Itachi Uchiha, still trembling from excruciating pain, felt his ocular power surge to new heights. The torment he had endured had awakened the third power hidden within his Mangekyō Sharingan:
Susanoo!
But at the very moment he was about to unleash this overwhelming force, break free from his restraints, and fight Chiba with all his might…
Chiba struck first.
Before Susanoo could even fully form, he reinforced the ice that bound Itachi and, with an icy blade, gouged out his eyes, leaving them in bloody sockets.
Then, he froze the eyes, preserving them as if they were relics of a sealed fate.
Itachi screamed in agony, blood streaming down his hollow eye sockets.
"You… you took my eyes?!"
Chiba smiled, cold and indifferent, as if watching a puppet accept its fate.
"No. I simply granted you relief. Now you won't have to watch the pain anymore."
"Rest easy,henceforth, you will see nothing."
Blinded and humiliated, Itachi felt the last spark of hope extinguish. His world had collapsed.
Yet…
The sounds of the battlefield still reached his ears.
Screams, steel clashing, chakra explosions, the ringing of death,it all hammered him with unbearable reminders of his impotence.
And now, the pain of his gouged eyes compounded every agony.
For Itachi Uchiha, this was truly the apocalypse.
For the Uchiha clan, it was no different.
At the center of the chaos, Uchiha Fugaku, the clan's head, fought with a desperate, frenzied fury. His eyes, shadowed by grief, watched each of his warriors fall.
He began questioning every decision that had led him here.
The death of Uchiha Shisui, Itachi's double agent role, the threat of the masked man calling himself Uchiha Madara… all of it had culminated in this uprising, now tearing his own family apart.
If the clan were to be annihilated entirely… Fugaku would be forever branded the greatest of traitors.
But if he did nothing… would there even be survivors? Or was it only a matter of time before Konoha's forces crushed the Uchiha completely?
Fury overtook him.
A roar tore through the ruins of the city like a hurricane.
And then… the impossible happened.
The true ocular power of the Uchiha awakened within Fugaku.
The Mangekyō Sharingan ignited in his eyes, radiating a force so intense that the air itself seemed to tremble with raw electricity.
In an instant, his strength skyrocketed.
Danzo Shimura, who had underestimated Fugaku, stumbled back in shock.
"Mangekyō Sharingan?!"
"You… awakened it in the middle of battle?!"
Fugaku's eyes blazed crimson with lethal intent.
"Danzo! You, who so willingly supported the destruction of my clan, will die with it! Even if I fall, I will not go alone!"
Danzo possessed a Mangekyō Sharingan inherited from Shisui, but he was not a pure-blooded Uchiha. His mastery was limited.
Even the prodigy Kakashi needed years to control the Sharingan. Fugaku, immersed in his pure lineage and battle experience, now wielded a power he barely understood,but its devastating effect was undeniable.
Within moments, Danzo began to falter, unable to withstand the overwhelming force of the clan leader.
However, Homura Mitokado, sensing the imminent turn, abandoned his battle with the remaining Uchiha warriors and rushed to assist Danzo.
Together, they slowly regained some footing.
Yet Fugaku, in a state of desperate frenzy, fueled by the massacre of his kin and the sudden expansion of his ocular power, struck with relentless force. Every movement, every strike, radiated rage, despair, and terror concentrated into pure destruction.
Suddenly, the crimson light of Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan flared explosively.
VIBRATION ,!!!!
The battlefield was swallowed by a genjutsu of unparalleled potency, capable of ensnaring anyone who met his gaze directly.
Homura Mitokado, caught off guard, fell under its partial control.
Danzo reacted immediately, attempting to channel chakra to break the spell, but before he could finish…
Fugaku's final strike came.
His flaming, Uchiha-infused blade cut with surgical precision, piercing Homura Mitokado's chest.
"MITOKADOOOOOO!!!"
The battle escalated into a spectacle of horror and grandeur, a brutal symphony of strategy, hatred, and sacrifice, with the fate of Konoha and the Uchiha clan hanging on a knife's edge.
Shimura Danzō's eyes widened in disbelief. The flames that consumed Mito Homura cast an eerie glow across the battlefield, illuminating the rivers of blood spraying from his wound with sickly, crimson light. Every fiber of Danzō's being screamed in unwillingness, his mind torn between rage and disbelief. Yet no force could halt the inevitable. In the end, Mito Homura collapsed, life extinguished in an instant, leaving nothing but the acrid scent of smoke and the metallic tang of blood in the air.
Back then, at the side of the Nidaime Hokage, Senju Tobirama, six disciples had been steadfast. Akimichi Torifu and Uchiha Kagami were already dead, casualties of fate's cruel hand. The remaining four,Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, Mito Homura, and Utatane Koharu,had remained inseparable, bound by loyalty and shared purpose. Even amid disagreement, they were comrades forged in the fires of endless duty, their bond tempered by survival and sacrifice.
And yet, even the cold, calculating Shimura Danzō could not remain unmoved by the sight of a fallen companion. His roar shook the remnants of the battlefield as he launched a ferocious assault toward Uchiha Fugaku, eyes burning with restrained fury.
Inside the Hokage's office, Sarutobi Hiruzen, long resigned to the role of observer, could no longer restrain his own grief and rage. Witnessing Homura's death shattered his resolve, propelling him into the fray. Together with Danzō, he turned his formidable strength against Fugaku, suppressing the clan head with relentless precision.
At this moment, Sarutobi Hiruzen was arguably the strongest operative in Konoha. Age had sapped his physical stamina, but his experience, cunning, and chakra control more than compensated. True, the ceiling of Konoha's power lay with Jiraiya of the Legendary Sannin, whose wanderings kept him away from the village, yet Hiruzen's presence now rendered the battlefield hopeless for the Uchiha. One by one, they fell.
The once-proud Uchiha warriors, heirs to generations of elite shinobi prowess, were cut down like wheat before a scythe. Soon, fewer than one-tenth of their numbers remained capable of fighting. Fugaku, wracked with pain, despair, and guilt, forced himself to focus, his mind a battlefield of grief and strategic necessity.
He understood the grim truth: if this continued, the Uchiha clan would be wiped from history entirely.
With a roar that shook even the strongest warriors nearby, he commanded:
"Uchiha clan, retreat!!!"
All remaining Uchiha turned their gaze to their clan head, desperation flickering in their eyes. But in this war-torn night, mere desire could not guarantee survival. Even if they wished to flee, could Hiruzen and the allied forces of ANBU and Root possibly allow it? The battlefield answered swiftly: any who tried were intercepted, slaughtered on the spot.
Faced with this inevitability, the remaining Uchiha abandoned all hope of escape. With primal fury, they unleashed their last reserves of strength, fighting to the death. ANBU and Root suffered heavy casualties in response, but the clan was effectively annihilated.
Those who survived were only Fugaku, Elder Uchiha Yashiro, and Uchiha Inabi.
- Uchiha Tekka had fallen.
- Uchiha Yakumi had fallen.
Every elite fighter of the Uchiha clan lay dead, the air thick with smoke, blood, and despair.
The three exchanged glances, each seeing the same raw, piercing hopelessness mirrored in the other's eyes. Fugaku's lips twisted into a bitter smile.
"Yashiro… Inabi… did I make the wrong choice?" he asked, voice hoarse, tinged with anguish.
Yashiro only sighed, saying nothing.
But Inabi spoke with firm resolve:
"Clan Head, you did nothing wrong. Even if we hadn't fought today, the clan would have been annihilated. Today, we paid a price,but we made them pay too. Blood for blood. Tooth for tooth!"
Fugaku's eyes gleamed with renewed ferocity. "Well said. That is exactly right. Today, we die together!"
"Yes, Clan Head!" the two chorused.
Surrounded on all sides by ANBU, Root, and Konoha's upper echelon, the three were facing inevitable death. But Fugaku's voice carried a fierce defiance, echoing across the battlefield.
Sarutobi Hiruzen, who had intervened personally, no longer restrained himself.
"Uchiha Fugaku, today your rebellion leads only to your death!"
Fugaku's laughter rang out, harsh, cold, defiant.
"Hahahaha! Sarutobi Hiruzen, you old dog! Even if the Uchiha clan had never rebelled, would you have spared us? No. You and your masters would have hunted us all the same!"
"The sins you've committed, everyone knows them now. Don't think blaming Danzō will hide you. The real puppeteer? That's you. Everyone knows!"
"Drop the mask of righteousness. You are the true eternal sinner of Konoha. The most failed Hokage in history! Hahahahaha!"
Hiruzen's face fell. Fugaku's words pierced through the veneer of authority he had maintained for decades.
Koharu sneered. "Hiruzen, spare your words. He killed Homura. Today, he dies!"
Suddenly, a voice rang out, sharp and filled with urgency:
"Father!!!"
All heads turned. Not Itachi, but Sasuke, standing beside Mikoto.
Sasuke's face was streaked with tears, his small frame shaking as he surveyed the carnage. The bodies of Uchiha lay scattered, the ground soaked in blood, the cries of the fallen lingering like echoes of a nightmare. Fugaku, battered and drenched in his own blood, was barely standing.
"Sasuke?" Fugaku managed to ask, voice trembling. "Why… why are you here?"
"I don't want Father to die!" Sasuke screamed. "I don't want anyone to die!"
Utatane Koharu's gaze sharpened. "Hiruzen, cut the grass at the root. Leave none alive. Anything else will only invite future calamity."
Danzō's lips parted, as if to speak, but he thought better of it, closing his mouth once more.
Then, another voice,low, cold, and impossible to ignore,echoed across the battlefield:
"Danzō… you promised me you would not touch Sasuke!!!"
It was Itachi.
Everyone turned, but the shadows of night obscured him. Beside him stood another figure, subtly restraining him, preventing him from acting freely.
Danzō sneered. "Uchiha Itachi… so you finally appear."
Itachi's voice cut through the night:
"Yes. I promised to spare Sasuke. But that promise required that you,slaughter every Uchiha. Including your own parents."
"Tell me… what did you accomplish?" Danzō spat. "Did you succeed?"
Itachi fell silent. He had done nothing. Not a strike, not a movement. Chiba had intercepted him, beaten him brutally, and even tore his Mangekyō Sharingan from his eyes.
Sasuke's face turned pale as death.
"Brother… what… what did he just say?"
"You… wanted to kill everyone?"
"Even Father… Mother?"
"Is… is that true?!"
Sasuke had heard vague rumors from his mother, but now, hearing it with his own ears, he could not deny it. The brother he had admired, worshiped, was… capable of such monstrosity.
Rage and anguish surged uncontrollably within him, shattering all sense of reason.
Itachi remained silent.
"Sasuke… you're still too young," he said finally. "You cannot yet understand true peace. I did this… for the village. For the shinobi world."
Sasuke screamed in disbelief. "Lies! To protect peace, you kill your own family? To kill your parents? That peace is meaningless!"
Itachi had no answer.
Fugaku's laughter rang, bitter yet fierce.
"Well said, Sasuke!"
"Even if my first son is a beast, at least I still have you! Remember: you are Uchiha. One day, restore our clan's honor! And every one of those who tried to exterminate us,don't spare a single one. Kill them all! Itachi, Hiruzen, Danzō, all of Konoha's leaders… and that masked man claiming to be Madara. Kill them all!!!"
Sasuke sobbed uncontrollably. "I don't want to kill them! Father, please don't die!"
Fugaku's eyes hardened. "I am the head. I bear this sin. Yashiro, Inabi… break through the encirclement! Protect Sasuke at all costs!"
In the next instant, Uchiha Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan flared to life, illuminating the battlefield with an aura of unstoppable force.
RUMBLE!!!
RUMBLE!!!
BOOM!!!!!
Fugaku Uchiha's chakra and ocular power erupted violently, an uncontrollable inferno surging from deep within his body, consuming everything in its path. Flames, wild and untamed, burst forth as if the very air around him had been ignited, scorching the ground, twisting the shadows, and pushing back the enemies encircling him.
For a brief, impossible instant, the battlefield fell into chaos. The relentless forces of Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, and their elite shinobi cadres were forced to retreat, held at bay by the raw, explosive might of an enraged Uchiha clan head.
"Move! NOW!!!" Fugaku roared, his voice splitting the night like a blade. His command was absolute, carrying the weight of desperation, fury, and the undeniable authority of a father and clan leader who had lost everything.
It was, in effect, a self-detonation. He poured his life force into the eruption, knowing he might not survive, yet it was the only way to give the surviving Uchiha a chance to escape.
Yet Uchiha Inabi did not budge. His eyes, brimming with resolve, met Fugaku's burning gaze.
"I promised… I would live and die alongside you, Clan Head," he said, voice firm amidst the roar of fire.
"Taking care of Sasuke? That's for Elder Yashiro to handle!"
Elder Yashiro Uchiha frowned, grief and sorrow etched into every line of his face, but he did not hesitate. With a long, shuddering sigh, he charged into the inferno, flames licking at his form as he fought his way forward, carving a path through chaos.
In that split second, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, and the remaining forces reacted.
"Kill!!!" they bellowed, their movements sharp and merciless.
Shuriken, kunai, and every deadly weapon imaginable, enhanced with Fire, Wind, and Lightning Release, rained down upon Fugaku and Inabi. The battlefield became a tempest of steel, chakra, and explosive elemental power.
The two Uchiha were battered, their bodies torn, yet still standing, still fighting,flesh mangled, blood flowing freely, the raw will to survive burning in their veins like wildfire.
"Father!!!"
The cry tore through the night. Sasuke, overwhelmed by anguish, witnessed his father being struck down, his screams raw, his small frame trembling as his consciousness began to falter. The world became a blur of fire and blood.
Yashiro, grief-stricken yet undeterred, seized the moment. He dashed through the chaos and scooped the unconscious Sasuke into his arms. "Go! Mikoto, you must run! Do you want Sasuke to lose his father and his mother?!"
Mikoto's tears streaked her face, her breath ragged, yet she nodded. She had no choice; the only path to survival was to flee.
"Stop them! Don't let a single one escape!" Sarutobi Hiruzen's roar cut across the battlefield.
The remaining ANBU, Root operatives, and allied shinobi,Sarutobi's elite force, Danzō's secret unit, and every loyal soldier,charged with lethal precision, determined to eliminate the three fleeing Uchiha.
But at that exact moment, as if summoned by the heavens themselves, a figure appeared.
Time seemed to freeze. The relentless chase halted in stunned disbelief.
A single voice boomed across the battlefield, cold, commanding, and impossible to ignore:
"ICE AGE!!!"
From the skies, it was as though a god had descended,an unstoppable force that would stop all who dared pursue.
The snow, ice, and frozen air surged outward like the wrath of winter incarnate, creating a barrier of frozen terror that split the battlefield in half. The very ground cracked and frost spread with unnatural speed, halting enemy shinobi in their tracks.
Fugaku's inferno clashed with the sudden, overwhelming ice, the fire and frost intertwining in a deadly dance of destruction. The night was alight with crimson and silver, a storm of elements, rage, and despair that left the battlefield suspended between life and death, hope and annihilation.
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