The Sandaime Hokage sat slumped in an old mahogany chair behind a large wooden desk heavily laden with scrolls, his expression serious yet deeply set with a resigned weariness, a young man before him on bowed knee.
Well Itachi have you made your decision his eyes meeting the Uchiha's "Yes Hokage-sama I choose the lives of my family before those of the village" a commotion could be heard outside the doors to the office and Uchiha Fugaku strode in a confident and condescending smirk on his face flanked on either side by two of the elite from the Uchiha clan Inabi and Yashiro.
"It would appear that I have been betrayed then, a most disconcerting experience." The old Hokage said, years of age dropping from his face and his serious yet kindly expression replaced with something closer akin to to granite or ice, anger was evident but not the burning fury of a young man this was cold, tempered and unstoppable.
"I gave you many opportunities to avert this Fugaku, to have peace between us" he said with a steel in his voice not heard since the days of the Shinobi wars, the Days of the 'God of Shinobi' before he became the venerable 'Professor'.
"Opportunities! You gave us nothing" he spat his voice reaching a trembling crescendo of rage "For years we Uchiha the proud elite have served this village with our blood our sweat and our lives and for what? Distrust and isolation you give us nothing and yet you bleed us dry of resources and clansmen.
"No more than any other clan, I assure you, the last several years have been hard on us all but I suppose the time for talking now is over, action is our only recourse"
It started slowly a light chuckle growing and enveloping the Uchiha Patriarch a manic hysterical laughter and between gasping breaths he croaked out "No Hiruzen the time for action is over aswell it was over before I even walked into this room, It was over the moment you locked eyes with my son Itachi and so you die an ignoble death as befits you a blind old man too weak to defend himself much less the seat he holds or the village he is charged to protect."
The old man stood calm in the face of his tirade even as his surroundings bled into the red and black world of Tsukuyomi, instead of the shocked or fearful looks he expected Itachi found only an inquisitive curiousity as he looked around the world of Tsukuyomi not even a hint of suprise as he found himself tied to a cross.
"For the next Seventy Two hours you shall be tortured and watch the village you love destroyed before you" Itachi recited with the expressionless monotony of a pre-prepared speech.
"I am afraid Itachi that you have quite over-estimated yourself and under-estimated myself, there is after all a reason why I am known as the God of Shinobi."
"Pride Itachi, I have earned mine and you, you have not and your father certainly has not a mediocre shinobi never progressing past tokubetsu jounin its no suprise really that he didn't notice that his trusted agents Inabi and Yashiro were replaced by my ANBU three weeks ago" seeing Itachi's eyes widen slightly at this the 'God of Shinobi' chuckled "Oh yes, do not think I was unaware of this betrayal your coup d'etat will fail, indeed it probably already has, for all your ability Itachi, despite your powerful doujutsu you were always blind"
With that parting comment Sarutobi disappeared in a puff of smoke and the faces of Inabi and Yashiro melted into the ANBU agents Tenzo and Inu and they decended onto the two unweary Uchiha.
Fugaku died in shock as he first felt a searing pain in his back and watched the shining steel of a standard issue Ninjato protrude from his chest, his death was quick but pointless there was no glory in it as he had pictured once in his youth, he didn't die in the arms of his wife years from now or even die protecting his children or clan, his avarice his hubris drove him to treason and he died a traitor's death, there would be no carving on the heroes monument for him, his child or wife he was just another footnote in the history of Konoha a traitor, a criminal.
Itachi turned in time to witness the lightning encased hand of his mentor and superior flying towards him, with no time or room to move he watched as his sharingan showed no possible respite or escape he would die, Kakashi's eyes steeled, his resolve absolute, the Uchiha before him was a disgrace to everything Obito stood for, death by Raikiri was not a comfortable one the lighting burned the nerves out and the heart beat so rapidly it destroys itself there was no surviving a hit no treatment could save you, a fitting treatment for one who attempted to kill the Hokage.
Hiruzen surveyed the carnage and destruction before him, they never stood a chance it was not just an idle whim which caused Tobirama-sensei to place the Uchiha in this clan compound far a way from the rest of the village, he long suspected the Uchiha would betray the village theirs was a bloodline without honour, no concept of valour they were theives who too often suffered from mental illness, a side effect of the sharingan a dangerously powerful Kekkei Genkai but no matter it would exist no more in the next few weeks the only Uchiha left were on assignment but they would be dealt with soon, no more would the Uchiha stain taint the tree of Konoha.
The attack went quickly there was no time for them to mount a defence, the explosion seals that the Nidaime Hokage had placed under the compound worked perfectly destroying the walls and killing the guards, further seals disrupted Katon jutsu and flared periodically disrupting any doujutsu bearers sight, outnumbered, unprepared and overwhelmed the Uchiha clan were given no quarter as Sarutobi himself lead the charge crushing dozens with his trusted companion Enma hundreds dead all for the pride and greed of but a few.
"I did not think you had it in you to so callously destroy so many innocent live Monkey"
"Then you are more so the fool than I thought Danzo I would do anything to protect Konoha and the 'Will of Fire', I was not made the Hokage because I loved Konoha the most or because I am the strongest but because I was the most ruthless, underhanded and perceptive, because I am a true Shinobi, I do not seek personal power like you Danzo only Strength and Peace for Konoha."
Walking away from the devastation and cripple with one parting warning "Should you cross Konoha, you will share their fate."