The scene shifts to a few days later, and Uchiha Shisui, who had not appeared for a long time, makes another appearance, squatting on the ground, making fire with a stick.
While diligently working with his hands, he also constantly paid attention to the older students, cheering on Obito.
After Shisui started a flame, he helped Inuzuka Hana check her wood and found that the reason it wouldn't light was that it was damp, so he took her to another spot to gather firewood.
[Baby Shisui!]
[It's over! Given the current situation of the Uchiha, can the camera focusing on our Shisui be a good thing?!]
[Obito is here too? The uchiha three brothers just formed, and now it's just the two of them...]
[You in front, open the door, I'm delivering a package.]
[Holy crap, the official pairing is out? And childhood friends!]
[It's quite rare for the Inuzuka Clan and Uchiha to be friends.]
[Did I guess wrong? Is the next part a story of young kids' puppy love?]
The audience thought they would see a beloved childhood friends plot, but the two children lost one of their companions as soon as they arrived at the location.
The gloomy forest, the silently disappearing companion, the gaze peering from the shadows, combined with the animator's eerie sound effects, gave the audience a real fright.
Although Shisui keenly realized something was wrong, even secretly activating his Sharingan, he was still taken down in three or four moves by a Ninja dressed as an Anbu member who suddenly appeared.
The camera mimicked Shisui's perspective, tilting, blurring, with shadows slowly closing in from the edges towards the center.
Before the screen went completely black, a figure rushed from further away.
[Damn, The Old Thief is so inhumane.]
[I thought I was watching a school romance, but it turned out to be a horror movie.]
[What the hell is Konoha trying to do?!]
[Is that even human, to lay hands on children! Shisui is still so young!]
[Hiruzen Sarutobi prefers to cut meat with a dull knife, boiling a frog in warm water. Someone so aggressive and arrogant is probably only Danzo.]
[This is bullying the Uchiha to death.]
[Forcing them into rebellion so they can be purged, huh? Truly sinister.]
Drip, drip... In the silent, enclosed space, the sound of dripping water was incessant.
Shisui slowly awoke from unconsciousness. His surroundings were pitch black; even with his Sharingan, he couldn't see anything.
The audience, however, had a god's-eye view, but the scenes shown were adjusted by the animator to a grey-blue tone, indicating it was pitch black.
With his hands and feet bound and no vision, Shisui struggled to explore his surroundings, inadvertently waking Inuzuka Hana, from whom he learned that she too had been ambushed and knocked out.
Inuzuka Hana, displeased with her performance, kicked her legs, only to accidentally hit another person.
The camera then showed Uchiha Obito, also tied up, and played back the entire process of him witnessing the two children being kidnapped.
Obito, driven by a surge of passion, jumped up and rushed forward recklessly, but only managed to get himself captured as well, leaving the audience in a state of amused exasperation.
[They're not even sparing the Inuzuka. How dare Danzo be so bold? Is he not afraid that other Ninja Clans will side with the Uchiha?]
[He's really not afraid. Siding with the Uchiha requires too much consideration; no Ninja Clan would easily switch allegiance.]
[It's Obito, I guessed right!]
[If not Obito, could it be Naraku?]
[You in front, I'm going to assassinate you.]
[Brother Obito is really putting his life on the line for his younger siblings; he actually dared to charge in.]
[Alright, now we can see, Obito charged in! Obito is performing a normal attack!...Obito called GG!]
The next episode opens with a chaotic Uchiha Clan Compound.
News of the five missing children had already spread throughout the Uchiha, impossible to suppress. The Clan Compound was brightly lit, with every household's lights on, deeply worried for the lost children.
The Uchiha gathered below The Police Force building, angrily denouncing Konoha with pained expressions. Several parents of the victims stood at the forefront, some too distraught to stand, knowing their children were likely in grave danger.
Fugaku stood in his office on the top floor, knowing it was time for him to make the final decision.
The Uchiha, knowing Konoha was behind everything but lacking evidence, had two choices:
Either accept their fate, break their own backbone, bury their heads and endure all this malice, barely surviving until their clan's demise;
Or, without concrete evidence, directly rise up against Konoha, bear the infamous name of rebellion, and perish together.
But no matter what they did, they couldn't escape the dead end.
--In fact, there was no choice at all.
Fugaku knew perfectly well that the Uchiha were stubborn and refused to bow down.
--Never surrender!
--Even if we die, we'll drag Konoha down with us!
As the Clan Head, Fugaku had long been mentally prepared for death.
The entire Uchiha Clan would follow his footsteps, proudly embarking on this path of no return tonight, gladly walking towards an immensely tragic end, without regret.
Three tomoe appeared in his eyes, rotating around his pupils.
He turned around and saw his wife, tears streaming down her face, caressing her abdomen, where their child was.
That child had carried the couple's hopes for many days; now, it was to die before even being born.
Boundless grief brought blood tears to Fugaku's eyes, and the ends of the tomoe began to elongate and deform, transforming into a completely different shape.
[No matter what, harming children is unforgivable!]
[Now, not having a civil war is impossible. An Uchiha that loses its pride and spirit cannot survive either; it merely delays their death.]
[Yes, there really was no choice at all TAT]
[Good! Let's fight them!!]
[What if we go and never return? Then we go and never return!]
[The Uchiha must die magnificently and tragically like fireworks!]
[But I really don't want to see them disappear into Konoha's darkness, dying at the hands of their own... Wuwuwuwu...]
[Fugaku has it so hard; he's leading the entire Uchiha to their deaths...]
[Their child isn't even born yet, wuwuwuwu.]
[Wait a minute...? What is this???]
[Mangekyo! Our Fugaku has the Mangekyo!]
[Finally, there's a chance of winning! As long as the Mangekyo is still there, the Uchiha still have a chance!]
[Good, good, good! Activate the Gundam and wipe them out!]
Fugaku, descending the stairs, was clad in armor—a relic left by the previous Uchiha Clan Head, now worn by him.
The Uchiha reacted in various ways, but ultimately, they all chose to silently follow behind their Clan Head, holding torches and oil lamps, forming a long procession.
After leaving the Clan Compound, the crowd split into many smaller groups, quickly dispersing to the surrounding areas, taking up advantageous positions along the way.
They were very seriously preparing for war with Konoha.
The Anbu were also deploying, sending two individuals to block them, attempting to use verbal threats and moral blackmail to prevent the situation from escalating.
But those petty tricks could no longer intimidate the current Fugaku.
"Get out of the way!"
"If Konoha wants to wage war with us, then attack now!"
[Flip the table! Flip the table! Damn it, let's blow up Konoha!]
[Whether the Ninja World is chaotic or not, the Uchiha decide!]
[As expected of one of the oldest families in the Ninja World, their discipline and combat readiness are truly high.]
[Fugaku is so imposing! Completely different from before!]
[When an honest person is pushed to their limit, they truly kill.]
The perspective shifts to the Hokage Office, where the Hokage and the three Advisor elders were gathered, a rare occurrence, but all because Danzo had stirred up a major incident.
Hiruzen Sarutobi smashed his desk with one hand, angrily denouncing Danzo as truly insane.
Forcing the Uchiha into rebellion was unwise. This act would not only cause disunity among the Ninja Clans, but if a civil war truly broke out, Konoha's weakened state would only invite attacks from other Ninja Villages.
Handing over the children now and blaming everything on a spy would still look acceptable on the surface.
However, facing the Hokage's anger, Danzo showed no fear, instead eloquently spouting a barrage of twisted logic.
He declared that the Ninja Clans would not be dissatisfied; they would only think of participating in the division of the Uchiha's legacy within Konoha.
Furthermore, the Uchiha were not to be feared at all. The Sannin were all in the Village, and the major Ninja Clans stood with Konoha. There wouldn't be too many casualties, and even if there were, Konoha could quickly recover its fighting strength.
And the cost of all this was merely losing the Uchiha, that unstable factor.
[So Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't know about any of this the whole time!]
[That's obvious, how could Hiruzen agree to such a plan?]
[Now, whether he agrees or not, he has to ~]
[A spy? Only a dog would believe that!]
[Yeah, only Konoha's dogs would believe it.]
[Brothers, curse him, curse him hard.]
[Danzo, how can you be so confident saying that? The Uchiha fight two-on-one on the battlefield!]
[He's just used to treating the Uchiha like soft persimmons, I guess.]
[Heh heh, Fugaku activated his Mangekyo! You didn't know that, did you! He'll blow up Konoha then!]
[Huh? Tsunade is here? How could she resist not beating Danzo to death?!]
[Tsunade: Old man, I think you want to die.]
[Laughing myself silly, is this what information asymmetry is? Danzo thought Tsunade and Jiraiya would help the higher-ups, but these two are basically on the Uchiha's side.]
[Tsunade: One slap for the old man, two slaps for Utatane Koharu and Homura Mitokado, and for Danzo, it's the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.]
[Jiraiya:...Well done!]
By the time the Uchiha reached the Hokage Building, the Anbu and Jōnin Squad were already standing by in full force.
Many clan heads also personally led their people, seeing the Uchiha's stance, they knew this was serious.
The animator gave a shot of the anxious Inuzuka Clan Head; as Inuzuka Hana's grandfather, with his granddaughter missing, he was the most indecisive among the clan heads.
Minato, defying all odds, stepped forward to negotiate with Fugaku, but the latter gave a bitter smile and said,
"The Uchiha have no way back."
Fugaku took a step forward, his entire body's Chakra violently fluctuating, and his eyes transformed into Three Tomoe.
As if a stone had stirred a thousand ripples, all the Uchiha behind him also activated their Sharingan.
At least a hundred pairs of blood-red eyes glowed with an eerie red light, densely scattered in the dim environment, like a pack of fierce beasts, quietly awaiting their leader's command to attack.
[The Uchiha are really going head-to-head.]
[I declare the Uchiha to be the most principled clan in the Ninja World.]
[Old man, Inuzuka Hana is from your family, what are you watching the show for?]
[Minato, it's too late, things are already irreversible.]
[Yes, what choice did the Uchiha really have?]
[Holy crap—that's so cool!!]
[Damn it, this is too cool!!]
[naruto III's legendary scene, enough to be deified!]
[The wolf king and his pack are staring at you.]
[Being stared at by so many blood-red Sharingan, if it were me, my legs would be trembling.]
[Anbu: Do you think I'm not scared?]