[NARUTO] Night of the Full Moon

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After a short rest, continue forward.

The closer you get to the battlefield, the more likely you are to encounter enemies.Sasuke also tensed up his nerves to prevent an encounter that might happen at any time.

Passing by a dense forest, Madara suddenly stopped. Sasuke drew out his sword and stood one step behind Madara.

Madara took out a kunai and threw it.The sharp blade cut the hidden rope accurately, and dense hidden weapons shot towards that location like raindrops.They plunged into the soft soil and then collided with each other to make a clanging sound. At this moment, Sasuke still didn't understand how Madara discovered the filaments in the grass stems.

Just when Madara reached into his ninja bag to get another kunai, two enemies jumped out of the tree crown and stabbed downwards.Madara jumped aside with Sasuke, saying "be careful" and he was fighting with the two people behind him.

Sasuke followed Madara's words at the same time, dodged and blocked, and a long knife barely touched Sasuke's hair and cut off a few strands of hair.

The previous training was quite effective. Although the person who attacked him looked much bigger than him, Sasuke dealt with it without any difficulty.The only problem is that he can't kill him.

His knife has never seen blood.

It's not like Sasuke doesn't have the opportunity to cut the opponent's neck or pierce his heart.He had done countless exercises on the analysis of human body structure and precise sword swings. If he had wanted to, he could have found the right opportunity to kill with one blow.But Sasuke just blindly avoided the opponent's attacks, leaving some deep but not fatal wounds on the opponent's body to alleviate the opponent's menacing killing moves.

The man seemed completely unaware of the pain.What's more, Xu could see that Sasuke's attacks were not severe, so he started to act more and more carelessly.Hun didn't care and exposed his vitals to Sasuke's knife.

After all, Sasuke and Madara had run so far together. Although their movements were quite agile, their strength was definitely not as good as the other's.If it drags on any longer, he will lose.

And losing this battle will obviously only have one result, death.

A voice screamed in Sasuke's mind: This is not a drill, the enemy will fight to the death!kill him!You just have to kill him!There are still two people on Madara's side, you can't add any more burden to him.Moreover, didn’t you want to kill that man with your own hands?How could you die in a place like this!

kill him!

The hand holding the handle of the knife tightened its grip on the weapon more firmly after a slight tremor. Sasuke's eyes were filled with red, and a magatama was spinning inside.But Sasuke was unaware of this. He stared at the actions on the other side more and more intently, adjusted the direction of his hand and pointed the tip of the knife at the man's heart.

Just by holding the knife forward, he could pierce the man's heart.

"Chi—" Blood spurted out from his neck, and the man's head was beheaded before he could even react.

Everything was played in slow motion before Sasuke's eyes.He watched as the long knife cut into the man's flesh, the texture being torn, and then various veins.The moment the blood vessel was broken, some blood stained the knife, and was blown away when the neck bone was shattered.The trachea made a roaring sound of breaking bellows, and a large amount of blood also burst out at this moment.The head seemed to be blown open by his own blood, and suddenly popped out to the side.The head rolled down, but the expression on it showed no trace of pain or shock.

The enemy's lunging attack was interrupted, and most of his body's strength was removed by the knife. He only fell forward and rushed towards Sasuke's position.

Sasuke forgot to react for a moment and maintained the original stabbing action, watching the headless corpse fall straight up.The ribs of the chest caught Sasuke's short sword and stopped.

Sasuke's face was also splattered with a lot of blood.

He watched numbly as the piece of flesh that still contained body temperature slipped to the side, the short knife was pulled out, and the blood on the blade flowed down the pattern-like blood groove, gathered at the tip of the knife, and dripped.After the last drop of blood soaked into the soil, the knife was as smooth as if it had never killed anyone.

No, this enemy was actually killed by Madara.

He still couldn't do anything.

"Ugh--" Sasuke looked at Madara standing in front of him with a knife, and suddenly vomited violently uncontrollably.

Madara didn't comfort him this time.

He just stood beside Sasuke quietly, watching the other man's movements.

Sasuke's tears mixed with the man's blood spread all over his cheeks, but he didn't notice it at all.His stomach cramped, and he vomited almost everything he had taken in today.The bitterness on the back of my tongue arose in my heart, and there was also a roar in my ears.

Why is he...so useless?

"Wipe your face when you have vomited. We have to go." Madara handed him the kettle.

Watching Sasuke's Sharingan close as his emotions gradually calmed down, Madara relaxed and carefully checked the identities of those people.

Although I had guessed a little from the opponent's moves before, it would be better if I could find more clues.

These people did not wear armor engraved with clan crests, and even their weapons did not show any sectarian tendencies.However, it was precisely this that made Madara more determined in his thoughts.

"The Taketori clan is also involved." Madara and Sasuke explained.Although he doesn't need to know these things now, it would be nice to have something to distract him from.

"Taketori has declined, and there is definite news that the nobles of the Uesugi clan have surrendered. I'm afraid the ambush of these people has nothing to do with the war. They were just ordered to interfere with Uchiha's mission." But he didn't dare to really offend Uchiha. A clan only sends such people to confuse the public.

The fate of these people was determined from the moment they were selected.

"The news from the nobles is quite fast. I'm afraid they have been sending people to inquire about the movements of the nobles and try to influence the will of the ninjas. Before peace comes, a lot of bloodshed and sacrifices will inevitably be made."

Sasuke listened, but now he couldn't get it to his heart.Madara didn't force himself. Seeing that Sasuke was ready, he continued to follow the original route.

There were no further twists and turns afterwards.

It wasn't until later that day, after the grain transport troops had met with them to rest, that Madara mentioned the attack.

"Are you scared?" Madara held Sasuke's dinner, and the side dishes he specially selected did not contain a trace of meat.

Sasuke took the bowls and chopsticks without saying a word.

"It is indeed difficult to adapt to it at first, but since you are a ninja, you have to face this."

"I thought I had made up my mind a long time ago." Sasuke tightened his fingers on the chopsticks, "But still..."

"It's normal. Except for bloodthirsty madmen, no one can adapt to this kind of thing well the first time. Even now, I feel sick when I see a battlefield full of corpses." Madara looked at his hands, " But ninjas have been doing this for a long time, so you have to keep your mind safe from blood and hatred."

"Originally, I should have taught you a lesson about being merciful to your enemies, but I want to tell you that you don't have to abandon your emotions and force yourself to become a knife only for killing. Even if it's for revenge, don't choose to give up on yourself. Okay? ?”

"You... you know."

"I don't know." Madara touched Sasuke's head, "Maybe... it's just a subtle feeling between brothers."

Under Madara's gaze, Sasuke stuffed the coarse food into his mouth in large gulps, suppressing the desire to vomit and swallowing it bit by bit.

As long as you can eat this meal, you'll be fine.Madara handed the saliva to Sasuke, who looked ready to choke him to death, and felt mixed emotions in his heart.

This time, Sasuke was still a little dizzy after waking up.Sasuke was still sleepy until the ninja school was over and he was training with Naruto.

"Sasuke, what's wrong with you? Didn't you sleep yesterday?" When he was slumped on the ground to rest, Naruto came over and looked at him eagerly, "If you don't feel well, don't force yourself to practice."

Those clean eyes made Sasuke feel better inexplicably.

"It's okay." Sasuke responded unconsciously, "I just... had a nightmare."

"Nightmare?" Naruto also sat down on the side, "Sasuke is also afraid of things."

"Ah."

"I sometimes have nightmares. I thought someone as powerful as Sasuke wouldn't be afraid of anything."

Sasuke shook his head.

"Because, after training with Sasuke, I have never had nightmares again."

Naruto put his hands on the grass and raised his head with a smile.The sun shone through his brilliant blond hair, making it dazzlingly bright.

"You haven't always been brave."

Such as pretending to be ghosts to scare those gangsters, teasing teachers, graffiti on Hokage Rock, etc. Although these are all deviant things, sometimes breaking the rules is a kind of courage.

"Hey, no, I'm going to be super scared that Sasuke hates me now..." Naruto's shaking little head suddenly froze, and all the rest of his words were lost.

Sasuke's eyes couldn't help but widen a little: "Why."

"I didn't say anything!" Naruto stood up and ran away.

Sasuke chased him: "You clearly said that just now! You were afraid that I would hate you or something like that!"

"Ahh, shut up!"

The young boy who already had a strong sense of self suddenly revealed his secret thoughts, and at the moment he just wished he could find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.

Sasuke was diverted by him, he just wanted to catch the other person and ask him clearly.

This chase battle was ultimately won by Sasuke, so Naruto shrank, covered his head completely in his clothes, and kept shouting: "I can't hear, I can't hear, I can't hear..."

Sasuke grabbed the other person's wrist, and it was funny to see his turtle look.He fumbled to find the approximate location of the little head and patted it: "Why do I hate you?"

The thoughts stopped.

"Aren't we friends?"

The thin boy squirmed in his slightly loose clothes and carefully stuck out half of his head: "Are you serious?"

"if not."

"We're friends?"

"Ah."

"We're friends!"

Naruto jumped up suddenly, flew forward and covered Sasuke without any care: "Friend! Sasuke and I are friends!"

Sasuke was caught off guard and knocked to the ground by Naruto's movement. However, Naruto was immersed in his friend's joy and used far more strength than usual to restrain Sasuke's hands and feet, making him unable to move at all.

"Let me get up, you idiot!"