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

When I rushed back to Akatsuki's base, the ceremony had already ended.

The giant in the cave and the phantoms of other members have all disappeared, only Uchiha Itachi is waiting for me.

Hoshigaki Kisame was his partner, but no one knew where he was. Moreover, Uchiha Madara's surveillance from nowhere also made people feel daunted.

Therefore, Gaara fell at his feet, but I couldn't easily cast my gaze towards him.

"Asaroya," Itachi instructed me, "Come here."

I walked in front of him, and our Sharingans looked at each other, meeting in the spirit world.

Itachi asked directly, "Gaara is no longer breathing. You didn't twist his fate?"

"I originally wanted to twist his fate to 'die if the tailed beast is extracted', but I was worried that if Gaara was still alive after the tailed beast was extracted, it would arouse suspicion and even be killed by Akatsuki. You wouldn't be able to help him then, and I wouldn't be able to save him, so I thought it would be safer to use another method."

"What did you use?"

"Izanagi."

Itachi frowned, "That's a forbidden technique. Even if you have the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, you will go blind."

"It doesn't matter. My arm was broken before, but I can grow it back. I can also recreate my blind eyes."

"But your regenerated eyes can no longer be the Eternal Mangekyō. Even for Uchiha, opening the Eternal Mangekyō is a rare opportunity." He paused slightly, "Is it worth it?"

I smiled, "How could it not be worth it if I could save Gaara's life with just one eye?"

"The Izanagi you learned was recorded in the scroll Orochimaru gave you?"

"Yes."

"The Izanagi I know can only work on the caster himself, but your Izanagi can work on others through the eye technique. Has Orochimaru improved it?"

I was slightly stunned: "Is that so?"

The version I learned directly was the one on the scroll, so I'm not sure if Orochimaru has made any improvements to it.

"But is this the only thing he can improve?" Itachi said, "It seems that even he can't do anything about the side effect of blindness."

"...I don't know why, but I feel like he would be greatly stimulated by what you said, and would then work hard to improve himself."

Itachi smiled.

He then asked, "How long does your Izanagi last?"

"Pein said it would take three days and three nights to extract the tailed beast. I extended it by half a day just in case, so the time limit is about four days."

"Well, we have about half a day left before Izanagi will reset Gaara's death to the state he recorded the moment you used Izanagi on him."

"Hmm... probably the same state as when Pain first extracted the One-Tail. He might be a little weak, but at least he's alive."

“Do you find it hard?”

"A little. Because I can't tell anyone, I have to bear a lot of misunderstandings, and I have to let down a lot of people's love... I feel lonely." I said honestly, "But I know Itachi-sensei has it harder than me. And... I found the trick."

"Trick?"

"Well, just detach yourself from it. If you only focus on the goal you want to achieve and discard all other emotions, you won't waver or hesitate, and you won't feel pain because of it."

"...That's true. But, Zhaolu, don't be too anxious. Once you've been apart from someone for too long, it's easy to get used to being indifferent, and it's hard to respond to someone else's kindness."

"Like Itachi-sensei?"

Itachi didn't answer me: "Which eye did you use?"

Answering my question with a question again!

But I still answered obediently: "Right eye."

Itachi stared at my right eye - although that eye could still open the Sharingan, and looked no different from my intact left eye, it was already blind.

"Even if you can regenerate an eyeball, you have to remove the previous one first."

"But I need Sasuke's chakra to create the eyeball. But since we don't know exactly where Sasuke is, why not bother with it for now. I want to kill Scorpion now."

"scorpion?"

"There is less than a year left until the battle of the Valley of the End. I don't know how Sasuke is doing now, but the stronger Naruto's strength is, the greater our hope will be. I hope that Lord Kankuro can gain stronger combat power as soon as possible... Not only him, I hope that others can also..."

"We'll take it one step at a time." Itachi calmly reassured me, "Let's target Scorpion first."

"Teacher Itachi, do you have any way to track down Scorpion's true form?"

"There are two ways. Either you ask Uchiha Madara directly, or I use your information to exchange with Deidara."

“…Deidara…”

"how?"

"No, it's nothing." I lowered my eyes, "but we don't know when Uchiha Madara will appear again."

"Try to spread the news - 'I dug out your Sharingan and want to test the opening of the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan'."

I was slightly stunned: "Do you think he will come if I say that?"

"It's good to try it once, no harm."

"But how do we get the message to him?"

"The people from Kirigakure, Konoha, and Sand Village came to rescue us. We can use them."

"…Kakashi, Naruto, and Shikamaru were chasing me before, and I led them here, wanting to tell them where Gaara was, but I don't know if they will meet up with the others halfway. If they do… I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to leave without a fight."

"Then fight."

"But Itachi-sensei, your body..."

"There's always a way..." Itachi said, "Are you ready to act out a scene with me, Asaro?"

"If Itachi-sensei has something planned, I will definitely cooperate!"

"With Kakashi and Shikamaru here, it's hard to fool them without any real effort."

"I see."

"Asaro..." Itachi hesitated. "Forget it, they are here."

We are disconnected from the spiritual world.

I looked at Itachi in front of me, he held my chin with one hand and held a kunai with the other.

I looked at him with my eyes open, he stared at me, and I felt Itachi deprive me of the sense of pain with his illusion - and then his kunai slashed fiercely at my eyelids.

"Morning dew!!!"

Shikamaru's shadow snaked across the ground like a snake, and Itachi retreated, sparing my eyes and escaping the control of the Nara family.

Naruto rushed over, holding my waist with one hand and picking up Gaara from the ground with the other hand, and took us away from Itachi.

"Uchiha Itachi..." After a night's rest, Kakashi had obviously recovered well. His tone contained cold anger: "What do you want to do with Chaolu's eyes!"

"I just want to collect some eyes of my own kind..." Itachi said calmly: "It has nothing to do with you outsiders."

Gaara lay silently in Naruto's arms, and I could finally look down at him.

The scar Itachi had just made on my right eye was bleeding and dripping onto Gaara's face like tears of blood.

"What a pity..." Itachi said with a faint regret: "If you hadn't disturbed me, I could have taken out her eyeball intact... But now, you made me destroy a Sharingan."

Shikamaru suddenly turned his head and looked at me.

"What do you mean?" Naruto's voice was trembling. "You said you destroyed a Sharingan... You said you destroyed Asano's eye?"

"Uchiha Asaka," Itachi felt that the show was almost over and we could leave, "Come back."

I left in an instant, and Naruto chased after me without a second thought: "Asaro!!!"

A huge amount of negative emotions came over him, and Naruto's speed suddenly became countless times faster than before!

The shadow of a beast suddenly appeared on his body - no, it was not a shadow, it was a shell of chakra.

"Nine-tailed Fox..." Itachi said, "You were my target. But it's not your turn yet."

He seemed calm and composed, but I knew Itachi-sensei's health was not optimistic.

Once the real battle begins, it will be a huge burden on him.

I also suggested using my eye technique to distort his increasingly weak fate, but Itachi firmly refused me.

——He doesn't want to live.

He just wanted to complete his mission and die.

I can't convince him, I can only hope that he can live longer naturally.

Seeing Naruto rushing towards Itachi furiously, I stood in front of Itachi and didn't dare to take a step back.

The Itachi that is here now is the real person!!

If he gets hurt or dies...!!

When we came into close combat, I used Raikiri without thinking.

The tailed beast coat and the lightning of Raikiri collided with each other.

but--

Looking at Naruto's blue eyes wrapped in the orange-red chakra of the tailed beast, even if he has lost his mind now, I can't hurt him.

After blocking him, I dispersed Raikiri and rushed over to hug him tightly.

The moment I passed through the Nine-Tails' chakra, I felt the chakra burning my skin like boiling magma.

But the itachi had deprived me of my sense of pain, so even as I watched my skin carbonize and fall off, I felt nothing.

Shikamaru and Kakashi asked anxiously: "Asaro?!"

"Naruto!!!"

Kakashi took out a piece of talisman paper covered with spells, which might be the countermeasure against Naruto who turned into a tailed beast.

But before Kakashi could stick the talisman on Naruto, the Nine-Tails Chakra in his body quickly receded.

“Morning dew…! Morning dew!!”

Naruto hugged me tightly.

Shikamaru anxiously pressed the headset on his ear and urgently called for reinforcements from other teams: "We need medical ninjas! Sakura! Where are you now? How long will it take for you to arrive?!"

Itachi-sensei must have left, and I was relieved that neither Kakashi nor Shikamaru went after him.

I think I must look miserable in the eyes of others, otherwise why would Shikamaru be so anxious that his eyes turned red?

"Asaro! How do you feel now?!"

……sorry.

But I can't stay.

If I were "saved" and Gaara spread the news of his "resurrection", Itachi would be in danger.

Only if I return to Itachi and we remain in the Akatsuki organization, will Gaara's "survival" seem like a fluke.

"I" eventually turned into a handful of quicksand in Naruto's arms.

This is the escape ninjutsu I learned after spending a long time with Gaara, and later learning earth escape from the Iwagakure genius Deidara, and then mastering wood escape.

So far, no one has been able to stop me.

I escaped from underground and healed myself with medical ninjutsu. Although I no longer wanted to be a medical ninja, I never forgot the medical ninjutsu I learned.

Just when I was almost done with the treatment and was about to reunite with Itachi-sensei, a figure suddenly dropped upside down from the tree in front of me: "Umbrella Lizard!!"

I was shocked!

When I looked carefully, I saw Uchiha Madara sitting leisurely on the tree trunk, looking down at me: "You and Itachi seem to be having a lot of fun these days, huh?"