Sasuke:
Protect? To protect me? You got to be kidding me…

Tobi:
I’ll say it once more. You think you know all about your older brother but you know nothing.

Sasuke:
If you continue spouting such nonsense and lies, I’ll kill you right here!

Todi:
You’re not making this easy… I suppose that’s only natural hearing the story like this from complete stranger. But what I’m telling you is the truth. Itachi did mention it didn’t he? That he wasn’t alone that night. That he has an accomplice. I am Madara Uchiha. I know everything there is to know about Itachi. I suppose Itachi die without realizing that forever.

Sasuke:
Shut up! None of that matters anymore! Just get out of my site! You hear me?!

Tobi:
No, you will listen. You need to hear this. It’s your obligation. It’s about the life of your brother who risked everything for the sake of the Shinobi world the Hidden Leaf Village and most of all you, his younger brother. You will know how Itachi Uchiha lived. Do you know why? Why Itachi implanted the Amaterasu in your eye?

Sasuke:
Ugh!

Tobi:
It’s because Itachi never wanted us to meet or to talk. Listen to my tail and you will understand. The only ones who knew about the truth of Itachi will the Leaf’s Danzo, the third Hokage and the two advisers Homura and Koharu. With the third Hokage dead, there are only three elders left to know the secret. And they’re likely to never reveal the abominable truth that they are hiding. The truth about Itachi will fade into darkness forever just as Itachi himself wished. However, I also know the truth about Itachi. As I said earlier, Itachi never realized just how much I knew about him. Apparently he wanted to make double insure. It seems that Itachi didn’t trust me. And just in case, I did know the truth, he planned to silence me with Amaterasu implanted in you. He probably anticipated that I would show you my Sharingan in order to speak to you.

Sasuke:
What are you saying? What are you trying to tell me here? Protect me? Protect me? The truth?

Tobi:
Remember. Think back carefully and remember Itachi…your kind and gentle older brother.

[Past]

Itachi:
Hey, what’s up?

Sasuke:
That building is where father works isn’t it?

Itachi:
Uh-Huh. It’s headquarters for the Leaf Police Force.

Sasuke:
You know, I’ve been wondering something. How come the crest of the Uchiha clan is the part of the Leaf Police Force in here?

Itachi:
What do you know? You finally knoticed.

Sasuke:
Of course I did.

Itachi:
Right. Let’s see. To put it simply, it was the Uchiha clan’s earliest ancestors who established the police force here in the Leaf Village. So when they created the symbol for the organization, they use the family crest since a long time ago. The Uchiha have always insure the peace here. The crest is the testament of our clan’s pride in a way of life centuries old. Over the years, the Uchiha clan has grown smaller. But even now, nearly all of us are a part of the force and worked uphold peace in this village. Which is good because only the most exceptional of Shinobi can lead out the criminals hiding among their brethren.

Sasuke:
Wow, dad is the coolest! Are you gonna join the force too?

Itachi:
Well… I’m not sure.

Sasuke:
Why not?


Sasuke:
No, it’s impossible! No, he didn’t want to protect me! He just tried to kill me! He tried to steel my eyes!


Sasuke:
Just who could do something like this?!

Itachi:
My foolish little brother… MANGEKYO SHARINGAN!


Tobi:
Calm down. Breath slowly.

Sasuke:
Don’t touch me!


Itachi:
Even if you do hate me, that’s what big brother is for.

Itachi:
Sorry Sasuke, may be some other time.


Fate



Tobi:
You’re awake. Sorry, I took the liberty of ting you up since you didn’t see me and still and listen to me otherwise.

Sasueke:
Hey… Itachi was my enemy. He killed our mother and father and he slaughter the whole clan. He was a Rogue Ninja and the member of the Akatsuki. He was despicable. He was my only goal.

Tobi:
That fateful night, it is true that he slaughter the Uchiha clan and then fled the Hidden Leaf Village.

Sasuke:
Then…

Tobi:
But it was his mission to do so. He was ordered by leaders of the Hidden Leaf and that is just the beginning of the truth about Itachi.

Sasuke:
It was his mission?!

Tobi:
Yes. That night, Itachi set aside hi personal feelings and fulfilled his mission. Well, it seems you finally calm down.

Sasuke:
But I still don’t understand.

Tobi:
In order to explain the Itachi’s story, I must take you back to the beginning when the Hidden Leaf Village was founded. Itachi sacrificed himself a fate that group from a long standing power struggle. He was carelessly used to serve it.

Sasuke:
Sacrifice?

Tobi:
That’s right. A problem that hurricanes back to the very origins of the founding of the Hidden Leaf Village. It determined the path of Itachi’s life. It’s a long story. But every word that I’m about to tell you is the absolute truth.

Sasuke:
And on what ground should I believe you? You’re completely untrustworthy.

Tobi:
I don’t have any evidence that I can show you. So it’s up to you to decide whether you believe me or not. But only after you listen to the entire story.

Sasuke:
Fine… talk.

Tobi:
Hum. It all started more than eighty years ago.

Tobi:
Back then, the world was embroiled in battle. It was an era of warring states. Nations fought for power for the right to exist or to expand their borders. During this time of strife, Shinobi organizations only consist of individual grand’s serving with armed units. Various clans were hired by various nations to participate in the conflicts. And among all of these numerous Ninja clans were two that feared above all others as the strongest. One was our own Uchiha clan, and the other was known as the Senju clan of the forest. We of the Uchiha clan possessed the exceptional chakra and the Sharingan. Exceling in all types of warfare, we became known as a battle clan. And then I was born into our clan possessing chakra that was especially powerful even for Uchiha. The fact that I’ve live this long was proof enough of that. Back then, I spend every day on the battle field and in an era where power was everything that the cost of my friends and younger brother I continuously sod ever more power.

Sasuke:
Damn you…

Tobi:
But thanks to that, I was able to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan fully and I became the leader of the Uchiha. And with that power, I fought the Senju clan more times than I can count. Of course, it was inevitable that I would face Hasirama the leader of the Senju clan. Hashirama Wood Style Senju the future first Hokage the man who stood at the top of the Ninja world and the person I respected most.


Tobi:
Led by Hashirama, who became the very first who claim the title of Hokage the Senju clan became acknowledged as a fiercest and most feared by all the other clans. Whenever the Senju made a move, so did the Uchiha. Our clan was pretty much the only one who can take them on. If a nations hired the Senju, their opponents would hire the Uchiha. We became rivals. The more I faced Hashirama, the more my name became known as well.


Itachi[Past]:
To reach the next level. To test the limits of my ability.


Sasuke:
You stole your brother’s eyes merely to heighten your own reputation? is that what you telling me?!

Tobi:
I did steal them. But I did so only to obtain the strength to protect the Uchiha clan.

Sasuke:
To protect our clan?

Tobi:
Yes. As the Uchiha’s reputation grew, so did its number of enemies. On meets fortuitous battles, it was unavoidable sacrifice to protect our clan from external foes, starting with the Senju clan. It wasn’t merely for distinction. My younger brother was fully aware and agreed with it. In fact, he volunteered his eyes to me. But then one day, the Senju clan proposed to truce with the Uchiha. And the Uchiha accepted. And the durian both sides had grown wearily the endless conflict. I heard it’s simply had enough of all the fighting. But I… I was the only one who opposed it. I was the sole voice of decent. Where has all our mutual hatred gone, I asked. For what purpose have my brother sacrificed himself… The Uchiha the Senju were always like an oil and water. I couldn’t help felling that one day the Uchiha clan would come to be oppressed by the Senju clan. However, everyone else in the Uchiha clan wanted the truce. As their leader, I had no choice but to go along with their wishes. It wasn’t too long afterward that our alliance fortunate the agreement with the Land of Fire. Which is ought to stability within their land. And thus the powerful system of one village to one nation came to be, that was the Land of Fire and the village hidden in the leaf. Other nations quickly followed suit and subsequently one by on the fires of war wet last extinguished. Instantaneous peace. But due to a certain incident, the Hidden Leaf’s peace was short live.

Sasuke:
What incident?

Tobi:
There was a battles of the seat of the village leader. The Hokage. As you already know, the first who occupy that seat was Hashirama Senju. Both the village and the Land of Fire chose him. It was clear the Uchiha were been displaced from the power structure. I decided to have decay for the Uchiha to take the leadership in order to protect our clan. I knew that path would lead to a confrontation with Hashirama. But no one, not even a single Uchiha supported me at all. My followers shunned me for trial to rekindle the flames of war and betrayed me. I was not only accused to blame that having personal ambitions but more than that, they scorned me as a selfish brother who stole his younger brother’s eyes in order to save his own. What man would’ve will fully heat his younger brother… I swore I only wanted to protect the Uchiha. I left the Hidden Leaf. I’ve been betrayed by everyone and I decided to return as an avenger. And I declared war on the Hidden Leaf Village.

Tobi:
But I was defeated… at that place that comes to be known as the Final Valley. I was said to at died there. I’m sure even Hashirama believe that to be so. And every one forgot about me… History forgot about me. In order to prevent the rise of another traitor, Hashirama’s younger who became the Second Hokage, bestowed upon the Uchiha a special responsibility as proof of his trust. He established the Hidden Leaf Police Force. But the truth is that it really move the Uchiha from the governing body of the village and place the entire clan under close scrutiny all in one filth roof. There were finally some Uchiha recognized this true motives, they grew an anti-establishment faction that inherited my will. But it was too late. Time passed, the leadership still stayed in the Senju’s hand and the once proud Uchiha clan members were reduced to being the Senju’s lackeys. What I predicted came to pass, then another incident sealed the Uchihas demised. That’s right. The attack of the Nine Tailed Fox sixteen years ago.

Sasuke:
What do you mean by that?

Tobi:
Only the Uchiha’s visual prowess can tame and control the Nine Tails. So the elders of the Hidden Leaf Village surmise that an Uchiha was behind the Nine Tails’ attack. But it was a spontaneous natural disaster. The Uchiha has nothing to do with it. And yet unjust suspicions persisted that the Uchiha had tried to stage intellection and cease power to take over leadership of the village. As a result, the Uchiha were put under strict surveillance by the Anbu-Black Ops and they were forced to relocate to the outscore to the village. They became completely isolated. The Third Hokage was the only one to voice opposition to our treatment. But Danzo the Anbu-Black Ops and the other two counselors wouldn’t listen to him. In the end, the Uchiha clan was simply not trusted and that was the beginning of the discrimination against us. Distrust bred hatred and eventually suspicion became reality. The Uchiha clan started plotting Coup d'état to take over the village.

Sasuke:
Ugh?!

Tobi:
And so the Hidden Leaf’s leaders planted the spy with the Uchiha clan to watch us. That spy was your older brother. Itachi Uchiha. And that’s when Itachi’s suffering began.


<Preview>

Sasuke:
You’ve laid false charges against the Uchiha!

Tobi:
That's one of the Itachi’s lies.

Sasuke:
No! I won’t believe it! This can’t be true… Itachi tried to kill me!

Tobi:
If he’d really wanted to kill you, you’re most certainly dead by…

Sasuke:
Stop! I’ve heard enough!

Tobi:
You should know already. It’s because…

Sasuke:
Next time on Naruto Shippuden, “Truth”.

Tobi:
This is Itachi’s truth…



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