Volume 2 Introduction

Itachishinden: An’ya-Hen

Itachi’strue story: Book of Dark Night

by Takashi Yano

(Onthe right flap of the book cover)

This is the story of the glory and thefrustration of a Shinobi who was called a genius, and of his determination.

(I haven’t seen this picture on theInternet yet, so I scanned it. Poor quality ‘cause… uhu…)

Tableof contents

Chapter4: The large bird* of the blue sky doesn’t forget to flutter about with injuredwings ()

Chapter5: The stricken crow decides to deal with the death of his comrades (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Chapter6: The golden hawk cries in the moonlit night wearing a coat of darkness (, 6, 7)

*鳳, ootori, could mean ‘large bird’ or ‘peng’(mythological Chinese bird that transforms from a fish) or ‘fenghuang’ (Chinesephoenix).

**The chapters are numbered as if book 1and book 2 were a unique book.

Charactersintroduction

Uchiha Itachi: Shinobi of the Village ofthe Hidden Leaf.

Sarutobi Hiruzen: Third Hokage.

Shimura Danzou: Head of the Anbu’s “Root”.

Uchiha Shisui: Shinobi of the Village ofthe Hidden Leaf.

Uchiha Sasuke: Itachi’s younger brother.

Uchiha Fugaku: Itachi and Sasuke’s father,Captain of the Konoha Military Police Force.

Uchiha Mikoto: Itachi and Sasuke’s mother.

Uchiha Izumi: Shinobi of the Village of theHidden Leaf.

Kohinata Mukai: Shinobi of the Village ofthe Hidden Leaf.

Sugaru: Shinobi of the Village of theHidden Leaf.

Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Inabi, Uchiha Tekka:Konoha Military Police Force.

(Here’s the picture… As you see it’sdifferent from the other one, I like this one more. Not perfect because it’ssplit into two pages and I don’t want to dismember my book just to take abetter photo of it.)

*As you see, Sugaru is written in katakana(スガル). This name means‘deer’ or ‘red-banded sand wasp’.

Summary

To erase all the conflicts from this world—Itachi, who had decided this as a child, graduated from the Academy as the topstudent, passing through the status of genin he became a chūnin at an early stage, he aims atbeing the first Uchiha to become Hokage, and runs at full speed through thepath of glory. Meanwhile, as the rivalry between the Uchiha clan, which istreated as the cause of the Nine-Tails attack, and the village increases theviolence, Itachi is forced to join the Anbu in order to become the ultimatestopgap measure. The requirement of his admission is the assassination of aspy, Byakugan and Gentle Fist user: Kohinata Mukai… Itachi’s harsh battle, andhis despair, begin…

—Nomatter what you’ll do from now on.

Iwill love you forever.

So, finally Izumi officially joined themain characters… And Kohinata Mukai as well, I guess he’s gonna play aninteresting role then.

Just like the other time, I’ll keep thispage updated with the translations as I complete the sections.

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