Original subtitles

[music playing]

ITACHI: You have gotten strong.

-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.

[music playing]

Back when you slaughtered our entire clan,

you mentioned the existence of another-- the other Uchiha

that you didn't kill.

He must've been a co-conspirator because even

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

-So, you figured it out.

-Who is it?

-Madara Uchiha.

-With that vision of yours and a chakra

more ominous than my own, you are the spitting image

of Madara Uchiha from the elder days.

-Never heard of him.

Am I supposed to care?

Madara Uchiha.

SASUKE: One of the founders of the Hidden Leaf

Village, the man who first awakened the Mangekyo

Sharingan.

-A founder?

But Madara should be long dead by now.

Are you just playing with me?

-Madara is still alive.

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

-Are you out of your mind?

-Each of us lives dependent and bound

by our individual knowledge and our awareness.

All that is what we call reality.

However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal.

One's reality might be another's illusion.

We all live inside our own fantasies.

Don't you think that's true, Sasuke?

-Just what are you trying to say?

-That thinking Madara is dead is merely an arbitrary assumption

that you've made, in exactly the same way that you once

assumed that I was your kind and gentle older brother.

ITACHI (VOICEOVER): I have acted like the older brother

you desired for one reason-- because I wanted

to discover how powerful you were.

[music playing]

SASUKE: What happened that night?

I was so young.

I thought it was all merely an illusion.

I desperately wanted to believe that I was only

trapped in a horrible genjutsu.

But there was no mistake!

I was trapped in reality!

My eyes are not the same as they once were.

My Sharingan can see through genjutsu.

-You speak with such confidence, as you always do.

Well, for now, I'm willing to take your word for it.

SASUKE: I'm done playing along with your parlor tricks.

-Confidence is fine.

But Sasuke, it appears that you still

do not possess the same eyes as I do.

And one day, when you possess the same eyes,

come and face me.

So you just couldn't do it.

Couldn't kill your best friend.

And you dared to come here to face me with such weak resolve?

-All right.

Then just hurry it up and try to kill me

with your Mangekyo Sharingan.

Or am I too strong now for you to dare

to test your capabilities against mine?

-Such confidence.

WHITE ZETSU: Neither of them have

budged for the longest time.

BLACK ZETSU: They're feeling each other out

with their genjutsu.

-The Mangekyo Sharingan are very special eyes.

[music playing]

The moment they awaken, they progress toward darkness.

And the more they're used, the faster they're sealed.

-What does that mean?

-The Mangekyo eventually lose their light.

-Blindness.

So that's the price of obtaining the power

to control the Nine-Tails, is it?

ITACHI: Hmm.

So you did as I instructed and read the lithographs

in the secret Uchiha meeting place.

[music playing]

SASUKE: Exactly who and what is Madara?

-The first man ever to tame the Nine-Tails with his eyes,

an immortal man who is both my comrade and my mentor,

and the exceptional man who is the only one

to uncover the other secret of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

That is Madara Uchiha.

-Did you say the other secret of the Mangekyo Sharingan?

What other visual power does it possess?

Can it do more than just tame the Nine-Tails?

-Yes.

Another secret.

The most important one of all.

-Most important one?

Tell me.

What is it?

Answer me!

-Let me tell you a little about the past,

particularly the history of the Uchiha.

Back then, Madara had a younger sibling, a brother.

From the time they were children,

the two tested and honed their skills

by competing with each other.

Eventually, they both awakened their Sharingan,

and they made names for themselves

both inside and outside the Uchiha clan.

The two continued to push each other,

seeking to sharpen and advance their visual prowess.

And then--

[screaming]

the brothers killed off those most precious

to them and in doing so finally awakened the Mangekyo

Sharingan.

[music playing]

It had never before been seen among the Uchiha clan.

The brothers used their visual prowess to unite the clan,

and Madara was named its new leader.

However, Madara began suffering strange physical symptoms.

As I just told you, this eye is special.

The more you use it, the quicker it

becomes sealed, with the end result being total darkness.

That is the fate of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

In exchange for obtaining incredible visual prowess,

that power shuts itself down, cutting off the light forever.

In order to try to reclaim the light,

Madara tried all the methods he could find.

But nothing was effective.

He became lost in despair and, haunted by the Mangekyo

Sharingan, desperately seeking the light--

-Forgive me.

[screaming]

He stole both eyes from his younger brother.

And so Madara obtained new light.

And after that, never again would the light

fade from his eyes-- an eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

It is said that by finding a new host,

his younger brother's eyes obtained eternal light.

And another change emerged.

A distinctly new, unique visual jutsu was born from those eyes.

However, this exchange can only take

place between clan members, and not

everyone attains new powers from this method, either.

These truths were only gradually discovered over time,

after countless sacrifices.

That is the other secret of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Madara used his newfound powers to take control

of one ninja clan after another.

Ultimately, he formed an alliance

with the most powerful clan, the Senju clan of the forest,

and established a new organization.

Later, he clashed with the leader

of the Senju clan, the future First Hokage,

over the course the village would take.

He may have lost the battle over leadership,

but Madara still lives on with his visual prowess intact.

He's been hiding himself among the shadows,

creating a new organization-- the Akatsuki.

16 years ago, when the Nine-Tails attacked the Hidden

Leaf Village, it was Madara's doing.

But like Madara's bid for power, the Fourth Hokage

stopped that, too.

In short, Madara is a bitter, defeated loser now.

He's not worthy or capable of grasping

Uchiha's true greatness.

I am the one.

I shall surpass Madara and achieve real greatness!

And now I can finally obtain power that exceeds Madara's.

Sasuke, you are the one who will become my new light!

You have my spare eyes!

Activating the Mangekyo Sharingan always

required an Uchiha to take down a friend.

Parents and siblings killed each other

to obtain eternal visual prowess.

We're both from a tainted bloodline

that's advanced its strength this way throughout the ages.

And from the day you were born into our clan,

you have been unavoidably entwined

with this blood-soaked fate.

Now, come, my little brother!

I shall kill you to obtain my true transformation

and finally be free from our clan's fate!

I shall break loose from all the restrictions

and free myself from all the constraints that bind me!

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.

We are each other's spares!

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.

Everything I've done is for me, for my benefit.

This is the true bond between the brothers of the Uchiha!

ITACHI (VOICEOVER): It seems you are able to see my inner self.

-It was all just for this.

My name is Sasuke Uchiha.

I hate a lot of things, and I don't particularly

like anything.

What I have is not a dream because I

will make it a reality.

I'm going to restore my clan and destroy a certain someone.

[music playing]

I've finally arrived.

The moment to achieve my goal is here at last.

ITACHI: You said that you see me dead at your feet.

But you cannot possibly win against me and my Mangekyo

Sharingan.

Unfortunately, your goal will end as mere fantasy

and vanish like a dream upon waking because you do not

possess my visual prowess.

[music playing]

You are still too weak.

You don't have enough hate.

And you know something?

You never will.

[music playing]

SASUKE: No matter how much you use those eyes of yours,

I'll use my hatred to turn fantasy into reality.

And your reality is death.

SASUKE (VOICEOVER): Even during all

that, he was able to weave signs for a shadow clone?

[music playing]

-You ran the chidori through it.

[music playing]

Forgive me, Sasuke.

This is my reality.

Give me your light.

[screaming]

[music playing]

WHITE ZETSU (VOICEOVER): That ended quicker than I expected.

Itachi has won this.

Sasuke is completely paralyzed.

Itachi can do whatever he wants to him now.

BLACK ZETSU (VOICEOVER): Do you really think so?

WHITE ZETSU (VOICEOVER): Of course.

There's no way an ordinary Sharingan can

win against the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Next time on Naruto Shippuden-- "Amaterasu!"

We'd better not take our eyes off of this one.