Time ticked by slowly. The clone spent time practicing the leaf concentration exercise in Shisui's backyard after letting itself into his house since no one was there.
Eventually the sun set, dipping below the horizon painting the sky in vivid shades of violet, purple and red.
"Hmm…? To what help might I be of to you Mr…?"
The clone looked up and appeared surprised since he hadn't heard Shisui's footsteps even after he had gotten so close to him.
"What you can call me doesn't matter Mr. Shisui since I have some important news for you." The clone stood up slowly, shaking its head and patting the leaves of its body.
"Hmm?" Shisui's brows raised. "You aren't from the Hokage since you'd have otherwise known that I was out on a mission with my team today… you aren't from the Clan Head since he would've been able to find out about it just as easily… just whose side are you from?"
"Like I said before… that dosen't matter, but if you want to satisfy the curiosity in your heart just think of me as a concerned third party."
"A concerned third party? Regarding what?" Shisui asked calmly, smiling since he was getting slightly used to this enigmatic stranger in front of him.
"Regarding the rift between the village and the Uchiha clan." The clone said softly but the effect was immediate. The words gave rise to a stiff and tense silence between the two.
Shisui's smile turned into a frown and his hands clenched into fists beside himself. "Are you from an enemy shinobi village? Kumogakure?"
The clone shook its head, "I'm not. But listen to me first before you make up your mind that I'm your enemy."
Shisui's frown deepened but his silence gave the clone enough time to speak freely, "The Uchiha are going to be framed once again."
Shisui's eyes widened. "Framed? By who!?" He took a step closer to the clone and pulled out a kunai, ready to act if the stranger in front of him didn't plan on revealing any further.
The clone appeared relaxed since it quickly realised that it had obtained Shisui's full undivided attention.
"Do you know about the attack on Kakashi a month ago?"
Shisui nodded, "Yes, a suspected Uchiha targeted a young boy named Haruto Hayashi in an attempt to draw out Kakashi and attack him."
The clone nodded and continued from there, "That same Uchiha is about to attack the Daimyo. It would do good if you entered yourself in the Daimyo's Shinobi guard to protect him from the attack, otherwise, he'll reveal his sharingan once again and frame the Uchiha in even deeper trouble."
"How do you know all this? Are you working with him? If so, why are you warning me about all this?"
The clone smirked, "You're the most gullible of all of the Uchiha… and given your personality I'm sure you'll act on this information… well if you don't it's no loss to me… but will you be fine knowing that a tragedy that could've been avoided by your hands still occurred regardless?"
"As for how I know all this? Well I have my means… but you can rest assured that I'm not working with that man… anyway… I would keep word of what I've just told you to yourself… if that man even gets a hint as to the fact that you know what he plans on doing, he'll do something even worse. This is your only chance to be one step ahead of him, I hope you don't waste it by being impulsive."
Shisui's activated sharingan spun slowly.
He wanted to put the person in front of him in a genjutsu and make him reveal everything, but there was one thing stopping him.
'Is it wise to anger the person on the other end of this trade?'
After some deliberation, Shisui finally answered that question by blinking away his sharingan. "Tell me more about this man…"
The clone smirked and nodded, "A good choice… as for the man who's framing the Uchiha clan I can tell you a great deal about him, where do you want me to begin?"
"Who is that man? Why does he want to get rid of the Uchiha?" Shisui immediately shot out.
"The man's name is Uchiha Obito… as far as the reason for his hatred against the Uchiha is concerned, it begins with the story of the Ghost of Uchiha."
"The Ghost of Uchiha!?? Uchiha Madara!?" Shisui's eyes widened.
The clone nodded, "Precisely… Uchiha Obito is a vessel for 'His' revenge, 'His' hatred that festered in 'His' heart after 'He' left the village and saw it prosper… Obito was taken away during the third shinobi war after he was crushed under a boulder before his love for the world was turned against him by 'Him', he slowly caused Obito to fall into the darkness and then gave him an imaginary way out, where only by destroying the world would he gain true peace."
"Third shinobi war? But Madara died during the battle in the Valley of the End! Didn't the First Hokage, Hashirama-sama kill Madara there!?"
The clone chuckled, "You're an Uchiha and you're asking me about that? Shouldn't you know that there are ways to live if one is willing to sacrifice a little?"
Shisui's eyes widened, "Izanagi!?"
The clone nodded, "Precisely."
Shisui fell silent. He was feeling several things at this moment, for one he was glad he hadn't angered the other party by using his sharingan, but for another he was terribly confused how the man opposite to him knew all this.
In the end Shisui only frowned and asked the clone a simple question, "What about his powers?"
"Obito awakened the Mangekyou sharingan, much like you did and he awakened the ability to travel through space through an intermediary dimension, his ability is called Kamui. He can teleport any part of his body to this intermediary dimension when he is attacked, pretending to be intangible, like a ghost."
Shisui shivered involuntarily since the man before him even knew that he'd awakened his mangekyou sharingan, a secret that not even the clan head knew. But he suppressed his anxiety about his secrets being revealed and instead focused on the issue at hand.
"Then how does one defeat him? By making him overuse his sharingan?"
"No… he has merged with the first Hokage's cells giving him wood release but also making his mangekyou sharingan behave much like the Eternal Mangeyou Sharingan, so his eyes do not have a limit on how much they can be used… but you're in luck… there is a weakness to his eyes…"
"A weakness?" Shisui inquired, adjusting automatically to the fact that the person before him knew about the eternal mangekyou sharingan, something he'd only learned from his grandfather Kagami.
The clone nodded, "Yes. A weakness… his intangibility can only stay active continuously for about five minutes… after that he'll be forced to deactivate it."
Shisui's eyes widened.
He looked at the man in front of him in a new light, making sure to capture his likeness in his mind to search all information about him in the future so that he could stand before him better prepared.
But suddenly, taking Shisui by surprise, the clone spoke calmly, "That's all for now… I hope you are prepared for the attack that will happen on the Daimyo by accepting a position in his Shinobi guard. Until then… I hope you can stay safe." and then the clone walked right into the kunai before Shisui could react!
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