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

As Sasuke and I stared at each other, I heard Kakashi speaking.

"Kai, split up into two groups. Naruto, Sakura, and I will stay behind, and you will lead Shikamaru and Shino to continue following Neji."

Kai said, “I understand.”

Before, Kakashi and Gai were not present, so Shikamaru took over the command. Now that the order was given, the supreme command naturally returned to Kakashi - because Gai was not the kind of senior ninja who would compete with Kakashi for command.

Shikamaru and Shino must obey orders, and Tenten and Lee are originally Gai's subordinates.

Compared to Uchiha Sasuke, Granny Chiyo was more interested in Orochimaru's experimental data, so she decided to continue tracking Orochimaru. Suddenly, half of the people present were gone.

Sasuke did not respond to Kakashi's arrangement, even though he was probably sent by Orochimaru to delay time.

Or maybe Orochimaru asked Sasuke to step in because he knew he couldn't be stopped anyway?

Before meeting Sasuke, I thought a lot, but when I really saw him and felt him standing in front of me, my mind seemed to be cleared and all thoughts disappeared.

He seemed to have had a good life over the years, his skin was fair and smooth, and there were no terrible scars on his body...

My eyes naturally moved down along his jaw and neck.

But is it necessary for his clothes to be so open?

Before I could figure out how to start, Sasuke continued, "I have something to ask you, Asaro."

"what?"

Sasuke looked at me with his dark eyes, "Why did you leave Konoha?"

This is a simple question, but I instinctively feel that this question is dangerous. Maybe it's because it may affect Sasuke's view of Konoha.

If Sasuke hated Konoha, he would never return to Konoha. If he hated Konoha, he might kill the Hokage and destroy Konoha.

How far does his emotion towards Konoha go now?

Sasuke has always had very few expressions. He gradually became more lively before we separated, but after two and a half years, I started to feel unfamiliar with him again.

I tried to interpret his expression, his eyes, his emotions, but felt so clumsy.

In fact, I didn’t have the ability to see through him at a glance before, but I know that as long as I want, my eye technique can do it.

It used to be easy for me to see through all of a person's secrets.

But after exchanging eyes with Kakashi, things that were easy to do before suddenly became impossible.

I think I may not have gotten used to it yet - the change in pupil technique requires not only changes in habits, but also adaptation in mentality.

Fortunately, Sasuke wasn't aggressive.

He continued, "Didn't we agree that I would leave Konoha and you would stay in Konoha and wait for my return? Why did you leave Konoha first?"

"because……"

Before I could answer, Naruto answered for me: "Because there are bad guys in Konoha who want to kill Asaka!"

Sasuke asked me, "Is that so?"

"……Yes."

"For your Sharingan?"

Now that I have started, I can only keep answering, “Yes.”

Sasuke looked at Kakashi and Haku and Gaara who stayed behind. Finally, his eyes fell on Kakashi: "You didn't object. Does that mean it's true?"

Kakashi said: "Every village... has a dark side."

Sasuke chuckled, and it was a cold laugh.

He said to me again: "I have doubted you, Asaro. After I heard that Zabuza became the Mizukage and the Sharingan appeared in the Hidden Mist Village, I suspected whether you were a spy for the Hidden Mist Village. I have personally experienced your eye technique. Hyuga Neji and Gaara disappeared with you, maybe they were controlled by you. But then I thought, you were so young when you came to Konoha. If your purpose was to lurk until you grow up to take the Chunin Exam and take away a member of the Hyuga branch and the Jinchuriki of the Sunagakure Village, this plan is too weird."

"After you left, I thought a lot... If you are such a spy genius, then what is the most difficult mission a six-year-old can perform? What if he is thirteen?"

My heart skipped a beat - was this a coincidence? Sasuke mentioned thirteen years old? That was the age when Uchiha Itachi exterminated his clan.

"Then I thought, suppose you are not a spy. Suppose something happened that forced you to leave Konoha at that time... Suppose it was Konoha's problem. During the Chunin Exam, Kakashi told us that we must not reveal that you have the Sharingan... Why? Is he protecting Konoha, or is he protecting you? What would happen if he knew that you have some Sharingan? Who would target you? Is there anyone in Konoha who also covets the Sharingan? Then when I was seven years old, was there someone in Konoha who also coveted the Sharingan? What did he do? Someone must have done something to make Kakashi judge that exposing your Sharingan would bring danger."

I couldn't help but look at Uchiha Itachi.

Sasuke followed my gaze and looked at him: "Then I thought..."

He had never talked so much, and I had never heard him talk so much - and Naruto and Kakashi probably hadn't heard it either.

Sasuke had always been a quiet person since they were little, while Naruto and I were more talkative.

But at this moment, he seemed to want to say everything he had not told us in the past two and a half years at once.

He said "And then I thought" many times.

How much had he thought about it in the past two and a half years? What conclusion did he reach after thinking it over and over again?

Sasuke said, "When I was seven, I returned home only to see everyone dead, and Itachi was there. I didn't see him do it."

Itachi-sensei's eyelashes didn't move.

He lowered his eyes and blinked slowly.

He is an excellent ninja. The more an excellent ninja is in a breath-taking situation, the calmer he will be.

Sasuke said, "I asked Orochimaru if he could kill the Uchiha clan in one night and escape from Konoha by himself. He said that even he couldn't do it. When Uchiha Itachi was thirteen years old, was it possible that he was stronger than Orochimaru, one of the three ninjas?"

He stared at Uchiha Itachi, "Or like you, because you have a special eye technique, even if you are not as strong as him, you still have a way to defeat him."

Itachi-sensei remained silent.

I don’t know how to answer this either.

Naruto was confused: "What do you mean?"

Sakura's forehead was covered with cold sweat. She understood something, but she didn't dare to think about it any further.

Haku and Gaara do not belong to Konoha, so it is quite easy for them.

Bai Dao: "What it means is that the destruction of the Uchiha clan was not necessarily caused by Uchiha Itachi."

He whispered, "Maybe it's Konoha... a raid on the bloodline limit family."

As a ninja from the Hidden Mist Village, Bai is very familiar with this kind of thing.

Gaara thought for a moment, "When the Uchiha clan was destroyed, the Third Hokage was in power."

"Impossible!" Naruto subconsciously objected fiercely: "Grandpa Sandaime would never give such an order!!"

"If he gave the order, it means he is cruel. But cruelty is not a derogatory word for ninjas." Gaara said calmly: "But if he didn't, and someone destroyed an entire family under the Hokage's nose... then the Third Hokage is too incompetent. In any case, the Hokage must take responsibility."

Sasuke looked at Kakashi again, "Do you have anything to say, Kakashi?"

Kakashi: "...Do you want to fight us?"

"It seems that you don't refute my idea..." Sasuke mocked: "Because 'every village has a dark side'? Do you think that as long as you say this, everything can be forgiven?"

He looked at Kakashi and said contemptuously: "I used to think that Konoha was just incompetent, but now, I think Konoha is disgusting."

It suddenly occurred to me that there was no way Sasuke would return to Konoha.

He is very smart, but he had too few clues before. However, my defection tore open a corner of Konoha's disguise, and he keenly grasped what he should have noticed.

Itachi's plan is the only way to keep Sasuke in Konoha. Once he knows the truth about the Uchiha clan's genocide, there will definitely be a hatred of genocide between him and Konoha.

He wants revenge, he wants to kill the Hokage, he wants to destroy Konoha, this is only natural.

But if Sasuke's revenge succeeds... Shikamaru, Shino, Naruto, Ino and the others... will have a new hatred against Sasuke.

The hatred is endless and the pain is boundless.

In comparison, sacrificing only one Uchiha Itachi seems so worthwhile.

Itachi-sensei still didn't speak.

Sasuke looked at him. If he suspected that Itachi was not the real murderer, then I was not really a defector. It was more like we were both people who were persecuted by Konoha.

He probably felt that Itachi-sensei was not really under my control at the moment, and he tried to find a flaw.

Sasuke continued, "Someone coveted Asaka's Sharingan, so why did the people of Konoha let me go? After the fall of the Uchiha clan, my situation was no different from hers, both of us orphans. They didn't dare to touch me, why? What's so intimidating about me? I have nothing but a family - my last and only blood relative. My brother."

He stared at Itachi-sensei closely, "The reason why the man who coveted Asaka's Sharingan didn't attack me was because he was afraid of you, right?"

Itachi-sensei remained quiet.

He didn't have to refute anything.

Once you open your mouth, Sasuke will not let you go.

He had his last resort - if Sasuke refused to return to Konoha, Itachi still had Shisui's eye.

The pupil technique is different from that of the gods.

He didn't have to try to convince Sasuke, he just had to do it.

I finally spoke: "Does that sentence... still count?"

I grabbed Sasuke's sleeve, "You said...after everything is over, you will become a real family with me?"

Sasuke was slightly stunned.

"Itachi is your only family..." I said worriedly, "Then I am...what?"

Actually, I don’t know what I’m asking.

I don't know if I want Itachi-sensei's plan to succeed, but if it were me, I'd want to get the truth.

Should Sasuke know the truth?

If Sasuke were to be hit by Kotoamatsukami, it would seem like a happy ending - but is it really?

really?

I actually think that Sasuke's hatred for Konoha is normal - I agree that he has good reasons for revenge against Konoha.

What is right and what is wrong? What is good and what is bad? What is just and what is unjust?

"Blood relatives cannot be chosen." Sasuke raised his hand and touched my hair: "And you are the family I chose myself."

I heard him say, "I'll go wherever you are. When everything is over, I'll go to the Hidden Mist Village to find you."

After everything is over?

What is after it's all over?

After Itachi was killed?

After he destroyed Konoha?

Or after he...rules the world?

If he knew that I had teamed up with Itachi to hide the truth from him, would he still be so kind to me? Or would he think that I betrayed him?

I knew everything, but I watched him struggle in pain.

An idea suddenly popped into my mind - if I go back and ask Zabuza to give the position of Mizukage to me, will he keep me when Sasuke attacks the Five Kage?

In this case, will there be any hope for the future?