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

Hearing Gaara say this, I asked softly, "Gaara, are you not in a good mood right now?"

"Because Chaolu is in a bad mood."

"You make it sound like it's all my fault."

"Because Zhaolu was always thinking about other people, but I was right next to Zhaolu, but you couldn't see me."

I protested somewhat guiltily: "I'm not always thinking about others!"

"And he kept wanting me to leave. Wanted to hand me over to someone else."

"Temari is your sister, not someone else."

"So you do want to hand me over to her?"

"I didn't do anything!"

"Chaolu, you must remember that I chose you according to my own will."

"Um ……"

"So if you really value me, you should respect my will instead of thinking 'for my own good' and doing something I don't like."

“…I’m sorry.” I apologized subconsciously before I realized, “But what did I do?”

It was Gaara who wanted to go to the Sand Village to visit his mother and uncle on his own initiative. It wasn't you who forced him to go to the Sand Village!

"Ah, you look like you figured it out." Gaara crossed his arms, "I was just testing whether you weren't paying attention to what I was saying and were just following my words to get by."

Me: "...I love you, sometimes you are a bit mean."

"Because the morning dew can sometimes make people a little angry."

"Huh? When?"

"No, when you have something to say, when you keep it to yourself; when you secretly wonder if things would be better without me around and I notice it; when you suddenly come back from outside and say you've made a new friend; when you suddenly announce that you'll spend one week a month alone with your new friend; when it's clearly the other person's problem, but Asaka is still thinking about the other person and ignoring me." Gaara tilted his head: "That's all I can think of for now. Don't worry, most of the time, Asaka won't make me angry."

"...But you said so much in one breath, it feels like there's been a lot of resentment." I couldn't help but sneer and said, "Does Gaara hate Deidara?"

"He doesn't look like a reliable guy."

"But Gaara never said that before..."

"Because he is the one you chose." Gaara said, "Because it was Chaolu's decision."

"What... you're just keeping it all to yourself and blaming me!"

We looked at each other for a moment in the moonlight, and finally smiled together. The gloom and dissatisfaction that had accumulated in our hearts seemed to have dissipated in an instant.

"Gaara..."

"Ok?"

"I don't think I've ever told you that I feel so lucky to have you by my side. There have been many times when if I were alone, I might not be able to hold on and I wouldn't know what to do."

"No, Chaolu, you are much stronger than you think. Even without me and Neji, you can find your own path. We feel lucky to have met you."

"Then..."

"We will continue to be together." Gaara said, "We will never separate."

Looking into his gentle green eyes, I felt that my anxiety, worry, boredom and uneasiness were all soothed.

I whispered, "Until the end..."

Gaara didn't hear clearly: "Hmm?"

"Nothing. Let's go help Temari set up the tent!"

I grabbed Gaara's hand and ran towards Temari, silently saying in my mind:

If that's the case...we'll be together until the end.

……

That night, Gaara was on guard duty. Not long after Temari and I lay down, I suddenly woke up and realized something was wrong -

"'We will continue to be together...'" I heard a sarcastic voice repeating the conversation between Gaara and I earlier: "'We will never separate'——"

I saw Uchiha Madara standing not far away, and Gaara fell at his feet, and almost had a cardiac arrest for a moment.

Uchiha Madara said: "Don't worry, he was just hit by an illusion, he is not dead or injured."

I angrily said, "What do you want to do?!"

"Hey, hey, hey, this is so sad. I came here to see you because I was worried about you. Is that how you talk to me?"

"Worry?"

"Look, you and Deidara broke up, didn't you? If you break up with a 'good friend', wouldn't it be very painful?"

He pronounced the word "good friend" with inexplicable force.

Uchiha Madara walked towards me, and I saw Temari beside me also fell to the ground with her eyes closed, and she had no reaction to anything in the outside world.

——She was probably also under an illusion.

Uchiha Madara came close to me and looked into my eyes carefully. "Well, you don't seem to be crying. That's great. If you had cried, I would have been even angrier."

I frowned at him, thinking his words and actions were so strange that I couldn't understand them. "Have you been spying on me?"

“It’s not surveillance.”

"What's that? You knew about Deidara and I, and you asked Itachi-sensei to ask me what was going on. Deidara and I had just broken up, and you were able to find me directly in the middle of the night?"

"Oh, are you angry with me? I thought you were more gentle." Uchiha Madara said: "But this is not surveillance, it's just my-"

He stretched out the syllables, and I saw the eye on his mask curved up. He smiled at me and said, "On a whim."

"……what?"

"Rather than being angry at me, shouldn't you be more angry at yourself? You were powerless to resist, and even if I didn't expose myself, you couldn't even notice my sight... Instead of being angry at my strength, you should be more angry at your own weakness, what do you think?"

That condescending attitude, that malicious gaze, that self-righteous teasing, that attitude of doing whatever one wants to those weaker than oneself just because one is powerful——

"I thought...you weren't such a bad person."

Uchiha Madara sneered: "You don't even know what an S-rank rebel ninja means. You just wishfully hope that the other party is a good person. You have to see with your own eyes that the other party is about to blow up an innocent town before you realize that you are not the same kind of people."

"As for me," he continued, "don't you know what I did when I ruled the Hidden Mist Village? Do you have any unrealistic hopes for me just because we both have the Sharingan and are related by blood?"

"..."

"Give up all your fantasies, Chaolu." Uchiha Madara stood up straight under the moon, looking down at me from above, "This world is not a place for little girls to play house."

"You came here to see me just to give me a long speech and ridicule me?"

"Oh, that's part of the reason, because I'm a little angry at your recklessness - there's another thing I'm worried you don't know." Uchiha Madara said: "Do you want to know the fastest way for our Uchiha clan to become stronger?"

The scroll said that it was a strong emotional stimulation.

Uchiha Madara said: "It is to kill the one you love most."

I:"?"

"Who is your favorite? The boy named Gaara? Or Hyuga Neji? - Could it be Hatake Kakashi?"

"So you killed the person you loved the most?" I asked back, "In order to gain more powerful power?"

"I'm asking you."

"You are the ancestor of the Uchiha clan, so why are you trying to guide the Uchiha clan towards a perverted murderer? Losing a loved one will make you stronger, but the focus should be on 'love', right? Because there are things you want to protect and things you absolutely cannot lose, you crave for greater power. If you kill your cherished treasure for the sake of power, isn't that putting the cart before the horse?"

I stared at Uchiha Madara warily, thinking that he was a liar who was full of twisted theories and trying to brainwash people: "Who did you kill? Do you still remember how you felt when you chose that person as your 'favorite'? The cherishment you had for that person, the desire to protect that person, and the love you had for him... If that person was really your favorite person, how could you have killed him?"

"..."

"I don't know what you want to do. If you think that you can make me shake and collapse by denying me and suppressing me, then I'm sorry, I'm not as fragile as you think. My ideas are completely different from yours. I will become stronger, but not in your way. Maybe I can't beat you now, but one day, I will be stronger than you - but I definitely don't want to become like you."

"Don't ever become someone like me?" Uchiha Madara repeated in a low voice, and chuckled, "I really hope that you can always make such a decisive judgment in the future."

I couldn't make out the subtle and complex emotions in his tone. I felt like he was being a little sarcastic, but also not really.

"So what are you going to do? Kill me now that you are stronger?"

"No, I am looking forward to your growth." Uchiha Madara said: "I have prepared many surprises for you - I can't wait for you to see the true face of this world. You are right, you can't kill the one you love the most, but if the person you love the most kills the other person you love the most, it's another matter, right?"

"…What do you want to do?"

"I want to see," Uchiha Madara disappeared under the moon, "whether you will become the same as me."