!
Sasuke Uchiha had no right to kill him, nor did he have the right to forgive him.
"Even if you don't kill them, you can still punish them," Izayoi said with a smile. "From now on, you'll be Konoha's Anbu Commander, second only to me. Do whatever you want."
Hearing this, Sasuke Uchiha's heart immediately stirred.
He thought of the Uchiha Clan being forced by the Konoha Council of Elders to move out of Konoha's Central Street.
The Central Street, which was originally the Uchiha Clan's grounds, had also been divided up by those people.
Although those people were innocent and unaware, the fact that they had profited from the Uchiha Clan's misfortune was undeniable.
Sasuke Uchiha wanted them to spit out double what they had taken and let them experience the feeling of the Uchiha Clan being targeted by Danzo Shimura.
As if he had found a goal, Sasuke Uchiha finally regained some motivation and nodded to Izayoi, saying, "Okay."
"Go back and rest for a few days. Come back to work after you've recovered," Izayoi patted Sasuke Uchiha's shoulder again and said with a smile, "If you have any worries, you can come and talk to me anytime. If you need help, feel free to come and tell me. Don't overthink things."
"Okay."
Sasuke Uchiha nodded, then as if remembering something, he took out a box made of Wood Release and handed it to Izayoi, saying, "These are that guy's eyes. His eye technique is pretty good. They're for you."
"Alright, I'll take them."
Izayoi accepted the box with a smile.
Hinata had awakened her Exclusive Eye Technique, and Sasuke Uchiha had awakened the Great Sun Spirit. In fact, Izayoi didn't care much about Kamui anymore.
However, he was very pleased that his adopted son had voluntarily given him such precious eyes. He truly hadn't pampered this guy for nothing.
Now that the knot in his heart about the massacre was untied, Sasuke Uchiha would be his primary enforcer from now on.
Once he masters the incredibly powerful Great Sun Spirit with his Mangekyo Sharingan, and then awakens the Rinnegan, Sasuke Uchiha will become Izayoi's first Six Paths Level subordinate.
From now on, any difficult tasks can be offloaded onto this versatile worker.
After leaving the Hokage Building, Sasuke Uchiha didn't immediately go to find Orochimaru. Instead, he first came to Konoha's cemetery.
"Sasuke?"
He had just entered the cemetery and hadn't yet reached the area specifically for burying the Uchiha Clan when Sasuke Uchiha, who was carrying a box also made of Wood Release, heard a familiar voice.
Looking in the direction of the voice, he saw a familiar figure – it was Kakashi Hatake.
"Kakashi, what are you doing here?" Sasuke Uchiha asked in his usual impolite manner.
"I came to visit a friend."
Knowing Sasuke Uchiha's personality, Kakashi Hatake didn't take offense at his student's attitude.
After casually answering, he stared at the box in Sasuke Uchiha's hand, his dead-fish-like right eye narrowing slightly as he asked, "What's in that box...?"
"A head."
Seeming to sense Kakashi Hatake's probing, Sasuke Uchiha didn't hide it either. "It's the head of a traitor from the Uchiha Clan. I'm going to use his head to pay respects to my clansmen."
Hearing this, Kakashi Hatake was immediately very surprised. "Besides Itachi Uchiha and you, there are still survivors from the Uchiha Clan?"
It wasn't surprising that Kakashi Hatake was so shocked, because he was one of the Anbu responsible for cleaning up the Uchiha Clan's area back then.
Not only did he clean up the bodies, but he also had to record the names of the deceased and then check the Uchiha Clan's family tree to see if there were any survivors.
The result was that, except for Itachi Uchiha and Sasuke Uchiha, everyone's name on the Uchiha Clan's family tree had a big red cross through it.
Now, hearing that there was actually a survivor from the Uchiha Clan, Kakashi Hatake was naturally surprised.
Sasuke Uchiha naturally didn't know why Kakashi Hatake was reacting this way.
He just gave a cold laugh and said, "This is a traitor who faked his death to escape, and he was also one of the culprits on the Night of the Massacre."
As expected, Itachi Uchiha wasn't the only one who wiped out the Uchiha Clan!
Kakashi Hatake's eyes narrowed slightly again. Years of confusion were finally cleared up.
Because recently, he had finally mastered the power of his left eye and successfully awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan.
His eye technique was Kotoamatsukami, which was very powerful.
However, this power couldn't be called a dimension-level attack.
On the Night of the Massacre, Itachi Uchiha hadn't even activated his Susanoo. Relying solely on his exclusive eye technique, it would have been impossible to wipe out the Uchiha Clan, which had so many skilled individuals, in a single night.
Sasuke Uchiha's words now confirmed Kakashi Hatake's thoughts.
On the Night of the Massacre, there was indeed involvement from higher-ups.
Thinking of this, Kakashi Hatake looked at Sasuke Uchiha with some concern.
Soon, Kakashi Hatake was even more surprised in his heart.
It wasn't hard to tell from Sasuke Uchiha's words that he already knew the truth about the Night of the Massacre and had even guessed that higher-ups were involved.
Then why is he so calm?
Logically speaking, with his personality, he should have become very extreme.
Could it be because of Lord Hokage?
Kakashi Hatake couldn't help but think this in his heart.
However, it was also a good thing that Sasuke Uchiha hadn't lost control. Kakashi Hatake didn't dare to ask for the reason and could only change the subject, asking, "What is this traitor's name?"
"His name is Uchiha Obito."
Sasuke Uchiha didn't know that Uchiha Obito was Kakashi Hatake's teammate. After leaving that name, he walked towards the Uchiha Clan's area, leaving Kakashi Hatake standing there dumbfounded.
"Obi... Obito... How is that possible?" Kakashi Hatake murmured. "Perhaps... it's just a coincidence of names?"
But Kakashi Hatake knew very well in his heart that it wasn't a coincidence.
Because he had seen the Uchiha Clan's family tree, and among the recent generations of Uchiha Clan members, there was only one Uchiha Obito.
Moreover, after Uchiha Obito sacrificed himself in the Kannabi Bridge Battle, he became a Konoha hero whose name was engraved on the Martyrs' Memorial Stone.
Out of respect for this hero, the Uchiha Clan members hadn't named their descendants Obito.
The Uchiha Obito that Sasuke Uchiha mentioned was the person he thought it was.
Could it be that Obito didn't die?
If he didn't die, then why didn't he return to Konoha?
Such a kind person, why would he wipe out the Uchiha Clan with Itachi Uchiha?
What exactly did he go through?
Or is it that someone is using Uchiha Obito's name to cause trouble outside?
All sorts of questions flooded his mind. With his heart in utter turmoil, Kakashi Hatake instinctively turned and followed behind Sasuke Uchiha, wanting to confirm his suspicions.
Sasuke Uchiha didn't pay attention to Kakashi Hatake following him.
After arriving at the cemetery within the Uchiha Clan grounds, he stood before Fugaku Uchiha's tombstone, placed the wooden box on the ground, and manipulated the Wood Release Chakra within it, causing the box to automatically unlock.
A head, cut in half down the middle and then pieced back together, with a contorted expression, was revealed.
Seeing this head, Kakashi Hatake immediately felt a sense of suffocation, as if he couldn't breathe.
Although so many years had passed, that face was completely different from the youthful appearance he remembered.
But the permanent scar on the left side of the face, caused by the giant boulder and irreparable even with Hashirama Cells and White Zetsu cells, told Kakashi Hatake.
This head was Uchiha Obito, the Uchiha Obito from his memories!
Uchiha Obito, who had been buried under the rocks and whose body was never found, had indeed not died!
Then why hadn't he returned?
What had he gone through all these years, and why had he become like this?
Was he really Obito? Or was this just a Human Puppet?
He didn't know how long it had been, but Kakashi Hatake finally came back to his senses, his voice trembling slightly as he said, "Sasuke, where... where did you find him?"
Hearing this, Sasuke Uchiha, who was speaking to his father in his heart while also apologizing and making promises to his clansmen, frowned slightly and looked at Kakashi Hatake beside him. Just as he was about to scold him, he saw Kakashi Hatake's trembling eyes and copious sweat on his forehead, and couldn't help but be slightly taken aback.
Following Kakashi Hatake's gaze to the head of Uchiha Obito on the ground, Sasuke Uchiha's eyes flashed as he said, "You know this guy?"
"Many people from our generation know him," Kakashi Hatake said without concealment. "Uchiha Obito was, like me, a disciple of the Fourth Hokage, and also a Konoha hero who sacrificed himself during the Kannabi Bridge Battle in the Third Great Shinobi War, his name carved on the memorial stone."
"A Konoha hero? Heh..."
Sasuke Uchiha hadn't expected Uchiha Obito to have such a title and couldn't help but let out a cold laugh. "If those guys knew that the Nine-Tails Attack, which killed the Fourth Hokage, was caused by this Konoha hero, would they dig up his grave to vent their anger?"
Kakashi Hatake's heart trembled, his eyes filled with disbelief. "The Nine-Tails Attack was caused by Obito? How is that possible? How old was he back then? And why would he harm our teacher?!"
"If you don't believe it, then go ask him yourself."
"What do you mean?"
Sasuke Uchiha didn't speak, but activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and then raised his hand to create a Black Hole.
The Black Hole flew into the air and rapidly expanded.
The terrifying Attraction only targeted Sasuke Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake, as well as Uchiha Obito's head on the ground, lifting them off the ground and pulling their distorted bodies into the Black Hole.
In a certain underground base, Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi, who were packing up their things and waiting for Izayoi's instructions, suddenly tensed up.
In front of them, a fist-sized Black Hole appeared out of thin air.
"This is... Space-Time Ninjutsu!" Orochimaru immediately recognized the nature of the Black Hole.
"Is it Lord Izayoi?"
"Impossible, Izayoi-kun doesn't have this kind of Space-Time Ninjutsu." Orochimaru shook his head, his expression serious but not tense.
Because he knew that Izayoi had always been monitoring and protecting him.
As long as he was still valuable, Izayoi wouldn't let him die.
The next second, both Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi showed expressions of shock.
Two familiar figures flew out of the Black Hole.
"Sasuke? And... Kakashi?"
Orochimaru spoke their names.
"Orochimaru?!"
Looking at Orochimaru in front of him, Kakashi Hatake's body instantly tensed up, his expression nervous.
Sasuke Uchiha pointed at the head that flew out of the Black Hole and said to Orochimaru, "Orochimaru, help me Reanimate someone."
Examining Sasuke Uchiha's eyes and then looking at the slowly disappearing Black Hole, Orochimaru seemed to realize something. He couldn't help but stick out his tongue and smirk wickedly, "What incredible eyes, Sasuke. Your eye technique reminds me of Uchiha Obito's eyes."
"You know Uchiha Obito too?"
Sasuke Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake were both slightly taken aback, extremely surprised.
"Of course, after all, Kabuto and I were almost killed by him and the Akatsuki Leader back then," Orochimaru said with a smile. "That guy's eye technique allowed him to become intangible and teleport through space-time, ignoring all terrain and barriers. If it weren't for Izayoi-kun's rescue, I would have died long ago."
"So that's it..." Sasuke Uchiha slightly understood.
Orochimaru looked at the head on the ground, split in two, and subconsciously asked, "Sasuke, do you want me to Reanimate this guy? Who is he?"
"Uchiha Obito," Sasuke Uchiha said the name coldly.
Orochimaru was slightly taken aback, then said with interest, "So this is the face beneath his mask? Meeting you, Sasuke, he certainly didn't die in vain."
Kakashi Hatake looked bewildered.
It seemed like everyone knew Uchiha Obito, and he was the only one who didn't?
Was he really a Konoha ninja?
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