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

Uchiha Itachi did not use the Sharingan. I don’t know whether he was restraining his strength or restricting me - if we could both use the Sharingan, maybe I would have more advantages!

He seldom uses large-scale ninjutsu. When I use ninjutsu to attack him, he almost exclusively relies on his body movements to dodge, appearing and disappearing as lightly as a ghost.

This kind of tactic of using cleverness to preserve strength and delay and consume the opponent's physical strength is not something I have never seen before.

But Uchiha Itachi's fighting style was so soft and impenetrable that I felt like a prey trapped in a spider web. No matter how hard I struggled, I couldn't get free.

No matter how much chakra I use or how wide the range of my powerful ninjutsu is, it's meaningless if I can't hit the enemy.

Finally I realized that I was indeed far behind him.

Uchiha Itachi did not point this out, but he used actual facts to make me realize how unquestionable this fact is.

After the battle, I lay on the ground, gasping for breath and somewhat confused.

If Naruto, Sasuke and the former Sakura followed powerful teachers - the Sannin, and therefore were able to make great progress in strength in the end, then who was Uchiha Itachi's teacher?

"Why are you so strong?"

When he was in Konoha, I never heard of who Uchiha Itachi's teacher was, and after he defected, I never heard of who taught him anything.

Uchiha Itachi slowly walked to my side, and it seemed that even his breathing was not disordered at all: "Genes, and talent."

...Does this mean that he is the kind of genius who doesn't need a famous teacher to guide him and can only rely on self-study?

I almost couldn't catch my breath.

"You talk...sometimes it's quite irritating."

No wonder Deidara gets so angry every time he mentions Uchiha Itachi.

"..."

I took enough breath and sat up from the ground: "Fortunately, you are quite quiet and don't seem to talk much to others."

Uchiha Itachi said: "At your age, it's already very good to have such strength."

I looked up at him - behind him, countless trees fell to the ground, and the water escape technique soaked the land. Several places were submerged in water and turned into muddy swamps.

The trees that were broken by thunder and the traces of burnt trees and fire cut the entire forest into pieces.

I thought I tried my best without using the Sharingan, but I still lost.

"It sounds like you praised me because I said you were irritating."

Uchiha Itachi said: "When I was your age, I might not be able to beat you."

What was Uchiha Itachi doing when he was my age?

The information about him on the scroll states that he graduated from the Ninja School at the age of 7, opened his eyes at the age of 8, was promoted to Chunin at the age of 10, joined the Anbu at the age of 11, and defected at the age of 13 to "annihilate his clan."

Ok……

If you compare horizontally, my resume doesn't seem to be much different.

Although I did not pass the exam to become a Chunin, nor did I join the Konoha Anbu, I am now the captain of the Anbu organization of the Hidden Mist Village, the Insect Nest.

However, Uchiha Itachi should be around 18 years old now. If I have to wait until I am 18 to surpass his current level, then I’m doomed.

I sighed, feeling a little down. "You don't have to comfort me... Although I haven't met an opponent for a long time, I know very well that I am still far behind those truly powerful beings."

"Don't worry, you still have a lot of time."

"..."

How could you not be in a hurry?

"Ever since I was able to use Susanoo," I don't know why, after fighting Uchiha Itachi with all my strength, the distance between us seemed to have shortened rapidly - or was it just my one-sided illusion? "I felt like I had reached a bottleneck and could not move forward any further."

Fighting with all one's might seems to be a way to quickly become familiar with the situation.

In the battle, we opened up to each other a part of ourselves that we rarely revealed and had always kept closed. In various wordless seals, it seemed as if we had had a deep communication.

"I practiced Taijutsu with Neji, and learned Water Style with Zabuza and Haku... hoping to find a way to get closer, but the more I learned, the more confused I became. Although I made a lot of efforts... I felt like I was just blindly spinning in circles. I wanted to become stronger, but I couldn't find the right way."

But I spoke a lot from the bottom of my heart, and Uchiha Itachi only replied calmly: "There will be such a stage."

"You've also had bottlenecks? I thought you were a genius who had smooth sailing."

“No one has it easy.”

"The tone of your speech is quite interesting." I said, "No matter how ordinary and normal the words are, when you say them in that tone, they sound very philosophical."

"..."

"Itachi-sensei, what should I do? After the fight just now, did you find out what my problem is? Can you solve it?"

This title made his eyebrows move slightly.

He doesn't seem to be used to being called "teacher", but if he teaches me in the future, he will be replacing Lady Tsunade's position in the original plan.

In that case, I didn't have the opportunity to call Lady Tsunade "Master", did Uchiha Itachi fill this gap?

"..."

"Itachi-sensei?"

"Walk."

"Where to go?"

He didn't say anything, so I had to get up from the ground and trot after him.

We arrived at a nearby town, and Uchiha Itachi found a ninja tool shop and bought me two pairs of heavy weight belts, which he asked me to tie around my wrists and ankles.

"Go back today, and no matter what you do, don't take it off. Come back to see me tomorrow."

I put on the weight belt that was matched to my load-bearing ratio, and I felt that my hands and feet were a little difficult to move. "Is today's training over?"

Uchiha Itachi nodded: "Take the burden with you and take it back."

"But……"

"After you go back, think carefully about today's battle. Where did you make mistakes in judgment? Why did your attack on me fail to achieve the expected effect? ​​Why could I predict your attack intention in advance?" Although Uchiha Itachi still had no expression on his face, he was very careful and patient in assigning homework. "Tomorrow, continue to fight me."

"Still can't use the Sharingan?"

"Ah."

"Is it because your body can't support it?"

"With your current level, you are not qualified for me to use the Sharingan."

"Well... I'm quite confident in the ability of my Sharingan. If you're on guard against me... Actually, I know that your Sharingan has not been replaced. It's just the Mangekyō Sharingan, not the Eternal Mangekyō. If you use it too often, there's a risk of blindness."

"..."

"Don't worry, I won't tell Uchiha Madara...! I won't tell anyone."

"..."

I tried my best to make my expression appear sincere and trustworthy: "Itachi-sensei, you can trust me no matter what it is."

"Did Uchiha Madara tell you this information?"

"No. Although you may not believe it, Uchiha Madara and I are definitely not on the same side."

Uchiha Itachi looked at me deeply. His eyes were so deep that I tried to interpret them but had no clue.

"He takes you very seriously."

I was a little surprised: "Did he tell you that?"

"I can feel it."

I proposed a possibility: "Because there are so few people with Sharingan now, he pays special attention to the few remaining descendants?"

"It seems that you have no idea what kind of person he is."

"You seem to know him better than I do. If that's not the case," I said solemnly, "it can only be because he has a crush on Nohara Lin, so because I look like her, he looks at me differently."

"…Uchiha Madara?"

"Yeah! I also found it unbelievable at first, but he admitted it himself! He should be almost 70 or 80 years old, but he actually fell in love with a teenage girl... Although love has no reason, it still feels terrible when I think about it carefully..."

"Nohara Rin?"

"Teacher Itachi, haven't you seen Kakashi's companions in Konoha before? I think he met Nohara Rin during the Third Shinobi World War. I don't know what kind of encounter it was that could move his heart at such an old age. However, even someone as powerful as Uchiha Madara couldn't save her... Alas."

"..."

"Itachi-sensei?"

"..."

I thought of Neji - they might have some similarities.

The eldest son of such a traditional large family may have more conservative ideas.

A love with a huge age gap may make them feel contemptuous.

"The book says that when love comes, nothing can stop it... In fact, we can't say that Uchiha Madara did anything wrong... Itachi-sensei, next time you see Uchiha Madara, don't look down on him."