Chapter 80: Shisui Returns To The Village, Itachi Uchiha Awakens His Eyes【fourth Update, Seeking Subscriptions】
Konohagakure, Uchiha Compound.
The clan head’s residence echoed with Uchiha Fugaku’s hearty laughter: “Hahahaha, as expected of my son!”
Fugaku looked at the pair of scarlet two-tomoe Sharingan eyes of the returning Itachi Uchiha, his face full of pride.
He completely failed to notice his son’s subdued emotion and the gloom surging in his eyes.
Itachi Uchiha, who had just returned from a mission, had bloodshot eyes, his mind repeatedly replaying the scenes of his teammates and teacher being killed.
Especially the image of Tenma charging forward to protect him, shouting for him to run as blood sprayed everywhere.
Just a few days ago, they had been catching cats together, and Itachi Uchiha had been accepted by Tenma and Kokoro, with the three becoming friends.
Now, only he survived from this squad.
Under the extreme fear and the emotional stimulation of his teammates and teacher dying, Itachi Uchiha awakened his two-tomoe Sharingan, which also allowed him to see that Tiger Masked Man, with a scarlet Sharingan in the pupil of his single visible eye.
However, he didn’t understand why there would be a Uchiha clansman wandering outside, who would mercilessly kill Konoha ninjas!
Uchiha Fugaku was still laughing.
After all, Itachi was already eight years old, and for a genius of this age, not having awakened the Sharingan yet would be very concerning.
His father’s piercing laughter made Itachi Uchiha clench his fists tighter, emotions surging in his heart, not understanding what was worth celebrating about this pair of eyes gained from the deaths of his teammates and teacher?
Whoosh—
An Anbu ninja suddenly appeared on the courtyard wall: “Fugaku Clan Head! Hokage-sama urgently summons you to Konoha Hospital!”
“Hm? Konoha Hospital?” Uchiha Fugaku’s smile froze, his brows furrowing as he asked: “Can you tell me roughly what it’s about?”
“You have qualification to know.” The Anbu ninja lowered his voice: “Shisui Uchiha’s mission failed, and he returned injured.”
Shock!
The air in the courtyard instantly froze, Uchiha Fugaku’s expression turning grave, while Itachi Uchiha also suddenly looked up.
Shisui!
One of the top experts of the Uchiha Clan actually failed his mission and was injured?!
“I’ll head there immediately.” Fugaku’s expression became grave.
After the Anbu ninja left, Fugaku caught a glimpse of his son’s trembling lips with his peripheral vision and said to him: “You rest well at home first. I’ll go check on Shisui.”
Itachi Uchiha wanted to say something, but his raised hand suddenly stiffened in place.
In the end, he could only say dejectedly: “Yes, Father.”
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Konoha Hospital.
Uchiha Fugaku followed the Anbu ninja’s earlier instructions and went straight to a ward on the third floor.
After knocking on the ward door, the voice of the Third Hokage came from inside: “Come in.”
Fugaku pushed the door open and entered. In the clean white ward, Shisui Uchiha lay on the hospital bed with his left eye wrapped in gauze bandages. The air was filled with the smell of disinfectant and a faint blood scent.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, wearing the Hokage hat and miko robe, sat on a chair by the bed, his expression grave.
“Fugaku, you’ve arrived.” Hiruzen Sarutobi slightly raised his head, looking at Fugaku.
“Clan Head…” Shisui weakly called out from the bed, trying to prop himself up.
Fugaku stepped forward to hold Shisui down, then sat on the chair opposite.
“Hokage-sama.” Fugaku looked at Shisui, who was so weak on the bed, and stared at his left eye wrapped in gauze: “Shisui’s eye…”
“It was gouged out by the enemy.” Shisui said softly.
Fugaku’s pupils contracted slightly!
What kind of enemy could gouge out Shisui’s eye?!
“Who was the enemy?” Fugaku lowered his voice and asked solemnly.
When has the Uchiha Clan ever suffered such humiliation!
“This is also the reason I called you here… Fugaku.” The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, opposite him sighed.
What did that mean?
Uchiha Fugaku looked puzzled at the Third Hokage, whose face was full of grave expression.
“The enemy from Hoshigakure…” Shisui looked at Clan Head Fugaku with his remaining right eye and recounted their encounter: “There was a Uchiha clansman who had awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan.”
When the last few words were spoken, Fugaku was completely stunned.
A Uchiha bloodline wandering outside, and one who had awakened the Mangekyo at that!
“Are you sure? Shisui!” Even though Shisui said it himself, Fugaku still couldn’t quite believe it.
Shisui nodded from the bed: “She appeared about my age, but she was very strong, so strong that in the first clash with our mission squad, Senior Shirakumo and Senior Hyuga were defeated.”
“Even after I activated my Sharingan and fought her, I was completely suppressed!”
Recalling that terrifying dark red giant pressing down like a mountain, forcing him to retreat step by step, Shisui’s right eye pupil still trembled slightly.
“If her teammates hadn’t been tied up with Stone Village ninjas, giving me the chance to lure the tiger away from the mountain and escape, perhaps none of us three could have returned safely.”
Although Shisui didn’t detail the battle, Fugaku had already imagined how perilous the fight must have been.
“What is her name?” After hearing the battle details, Uchiha Fugaku asked seriously.
Shisui opened his mouth, his right eye looking complexly at Fugaku: “She calls herself ‘Nameless,’ and said she was once a weapon of the Uchiha Clan, but was abandoned by the Uchiha Clan, so she harbors great hatred toward the Uchiha Clan.”
Nameless? Weapon? Abandoned?
These words linked together left Fugaku baffled, his arms crossed over his chest, brows deeply furrowed.
Such a powerful Uchiha clansman couldn’t possibly be unknown, let alone abandoned by the Uchiha Clan.
At this thought, Fugaku looked up and met the Third Hokage’s gaze.
He immediately understood the reason the Third Hokage had called him.
Thus, Fugaku immediately explained: “Hokage-sama, since I took over as clan head, every Uchiha who awakened their eyes has been in Konoha. Even those Uchiha who married out, if their children awakened, they would be brought back to the clan territory.”
Fugaku emphasized that it was since he became clan head.
Then, Fugaku raised another possibility: “However… whether that lord took other clansmen when he left back then is unknown.”
Although Fugaku only referred to him as ‘that lord’ without naming him, Hiruzen Sarutobi naturally knew it referred to Uchiha Madara, who had once founded Konohagakure together with the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.
“I believe you.” Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed, then added a piece of intelligence.
“Besides this Uchiha girl, there was also someone suspected to be a remnant of the Uzumaki Clan.”
“Uzumaki Clan!” Fugaku recalled Kushina, who died in battle a few years ago, and the First Hokage’s wife, Lady Mito Uzumaki.
Yet the Uzumaki Clan had been extinct for over a dozen years. These two wandering Uchiha clansmen and Uzumaki clansmen?
What kind of combination was this!
Hiruzen Sarutobi’s aged voice was somewhat hoarse: “The situation in Hoshigakure is much worse than I imagined.”
“Based on Shisui’s judgment, the mastermind behind Hoshigakure’s rebellion is so powerful that it’s no longer something one or two ninja squads can handle. At least a war would be needed.”
And whether Konoha, Sand Village, or Stone Village, none had the capability to wage war in the short term.
