Naruto, Time of Dawn

"Hehehe, finally woke up Sasuke."

Sasuke woke up slowly in the dark cave, and Orochimaru, who had been missing all this time, walked out of the darkness and came to him.

Sasuke held his head. The violent impact of the Yin power and consciousness on his body and soul gave him a splitting headache, but he could only endure the current situation.

"Why are you here?"

Orochimaru's cold and hoarse voice made people's heads tingle. He only heard him jokingly say: "I didn't expect that the most taboo person in Konoha's top brass would become the most incompatible person with Konoha's top brass. Destiny is really such a thing. ...You say so, sasuke"

Sasuke staggered to his feet and looked at Orochimaru, "Answer my question!"

Orochimaru glanced at him and replied casually: "I did some tricks on the first and second generation two days ago when they went to find Uchiha Madara."

"..."

"Don't look at me like this Sasuke," Orochimaru said with a helpless expression: "Uchiha Madara made such a big fuss for Naruto-kun, it's hard for me not to doubt him, but I didn't expect you, Sasuke, to be with Uchiha. Madara is related, and the relationship is profound.”

Sasuke's nerves tensed up almost subconsciously, and he said angrily: "What do you want to do?"

"Don't be nervous," Orochimaru smiled, "As the eldest son of the Six Paths and the creator of the art, there must be many things I still need to ask you for advice."

"There's no need to ask for advice," Sasuke said coldly, "I don't have the energy, let alone the time."

"Even if I tell you your identity to Naruto-kun?"

Orochimaru stuck out his tongue and licked the corner of his lips, looking at Sasuke greedily, "Sasuke didn't regain consciousness until tonight... wasn't it because he was afraid that Naruto-kun would know your identity?"

"Ah."

Sasuke snorted and gritted his teeth: "Orochimaru, you should know that I hate others threatening me the most!"

Almost instantly, Sasuke dodged behind Orochimaru, and the Kusanagi sword was already lying across Orochimaru's neck.

Orochimaru closed his eyes and smiled, as if he was not the one who was caught and harmed, and praised: "It's really amazing. Even the Flying Thunder God can't beat him at such a speed."

The cold sword edge came a little closer, but Orochimaru didn't take it seriously and continued:

"Sasuke, since I have chosen to help you, I will not do anything against you."

"I don't care."

Sasuke put away the pheasant sword and still looked unruly: "Orochimaru, put away your thoughts, there are some things you shouldn't touch."

"This shouldn't be important," Orochimaru said, "Don't Sasuke want to know what the order just given by the higher-ups is?"

Sasuke lost interest, glanced at Orochimaru with an extremely cold look and stood up.

"Aren't you worried about Itachi?"

Orochimaru suddenly raised his voice and called to Sasuke, "The latest news is that the two elders of Konoha have ordered Itachi to perform a mission, a mission that will kill him."

"what?!"

Sasuke was startled, turned around, grabbed Orochimaru by the collar and roared: "How dare they!!!"

"They don't dare. If they knew you were Indra, they wouldn't dare."

Orochimaru laughed sinisterly, "But Sasuke had better go back to Uchiha now. Calculating the time, the Fourth Hokage should arrive by now."

Upon hearing this, Sasuke immediately pushed Orochimaru away and left in a flash.

Tonight, the Uchiha house is destined to be uneasy. The living room that was supposed to enter the dreamland is still brightly lit until now, and even Uchiha Obito, who has not been seen in front of others for a long time, has appeared.

Mikoto said: "Can't we let others go? Itachi's health has just recovered and he won't be able to bear it."

Obito said: "Let me go sir, no one knows Akatsuki better than me."

"No!" Minato refused sternly, "Did you recover before Itachi fully recovered? Don't go!"

Shisui said: "Brother Obito, don't say that Lord Minato won't let you go. Even if Lord Minato agrees, the higher-ups won't agree."

Itachi said: "Don't be embarrassed, everyone, let me go."

"No! Absolutely not!" Shisui raised his voice, turned to look at Minato, and said: "Lord Minato, I'm going!"

"No!" Obito said: "The root system of 'Akatsuki' is intertwined, not to mention how many hidden piles Black Zetsu has left behind. No one knows. I don't agree!"

"Brother with soil!"

Fugaku looked at his son who looked calm but still looked sick and fell into deep thought.

This Konoha high-level executive bit his own child to death. Now Konoha is forcing him, and the tribe is afraid and resentful of him. It seems that he is giving Itachi and the tribe a buffer time by performing tasks, but in fact he is driving his child to a dead end. Come on!

With a "crash", the living room door was opened. Uchiha Sasuke stood outside the door with a tired look on his face, and his cold eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, "Can you tell me what's going on?"

"Sasuke!"

Itachi stood up first and pulled Sasuke in.

Fugaku saw that Sasuke was still wearing clothes for going out and asked, "Where are you going?"

Sasuke sat down on the vacant seat and said, "Practice, what happened?"

Mikoto felt even more distressed when she saw her younger son's face, which was even paler than her elder son's, and said softly: "If Sasuke is tired, just go and rest first. It'll be okay."

Sasuke looked at Mikoto's forced smile and turned his attention to Obito, "What's going on?"

Obito didn't hide anything, and immediately told the truth, "The top management of Konoha ordered Itachi to clean up the remaining forces of Akatsuki."

"Konoha really made a good calculation." Sasuke sneered and said, "I'll go for Nissan."

"Don't go!"

Itachi, who had been keeping calm, suddenly exploded, "You are not allowed to go!"

"So Nissan plans to go by himself?" Sasuke asked, looking at Itachi and said calmly, "Nissan, it's most appropriate for me to go."

"I agree."

Fugaku suddenly said, "Itachi, Sasuke is no longer the child you protect behind you. He has the ability to stand alone."

"No, father." Itachi refused, "Black Zetsu is full of tricks. Even Naruto and Indra-senpai have been plotted. It is too dangerous for Sasuke to go."

Minato's eyes wandered between Sasuke and Itachi, and he persuaded him: "Although Sasuke, you are indeed the best candidate, what Itachi said is not unreasonable. Let's think about it."

"Don't worry," Sasuke said in a respectful voice, bowing slightly in Minato's direction, "Since I brought it up, I'm sure I'll escape unscathed. If you don't believe it..."

With that said, Sasuke stood up and said loudly: "Father, Lord Minato, Shisui, please allow me to challenge you. If I win, I will carry out this mission on Itachi's behalf."

"This..." Minato hesitated, pinching his chin and trying to find a breakthrough, while Fugaku lowered his eyes and said, "Have you thought clearly?"

"Hi!"

"Tomorrow, I, Minato, and Shisui will be waiting for you at the training ground. Of course, besides us, there are also many elites from the clan. As long as you can complete the mission under our siege and escape unscathed, I will agree with you. proposal."

"Father," Itachi shouted, "Sasuke should not be bound by his clan!"

"How do you know he doesn't want to if you haven't asked?"

"Then how could my father know that Sasuke is willing if he didn't ask?"

Fugaku's face darkened: "Sasuke, tell me!"

Sasuke gave a very short laugh, and then said in a very casual but extremely serious tone: "As long as you don't touch anything you shouldn't touch, it's okay."

Sasuke's answer was too ambiguous. This was not the answer Fugaku wanted to hear. In the end, in a silent "smoke of gunpowder", the father and son parted ways.

Namikaze Minato, as the only foreign-surnamed person present and the one who brought high-level orders, was scratching his head in agony. Just when he was seriously considering how to leave quickly and without losing grace, Mikoto suddenly said:

"Wait, Sasuke! That's where you want to go?"

"Bring some idiot home."

Sasuke seemed very happy, his tone was joking and brisk, and as soon as he finished speaking, his steps seemed to be getting bigger.

"I'm going back first," Minato stood up quickly and said, "Son, the current top management is not solely decided by the two elders. We have other options."

........................

On top of Yan Yan, Uzumaki Naruto opened his arms as if to embrace the rain of flowers in the sky.

"Big idiot!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Naruto slowly turned his head. Unexpectedly, Sasuke stood behind him, his eyebrows were sultry and unbelievably gentle.

"Why are you here?"

Sasuke didn't answer and said, "He's gone."

"Um"

Naruto retracted his hand and lowered his head in grievance, like a wounded animal, looking pitiful.

Sasuke took a few steps forward and placed his cold, dry palms on the top of Naruto's golden hair. He seemed to be comforting, but also said as if he was sighing: "Have you eaten the walnut cake I made for you?"

Naruto shook his head, his voice whimpering with grievance, "I will remember it, thank you, Sasuke."

Sasuke sighed, then turned his back and bent down, "Let's go, I'll take you back."

Naruto took a step back, turned his face away, and muttered, "I won't go back."

Sasuke was stunned for a moment, "Why?"

Naruto lowered his head and fiddled with his fingers, and said quietly: "I don't want Li Xiao to see me like I am now,"

Once you start saying some words, you won't feel embarrassed the rest of it.Naruto surrendered his gaze to the lights of thousands of houses in the distance and said: "Sasuke, I am not a good father, nor a qualified mother. I took him around when he was so young and let him experience the ninja experience. The bloody storm has made him what he is now, and I'm sorry for him. I knew he longed to see you, but I kept it from him, and even wanted to hide it for the rest of my life. "

Naruto smiled, cold, mocking, without any warmth. He turned his head and looked at Sasuke standing next to him, "Am I a bastard? I'm sorry for Nissan, I'm sorry for Li Xiao, I'm sorry for Sakura, even you, I feel guilty too.”

"Naruto."

"Let me finish."

Naruto raised his hand to signal Sasuke to stop, "That day you asked me why I chose to resurrect the Uchiha clan. In fact, besides wanting you to be happy, I also had my own selfish motives. As you said, my original plan at that time was to use the Uchiha clan You stayed in Konoha, and I left with Li Xiao. From then on, we went back and forth, and our paths were completely different, but I didn’t expect that.”

"Just didn't think I already knew, right?"

Sasuke took over Naruto's words, his cold voice was very calm, as if he had expected it.

Naruto's refusal to answer was regarded as acquiescing to Sasuke's answer.

"Naruto, what are you going to do if I don't see Li Xiao's eyes? Do you really want to take Li Xiao out of my life forever?" Sasuke stood in front of Naruto, his fiery and focused eyes seemed to He sees through it.

Under his gaze, all of Naruto's worries and anxieties disappeared.

"What a... idiot!"

Sasuke sighed and hugged Naruto, "Naruto, don't be afraid. I am here, and Li Xiao is also there. None of us will blame you. You take good care of Li Xiao, very good, even if it's me It can’t be done better than this.”

"no,"

Naruto eagerly wanted to defend something but was interrupted by Sasuke. The clear and magnetic voice changed his name with unquestionable determination, "Naruto, Asura, you are very good, very good! Really, Xin How am I?"

Naruto was about to cry.

It’s been too long, it’s been too long!

It's not that he didn't understand Sasuke's feelings for him for such a long time, it's not that he didn't understand how important Sasuke was to him, but he didn't dare. He was always afraid, always cowering, and always resisting pretending to be strong.But when Sasuke said to him "don't be afraid" with such certainty, he really wasn't afraid anymore.

He dropped all pretense and allowed himself to collapse in Sasuke's arms and cry loudly, as if he wanted to let all the grievances and sorrows flow away mixed with tears.

Sasuke held him in his arms and let him rub his nose and tears onto him. At the same time, he did not forget to pat his back gently again and again to prevent him from crying and making him more uncomfortable.

I don't know how much time passed, but Naruto's sobs gradually subsided. Sasuke turned slightly to block the cold night wind and casually covered Naruto with his cloak. After waiting for a long time before Naruto could retort, he realized that Naruto had already Fell asleep.

Naruto slept peacefully, and although he would gasp gently with the aggrieved child from time to time, he never woke up.

Sasuke slowly moved his arms, one hand around his shoulders and the other to pick the person up from the knees.

"Why are you here?!"

Sasuke didn't expect Minato to appear here, and he couldn't help but feel guilty.

Minato stood there for a long time without moving, until Naruto unconsciously shrank into Sasuke's arms and then took a step to the side. Sasuke understood what he meant and tightened his hands to make Naruto feel more comfortable before lifting up. Go forward step by step.

When passing by Minato, Minato suddenly said, "Uchiha Sasuke, take care of him."

Before he finished speaking, the person disappeared.

Sasuke did not send Naruto back to his own cabin but took him to the courtyard where Madara temporarily stayed.He carefully placed Naruto on the bed, then fetched hot water, took off his shoes and socks, and covered him with bedding. When he finished packing and went to the desk where Madara was writing, he found that the walnut cake he had made was gone. Fei, even the Shuixinxuan cake disappeared completely...