[Naruto Storyline] Wandering

The country of water has entered summer, and the air is full of humidity and heat.

This day, Itachi drank some wine, and the drink made him slightly drunk, so he simply lay on the wooden corridor with his arms on his pillow, the night wind blowing his neckline and hair, and the grass insects chirping It came from the grass in the courtyard. At that moment, Itachi thought that he had returned to his carefree boyhood and the peaceful Uchiha mansion. He closed his eyes and let the drunkenness surround him.

Guixie came out of the house and saw Itachi Heyi lying on the corridor, couldn't help kicking him: "Hey, if you want to sleep, go back to the room."

"Just... lie down for a little while..." Itachi raised his index finger at Kisame, "just a little while..."

"It seems that your drinking capacity is not very good." Guixie said teasingly.

"Don't be so wordy, go back and watch TV..." Itachi turned over and waved at Kisame, signaling him to leave quickly.Kisame muttered a few words rather dissatisfied, then opened the paper door and went back to the room.

Itachi half-opened his eyes and looked at the distant night sky, thinking of Uchiha Mikoto, his mother.

No one could understand how much courage he had to use up to cut off Miqin's head from behind on that night of genocide.Uchiha Fugaku is a taciturn and violent person. At the same time, as Uchiha's current head of the family, he also serves as the head of the Uchiha clan. This makes Fugaku seldom have time to eat with Mikoto and Itachi at home, so Itachi naturally closer to mother.Compared with the calm and intelligent image in front of his father, the Itachi in front of his mother is more in line with the dependent appearance that a child should have.At that time, Itachi most liked to rest on his mother's knee and listen to his mother chatting about trivial things in daily life. At this time, Itachi didn't exist as the hope of the Uchiha clan that was expected by everyone, he just enjoyed it as a son. With the warmth and trust from the mother.

For the father who was busy with official duties and was often away, the mother seldom complained. She had always been so docile and strong. In Itachi's memory, her mother was almost alone in taking care of Itachi and Sasuke.Itachi blinked, and Mikoto's smiling face clearly appeared in front of her eyes. Her long black hair hung down her shoulders, and her eyes of the same color as her hair were filled with a gentle smile. She always smiled like this, even when she was dying. Before, with tears in her eyes, she looked at Itachi holding Indra's blade in tears, and closed her eyes with a smile: "Compared to your pain, the pain I have endured is only temporary. Do it, Itachi , to stop your father, to stop Uchiha's conspiracy."

When the extremely sharp Indra Blade fell, Itachi felt his heart ached so badly that he couldn't breathe. Even so, his hand holding the knife did not tremble at all. He cut off his mother's head neatly, and even the incision was neat and perfect. .

Itachi curled up, and the painful memory made his heart tighten up and down.

At this time, Mikoto's smiling side face suddenly overlapped with Haruno Sakura's, which surprised Itachi a little—they were two people who were completely different in appearance, but they were unexpectedly similar in certain characteristics.

Regarding Haruno Sakura, Itachi never thought carefully about what kind of thoughts he had for her.She is the younger brother's wife and Konoha's doctor. At the same time, she sacrificed almost everything for Sasuke, just like her mother dedicated her short life to the Uchiha family.Whether it is Sasuke, Konoha, or Mikoto, they are all extremely important existences to Itachi, but it is difficult for Itachi to say what Haruno Sakura, who combines these factors into one body, means to him.

"It's really bad..." He muttered to himself, the figures of Mikoto and Haruno Sakura kept changing before his eyes, and sleepiness fell on Itachi's eyelids. Itachi rubbed his eyes and stood up from the corridor with difficulty , wanted to open the paper door and walk into the house, but his body was extremely heavy due to the drunkenness of the drink and the dampness of the summer night. He only heard a thud, and the ferret fell to the ground.

Guixie, who heard the movement, opened the paper door and saw Itachi lying on the ground: "In the end, I have to let my uncle clean up the stall for you." He picked up Itachi, who had fallen on the ground and fell asleep, and walked into the Japanese room, throwing it on the ground. Itachi's own bed.

Kisame discovered that something was wrong with Itachi in the second half of the night.

The urge to urinate suddenly at night, Guixier got up to go to the toilet, but just as he turned on the light, he heard Weasel's low urination.Kisame turned his head and glanced at Itachi lying on the bed next to him, and saw Itachi was tightly wrapped in the quilt and trembling, his hair was clinging to his forehead due to sweat, and his cheeks were flushed.Kisame was startled, and quickly stretched out his hand to touch Itachi's forehead, his forehead was already extremely hot, apparently having a fever, Guisame lifted Itachi's quilt and tried Itachi's skin with the back of his hand, the temperature was also scalding.

Kisame secretly thought it was bad, and didn't bother to go to the toilet. First, he took a basin of cold water and wiped Itachi's face and body, then dug some ice from the freezer of the refrigerator to make an ice pack and put it on Itachi's forehead. "Go to the hospital?" Kisame shook the unconscious Itachi's shoulder, "Do you still know what I'm talking about now?"

Itachi nodded, and his eyes fell on the medicine box: "Alcohol...to dissipate heat..." Guishui understood Itachi's meaning, he took out the alcohol in the medicine box and poured it on a wet towel, and wiped it off for Itachi. After wiping his armpits, palms and feet, Itachi said again, "Call, call a car...fever clinic..."

"It's my bad luck, you are the uncle today." Kisame sighed, put down the towel in his hand, called the hospital according to Itachi's instructions, and briefly explained Itachi's condition.

But when Kisame returned to Itachi and sat down again, Itachi's eyes became clearer than before. He turned his face away from Kisame and coughed a few times, then covered his mouth and waved to Kisame: "You better stay away from me……"

Guixie glared at Itachi, who was in better spirits: "Just now, sir, I was busy with you, receiving water and making phone calls..."

"I'm afraid of infecting you."

"Isn't it just a cold, don't think too much about it." Guixie patted Itachi and stood up, "You lie here first, after a while, the ambulance will come."

"The Kyubi epidemic has not been completely controlled yet, so it's better to be careful." Itachi said, and he turned to Kisame's back, "Hey, where are you going now?"

"Pee." Ghost Shark's muffled voice came over, "I've been holding back since just now."

The next morning, Haruno Sakura went to the infectious disease hospital for a shift meeting as usual, and listened to the head nurse report on the new patients and inpatients admitted to the hospital: "5 new patients with Kyubi virus infection were admitted last night, namely Nana Miyamizu, female, 22 years old, Sawano Shiko, female, 45 years old, Sakuma Soujiro, male, 14 years old, Uchiha Itachi, male, 33 years old, Asahina Saori, female, 28 years old, the above five people have passed the Kyubi virus test kit , to confirm the infection. Among the hospitalized patients, from yesterday afternoon to this morning before the meeting, 23 cases died. The family members and the staff of the crematorium have been notified, and 10 cases are critically ill. Stable." The head nurse closed the medical record with a snap, "This is the situation of newly admitted and hospitalized patients, and the rest of the situation will be reported to you by the bed nurse."

"Okay, the bed nurses will start reporting in turn." Haruno Sakura raised her chin and let the nurse standing behind the head nurse start first.However, when Haruno Sakura heard that Uchiha Itachi's name appeared in the list of newly admitted patients, she couldn't calm down anymore. Haruno Sakura had to pinch her hand under the table, trying to concentrate on listening to the nurse's report Case.

Uchiha Itachi's situation is worse than Haruno Sakura imagined. The lesions caused by the virus in his lungs are expanding day by day, almost covering the entire lungs. His consciousness is sometimes clear and sometimes blurred, so Haruno Sakura went to check in the morning He always paid special attention to Itachi's condition when he was in the room. He always opened his eyes quietly and looked at the ceiling, keeping his breathing calm. smile.

"Uchiha Itachi has been infected with the Kyubi virus, and the situation is very bad." When returning to the dormitory with Sai, Haruno Sakura routinely reported to him.

Saii glanced at Haruno Sakura, who looked unhappy, and suddenly reached out and pulled out the candied plums she was holding. Haruno Sakura was stunned for a second, then raised his eyebrows and stared at Sai, he smiled and said: "People who are not paying attention They should be punished." Sai opened the package of candied plums, and deliberately chewed them loudly in front of Haruno Sakura.

"Sai!" Haruno Sakura snatched the prunes from Sai's hand, "I'm reporting to you, did you listen to me carefully?"

Only then did Sai stop teasing Haruno Sakura: "So, what do you want to say?"

Haruno Sakura put away the candied plums: "Because he has a special status, I think..."

"I understand."

"What do you understand?" Haruno Sakura squinted at Sai who interrupted her.

"You want to save him, but you are worried that Konoha will think about you." Sai reached out and picked a leaf from the branch above his head and kept playing with it. Haruno Sakura nodded helplessly, and Saii chuckled lightly, "If If you let him go, Uchiha Itachi will definitely die, but now you seem to have a way to save him. So, you are asking for my opinion, right?"

"As expected of Anbu's supervisor." Said her own thoughts, and Haruno Sakura relaxed a lot. She stretched her brows and squeezed the candied plums in her hand. The dried plums exude a sweet and greasy fragrance. Put it in your mouth, "There is a kind of 'serum therapy' that may be effective for Kyubi virus infection, but no one has tried it either from the Konoha Medical Department or the country of water. I want to try it." Haruno Sakura Said.

"You want to use Itachi Uchiha as a test subject?" Sai raised his eyebrows.

"Although it doesn't sound very nice to say so, in fact, it is true." Haruno Sakura tilted her head, not denying Sai's statement, "I will do my job well, and as for other things that have nothing to do with me, I will not Excuse me..." Seeing Sai's half-smile expression, she hastily added.

"It's okay, just go ahead and do it." Sai stared at Haruno Sakura who suddenly became flustered, and couldn't help laughing, "I believe that both you and Itachi Uchiha are people with sense of proportion." He Putting his hands in his pockets, he walked briskly forward.Haruno Sakura stood there in a daze, thinking over what Sai said just now.

The next afternoon, after getting off work from the Kyubi Institute, Haruno Sakura returned to the Infectious Diseases Hospital, and she called Kisame to explain Itachi's condition.After listening to Haruno Sakura's narration, Kisame just responded gruntly, and then slowly sat down on the chair.The corridors of the hospital are filled with the smell of disinfectant and suffocating depression. Haruno Sakura puts her hands in the pockets of her white coat and looks down at Kisame without saying a word. She is afraid—this one in front of her can force others to kill Companions, will they be merciless to their companions, or the relationship between him and Itachi cannot be called a "companion" at all.

"Is there any other way to save him?" Kisame looked up at Haruno Sakura.

"There is another plan right now, but it's a bit risky." Haruno Sakura suggested, "Our hospital collected the serum of patients who had been infected with Kyubi virus and recovered on their own. This was originally used as a research sample for the Kyubi Institute, but the sample The number is very small, so we did not try this easily. Now the Kyubi Institute is also trying to obtain anti-Kyubi virus serum from animals, but not every animal can have a similar reaction to Kyubi virus as humans, so We haven't found a suitable animal model yet..."

"Just get to the point." Kisame interrupted Haruno Sakura.

"Director Uchiha's condition is not progressing satisfactorily now. If he continues to adopt conservative treatment methods, he will not be able to survive this hurdle. Now he can be treated with the antiviral serum we collected earlier, but this treatment method is not used for We don't know the exact curative effect of human treatment." Haruno Sakura spread her hands.

"Do everything possible to save him." Guixie clenched and loosened his hands, and finally clenched into fists.

"Okay, please come to the hospital tomorrow to sign the informed consent form, and I will contact the Kyubi Research Institute tonight." Haruno Sakura nodded.

Haruno Sakura put on the protective clothing again and came to Itachi's ward. There was the sound of ticking instruments in the ward. There was a white veil between the beds to protect the privacy of the patients. She gently pulled the stool over Itachi's ward. Sitting down beside the hospital bed, he quietly watched Itachi, his pale and thin face, and his black hair.His breathing was very weak and he had to rely on a ventilator to maintain it.The light of dusk penetrates through the heavy veils, and time seems to stand still at this moment, with no gully of identity, no boundary between good and evil.

She didn't want to face her inner feelings towards Itachi, because that feeling was too complicated, and she wanted to let go, but never succeeded.Now Haruno Sakura will no longer overlap Sasuke's shadow on Itachi, she understands that even though Itachi and Sasuke have the same surname and similar faces, they are by no means substitutes for each other.At the same time, Haruno Sakura also clearly knew that one day, she would have to face up to this unexplainable emotion and make her own decision.

She closed her eyes, trying not to think about these future events.At this time, she suddenly felt Itachi's hand touching her protective clothing jacket, she hurriedly opened her eyes, and saw Itachi, who had woken up slowly, looking at her with tired eyes, Haruno Sakura hesitated for a moment, and held his hand , bent down to Itachi's ear and said, "Trust the doctor, you will be fine."

Itachi didn't have the strength to speak anymore, he took her hand lightly, and solemnly wrote stroke by stroke in Haruno Sakura's palm through the glove of the protective suit: "Thank you."

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