The scene shifts to a few days later, and Uchiha Shisui, who had not appeared for a long time, makes another appearance, squatting on the ground, making fire with a stick.
While diligently working with his hands, he also constantly paid attention to the older students, cheering on Obito.
After Shisui started a flame, he helped Inuzuka Hana check her wood and found that the reason it wouldn't light was that it was damp, so he took her to another spot to gather firewood.
[Baby Shisui!]
[It's over! Given the current situation of the Uchiha, can the camera focusing on our Shisui be a good thing?!]
[Obito is here too? The uchiha three brothers just formed, and now it's just the two of them...]
[You in front, open the door, I'm delivering a package.]
[Holy crap, the official pairing is out? And childhood friends!]
[It's quite rare for the Inuzuka Clan and Uchiha to be friends.]
[Did I guess wrong? Is the next part a story of young kids' puppy love?]
The audience thought they would see a beloved childhood friends plot, but the two children lost one of their companions as soon as they arrived at the location.
The gloomy forest, the silently disappearing companion, the gaze peering from the shadows, combined with the animator's eerie sound effects, gave the audience a real fright.
Although Shisui keenly realized something was wrong, even secretly activating his Sharingan, he was still taken down in three or four moves by a Ninja dressed as an Anbu member who suddenly appeared.
The camera mimicked Shisui's perspective, tilting, blurring, with shadows slowly closing in from the edges towards the center.
Before the screen went completely black, a figure rushed from further away.
[Damn, The Old Thief is so inhumane.]
[I thought I was watching a school romance, but it turned out to be a horror movie.]
[What the hell is Konoha trying to do?!]
[Is that even human, to lay hands on children! Shisui is still so young!]
[Hiruzen Sarutobi prefers to cut meat with a dull knife, boiling a frog in warm water. Someone so aggressive and arrogant is probably only Danzo.]
[This is bullying the Uchiha to death.]
[Forcing them into rebellion so they can be purged, huh? Truly sinister.]
Drip, drip... In the silent, enclosed space, the sound of dripping water was incessant.
Shisui slowly awoke from unconsciousness. His surroundings were pitch black; even with his Sharingan, he couldn't see anything.
The audience, however, had a god's-eye view, but the scenes shown were adjusted by the animator to a grey-blue tone, indicating it was pitch black.
With his hands and feet bound and no vision, Shisui struggled to explore his surroundings, inadvertently waking Inuzuka Hana, from whom he learned that she too had been ambushed and knocked out.
Inuzuka Hana, displeased with her performance, kicked her legs, only to accidentally hit another person.
The camera then showed Uchiha Obito, also tied up, and played back the entire process of him witnessing the two children being kidnapped.
Obito, driven by a surge of passion, jumped up and rushed forward recklessly, but only managed to get himself captured as well, leaving the audience in a state of amused exasperation.
[They're not even sparing the Inuzuka. How dare Danzo be so bold? Is he not afraid that other Ninja Clans will side with the Uchiha?]
[He's really not afraid. Siding with the Uchiha requires too much consideration; no Ninja Clan would easily switch allegiance.]
[It's Obito, I guessed right!]
[If not Obito, could it be Naraku?]
[You in front, I'm going to assassinate you.]
[Brother Obito is really putting his life on the line for his younger siblings; he actually dared to charge in.]
[Alright, now we can see, Obito charged in! Obito is performing a normal attack!...Obito called GG!]
The next episode opens with a chaotic Uchiha Clan Compound.
News of the five missing children had already spread throughout the Uchiha, impossible to suppress. The Clan Compound was brightly lit, with every household's lights on, deeply worried for the lost children.
The Uchiha gathered below The Police Force building, angrily denouncing Konoha with pained expressions. Several parents of the victims stood at the forefront, some too distraught to stand, knowing their children were likely in grave danger.
Fugaku stood in his office on the top floor, knowing it was time for him to make the final decision.
The Uchiha, knowing Konoha was behind everything but lacking evidence, had two choices:
Either accept their fate, break their own backbone, bury their heads and endure all this malice, barely surviving until their clan's demise;
Or, without concrete evidence, directly rise up against Konoha, bear the infamous name of rebellion, and perish together.
But no matter what they did, they couldn't escape the dead end.
--In fact, there was no choice at all.
Fugaku knew perfectly well that the Uchiha were stubborn and refused to bow down.
--Never surrender!
--Even if we die, we'll drag Konoha down with us!
As the Clan Head, Fugaku had long been mentally prepared for death.
The entire Uchiha Clan would follow his footsteps, proudly embarking on this path of no return tonight, gladly walking towards an immensely tragic end, without regret.
Three tomoe appeared in his eyes, rotating around his pupils.
He turned around and saw his wife, tears streaming down her face, caressing her abdomen, where their child was.
That child had carried the couple's hopes for many days; now, it was to die before even being born.
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