"Damn it, my body is already..."

On the shattered land with only barren sand and dust left, Sasuke tried to stand up, but fell down again due to a slippery hand.

The medical charm affixed to his body was unable to treat an injury of this magnitude.

Most of the ribs on his chest were broken by the blow just now, and his arms and thighs lost all feeling. It seems that he has not caught his breath until now. If he hadn't actually seen that his limbs were still growing on his body,

, he even wondered if his limbs had also been blown away.

Finally, he used his last strength to suck milk, gritted his teeth, gasped, and stood up from the ground with difficulty.

Even when he was standing, his body was swaying and he might fall down at any time.

Similar to him, there is Naruto.

The situation at this time is not much better.

The clothes on the upper body were completely torn, exposing the strong muscles and bones, but the superficial skin was as red as a burn and steaming, giving people the feeling of looking directly at the flesh and blood under the skin.

His injury was slowly healing, and his whole body was burning like boiling water, but he still followed Sasuke's example and put his hands on his thighs to support his upper body, breathing heavily and disorderly.

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The two looked at each other at the same time without saying a word. Sasuke didn't know where the strength came from, stepped forward and punched Naruto in the face.

"Guwa!"

Naruto accidentally fell to the ground and rolled out. Sasuke rushed up again, jumped on Naruto, and punched him in the face again.

boom!

Naruto raised his foot, stepped on Sasuke's chin, and kicked him away.

Sasuke rolled his body out, opened his right hand, and fired three shurikens instantly.

Naruto sidestepped, continuing to breathe heavily, and looked at Sasuke, who was also looking at him. In unison, the two of them pounced on him at the same time, waving their fists.

boom!

The two men were punched in the face at the same time, and they immediately let out a muffled groan, rolled away in opposite directions, and fell to the ground without moving.

"Ha...ha...If this happens, you won't be able to move, Sasuke..."

Naruto panted and tilted his head.

Sasuke rested his elbows on the ground. He seemed to have better physical strength than Naruto, but he could only sit in this position and it was difficult to stand up again.

"Naruto, why...why do you have to go against me? You idiot, do you know what you are doing?"

"Of course I know, but I also said that I will solve everything in my own way!"

Naruto gasped in response.

"You bastard! You are a Konoha ninja, then use the momentum that a Konoha ninja should have to kill me, the sinner who attacked the village! Deliberately deflect the attack, and fight mercilessly like this, do you think I will do anything to you?

Are you grateful? I am... a traitorous ninja whose hands are stained with the blood of many ninjas in Konoha!"

Sasuke was yelling like an angry beast.

He is already a rebellious ninja of Konoha. How can there be any idiot in this world who still regards a rebellious ninja as his companion!

However, there is such a fool in front of me.

"Then what do you think I should do?"

"Of course, people like those from Konoha fought with the determination to kill me! We are not children anymore. When I made this choice, I never thought about walking out of Konoha alive!"

Yes, Sasuke naturally knows how dangerous it is to attack Konoha with his current strength.

From the beginning, he never left himself any so-called escape route.

But Konoha is too powerful.

He is so powerful that he must have a desperate mentality to have any hope of completing his revenge plan.

"Because of this, I can't agree with what you are doing now! Only a life of revenge is sad. In the past, you would not have made such a planless move!"

"No, as you are not an Avenger, you will never understand. The so-called new life is something that will be born after revenge. Before that, I would not think so long-term..."

Indeed, before coming here, he did hear from Kakashi that what you get after revenge is emptiness. After that, you must think about the future and fill this vacancy.

However, with this extravagant hope, after fighting Itachi and Konoha, I realized how difficult it is to consider such long-term things in the quagmire of revenge.

Revenge, revenge, revenge, from the time he was eight years old, everything he had was prepared for revenge.

This cause and effect made him breathless, and he never stopped thinking about gaining strength. Every dark night, he was tortured and awakened by the situation that night. He could only practice to the point of exhaustion every time to numb himself.

Body.

He cannot be as free and easy as Kakashi. Although he keeps saying that he wants to revitalize the Uchiha clan after revenge, he never has any plans or ideas.

His life plan, at the stage of revenge, seemed to be the end, and he would not move forward even a little bit.

Because of this, he came to Konoha with the belief that he would die.

He didn't know if his dead relatives and tribesmen would like to see him in this miserable state.

The living should sacrifice everything, even their own lives, for the sake of the dead.

With the attachment to the deceased, we should cherish our own life and live stronger and braver.

He couldn't think about this problem, so he just wallowed in revenge.

There is no need to think about the future, no need to consider whether one's body and will can bear such a life, all one needs to do is seek justice for the deceased.

He didn't want to kill those Konoha ninjas, but he did it without hesitation.

He didn't want to attack civilians who were not a threat, but he still attacked them and made them cry and scream in the flames of war. He wanted them to enjoy the same experience as the dead tribesmen.

Hesitation, confusion, and hesitation suddenly came to my mind.

Sasuke realized that he was actually not that brave and strong.

His courage is just an overreaction spurred by revenge, not the courage to face all harsh criticism without wavering.

"Naruto, what am I to you?"

Sasuke, who really couldn't understand, sat up from the ground and asked.

Judging from his tone, he seemed to have calmed down and began to analyze the current situation in an organized manner.

"Even if you ask that, I don't know how to answer you... If I have to say it, I used to see you standing alone by the river, and I couldn't help but think of my own situation, and then I couldn't help you.

Just ignore existence...it hurts!"

Naruto was gasping for air, all the bones in his body seemed to be falling apart and unable to move, and the burning of his skin made him not want to get up from the ground, so he had no choice but to lie like this.

"Yeah?"

Sasuke responded softly and looked at the sky, with confusion and relief in his eyes.

"I lost."

"Eh?"

Naruto, who was gasping for air, suddenly stiffened. He didn't expect Sasuke to say this.

"But I will never give up revenge."

Standing up tremblingly from the ground, shaking his body, Sasuke stepped forward and spoke as crisply as cutting through ice and snow.

"No matter what kind of will you have, killing will always be accompanied by sin... Is it what that bastard Itachi is carrying? This kind of weight is really unpleasant. It is more depressing than I imagined."

Sasuke laughed to himself.

"You can say that. Sure enough, you didn't kill anyone at Orochimaru's place."

People who are skilled in killing people will not say such words easily.

In his impression, Sasuke was a person who had clear goals, but no matter what kind of danger he faced, he would not involve anyone other than the target.

The bottom line restraint that is unimaginable to ordinary people indeed existed in the deepest part of Sasuke's heart.

Such shackles were released before, releasing another Sasuke.

"It has nothing to do with that kind of thing."

Sasuke held his injured arm. The medical talisman had little effect. It could only treat skin injuries. It could not completely heal the cracked bones.

He panted and stepped forward.

"No matter what, I was the one who killed those ninjas, and their families will resent me and start revenge against me."

Avengers will be targeted by others and be punished in the name of "Avengers". If you think about it carefully, it is really ridiculous.

But Sasuke couldn't laugh at all.

This heaviness was not so thick before, but now, it was so oppressive that he couldn't breathe.

This is true even for strangers.

So, what kind of mood did Itachi have when he waved the blade in his hand against his tribe and relatives?

And in the war that happened, countless ninjas fought, what kind of mood would they have while fighting?
To be continued...