This was a room with white as the main color. The dim oil lamp made the walls of the room appear orange-yellow. There was nothing else in the entire room except for a bed, and Sasuke, who was lying on the bed, seemed to be disturbed by the flickering flames of the candle. After a long time of difficult trembling, his eyelids finally woke up.
"Where is this......" Sasuke felt a little surprised and wanted to prop himself up, but the severe fatigue and soreness made him frown and lie down again weakly.
"It seems that you've woken up." In a corner of the room, Kaoru's figure suddenly came. In the shadow of the candlelight, he was wearing a black robe and had indifferent eyes.
"It's actually you, Uchiha Kaoru......" Sasuke was stunned and looked in the direction of Kaoru, but the sore body made it painful even to turn his head slightly.
"Don't move around, rest more." Kaoru said comfortingly and stepped forward to help Sasuke up.
"Ugh......" Sasuke covered his eyes. Because of the battle with Itachi, something subtle seemed to have happened to his Sharingan, but he couldn't say what it was now.
"Why are you here, Kaoru, and where is this?" Sasuke asked. He only remembered that Itachi had fallen in front of him, and he had fainted afterwards......
"We are already in Konoha now, and when you were fighting with Itachi, I was actually next to you all the time." Kaoru said indifferently, without any avoidance.
"What? You were next to me?" Sasuke was shocked in his heart. He hadn't noticed anyone else next to him at all when he was fighting with Itachi ah.
"Then you....."
"Originally, you sought more powerful power and defected to Orochimaru. I didn't want to bring you back, but Itachi asked me to bring you back." Kaoru said indifferently.
"Itachi asked you to bring me......" Hearing this, Sasuke's eyes widened and he shouted incredulously: "Is he still alive?!"
"No, he's dead." Ignoring Sasuke's excited expression, Kaoru continued to say calmly: "You won this battle. You killed Itachi. He asked me to bring you back to Konoha. It's just his dying words."
Sasuke was stunned, lowered his head slightly, and fell silent. He didn't know how to describe the mixed feelings in his heart.
He remembered very clearly that Itachi had actually won in the end. Facing that red giant, he had no power to resist at all. But why didn't Itachi take his eyes? But inexplicably fell down. With his ability, it was impossible to fall down like that.
Wasn't this his plan all along? Why did Itachi give up in the end? And at the end, that kind of tone and feeling was very much like the way Itachi used to dote on him when he was young, Itachi's gentleness.
After thinking for a moment, Sasuke suddenly reacted and asked Kaoru suspiciously: "Then why would Itachi ask you to take me away? Could it be...... You are also a member of Akatsuki?!"
"Hmph, if I were a member of Akatsuki, I wouldn't have brought you back to Konoha." Kaoru said, "Actually, you are also wondering, right? Wondering why Itachi would say those kinds of words before he died. That's not at all like what a cruel and ruthless brother should do."
Seeing the change in expression on Sasuke's face, Kaoru had already guessed what Sasuke was thinking in his heart, "You have grown up and are no longer a child. You should also know some facts."
"About the truth about Itachi....."
"Ridiculous! What's the point of talking about his affairs? That man who killed the entire clan....." Seeing Kaoru mention Itachi, it stung Sasuke's most vulnerable nerves, and he couldn't help but bite his teeth lightly: "Besides, you are also a member of the Uchiha clan, why don't you hate Itachi?!"
"You think you know Itachi very well......" Seeing Sasuke's explosive expression as soon as he mentioned Itachi, the corners of Kaoru's mouth slightly curved up, "Actually, you know nothing about him."
"I understand the truth about Uchiha Itachi." Kaoru didn't care about Sasuke's reaction, but said to himself slowly: "Itachi is an older brother who sacrificed everything for the ninja world, for Konoha, and for you, his younger brother......"
There was silence......
"Everything he did was to protect you, his younger brother. This is Uchiha Itachi's way of life." Kaoru finished speaking calmly, looking expectantly at Sasuke's reaction in front of him.
"What nonsense are you talking about?! If you say another word, I'll kill you!!"
Sure enough, hearing what Kaoru said, Sasuke's fragile nerves suddenly tightened to the extreme, and he roared almost hysterically.
"There's no need to say these pointless words to me...... You yourself also know that it's impossible to make that a reality." Facing Sasuke's roar, Kaoru was completely unmoved, looking at his current appearance, he couldn't help but feel a little touched and sighed slightly.
Itachi ah......
In order for Sasuke to have the power to protect himself, he didn't hesitate to play such a role to stimulate him....
Is he really worth you sacrificing like this? Although Itachi didn't want Sasuke to know the truth about this matter, Kaoru still said it, so let Sasuke make his own decision.
To be honest, Itachi was someone Kaoru had met very early on after Kaoru came to this Naruto world, but the blood and hatred he carried on his body was something Kaoru didn't want to touch for the rest of his life.
"He killed my parents..... and wiped out the entire clan..... He's a rogue ninja....." Sasuke muttered to himself somewhat blankly, as if he hadn't heard what Kaoru had said: "He's the existence I hate the most......."
"Is that really the case, Sasuke? Use your brain to think about it....." Kaoru said persuasively: "Did Itachi do this kind of thing just for the so-called test of his capacity?"
Sasuke fell silent.
"That night, he did kill the entire clan. If I didn't have special means at that time, my sister and I would have died that day, but in that massacre, besides himself, there was another person behind it." Kaoru said indifferently.
"That was..... an order issued by the Konoha higher-ups." When Kaoru said this sentence, Sasuke widened his eyes.
"An order from the Konoha higher-ups..... How is that possible?!" Instantly, Sasuke's face was filled with doubt and surprise.
"That's right....." Kaoru adjusted his thoughts and began to explain everything, but he only told it from the perspective of an observer, unlike Uchiha Obito in the original story, who deliberately told it in the tone of Uchiha Madara in order to make Sasuke work for him, guiding him to hate Konoha.
Adjusting his thoughts, Kaoru began to explain to Sasuke about the battle between Madara and the First Hokage at the beginning of Konoha's founding, the Second Hokage establishing the police force to monitor the Uchiha clan, and then the Uchiha clan being dissatisfied with the village's exclusion and choosing to launch a coup! Itachi's mission, the ANBU's blockade, the truth about the destruction of the entire Uchiha clan!
"You... are lying... lying to me....." Sasuke murmured incredulously, his eyes empty as if they had no focus.
For eight years, hatred for Itachi had been Sasuke's only persistence! In order to take revenge, he abandoned his companions, abandoned his teacher, and abandoned the village, but now Kaoru was telling him that Itachi had always been protecting him and making sacrifices. How could Sasuke accept such a fact?!
"Believe it, it's up to you. Don't believe it, it's also up to you. I'm just telling you the facts." Kaoru smiled indifferently, his tone containing a certain kind of fanaticism: "You should also have suspected it? The Uchiha clan, a versatile clan that excels at Fire Release, genjutsu, and ninjutsu tools, not to mention Itachi alone, even two people working together couldn't silently kill all the clan members. The collision of a ninjutsu would be enough to cause a commotion that would be noticed!"
"Impossible... Impossible....." Sasuke muttered to himself, his entire mind was hit by what Kaoru said and he was completely at a loss.
Itachi killed the clan! Killed my parents! He wanted to take my eyes! That's right, that's how it is! It's just that I'm stronger than him! He failed! That's the truth!
"You must want to refute, Itachi clearly tried to kill you several times, he has never shown mercy to you, you want to say that, right?" Looking at Sasuke's trembling lips, Kaoru had already guessed what he was thinking.
"But the truth is exactly the opposite. Itachi's Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu, and Susanoo are all killing moves that put people to death. Tsukuyomi was him holding back to deliberately let you break it, Amaterasu was ridiculously used to devour your Fire Release first to let you be prepared, what about Susanoo? If Itachi really wanted to kill you, you wouldn't be a match! Ordinary Sharingan can't compete with Mangekyō at all, even if Itachi has a serious illness, this point can't be changed."
"Serious illness?" Sasuke was shocked and looked at Kaoru in astonishment.
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