Hokage - Sunflower

Silently followed Itachi to practice, day after day passed, and the two lived in a peaceful atmosphere. Aoi often asked Itachi when she planned to release her, and Itachi always replied that it was still early.

So how early is it!She is really worried about her Sasuke!

"I met people from Konoha today, and they are looking for you."

After this lasted for two months, Itachi came back from the outside and said.

Aoi froze for a moment, and rolled her eyes, "Who are they?"

"..." Itachi didn't speak, but sat quietly on the chair, looked out the window motionlessly, and then said something irrelevant: "Sasuke is very dependent on you."

Aoi's heart skipped a beat, not knowing what Itachi meant by this sentence.

"So I can't let you go back so early. Sasuke is carrying hatred. If you are here, his hatred for me is not strong enough."

... Momo gestured her middle finger in her heart, Aoi said with a blank expression, "Itachi, you really love your brother deeply."

After following Itachi for more than a year, Aoi's guesses are slowly taking shape. From Itachi's words and actions and her side-by-side inquiries, Aoi knows that Itachi is basically a dead brother who loves her brother so much, and is still waiting for Sasuke One day he will be strong enough to kill himself.

"Itachi, I really can't understand your deep love."

Knowing that Itachi won't hurt herself, Aoi's complaint attribute also slowly came out.

Itachi generally responded silently and ignored Aoi's complaints.

"In other words, can't you tell me why you want to exterminate the clan? Anyway, I was almost killed by you, tell me secretly, and I won't tell it~"

Itachi still looked at the scroll in his hand blankly, but it was ignored.

Boring in the vegetable garden to loosen the soil, Aoi tried her best to find out something from Itachi, but Itachi ignored her at all.

In the past year, because Itachi would disappear for a while from time to time, Aoi escaped several times, but either fell into an illusion trap and was picked up by Itachi, or reached the edge of the barrier, but she couldn't break through the barrier and got lost in the forest. It was picked up again by the ferret.

Moreover, Itachi didn't seem to be dissatisfied with her escape. When he picked it up, he not only bandaged her wound, but didn't even threaten or get angry, which made Aoi feel guilty instead.

Up to now, Aoi no longer tried to escape, but practiced honestly with Itachi, waiting for him to be in a good mood one day and put herself back.

"Itachi, you said before that using the kaleidoscope will overwhelm your body, right..."

Up to now, Aoi doesn’t dare to use Yuedu and Amaterasu. I used Amaterasu once for training, and my eyes hurt so badly, and blood even flowed from the eye sockets. Aoi is still very greedy for life and afraid of death. I decided not to use kaleidoscope until life and death are at stake. .

To Aoi's question, Itachi just nodded.

"What about your body, Itachi?"

Itachi looked at her silently for a while, then whispered, "It's fine for now."

For the time being... that is to say, Itachi's body should fail in a few years.

"You...have you never thought about continuing to live with Sasuke?"

"...You are still as innocent as ever, Aoi." Itachi looked into the distance with heavy eyes, "Sasuke hates me and must kill me to avenge the Uchiha clan."

"Why do you have to kill? Can't Itachi tell Sasuke the truth?"

In an instant, Aoi was pinched by Itachi's neck against the wall, her hand shrank slightly, and Aoi immediately felt it was difficult to breathe.

"Say, what do you know?" Itachi's voice became icy cold, and the three-pointed jade in his eyes slowly turned into a kaleidoscope shape.

The surrounding scene distorted, and then turned blood red. Aoi found herself tied to a wooden stake, and her stomach was pierced by a knife one after another. The pain was so clear, although Aoi knew she had a stroke. , but once again felt the feeling of a sharp object being inserted into the body, the familiar sense of fear pervaded the whole body, and tears began to flow out slowly.

The crows in the sky gathered in front of it to look like Itachi, and Itachi stared at her: "Tell me everything you know."

"I don't know anything..." Aoi gritted her teeth and endured a knife being inserted into her heart again, "I just think that Itachi chose to exterminate the family because of some last resort, because..."

"Itachi is just like Sasuke...very gentle..."

Itachi was startled, and then his face sank, Aoi felt the knife in her heart being slowly pulled out, and then stabbed in hard.

"It hurts..." Aoi couldn't help screaming, Aoi felt that she was really miserable, and it was fine to help others take care of her brother, but she was caught and locked up in an inexplicable place, and now the culprit is still holding a knife. Stabbing myself, although it is an illusion, but the pain is real, every part of the body is screaming for pain, the blood is terribly cold, as if he is about to die, the repeated pain and torture, the heart begins to numb.

"Don't tell Sasuke anything about me." The surrounding scenery began to fade, and it had changed back to the scene of Itachi choking her neck, "Otherwise, I'll kill you."

The strength in her hands increased, and Aoi, who had just come out of Tsukiyomi World, had no strength to resist, a painful urge came out of her throat, and she struggled weakly.

Itachi's hand finally let go, and Aoi fell to the ground with piercing pain all over her body. She barely opened her eyes to see Itachi's leaving figure, and then her consciousness became blank, and she fainted powerlessly.

When Aoi woke up, there was no pain in her body, but her spirit seemed to have been greatly damaged, and it was difficult to extract even chakra.

Struggling to sit up from the bed, Itachi was still in the room, seeming to be cooking something, noticed the movement on the bed, turned his back to her and said, "You slept for ten days."

Whose fault do you think this is!

I felt resentful, but Aoi, who was tossed by Tsukiyomi, was afraid of Itachi again, and dared not speak casually.

Actually woke up in ten days, Itachi's expression didn't change, his heart was already full of surprise, those who fell into his monthly reading would have to lie down for at least a month, and those with poor mental strength would never even wake up, Aoi Woke up so quickly.

Holding a bowl of cooked porridge over to Aoi, Aoi wanted to take it, but found that even her hands began to tremble.

Realizing that Aoi was afraid of him, Itachi paused with his hand, and then touched Aoi's head tentatively. In an instant, Aoi's whole body became stiff, but she didn't dare to move. In fact, she didn't want to do this, but The body reacts in this way.

Sighing softly, Itachi got up and walked outside the house, "I'm going out for a few days, you should practice hard by yourself."

"kindness……"

Itachi's figure disappeared from the room, and Aoi relaxed and fell back on the bed. The idea of ​​running away, which had gradually disappeared, began to sprout in her mind again, but Aoi's current body couldn't do anything.

Said that Itachi, who had been away for a few days, did not come back for several months, Aoi couldn't help but wonder if Itachi had died, and if he died, wouldn't she be trapped here forever?

As time passed day by day, Aoi could only look at the transparent barrier and cry silently in her heart, praying for Itachi to come back quickly and begging him to let her go.

Falling asleep as usual, a pair of scarlet eyes staring at her suddenly appeared in Aoi's blurred consciousness. Waking up from the nightmare, Aoi touched the cold sweat on her forehead. Aoi breathed a sigh of relief, and then found that there seemed to be a dark shadow in the corner of the wall.

"...Itachi?"

Walking out of the shadows slowly, the dim moonlight was enough to illuminate that person's face, it was indeed Itachi.

"You, you're back..." Aoi felt that she might still be dreaming, stretched out her hand and pinched her face, and then pinched her face hard, "It hurts...it's really Itachi!"

There was a rare gentle smile on Itachi's face, and he nodded.

"You disappeared for half a year!" Aoi's tone was full of complaints and worries, and she became aggrieved again, "I thought you wouldn't come back..."

"...Sorry." Itachi patted Aoi's head habitually, only to belatedly realize that she was no longer afraid of him.

Turning on the light in the room, the dark room became brighter. Itachi was still wearing the familiar fire cloud black robe, but his body smelled strongly of blood.

"You are hurt?"

"No."

Such a heavy smell of blood, who is it to lie to?Aoi rolled her eyes and climbed out of bed to find the medicine box.

Seeing Itachi slowly bandaging herself, Aoi couldn't help but ask, "Who did you meet?" How could it hurt Itachi?

"It's nothing."

Knowing Itachi wouldn't say anything, Aoi curled her lips and lay back on the bed in a self-defeating manner.

"Aoi, you've been here for almost two years."

"Counting the last half year you disappeared, one year and nine months." The tone was obviously full of complaints.

"That's it." Itachi put on his clothes, "Pack up your things and follow me."

Aoi frowned, "Where are you going?" Are you going to let her go?

Itachi just stood at the door waiting for her, quietly not speaking.

"Okay, your injury..."

"It's a small injury, it's okay to kill you."

Aoi immediately shut up and did not speak, packed her things and opened the door.

Walking one after the other in the dark forest, both of them were silent with their mouths closed. Aoi didn't know where Itachi was going to take her, and she didn't bother to ask, since Itachi wouldn't say anything anyway.

"Aoi, what do you think of Konoha?"

"Konoha?" Aoi thought for a while, "Let's go home..."

"Will you protect Konoha no matter what happens?"

"Yes..." Aoi felt that something was wrong with Itachi, and she talked several times more than usual, "What's wrong?"

"What do you think of Sasuke?"

"Sasuke?" Aoi didn't know what Itachi meant by asking this, and answered honestly, "Brother..."

Although you are the real brother.

"If one day in the future, Sasuke and Konoha were on opposite sides, which side would you choose?"

"...Why? Sasuke is also Konoha's ninja?"

Aoi felt something was wrong with Itachi today and asked these strange questions.

The two had reached the edge of the barrier, Itachi quickly made a few handprints, and Aoi found that the barrier began to disappear.

"Itachi, are you going to let me go?"

Itachi didn't speak, but continued to walk quietly, and Aoi hurriedly followed, the joy in her heart and the sadness of parting repeatedly churned.

"You haven't answered me, Sasuke and the village, which side do you choose?"

Aoi didn't understand why Itachi made this assumption. If Sasuke confronted the village, he would not only become a traitor, but he would also be wanted by the village, and everyone in Konoha would hunt him down.Even so, Aoi answered him anyway.

"I don't think Sasuke will be against the village... If there is such a day, I will protect the village, and I will protect Sasuke."

"How can you protect both parties? What if your village asks you to kill Sasuke?"

Why is this person so fond of corners?

"Nothing is absolute. There must be a solution. Why do you have to take the most extreme path?"

Itachi was silent, then patted Aoi's head: "You are still too naive."

"That's right, I'm naive, not as deep as Itachi's love for my younger brother."

Itachi sighed, and helplessly stretched out two fingers to poke Aoi's forehead, "That's it, the next road, you go on your own."

Really about to be released, Aoi walked a few steps forward, feeling a little more reluctant in her heart, turned her head to look at Itachi standing there quietly, her face under the moonlight was extraordinarily gentle.

"Itachi, goodbye."?