Uchiha Itachi suddenly raised his blade against Uchiha Fugaku!
His movements were unbelievably fast; in the blink of an eye, the tip of the blade had already stabbed fiercely toward Fugaku's heart—precise, ruthless, with no hesitation.
In Itachi's view, he had never underestimated his father. Although Fugaku had not awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, in terms of strength, he was definitely second only to Uchiha Madara Chiyu. Precisely because of that—
He had to kill him first!
Uchiha Fugaku reacted quickly as well. In an instant, a kunai appeared in his hand and was thrust heavily against his chest.
Clang!
A crisp clash!
Steel meeting steel under the moonlight, bursting forth with sparkling firelight! Accompanied by the despairing screams of Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Sasuke—
A life-or-death battle between father and son finally erupted!
"You bastard!"
Uchiha Fugaku roared, pouring strength into his kunai and knocking Itachi backward with tremendous force. The nearby window also shattered completely from their struggle, splintering into scattered fragments!
"No surprise he's still my father, after all… He's stronger than me in raw power?"
"However…"
"Without a Mangekyō Sharingan, you won't be my match."
"Father, surrender. Continuing to fight is pointless."
Uchiha Fugaku's whole body trembled with rage.
"You ungrateful wretch!"
"Never did I imagine the one who'd raise a blade against his own clan, his own parents, would be my own flesh and blood, my son Uchiha Fugaku's boy!"
"I've disgraced every clansman, disgraced all our ancestors!"
"Today, if I cannot slice you to pieces with my own hands, I'm unworthy as Patriarch—unworthy as a father, unworthy to be called human!"
In an instant, a barrage of shuriken and kunai rained down from Fugaku, all hurled straight at Itachi. But Itachi was prepared, likewise flinging countless tools. His precision and finesse perhaps even surpassed Fugaku's!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Countless ninja implements collided, releasing bright sparks in the dark!
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
Father and son unleashed the Uchiha clan's traditional Fire Release in unison. Yet Itachi's Fire Release quickly gained the upper hand!
And in that moment, Itachi released another Fire Release technique.
"Fire Release! Phoenix Sage Flower Nail Crimson!"
Instantly, flames cascaded down from above, scattering like heavenly blossoms. Hidden within those flames were shuriken, which suddenly shot toward Fugaku!
"What?!"
Fugaku was startled, managing to block the flames but missing that hidden shuriken. It nailed him through the shoulder.
"Father!"
"Husband!"
Both Mikoto and Sasuke screamed.
At the same time, Itachi seized his chance, closing in with his sword at Fugaku's throat, ready at any second for a fatal blow!
"No—!"
"Itachi! Wh‑what are you doing?!"
"H-he's your own father!"
Mikoto was on the verge of hysteria. Sasuke gasped in shock, unable to comprehend what was happening or why. He just stared in terror, struggling to breathe.
"Precisely because he's my father, he has to die first."
"Otherwise…"
"How could I proceed to cut down the rest of my kin?"
Itachi's blade glinted menacingly, tight against Fugaku's neck as though it could sever it at any moment. He gazed into his father's eyes at point-blank range.
"My apologies, Father…"
"You've yelled at me all you like, but I've already chosen my path."
"Stop!!!"
Amid Mikoto and Sasuke's desperate screams…
A sinister glint flashed in Itachi's eyes. The blade came slashing down—
Crash!
Mikoto and Sasuke collapsed to the ground, so shocked they could not even cry…
"Why… Why would this happen…"
Sasuke clutched his head in anguish.
But…
"Huh?!"
"This is…"
In the glare of Itachi's disbelief, the father—who should have been killed—suddenly dissolved into a puff of white smoke.
"A Shadow Clone?!"
"N‑no, that's impossible. You never had the chance to form a clone, and I saw everything clearly with my Mangekyō Sharingan…"
Just then, from the darkness behind them, the real Uchiha Fugaku emerged.
"The reason is simple…"
"Even before your arrival—and before the fight began—that person was already nothing but a Shadow Clone."
Uchiha Fugaku's true form surprisingly looked calm, or rather… unnervingly cold.
Mikoto and Sasuke finally relaxed slightly. Yet staring at father and son still set on battle—both refusing to yield—they remained frozen by fear.
"How is that possible…? Unless you anticipated all of this from the start?"
"No—that can't be…"
Fugaku said icily:
"Not me—him…"
"Chiyu!"
"It was Uchiha Chiyu. He… No, even he couldn't possibly have foreseen this entire scenario…"
Hearing that name, Itachi's heart wavered.
After all, Chiyu was the one who slew Uchiha Shisui—a lingering specter in Itachi's mind, a terrifying nightmare he could not escape.
"Heh. You ungrateful monster, do you even know anything?!"
"If not for Chiyu's advance warning, I really would have died by your hand—killed by my own son!"
"Now… It's time I do my duty, as both Patriarch and father!"
"I'm going to—"
"—kill you myself, you bastard!"
In that instant…
Uchiha Fugaku gently closed his eyes, then flung them open wide.
In those Sharingan, three tomoe spun swiftly—
Morphing into a strange windmill shape!
"That…that's…"
"A Mangekyō Sharingan?!"
"Father, you awakened a Mangekyō Sharingan too?!"
"Since when…"
Fugaku's voice was pained yet forcefully steady:
"Just now!"
Itachi swallowed hard. He understood: it was precisely his intent to wipe out the entire clan—even to murder his own parents—that triggered the emotional shock for Fugaku to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
The Mangekyō was activated by deep emotional trauma. With Fugaku's talents, his three‑tomoe Sharingan had already reached its limit. Seeing Itachi commit such atrocities was enough to trigger it at last.
Worse, Itachi suspected…
Could this also be part of Uchiha Chiyu's scheme?
But there was no turning back now.
He inhaled sharply.
"Father, even if you've awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, you've only just opened it. You still can't possibly beat me…"
"All the better—let this become a battle of Mangekyō Sharingan!"
Father and son glared at each other, Mangekyō eyes whirling and glowing, releasing a fearsome, bloody aura of killing intent!
Although Itachi acted confident, he truly did not know the capabilities of his father's Mangekyō. Thus, from the start, he planned to give it his all.
A streak of blood trickled from Itachi's right eye as he pushed his doujutsu to the limit.
"Amaterasu!"
Suddenly, pitch‑black flames burst forth, the inextinguishable blaze of Amaterasu. In a flash, they enveloped Fugaku's line of sight, seeking to devour him—
"Perish in these flames…"
Uchiha Fugaku responded with his own newly awakened Mangekyō power!
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