Half an hour later.

Uchiha Fugaku hurried home and after checking Giyuu's body, the seriousness on his face immediately relaxed a lot.

Uchiha Itachi's face darkened.

[Looks like I guessed it right...]

He was very familiar with that father's current look with slightly raised corners of his mouth, half-smile but not a smile. To the deep-thinking leader of the Uchiha clan, this was almost like laughing wildly in the sky.

"dad……"

Sasuke leaned in Uchiha Mikoto's arms, holding Giyuu's hand tightly, with tears in the corners of his eyes.

He asked with a pale face: "What happened to Yiyong?"

"You don't have to worry about him."

Uchiha Fugaku shook his head slightly: "Giyuu, this kid must have opened his eyes. This is a good thing."

"What?!"

Uchiha Mikoto lightly covered her mouth, her expression completely opposite to Fugaku's "secret joy", but similar to Itachi's expression.

Their mood at the moment was more confused and worried than happy.

"How can this be?"

As a Jonin of the Uchiha clan, Mikoto certainly understands what opening her eyes means.

The Sharingan, also known as the eye of spiritual reflection, will only awaken and evolve when the tribesmen endure a sudden stimulus that they cannot face, especially extremely strong negative emotions.

Uchiha Mikoto opened her eyes because she came home one day and found that her pet cat had died inexplicably, and she was extremely sad.

At that time, she was still a genin and thought it was just an accident. But when the pets of other tribesmen also died one after another, she guessed the truth that her parents did not want to say clearly——

These pets, who had grown up with them since childhood, also shouldered the ultimate mission of forcing them to open their eyes at the cost of death. Those who killed them were the parents and elders who urgently needed their children to open their eyes.

But even so, not all Uchiha children can open their eyes smoothly.

If you want the Sharingan to evolve, "opportunity" and talent are indispensable. For example, when Itachi was eight years old, he awakened the second Magatama Sharingan because his teammates were killed. He was already considered a peerless genius.

However, Yiyong is only five years old today!

With his character that usually remains indifferent when scolded by his father, what kind of stimulation did he receive to the point where he can open his eyes without even having chakra?

Mikoto felt a pang of self-blame when she thought that Giyuu might have endured a stimulus that he could not face at this stage but did not say it out loud.

I should work harder and communicate with that kid Yiyong...

"Nothing is impossible."

Fugaku pondered for a while and said: "Maybe it's because Giyuu didn't like to express since he was a child. He accumulated emotions, and maybe he suddenly exploded when he encountered some stimulus. This kind of thing has happened before, but those tribesmen are very old.

That’s all.”

Having said this, he turned to look at his eldest son, whom he was most proud of.

"Itachi, you should be with him at that time. What on earth were you doing before Giyuu fainted?"

Uchiha Itachi calmed down and restrained his subconscious impulse. He did not look at the butterfly specimen on the kitchen window sill, but said casually: "Cut vegetables. Just like usual."

Uchiha Fugaku opened and closed his lips, and then asked with some urgency: "What vegetables should I cut?"

"Salmon."

Itachi paused and suddenly came up with a hypothesis that was easier to convince others than the truth, "Could it be that Giyuu didn't want me to come into the kitchen and disturb him, but he wasn't good at expressing his anger, so he opened his eyes?"

"..."

Except for Sasuke, who was still a little confused, the other three people lowered their eyes and fell silent.

Fugaku and Mikoto are thinking about the connection between opening their eyes and the kitchen, but their motivations for thinking are obviously different.

And Itachi looked at Giyuu with his eyes closed tightly, and the turmoil in his heart was far more exaggerated than what he showed on his face.

To be fair, he didn't like his father's attitude towards Giyu, or even the clan's attitude towards the Sharingan.

For the sake of strength and the so-called "glory of Uchiha", these elders ignore the pain of the young clansmen, regard the price of opening their eyes as a sacrifice to gain strength, and glorify the self-repression that tolerates this price as the "measurement" of ninjas.

Anyone who can give up the things he loves and accept this pain in exchange for strength is a "capable" tribesman, so he has a bright future.

Most of the children of a clan grow up in this creed, and then they poison the next generation of clan members...

Under this weird and twisted logic, every tribesman is no longer a human being, but a tool for the evolution and reproduction of the Sharingan itself. It seems that in the eyes of the tribe, as long as it can evolve to the level of Uchiha Madara, all sacrifices will be made.

It's all worth it.

Right now, his father was excited about opening the eyes of the five-year-old Yiyong, which made him feel a strong anger.

Especially when Sasuke saw the desire and envy in his father's eyes looking at Giyu, his heart ached and he clenched his fists unconsciously.

[Sasuke, you have no idea what these eyes mean!]

Just when this weird silence continued, Yiyong's eyelids trembled. This was a sign that he was about to wake up.

"Yoyong!"

Uchiha Mikoto let out a cry of relief, but Uchiha Fugaku moved faster.

He seemed to want to express his love for the son who troubled him the most, and stretched out his hand towards Chao Yiyong's pillow, trying to help him up.

But just when he was about to meet Yiyong, the latter suddenly opened his eyes and grabbed his father's wrist very quickly.

Fugaku frowned.

He felt the pain, and Yiyong's strength was surprisingly strong. He continued to stretch his hand forward, but Yiyong's hand was like a tightened nut, preventing him from scoring another point.

【Are you kidding?】

Fugaku was shocked beyond words.

This means that without using chakra to enhance the strength of his hands, Yiyong's strength is not inferior to him?

What happened to this child?

Why is he so strong?

If this kid hadn't looked so much like Sasuke, he would have doubted whether the other person's surname was Senju or Uchiha.

Fortunately, Yiyong quickly saw who he was and let go of his hand without expression. The reason why he was alert was because his father's aura was the most unfamiliar to Yiyong.

He didn't say anything, and didn't know what to say. In fact, Yiyong was so distraught that he didn't know whether the voice he heard before he fainted was true or false, and he didn't know how to verify it.

After scanning everyone's face with his deep gaze, he stood up directly from the floor of the Japanese room and looked at the clock hanging on the wall.

Half past seven in the evening.

It was exactly half an hour since he put the ingredients into the stew pot.

"It's time to eat."

After finishing his sentence, he was about to go to the kitchen to turn off the gas stove, but Fugaku grabbed his arm and had to stop.

"etc."

Looking at his son with a plain face, Fugaku frowned, "Yiyong, do you know what happened to you just now? Do you know why you fainted?"

His son was not only not interested in foreign objects, he was also indifferent to his own body.

"I didn't stand firm."

"It's not as simple as not standing firm."

Fugaku pointed at Giyuu's eyes and patiently explained: "You awakened because of the power of the Sharingan eye, but there was not enough chakra to control it in the body, causing the body to be overloaded, and then you fainted, I understand.

?"

Uchiha Itachi and his mother looked at each other, and they both guessed what their father was going to say next.

"Although it is not clear yet that you are the Sharingan of the Magatama, as long as you learn to extract chakra, you will soon have the strength of a genin."

There was a trace of pride on Uchiha Fugaku's face, "This is the power of our Uchiha clan, and this is the limit of the strongest blood successor in the ninja world.

"And Giyu, I have never heard of a child with eyes your age. Maybe your talent is better than Shisui and Itachi..."

Uchiha Fugaku held Giyuu's shoulders, his eyes gleaming with anticipation.

"As long as you are willing to practice hard, you will soon become a powerful ninja in your own right. At that time, the clan will be under the pressure of the village..."

"No need to say it."

Giyuu was not affected by his father's almost abnormal fanaticism at all, and his eyes were cold, "I have no interest in becoming a ninja."

He remembered things very early, so he had seen Itachi come home stained with blood at a young age.

Especially when he was eight years old, Itachi often stayed awake all night, sitting outside the window and meditating, and occasionally secretly cried. Because he lost his teammates, but couldn't show vulnerability in front of his father, he could only be alone.

People bear all this silently.

Yiyong kept this incident in his mind and felt very uncomfortable whenever he thought about it.

The so-called ninja is a person who does dirty things for others for reward. Regardless of whether the target is innocent or not, as long as the employer has a request and it is not inconsistent with the interests of the village, a ninja will not hesitate to take a person's life and put himself as a human being in order to complete the task.

Put aside the emotions, call it the basic qualities of a ninja, and replace the basic conscience of a human being with professional ethics.
To be continued...