[Hokage] Sasuke-kun's Melancholy

Wrapping Haruka's body with a cloak, Itachi carefully picked her up. When he saw the Sharingan soaked in the glass vessel on the other side of the wall, his steps froze for a moment, then turned and walked outside.

Hitomi took a candle from the wall and followed Itachi to help him light the way he came.

"Did Uchiha Madara do it?" Itachi asked calmly, without any emotion in his voice.

"It should be... right?" Hitomi replied with some hesitation. She is not sure now. After all, she has fought against Madara and probably knows his ability. The fatal injury, that's why she left so decisively at that time.

If she knew that Yao would be injured like this, she would definitely not take a step away from Yao.

"Let's find a place to rest first." Itachi glanced at Hitomi who looked back from time to time with a tangled expression, "What, are you worried about Sasuke?"

"...Well," Hitomi lowered her head a little downcast, "Madara said before that Sasuke joined Akatsuki."

"...Why didn't Sasuke go back to Konoha?" Itachi's face darkened slightly, and his pace became a little faster, "Really, Madara really knows about me... I was careless."

"Your matter?" Hitomi suddenly remembered the "Itachi's truth" that Haruka and Madara frequently mentioned before, and couldn't help asking, "What do they mean by your truth?"

"...There is no truth," Itachi said blankly, "The truth is that I killed the Uchiha clan, and Sasuke succeeded in killing me."

"Then why didn't you kill Sasuke together when you exterminated the clan?" Hitomi continued to ask, "Isn't it troublesome to leave future troubles?"

"That's because I need his eyes," Itachi quickly answered without thinking. "With his eyes, I can get eternal Sharingan."

"But Haruka said that you are not prepared to win at all?" Hitomi asked with blinking eyes. Itachi was a little overwhelmed by the questions one after another. He was silent for a while, and slowly replied: "That was just her random guess, Sasuke is now ...It has indeed become a lot stronger."

The more he questioned, the more Hitomi felt something was wrong. Compared with Sasuke's hatred for him, he didn't seem to have such a strong killing intent towards Sasuke. He was even killed by Sasuke once, but when Sasuke was mentioned, Itachi He didn't show any resentment either.

It was as if... gladly accepted his own death.

It shouldn't be like this. In her imagination, Itachi should be like Sasuke, and he should regard Sasuke who may seek revenge on him at any time as a thorn in his side. She didn't say that he became stronger in such a tolerant tone. .

... Sure enough, there should be another hidden reason for the extermination of the clan back then?

Could it be that the truth about Itachi is the truth about the genocide?But why did Sasuke join Akatsuki?

"If Sasuke really joined Akatsuki," Itachi said in a low voice, "the only ones who have not been captured are Eight and Nine Tails, and Nine Tails must stay in the final seal. If Madara wants to test Sasuke's strength, then Sasuke must It is very likely that I will go to the Land of Thunder and catch the eight tails."

"The Land of Thunder?" Hitomi was stunned, "What... what is Eight-Tails?"

Itachi was taken aback, and asked her suspiciously: "... Sasuke didn't find out about Jinchuriki when he was collecting information about Akatsuki?"

"Inchuriki?" Hitomi tried hard to recall the conversation between Suigetsu and Sasuke, because the content was somewhat obscure, so she often lost her mind when she listened to it. After thinking about it for a long time, she remembered that Suigetsu seemed to be I told Sasuke that Akatsuki's goal is someone with a special chakra or something.

"So, is Eight-Tails someone with a special Chakra?" Hitomi blinked, but was suddenly taken aback, "Could Nine-Tails be Naruto?"

She vaguely remembered that Sasuke mentioned that there was a nine-tailed demon fox living in Naruto's body.

"..." Itachi silently glanced at her and then withdrew his gaze, "It seems that you know everything."

There is no denying...that is to say, her guess is right?In that case, isn't Naruto also Akatsuki's target?If Sasuke joined Akatsuki, wouldn't he want to confront Naruto?

Although she has been very worried that Naruto will snatch Sasuke, they do have unusual feelings for each other, but now they are standing on the opposite side, isn't it too sad to just meet each other like this...

"Why... Sasuke wants to join Akatsuki..." Hitomi couldn't help muttering in a low voice, Itachi lowered his eyes slightly, but didn't say anything, just silently hugged Haruka and galloped through the forest.

He found a remote hotel to live in, and itachi's forehead guard was put away by him, so even if the proprietress took a few more glances at the blood-stained and unconscious Haruka in his hand, she didn't have any big reaction, just a habitual Told them not to make the room dirty.

After putting Haruka on the bed, Itachi poured a basin of hot water, and then came over with a towel to help her wash her body and wounds. Hitomi stared at him in a daze, and moved her eyes to the dying Haruka, with a confused expression, except Except that Orochimaru would hurt her when collecting samples from her body, at other times, she was hardly hurt by human attacks.

After all, the speed of ferocious beasts is much higher than that of humans, so it is easy to dodge their attacks, but how could Yao be stabbed from the front?Fortunately, the knife was not so straight, and it passed Yao's heart, otherwise she would probably die there.

Itachi helped her clean it carefully and then bandaged it again. After asking the proprietress to help them buy some clean clothes, he breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Hitomi who was standing beside the bed staring blankly at Haruka's wound: "What's wrong with you?"

"Hitomi thinks it's weird..." Hitomi frowned and said, "Hitomi fought against that man named Madara, and also fought against Haruka. Hitomi didn't think that Madara could hurt her from the front."

"Is this confidence based on the speed that your fierce beasts are proud of?" Itachi squinted at the tightly pursed pupil, and said calmly, "You still don't know enough about Sharingan, after all, Sharingan There is also a forbidden technique in the eye, which can turn the reality that is not good for you into a phantom."

"Let reality...become a phantom?" Hitomi was stunned, and repeated his words in doubt.

"That's right," Itachi nodded lightly, "Although the cost of using this technique is blindness, for Madara who has a large number of people who can replace Sharingan, one Sharingan should be nothing."

Hitomi instantly thought of the sharingans in that cave, where a large number of them were soaked in glass containers, which made her hair stand on end.

"Sharingan...is it so powerful?" Hitomi probably heard about Sharingan from Sasuke, but Sasuke never mentioned itachi's ability to change reality, or it should be said, Even Sasuke doesn't know.

However, no matter how powerful it is, it has already become history. After all, the Uchiha has become a group that is even rarer than fierce beasts. The only remaining Sasuke, Itachi, and Madara are obviously members of the same family. Now But they all stand in their own positions, restraining and hostile to each other, not to mention Itachi and Sasuke were originally brothers.

When listening to Haruka talking about the fate of the beast clan before, Hitomi thought silently that it seemed pretty miserable, but compared with Uchiha, she suddenly felt...it didn't seem so miserable.

It suddenly occurred to her that on the way back then, Itachi told her that Sasuke might have gone to the Land of Thunder. Hitomi glanced at Itachi hesitantly, and was already thinking about how to speak and leave first. Although I had to leave Haruka, I am sorry. But it's probably okay to have Itachi take care of her, after all, his experience in taking care of people is obviously much better than his own.

As if seeing through Hitomi's thoughts, Itachi finished tidying up the blood-stained bandages, then walked to Hitomi's side and said softly, "If you want to go to Sasuke, go."

Hitomi just opened her eyes wide in excitement, when she heard him go on to say, "But, I want to ask you one thing."

"Don't tell Sasuke that I'm still alive."

"..." Tong was stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously, "Why? Don't you want him to continue to seek revenge on you?"

"No, that's not the case," Itachi sighed lowly, "It's just that I'm a dead person, and I shouldn't have appeared in front of him in the first place. No matter how his thoughts change, please don't put me in front of him. Tell him that I'm still alive, okay?"

Although Tong could not understand why he did this, he could only nod silently at the moment: "Okay, Tong understands."

Turning around and taking two steps outside, Hitomi suddenly remembered something, looked back at Itachi and said, "Well, how will Hitomi contact you in the future?"

"Contact?" Itachi's tone suddenly became indifferent, "No, there is no need for us to meet again."

"Eh?" Hitomi couldn't help looking at Haruka who was still lying on the bed, "But Haruka is the only one of his kind I know, and Hitomi still has a lot of things she wants to ask her..."

"Really, then, I'll give you two choices." Itachi narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at her with scarlet Sharingan eyes, "Go to Sasuke, and act as if you have never met us, or... stay with us forever. here."

The meaning in the words is obvious, Itachi asked her to choose between Haruka and Sasuke, no matter which one she chooses, she may never see the other in her life.

"Why, do you have to make this choice?" Hitomi's expression became confused, "Hitomi doesn't want to do this..."

"There are many things that force you to make a choice," Itachi lowered his eyes and looked at her firmly, "There is no such thing as the best of both worlds in life. If you want to get something, you have to sacrifice something. In your heart... you should There is already an answer."

That's right, she did have the answer in her heart, if she had to choose one person, then no matter when or under any circumstances.

She would... choose Sasuke without hesitation.