>>92873813It was some contrived overly dramatic way to awaken Saskue's sharangan, since it apparently needed to be done with the death of family or some shit, and saskue's bro knew saskue was too weak to kill his own family, so he killed them all, and made himself into the bad guy so saskue would go be an avenger and kill him.
If that sounds bullshit, well thats just naruto writing for you.
