Izuna fell to his knees, crying. He was so distraught, he didn't even notice that he had pierced Renji with one of his kunai. Fortunately, it wasn't a fatal wound, and it paled in comparison with what Madara had accidentally done with his new eyes.

Itachi, meanwhile, was standing face to face with the head of the clan. Even though he ought to choose his words carefully, given that they were probably the last thing he would ever say, he couldn't stop himself. He simply couldn't hold back.

"I didn't trick you... You saw what you... wanted to see. You saw power... I tried to show you the pain... the terrible, terrible cost of that power... The grief, the guilt, the agony... and you... You saw it as a set of instructions!!" He hissed, shaking with rage as much as he was with sickness. "Had I known... had I understood what lengths you'd go to... I... I would have let you kill me... and taken the secrets of these... these eyes to my grave! The... The power your boys gained... was not... worth the cost... of their mother!!"