Witty Naruto Life

Chapter 100 Uchiha: Let’s go, Sasuke, let’s go home
Hongdou and Xiyan left with the report.

After a brief discussion, Xiyan decided to handle the matter specially and get it done on the same day, leaving the opposition in the Anbu no chance to react.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Konohamaru sat in a room under pale light.

The atmosphere was somewhat tense, and Konohamaru inevitably looked nervous. He began to tap on his toes and looked around. Naruto noticed him and asked with a smile:

"Have you thought of a headline?"

"what?"

Konohamaru was a little surprised. It turned out that Naruto's brother also wanted to make this matter into news?
"How about 'The Uchiha clan leader takes his clan members home'?" Naruto randomly came up with a title. Sasuke, who was standing beside him, looked unhappy and said to Naruto in a deep voice, "Stop joking, Naruto. There's no way this kind of thing would make the news."

"Why not? This marks the return of the Uchiha clan to the Konoha ninja clan and their entry into the historical stage." Naruto said lightly. He considered many aspects, especially Sasuke.

Not only do we have to untie his knot, but we also have to pave the way for him.

Of course, we have to fight the war of public opinion. There is no reason not to fight it. Just like when Naruto saved the children, his popularity began to rise.

In the original work, the reason why the villagers hated Naruto was largely because the Konoha high-level officials did not do a good job of public opinion work, but Naruto would not make this mistake.

Konohamaru seemed to be lost in thought, and the three of them fell silent again, staring at the pale ceiling, waiting for Yugao to return.

A long time passed.

"Snapped!"

The door of the room was blown open by a strong wind, and Uzuki Yugao walked in slowly with several ANBU members. Looking at the three people, the leader Yugao said to them: "The procedure is completed, but we have to move quickly to prevent others from reacting."

"Yeah." Naruto knew that Xi Yan must have exploited a program loophole to prevent any disputes. He signaled the two to follow him, and the group hurried to the secret room where the "Root" items were stored.

"Are these all your men?" Naruto asked, looking at Xiyan's men as he opened the door.

"Yes, don't worry."

Naruto looked away, and with a "click", the secret room opened. Xiyan signaled the three to wait for a moment, and she and her men went in to get it.

Soon, Xiyan and her men came out with several vase-sized sealed jars. The sealed jars were not transparent, but when they were taken out, Naruto's eyelids couldn't help but twitch.

These jars were quite large, held one in each hand by several men. It was hard to imagine that they were filled with scarlet eyeballs.

This is only part of it, the other part was taken away by Obito.

"The most delicious episode..." Naruto complained in his heart, and restrained the curiosity urge to open it and take a look. Yugao beside him wanted to ask Sasuke to count them, but was subconsciously stopped by Naruto.

"Um...don't worry about it for now, we'll confirm it later."

He vaguely felt that asking Sasuke to open up immediately might be too much for him to bear, and he needed some psychological buffer time.

But Sasuke obviously had a different opinion, and said in a decisive tone: "Let's confirm it here so we don't have to run back and forth."

His brows revealed his hostility towards the former Anbu. Their masked attire reminded him of the man with arms full of Sharingan.

It made him feel sick to his stomach.

"Let's look at it here, there's no one around." Xiyan signaled a few people to put the sealed cans in front of Sasuke for counting.

When placing it, Konohamaru clearly heard the sound of spherical objects colliding with each other inside the jar, and his heart skipped a beat.

"Huh..." Sasuke let out a long breath and opened one of the jars.

An indescribable smell hit them in the face, like the slight rotten smell of tissue that had been sealed inside for a long time, with a pungent smell of formaldehyde. Naruto and Konohamaru frowned immediately when they smelled it.

Strangely enough, Sasuke showed no reaction, seemingly immune to the smells.

He just stared at those eyes closely, and a thin layer of mist soon appeared in his pupils.

To outsiders, these were just some eyeballs heading in a corrupt direction, but to Sasuke, these were beloved friends and relatives with whom he had spoken and even formed a bond.

He was a little dazed for a moment, watching these eyeballs slowly turn towards him, looking at him with worry, concern and curiosity.

Sasuke looked up, and in a daze, figures wearing flaming fans appeared around him. They surrounded Sasuke, their eyes wide open, patted his shoulders, and asked:

"Sasuke-chan, what's wrong with you?"

"Master Sasuke, are you okay?"

"Sasuke! Sasuke!"

This is an illusion, these people are all phantoms.

Sasuke thought so, but still stared at them blankly, and slowly said:

"I'll take you home."

Everyone was stunned at first, and then started chattering around him again.

"Yeah."

"Come on, Master Sasuke, let's go home."

"Sasuke~Sasuke~"

At the same time, everyone looked at Sasuke quietly. He opened the sealed jars one by one, his lips moving slightly, holding the edge of the jar, as if he was saying something.

Xiyan was a little confused. She looked at Naruto, but the latter did not respond. He just looked at Sasuke thoughtfully and remained silent.

"From the few words I just heard, Sasuke seems to be talking to the Uchiha clan members..." Naruto thought to himself, wondering whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

Having hallucinations doesn't seem to be a good thing, but Sasuke was originally full of negative energy. Now he doesn't seem to be violent because of this, but has entered another more indescribable state.

"Crack!"

Suddenly, a sudden mechanical sound was heard in the quiet air.

Everyone immediately turned their eyes to Konohamaru. He had a camera in his hand and took a picture of Sasuke counting the Sharingans.

Sasuke didn't seem affected, and Konohamaru looked at the several Anbu in front of him and explained, "I just found this scene very touching, so I took a picture of it."

"Uh... why do you say that?" An Anbu next to Xiyan couldn't help but ask.

"He must have thought of his family when he saw these eyes," Konohamaru's slightly childish voice echoed in the corridor.

"Actually, I understand him very well. I've been flipping through my grandfather's photo album from time to time recently. Sometimes I'll just take out his picture and hang it in my room, imagining whether he will come out at night and talk to me." As he spoke, a hint of sadness appeared in his expression.

Yugao and several Anbu looked at each other, not understanding what Konohamaru meant, but Naruto beside them suddenly realized.

Life cannot escape death, so people will find various ways to express their grief.

Someone's dog, which they had raised for a long time, died of old age. They missed it so much that they printed out photos of it and put them in a photo frame. They would take it out and look at it from time to time. This was a form of remembrance.

Before Naruto traveled through time, he experienced his grandmother's terminal cancer. Before she passed away, his grandmother once told him that if he didn't scatter flowers for her properly when visiting her grave in the future, she would run up from below and hit him on the head.

So every year after that, when visiting the graves on Qingming Festival, Naruto would deliberately scatter the flowers in a mess.

Does this work? No, but it expresses Naruto's longing for his family.

Sasuke's situation is even more special.

After his clan was exterminated, he completely skipped the stage of remembrance and instead started on his own journey of becoming stronger.

This resulted in him lacking a window to vent his emotions for a long time.

When he was in Konoha, besides his missions, he practiced. After he ran to Orochimaru, this process began to intensify. After killing Itachi and being revealed the truth by Obito at light speed, he began to run in the direction of obsession.

Uchiha Sasuke was lonely from beginning to end.

In Naruto's opinion, now that Sasuke saw those eyes, he was actually barely establishing an emotional connection with his clan members, giving him a window to vent.

If he ever felt lonely and sad, he could at least go to the Uchiha graveyard and talk to his clansmen about his true feelings, instead of shouting, "I want to create a world with Uchiha!" and then killing his master and his mistress.

But these are just Naruto's thoughts. It's hard for ordinary Anbu to understand. They have been domesticated into killing machines, so they are puzzled by Sasuke's actions.

After a while, Sasuke resealed all the jars. His eyes were slightly red. He forced himself to cheer up and said to everyone:
"Set off."

Everyone nodded and headed towards the Uchiha territory with the jars.

Along the way, everyone was silent. The surrounding scenery began to change from lively to deserted. The population gradually became sparse, and the woods extended in both directions.

The Uchiha clan's land had not been repaired for a long time, and most places were in ruins. After the clan house was sealed, Hiruzen arranged a residence for him in Konoha Village that was similar to Naruto's, but it was only a place to live.

The Uchiha clans were buried nearby their clan's territory. Due to the distance, Sasuke rarely visited them and was obsessed with revenge.

The group appeared at the nearby Uchiha cemetery. After taking a few steps, thick dust rose into the sky.

"Clean the cemetery first."

Naruto stood in the middle of the team, setting an example, and everyone soon followed suit. At this time, they heard a sound coming from nearby.

rustling...

Naruto turned around and saw Sakura, with her hair tied in a high ponytail, walking towards the group. She exchanged glances with Naruto and said, "Everyone, I have something to talk to Naruto about."

She seemed to have learned of Naruto's whereabouts from somewhere else. The latter nodded, signaling everyone to continue cleaning, while she followed Sakura and walked away.

Hongdou looked in the direction of the two of them and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

It was a strange feeling, but Anko didn't understand why she felt lost.

When they reached a deserted place, Sakura turned to Naruto and said, "Two things. One, Hiruzen's funeral will be tomorrow. Two, after the funeral, you and Jiraiya will go find Tsunade."

"I ran into Jiraiya today... well, I've been running into him a lot lately, and he asked me to tell you something... why are you staring at me?"

"Huh? Oh, it's okay."

Naruto had been staring at Sakura's face, and her high ponytail style suddenly brought him back to the time when he first met Sakura.

"Just go find Tsunade in the next two days, got it."

Sakura said 'hmm' and then asked, "How is Sasuke doing?"

(End of this chapter)