Chapter 33: The Dazed Uchiha Itachi
Sasuke stared blankly at the corpses before him.
Not long ago, they had been smiling and greeting him, warmly calling him 'Little Young Master.'
Even more familiar uncles and aunts had picked him up despite his look of disdain.
He held his head in both hands, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Uchiha Itachi jumped down from a utility pole and walked slowly toward him, blood dripping from the blade in his hand.
"Brother, what happened? Where are Mom and Dad?"
Sasuke looked at him with pleading eyes, clinging to a tiny shred of hope.
"My foolish little brother, to be naive to this extent... you don't even have the qualification to be killed by me."
Uchiha Itachi spoke in an extremely flat tone, "If you want to know where Mom and Dad are, then use your own eyes to see."
Tsukuyomi!
Sasuke's eyes suddenly widened.
The scenery around him changed rapidly.
In a dark and cold world, he saw Uchiha Itachistanding before his kneeling parents, raising his slaughtering blade.
"Don't!"
Sasuke shouted subconsciously.
Blood formed a tragic, beautiful arc.
Two heads rolled to a stop before him.
"Why?!"
Sasuke broke down, tears gushing out.
"Naturally, for the sake of strength."
Uchiha Itachi's voice seemed to float up from hell, "To test the extent of my own strength, and to obtain even greater power."
"You aren't my brother at all! He isn't that kind of person! It's impossible for him to kill Mom and Dad for such a boring reason!"
Sasuke let out a heart-wrenching roar.
"Truly weak. To be unwilling to believe even what you see with your own eyes... escaping will never solve the problem."
Uchiha Itachi's eyes spun once more. ♦︎♦︎⬧︎♦︎◆︎⌧︎♦︎♦︎□︎❍︎
Again and again.
Sasuke watched his parents and clansmen die before him.
At a certain moment, he heard Kyubey's voice.
"Make a contract with me and become a Magical Girl. I can grant you one wish."
A strange aura suddenly surged from Sasuke's body, and a crimson light swirled in his eyes.
A flicker of complexity flashed in Uchiha Itachi's eyes.
"I already understand that you aren't my brother."
Sasuke suddenly stood up.
This was simply incomprehensible within the Tsukuyomi.
"You are a Corrupted Witch who has occupied my brother's body and killed my parents and clansmen."
His face was shrouded in shadow; he had lost his previous loss of composure and become exceptionally calm.
At this moment, his silhouette seemed to overlap somewhat with Uchiha Itachi's.
But Uchiha Itachi was currently somewhat stunned.
What was Sasuke saying?
Why can't I understand?
Could his mind have snapped within the Tsukuyomi, causing him to hallucinate?
In the instant his thoughts turned, the Tsukuyomisuddenly vanished, as if it had never appeared.
How is that possible?!
For the first time, Uchiha Itachi's expression underwent a violent change.
This was power originating from the Mangekyo Sharingan.
It was absolutely impossible for it to dissolve silently like this.
It was as if some deity in the dark had directly forced it to dissipate.
"This is the power of a Magical Girl."
Sasuke saw his expression and smiled mockingly, "Didn't you want to pursue power?"
Uchiha Itachi's pupils constricted violently.
Sasuke, who was originally wearing a black long-sleeved shirt with a standing collar, was now surrounded by starlight.
A mysterious pale blue light enveloped his delicate features.
Vaguely, it actually exuded an overly cute feeling.
Uchiha Itachi's gaze suddenly turned cold.
This was definitely not an illusion.
The Sasuke before him gave him a somewhat feminized feeling.
Magical Girl?
Damn it, what on earth is that?
Get out of my brother's body!
Uchiha Itachi gripped the long blade in his hand, his heart filled with rage.
He was angry!
However, there was someone even angrier and more enraged than him.
"Come on, Witch! Give my brother back to me! Get the hell out of his body!"
Sasuke gripped his sword with both hands and charged toward Uchiha Itachi.
Uchiha Itachi was so frustrated he could spit blood.
He really wanted to shout: "Wake up, I really am your brother!"
But he couldn't, and he had lost the right to do so.
He raised the blade in his hand high.
Sasuke was struck heavily.
His body was sent flying.
Those mysterious lights immediately vanished.
"It's a promise! I will definitely save you! Brother!"
Sasuke gave Uchiha Itachi a weak look before finally sinking into darkness.
"Wonderful, truly wonderful."
A mysterious Ninja wearing a spiral mask suddenly appeared before Uchiha Itachi.
He glanced at the unconscious Sasuke and chuckled, "It seems you've broken your little brother. Magical Girl? Witch? Sounds quite interesting, doesn't it?"
Uchiha Itachi ignored him completely.
His Mangekyo Sharingan scanned Sasuke's body.
Aside from his Chakra having completely vanished, everything was normal.
But everything being normal was the greatest abnormality of all.
The scene just now was hard for him to accept; it wasn't at all the result he wanted.
He wanted Sasuke to carry hatred for him, to strive to become stronger and obtain power.
But what the hell was going on now?!
I... have become a substitute for Uchiha Itachi?
He was dumbfounded.
A faint smile appeared beneath the mysterious Ninja's mask.
It seemed Uchiha Itachi wasn't as calm as imagined.
After all, it was his parents and clansmen.
He looked up and said, "Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura are almost here. Aren't you going to retrieve your parents' eyes? At least keep them as a memento."
Uchiha Itachi nodded expressionlessly.
He had an agreement with Danzo Shimura and knew what he wanted.
Others didn't matter, but he could not let his parents' eyes be desecrated.
He took one last look at Sasuke.
Time was too tight.
He had no way to check what exactly had gone wrong with him.
What exactly was this so-called 'Magical Girl'?
But this power left him somewhat alarmed.
For a mere seven-year-old Sasuke to break free from Tsukuyomi, only a miracle could achieve that.
"I'll wait for you."
The mysterious Ninja stood in place, observing the both strange and familiar Konoha.
That gentle girl surfaced in his mind once more.
A moment later, he said, "Let's go, I'll take you to the Akatsuki Organization."
The two vanished into the night.
Just after they left, Danzo Shimura arrived leading his Root.
Bound in bandages, he showed no surprise at the bloody scene around him; instead, he revealed a smile.
The ground was full of masterless Sharingan.
He waved his hand and said, "Collect all the bodies."
Another ten minutes passed.
Hiruzen Sarutobi and a group of Anbu arrived.
He frowned as he looked at Danzo Shimura.
His gaze carried a warning: do not go too far.
"Hiruzen, it was Uchiha Itachi's doing."
Danzo Shimura sighed, "He has already defected from Konoha."
Since he had gained so many benefits, he naturally had to play the role to the end.
"Except for Sasuke, there are no survivors."
He pointed at Sasuke, who had been placed on a stretcher, and said, "This incident shall be considered the most heinous event in Konoha's history. Hiruzen, how should we deal with Uchiha Itachi?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi was silent for a moment before saying, "As of today, list Uchiha Itachi as an S-rank rogue Ninja and issue a wanted poster across the Ninja World."
The night passed.
The entire Konoha, and even the Ninja World, were shocked by this appalling news.
The powerful and arrogant Uchiha had actually been exterminated.
The one who did it was the Uchiha genius, Uchiha Itachi.
By the time Naruto heard about this, it was already the next morning.
Under the intentional concealment of Uchiha Obito, Uchiha Itachi, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Danzo Shimura, even the Nine-Tailed hadn't noticed.
Let alone him.
Naruto rushed to the Konoha Hospital.
But to his confusion, Sasuke's reaction was not quite what he had imagined.
Seeing the comments from some reader bosses, I'll explain. Considering that the Night of the Massacre is a tragic plot point, I intended to cover it in one chapter, so it might be written a bit roughly with insufficient detail. The summary of this chapter in one sentence is that Sasuke believes Itachi's massacre was due to being possessed by a Witch, while Itachi believes Sasuke was able to escape Tsukuyomi and undergo various strange changes because he was possessed by a Magical Girl. I wrote it this way mainly to innovate, and because I felt Walpurgisnacht and the Night of the Massacre had some similarities. Future chapters will return to the protagonist and his Shadow Clones happily causing trouble. P.S. Sasuke's transformation is a Susanoo transformation, not himself. Since some bosses like gender-bending and others don't, I compromised by using Susanoo.