[The story ofUchiha Itachi!]
My perception shifted, I was still looking at a panicked Sasuke who was piecing together all the information, the place where we arrive was similar to where I had the conversation with Itachi…
"It seems you recognize this place Sasuke?"
My statement shook him out of his thoughts as he stared at my Sharingan…
'Is he just gonna stare...'
It was my first time seeing Sasuke speechless before he grunted and said, "Why have you brought me here?"
'I guess he is still on the fence about whatever I said… and the shock at seeing another Sharingan user… he has matured a lot though, asking sensible questions instead of accusing...'
"To show you something..." I started constructing the world around us until we both are in the scene where the masked man tells me about the story of Itachi…
"This doesn't make it true..." He was staring at me and clearly looking at the scene in front of him with distrust…
"I know but it made me look deeper into the matter..." The next memory shown was me and Shikaku-san digging deep into the ANBU records, I displayed the contents clear for him to see…
"These records show that there was indeed a divide between the Uchiha clan and Konoha..." After that, I showed him the memory of when I first met Danzo up until he used Katoamatsukami on me and I fell down…
"Here Danzo used Katoamatsukami on me to make me agree to the engagement… I broke out of the jutsu once I activated my Mangekyou Sharingan for the first time..."
"Hn..." Sasuke went into his thoughts so I left him alone and let him form his own theories… I couldn't sense his emotions inside the Tsukuyomi so I just had to look for any slip up in his facial expressions…
"This still doesn't clear Itachi of his crimes..." He was still struggling at having his whole reality shifted…
"This doesn't but this does..." I replayed my talk with Itachi in the Tsukuyomi as we both agreed to perform the operation…
Sasuke stood still at seeing his brother calm and not at all like a mass murderer… his eyes almost popped out at seeing his brother smile as he reeled at the discoveries…
I released the Tsukuyomi as our consciousness arrive back in the real world… blood was dripping from my right eye and I wiped it away as Sasuke sat down…
'Let's see your reaction then… I may lie to you a little bit Sasuke but it will be for your own good...'
"What happened after that..." He was looking confused and shaken as I sat down next to him…
"I implanted my eye into his to break him out of the genjutsu… you see in my left eye, I awakened the same power that was used on Itachi and me… because of that I was able to break out of Danzo's control and also help Itachi out of it… Itachi was indeed placed under the genjutsu and we immediately reported the situation to Tsunade-sama… as I am the only one immune to the mind control genjutsu I was tasked to lead a team to finish off Danzo… as you were the one who was wronged the most by him, I wanted to ask you if you want to be a part of the team?"
I leaned against the stone as Sasuke thought for a second before saying, "When do we begin?"
I almost wanted to smirk but I kept my face neutral and said, "Meet me here at midnight… get ready to fight to the death, he likely has a brainwashed army ready to welcome us..." He nodded and started to walk away before asking, "What about Itachi? Where is he?"
'Heh… lowkey you still want your brother back, don't you...'
"He went back to spy to Akatsuki to gather as much information as possible..." I could sense his emotions turn annoyed as he started walking away…
I waited for a bit before Kakashi-san arrived in front of me with a shunshin, "That was the full story?"
"All that he needs to know..." I turn towards Kakashi-san who was giving me a disapproving look…
"Do you have any information about Danzo's whereabouts? Any information would do, even though going through many ANBU records there is very little mention of Danzo..."
Kakashi-san stared at me for a moment before speaking, "are you sure you want to deal with this with just 3 people?"
'I guess I can ask Taichou to deal with them. but if Danzo manages to capture them in Katoamatsukami then it will be more difficult to handle...but I don't know if he has access to wood release or not...'
"Yeah… I don't want the situation to get out of control, I just want a short party that can steamroll average Jounin's at a very fast pace..."
He nodded and said, "Alright then, I have a basic idea where Danzo is and who are the people guarding him… we'll discuss this later at midnight..." He waved and an eye-smile later. used shunshin to travel out of the place…
'I don't like lying to Sasuke, but I don't want him to misunderstand Itachi's sacrifice… Time heals all wounds, in the past year he has matured a lot...'
I think back to the day Danzo manipulated me into accepting the marriage…
'I guess you played the wrong hand this time...Danzo'
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I went back home and told mom about an urgent mission and I need to go outside the village for several weeks…
'...wait if he can manipulate Itachi freaking Uchiha to spy only for him, then he can surely use the same genjutsu on mom and dad, to track my whereabouts???'
I felt like I am getting more and more paranoid but I still fed mom a lie about going out of the village before making a shadow clone who proceeded to make way towards the village outskirts…
I on the other hand walked to a nearby shadow and manipulated it with chakra…
'Shadow Transportation Jutsu'
I walk out of the treeline on top o the Hokage mountain and started scanning for any nearby presences…
'Hmm… two tails on Sasuke… and they seem to be part of Danzo's army, no emotions whatsoever… maybe they know when he is going to meet me so they don't tail him then as to not get discovered… they didn't know this time and got caught? Whatever… we need to get rid of them first...'
'Shadow Transportation Jutsu'
'Chakra Scalpel Jutsu'