Chapter 101: Obito: Do You Know, I Am Uchiha Madara?
Thump!
After Itachi pulled out the short sword, the old woman fell directly to the ground, a puzzled expression still on her face, though her cloudy pupils were already starting to lose focus.
Before dying, she saw the face of the person collapsed by the door.
"Old man..."
As if a final flicker of life, she struggled to reach out towards him.
But the next second.
Thump.
The short sword mercilessly pierced her chest again.
This time, her eyes dimmed. Her outstretched hand fell limply, completely losing all signs of life.
"There should be one more child..."
Uchiha Itachi, who caused all this, his face without a ripple of emotion, walked calmly upstairs.
According to ANBU intelligence, besides the two elderly people, this family should have one more child.
But three minutes later, Uchiha Itachi walked out of the house, frowning deeply.
He had searched everywhere but couldn't find the child called "Xiao Cheng".
Could he have gone to a neighbor's house to play?
Thinking this, Itachi shifted his gaze to the perfectly normal house next door. His figure moved, silently arriving at that household.
This time, he didn't rush to eliminate the family, instead pressing his ear to the wall, listening to the movements inside.
"Honey, isn't Xiao Xing back yet?"
"He went out to play with Inabi again. But it is indeed a bit late today."
Inabi? Out to play?
The couple's conversation inside made Itachi's heart suddenly sink.
The next moment, he directly burst into the room.
"Ah! Who are you?!"
"Uchiha Itachi, what are you doing?"
The screams didn't last long before abruptly ceasing.
BOOM!!
Scarlet blood splattered on the window. A blood-drenched corpse flew out from the room, crashing heavily onto the ground.
The corpse's expression was utterly terrified, but it had already lost all signs of life.
Click!
The door opened. Uchiha Itachi walked out, holding a dripping short sword, his face smeared with blood, expression indifferent.
A thoughtful look flashed in his eyes: "The children... were taken away by Uchiha Inabi?"
The child from that house just now, was he also taken away by Uchiha Inabi?
An accident, or long premeditated?
Swish!
To verify his suspicion, Uchiha Itachi, expressionless, continued with his sword towards other houses.
"You are..."
"Ah! No!"
Screams appeared abruptly, then vanished abruptly. Uchiha Itachi deliberately used genjutsu to reduce the sound's impact on the surroundings.
And when he reappeared outside,
House after house now contained only corpses, not yet cold.
Their eyes held anger, despair, fear, confusion, but they had completely lost all signs of life.
Uchiha Itachi's clothes were soaked through with blood, the cold killing intent in his eyes growing more pronounced.
"This is all for Konoha's peace."
However, thinking of those children who hadn't returned home, Uchiha Itachi couldn't help frowning, a bad premonition rising in his heart.
Since he had made his decision, he naturally didn't want any more emotional entanglement with this doomed clan.
So during this time, he hadn't paid attention to irrelevant personnel.
He was completely unaware that Uchiha Inabi had recently been playing games with the children.
"Premeditated, or accidental?"
Uchiha Itachi frowned deeply. Noticing the time, he had to put aside his doubts and head in another direction.
Whatever that guy Inabi is planning, he cannot escape death.
Uchiha Itachi moved on, pondering.
But suddenly, a figure appeared before him.
"Itachi, what are you doing..."
Uchiha Fugaku looked at Itachi with a desolate expression, looking at this exceptionally gifted son of his.
He had already sensed his son's abnormality.
But he never imagined Itachi would go this far!
Facing his father's obstruction and questioning, Uchiha Itachi's expression turned serious.
Uchiha Fugaku, his father, and also a possessor of the Mangekyō Sharingan.
He is the greatest enemy on this mission!
"Father."
Uchiha Itachi asked back calmly: "I know very well what I am doing. Conversely, Father, what are you doing? Are you clear?"
Uchiha Fugaku closed his eyes, feeling both powerless and sorrowful.
Was it that he cared too little for Itachi?
Or was Sarutobi Hiruzen's Will of Fire truly so good that Itachi was willing to sacrifice everything for it?
After a moment, he slowly opened his eyes. They had already taken on the three-tomoe state, and the three tomoe were spinning rapidly.
"Itachi, what exactly lies at the end of this slaughter?"
He said in a hoarse voice: "I once showed you the clan's future. Do you wish to show me a different outcome?"
At the Naka Shrine, before that stone tablet, he had used his own Mangekyō Sharingan to pull Itachi into a genjutsu.
Letting Itachi see the Uchiha clan's future with his own eyes.
Fugaku originally thought this would make Itachi change his mind, but unexpectedly, he remained stubbornly insistent.
"Father, the future you saw was merely false."
Uchiha Itachi said indifferently: "If the Uchiha launch a coup, the end result will still be destruction. Moreover, it will drag Konoha into the abyss of war."
As his voice fell, his scarlet eyes had already transformed into the Mangekyō state.
Uchiha Fugaku's Mangekyō met his.
"Father, this is the future these eyes of mine have seen."
...
"Who's there? Ah!!"
"Intruder! Courting death..."
Meanwhile, inside the Police Force headquarters, the lights suddenly dimmed and went out.
A figure shuttled within, accompanied by repeated screams, easily destroying all the Uchiha elites.
One corpse even smashed against a window, blood dyeing the entire pane red, the corpse's ferocious expression chilling one to the bone.
Not long after,
Uchiha Obito, wearing a mask, walked out unhurriedly from the Police Force headquarters.
His body wasn't stained with much blood. He looked calm and unruffled, appearing very composed.
And indeed, it was so.
For Obito, who possessed the ability to become intangible, he was naturally in an invincible position.
But just as he prepared to leave,
Swish! Swish!
Several kunai suddenly flew towards Obito from the side.
However, they merely passed through his body, embedding themselves straight into the wall of the Police Force building.
"Oh?"
Obito turned his head, somewhat surprised, looking at the newcomer with astonished eyes.
He saw a young girl holding a kunai standing there, glaring deadly intently at Obito with her three-tomoe Sharingan.
"Nice eyes!" Obito praised casually.
This girl was Uchiha Izumi.
He had paid attention to this girl once before, but later, having better options, had forgotten about her.
Swish! Swish!
Uchiha Izumi grit her teeth, suppressing the fear in her heart, and threw two more kunai towards Obito.
But in Obito's eyes, it was merely an overconfident resistance.
"What?"
Seeing the two kunai bizarrely pass through the opponent's body, Uchiha Izumi's face changed drastically.
Snapping back, she immediately realized the opponent was not someone she could defeat and unhesitatingly turned to flee.
However, it was already too late.
"Ah!!"
Clatter clatter!
A black chain flew over, instantly entangling her body.
Immediately, Obito, like the God of Death, slowly walked towards her.
"No!! Why..."
Although she had awakened the three-tomoe Sharingan, Uchiha Izumi could only show a despairing expression when facing a life-threatening crisis.
Her pair of three-tomoe eyes were filled with the fear of death.
In this moment before death,
Izumi suddenly thought of the Uchiha genius she admired, Uchiha Itachi.
"Itachi... save me... I beg you..."
Under this helplessness and desire to live, tears welled up in Uchiha Izumi's eyes. She subconsciously began to pray.
Praying that genius would appear before her and save her.
"Itachi, hehe."
Looking at Uchiha Izumi, struggling powerlessly, only able to pray, Obito couldn't help but sneer.
"Too laughable, too foolish. Facing death and still not knowing Itachi's true face."
This foolish woman simply didn't know that Uchiha Itachi himself was the executioner who raised the butcher's knife to destroy the clan.
Obito's gaze was cold. He drew the long sword from his waist and slashed directly towards Uchiha Izumi's delicate, slender neck.
But the next second,
Thump!
Sensing the wind from a fist, Uchiha Obito's face changed. In an instant, he became intangible.
The punch instantly passed through Obito's body.
At the same time, his originally fatal sword strike also passed harmlessly through Uchiha Izumi's neck.
The moment the figure flashed past, Uchiha Izumi also vanished directly from before Obito.
All of this, from the figure attacking to disappearing, happened in a flash.
Obito had entered his intangible state purely through instinctive reaction.
"This child's talent isn't bad. For her to be killed by you like this would be too much of a waste."
A playful voice came from the distance, catching Obito's attention.
He saw a figure wearing a three-eyed fox mask and a black cloak standing there.
And Uchiha Izumi stood beside him, looking stunned, clearly not yet recovered from her brush with death.
"Who are you?"
Beneath his mask, Obito frowned, asking calmly: "I don't recall Konoha having a figure like you."
Although there's no intel, why is there a sense of familiarity?
"A name is just a codename, isn't it?"
Menma smiled meaningfully: "You can call me Ame-no-Minakanushi, from Crimson Moon."
As his voice fell, Obito's heart suddenly leaped wildly. He instantly became intangible again.
Thump!
The next second, a powerful and heavy fist directly smashed into the spot where he had been.
Instantly, the ground caved in, dust flying everywhere.
"Oh my, dodged by intuition again? Seems just using taijutsu isn't quite enough, huh."
Menma retracted his fist, pulling back some distance, then teased playfully.
The intangibility ability really is outrageous.
The body clearly didn't even react, yet with a mere thought, he can become intangible.
However, it's not without a solution.
The moment Obito saw the force of this attack, his pupils abruptly contracted.
If that blow had landed on him, he'd probably need a new body.
"A taijutsu-type ninja?"
But he quickly regained his composure, saying with feigned indifference: "Hehe, Ame-no-Minakanushi, Crimson Moon? We seem to have no grievance or enmity between us, right?"
"Oh, by the way, do you know my identity? I am Uchiha Madara."
(End of Chapter)
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