[Comprehensive] living to death

Even ferocious beasts are vulnerable when they are young.No matter how powerful he will become in the future, even now he can think like an adult, Uchiha Itachi is still just a child for the time being.

So, he has a cold.Also have a fever.

Ordered by his rare and tough mother to do nothing but rest today, Itachi had to take the medicine and lie down on the bed obediently.He looked at the ceiling, feeling bored, and he was not used to such a weak body.Fortunately, under the action of the drug, he fell asleep quickly.

In the groggy, the temperature in the room seemed to be rising.In a daze, Itachi felt that the two quilts on his body were starting to become too thick and dull, making him uncomfortable, so he couldn't help but let out a "huh".

The cold wetness...was rubbing his forehead; the discomfort eased a little.Then he felt light again—someone took away the extra quilt, and stuffed his hands back into the quilt.

Itachi sighed in relief.

"Mother……"

Calling so unconsciously, Itachi opened his eyes.In his hazy vision, before he could see the person's face clearly, he felt a light flick on his forehead.

"Call mom to my sister, be careful I'll beat you up!"

He rubbed his eyes, and only then did he recognize the face looking down at him from above—if it's not his sister, who is it?

"...Sister?" Itachi was a little surprised, "Sister came back so early today."

Oops, even the voice is a bit hoarse.

The sun is lazy, and the shadows of the trees are not long; it is only afternoon.

"Because I heard that weasel is sick." My sister handed him a glass of water, "here, drink some."

Itachi sat up and drank a little bit from the cup.The body still has no strength, which makes people listless.

"Why did you catch a cold?" My sister asked.

He stopped to drink water, hesitating, not knowing what to say.

"Don't be embarrassed, let me guess... Could it be that you caught a cold from bedwetting last night?"

A gust of hot air rushed to his cheeks, and Itachi protested a little excitedly: "How is it possible, sister, what nonsense are you talking about!"

"Yeah—it's not like I never wet the bed when I was a child..."

"elder sister!"

My sister started laughing again.When she laughs, she never covers her mouth in a reserved way, but she is so unscrupulous, as natural as a mountain spring gushing out.

What, I was tricked again...

Itachi turned his head in embarrassment and looked out the window.A sparrow was standing on the windowsill, looking at him with its head tilted.The ferret glared at the sparrow, and the bird chirped twice, flapping its wings and flying away.

"It's just that the wind accidentally blew yesterday..." He said reluctantly.

It was because I was too focused on practicing shuriken, and didn't care even if I was sweating all over, and fell ill as a result.He felt that compared with his sister, he was really too weak.

"Oh--"

Itachi peeked at his sister's knowing eyes, and felt even more uncomfortable.

However, the elder sister didn't ask any further, but suddenly stuffed something into his arms; Itachi looked down and saw that it was a very familiar doll.

Isn't this the toad on my sister's bed?

"I'll tell you a secret. This is the legendary toad that can summon a dragon if you gather all seven of them. It has infinite power, is immune to all poisons, and can cure all diseases. As long as you sleep with it in your arms, you can heal without medicine!"

Itachi stared at Toad, and Toad stared at him.

"Sister...I won't be deceived by such words anymore." He felt helpless, "I'm not a two-year-old child anymore."

He is 4 years old.

but……

Itachi yawned a little.

"Sleep a little longer."

My sister patted his head.

"Ah."

He lay back down again, taking the doll with him.He pulled the quilt up to his chin, so that only his head was exposed; the ugly toad also showed a head.He looked at Toad, then at his sister, without blinking.

Itachi seemed to be expecting something, but he didn't know it himself.

Until my sister bowed her head and kissed his forehead.

The joy and satisfaction that suddenly rose in my heart could not be ignored at all.Feeling this, Itachi can only admit that he is really a child,

He closed his eyes and had a long, restful dream.

******

It's a little embarrassing to say.Before his younger brother Sasuke was born, Itachi had vaguely worried whether the newborn child would distract his sister's attention?But the difference between him and his peers is that he knows that this kind of mentality is naive, so he will never show it, even when Zhishui asks him by chance, he refuses to admit it.

"No, that's not the case."

He swung a shuriken forcefully.Tuk tuk tuk tuk - hit the target.

very good.he thought blankly.

"Really?" Zhishui seemed convinced, and said with a smile, "Sure enough, Itachi is very mature."

Yes, he is not a childish child.

However, when Sasuke was actually born, Itachi's mood turned into curiosity and yearning for the new life.The little baby looked so weak and petite.It turns out that life came to the world in such a harmless manner at first.And he will grow up and become stronger and stronger.

You must grow up well.Itachi had such an idea unexpectedly.Immediately he thought, did my sister look at him with such a mood back then?

It's like reincarnation.Life is amazing.

He likes this wonder.

Want to become stronger, stronger; strong enough to cut off the root of all turmoil, strong enough to create a new world, so that all life can grow freely.

For this wish, Itachi will endure anything.

And the first thing that needs to be endured is the time spent in ninja school.Although it sounds like showing off, the fact is that the students and teachers in Ninja School are all too mediocre in Itachi's eyes.

No, he didn't mean to look down on anyone.The mediocrity of talent is the same as the beauty and ugliness of appearance. It is an objective fact that cannot be changed, and there is nothing to evaluate.It's just that it's contemptible to waste time envious of others and start pointless quarrels without knowing your own mediocrity.

Itachi didn't want to deal with such a classmate.

Unable to learn useful things, and having no friends of comparable strength, Itachi finds school more and more boring.He came up with a way: let the shadow part/body stay in the school, and the real self went to the forest to practice.

"Did Itachi make any new friends at school?"

When his mother asked, he shook his head calmly: "No, there is no one worthy of special attention."

It's not that he doesn't know that his mother wants him to make more friends, but he really doesn't want to waste time on useless people and things.Itachi naturally knows what "unity of knowledge and action" means, and since he thinks so, of course he will do so.

A common mistake people make is that every day they feel that they are mature at the moment and firmly believe in the correctness of their ideas, and the smarter they are, the more stubborn they are.Itachi is a genius among geniuses, so naturally he also has first-class stubbornness.

So even if his sister asked him to communicate more with others, Itachi would not.In fact, he really has nothing in common with the boys who talk about comics and the girls who talk about who is the most handsome.

"Ah! You are so stubborn, little Itachi."

That person is a little bit crazy.

"You don't tell people what you're thinking, how can people let you know what they're thinking. Many times what you see is just the most superficial layer of others. If people don't really communicate, they can't understand each other. .”

No, they are just boring guys.

But my sister didn't give up.She actually skipped work and dragged him, along with some of his classmates, to go on an outing and have snacks.Itachi wanted to struggle, but unfortunately he never succeeded in fighting against his sister.

So it evolved into a situation where everyone was flying kites, telling stories, playing some easy games, eating and chatting together on the grass on the bank of Nanhe River... This kind of situation.

His peers were reserved at first, but after a while, everyone fell in love with his older sister and huddled around her.

In the center of the crowd, my sister was beaming with joy, and even dragged him over, rubbing his head as a joke.Itachi stared at his classmates for a while.

But I don't know what's going on. After doing this kind of activity a few more times, Itachi found that it didn't seem so boring.It turned out that A's parents always expected too much of him, but A didn't have much talent, so A became the same low self-esteem and arrogant personality as now. B was born with a weak personality, but his father always felt that his son should be bold and generous, and a little bit of irascibility was fine, but this made him even more cowardly. C doesn't want to be a ninja, but prefers to draw, but her grandma insists that she inherit her parents' profession, and she can't learn at school at all...

Of course, everyone will not explain it so clearly; this is all observed and deduced by Itachi himself.

He was returning home with his sister that night when a summer rainstorm happened.When they were hiding from the rain under a certain roof, my sister said, "Do you feel it?"

He didn't know why, but he seemed to be thinking.

"Humans are very complicated creatures. If we have to say it, they are like a thousand-layer cake. When we know that B is cowardly, we hate him. After we know the situation in his family, we will sympathize with him. And if someone Whoever can help him, maybe he can also become a brave person. Which level of him you can see determines your attitude and way of treating him. So..."

The sister patted him on the shoulder; it proved that she was treating him as an equal at the moment.

"Occasionally try to understand the thoughts of ordinary people. Otherwise..."

The older sister, who was quite serious just now, suddenly giggled.

"Hokage is destined to be only me~ I don't have your share, itachi."

here we go again.Itachi put aside the doubts in his heart and turned to look at the street.Most of the people were like them, hiding from the rain under the shade of the building, and some people on the road covered their heads with things and ran in the rain.

What do ordinary people think?talk later.In fact, although he hates losing, he doesn't care if he is compared to his sister.

However, there is no need to tell her.

******

Sometimes even Itachi himself doubts whether his life is going too smoothly. After graduating at the age of 7, he became a genin, at the age of 10 he became a zhongnin (his teacher during the genin period was a little jealous, otherwise he would have passed the zhongnin exam), and at the age of 11 he became a jnin and joined Anbu, which is directly under Naruto.

"Ah, because Itachi-kun is a genius."

The seniors all lamented that.

But even if the rise in status can be attributed to talent, how about family harmony?Both parents are present, the elder sister is strong and gentle (this evaluation cannot be known by her, absolutely!), and the younger brother is also smart and lively.

And family.There are selfish idiots in every big family, and Uchiha is no exception.Whenever Itachi hears them complaining that their own strength does not match their status in the village and that they should give Hokage a hard time, Itachi will always feel a faint sense of disgust.

For what you want, can you get it by complaining together?If he had been a few years earlier, he would have understood a little bit, but in this era when the four generations were in power, the injustice the family suffered before was gradually smoothed out; this is the time when everyone needs to work hard, and lack of greed will only drag others down Legs!

But these are all within the ferret's tolerance.For as time went by, the blending of family and village was slowly becoming more pronounced; the complaints of those minorities were but minor blotches.

It seems that although Itachi has to complete many disgraceful and unjust tasks, and has to face irreconcilable differences between people, these are all within his tolerance.The wish he had established since he was a child - to become Hokage and bring new peace to the world - is ahead, although it is still far away, but he is sure that he is walking on the right path.

Don't underestimate this.In this world, too many people can't even find the way, and some people, even though they have found the way, finally find that it can only lead to a cliff.

"Huh? Hahaha... Itachi, you are really interesting." Zhishui laughed at him, "So there are still people who think that their life is too smooth."

Itachi thought about it, and felt that he was thinking too much.However, it's really incredible that a person not only has enough talents, but also takes advantage of the right time, place and people, isn't it?

"Hey, don't talk about that." Zhishui showed a smile that only boys can understand, "I heard that there is a girl who confessed to you, right? Is it called... Izumi Kawamoto?"

As Anbe, Itachi was not surprised why Shisui knew the girl's name.Moreover, although Shisui didn't say it, Itachi guessed that his friend should belong to Danzo's "root" organization; it was a place where "you will die if you don't engage in surveillance" (as his sister said).

"Yeah." Itachi said.

"Pfft... so indifferent? How did you reply, Itachi?"

"Of course I declined." He replied flatly, "I think it's too early for a 12-year-old to think about this."

"Don't be like this, Itachi, isn't it good to try love?" Zhishui laughed, "There are so many girls who like you, and this is the only one who dares to confess, are you really going to miss it?"

Itachi immediately looked at Shishui with strange eyes: How do you even know this?

"Mingyue told me." Zhishui immediately cleared things up and said, "I'm not that gossip."

Your expression has betrayed you, Itachi thought silently.

"Then when will you and my sister get married, Zhishui?" he asked.

Zhishui was drinking water with his head up, but he sprayed it suddenly, and coughed for a long time.Itachi nimbly dodged every drop of splashing water, and then looked at him calmly.

"Cough, cough, cough... Hey, Itachi, didn't I tell you already, Mingyue and I are too familiar, we can only be buddies and not lovers. Don't get me wrong, it's not because she's not good..."

Shisui explained nervously for a long time, and Itachi kept looking at him.

"Hey, isn't it... so Itachi, you were joking just now?" Shisui finally realized.

"Otherwise?" He couldn't help laughing.

"Itachi, you failed to learn from your sister."

"Each each other."

Then they all laughed.

******

Everything that happens in the world is foreshadowed.Ninja is the most dangerous profession in the world; if a ninja has not experienced a truly heart-wrenching "loss" in his teens, it can only mean one thing.

He will experience it in a moment.

He should have understood this earlier.

In the winter of Konoha's 56th year, in December, itachi will never forget that day covered by winter rain.

The sister he loved so much...he'd never see it again.

She is dead.