Naruto: If I ask you to kill Sasuke, you will become a succubus?

That night, I fell asleep on the accompanying bed.

I don't know how long it was before I suddenly heard a sound. I opened my eyes and found Sasuke sitting up from the bed.

"Sasuke?"

There was no light in the room, and there was only a vague outline of the boy on the bed.

I saw him take off the oxygen mask on his face and look at me: "Chaolu?"

"Yes, it's me." I rubbed my eyes and sat up from the bed. "Are you awake? Are you feeling unwell? Why did you take off the oxygen mask by yourself? Do you want to call the nurse?"

Sasuke's voice was a bit dazed as if he had just woken up: "Why are you here?"

"I was afraid that you would wake up and not see me, and cry out of grievance."

"!" Sasuke seemed to wake up all of a sudden, "I won't!"

I was kidding, and I found his reaction cute.

I got out of bed and walked to his bed, and according to my memory I pressed the bedside button.

While waiting for the nurse to arrive, I smiled and said to him, "Of course not. What if I'm not here and you start crying and accusing me of abandoning you?"

Sasuke stretched out his hand to pull me, but I shrank away and dodged. The nurse pushed the door open in time. With outsiders present, he immediately quieted down and became his silent, introverted, cool and handsome self again.

He didn't say anything, so I asked for him, "Can he stop wearing the oxygen mask?"

The nurse checked him and nodded: "It's not a big problem... Just rest for a while."

She left a message: "If you feel unwell, ring the bell to find me." Then she turned and left.

As soon as the door closed, Sasuke grabbed my hand, pulled me down on the bed, and reached out to tickle me.

"Don't move!" I tried to grab his hand. "Didn't you hear me? The nurse said you need to rest now!"

But seeing how energetic he is, I think he seems to have almost recovered.

Could it be that the curse strengthened his physique in some way, making his recovery faster?

I grabbed Sasuke's hands. He struggled a little, then fell beside me and stopped bothering me.

I asked with concern: "Are you tired?"

"No."

"Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"No."

After so long, I have become accustomed to the darkness and can see his face clearly.

I saw Sasuke looking at me.

He said softly, "I just feel very safe with you around."

I lay down again, leaning against him.

"Then why don't you admit that if I'm not here, you will definitely feel wronged again."

He said stubbornly: "That's another matter."

Although his hospital bed was larger than my accompanying bed, it was also a single bed. Although it could accommodate two of us, it was still a bit crowded.

I leaned sideways and huddled together with Sasuke, looked at him and said, "Are you sleepy? Do you want to sleep a little longer?"

Sasuke shook his head, "I can't sleep."

"So what do you want to do? I tell you a bedtime story?"

"I'm not a child." Sasuke said with a smile, "When I think about how many people are stronger than me, how can I just lie here and do nothing with a clear conscience?"

"You want to go to training now?" I glanced at the clock on the wall. "It's one in the morning."

"Morning dew..."

"Ok?"

"Do you think the village's training method will have a big effect on us?"

I could hear the suspicion about Konoha in Sasuke's tone, and immediately said, "Don't say that. Kakashi-sensei cares about you very much. When you were unconscious, he specially asked the Anbu to watch over you."

Sasuke paused, realizing that there were some things he couldn't say directly at this moment. "Kakashi... He's really arrogant."

"I think the Uchiha have more face."

We quickly said a few words to end the topic. Under the quilt, Sasuke held my hand and wrote what he really wanted to say in the palm of my hand.

"Asaro, I want to leave Konoha."

I also wrote on his palm: "...Are you sure?"

"I want to become stronger... I must become stronger."

I remembered that the scroll said that Sasuke did follow Orochimaru out of Konoha, and considering that Shikamaru-sama and Orochimaru had told me not to affect the past, I thought that I shouldn't dissuade him.

I thought again of the time when Naruto stole the sealing scroll from the Hokage's house. If an ordinary person did this, he would be immediately executed as a traitor, but in the end, not only was nothing wrong with Naruto, he also learned the S-level forbidden technique of Multiple Shadow Clones.

Considering that later on, Uchiha Sasuke was able to defeat Orochimaru and made him afraid to show up again, then Sasuke might not have a very comfortable life with Orochimaru, but there would definitely not be any danger... Maybe there would be danger, but it would not be a problem for Sasuke.

He was indeed able to get the power he wanted from Orochimaru.

Is that the right path for Sasuke?

Is that the right path for me, for the world?

"What if I said, I don't want you to leave...?"

Sasuke looked at me and said, "Do you know what I was thinking when I gave up today?"

"do not know."

"I was thinking, when we were in Ninja School, you never beat me, but now I have been left behind by you. If I don't do something, I'm afraid I will be left further and further behind by you. I absolutely don't want that."

"..."

"But I'm also happy for you. Because you did what you wanted to do... and that's what I've always wanted to do."

"What do you want to do?"

"I am your brother, and my so-called brother... is an obstacle that I must overcome. Whenever I think of his strength, in order to avoid despair, I can only turn that feeling of powerlessness into a deep hatred for my own weakness. At a certain time, I was also an obstacle to you. You have done what I have not done, and I will feel encouraged as if I have done it myself."

Sasuke wrote a lot of words, and in order for me to read clearly, he wrote very slowly.

"I hope you can stand higher and farther. If standing on my shoulders can lift you up, I am willing to be your stepping stone."

"This is... 'brother'?"

"This is how I feel about you. When I think of myself as your brother, I tell myself that I must never be like that man. I will never let you feel the disappointment, grievance and pain that I have felt from him."

Brother Urusi and Sasuke are actually both my brothers.

Brother Urusi was also very kind and gentle to me, but for some reason, Sasuke's feelings, even though they were gentle, had a dizzying intensity and passion.

"…You said you were holding me up, but now that I'm standing on you, I really have to win this Chunin Exam."

Sasuke smiled and said, "You don't need to force yourself. Chaolu, just do what you want to do. I don't want to put any pressure on you."

"At this time, why aren't you afraid that I will abandon you?"

"Of course I'm still worried. But do I have to ask you not to become stronger? In order not to be left behind by you, I will chase after you, just like you chased me before." Sasuke said: "Although it's a pity that I can't fight other strong guys in the Chunin Exam, but if you beat them, then I just need to use you as a target. If you lose, I can surpass you and then avenge you."

I laughed and said, "You know, the third round of the Chunin Exam, the official test will be in a month."

This was a topic that didn't matter if the Anbu heard it, so Sasuke also spoke up: "Does it take so long to prepare..."

But under the quilt, he still held my hand.

"The groups have been decided. Naruto is number one and I am number three. He will be playing the first match against number two, Hyuga Neji."

“…Isn’t that bad?”

Because Neji had helped us before, we knew a little about him and knew that he was the strongest rookie of their class and, like Sasuke, was known as a genius.

Sasuke said: "Come to think of it, I'm surprised that Naruto made it through the preliminaries. What's wrong with his opponent?"

"You do have some confidence in Naruto!"

"So, who is your opponent?" Sasuke frowned, "Naruto is taking the first test, and you are taking the second... you are scheduled really early."

"Gaara."

"..."

"It would be terrible if I lose the second exam. Even if it's for Sasuke's sake, I must go further."

"Kakashi will be able to teach you, right?"

Sasuke didn't know that Kakashi-sensei had already drawn a line between me and him, so I couldn't answer for a moment: "Well... Kakashi-sensei recommended a junior from his former Anbu to teach me!"

Sasuke said dissatisfiedly: "Why did he leave you to others?"

"Maybe Naruto needs his more attention."

"Naruto's foundation is much worse than yours. Isn't it common sense to give priority to the most promising students?"

"Maybe Kakashi-sensei's juniors are even more powerful?"

After hearing what I said, Sasuke reluctantly accepted this arrangement.

"I have never fought Gaara, nor have I seen him take action," Sasuke frowned, "Based on what you know about him, what is your chance of winning a fight with him?"

"……Hard to say."

If I try my best, I may win, but it is not a smart move to reveal all my cards in the Chunin Exam.

"Tomorrow we will go get the White Fang that Kakashi gave you." Sasuke said, "Will the swordsmanship of the Hatake family be useful?"

I was slightly stunned. Ever since Kakashi-sensei kept his distance from me, I had assumed that I shouldn't get White Fang. But Sasuke reminded me that White Fang was previously left at the place where Granny Cat was repairing, and I couldn't just not get it.

After getting it back... I'll ask Master Tenzang to return it to Sensei Kakashi.

"Okay. But if you want to defeat Gaara, you have to increase your speed." I thought of the battle between Lee and him. "Gaara's sand can automatically form a shield. If you want to hit him, you have to be faster than the reaction speed of his sand. And even if you hit him, there will be a layer of sand armor outside his body... If you want to break the sand armor, you must have both speed and strength."

"Raikiri." Sasuke said concisely, "Raikiri's charge speed and strength are both OK. And your bugs. You don't have to break through his sand again and again. As long as you break through once, you can keep the bugs on his body. Shino's parasitic bugs can enter the human body and devour chakra. No matter how powerful Gaara's sand is, it can't protect the inside of the body."

"I need to ask Shino if I can use the Parasite Bug during the Chunin Exams. This is a secret technique of his family, and his clan members may be very concerned about outsiders using it."

His parasite is just like my Sharingan. It can be used secretly, but it is very risky if it is exposed in public.

Moreover, if I use Raikiri without the Sharingan, I have to trap Gaara in place to accurately aim at the target. My Flower of the Mountain Technique can bind the target, but since Gaara has a sand shield, it may not work on him.

Sasuke and I were discussing how to target Gaara, and as we were discussing, I don't know when we fell asleep together.

When I thought about the appointment I had the next day, I suddenly woke up from my sleep and saw that the clock on the wall showed six o'clock in the morning.

——Fortunately, I didn’t miss the appointment with Lord Tianzang!

Sasuke still had his eyes closed, but with the light coming in from the window, I could see his beautiful face clearly, and our hands were still held together under the quilt.

The first time I saw him lying next to me in the morning, I had an inexplicable feeling after spending the night there.

I quietly got out of bed to wash up, but when I came out of the bathroom, he was still awake.

Without waiting for him to speak, I said, "I forgot to tell you yesterday that I have an appointment to meet Kakashi-sensei's junior today. His name is Tenzo."

"So, I can't go get White Fang today?"

"Yeah. Let's go together tomorrow? How about that?"

Sasuke nodded, "It's up to you."

After he finished washing up, the nurse came to check on us and saw that we were awake, so she went out and brought us two breakfasts.

Just as Sasuke and I finished eating, Tenzo-sama appeared.

I glanced at the clock in surprise. It was only half past seven in the morning.

"Did I get the time wrong?" I asked. "I thought it was eight o'clock."

"Something happened last night." Lord Tenzo said in a low voice, "The body of Gekkou Hayate, the chief examiner of the Chunin Exam, was found in Kikyo Castle."

Sasuke and I looked at each other in shock.

My first reaction was: Sasuke and the Anbu guarding outside the room last night can prove my alibi! I have nothing to do with Gekkou Hayate's death!

The second reaction is: How did he die?

I have only met Moonlight Gale a few times, so I don't know him well. However, he seems to be the most normal and the friendliest among the examiners, so I don't have a bad impression of him. Moreover, he was presiding over the preliminaries just fine yesterday. How could he suddenly...

I felt very surprised: "Did Orochimaru do it?"

Who else but him would kill a Konoha ninja in Konoha?

Lord Tenzo said, "We don't know who the murderer is yet, but Uchiha Sasuke, since you are his target, from now on, try not to act alone."

Sasuke remained silent.

Lord Tenzang added: "The Uchiha clan's base is too remote, so you should not go back these days. I brought you some clothes and daily necessities, so you can stay in the hospital for the time being."

Looking at the bag of clothes and toiletries he put aside, I remembered what Urusi-nii brought me yesterday. It was obviously a similar behavior, but I didn't think Sasuke would be happy.

"Since we've known that Orochimaru is in Konoha for a long time, why hasn't anyone been able to find him and catch him for so long?" Sasuke looked at Tenzo with deep suspicion, "What on earth is the Anbu doing? Are the masters of Konoha really that powerful? Orochimaru seems to be able to come and go as he pleases where there's no one. Doesn't Konoha have any way to deal with him?"

Lord Tenzo said stiffly: "Lord Hokage has his own considerations."

Sasuke frowned and looked away. I think that Konoha's poor response must have made him feel that he couldn't get the power he wanted by staying in Konoha.

He whispered, "If my father were still alive...if the Uchiha guards were still alive, they would have caught him long ago."