Uchiha District.
Reversed again and again.
At this moment, chaos erupted violently in the heart of the clan compound.
First, Uchiha Itachi returned and tried to detain his own father under the authority of the Guard, invoking treason as justification.
Then Uchiha Sasuke, storming into the scene, blindsided Itachi and went further attacking Fugaku himself and attempting to bring both his brother and father to justice.
And now...
A bald, mustachioed man stepped into the fray.
Though his appearance and aura had changed, Itachi immediately recognized the presence behind that disguise.
"Shisui...?"
But Shisui Uchiha had died. His body was lost in the Naka River. His Mangekyō was taken by Danzo. So how...?
And what's with this blind masseur get-up?
"You better unlock these," Itachi said flatly, the slightest trace of relief buried beneath his stoic tone. Sasuke and Fugaku, each lost in their own illusions, seemed momentarily at ease.
Itachi had planned to surrender Shisui's eye what remained of the Kotoamatsukami. But Tsunade and Bai Ye didn't approve. Thus, the ultimate genjutsu still rested within his own body.
Shisui didn't waste time. He'd been practicing the arts of deception and escape for years even perfecting his act as a blind masseur in the outskirts of Amegakure. With a practiced flick of the wrist, he retrieved the key Itachi had concealed and undid the restraints.
After all, Guard Reserve or not, Itachi wasn't someone to stay shackled long.
Handcuffs undone, Itachi summoned the crow from his own body and handed it to Shisui, who without hesitation pressed the eye into his own vacant socket.
"How's it feel?" Itachi asked, watching closely.
"Like I just shoved a lightning bolt into my skull," Shisui winced. "Sore, numb... swollen as hell."
Still, his chakra merged with the eye, reestablishing neural and spiritual connection. As vision returned, the Mangekyō pattern bloomed twin pinwheel tomoe swirling into place.
Boom!
Suddenly
Snap!
Clap clap!
CRACK!
The sound of illusion shattering thundered through the compound.
The Mangekyō showdown had reached its conclusion.
Though he lacked finesse, Sasuke the reincarnation of Indra had thrown everything he had into the genjutsu battle. Each conjured illusion, a version of Kabuto made to submit.
Sasuke summoned twenty illusions.
Fugaku? Twenty-one.
Technically, a win.
As if scoring a genjutsu match like a taijutsu spar.
"Really worth it, huh?" Fugaku grumbled, rubbing his throbbing forehead as chakra surged violently around him.
In a flash, the skeletal frame of his Susanoo erupted inky black with rippling armor forming across the ribcage.
"Stop! We can't escalate this!"
But he was too late.
Shisui activated his own Susanoo glowing green and fierce. Despite having only one eye, the aura surged outward.
Itachi frowned. The Susanoo a symbol of Mangekyō mastery had always felt alien to him, but perhaps now was the time...
"Then take one from me!"
Sasuke, never one to be left behind, summoned his own violet Susanoo, launching himself skyward.
"You too!?" Itachi blinked, caught between shock and reluctant admiration.
Wasn't he the prodigy?
He gritted his teeth. If he didn't act now, he'd be the only one not flexing.
Thus, four beams of light black, green, red, and purple shot skyward from the Uchiha district.
Fugaku's Susanoo reached its third stage massive, armored, a true giant. Itachi and Sasuke, slightly behind, maintained skeletal frames layered with muscle. Shisui's Susanoo, after years of silent training in exile, stood on par with Fugaku's sturdy and refined.
In that moment, the Uchiha district became a stage for demons.
Clansmen stirred from sleep to the sound of roaring chakra and crashing illusions.
They stepped out into a nightmare.
The radicals the ones Fugaku had secretly gathered were all dead.
Slain under mysterious circumstances.
And with the patriarch's house reduced to rubble and four Susanoo clashing in the sky, chaos ignited like wildfire.
"Lord Fugaku?!"
Guards poured in, stunned.
Their eyes darted between the broken walls, the collapsed courtyard, and the chakra titans towering over their home.
The carnage, the timing, the scale it all looked like righteous vengeance.
And so they jumped to the most convenient conclusion:
"Lord Patriarch, did the enemy strike again?!"
The radicals were dead. Fugaku was furious. His sons and Shisui were at his side.
It made sense.
"We don't know who did it," Itachi murmured, then locked eyes with Shisui. "But it's probably Danzo."
Shisui blinked. "Eh?"
"You agree, right?" Itachi continued smoothly. "Danzo took your eye. Tried to kill you. And now someone massacred our people. Suspicious."
Shisui tilted his head.
Wait... that actually did make sense.
"...Yeah. Danzo's the worst."
He nodded grimly, mentally adding this new event to Danzo's list of sins.
Shisui sighed. "Everyone, calm down. We need to stabilize."
"I won't calm down!" Sasuke declared, righteous fury ablaze. "As a reserve guard officer, I'll arrest anyone planning a coup! Even my own father!"
"…And Nissan too!"
"You what?" Itachi's eye twitched. "You can't beat me."
"You sure? When I was six, I knocked you on your ass. Just sayin'."
Fugaku, meanwhile, massaged his temples. "Both of you shut up. I'm literally rebelling right now."
"Then surrender peacefully!" Shisui interjected. "Danzo may have sparked this, but fighting won't fix it."
Fugaku's expression darkened. "Too late. I'm done talking."
With a roar, he swung a chakra-forged longsword at Shisui's green Susanoo, igniting the battlefield.
Sasuke clashed with Itachi, each unwilling to yield. Illusions, fists, chakra blades everything collided.
Shisui tried to hold back, not wanting to harm Fugaku. He grit his teeth.
Only one move left.
Can I use Kotoamatsukami with just one eye? he wondered. Can I overpower Fugaku's will?
He was about to try.
Then
A voice like a divine thunderclap split the sky.
"Is it over yet!?"
From the Senju lands, golden light exploded across the horizon.
"Uchiha Itachi, you can't even handle this!?"
"Let me show you what real discipline looks like!"
BOOM!
The golden bat of judgment struck the air like a comet, hammering through all four Susanoo.
The massive avatars shattered like brittle glass!
Armor cracked.
Wielders flew.
The golden light swept through the battlefield and sent the four proud Uchihas crashing toward the Guard HQ.
Destruction incarnate.
Not even Susanoo could resist Bai Ye's fury.
Clearly, someoneor something had disturbed his peace.
Or startled one of his girls.
Either way, he was not amused.
And now, the battlefield lay silent.
The once majestic patriarch's house was no more.
The four would-be conquerors were gonecratered somewhere deep inside the detention wing.
The remaining Uchiha stared in stunned silence.
"…Is the Uchiha clan always like this?" Konan muttered from a distant hill, lowering her spyglass.
"…You mean mentally ill?" Black Zetsu replied carefully.
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