"Your enemies are, naturally, that Uchiha Obito you just mentioned, as well as Shimura Danzo and his Root division, right?" Poor, pitiful Uchiha.
"Those two are among your enemies, yes. But they're not the whole picture. In truth, the real culprit behind the Uchiha Clan Massacre... is Uchiha Itachi."
"Itachi? You're saying Itachi was the main culprit behind the massacre of the Uchiha Clan? That's impossible!" Uchiha Izumi looked completely baffled. She couldn't believe such a claim or rather, she'd never even considered the possibility.
When Kevin Cross had mentioned the Uchiha Clan's destruction earlier, Izumi had assumed Itachi died along with the rest. That had been one of the reasons she agreed to become Kevin's woman without hesitation.
"In reality, the one who physically wiped out the Uchiha Clan or more accurately, the one who slaughtered most of them was Uchiha Itachi. Gotta hand it to him, he's one ruthless guy. If his parents hadn't chosen to commit suicide when faced with him, he probably would've killed them himself without hesitation."
"The Clan Head committed suicide? Itachi? How is that possible? No, I don't believe it." Izumi refused to accept such a brutal truth.
"It's true. Your clan and Konoha had mounting tensions. Before the massacre, your clan was preparing to stage a coup. Itachi chose Konoha over his own clan. To prevent heavy casualties in the village, he decided to wipe out the Uchiha. Of course, he made one condition."
"What condition?" Izumi didn't want to believe this truth, yet if it were real, she hoped at least that condition somehow involved her.
"The Uchiha would be annihilated, but his younger brother, Sasuke Uchiha, had to survive and be allowed to live well in Konoha."
"Uchiha Sasuke... Itachi did love his brother, but but to trade the lives of the entire clan for just Sasuke? How could he do that? These were his family, his people! How could he bear it how could he?!"
"And that's exactly what defines the Uchiha Clan. Before unlocking the Mangekyō Sharingan, they're still stable. But once they do, they all go crazy. Obito did. Itachi did too."
"…Crazy?"
Izumi couldn't even bring herself to argue with Kevin Cross's harsh judgment. She'd lost everything her family slaughtered, her clan obliterated, and she herself had been thrown into a lab as a test subject for years. She had even occasionally worried about whether Itachi had survived… never realizing he was the very reason for her suffering.
"Heh... heh heh... hahaha..." Uchiha Izumi began laughing softly at first, then louder, until her laughter turned eerily desolate.
At that moment, her Sharingan eyes transformed three tomoe spinning, twisting, merging into a shape resembling a shuriken.
The emotional shock was simply too great. Under that pressure, she awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
Given all Izumi had been through, she could've awakened it long ago years of inhuman torment would've been enough. But Obito had dug out her original eyes. Even though Danzo had transplanted eyes from other Uchiha into her during experiments, none had worked.
Now, her newly regrown eyes had quickly reached the three-tomoe stage. Given time to dwell on her past, she could've awakened the Mangekyō herself. But learning the truth about Itachi the man she once loved was what finally shattered her.
"Group Leader, I want to know everything," said Uchiha Izumi in the chat group.
"Everything, huh? Give me a second to think," Kevin Cross said, opening up the chat group to check for a video or file upload function. If he could upload his memories, this would be much easier.
And sure enough, he found it.
"Of course. Every chat group should have this kind of function," Kevin Cross chuckled.
He began sorting and uploading all his memories related to Naruto.
Normally, even if someone had watched Naruto years ago, they'd forget many details. But this chat group had a peculiar function: as Kevin prepared to upload his memories, it neatly extracted everything from his mind even the parts he'd long since forgotten.
"There are a lot of episodes. Take your time. Once you finish, you'll understand everything," Kevin said, uploading the entire anime.
Uchiha Izumi immediately opened the file labeled Naruto.
She began watching.
Meanwhile, the little nun Yilin from Mount Heng was still wandering with her master, searching for outsiders. She had no time to chat.
For the moment, the group fell quiet.
"Too few people. Only two so far. I should look into this chat group more," Kevin murmured as he continued exploring its functions.
Soon, he found the option to change usernames.
Kevin Cross updated his group display name to his own, and then did the same for Uchiha Izumi removing the "Poor Uchiha" nickname. As for the little nun from Mount Heng, he tagged her and told her she could change her name too.
Yilin blinked at the notification, then immediately told her master, Serena Tranquil.
"Changing your name? Go ahead and do it if the other two have already changed theirs. Aside from that, is there anything else in this so-called chat group?" Serena asked.
Though she remained skeptical, Serena was genuinely curious. To judge whether the chat group was real or fake, they needed more information.
"Yes, Master. In the group there's that Uchiha girl ah, I mean Uchiha Izumi, and the group leader, Kevin Cross. There's also a thing called Naruto."
"Naruto? Ninja? I've heard the Fusang people have something like that. Could it be something from the Wokou?" Serena Tranquil frowned, eyes flashing with a hint of killing intent.
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