In the small woods.
Uchiha Sora stood quietly in a clearing.
A figure appeared before him with a swoosh.
"Itachi, you've come." Uchiha Sora greeted him with a smile. The person who had arrived was none other than Uchiha Itachi.
Not long after returning from Fugaku's side, Uchiha Sora had received an invitation to meet from Itachi.
"Yeah, I'm here." Uchiha Itachi nodded slightly, his gaze fixed directly on Uchiha Sora.
"What's wrong?"
"Sora, I asked to meet you here today because I want to talk to you about Big Brother Shisui!" Itachi said in a low voice.
Uchiha Sora's gaze tightened: "Itachi, what do you want to know?"
"How exactly did Big Brother Shisui die?" Itachi asked, word by word.
Sora frowned: "You should have seen his suicide note, right? You should just consider it a suicide!"
"No! I want you to tell me the truth!" Uchiha Itachi's tone was low: "I believe Big Brother Shisui wouldn't commit suicide so easily! There must be a hidden story behind this!"
"Fine! This matter shouldn't be kept from you." Uchiha Sora shook his head helplessly and recounted how Shisui was killed by Danzo.
After listening, Itachi clenched his fists tightly, gritted his teeth, and his eyes turned scarlet: "As expected, Big Brother Shisui didn't commit suicide! This was all their conspiracy!"
Uchiha Sora sighed: "Itachi, those higher-ups in Konoha have long viewed our Uchiha Clan as an eyesore. In my opinion, your father's desire to stage a coup is out of helplessness."
"Indeed! When will the hatred between the clan and Konoha ever be eliminated!" Uchiha Itachi sighed deeply after hearing this.
He looked up at the sky and spoke slowly: "Before coming to find you, the Third Hokage summoned me!"
"He told me that you attacked Danzo's Root Organization and took away a lot of their Ninjutsu materials."
"The Third Hokage has already listed you as a Rogue Ninja and sent me to assassinate you!"
Hearing this, Uchiha Sora couldn't help but be surprised: "Sent you to assassinate me? Itachi, since that's the case, why are you telling me this?"
Uchiha Itachi said softly: "To the Konoha higher-ups, I am just a pawn, but they have ignored that controlling a pawn also carries risks! I cannot stop them from making decisions, and I cannot make my father give up his decision."
"However, I can choose to leave some hope for the clan, and you are that hope!"
"Sora, I think you have long been prepared to leave. I only hope that after you leave Konoha, you will not do anything to harm Konoha again! Otherwise, I will definitely stop you!" Uchiha Itachi's tone suddenly turned cold, and his eyes turned scarlet.
The Three-Tomoe Sharingan rotated rapidly, transforming into the shape of a triangular pinwheel!
Mangekyo Sharingan!
"I will stay! To fight for the last glimmer of opportunity for the Village and the clan!" Uchiha Itachi's Mangekyo gazed at Sora with unparalleled firmness: "Sora, this is my choice!"
Uchiha Sora looked into Itachi's eyes for a long time and sighed: "Fine, since that's the case, let's part ways here!"
After speaking, he turned and left.
Watching Uchiha Sora's departing back, Uchiha Itachi muttered to himself: "Sora, to me, the path you are about to take is my other choice!"
...
After Uchiha Sora left, he couldn't help but shake his head when thinking of Itachi's choice.
Uchiha Itachi was ultimately going to walk the path of personally exterminating his clan.
Actually, in his view, this matter was nothing more than the result of two stubborn people insisting on their own principles, refusing to take a step back.
Uchiha Itachi was loyal to Konoha and hoped to stop the war; he did not want to back down.
Uchiha Fugaku was determined to stage a coup to change the clan's situation and also did not want to back down.
These two, father and son, were both stubborn people; it was very difficult for outsiders to change their minds.
Just like what Uchiha Itachi said after being brought back by Edo Tensei in the original work, they were both people who only wanted to achieve their goals by relying on their own strength.
Strictly speaking, Uchiha Sora was also such a person.
It's just that he wasn't that paranoid.
The main thing was that he never regarded Konoha Village as his home! His sense of belonging to Konoha was not strong.
And whether it was Uchiha Itachi or Uchiha Fugaku, they had already been deeply branded as Konoha Ninja.
Perhaps this was also due to the nature of the Uchiha Clan itself.
The Uchiha Clan is a clan of love; once they lose this love, they become paranoid and terrifying...
"It's really a headache!" Uchiha Sora returned to the island in the Mirror Dimension, told Uchiha Izumi and Hazuki about the matter, and couldn't help but sigh.
Uchiha Izumi and her mother couldn't do anything about it either. Their power was limited, so they could only comfort him: "Sora, no matter what you do, we will always support you!"
"The clan leader has his choice, Itachi has his choice, Sora, your choice is our choice!" The mother and daughter took Uchiha Sora's hands, gazed at him, and said affectionately.
Uchiha Sora nodded slightly; he was very gratified by their support.
"Sora, what are you going to do next?" The three of them sat on the beach of the island, and Uchiha Izumi asked.
"Next, let's build a force first." Uchiha Sora thought for a while and said.
"Build a force? That should be very difficult, right?" Izumi murmured, feeling a bit down.
"What's wrong?" Uchiha Sora gently patted her head.
Her mother, Hazuki, smiled and said: "Sora, Izumi has always wanted to help you, but when she heard you wanted to build a force, she realized that with her strength, she couldn't help at all."
"Izumi, you are still young and have a lot of room for growth. If you want to help me, just work hard and cultivate! I believe you can definitely do it!" Uchiha Sora smiled and comforted her.
"Mm-hmm!" Uchiha Izumi was encouraged by the person she loved and nodded happily.
Uchiha Sora smiled and began to think about how to build the force.
He wasn't building a force to increase his own strength; he mostly just wanted some subordinates who could help him collect intelligence and handle affairs.
Moreover, he had already decided to play properly with Uchiha Obito, and naturally, he wasn't joking with him.
Obito had the Akatsuki Organization, so naturally, he had to set up an organization to play with too.
When the time came, he would specifically target the Akatsuki Organization; just thinking about it made it seem very interesting!
However, before forming the force, Uchiha Sora still had one thing to do.
...
The next day, Uchiha Sora teleported back to Konoha again.
He sensed for a moment, and his brows furrowed.
Because he discovered that overnight, many of the flying thunder god kunai coordinates he had set in Konoha Village had been removed.
"It seems the Third Hokage and Danzo aren't stupid either; they know to search the whole Village and clear my Formula Marks." Uchiha Sora thought to himself.
I'm afraid that in a few days, all the flying thunder god kunai coordinates he had set in Konoha Village would disappear.
The only ones capable of doing this were likely the Hyuga Clan.
After all, Konoha Village was a large Ninja Village. Although the Village was currently extremely declining, even if it was declining, it was not that easy to deal with.
However, although Uchiha Sora could not confront the entire Konoha Village yet, it was still very simple to cause some trouble.
Returning this time was naturally for the Ninjutsu materials in the Third Hokage's study!
It was daytime, and the Third Hokage was working, so he naturally wouldn't be at home.
Therefore, Uchiha Sora walked swaggeringly on the streets of Konoha Village, heading straight for the Third Hokage's house.
Although he had been listed as a Rogue Ninja, it was clear that most people in Konoha did not know this news yet, and perhaps the Third Hokage hadn't even made a public announcement.
So Uchiha Sora walked on the street as usual, and no one came to disturb him at all.
Arriving at the Third Hokage's house, Uchiha Sora flashed directly into the courtyard.
"Who!? This is the Hokage-sama's residence! No trespassing!" Just as he arrived in the courtyard, an Anbu jumped out and blocked him.
"Oh? You don't recognize me?" Uchiha Sora looked at this Anbu with a half-smile.
"You... are Uchiha Sora!?" The Anbu was slightly stunned, and then his tone changed drastically as he shouted to the surroundings: "Bad! Go notify Hokage-sama!"
Bang!
However, just as he finished speaking, he was struck by Uchiha Sora with an elbow, knocked to the ground, and fainted.
With Uchiha Sora's current body, under constant automatic cultivation, both his strength and physique had surpassed those of adult Ninja.
Even his strength was developing in the direction of super strength.
This was the benefit of the endless, automatic cultivation state!
As time accumulated, Uchiha Sora's attributes in all aspects would enter a superhuman realm.
The other Anbu reacted and hurriedly surrounded Uchiha Sora.
"Genjutsu! Binding Technique!"
Uchiha Sora opened his Sharingan, and with a sweep of his gaze, the Anbu who rushed up froze in place, unable to move.
He then strolled into the Third Hokage's study secret room and began to search.
In the secret room of the Third Hokage's study, there were a large number of Ninjutsu scrolls, secret technique materials, and various strange knowledge.
This time, Uchiha Sora wasn't as cautious as last time, just looking through and copying a few Ninjutsu.
He directly activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, hugged a pile of Ninjutsu scrolls and materials, and teleported them to his Mirror Dimension without even looking.
Teleporting back and forth dozens of times to empty the entire secret room only took a short while.
It was only then that the Third Hokage arrived late.
Bang!
With a muffled sound, the door of the study was knocked open, and the Third Hokage's old, angry face appeared in front of Uchiha Sora.
"Uchiha Sora!" He looked around the study and found that the bookshelves, which were originally stuffed full, were now empty.
He was shocked and angry, his old eyes staring fixedly at Uchiha Sora, and he roared: "You are simply too much! What exactly do you want to do!?"
Uchiha Sora laughed first, then his face tightened, and he said coldly: "Third Hokage, are you qualified to say I'm too much? Stop the hypocrisy! I feel sick just looking at your face!"