bookbashuk Chapter 204 Brother kills, brother saves—you're playing tricks!
Chapter 204 Brother kills, brother saves—you're playing tricks!
At dawn, a crow flew into the Hokage Building's office.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, who hadn't slept all night, smoked pipe after pipe, but still couldn't quell his exhaustion.
"Gaga~!"
However, as the two slightly shrill cries of crows rang out, Hiruzen Sarutobi became much more awake.
"They've finally arrived. I knew Itachi was a staunch supporter of the Will of Fire. If anything happened, he would definitely have told me."
As he spoke, he excitedly waved his hand, summoning the crow to his desk.
"Bang!"
With a muffled thud, the crow burst open and transformed into a letter.
Hiruzen Sarutobi opened the letter and began to read it.
In the letter, Itachi recorded everything that happened last night.
First, it describes how he slaughtered the entire Uchiha clan, then it describes how Uchiha Shisui was resurrected, and finally it describes how he fought Shisui, who had lost his eyes, and how Shisui reawakened his Mangekyou Sharingan. In the end, he was defeated and fled Konoha.
He recorded the entire process in great detail, and combined it with the two Susanoo he had seen in the Uchiha clan's territory the day before, which basically confirmed the authenticity of the contents of the letter.
At least, there is good news now: the members of the Uchiha clan are indeed dead, rather than the entire clan defecting.
This is absolutely the best news so far. If the Uchiha clan had defected as a whole, Konoha would have been in trouble once they settled down.
They will face the retaliation of a superpower.
Despite having many ninja clans in Konoha, these clans are not united with the village, or rather, they are not united with the Hokage.
If the Uchiha clan were to spread the word that their only targets for revenge were him and Danzo, he estimated that none of the other ninja clans would come to his aid.
Hiruzen Sarutobi put down the letter and took a deep drag on his cigarette.
"Uchiha Shisui who came back from the dead? I didn't expect him to be resurrected as well. First it was Uchiha Madara, then Uchiha Izuna, and now Uchiha Shisui. Is someone constantly resurrecting members of the Uchiha clan?"
"Will those corpses that were taken away one day be resurrected like Uchiha Shisui?"
The thought that one day all the dead Uchiha would be resurrected sent chills down Hiruzen Sarutobi's spine.
"No, that can't be. If that were the case, then it's impossible that only a few people have been resurrected so far."
Hiruzen Sarutobi took deep drags on his cigarette, but no matter how much he smoked, he couldn't alleviate the sorrow in his heart.
Now that the Uchiha clan is gone, but their wealth remains unacquired, how can Konoha overcome its current predicament?
"How about we choose another ninja clan?"
The thought flashed through the minds of several families in an instant.
But in the end, he shook his head.
"No, Konoha has already lost one Uchiha clan; we can't afford to lose any more ninja clans."
So now we have to think of another way.
While Hiruzen Sarutobi in Konoha was worrying about money, the atmosphere in the Land of Grass was rather heavy.
Under Izuna's command, the surviving Uchiha clan members held a funeral for the deceased Uchiha clan members.
Young Sasuke clung tightly to Shisui's hand, hiding behind him, too afraid to face the other members of his clan.
After all, this morning, Izuna had gathered all the clan members and told them the truth: Itachi Uchiha had personally slaughtered the Uchiha clan.
This was something the survivors couldn't accept. That was their respected young clan leader, the Uchiha genius on whom they had placed their hopes.
Why has it turned out this way? What is the reason?
Their hatred for Itachi Uchiha eventually shifted to Sasuke Uchiha, the second young master of the clan head's family and the younger brother of the murderer who slaughtered the entire Uchiha clan.
Although they knew that Itachi Uchiha was Itachi Uchiha and Sasuke Uchiha was Sasuke Uchiha, none of them were saints and could not help but take their anger out on others.
Moreover, the Uchiha clan, whose emotions are more easily agitated, are even more prone to such behavior.
Young Sasuke Uchiha still couldn't accept this fact, but even if he didn't accept it, there was nothing he could do.
He had witnessed his own brother kill all his clansmen, especially his mother and father who died in front of him.
The images from that night kept flashing through Sasuke's mind, filling him with a deep sense of despair and helplessness.
He started trembling involuntarily.
Feeling the little hand he was holding trembling, Shisui knelt down and hugged Sasuke.
Sasuke held Shisui tightly, as if only in this way could he feel at ease.
Shisui gently patted Sasuke's back to comfort him.
"It's alright, Sasuke. It's not your fault. It's Itachi who's at fault."
“Brother Shisui, but why did my brother, no, why did Itachi Uchiha do that?”
"I don't know either. Perhaps the only way to find out the answer to this question is for you to ask him yourself."
In the pavilion not far away, Tetsuya and Tobirama watched everything unfold before them.
"So, Tobirama, what are your thoughts on seeing this today? Are you happy?"
Tobirama shook his head.
"Tetsuya, when are you going to stop being so sharp-tongued?"
"Haha, I don't call this poison, I call this the penetrating power of language. The best language is the language that can reach people's hearts directly."
Hearing Tetsuya's words, Tobirama was speechless.
However, he quickly changed the subject and asked.
"Tetsuya, can you revive these members of the Uchiha clan just as you revived me and Izuna?"
"It's possible to revive them, but I don't plan to do that; it's far too inefficient."
"Do you have other ways to resurrect others?"
"That's right, there are quite a few ways in this world to resurrect someone."
Tetsuya looked at Uchiha Sasuke, whom Shisui was holding, and in his mind, he had already arranged the script for Sasuke.
"Don't you think that the task of reviving the Uchiha clan should be done by that child?"
Tobirama looked at Sasuke and immediately frowned.
"Uchiha Sasuke, isn't that Uchiha Itachi's younger brother? You plan to send him to revive these Uchiha clan members?"
"Yes."
Tetsuya said with a smile.
"Don't you think it's interesting to have the younger brother of the murderer who slaughtered his entire clan resurrect those who were killed by his brother?"
Tobirama rubbed his temples and said in a somewhat complicated tone.
"You're a genius, Tetsuya, to have the murderer's younger brother resurrect the people his older brother killed."