Fearing that the Uchiha might suddenly revolt, Hiruzen Sarutobi immediately led Jiraiya and a large number of Anbu toward the Uchiha compound.
Qiu Xia, who had been training tirelessly day and night in his own courtyard, sensed the commotion through his paper puppets. He ceased his cultivation and extended his mental perception to observe the situation.
"What is the meaning of this? Are they planning to trigger the Night of the Massacre ahead of time?" Qiu Xia thought. "If that's the case, I won't hold back. Whether it's that old dog Hiruzen Sarutobi or the Anbu and Root he brought with him, I'll slaughter them all. As for whether his death starts a war, what the hell does that have to do with me?"
The Uchiha scouts outside quickly reported Hiruzen's movements to the clan members currently in their meeting. The news agitated the Uchiha even further. Led by the Hawk Faction, they rushed to the compound gates.
Seeing Hiruzen, Jiraiya, and the numerous Anbu waiting outside, Uchiha Huolie, an elder of the Hawk Faction, shouted, "Hiruzen Sarutobi! You brought Jiraiya and all these Anbu here today are you planning to wipe out the Uchiha? Did you think we would just surrender? If so, you're delusional. The Uchiha Clan are not lambs waiting for the slaughter!"
Hearing Huolie's words, Hiruzen replied with an icy expression, "It's not that I want to destroy the Uchiha, but your clan has gone too far. You destroyed the Hokage Rock, killed three elders, and stole that treasure. Any of those is a capital crime. If you hand over the culprit, I might stay my hand."
"A groundless accusation! Konoha can't find the real killer, so you pin it all on the Uchiha. What a convenient scheme," a voice rang out.
Fugaku Uchiha stepped forward and said, "Lord Third, isn't it a bit much to blame these deaths on us? My own son was the first to die. If the killer were one of our own, would they have targeted my son first?"
"Perhaps that is exactly where the killer's cleverness lies," Hiruzen sneered.
"Heh, you're quite the sharp one for an old monkey!" At that moment, a figure walked out from the left of the confrontation.
Most of the people looked at the shadow with confusion, but one man's eyes widened in total disbelief. "It's you... Obito? You're alive!"
"Kakashi, it's been a long time. Is my eye working well for you?"
"Obito, if you're alive, why didn't you return to Konoha? And what did you mean by that just now?" Kakashi asked, staring at Obito Uchiha.
"What did I mean? After I was saved and my wounds healed, I truly wanted to see you and Rin and return to the village. But when I finally found you, I saw a scene that horrified me." As he spoke,
Obito's visible eye turned red. First, the Three Tomoe formed, and then they evolved into a shuriken-like pattern. "Kakashi, I entrusted my right eye to you. Besides celebrating your promotion to Jonin, I hoped you would use it to protect Rin. I never expected you to be the one to kill her."
"Obito, let me explain! At the time..." Kakashi started, but Obito cut him off.
"No need. I don't care about the process. I only know Rin is dead. In a world without Rin, everything is a lie. That is why I want to destroy this world."
On the other side, Jiraiya suddenly realized something. "The Nine-Tails incident back then... were you the one who released it?"
Obito nodded. "That's right. I did it."
Kakashi looked at him, stunned. "Obito, you're insane! Why would you do that? Minato-sensei and Lady Kushina were so good to us. Lady Kushina cared about you so much. Have you forgotten all that?"
Obito's face twisted into a look of madness. "I haven't forgotten. But none of that matters anymore. After Rin died, all I had left for Minato-sensei was hatred. Why didn't the master of the Flying Raijin Jutsu appear when we needed him most? He wasn't there when I had my accident, and he wasn't there for Rin. If he had appeared sooner, Rin wouldn't have died."
"So I hate him, and I wanted revenge. Even though I awakened the Mangekyo and could stand undefeated, I was still slightly lacking against him. So I chose to release the Nine-Tails to distract him. I just didn't expect to still be defeated in that situation."
"Fortunately, Minato and Kushina both died! And their son, named Naruto after Lady Kushina's name, is treated like trash by the villagers every day. I've visited Konoha a few times and considered strangling him, but seeing how miserable his life is, I figured letting him live to suffer is worse than death. So I let him be."
Fugaku Uchiha looked at Obito expressionlessly. "Did you kill Shisui and Itachi as well? They were your kin. Why kill them? They had no grudge against you, and they didn't even know Rin."
Obito sneered. "Simple. Because they became Hiruzen Sarutobi's dogs. Dogs of the Leaf deserve to die. Konoha was created by the Uchiha and the Senju together. Yet, despite being co-founders, all four Hokage have been of the Senju line. Not a single Uchiha. To submit to the Hokage is to prove that the Uchiha have submitted to the Senju."
"If it were just the First or the Fourth, fine. But ever since Tobirama Senju assigned the Uchiha to that Military Police Force an organization destined to offend everyone in the village the Second and his disciples have been suppressing us both openly and secretly.
For instance, while his other disciples lived and became high-ranking officials, Kagami Uchiha, the strongest among them, died on the battlefield."
"So, anyone whose heart belongs to Konoha or the Hokage deserves to die. They're all fools. They're going to die sooner or later anyway; better for me to give them a quick end than for them to be schemed to death or die of their own stupidity."
Fugaku's rage finally reached its breaking point. A "quick end"? His son's death was anything but quick. His eyes had been blown out before he was finished off. There was nothing quick or painless about it.
In his extreme fury, Fugaku's Mangekyo Sharingan was revealed. A mass of black Amaterasu flames ignited at his position. Obito didn't care at all. He simply walked through the Amaterasu flames, which were supposed to incinerate anything they touched. They were completely useless against him.
"Yo, Clan Leader Fugaku. You hid that Mangekyo for over a decade just to be Konoha's dog, and now you finally show it? I guess your son really was important to you. You're so focused on the killer that you don't care about keeping your secrets anymore.
If that's the case, can I assume that if your other dog-son turned his blade against the clan for the village and Hiruzen, you'd just stand by and watch? Or maybe even bare your neck and wait for him to strike?"
Obito's words planted seeds of doubt in the hearts of the other Uchiha. If Fugaku had hidden his Mangekyo for as long as Obito had, showing it only now for a personal vendetta, then perhaps he really would sit idly by while the clan was destroyed for the sake of his son's "dream."
Seeing the looks his clansmen were giving him, Fugaku quickly shouted, "Don't talk nonsense! I only awakened these eyes just now out of pure rage!"
"Do you take yourself for an idiot, or do you think all Uchiha are idiots? Your eyes bleed when you awaken a one, two, or three-tomoe, but you're fine after jumping straight to a Mangekyo? You really treat the Uchiha like morons."
"Konoha treats the Uchiha like idiots, you treat them like idiots, and even those who side with the village are idiots. How interesting."
Hearing Obito's words, those who were loyal to Konoha glared at him fiercely. After all, they had just been called morons.
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