Discussion: How the Nine-Tails Lead the Naruto

Sasuke's growth exceeded Itachi's expectations, no, not just beyond, it should be said that he grew beyond Itachi's expectations.

In Itachi's mind, Sasuke should live with resentment against him, and then become stronger driven by this hatred. Finally, he will fight with him and let him kill him and turn on the kaleidoscope. Sharingan.

After death, his own eyes can be transplanted by him to further gain more power, and then use this power to protect Konoha.

Because Itachi always believed that Sasuke could grow to this level with the help of Konoha, and even if he finally learned the truth, he would stand on Konoha's side.

In the original work, Sasuke's actions never exceeded Itachi's expectations. Even if he left with Orochimaru in the end, Itachi was still not worried at all because he was ready to use other gods to call Sasuke back.

But when he met Naruto, Itachi chose to believe in Naruto instead of other gods.

However, here, Sasuke's growth has completely exceeded Itachi's expectations. Whether it is the power Sasuke possesses at this moment, or his heart, or even when facing himself, even if he hides deep anger, he can suppress it. This anger talks to yourself in an equal way.

This kind of Sasuke is completely different from the Sasuke who once followed him.

But Sasuke like this made Itachi even more pleased.

Sitting at the end of the room, Itachi no longer had the idea to continue acting. He sat relaxedly on the chair, his pair of sharingan eyes had been closed, and he closed his eyes with a smile, as if he was remembering and feeling something.

Sasuke did not disturb Itachi, but quietly finished the rice ball and put the lunch box back in his backpack.

It wasn't until all of this was done that Itachi opened his eyes and looked at him again, with some reluctance and sadness: "If at that time, I can look at you squarely, I believe that as a member of Uchiha, I will regard you as an adequate person. For a mature ninja, maybe nothing like this will happen now."

Sasuke smiled: "But if it were me at that time, I would most likely side with the Uchiha clan and would not agree with your actions."

Yes, if it was Sasuke before, he would have believed in his father, his people, and that Uchiha could become the master of Konoha, instead of believing that Itachi could allow Uchiha and Konoha to coexist.

"It doesn't matter." Itachi shook his head, "No matter what choice you make, you will always be my proudest brother."

Yes, just like what my parents said to themselves.

No matter what he becomes, no matter what choices he makes, in their eyes, he will always be their proud child.

Sasuke heard the sadness in Itachi's words. He raised his head and looked out the window, looking at the outside world through the only window in the room. The green color of the forest and everything full of vitality were incompatible with the darkness in the room.

Sasuke smiled: "It's really interesting. Although the sun is shining in this room, I can feel more of the darkness in the room."

"Because light is precious in darkness, and in light, darkness is even more dazzling." Itachi followed Sasuke's eyes and saw the birds outside the window spreading their wings and soaring in the sky, like free elves riding on the wind.

"Really?" Sasuke turned to look at Itachi, "I think it's because darkness has always been here and light doesn't appear often, so people who are used to darkness see darkness."

Itachi laughed: "You have really grown up, Sasuke, to have your own thoughts. In the past, you seemed to only agree with my answers and say things like 'brother is right'."

"Yes." Sasuke nodded in agreement, "Brother is right."

Itachi was speechless for a moment.

Sasuke laughed, walked up to Itachi, then passed Itachi and took a chair from behind to sit next to him. The Sharingan had been closed silently: "Tell me, what you were thinking at that time, I think Know why."

"You can choke me completely speechless with one sentence. You don't look like a person with doubts now," Itachi looked at Sasuke with his chin in one hand.

"It's always been there." Sasuke leaned back on the chair and said, "It's not about what you have experienced or why you want to exterminate the clan. I know all of this. What I want to ask is, why did you choose Konoha instead of Uchiha?"

"Why did you know this before? Can you tell me?" Itachi asked.

"Six Paths Sage." Sasuke looked at Itachi, "You know, right?"

Itachi nodded and motioned for Sasuke to continue.

Sasuke did not hesitate and explained directly: "In order to get more powerful power, I killed you. I went back thousands of years with Naruto to meet the Six Paths Sage. The Six Paths Sage helped us solve the problem before teaching us to gain powerful power." All the doubts in my heart.”

"For Naruto, it's his life experience and the Nine Tails in his body...which is the Nine Lamas I mentioned before."

"And for me, it's you." Sasuke pointed at Itachi, "With the help of the Sage of Six Paths, he unblocked the memories you left in my brain with Tsukuyomi, not the massacre fragments you cut off from the beginning to the end. But the whole thing from beginning to end, from the beginning of the Uchiha plotting a coup to your defection, everything during this period appeared in front of me from your perspective."

"So of course I also know the reason why you killed your parents, and I also know the reason why you massacred Uchiha."

"But the only thing I can't understand is why you chose Konoha instead of Uchiha." Sasuke looked at Itachi seriously, "I still hate you, and I am angry at everything you do. , but Naruto told me that the more important thing before that is not to kill you, but to resolve the doubts in my heart."

"So Itachi, tell me why?" Sasuke took a deep breath, "What drove you to choose Konoha..."

Itachi was silent for a moment after listening to what Sasuke said. After a long time, he showed a faint smile: "It's peace."

Sasuke was silent.

"It's unexpected, right?" Itachi looked at Sasuke with a smile, as gentle as before, "Just like you said, I like Uchiha, even if they are arrogant and proud, I still like them, because I also firmly believe that A person who admires Uchiha's arrogance and pride."

"But my arrogance tells me that Uchiha should not involve innocent people because of temporary dissatisfaction. My pride tells me that Uchiha should not start a war of killing each other because of so-called unfairness."

"I never feel that what I did was right, Sasuke..." Itachi's smile turned sad, "I am not the hero who saved Konoha, I am just a betrayer, one who betrayed his family, his relatives, and me. My own… detestable betrayer.”

"There is no moment when I don't regret what I have done, but equally, there is no moment when I am not proud of it." Itachi's face still had the same smile, but tears were shed from the corners of his eyes, "Because my parents, for me, Glory."