Quote Originally Posted by Assertn
I love that "everything you believed to be right is a lie" thing they did. It's kinda like in DBZ...when you find out after watching all of DB that Goku was actually sent to earth to destroy it all along. This brings it back to the first arc, where the line between good and evil was blurred and battles were merely between ninjas of conflicting interests.

Edit:
Rereading the chapter....I thought of something else....
Itachi became a spy under someone's orders, and likely killed the clan on someone's orders. Obviously, the 3rd would not have had a part of it...I wonder if Itachi was a member of roots?
That's an incredibly compelling speculation. For awhile it seemed like the importance of roots was going to fade into the background, never to be brought up again. But this would indeed make sense. Itachi already had the background necessary to be a member of roots, seeing as he was an anbu squad leader.

In keeping with the darkening themes the story seems to be venturing into, it would be nice if this eventually found it's way into the development of our main character. Naruto needs to hear this story. Sure, he's willing to die to protect the village, but is he willing to be hated?