Chapter 34 - Awaken [1] (2/2)

Despite the fact that my Uncle killed many people, he never was a really bad person ''Mom... Uncle Tajima is probably now in a better place... he wouldn't want you to be like that right? Uncle would want you to be strong, stronger than anyone else!''

My mother looked at me and despite the sadness, she somehow smiled and said ''Haha, it's funny that I was comforted by my son when it was my job to do it, right? Well, the clan still needs someone to manage it''

I smiled a little and I stood with my mother for a bit before going away, I did what I wanted, I'm now going to Madara and Izuna courtyard.

The first thing I saw was an enraged Madara hitting the sandbag continuously with bloodied fists, I hurriedly came near him and stopped him, looking at me, he yelled ”Why are you stopping me, I want to train!''

His eyes slowly became red as blood, three-tomoes inside it as tears fell down continuously from his eyes, Izumi was also silently looking towards me and Madara.

I shook my head as I replied ”Madara and Izuna, I know it is hard for you to lose your father, that you two loved so much, however, do you think this is how he wanted both of you to be like? This isn't how things work!''

Then, I continued ''On the other four lands, many people is dying everyday and their family has to deal with that, what happened to your father is sad but even if you want to get stronger, it isn't just physically, your mind need to get stronger too, with a bad mind and thoughts of revenge, you will get obssessed and this isn't... good''

After saying this, I teleported and simply went to sleep as in the blink of an eye, the night passed and the day of funeral arrived, the entire clan felt sad, differently from the previous Clan Leader, Uncle Tajima always treated all clansmen good, the previous happy atmosphere of the Uchiha Clan had long turned gloomy.

We all looked as some clansmen brought the coffin where the body of Uncle Tajima, without one of his arms, stood with his eyes closed, despite how much I prepared my mind to takes this moment, I couldn't take it as tears fell, with my eyes closed, I simply stood silently, crying.

Both Madara and Izuna were staring lifelessly to their father corpse, they then looked to their nii-san and for the first time, they noticed that despite how strong he acted, he still cried and both of them felt ashamed that their nii-san comforted them with a smile, even if he was suffering like that.

As Shiro opened his eyes, Izuna said as his voice trembled in the face of the pressure that his nii-san unknowingly unleashed ”Y-Your eyes, Shiro-nii-san...”