Board Thread:Naruto Gaiden/@comment-25380140-20150514070725/@comment-28861328-20150516180446

Rayzur wrote: If its really shusui, why then does he want sasuke's head if he's become peaceful like itachi & shisui wanted?

I don't really find it all that surprising. Before Shisui jumped, he implored Itachi to stop the Uchiha coup. Itachi stopped the Uchiha with the Massacre. Sasuke then turned around and slaughtered Itachi out of revenge. For Shisui, who doesn't know the truth behind those events like 98% of the world, but does know that Itachi is a good person, what Sasuke did was blind murder, so I could see why he'd want vengeance.

Even discounting all of that, really? Why would he want Sasuke's head? Before we got Obito's backstory, our main villain --- the man who was holding the world by its throat --- was last seen as a little kid who cried way too much, and was walking old ladies across the street out of the kindness of his heart. Uchiha tend to go from kind natured to bat shit crazy in a split instant. Literally anything could have set him off.