My name is Uchiha Touhuan, and I beat the villagers so badly they cried out in pain.

"Sasuke...why do you think that?" Itachi Uchiha asked after a brief silence.

"The cause and effect of this matter is already very clear." Sasuke didn't understand why his brother would ask this. "It was these villagers who first spread rumors in the village to slander the village hero, Kakashi. The police department was just doing its job according to the law."

"Spreading rumors?" Itachi Uchiha asked in confusion. He only knew that the clan and the police force had used violence, but he did not know the specifics.

"Yeah, there were rumors all over the village recently that Kakashi was a serial killer and that he killed dozens of his teammates during the Third Shinobi World War," Sasuke said.

"But even so, the clan shouldn't use force against the villagers. We are ninjas, we can't use force against civilians," Itachi Uchiha said.

"This isn't right, brother. My teacher taught me that punishing someone without teaching them is cruelty, and punishing someone who is not reformed after being taught is the way of the king. If the garrison does nothing and just takes action, that would indeed be wrong. When the rumors first started spreading, the garrison had already enacted laws to clearly tell the villagers that what they were doing was wrong, but those villagers still did as they pleased. So it is the right thing for the garrison to take action and educate them."

"Is that how he taught you?" Itachi Uchiha gritted his teeth and said. He never expected that his younger brother, who used to be so obedient to him, would say such a thing. Was this still his cute younger brother?

"What's wrong, brother? Is what the teacher said wrong?" Uchiha Sasuke didn't understand why Uchiha Itachi was reacting so strongly. This was something that even a seven-year-old like him could understand.

"Of course not!" Itachi Uchiha was eager to steer Sasuke's thinking back and retorted on the spot, "The villagers are certainly at fault, but we can't just use violence arbitrarily. The police force could have used gentler methods. Using violence will only exacerbate the rift between the clan and the village."

"No, brother, it's no use." Sasuke shook his head seriously. "My teacher taught me that petty people fear power but do not cherish virtue. Only by making petty people understand the consequences of breaking the rules will they know the seriousness of the law."

"Sasuke!" Itachi Uchiha's expression turned extremely serious. "How could you call the villagers villains?"

"Brother, that's not what I meant." Sasuke quickly explained when he saw that Itachi was a little angry. "Of course, not all the villagers are villains, but those who were arrested by the police can definitely be called villains."

"Why?" Itachi Uchiha asked, frowning.

"My teacher taught me that believing what you hear is a sign of moral decay. People who readily believe and spread rumors are immoral. If someone has no morals, can't they be called a villain?" Sasuke explained.

"Enough!" Itachi Uchiha angrily interrupted Sasuke, who was thoroughly fed up with Sasuke's constant references to his teacher. "Didn't he teach you anything about the Will of Fire?"

Itachi's sudden outburst startled Sasuke. Sasuke looked at Itachi in confusion, not understanding why his brother would suddenly be so angry.

Itachi quickly realized he might have frightened Sasuke and hurriedly tried to comfort him, saying, "I'm sorry, Sasuke, I lost my composure. Didn't your teacher teach you the Will of Fire?"

Sasuke shook his head and said, "The teacher would occasionally mention it to me during class, but he always said that this kind of thing is taught every day at the Ninja Academy, so he didn't go into details with me."

[Uchiha Touhuan was indeed up to no good; while teaching these things, he didn't teach Sasuke the great Will of Fire.]

Itachi Uchiha thought to himself, then took a deep breath before saying, "Sasuke, do you think the Security Department's actions are in line with the Will of Fire?"

Sasuke Uchiha nodded and said, "Of course it fits. Where the leaves of Konoha dance, the fire will never die out. The firelight will continue to illuminate the village and allow new leaves to sprout. Kakashi was a hero who burned himself for the village, and while we are illuminated by the hero's glory, we must also protect the heroes who burned themselves for the village. If even heroes who burned themselves for the village can be slandered, then in the future, who will be willing to burn themselves for the village?"

"Is this how you understand the Will of Fire?" Itachi Uchiha asked.

"Is something wrong?" Sasuke asked, puzzled. "Then how do you understand the Will of Fire, brother?"

Itachi Uchiha opened his mouth, wanting to refute Sasuke's words, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't find any loopholes in Sasuke's words.

"Brother, if you were a hero who sacrificed yourself for the village, but after you burned everything for the village, you were slandered and your family was also implicated, what would you do?" Sasuke suddenly asked at this moment. After being taught by Uchiha Touhuan, Sasuke also had his own set of right and wrong. At the same time, he also realized that his brother did not seem to agree with these things, so Sasuke also wanted to persuade his brother.

"I..." Itachi was speechless for a moment when he thought of that scene. After a while, he finally spoke with some difficulty: "I will silently endure all of this, because we are ninjas. A ninja is someone who can endure everything."

"Brother, is that really what you think?" Sasuke asked. "You hesitated just now, didn't you?"

Itachi fell silent; he truly couldn't accept the scenario Sasuke had described.

"Brother, you can't accept this situation either, right?" Sasuke looked at Itachi Uchiha. "Our teacher once taught me, 'Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.'"

Itachi Uchiha remained silent for a long time before letting out a long sigh and saying to Sasuke, "I understand, Sasuke. You should go to sleep now. I have something to do."

The brothers' first conversation after not seeing each other for a long time ended without any resolution. After leaving Sasuke's room, Itachi Uchiha sighed, changed his clothes, opened the door, and disappeared into the night.

At this moment, at Uchiha Shisui's home, although he had already finished get off work, Shisui was still in his study repeatedly reviewing the testimonies of the three clans members who had colluded with Orochimaru, which he had interrogated with the Anbu who had come to investigate earlier that day.

A knock came at the door. Uchiha Shisui looked up, a puzzled expression on his face. Who would come looking for him so late?

Shisui put away the documents, arrived at his front door, opened it, and smiled upon seeing who it was: "Itachi? You're back?"

"Shisui." Upon seeing his elder brother, who was both his teacher and friend, Itachi Uchiha briefly smiled.

"Let's go inside and sit down." Shisui led Uchiha Itachi back to his home. Shisui pulled out a short tatami mat, and the two sat on the floor.