[Hokage] Sasuke-kun's Melancholy

"Xiao?" Kirabi was taken aback for a moment, and the cheerful tone just now obviously sank.

"Let's talk about the reason later," Sasuke frowned slightly, looking at Kirabi who was wielding eight knives in an exaggerated posture, and unconsciously clenched the Kusanagi sword in his hand, "Hitomi, get out of the way."

Hitomi hesitated for a moment, and when she raised her head and wanted to say something, she met a pair of scarlet Sharingan head-on, her body froze there immediately, and her eyes became dull.

"Let me go," Sasuke ordered Hitomi calmly, watching her obediently and slowly withdraw her hands, then continued, "Go find a safe place to hide yourself."

Hitomi was like a marionette on a wire, mechanically and stiffly walking behind Sasuke, passed Kaorin who was standing behind, and stopped far behind, then turned around and stood there motionless.

"Wow... What's the matter, actually used illusion on Hitomi." Shuiyue opened her eyes wide in surprise, seeing Sasuke turn around and glared at him coldly, she immediately closed her mouth knowingly.

Hitomi's consciousness has been in a chaotic state. She is very clear that she is under the illusion, but she can't free herself from the illusion. The sounds and pictures from the outside world are mixed together in her mind. Like a messy palette, nothing can be seen clearly.

It took a long time for this chaotic feeling to calm down. When the voice next to her ears gradually became clear, Hitomi opened her eyes with some difficulty, and what came into view was slightly raised black hair, and a clear Clean blue lake.

"...Sasuke?" Hitomi's blank brain finally regained the ability to think, but the body felt very tired, as if all the strength in the whole body had been lost. Sasuke's illusion...is it so powerful?

"Are you awake?" Sasuke glanced at Hitomi lying on his back from the corner of his eye, "Your resistance to illusion is still so weak."

"..." Hitomi buried herself in Sasuke's shoulder a little depressed, "Hitomi just fell under the illusion of two people."

One is Itachi and the other is Sasuke, and both are when she is completely unprepared.

"Two people?" Sasuke's tone became confused, "Who is the other person?"

...It's not good, I slipped my mouth.

Hitomi hurriedly used a smile to cover up her unease, and tried her best not to sound like a lie: "That... just these two days, Hitomi has met a very powerful phantom ninja, uh, it's Haruka Hitomi was saved."

Such half-truths and half-false words are necessary to deceive Sasuke, Hitomi nervously waited for Sasuke's reaction, and was relieved when he saw that he let out a faint "ah" after being silent for a long time.

"Haru, it's her." Sasuke seemed to remember who Haruka was, "Have you been with her these two days?"

"Well," Hitomi sneaked a glance at Sasuke's face, and continued to speak after seeing that there was nothing unusual about him, "Later Hitomi wanted to come to Sasuke, so she separated from her."

Sasuke nodded slightly, then lowered his eyes: "Then, how did you know I would come here?"

"Eh?" Hitomi was stunned, it's not good, Itachi told her that Sasuke would appear here, how could she get away with it?

"It must be that," Shuiyue on the side said with a smile, "the beast and its master have a heart-to-heart or something."

No, Hitomi silently vetoed it in her heart, absolutely not using this reason, even if others didn't know, but Sasuke knew it all too well, there was no so-called induction between them at all.

"...This, actually, Hitomi inquired about you a little bit, I heard that you are coming to the country of thunder, and before Madara told Hitomi that Sasuke joined Akatsuki, let's think about Akatsuki's purpose..." Hitomi His voice became smaller and smaller, and even he himself became guilty, avoiding the sight of them looking at each other uncomfortably, and whispered, "...and then I found this place."

"Really? I can't see that you are still so smart, Hitomi." Shuiyue couldn't help but burst out laughing, as if she didn't suspect that there was anything wrong with her words.

Seeing that Sasuke was silent and didn't ask any more questions, as if he believed what she said, Hitomi secretly heaved a sigh of relief, turned his head to look to the right of Sasuke, and unexpectedly found a child carrying the unconscious Kirabi silently following them later.

Sasuke actually caught Kirabi?She also felt that Kirabi was stronger than Sasuke... Sure enough, it was the same as what Itachi said, did Sasuke become very strong before he knew it?

But wait, why is there a kid here?And it looks a little familiar...

"He is Shigego," Sasuke explained calmly, noticing Hitomi's puzzled expression, "Because he gave me a part of his body, it became smaller."

"Body?" Hitomi looked at the child version of Chongwu with a weird expression, "However, he looks younger than me, will he change back?"

"Don't worry," Chonggo, who had been reticent all this time, finally said, "I can recover after absorbing other people's bodies."

...absorb someone else's body?

What kind of physique is this guy...

The back of Kirabi, which Chonggo was carrying, was scorched black, as if it had been burned by something, and Sasuke's body was also full of scars, and he would pant a little even when he was walking. It was obvious at a glance that he had gone through a fierce battle.Hitomi couldn't help stretching out his finger to wipe the blood that seemed to flow from Sasuke's side face: "Why did you use illusion on Hitomi at that time, as long as Sasuke needs Hitomi, Hitomi can help you catch Uncle Eight-tailed."

"..." Sasuke frowned in silence, did not answer her, but his eyes became slightly confused.

Probably because of the serious injury, they had to rest for a while after walking for a short distance. After landing on land, Hitomi no longer needed Sasuke to carry her on his back. After handing a few fruits to Sasuke, she belatedly realized that she seemed to be the only one among the five who was not injured.

Even Xianglin, who usually assists in the rear, suffered a lot of injuries this time, and even ordinary walking was a bit difficult. Hitomi looked curiously at Kirabi who was thrown on the ground by Shigego, blinked and asked: "Sasuke caught him because of Akatsuki's mission?"

"Ah," Sasuke replied in a low voice, which was affirmative, "I'll help Akatsuki catch the tailed beast, and they promised to give us the power of the tailed beast."

"But, Sasuke, will you really get the power of the tailed beast?" Suigetsu asked curiously.

"It's hard to say now, but this power is no longer necessary for me," Sasuke snorted coldly, "I've got new power...power enough to destroy Konoha."

"Destroy Konoha?" Hitomi was taken aback, "What do you mean? Why did you suddenly destroy Konoha?"

"...Why, because of hatred," Sasuke lowered his eyes and looked at the blue fruit in his hand, his fingers clenched unconsciously, and the hard skin of the fruit was dented by his force, "Because those stupid high-level Konoha, Itachi came this far, and Uchiha...that's what happened."

Hitomi immediately felt the strong killing intent emanating from him. This was the first time she felt Sasuke's killing intent so clearly and directly. After all, Sasuke seldom killed people before, even Hitomi's killers Much more than him.

And what Sasuke said, it sounds like Itachi was forced to do this by the high-level Konoha, so this is what she is trying to know... the truth about Itachi?

Because Konoha's high-level officials forced Itachi to slaughter the Uchiha clan, Sasuke's hatred was transferred from Itachi to Konoha, but why did Konoha do this?The Uchiha clan should also be Konoha's important combat power...

"The reason is more complicated to say. It started when the village was attacked by Kyuubi 16 years ago." Sasuke frowned and said, "Because Sharingan can control Kyuubi, the Uchiha clan has been suspected and challenged by Konoha." They were forced to move to the fringes of the village.”

"And the attitude of the village caused dissatisfaction among many Uchiha people. This dissatisfaction continued to accumulate, and finally decided to launch a coup. At that time, itachi, who was the only one who joined Anbu and was closest to the center of power, was attracted by both Uchiha and Konoha Use, that is... a double agent."

"Double agent?" Hitomi tilted her head and thought for a while, "Do you want to disclose the news from both sides to the other party?"

"Almost," Sasuke's words faltered and his voice became even deeper, "And this... became the beginning of Itachi's pain. Uchiha gathered his tribe in private to plan a coup, but once they acted, Konoha had civil strife If this is the case, other countries will definitely take advantage of it, and it is very likely that it will become a war, and the Fourth World War will be set off in the ninja world. In order to prevent this possibility from happening, Itachi chose to stand on the side of a tree. Ye over there...is sacrificing the Uchiha clan to protect the peace of the village and the peace of the ninja world."

"...In other words, Itachi had to do this for the sake of peace?" Hitomi digested this pile of words in a daze, and she was a little overwhelmed by the amount of information in it.

Although she had vaguely felt that Itachi's extermination of the clan had other secrets before that, but what she guessed was that Itachi didn't do anything, but he was forced to take the blame, and didn't think about the political struggles behind it at all.

"So, I will absolutely kill those Konoha high-ranking people who pushed Itachi to this point with my own hands," Sasuke gritted his teeth viciously, "The Konoha guys... all are my revenge. object."