"I secretly placed two life-saving runes on you beforehand. If you ever encounter danger, the spatial rune will instantly teleport you to me. Even if you meet with misfortune and are in peril, the time rune will freeze your time, preserving your life until rescue arrives!"
Sakura said simply, then continued, "Judging from how you lost both eyes earlier, it must've been Danzo who did this!"
"Lord Danzo never truly trusted me."
Shisui briefly recounted the events to Sakura but ultimately received only a helpless sigh in response.
"Tsk, Shisui-niisan, you're not still thinking Danzo attacked you for Konoha's peace, are you?!"
Seeing the expression on Shisui's face, Sakura already knew—he still saw Danzo as a decent guy deep down.
"Isn't that right?" Shisui scratched his head. "The Uchiha clan wants to destroy our hard-won peace. I wanted to use Kotoamatsukami to change their minds, and although Lord Danzo tried stealing my Sharingan, he was still acting for Konoha's sake!"
"Seriously, Shisui-niisan, how much more gullible can you get? You really think Danzo can be trusted? That guy's the shinobi world—a mastermind with more tricks up his sleeve than a con artist! Just how much of what he says do you actually believe? Stealing your Sharingan for Konoha's benefit? Please! He did it purely for himself. Most importantly, tell me you don't actually believe Danzo intends to use your Sharingan to change those elders' minds and stop the rebellion?!"
Sakura looked unimpressed. There was no way that old bastard Danzo would have such noble intentions.
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"I-I guess so..."
Shisui replied with hesitation. Deep down, he still clung to a tiny sliver of hope regarding Danzo.
"You're dreaming! Danzo doesn't want peaceful coexistence between Konoha and the Uchiha—he wants total annihilation of the Uchiha clan!" Sakura chuckled bitterly. "What Danzo wants are the corpses after extinction—their Sharingan eyes!"
"Sharingan..." Shisui clenched both fists tightly. His grandfather's eyes, plus his own right eye. Though thanks to reverse time, his eyes had fully regrown completely, he could still clearly remember the excruciating pain when they'd been gouged out before—and his right eye remained with Danzo even now.
"Actually, how exactly did Danzo trick you anyway?" Sakura asked curiously. By original historical progression, the entire Uchiha clan had indeed planned rebellion, making it understandable why Shisui might be deceived by Danzo at that time. But nowadays, the Uchiha obviously harbored no such rebellious thoughts. Most clan members happily coexisted with Konoha villagers, while only a handful of discontent individuals lingered—barely enough to stir any significant unrest. Under these circumstances, how could Shisui still fall into Danzo's trap?!
Shisui hesitated before speaking, "Danzo presented a lot of evidence implicating the Uchiha clan in planned rebellion. After my investigation, I did discover the Elders were actively plotting a coup, so I..." Shisui now felt something was off. Back then when Danzo first produced that evidence of the Uchiha clan's rebellion intentions, he hadn't believed it much, so he deliberately conducted his own investigation, only to find out that everything Danzo had said was actually true.
At the time, overwhelmed by confusion and shock, Shisui hadn't sensed anything suspicious. But now, looking back carefully, he felt deeply doubtful. During his investigation, the evidence kept appearing too conveniently, as if everything was being staged step by step.
"Oh, and Danzo also claimed the Fourth Hokage's death years ago was caused by the Uchiha clan too!"
Shisui added another point. Back then Danzo had offered an explanation: aside from the Sharingan, there was no other technique in this world capable of controlling the Nine-Tails. Since the Nine-Tails had suddenly gone berserk, naturally it could only be the work of the Uchiha clan.
"So you actually believed him!" Sakura stared at Shisui like he was a complete idiot. "Don't you think things are just way too coincidental? Danzo told you the Uchiha were planning a rebellion, and the moment you started investigating, everything just fell into place? If one person alone could uncover all these so easily, don't you think they wouldn't still be secretly conspiring anymore? It would be like announcing their rebellion right in front of you! If things really were like that, do you think The Third would be stupid enough to let the Uchiha prepare for a coup openly?"
"As for the Nine-Tails incident back then, though it's true that only the Sharingan can control the Nine-Tails, it has little to nothing to do with the Uchiha clan members living in Konoha Village. At that time, the real reason why the Uchiha clan didn't go to the Front Lines to help was because the Elder Council led by Danzo issued orders forbidding them from approaching the battlefield. Blaming the Uchiha for the Fourth's death isn't accurate—it's far more appropriate to blame Danzo himself. Without Danzo's interference, considering the relationship between Clan Leader Fugaku and the Fourth, do you really think Fugaku wouldn't have gone to assist? And since Clan Leader Fugaku already possessed the Mangekyo Sharingan, if he had been allowed to go, do you think the Fourth and his wife would have died at all?!"
Whenever something happens where nobody seems to take responsibility, chances are high that Danzo is behind it. Besides, during the Nine-Tails incident, it was Danzo and the Elder Council who barred the Uchiha from approaching the battlefield. Therefore, from a certain perspective, Danzo indeed caused the death of the Fourth Hokage and his wife.
"Clan Leader Fugaku had the Mangekyo Sharingan?!" Shisui exclaimed in shock. Everyone only knew that Clan Leader Fugaku Uchiha had the Three-Tomoe Sharingan—no one had ever even heard a whisper about him having the Mangekyo before.
"Clan Leader Fugaku was known as 'The Menacing Eye Fugaku' during The Third Great Ninja War," Sakura countered. "Do you really think he could have earned that title with just a standard Three-Tomoe Sharingan?"
The difference in ocular power between the Three-Tomoe Sharingan and the Mangekyo Sharingan was terrifying. Once the Mangekyo was unlocked, even while staying in the standard Three-Tomoe form, its eye power was vastly superior to that of an ordinary Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
"Also yeah!" Since Shisui himself also had the *Mangekyō*, he naturally understood just how vastly different the two eyes were.
"If I'm not mistaken," he continued, "Danzo must have colluded with some elders of the Uchiha clan, making some kind of secret deal. They were probably faking it all just to play a show for you!"
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