[Hokage] Flower Time

There was only chaos in my mind.

Huashi tried hard to break free from the turmoil, but in the end, there was only one thought left—brother was dead.

Zhishui is dead, his body is in the Nanhe River under her feet, becoming one with the river.

The person who killed him was Uchiha Itachi.

She clenched the kunai in her sleeves, and looked down at the river below her feet.The clear river water reflected her slightly deformed body, as well as her stiff face.

"Are you... lying to me?" Hua Shi asked.

Itachi had lied to her many times.

For the first time, he told her that he did not witness Zhishui's death.

The second time, he told her that he had killed his people in order to gain his "true self."

So, there will be a third and fourth time, right?

She stared at her reflection in the water, and slowly said: "Is this your lie too...? You want me to continue to hate you, so as to gain stronger pupil power and divert possible hatred towards Konoha, Right? Or...or, you think that if I kill you...you can wash away my crimes?"

"This must... be your lie too?" She asked again.

The river flowed quietly into the distance, and the water splashed against the dark rocks.

"Do not."

After an uneasy silence, Uchiha Itachi spoke.

"What I said is true." Standing in front of her, Itachi continued: "Including what I'll tell you next.... Uchiha Madara is not someone you should be close to... He is my extermination The facilitator of the night, he and I slaughtered the Uchiha clan."

There was a slight shock in Huashi's heart, but this surprise was not enough to cause any waves.From the moment she heard the phrase "everything I say is true", her body seemed to no longer belong to her.

Shisui is dead.

Zhishui is dead!

The belief that had been supporting her to live and continue to grow stronger collapsed in an instant, and she seemed to hear the sound of the world falling apart.The galaxy turned into shattered ashes, and the universe was annihilated in the sky full of dust.Many pictures flashed in front of my eyes one after another.

From the first time she saw Shishui, the boy with black hair and good eyes, he gradually grew up and became a genius praised by everyone.He walked with her all the way, until that day, that sunny and gentle afternoon, he left alone against the light, without saying goodbye, without words, and never came back.

At the end of the picture, she seemed to see the bouquet of freesia placed in front of the fourth generation Lord's grave.

"If... If my brother really did what he said and committed suicide because he didn't want to continue living, please give me a freesia."

The clenched Kunai slipped out of the cuff, her hands trembling uncontrollably.She raised her head slowly and slowly, staring directly at Itachi Uchiha in front of her, her eyes gradually turned into flames.

"This is...why!"

The angry words, I don't know if they are questioning Uchiha Itachi, or the god who is in charge of fate.

Along with the words, there was the sound of metal rubbing against Kunai.

She stabs at Kunai, and Itachi uses Kunai to resist her attack.The arms of the two were deadlocked, and their scarlet eyes were reflected in each other's eyes through each other's weapons and sleeves.She gritted her teeth, her face full of pain.

She is familiar with Uchiha Itachi's offensive style, she has practiced with him countless times during the break after school.She knows his every subtle movement, knows that he likes to fake back and then give a fatal blow with backhand, and also knows that his speed is so fast that only a few afterimages can be seen with ordinary eyes.

Kunai came and went with each other, rubbing against each other with harsh sounds and faint flickering sparks.

The footsteps of the two rubbed against the surface of the water, splashing a lot of water.When she stabbed, he leaned back, dodged the blow, and then elbowed her.She is very familiar with such tricks, and she seems to have seen a scene from many years ago——

"Hua Shi, let me teach you the blocking technique demonstrated last time."

"Okay. Do you want to go to the training ground? The one at Nara's house... what kind of shadow conduction technique, it's really troublesome."

"It's Shadow Binding."

"Ah - I know!"

The six or seven-year-old held a kunai in her hand, and stared at Itachi's movements seriously and closely.The immature boy was smiling and his movements were very relaxed.Light flashed across her Kuwublade face, occasionally illuminating her face.

Huashi's tender arms waved Kunai to attack, and Uchiha Itachi's slender fingers clenched Kunai tightly to block her attack.The scarlet ring on his finger had a faint brilliance.

The boy with black hair approached her face, and there was nervousness on his green face, he was concerned about the movements of his hands.Kunai with insufficient stamina swung past Huashi's face, and the slow shadow was reflected in her kaleidoscopic Sharingan.

Arms intertwined, the Kunai of the two were hit by each other at the same time, and they were thrown into the sky together, and then fell down after each turning around.Itachi stretched out his right hand to hold Kunai, Hua Shi stretched out his left hand to hook Kunai with his fingertips, and attacked the opponent almost at the same time.

With a movement of his pupils, the black pattern in the Sharingan quietly turned, and her Kunai was instantly blown away.

The boy on the bank of the river put Ku Wui in front of her, his black eyes slightly curved, and the smile on his face was very gentle: "This time I won too."

Huashi looked at Kunai who was stabbed horizontally in front of her neck, and stared at Uchiha Itachi in front of her with her own eyes.

"I'm no longer the Uchiha flower who is always one step behind you."

As she spoke, the patterns in her eyes moved slightly.The red star rose in his world, heading east quickly.Black clouds intertwine with the dark red sky, like a never-ending nightmare.

In this fantasy world that belonged to her, she stepped forward step by step, straight through the kunai in Uchiha Itachi's hands, as if it was just a piece of air.She put her bitterness on his neck and said, "Give me back my brother's eyes."

Uchiha Itachi withdrew his hand, and his arm passed directly through her body and fell to his side.His eyes swept across her face and said, "Then, kill me."

The moment the words fell, the world turned upside down.The sky and the earth exchanged with each other, she became the one who was bound, and Uchiha Itachi once again put Kunai on her neck.

The red moon hangs high in front of Huashi, shining on the upside-down world.The red and black universe is in a mess, countless stars are exploding or being born at the same time.Itachi's Kunai stood in front of her, so close that she could almost feel the infinitely magnified coldness.His bitterness was approaching her neck inch by inch, and his coldness was also approaching inch by inch.

Her eyes moved slightly, scanning the scarlet sky.

There seemed to be cold sweat oozing from her forehead. Her body should be afraid of the imminent threat, so she instinctively feared death, and trembled because of it.But her heart was as calm as stagnant water, without any feeling, as if her soul had been separated from her body.

Brother is dead.

Her only attachment and support was dead forever.

There is no "place to go, reach, meet".

She lost Shisui forever.

At this moment, facing Uchiha Itachi's approaching blade, her inner peace was terrifying.She had no desire to resist, and even thought—just die under his knife like this, let him make a choice for her timid self, and bid farewell to this world together.The original her... should have died on that night of genocide.

She died in the hands of Uchiha Itachi in the past, so now she can also die in the hands of Uchiha Itachi.

——Let’s be like this.

——Dead in the hands of Uchiha Itachi, and then no longer have to feel that kind of despair and pain.

——She no longer wants to see this world full of death, grief and parting.

Kunai's tip pierced her skin, Uchiha Itachi leaned over her ear, and whispered a few words.

"Don't you want to avenge your brother?"

"Don't you want to take Shisui's eyes back?"

Water-stopping eyes.

Shisui's eyes... are still in Uchiha Itachi's hands.

Because of these two simple sentences, she regained the courage to survive.The faint light penetrated into the darkness of the sky, reawakening her body.Her eyes suddenly enlarged, and power from nowhere gushed out of her body.The light blue chakra spread out as if consciously, enveloping her body in an instant, finally forming the giant's ribs.

She didn't know where this power came from, but she felt severe pain all over her body.The pain made it difficult for her to move an inch, and it seemed that even the depths of her bone marrow could feel the painful torture.However, for Huashi, such pain is better than being at a loss without any feeling.

She panted, closed her eyes slightly, and broke free from the shackles of the illusion.Every inch of her body was screaming for pain, but she felt a new strength.Without being too deliberate, those surging chakras can form many forms according to her consciousness.

Uchiha Itachi took a few steps back, his feet stepped on the water, splashing a drop of water.He lowered his head and saw the marks on his sleeves that had been cut by the attack just now, and murmured: "Hatred...brings new power. This is the power of Susanoo."

There were bloodshot eyes in his eyeballs, and a bright bloodstain flowed under one eye.

Susano...

She closed one eye, not surprised by this completely unfamiliar word.

She tried to take two steps forward, but the pain all over her body made her feel like walking on the tip of a knife. Such pain made her frowned fiercely.She gasped for a while and said, "Give me back my brother's eyes."