[Hokage] One tit for another

A heavy punch hit me in the face.

I was knocked over my head, and my head was buzzing.Naruto's punch was urgent and hard. I thought he would continue, but I didn't expect that when I grabbed his fist, I didn't feel any force.

Naruto clenched his fist tightly, the veins on the back of his hand bulged, and his hand trembled slightly.But I held it on his wrist without much effort, and he didn't move anymore.

It seemed that the punch just now had exhausted all his strength.

"...I never thought of arresting you."

I was stunned for a long time, but still muttered the second half of the sentence I wanted to say just now.The Xiaopao was blown by the wind from the bottom of the cliff, and the loose hem of the clothes fluttered.

It never occurred to me to capture Naruto, the idea never even occurred to me.I just wonder, does Naruto know this?He seemed to know, that's why he said those words, as if he knew what I was thinking, but he wanted me to tear off all the pretense and speak out the truest thoughts in my heart.

In a trance, I seemed to think of Naruto's complaints to me.

"Sasuke, can't you be more frank?"

frank?

Am I not frank enough?I said all I could say.

Even now, I still don't understand Naruto's meaning.

"Why is that?" Naruto was so close to me that I couldn't see his expression clearly, I could only hear his voice whispering in my ear, "Sasuke, what exactly are you trying to do?"

I didn't answer.

This kind of thing is like making a wish on a shooting star. You just need to close your eyes and meditate, and then wait for the shooting star to make everything come true. It won't work if you say it.

A silence.

Everyone stared at me and Naruto worriedly and vigilantly, staring at my hand on the knife. I held Naruto with one hand and held the knife with the other, as if I could draw out the knife in the next second and cut Naruto into pieces. two paragraphs.

But only Naruto knew that it was impossible for me to draw the sword.

I obviously stabbed him once, but he will never guard against me.

"Sasuke... I seem to understand your feelings more and more."

Naruto's hand that punched me stretched out and put it on my shoulder, his blond hair hung down, blocking his eyes, his voice was very soft, with a hint of hoarseness.

My shoulders seemed a little heavy, and Naruto's sudden words were even more strange.

my feeling?what do you feel?

I don't understand what Naruto is saying.I thought he would pounce on me and yell at me to bring me back to Konoha, or part ways with me completely, but every time he saw me, he was always incredibly weak.

Naruto paused for a while, as if he didn't know how to speak, then he raised his head and gave me a bitter smile.His eyes seemed to be broken, like morning dew blown by the wind, trembling and crumbling.I almost subconsciously recalled the color of his eyes in my mind, which was as blue as the sky, but perhaps, it had been settled into the depth of the ocean.

"Teacher Jiraiya died, and the third-generation grandfather also died...Although I am an orphan, I seem to have gradually understood the feeling of the loss of an important relative....It is really painful, as if it hurts to breathe."

Naruto's hand on my shoulder gradually tightened, but he still forced a smile on me, as if all his expressions were only this forced smile that was more painful than crying.

"Sasuke, I'm sorry."

I suddenly opened my eyes wide.

Naruto... what did he say?

Why apologize?

The current situation doesn't look like he needs an apology, does it?

If I remember correctly, I stabbed him, why did he say sorry to me in turn?

I don't like hearing "I'm sorry" from people...except some jerk.

Since it is impossible for anything to happen to one person alone, when someone apologizes, it likely means that the person being apologized is also a horrible jerk.

I opened my mouth, but didn't know what to say.

If he was doing it for the punch just now, then I can barely accept it.

Because I could feel my face was swollen and my nose was itchy, as if some warm liquid was about to flow out.

"That kind of feeling is uncomfortable. But the most uncomfortable thing is not that..." Naruto looked at me and said slowly, "When you went to Orochimaru...and Akatsuki..."

Naruto smiled wryly and didn't finish his sentence, but I seemed to understand what he meant.

"Why is it always like this, Sasuke, we are always on opposite sides."

There seemed to be something burning in Naruto's sky-like eyes, and his tone of speech was not at all like a question, but just stating a painful and helpless fact.

"Sasuke, you are my most important person."

"When Jiraiya-sensei died, Sasuke, I really wanted to hate you. You always seemed so ruthless, I didn't even know what you did while Akatsuki's members went to catch Gaara. "

"Do you know that Gaara will die? Isn't he our friend?... In the end, he exchanged the life of Grandma Chiyo."

"Sasuke, I've been looking for you. I want to ask you face to face, who killed Jiraiya-sensei." Naruto looked straight at me.

Silence for a long time, I did not speak.

And Naruto doesn't need my answer.

"But I found that I can't do it." Naruto said softly, with a hint of sarcasm in his words, he raised his hand to cover one eye, and said in a choked voice, "No matter what, I have no way to hate You, Sasuke. You are my most important person."

"I can't forget the way you smiled at me..."

laugh?When did I laugh?

My mind was blank, Naruto's words seemed to come from a very far away place, drifting into my mind bit by bit, but those familiar words looked so strange when put together.

Suddenly, I seem to be unable to understand Naruto's words.

Just listening to what Naruto said word by word, I was inexplicably afraid to look him in the eye.

"You were the first to reach out to me. You are the only one who cares about whether I ate, whether I passed the exam, and where I went after school."

"I've always known it. You brought me the bento every day, and the fight was because they bullied me. You have always taught me ninjutsu, but I'm too stupid, so I failed you, a good teacher. ..."

"You have done so much for me, but I can't do anything. I can only hold you back forever, and I can't even understand your feelings..."

"I don't know how uncomfortable that feeling is until now, but I was able to say that to you at that time..."

Naruto murmured, he may have held these words in his heart for a long time, and finally said them only now.

I also seem to understand what he means.

So... am I his most important person?

More than three generations, more than Jiraiya, more than everyone.

Orochimaru and Akatsuki both killed his important relatives, but I was always one of the "murderers".But he still has no way to hate me, no way to do anything to me, the only thing he can do...is to get me back to Konoha, not as a wanted criminal, but as a companion.

Is this what I brought to Naruto?

Naruto chose me.

Before that, I never thought that I was so important to Naruto.

Want to hate, but can't hate.

So many emotions are intertwined and become something that even I don't understand.

original……

What Itachi brought to me, I brought to Naruto.

Is the ferret as unaware as I am?

——Misjudging one's own weight and underestimating the sensitivity of others.

But why did Naruto say sorry?

In any case, it wasn't him who apologized.

"Sasuke, am I self-righteous? At that time..."

"Naruto, remember what you said to me at that time?" I interrupted Naruto's unreasonable self-blame and pain.

Naruto shouldn't be the one apologizing.

It's not Naruto's fault that he didn't experience the insane tragedy that his own brother killed the whole family.

He doesn't need to understand that feeling, and I don't want him to.

Naruto was taken aback, and subconsciously said: "There is nothing that cannot be solved..."

Yes, that's it.

At that time, I didn't want to do anything when I just exterminated the clan, but Naruto found me and climbed on the roof of my house angrily.I just watched with cold eyes, he climbed the ladder clumsily, then fell down, scratched his hands and feet, and his face was covered with mud, but he still persisted and came to me, took my hand, and wanted Rip me off the roof.

His hands were hot, and his expression was as fresh and bright as the sun.He sensed my mood and vaguely realized what was going on. He was stupid and didn’t know how to comfort others. He only knew that my skipping meals and blowing the wind would be bad for my health, so he insisted on taking me to eat Yile Ramen.

"There is nothing that can't be solved. If one person can't do it, then two! Sasuke, you still have me, no matter what, I will be with you."

Naruto said so at that time.

A stupid child, not everyone can express long speeches at a young age like Itachi.

What Naruto said at the time was actually very boring and ridiculous.

"Then you know what I was thinking?" I continued to ask Naruto.

Naruto looked at me blankly.

"I was thinking, that's great." I said softly.

Presumptuous?Maybe.

A little kid who doesn't understand anything, the biggest sorrow is just failing the exam and having no friends.He has never seen blood, no brother, no parents, so naturally he will not understand the feeling of watching his parents fall in a pool of blood, let alone the hatred and pain.

But... how nice.

Even if he doesn't understand anything, he is still willing to make the most sincere promise he can think of.Even though he doesn't understand anything, he's still doing his best to make me happy.

"You came to me because you wanted to say these words?" I closed my eyes, and when I opened them again, I covered up all the shaking.I pushed Naruto away, mocking coldly.

Naruto took a few steps back, he looked at me, and seemed to have a lot to say, but looking at my expression, he finally just said dully: "Sasuke, I just don't know what to do..."

"What do you want to do?" I asked.

For a long time, Naruto looked at me fixedly, and said word by word: "Take you back."

What about after taking it back?

I moved my mouth and wanted to ask, but I didn't ask after all.I know that without "later", Naruto didn't think about it, and he couldn't think about it.

From the moment I made my decision, I knew that I had no future.

I took a deep breath, and slowly pulled out the Taidao, the long and narrow blade glowing coldly in the sun.

"Naruto, you don't need to do anything. All you need to do is watch."

Naruto, you don't have to do anything.

Everything will naturally develop in a positive direction.

Without waiting for everyone to say anything, I continued: "My goal is the five major countries. Instead of talking here, it's better to guess where I will go next."

"Sasuke! Stop it." Kakashi said anxiously.

"Nobody can stop me," I said.

"Sasuke, no matter what you want to do..." Kakashi looked at me deeply, as if he had noticed something, misunderstood something, was convinced of something, and doubted something.

In the end, Kakashi took a deep breath and said, "Violence and killing can't solve any problems."

"You attack various countries, you are provoking war." Kakashi said in a deep voice, he did not show sharingan, this is a very wise choice, anyway, there is no chance of winning, it is better to take a gamble from the beginning, bet on me Will not do it.

"Sasuke, don't be blinded by hatred, you don't know what you're doing," Kakashi said.

"I know." I said lightly.

Of course I know that violence is the most despicable method. Maybe people will temporarily succumb to violence, but it is impossible to tame it forever.

However, violence is sometimes the fastest and most effective method.Using force to overcome cleverness, enough violence can instantly disintegrate the current deadlock.

Naruto and the others are too gentle.

People are like this, if you give him ten more apples every day, and suddenly give him one less one day, even if only one of the apples has worms, he will be furious and full of resentment.But if he was given ten lashes every day, I am afraid that as long as one lash is lightened one day, he will be grateful to Dade, kneel at his feet and cry bitterly.

Konoha has been like this since the first generation, why should he be taken advantage of by the five great powers?Blindly sacrifice the interests of the people to give in and give, but no one will ever be grateful.

On the contrary, other countries will become more and more rampant, greedy, insatiable and insatiable.

They deserved a good pump and woke up from the dream that everyone deserved to endure.

What they should learn is not a blank promise called "peace", but fear.

To understand that you are so weak, understand your ignorance and incompetence, and understand how strong others are.In this way, they can learn to respect and know what to do and what not to do.

I took a step back and came to the very edge of the cliff.

"Sasuke, hatred can bring nothing, it will only destroy everything. You already know the pain of hatred, why do you still do this? Your actions will only breed hatred and plunge the world into flames of war." Kakashi stepped forward eagerly and said loudly.

I only destroy, all I bring is pain and hatred.

But isn't there Naruto?

Naruto is everyone's hope.

Go to those places that I destroyed and rebuild everything, rebuild a place where there is only hope and beauty.Only when they first understand the pain of hatred and the fear of being attacked, will they understand your beauty better.

I didn't speak.Because I know Naruto will definitely do it, he is such an existence.He will definitely bring new hope to the five major countries and bring about diplomatic breakthroughs for all countries.

I glanced at the commotion of the team on the opposite side, and asked meaningfully: "Are you... want to fight me?"

Everyone's breath was suffocated, and the atmosphere was tense at this moment, but after all, no one made a move. They all stood in place, without moving.

I chuckled lightly and fell backwards, the rushing wind in the canyon was blowing my Xiaopao.

"Sasuke——" Naruto rushed to the edge of the cliff, trying to grab me, but stretched out his hand, but it was in vain.

"Naruto……"

The howling wind swallowed up my whispers.The moment I touched the surface of the water, I completely disappeared to the bottom of the valley.