Chapter 224 On the Eve of the Coup

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Uchiha Itachi, a character in the Japanese manga "Naruto" and its derivative works. He is a genius ninja of the Uchiha clan in the Hidden Leaf Village of the Land of Fire, and the elder brother of Uchiha Sasuke. When he was young, he was a close friend of Uchiha Shisui. He was powerful and good at using illusions. In order to protect the village from war and for the glory of the Uchiha clan, he was forced to accept the mission of exterminating the clan ordered by Konoha's high-level Shimura Danzo, leaving his younger brother Sasuke behind and stimulating him to take revenge on himself. Later, he joined the Akatsuki organization as an undercover, codenamed Zhu (Suzaku). In the end, after injecting pupil power into Sasuke in the battle with his younger brother Uchiha Sasuke, he deliberately died in Sasuke's hand.

In the Fourth Ninja World War, he was resurrected by Kabuto Yakushi in the form of Impure World Reincarnation. In the battle with Uzumaki Naruto and Killer Bee, Itachi activated the Mangekyō Sharingan to trigger the crow with Shisui's left eye originally left in Naruto's body and used Kotoamatsukami on Itachi, thus freeing Itachi from the control of Impure World Reincarnation. Later, he joined forces with Sasuke to subdue Kabuto Yakushi, and finally the Impure World Reincarnation was lifted. After telling Sasuke all the truth, his soul ascended to heaven.

A young genius of the Uchiha clan, he is powerful and talented, and is one of the few people who are not bound by narrow tribalism. He joined the Anbu at a young age and served as a double agent for Konoha and Uchiha. There are parents and a younger brother in the family. His father, Uchiha Fugaku, is the patriarch of the Uchiha clan.

When he was young, he had short black hair and black pupils, long eyelashes at the upper and lower corners of his eyes, and delicate facial features similar to his mother, but he also inherited his father's tear trough (not nasolabial folds, which are located on both sides of the nose and extend downwards, so I would like to correct this). There are some differences in skin color between the animation and the comics. Itachi's skin in the comics is relatively fair.

He often wears ordinary ninja clothes with a round fan that symbolizes the Uchiha clan. When he is a little older, tear grooves appear on his face. Although his hair looks unchanged, the long hair is tied up (In the first part of the comics, Itachi's temples are relatively short, and the animation draws the length beyond his cheeks). The clothes are also constantly changing.

When he was in the Anbu, he wore the Anbu clothes on the basis of the Uchiha clan clothes and carried a samurai sword.

When he was in the Akatsuki organization, he wore the Akatsuki uniform with a black background and red patterns like other members of the Akatsuki organization. Under the uniform, he was just a simple short-sleeved black shirt, and his fingernails and feet were painted with dark purple nail polish.

In the Fourth Ninja World War, Itachi was resurrected in the form of the Impure World Reincarnation. He wore a red windbreaker and his skin color became pale because of the Impure World Reincarnation.

Personality characteristics

Itachi is a genius. He is wise, rational, and good at thinking. At the age of 7, he was praised by the third generation Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen for thinking from the perspective of Hokage. Therefore, Itachi's thoughts since childhood have not been bound by the boundaries of the Uchiha clan and the village. Some are taciturn and not good at communication. Therefore, Itachi's thoughts and maturity also made him seem a little isolated among his peers and even slightly older people during his childhood. Because he experienced the tragedy of the Third Ninja World War at the age of 4, he was very disgusted with war. In order to understand the world better, he constantly desires power and knowledge.

He has a spirit of self-sacrifice. Influenced by Shisui, he believes that ninjas are people who endure humiliation to achieve their goals. Therefore, he voluntarily became a sinner and exterminated his clan, carrying the hatred and darkness of the entire Konoha and Sasuke. Itachi is a person who loves the village very much. Even if this village has countless darkness and contradictions, he is still proud of being a ninja of Konoha. For the safety of the village and his younger brother, Itachi chose to hide the truth after exterminating his clan and became an S-level rebel ninja and joined the "Akatsuki" organization.

During his time as a spy, he was deeply confused and conflicted about his choice, but he still recognized himself and understood that a person's power is limited. He thought that he would fail if he wanted to solve everything by himself, and he had to work together with his partners to do what he should do. His thoughts deeply infected Naruto, who once wanted to save everything by himself. For this reason, facing Kabuto Yakushi who was confused about his identity, Itachi lent a hand and saved his heart.

Itachi loved his younger brother Sasuke deeply. In Sasuke's childhood memory, Itachi has always been a gentle, excellent, and loving brother. Itachi chose to exterminate the clan in order to protect the village, but only Sasuke, Itachi could not do it anyway, and said to Sasuke, "No matter how you go in the future, I will always love you deeply."

At the age of 4, he witnessed the third Ninja World War. For him who experienced war at such a young age, war was simply hell. This trauma made Itachi hate war and became a peace-loving man from then on.

At the age of 5, Itachi was alone at home to protect his infant brother Sasuke. Graduated from Ninja School at the age of 7, Itachi is a young genius of the Uchiha clan and Uchiha Shisui, and the two are also close friends.

Graduated from Ninja School with the first place in the school at the age of 7, and opened Sharingan in anger because his companion was killed by Obito at the age of 8. At the age of 10, he passed the Chunin Exam alone and was promoted to Chunin. Once he went wrong in a mission and was rescued by Shisui. At the age of 11, he joined the Anbu.

After joining the Anbu, Itachi and Kakashi usually served as guards for Hiruzen. One day, Itachi followed Kakashi to secretly complete the task of protecting Kai and others. During the period, he was impressed by Kai's captain's ability, and later successfully killed the ninja who was hostile to Konoha. He asked Kakashi if he would sacrifice his companions for the mission, and Kakashi replied that he would definitely protect his companions. At the end of the mission, Kakashi highly praised Itachi's ability.

On the eve of the coup

After Konoha experienced the Nine-Tails' destruction of Konoha, the top leaders suspected that the turmoil was caused by the Uchiha clan, so they carried out 24-hour surveillance of the Uchiha clan area at the suggestion of Shimura Danzo. The Uchiha clan members, dissatisfied with Konoha's basic policy of isolating the Uchiha clan on the grounds of establishing the Konoha Police Force, finally launched a coup, attempting to seize their own position in the political struggle led by Uchiha Fugaku, Itachi's father.

In the ninja drama of "Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm - Revolution", he competed with Shisui at the training ground, but was defeated by Shisui because of his absent-mindedness. A few days later, he quickly completed the task and rushed back to the village because of a bad premonition, and rescued Shisui who was ambushed by Danzo and others in the forest.

After losing his right eye, Shisui entrusted his left eye to Itachi in order to prevent his left eye from falling into his hands and to protect the name of the Uchiha clan. He also asked Itachi to use it for peace and to do his best to stop the Uchiha coup. He also asked Itachi to keep his affairs secret and finally jumped into the Nanga River and died. Itachi witnessed Shisui's suicide and opened the Mangekyō Sharingan. Itachi used the Mangekyō Sharingan to read the words left by the Six Paths Sage in the shrine that could only be read with the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Since Shisui committed suicide and Itachi did not attend the rally that night, members of the Konoha Police Force suspected that Itachi killed Shisui, but Itachi denied it.

The tragedy of the Uchiha

Shisui's suicide caused the Uchiha clan to suffer heavy losses and low morale, but the clan members still decided to launch a coup. Itachi reported the situation to the Konoha high-level officials. Among the high-level officials present, only the Third Hokage insisted on resolving the Uchiha coup through peaceful negotiations. However, since it was too late to change the situation, he finally asked Itachi to help him buy some time. In fact, there was no other way except to annihilate the Uchiha clan.

Shimura Danzo later found Uchiha Itachi and asked Uchiha Itachi to exterminate the entire clan in exchange for the life of Itachi's younger brother Uchiha Sasuke and keep it secret from Sasuke. He collected information that was unfavorable to Konoha as a traitor. In order to protect the village and prevent other countries from taking advantage of the situation, it was also for Shisui's will and his brother's life. Itachi was forced to accept the task of exterminating the clan in pain and suffering.

On the night of the coup, Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Obito (Itachi had found him and promised to help him avenge the Uchiha clan but forbade him to attack the village and Sasuke) joined forces to exterminate the entire clan. Uchiha Itachi said goodbye to his parents in tears. They entrusted Sasuke to Itachi and set a goal for his brother to avenge himself before fleeing Konoha. Before leaving, he disguised himself as an Anbu and found that Danzo wanted to kill Sasuke. He threatened Danzo that if he dared to hurt Sasuke, he would sell the village information to the enemy country. After escaping, he followed Obito's advice and joined the Akatsuki organization.

The third Hokage acquiesced to this fact and promised Itachi to protect his brother.

Fourth Mizukage

(This part of the experience is original to the animation)

After Itachi joined Akatsuki, he formed a partnership with Biwa Juzo, a rebel ninja from the Hidden Mist Village and one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen. During a mission to infiltrate the Land of Water, he was chased by the Fourth Mizukage Yagura. Juzo was seriously injured to protect Itachi. Itachi accidentally used Amaterasu with the Mangekyō Sharingan to kill Yagura, who had transformed into a tailed beast, and Juzo died from his injuries.

Partner

During a solo operation, he was targeted by Orochimaru, who was still a member of Akatsuki at the time, and wanted to take his body. Orochimaru failed to sneak attack Itachi, but was hit by Itachi's magic · shackle technique and could not move. During the seal, his left arm was cut off by Itachi's kunai, and he was saved by Kabuto Yakushi when he was about to be killed by Itachi. Orochimaru was eventually defeated by Itachi's illusion, forcing him to leave Akatsuki. After that, he participated in persuading Hidan (which is obviously different from the plot of Hidan joining Akatsuki when Akatsuki was founded in the game "Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution"), and formed a partnership with Hoshigaki Kisame, a traitor ninja from the Hidden Mist Village and one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

Land of Earth

After receiving the order from Tendo Pain, he came to the Hidden Mist Village with Kisame and Sasori to persuade Deidara, and fought one-on-one with Deidara, and easily subdued Deidara using illusion.

Return to hometown

After the establishment of Akatsuki, former member Orochimaru was killed by the Third Hokage in the plan to destroy Konoha. Uchiha Itachi and Kisame entered Konoha Village on the pretext of spying on Konoha (actually to warn Danzo not to attack Uchiha Sasuke) and fought with Hatake Kakashi and others for the first time. They used Tsukuyomi on Kakashi, causing Kakashi to have a mental breakdown (comatose for a month) and stimulated Sasuke who was blindly seeking revenge on himself, which eventually led to Sasuke defecting from the village to Orochimaru and seeking power. After that, he used Amaterasu to escape from the stomach of the giant toad summoned by Jiraiya.

Delaying time

When Kazekage Gaara was captured by Deidara and Sasori and the one-tail was taken away, Itachi fought with Kakashi, Uzumaki Naruto and others again in order to delay time. Because he was not in his original form, he was finally defeated by Naruto and others.

Entrusting Naruto

On the way to track Sasuke, Naruto met Uchiha Itachi. Uchiha Itachi cast an illusion on Naruto. In the illusion, he knew Naruto's determination to bring Sasuke back. He decided to entrust this matter to Naruto, and at the same time put the crow with Shisui's left eye into Naruto's body. Itachi predicted that once Sasuke killed him and fell, he would fight with Naruto in an attempt to retaliate against Konoha. In order to pursue powerful strength, Sasuke would definitely transplant his Mangekyō Sharingan. At that time, the crow would appear and cast Kotoamatsukami: Protect Konoha on Sasuke, forcibly changing Sasuke's will.

Farewell to Kisame

When Deidara and Sasuke were fighting, Deidara was comforted by Kisame when he blew himself up. Itachi said that Sasuke was still alive. Soon, before Itachi decided to start a brotherly battle with Sasuke, Kisame asked to fight Itachi, and Itachi reluctantly agreed. Kisame defeated Itachi but found that he had been hit by Itachi's illusion. Later, Itachi also asked Kisame to stop people other than Sasuke from interfering with the brotherly duel.

Brothers' duel

Fighting with Sasuke 3 days later, Itachi had no intention of killing Sasuke during the battle. He had already thought about how Sasuke would deal with him. He just pretended to dig out Sasuke's eyes to get Sasuke out of the curse seal of Orochimaru. Before he died, he pushed Sasuke to the limit. After Sasuke's trump card-Kirin was released, he successfully resisted this move with Susanoo. After that, Sasuke was exhausted, and Orochimaru in his body took the opportunity to occupy Sasuke's body, which happened to be Itachi's wish. He then successfully sealed Orochimaru with the Tenka Sword, and then burned the white snake incarnated by Orochimaru to death with Amaterasu. Then he smiled and tapped his brother's forehead, and asked Sasuke to forgive him for the last time.

The meaning of Naruto

After Itachi died, his eyes were transplanted by his younger brother Sasuke, who was pursuing power, to form a new eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. During the Fourth Ninja World War, Itachi was resurrected by Kabuto Yakushi with "Immortal Reincarnation" and acted together with Nagato who was resurrected by the Impure World Reincarnation. He met Naruto on the battlefield, and with the help of the power given to Naruto before, Kotoamatsukami escaped from the control of the Impure World Reincarnation, asked Naruto about Sasuke's dynamics and entrusted Sasuke to Naruto with peace of mind, and helped Naruto and Killer Bee to seal Nagato. Facing Naruto who had gained power and wanted to solve everything by himself, he warned Naruto: "It is not that people who become Hokage will be recognized by everyone, but people who are recognized by everyone can become Hokage." After that, Itachi destroyed Shisui's Sharingan to prevent it from falling into the hands of bad people.

Itachi decided to stop the Impure World Reincarnation himself, met Sasuke on the road, and was asked by Sasuke about the truth about himself.

Brothers join forces

Later, Itachi and Sasuke joined forces to fight against Kabuto in the cave, and the brotherly bond reappeared. Kabuto has been provoking the relationship between Sasuke and Itachi, hoping that Sasuke will stand on his side. Itachi told Sasuke not to listen to Kabuto and said the most touching sentence, "No matter how dark the village is, how many conflicts there are, I am Uchiha Itachi of Konoha."