itachi v2

“You got a sec?” Shisui called out.
The meeting over, Itachi was walking home a little ways behind his father.
Fugaku looked back, curious at Itachi’s suddenly stopping, and saw his son’s
good friend there. “What’s wrong, Shisui?”
“I wanted to talk with your son for a minute.”
Fugaku looked at Shisui and Itachi in turn, before saying simply, “Don’t be
too late,” and walking off into the night by himself.
“Shisui.” Itachi said his friend’s name once they were alone together.
“I understand how you feel so well, it hurts.” His friend’s brow furrowed,
and he looked vexed from the bottom of his heart. “Yashiro’s the leader of
the group pushing for a coup. To that man, all the people of the village are
enemies.”
The abuse Itachi had been showered with earlier still echoed in his ears. He
lowered his face, as if to look away from the image of Yashiro that rose up in
the back of his mind.
“Since it looked like you were going into the Anbu, I did some
maneuvering of my own.”
“What do you mean?”
“I talked directly with the Hokage, and obtained the authority to
independently investigate the true state of affairs in the clan.”
What did investigating the true state of affairs in the clan mean? Itachi was
confused, not immediately understanding what his friend was saying; Shisui
opened his mouth again, as if understanding that.
“I’ve been taken off my regular duties, to make sure the clan doesn’t get
any more riled up. Their dissatisfaction is going to explode. The Hokage
promised that I could act at my own discretion to prevent that, and gave me a
position in the Anbu. But that’s just in name only. In the end, I report directly
to the Hokage, so your dad and the others don’t know about my joining the
Anbu. Even inside, only a few people know.”
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