Vol.43 Chapter 398 – The Origin of Konoha

Sasuke doesn’t want to hear Tobi’s “truth” about Itachi, but Tobi insists, arguing that there are too few people who know exactly what Itachi did. Since this is what Itachi wanted, he tried to kill Tobi to make sure that Sasuke would never know about the motives that drove him to do what he did. Sasuke can’t accept that Itachi did everything for the good of his brother and loses consciousness. When he regains consciousness, Tobi starts over. Itachi has eradicated the Uchiha clan, but he did so at the behest of the Village of the Hidden Leaf. Since this was only the most recent chapter in Uchiha history, Tobi began a story concerning the time before the founding of the Leaf, as well as his relationship as Madara to the future First Hokage.