Itachi

s.h.i.+nden: An’ya-Hen

Itachi’s

true story: Book of Dark Night

by Takas.h.i.+ Yano

 (On

the right flap of the book cover)

This is the story of the glory and the

frustration of a s.h.i.+n.o.bi who was called a genius, and of his determination.

(I haven’t seen this picture on the

Internet yet, so I scanned it. Poor quality ‘cause… uhu…)

Table

of contents

Chapter

4: The large bird* of the blue sky doesn’t forget to flutter about with injured

wings ()

Chapter

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

Chapter

6: 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’ (Chinese

phoenix).

**The chapters are numbered as if book 1

and book 2 were a unique book.

Characters

introduction

Uchiha Itachi: s.h.i.+n.o.bi of the Village of

the Hidden Leaf.

Sarutobi Hiruzen: Third Hokage.

s.h.i.+mura Danzou: Head of the Anbu’s “Root”.

Uchiha s.h.i.+sui: s.h.i.+n.o.bi of the Village of

the 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: s.h.i.+n.o.bi of the Village of the

Hidden Leaf.

Kohinata Mukai: s.h.i.+n.o.bi of the Village of

the Hidden Leaf.

Sugaru: s.h.i.+n.o.bi of the Village of the

Hidden Leaf.

Uchiha Yas.h.i.+ro, Uchiha Inabi, Uchiha Tekka:

Konoha Military Police Force.

(Here’s the picture… As you see it’s

different from the other one, I like this one more. Not perfect because it’s

split into two pages and I don’t want to dismember my book just to take a

better 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 top

student, pa.s.sing through the status of genin he became a chūnin at an early stage, he aims at

being the first Uchiha to become Hokage, and runs at full speed through the

path of glory. Meanwhile, as the rivalry between the Uchiha clan, which is

treated as the cause of the Nine-Tails attack, and the village increases the

violence, Itachi is forced to join the Anbu in order to become the ultimate

stopgap measure. The requirement of his admission is the a.s.sa.s.sination of a

spy, Byakugan and Gentle Fist user: Kohinata Mukai… Itachi’s harsh battle, and

his despair, begin…

—No

matter what you’ll do from now on.

I

will love you forever.

Here it is… The info about the author is

the same as before. Once you remove the book cover, on the book itself there

are some panels from the manga (Itachi crying with the sword in his hands, and

Itachi perched on the light pole). Once again there are some quotes as well, this

time they’re taken from the manga (Fugaku telling Itachi he’s a kind child, and

Itachi inwardly telling himself that he should have let Sasuke know

earlier, but now it’s too late – both from chapter 590).

So, finally Izumi officially joined the

main characters… And Kohinata Mukai as well, I guess he’s gonna play an

interesting role then.

This book is longer than the previous one:

300 pages instead of 250. Plus, chapter 6 alone is exactly half of the book. I’ll start translating it this week, thus ending my week holiday, and I’ll try posting most of chapter 1 next Sat.u.r.day (soon I’ll create a masterlist-page for this novel as well).

Just like the other time, I’ll keep this

page updated with the translations as I complete the sections.

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