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ITACHI: My foolish little brother.

SASUKE: Wow, Itachi.

You nailed every target, even the one

in the blind spot behind the rock.

All right.

Now it's my turn.

-No, Sasuke.

It's time to go.

-What happened to the new shuriken jutsu

you promised to teach me, huh?

ITACHI: It'll have to wait.

I have an important mission tomorrow.

I must prepare.

SASUKE: You're such a big, fat liar.

-Sorry, Sasuke.

Maybe some other time.

-Ow!

OK, just watch this.

-Hey, be careful!

SASUKE: Ah Ow!

[music playing]

-How come the one who twisted his ankle is

the one who's laughing?

Or maybe you were just looking for a way

to get out of walking home.

-That's not it.

I just can't stop thinking about how

I'm going to start at the academy tomorrow.

Now I'll finally get the chance to catch up

to you, big brother.

[music playing]

-Itachi, have you made up your mind yet?

If you haven't, then we will be forced to take action instead.

-No, please wait.

I need more time.

-It will be too late once the players

start to make their move.

The situation's extremely dire.

ITACHI: I realize that.

I shall settle this with my own hands.

FUGAKU: What?

Do you know what day tomorrow is?

I don't really think you understand your position.

-I'm setting out on a mission tomorrow.

-What are you talking about?

-I can't tell you that.

The mission is covert.

-Itachi, you also serve as the Uchiha clan's pipeline

to the village nerve center.

You know that, don't you?

-Yes.

-Well, make sure you don't forget it.

You will be at that meeting tomorrow.

SASUKE: Father only cares about you, Itachi.

-You probably hate me, huh?

It's all right.

People often think ill of shinobi.

It's only logical.

SASUKE: That's not how I feel.

-Being the best isn't all it's cracked up to be.

When you have power, you become arrogant and isolated

from the world, no matter how coveted and sought

after you are in the beginning.

But with us it's different because you and I

are flesh and blood.

I'm always going to be there for you, even if it's

only as an obstacle for you to overcome.

Even if you do hate me.

That's what big brothers are for.

YASHIRO: Is Itachi in there?

Come here.

We need to talk.

-What's wrong?

What are you all doing here?

YASHIRO: There were two people who

didn't show at yesterday's assembly.

-Want to tell me why you weren't there?

You're in the ANBU black ops now.

I know full well you can be called away

at the drop of a hat.

And that's the case your father was

trying to make when we asked why you weren't there.

-But we're not him, so you won't get any special treatment

from us.

-I understand.

Guess I should have been more careful.

Will that be all, gentlemen?

-Yeah, sure thing.

But you know what?

Before we go, there's just one other thing.

Know anything about Shisui Uchiha?

He killed himself in Nakano River.

-It's funny.

If I remember correctly, you kind of looked up to him

like an older brother, didn't you?

-How terrible.

Forgive me.

I haven't seen him at all recently.

What a tragedy.

-Yeah.

Well at this point, the police force

sees no other choice but to launch

an all-out investigation.

-What?

-This is a note Shisui left behind.

We've already had it fully analyzed.

There's no question this is his handwriting.

ITACHI: But if it wasn't homicide,

why the investigation?

-It would be no great feat for someone

who possesses Sharingan to copy his handwriting.

YASHIRO: The most talented of all our clan,

feared as Shisui the Teleporter.

He was a man who would do anything, take any mission,

if it was for the good of the clan.

-Hard to imagine a man like that throwing everything away,

don't you think?

-You shouldn't judge by appearances

or by your own preconceptions, either.

-We'll leave that with you for now.

Take it to ANBU black ops and put in a request for them

to start sniffing around on this, too.

ITACHI: Understood.

-Let's just hope we get a lead on this soon.

ITACHI: Why don't you just come out and say it?

You believe I had a hand in this, don't you?

-Yeah, that's right, little punk.

[fighting sounds]

-Like I said before, appearances and preconceptions

aren't going to tell you anything.

For instance, you've made the mistake

of assuming I'm a patient man.

The clan, the clan-- you overestimate your own abilities

with no idea of the depth of my own.

And look at you now, grovelling in the dirt.

-Shisui had been keeping an eye on you recently.

The strangeness of your behavior happening during your time

at ANBU couldn't get overlooked.

What are you playing at, you filthy little wretch.

-Obsessed with the organization, obsessed with the clan,

obsessed with our lineage.

A worthless compulsion that enslaves us.

All it does is limit our capabilities.

And that, in turn, leads us to fear what you don't understand.

FUGAKU: Stop it, Itachi!

That is enough.

What on earth is the matter with you?

Itachi, you've been strange lately.

ITACHI: Nothing strange about me.

I have my own duties to fulfill, that's all.

-So why didn't you come last night, then?

-To reach the next level.

-What are you talking about?

-I have had enough of this.

There's no hope left for this pathetic clan.

The people of this clan are all the same.

You focus on the trivial and lose sight

of what's most important.

Change is impossible in this fog of ignorance.

How can we evolve when regulation

is the only thing we've ever known?

-Such arrogance!

-That's enough.

If I hear one more word of this nonsense,

I'll have you thrown behind bars!

Well?

What's it gonna be?

-I can't take this anymore.

Please, sir, just give me the order.

SASUKE: Big brother!

You have to stop!

-I'm not the one who killed Shisui,

but I apologize for the words I have spoken.

I'm truly sorry.

-Well, I guess he has been pretty tired lately.

Up to his ears in missions from the ANBU black ops.

-But Captain.

FUGAKU: ANBU are under the direct control of the Hokage.

Even if you wanted to arrest one of them,

you would need to get a warrant first.

As for Itachi, I take full responsibility for him.

You've my word.

-Very well, sir.

-Inside, Itach.

MIKOTO: Itachi?

I'll just leave your food here.

I know you're busy with work, but I really

wish you'd join us for a meal once in a while.

-Thank you, Mother.

SASUKE (VOICEOVER): I shouldn't have

stayed to practice with my shuriken.

Now I'm totally late.

What was that?

I could have sworn there was someone there.

What is this?

Oh, no.

Father and Mother!

-Big brother!

Father and Mother are both-- I don't understand!

Just who could do something like this?

-My foolish little brother.

Mangekyo Sharingan.

-He's a worthy son.

-All our father ever talks about is you.

-No!

Stop it!

Itachi, why are you showing me all this!

Why?

Why did you do this?

Itachi, why?

-To test the limits of my ability.

SASUKE: To test your ability.

That's why you did this?

You're telling me that that was the reason that you butchered

every single member of our clan.

-It is of great importance.

-No.

This isn't like you, big brother.

It's not.

-I have acted like the older brother

you desired for one reason-- because I wanted

to discover how powerful you were.

I needed to find a worthy opponent

to test the limits of my own abilities.

You have that unique potential.

Now I've made you hate me.

Now you have the desire to defeat me,

which is exactly why I'm going to allow you to live.

Don't you see?

It's all for my own benefit.

Just like me, you may be one of the few people who

are able to use Mangekyo Sharingan.

However, there is one big catch to it.

Take the life of your best friend.

You must kill him.

Kill him just like I did.

-You're saying that was you, Itachi?

You killed Shisui?

-I did.

That's how I obtained these eyes.

In the main hall of Nakano Shrine,

underneath the seventh tatami mat from the far right

is the clan's secret gathering place.

There you will find a secret document,

an explanation of the Uchiha clan's jutsu.

It tells of the visual jutsu's true purpose.

If you discover how to activate it,

you will be the third person to obtain the Mangekyo

Sharingan, including myself.

To ensure that happens, that's enough reason to let you live.

Oh, don't worry, Sasuke.

You're not worth killing.

If you wish to kill me one day, in hate and revenge,

surviving in such an unsightened manner as this, by all means,

flee.

Cling to your wretched life.

And then, one day, when you possess the same eyes,

come back and face me.

[music playing]

How much can you see it with those Sharingan of yours?

SASUKE: How much can I see with these?

What I'm seeing right now, Itachi, is you dead at my feet.

-You see me dead, do you?

Well, then, go on, make it happen.

-Chidori.

Chidori spring.

-You have gotten strong.

-Listen close, Itachi.

I have one final thing to ask of you.

[music playing]

-The exact same words as before, and the crows, as well.

Starting with your favorite genjutsu farce, huh?

-So what do you want to know?

It won't be the last thing, but I'll hear what you have to say.

-Let me try this again.

-Genjutsu.

SASUKE: I have one last thing to ask.

You hear me, you bastard?

Answer my question.

The pain in your chest won't stop until you do.

-You deliberately avoided a vital spot.

-Remember what you said?

-If you discover how to activate it,

you will be the third person to obtain the Mangekyo

Sharingan, including myself.

To ensure that happens, that's enough reason to let you live.

-The third one, the other one with that Sharingan,

who in the Uchiha clan obtained it?

-But why?

Why do you even concern yourself with such a thing?

-I'm going to go kill him after you.

That is why.

-Kill him?

-Back when you slaughtered our entire clan,

you mentioned the existence of another.

The other Uchiha that you didn't kill,

he must have been a co-conspirator because even

you couldn't have taken down the Leaf Police Force alone.

-So you figured it out.

SASUKE: Who is it?

-Madara Uchiha.

-With that vision of yours and a chakra

more ominous than my own, you're the spitting image

of Madara Uchiha from the elder days.

-Never heard of him.

Am I supposed to care?

-Madara Uchiha.

ITACHI: One of the founders of the Hidden Leaf

Village, the man who first awakened the Mangekyo

Sharingan.

[music playing]

ITACHI (VOICEOVER): Madara Uchiha--

the only man who was able to uncover

the other secret of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

SASUKE (VOICEOVER): If it's Madara,

one of the founders of the Hidden Leaf,

he should be dead by now.

Who could believe a story like that?

ITACHI (VOICEOVER): Madara is still alive.

Whether you choose to believe that is entirely up to you.

SASUKE: Next time-- "The Light and Dark

of the Mangekyo Sharingan."

ITACHI (VOICEOVER): Let me tell you a little bit

about the past.