The completely wet ball of chakra test paper increased in weight due to being soaked and softened by water. It fell to the ground like a ball of white mud, making a "slapping" sound.
The three brothers all took a step back, with different expressions on their faces.
"Giyu," Uchiha Sasuke said with some regret as he still didn't understand what happened, "Why did you damage this piece of paper? If so, you won't be able to take it back to show your father."
Yiyong took back his empty hand, with the word innocent written on his face.
"...I don't know what happened, it just happened all of a sudden."
"You don't have to worry, the test strips are disposable."
Itachi Uchiha shook his head slightly, "However, Giyu, your situation is very special. Chakra attributes such as water and fire, which restrain each other, rarely appear in the same ninja, and..."
He looked into Yiyong's eyes solemnly and his tone was a little solemn.
"Your chakra has an extremely high affinity for the water attribute. It is so high that it surpasses the fire attribute inherited from the Uchiha family. I'm afraid no one will believe it if I tell you."
"Is this a bad thing?"
Sasuke looked at Itachi with a strange look, full of inquiry, "Why does my brother look unhappy?"
"If Giyuu is willing to become a ninja, maybe it would be better to talk about it."
【But it’s not much better.】
Itachi knelt down and explained to the two of them, "Although the water release ninjutsu is not very aggressive, it has a large range. It can easily change the terrain and destroy wooden buildings. With Giyuu's water attribute affinity, as long as
With enough chakra, I'm afraid I can use B-level ninjutsu as forbidden techniques, and this doesn't take into account the existence of natural water sources around me. Can you imagine how excited the tribe will be when they know about this?"
In his mind, he had begun to imagine the scene where Giyuu was behind his father, controlling floods and rivers to wash away the entire Konoha Village, while his father was laughing in front of him.
According to clan records, before the village was founded in Konoha, when the Senju and the Uchiha were enemies, the Senju Tobirama, who was not yet the Second Hokage, used water escape ninjutsu like the sea to attack the Uchiha's old site, completely destroying the clan.
residential area and caused a large number of casualties.
Now that there is an opportunity to retaliate, those clansmen who hold grudges cannot miss this opportunity.
The most important thing is that as long as Yiyong's water escape is strong enough, the Sarutobi clan who are also good at fire escape will be severely restrained.
Among Konoha, there are very few earth-bending ninjas who are good at dealing with water-bending.
Even if ninjas can survive the flood and fight on the water, what about the civilians and genin who are unable to tread water?
Itachi no longer dared to think about it any more.
"Let's make a deal."
He looked at Sasuke and Giyu and said: "When my father asked about today's situation, we only said that Giyu's chakra is water attribute and fire attribute. There is no need to talk about the specific situation when the chakra test paper changes."
Then he turned around and warned Yiyong alone, "If father gives you test strips to test again, just refuse as usual."
Yiyong nodded in agreement.
"But why should we hide this kind of thing from dad?"
Sasuke doesn't quite understand.
Being noticed by your father is obviously a good thing.
In the past, it was just Jiyong who didn't care about his father's opinion, but now, even his brother is encouraging this behavior?
Is their father's approval really so insignificant to them?
"Sasuke, once his father finds out about this, Giyuu will no longer have any freedom."
Itachi sighed. He and Sasuke couldn't explain the real reasons for many things, and Sasuke couldn't understand either.
"Father will be forced by the jounin of the clan to train Giyu to practice water escape, and train him as a secret weapon. Then you will not be able to see him, and you will not be able to eat the food cooked by Giyu."
[This does not take into account what the tribe may do in order for him to improve his pupil power...]
Then he paused and stared at Sasuke with sharp eyes, "Do you really want this to happen?"
"No, I don't hope."
Sasuke looked pale and shook his head, "But dad wouldn't do that."
"He is the leader of the Uchiha clan first, and our father second. He must consider the future of the clan."
Itachi seemed to understand Fugaku, but his tone became colder.
He recalled that when he opened his eyes when he was eight years old, his teammates Tianma and Xinzi were killed by masked men. His father didn't care at all that someone lost his life. He just fed the fish and happily congratulated him for opening his eyes, "Truly becoming an Uchiha."
a member".
Since then, he has not expressed any real thoughts in front of his father, only observing quietly.
However, the more things he saw and heard, the more he felt against the so-called "Uchiha's pride".
If he hadn't been reluctant to leave Sasuke and Giyuu, he would have really wanted to leave this house.
Want it so so much.
"Sasuke, if you plan to become a ninja, remember these words."
Itachi's eyes gently touched Sasuke's young face, "Sometimes, being better than others will only make you used and consumed earlier. If possible, I really hope you were born in the City of Fire instead of a ninja village
And Uchiha..."
Sasuke felt like he was in an ice cave after receiving such an abnormal wish, not knowing how to respond.
Giyuu gave Itachi a deep look, remembering how many times he refused his father to take the Chunin Exam.
Itachi must also know very well that once he becomes a chuunin, he will have to participate in more complicated battles.
[Obviously only ten years old...]
[But have you seen the nature of ninjas as consumables? 】
For the first time, he felt that Itachi was working harder than when he was thirteen or fourteen years old.
At that time, he was engulfed by hatred for ghosts and shame for his sister and Qiu Tu, but he was able to use these feelings to push himself forward. He had inexhaustible motivation and did not have to think about "why he lived."
But Itachi understood intellectually the truth that he was a "consumable", but he could still persevere and live unwaveringly, without being affected by the despair and meaninglessness...
This is definitely not something that can be summed up by words like "mature" or "precocious". There is also a hint of paranoia that is ready to rebound at any time.
He grabbed Itachi's clothes and said sincerely: "Don't force yourself too much."
Uchiha Itachi was stunned for a long time before he showed a bright smile.
At this point, the morning training is completely over.
After the three brothers finished lunch, Itachi said to the two of them: "Rest is also a part of practice. You can sleep here first, or you can go swimming in the shallow lake over there. I will leave for a while and return in the afternoon."
"Eh?"
Sasuke suddenly understood, "Brother, do you still have tasks today?"
"Well, it's a C-level mission."
Uchiha Itachi nodded and said: "Because it is a commission from the Daming Palace, I must go there on time."
The place where the daimyo rules is in the capital of the Land of Fire.
But most of his family members, except his eldest son, like to spend their holidays in Konoha Village.
For example, Mrs. Daimyo, some of her dozen cats get lost every day. Finding cats has become a daily task for Konoha genin, and the rewards are generous.
"Then brother, you have to come back early."
Sasuke said reluctantly.
Being alone with Yiyong when he is awake is quite a test of his endurance.
It was true that he wanted to talk and communicate with Yiyong, but Yiyong always said things that made people angry.
"I try my best."
Itachi rubbed Sasuke's head and said, "When I come back in the afternoon, I'll teach you the secret of the fire ball.
"During this period, you are not allowed to quarrel with Yiyong, nor are you allowed to get into trouble and ignore him."
"oh."
Sasuke imitated Itachi's tone and said, "I'll try my best too."
Itachi smiled, poked his forehead and was about to leave, but was stopped by Giyuu.
"Wait a moment."
Giyong opened the bottom of the food box, took out a fox mask and handed it to Itachi, "This is for you."
After saying that, he waved his hands at the two brothers and disappeared from the spot with a teleportation technique. Sasuke was so surprised that he felt so handsome again and said he wanted to learn it.
But what the two of them didn't know was that although Uchiha Itachi was gone, another pair of scarlet Sharingan eyes erupted in bursts of red light in the darkness of the deep forest, watching their every move.
…
"Courage."
Under the shade of a tree, Sasuke lazily leaned against the tree trunk, skillfully throwing the kunai in his right hand, hoping to elicit the "envy" and "want to learn" expressions from Giyuu.
But the latter lay down boredly at the end of the shade, his eyes reflecting the white clouds in the sky, as if he was pondering the shape of the clouds.
[The resolution of the breath of the moon is 10 times that of the breath of fire, so the breath of the sun should be about the same.]
[Itachi is a three-magatama, which can analyze three parts per hundred thousand per hour. Even if I can collect the resolution of the moon's breath three times a day, it will take a full 10,000 days, which is more than 20 years, which is too long.
...]
[In addition to Itachi, his father, mother, and Shisui are also three magatama. 】
[If I can find some reason for them to perform illusions on me, maybe the progress will be much faster...]
Just as Giyuu was thinking, the face of his twin brother Sasuke suddenly came into his field of vision.
The latter was kneeling on the ground, staring into his eyes carefully, as if he wanted to see through him.
"do what?"
Yiyong asked in confusion, "If you let me train with you, please forgive me for refusing. We are too far apart."
[With the strength of this body, it should be able to punch a big hole in the round stone that Master Rentaki placed on the mountain (the one Tanjiro chopped open before taking the test). 】
"Who told you not to train? How could you be my opponent?"
Sasuke snorted, completely misunderstanding what Giyuu meant, but in the blink of an eye a trace of loneliness appeared on his face.
"But if you take it seriously, you will surpass me soon.
"Your body is so good, your strength is so great, and even your chakra attributes are so exaggerated."
Sasuke's voice became softer and softer, making Giyuu have to sit up to hear clearly.
Sasuke pursed his lips and stammered, "You, can't you..."
"What's wrong?"
Jiyong patted Sasuke on the shoulder, "Speak clearly."
"I mean!
"You must have known for a long time that I was useless, so in order to let me go, you pretended that you didn't want to become a ninja and that you didn't care about your father's attitude towards you at all, right?"
Sasuke finally spoke out what was on his mind.
"If that's the case, I don't need your pity."
The summer wind passed through the canopy of trees above their heads, making a pleasant rustling sound.
After the cool wind blew by, Sasuke lowered his head and turned to one side in shame, his eyes red.
Uchiha Sasuke has been a child who refused to admit defeat since he was a child.
When Yiyong started doing housework, he also wanted to express himself, but he failed miserably.
When he was criticized by his father, he was so panicked that he could not sit still. However, Yiyong directly interrupted and asked when he could prepare dinner.
Although Sasuke never said it, he really envied Giyuu for being able to easily do things that neither he nor his brother could do.
But as he grew wiser, Sasuke understood that what Giyuu was good at was not what his tribe and father approved of.
This is a ninja village, a place where only the strong have a sense of presence.
Only by possessing strength and becoming a ninja, like your brother, can you gain the admiration of your father.
Around the age of four, Sasuke began to pester his brother to teach him shurikenjutsu, three-skin jutsu and Uchiha's fire escape.
After a year of this, he felt that he was finally stronger than Yiyong.
He even felt a little sorry for Giyuu, because he didn't want to become a ninja and was attacked by his father's eyes every night.
Until last night, when this brother who had never trained suddenly opened his eyes for some reason, and when his father said, "Giyu's talent is stronger than Itachi and Shisui," Sasuke felt a little depressed.
This morning, when Giyuu easily lifted the food box and ran a long distance without even breathing, Sasuke finally understood what his father meant and understood that he was not wrong.
Gradually, details that he had never considered before came into his mind.
For example, every time Yiyong buys vegetables, he knows the size and weight of the vegetables.
For example, every summer, he is so hot that he is sweating profusely, but Yiyong's side feels cool.
For example, every time he goes out, his mother will tell him to be careful, but she rarely says this to Yiyong, obviously he still has so much money on him.
Because my mother understood very early that Yiyong was not so strong just from yesterday.
But he has always been strong.
Think about it carefully, this home——
He was the only one who was treated completely like a child and a weakling!
"Why are you crying?"
Yiyong became a little troubled.
He is not a butterfly ninja, and he does not know how to coax children.
"Answer my question first."
Sasuke stared at Giyu reluctantly, "Did you say you don't want to be a ninja just to prevent me from looking so pitiful?"
The Sharingan's pupils deep in the forest shrank, obviously also wanting to know the answer to the question.
With Giyu's "love" for Sasuke, he would definitely be able to do such a thing.
Yiyong took a deep breath and said a few words quite formally: "Absolutely not."
"Why?"
Sasuke was stunned for a moment, "Why don't you want to become a ninja?"
"You should ask yourself why you want to become a ninja."
Yiyong raised his head and asked without thinking.
"Hey, because my parents and my brother are all ninjas——"
"You mean, you're just imitating them?"
"But dad also wants us to become ninjas——"
"That means you just chose your target in accordance with your family's routine and their expectations of you."
Giyuu looked at him with a deep look, "Even if you don't know what you want to do after becoming a ninja, as long as you master the power, as long as your father and tribe recognize you, as long as you make Uchiha famous, everything will be fine?"
"..."
Sasuke looked at Giyuu in surprise.
This was the first time that the latter had spoken such a long string of words to him, as if he wanted to make up for what he had not said in the past few years.
"Is there anything wrong with this idea?"
Isn't this what every clan member is doing?
Uchiha Fugaku in the distance also frowned, fearing that Giyuu would spread some weird ideas to Sasuke.
Yiyong did not answer immediately, but stared at the clouds in the sky for a while.
The shape of that cloud is very similar to the shape of Ming Yu Xing Ming's palms clasped together.
"Sasuke, you chose to become a ninja, but do you know the price that may happen?"
Yiyong turned his head and looked at his brothers who looked somewhat similar to him.
"Have you ever thought that one day you will be in close combat with others, and you will see rivers of blood and corpses everywhere in front of you?"
That was the scene in Mugen City, when they fought against Onimusuji Muzan. They had to step on the corpses of their companions on their way.
"Have you ever thought about watching your friends and family members being killed in front of you by an enemy that doesn't make sense at all?"
The mutilated corpses of his sister and Qiu Tu appeared in front of him.
"You only see that the ninjas in the clan are respected by others, but do you know that they are just those who successfully survived?
"To easily choose to be a knife in the hands of others as a career, to become a person with power, but to have no idea of the possibility of being killed, to have no idea of the pain of losing relatives and friends, just for 'fame',
"Glory," "pride," and "strength" are such empty words that I gave everything and still got intoxicated with them."
Yiyong raised his head and squinted his eyes against the sunshine.
"Using all kinds of beautiful words to deceive children who know nothing and have never seen other choices to become ninjas. After they see the cruel truth, they then use the hatred and pain caused by the sacrifice of their relatives and friends to let these children turn this ninja into a ninja."
Maintain the identity. Convert the conflicts and conflicts of interest between tool users into mutual hatred between tools, and pass them on naturally from generation to generation until they become common sense.
"You ask me why I don't want to be a ninja?"
Giyu glanced at Sasuke, who was already dizzy from the words he couldn't fully understand.
"That's the reason."
"Pah, pah, pah—"
There was a sound of applause, but it wasn't from Sasuke.
Uchiha Giyuu and Sasuke turned their heads at the same time and found a strange young man squatting on a wall of earth flow, more than ten meters away from them.
But the next second, there was a sound, and the man had appeared in front of the two of them.
Not inferior to Itachi's teleportation technique.
The man looked handsome in a way typical of Uchiha, but his eyebrows were raised very high, and he looked like he had a bad temper. He was the one who applauded just now.
"I didn't expect to hear such words from the patriarch's son."
There was a slight contemptuous smile on his lips, "Such a fallacy shouldn't be something a kid like you can tell, right? Did you listen to the clan leader, or did that coward Uchiha Itachi tell you this?"
"You are not allowed to insult my brother!"
Hearing that Itachi was called a coward, Sasuke angrily stood in front of Giyu, holding the kunai in his hand.
"In order not to meet me, he didn't even go to the clan's training ground, and went to hide in such a far away place, and you still say he's not a coward?"
As he said that, he looked behind the brothers Giyu and Sasuke, where three more young boys came out, "What do you three think?"
The three people exchanged glances, as if they wanted to say something, but seeing the impatience in the leader's eyes, they nodded in agreement.
"who is he?"
Yiyong glanced around at the relative positions of the four people, and was a little confused. These people must be members of the tribe, and why they looked so unkind.
"This guy is Uchiha Flame. He wanted to challenge his brother at the Uchiha show, but he was stopped by the jounin of the clan."
Uchiha Sasuke looked at Uchiha Flame, his eyes full of anger.
If it weren't for this man, he and his brother wouldn't have to run so far every day.
"Oh?" Yiyong suddenly realized.
Is that similar to Fusukawa in Demon Slayer Corps? The kind of person who always comes to trouble him for no apparent reason, but actually has no ill intentions?
However, the word coward is much gentler than the word Immortal Kawa Saneya used when he scolded him.
He opened [Transparent World] and looked at a few people. It could be seen from the volume of energy in their brains that among these four people, Uchiha Enhuo had a three-magatama Sharingan, and the other three had one magatama.
In Itachi's words, these three people all possess genin-level chakra and should have graduated from ninja school.
"Okay, I'm too lazy to talk nonsense to you two guys who know nothing."
Uchiha Yanhuo raised his head arrogantly, "I just heard the seniors in the clan said that Uchiha Itachi was at this venue, so I came here specially, but I only saw you two. So, where did that guy go?
Did you go? Did you know that I was coming and hid again? "
"What does Itachi's whereabouts have to do with you?"
Sasuke replied: "You are still a chuunin at the age of fifteen, what qualifications do you have to yell here. Brother Shisui said that Itachi has already reached the level of a jounin, and he is many times stronger than you!"
A tic-tac-toe appeared on Uchiha Yanhuo's forehead, and the other three people showed expressions of disbelief.
Uchiha Shisui, although the elders in the clan do not agree with his position, he publicly admits that he is the first person in the clan. If it is his evaluation...
"How dare you say that."
He stared at Uchiha Sasuke and explained: "I was targeted by that guy Mito Gate Flame, so I didn't become a Jonin! Besides, I have been looking for that guy Uchiha Shisui for a long time. He is almost like your brother.
, never dare to appear in front of me!"
"Wait a moment."
Giyu interrupted him and analyzed it quite seriously: "If you are hated by the people in the village and cannot become a Jonin, then go and make up the relationship. If you come to cause trouble for Itachi, even the clan will hate you in the future.
Bar."
Uchiha Yanhuo fell silent.
He stared at Yiyong quietly, looking at the other person's expressionless face that seemed to be full of ridicule...
A string in my heart suddenly broke.
He waved to a follower he brought with him.
"Tie them both up, take them away and hide them."
Uchiha Yanhuo's face twisted, and he ordered with a ferocious smile: "If Uchiha Itachi refuses to fight with me, let these two brats starve in the wilderness all night."
Uchiha Fugaku, deep in the forest, saw this scene and was prepared.
With Sasuke's character, he will definitely resist and will be subdued.
When the two brothers feel helpless and the desire for power arises in their hearts, his father will descend from the sky to prevent the situation from getting worse, and at the same time punish the younger brother who has recently made the clan members resentful.
It not only changed Yiyong's thoughts, but also made up for the slightly stiff parent-child relationship in the past. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
However, as soon as he took a step, he saw the child who was walking to Yiyong holding the rope kneeling down on the ground without any warning, clutching his stomach.
Yiyong held the young man's shoulders and gently moved his feet to let him lie down.
[The beating was a bit heavy...]
"Sorry, Itachi has been very tired recently."
Almost in an instant, he had tied up the boy who was just about to tie him up (Inosuke:?).
"If it's just for the purpose of sparring and challenging, please don't disturb him and leave quickly."
