It's better to be a rebel ninja than to be a Hokage

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"OK! Call it a day!"

"thanks everyone!"

"..."

All I heard were some incomprehensible words.

In a light dream between being asleep and awake, the genuine laughter from the outside world invaded Sasuke's dream, and reality and fantasy blended together.

Sasuke stared blankly at the ceiling as far as he could see while lying on the bed.

This is not the dark space that Naruto uses for meditation and training.

The layout of the entire room is more everyday. It is a guest living room with somewhat luxurious decoration but a rather formal layout.

Unlike Naruto's meditation training ground which had no heating facilities, the room had heating to keep out the cold.

Sasuke quickly figured out the situation.

He learned the truth of that night during his conversation with Itachi who was resurrected by the Impure World Reincarnation. The strong contrast between the facts shocked his mind, and he fell into a coma again not long after waking up.

When he woke up again, he was already here.

This is still the Land of Snow, and I guess Naruto must have transferred him.

That's exactly what happened.

"I'm sorry for waking you up, but the crew has just finished shooting today, so it will be quiet again."

Naruto spoke slightly apologetically for waking Sasuke up.

"Where is this place?"

Sasuke's eyes locked onto Naruto who was also in the room.

Naruto leaned against the window next to the bed in the room, tilting his head to look out the window.

The cold wind blowing in from the open window tore through the warmth in the room and fell on Sasuke who sat up in bed.

The chill that swept over him made Sasuke more sober.

"The daimyo of the Snow Country."

"Daming Mansion?"

Although Sasuke guessed that he was still in the Snow Country, he did not expect to be involved with the Daimyo of the Snow Country.

"Without the help of national power, no matter how remote the Snow Country is, how could I have disappeared for three years from the eyes of ninjas who are good at collecting intelligence?"

Naruto briefly explained his relationship with the Daimyo of the Snow Country.

Sasuke was still lost in thought, but the noisy sounds coming from outside the window confirmed the source of the laughter that had just invaded his dream.

Now that he was awake, Sasuke also heard a familiar voice amidst the laughter.

"You water man, just wait till you are blown into an ice cube by the cold wind and then I smash it into pieces with one punch!"

"If you, a naughty bitch, dare to do anything to me by relying on your extra chakra, I will let you taste the power of Samehada!!"

"Ohhh, is this a ninja fight? Camera! Where's the camera? Take it quickly, this is a rare 'real-life special effect'!"

That was the sound of the quarrel between Hozuki Hozuki and Karin, and this time it was mixed with the excited shouting of the crew director who was not afraid of making a fuss.

These two guys can start a quarrel no matter where they are.

Sasuke and Naruto were already used to it.

However, unlike Sasuke who could only hear the sounds, Naruto could see the fight between the two noisy guys from his high vantage point in the window.

"Ah."

There must have been some funny scene between Karin and Hozuki Hozuki, and Sasuke saw a slight smile on Naruto's lips.

However, Naruto did not pay attention to the farce outside the window. He closed the window to isolate the noise outside.

……

Naruto pulled a chair over and sat in front of Sasuke's bed, picking up a plump red apple from the fruit basket on the bedside table.

"How about eating something to fill your stomach first? Your battle with Itachi exhausted your chakra and lost your curse seal. Now you've been unconscious for a long time. Your physical condition is actually quite poor."

Naruto handed the apple to Sasuke and said, "You must thank Karin later. It was Karin who saved you from the crisis of near death."

Just as Naruto said, Sasuke himself could feel the weakness of his body at the moment.

But in Sasuke's heart, there are more important obsessions that need to be resolved.

Sasuke's eyes passed over the apple in Naruto's hand and met Naruto's gaze.

"How is Itachi now?"

In response to Sasuke's questioning, Naruto also moved his hand holding the apple away.

"I have already lifted the Impure World Reincarnation technique that was cast on him."

Naruto's answer made what Sasuke wanted to say stuck in his throat.

Yes, this is the fact, the fact caused by Sasuke.

Uchiha Itachi...his brother had already died at his own hands.

"Then his remains...!!"

Sasuke calmed himself down a bit and wanted to ask Naruto how he dealt with Itachi's body.

But before he could open his mouth to say anything, Sasuke lost his voice due to the sudden intense pain in his eyes.

Sasuke stretched out his hands, trying to rub his eyes to relieve the severe pain that felt like being burned by flames.

However, Naruto grabbed Sasuke's hands even faster and stopped Sasuke's actions.

The sound of an apple falling to the ground and Naruto's warning reached Sasuke's ears.

"If you don't want to go blind like this, you need to hold back!"

Naruto's words made Sasuke stop struggling.

Of course he understood the correctness of Naruto's words, and he did not think that Naruto's words were exaggerated.

Sasuke, who could endure death, could certainly endure the burning pain in his eyes.

It was just that the severe pain came too suddenly, which made Sasuke subconsciously want to rub his eyes with his hands.

Observing that Sasuke had no intention of rubbing his eyes, Naruto let go of Sasuke's hand and returned to his chair and sat down again.

"Use this to relieve the pain in your eyes."

Naruto reached into his pocket and tossed the small medicine bottle to Sasuke.

That's a bottle of eye drops.

"my eyes……"

After applying eye drops, the cool drops greatly relieved the pain in Sasuke's eyes.

As the pain eased, Sasuke felt the changes in his eyes.

However, there was no mirror in this room, so Sasuke couldn't see the condition of his own eyes.

He needed Naruto to help observe.

If... If Itachi hadn't deceived him, his eyes would have been...

"…It's the Mangekyō Sharingan."

Naruto looked Sasuke straight in the eyes and gave his answer.

Sasuke's dark eyes turned red, and the pattern on Sasuke's Sharingan was no longer the ordinary three magatama, but a six-pointed star pattern formed by overlapping like a kaleidoscope prism.

The patterns of the Mangekyō Sharingan are unique.

The Sharingan with six-pointed star patterns is the Mangekyō Sharingan that belongs unique to Sasuke.

"It seems that you are not used to these eyes yet, so they opened their eyes on their own just now without your awareness."

Sasuke's reaction was just as Naruto said. Sasuke was not able to control this brand new Mangekyō Sharingan very well.

But the reason why I can't control it is because...

"…It's Itachi's eye power."

Uchiha Itachi was deceiving Sasuke until his death. He pretended to take away Sasuke's eyes, but in fact he injected all his eye power into Sasuke's eyes to help Sasuke open the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Sasuke, who is now weak, is still a little slow in absorbing Itachi's eye power, but as long as he absorbs all of Itachi's eye power, Sasuke will be able to fully master his Mangekyō Sharingan.

Sasuke reached out and pressed lightly on the lower eyelid of his eye socket, feeling the shape of the eye in the socket.

These are the truths that Itachi, who was resurrected by the Impure World Reincarnation, told Sasuke.

The burning pain in Sasuke's eyes was a manifestation of the fusion of the pupil powers of the two brothers, him and Itachi.

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