"How about here? This ramen shop might just be a stand, but the craftsmanship is excellent."
The Cat-faced Anbu led Itachi to a street-side shop and said, the ramen shop was simply set up, a bit more convenient than a mobile ramen cart.
However, it's very popular in Konoha, many people like to eat here, and it's said that when it first opened, there was even a long queue.
"Ichiraku Ramen..."
Itachi was no stranger to this place. Whenever Naruto invited, he'd bring him, Sasuke, Karin, Shiro, and Kimimaro to eat ramen here, and would teach them the Ramen Bible while eating.
Although the taste was alright, Itachi could never experience the 'floating soul' feeling Naruto did.
After sitting down at the ramen stand, the Cat-faced Anbu began, "Boss, I'll have a bowl of soy sauce ramen. As for you..."
"I'll have soy sauce ramen too, then."
Itachi said, he liked the flavor of soy sauce ramen, and after he sat down, he noticed the Cat-faced Anbu removed the mask from his face.
But when he saw the face under the mask, Itachi's lips involuntarily twitched in surprise.
"You..."
"What's wrong?"
Uchiha Itachi asked. He didn't even know why he invited this person for a meal, it just occurred to him when they met; additionally, after being refuted by this person yesterday, he felt a little defiant inside, he didn't understand the Uchiha's current situation to speak like that.
Itachi shook his head, "Nothing, just surprised. You look quite young... in our place, at this age, one should still be in school."
His Illusion Technique could deceive those around him perceiving his Chakra, even viewing closely with Byakugan would be affected, as long as Itachi himself didn't use Chakra.
Only he didn't expect to be stopped by himself to be invited for ramen, this space-time's Uchiha Itachi... indeed, it's quite a fascinating feeling.
"Seems your lives are truly happy, only once becoming a ninja can you realize how blissful studying in school is..."
Uchiha Itachi spoke calmly, he graduated at seven, became a Chunin at ten, now joining Anbu for a year; yet living daily within the life of a spy, not knowing what to do.
Especially after Shisui's death, he had neither a teacher nor mentor in ninjutsu or ninja career.
Itachi asked, "Do you dislike being a ninja? Becoming one so young, you must be a genius, right?"
"Genius is the expectation others place on you, when you fail this expectation, it becomes pressure...if I could choose, I wouldn't want to be a genius at all, for even family could possibly turn against you..."
"Family?"
Upon hearing this, Itachi couldn't help but click his tongue inwardly, just what did this world's self experience to feel so defeated and dejected...
"Let's not talk about this, I felt you were quite curious about the Uchiha last time, why is that?"
Uchiha Itachi realized he was saying too much, almost touching on family, so he stopped and switched topics.
"Uchiha... after all, it's a renowned clan in the Ninja World, also achieved quite a bit during previous wars, so I'm curious about them... moreover, my father used to know a Uchiha, he helped me and my father once."
After saying this, Itachi suddenly thought up this excuse that worked both ways, and then said it.
"Turns out someone from the clan was a friend of your father... who was it, maybe I can help you find them, take you to meet them."
Uchiha Itachi said, seeing the expression on the other's Itachi's face, explained further, "I myself belong to the Uchiha, finding people is easy for me."
"Uchiha Yoichi, the Uchiha who helped my father was named Uchiha Yoichi."
After saying this, Itachi thought for a moment and then added, "At the time I seemed to be just born, not knowing what happened, only learned this name from my father's words."
Uchiha Itachi nodded, "I see, when I return I will inquire for you."
After saying this, the two bowls of ramen were served, and both Itachis started eating, one heavy with thoughts, the other genuinely feeling a bit hungry.
'Still that soy sauce ramen, it seems even after Mr. Ichiraku expanded the shop, the taste hasn't changed...'
Itachi thought to himself, then sped up eating the ramen a bit.
After a while, the two finished their ramen one after another, Uchiha Itachi paid the bill first, then walked out.
After leaving the ramen shop, Uchiha Itachi said, "I'll help you inquire about that Uchiha Yoichi, if there's any news, I'll come find you."
"Really, thank you, I live at XX Hotel."
Itachi said this, and then saw this world's self directly leave with Instant Body Jutsu, feeling resignedly that this was too aloof.
Leaving the ramen shop, Itachi suddenly thought, if wanting to investigate this world's information about himself, there happened to be a great candidate.
So by the afternoon, at the ninja school's dismissal time, Itachi appeared directly at the school gate.
After waiting a few minutes, he saw Sasuke running out, even though this was a brother from another space-time, seeing Sasuke still brought a smile to Itachi's face as he greeted, "Sasuke, over here!"
"Brother, why are you here?"
Uchiha Sasuke ran over upon seeing Itachi, asking happily.
"Today's Anbu mission wrapped up, so I came to pick you up from school."
Itachi ruffled Sasuke's hair, smiling while asking, "How's school going?"
"So boring, I aced everything last time, didn't you remember, brother!"