[Hokage] On those lives that are open and hanging

"Dou, these are all fake, you should know that."

Zuofan, who was still in the base camp of the Akatsuki organization, penetrated into this illusion woven by Sasuke's fear, and was shocked by the ups and downs of the cruel plot. Looking at the "self" who was pale in front of him and was about to be tortured, he covered his face with his hands helplessly.

What kind of dark plot is this?Isn't it that the most unacceptable thing in Sasuke's heart will not appear?

Zuofan glanced at his younger brother who was trembling all over, and his own eyes were full of despair. Is this exciting?

But seeing Dou's resistance, Zuo Fan still comforted him first.

Anyway, that's it, let's go all out.

Dou pursed his lips, Zuo Fan's appearance greatly soothed his fear, and he recovered after a while. He closed his eyes, and stretched out his hand to lift "Zuo Fan"'s chin steadily.

"Please get Sasuke-sama closer so that you can see clearly..."

Sasuke trembled, his lips were bloodless, and his pupils shrank to the extreme.

Huan stretched out his fingers, with stains on them, ugly skin under the gauze, festering wounds even with thick yellow pus, these hands, which can make people feel psychologically and physically uncomfortable just by looking at them, lay on Zuofan's delicate white skin. face.

"Zuofan" eyelashes trembled, and he looked extremely weak and pitiful with his eyes closed.

"Master Dou, you have to hold your hands more firmly, otherwise he will hurt even more."

Huan slowly opened the eyelids of "Zuofan" with two fingers, revealing the dull eyes inside.

"Although you are blind, you have a sense of touch and pain, right?"

Pressing his finger on the blood-red iris in the middle of the eyeball, Huan's smile expanded, and then he used his slightly longer but uneven nails to go down a little bit...

Zuofan twitched the corner of his mouth. He is a soul body, which can be seen directly in the illusion.

Seeing that "Zuofan"'s eyeballs were cut by Huan's nails and continued to move slowly, Zuofan himself shivered.

Really... There is a kind of pain called pain even when you look at it.

"Zuofan" was so stimulated by the pain that his body struggled subconsciously and was completely suppressed by Dou. The scream was suppressed in his throat, but the pain could be heard in a subtle way, but he could only bear it with his chin clamped by Dou, and it was inevitable.

Although he knew that this Zuofan was a fake, Dou still subconsciously pushed hard, but Huan's fingers were still in the eye sockets of "Zuofan", and "Zuofan"'s subconscious struggle made his eyeballs bulge out.

Gen looked at Sasuke's tear-filled face, viciously reversed the previous slowness, hooked his finger in with a somewhat exaggerated movement, and then pulled out the slippery ball on the finger.

With too large movements, Zuofan's blood and the transparent liquid in his eyeballs spilled on Sasuke's face.

There was silence in the illusion.

Zuofan keenly felt the changes in this illusion that was emotionally connected with Sasuke at this moment.

Dou cleaned up the excess emotions in his heart, and looked at Sasuke with a serious expression.

The blood color shrank in an instant, and for a moment, Sasuke's eyes turned black. This kind of black is easy to think of swallowing, and can easily arouse people's fear. Only at that moment, the blood color exploded again, forming a blood-red similar triangle The shape of a little black awn expands in the middle, and another triangle-like shape is superimposed with one less to form a hexagram.

Time stands still, and the people around, except for the bag, are slowly collapsing.

Sasuke stretched out his hand to Zuofan, but almost collapsed and found that the body of the person in front of him was also becoming shallow and broken.

"Sasuke, these are all fake."

Zofan's voice came.

But Sasuke didn't move, the boy who had already opened the kaleidoscope stared blankly at Zuofan's original position.

"Sasuke..."

A slightly hesitant voice came, and there was obvious distress in the deep voice.

Itachi walked up to Sasuke, knelt down, took Sasuke's face and hugged him in his arms.

Even if it was an illusion, it was too cruel, even crueler than they expected. Zuofan only had a voice of nothingness, which could not give Sasuke the sense of security he needed, so Itachi, who was only planning to watch silently, appeared directly in front of Sasuke.

Dou exited the scene without a sound, leaving time for their brothers to be alone.

"It's fake, don't be afraid..."

Itachi coaxed gently, and hugged Sasuke even harder.

Sasuke wanted to raise his head, but was subconsciously pressed even tighter by the nervous Itachi.

Sasuke paused, and tentatively buried his face in Itachi's collarbone.

Feeling the skinny skin without exception, Sasuke stretched out his arms to hug Itachi, feeling more clearly how thin Itachi was.

"……elder brother"

It sounded as soft as a sigh, Sasuke tightened his arms and buried his head deeper, Itachi pursed his lips, feeling the moisture on his neck, and felt even more distressed.

"sorry."

Itachi patted Sasuke on the back, soothing gently.

"...It's okay, I probably know what's going on."

Sasuke didn't let himself immerse himself in fragile emotions, he just couldn't let go of Itachi's long-lost tenderness for a while, and hugged his brother and didn't want to let go.

"You... don't blame Zuofan, he can't control this illusion." Itachi's voice was difficult, a little at a loss as he didn't know how to communicate with his beloved but hurt brother.

The broadened shoulders under the palm and the indifferent and suppressed aura exuded by Sasuke let Itachi know that Sasuke has grown up, and he can no longer look at him as he used to.

"This matter... I have to wait until I understand everything before I can decide whether to forgive him or not."

Sasuke gritted his teeth a little, his eyes couldn't help showing a little grievance, his head unconsciously retracted into Itachi's arms, the same reaction as when he was teased too awkwardly by Zuofan when he was a child.

Itachi evoked a gentle smile, and the somewhat depressed atmosphere around him also relaxed.

The gap caused by time and those things still exists, but it is no longer insurmountable. Many things have changed, but there are also things that have never changed.

Before Dou found the original body of Gen in the illusion, the two Uchiha brothers went straight to find him.

Sasuke was awkward and didn't want to contact Zuofan for the time being, and Itachi didn't know much, so he just found the "accomplice" of Dou so far.

When he came, Itachi had changed out of the flamboyant Xiaopao, and now he was wearing a low-key black hooded sweater.The style is similar to Sasuke's style, and Zuofan even teased his similar aesthetics to Sasuke.

At this time, the two were wearing the same style of clothes, with extremely similar ice cube faces, standing in front of the bag with a low imposing manner and a flamboyant but equally dangerous one.

Dou greeted him with an excellent psychological quality, with an unshakeable and gentle smile on the corner of his mouth, but he complained in his heart.

Should he be thankful that they didn't stare at him with the same kaleidoscope Sharingan?After two rounds of reading, he probably is either crazy, stupid or useless.

"Sasuke, don't blame me. There's nothing you can do about it. It's like pregnancy and childbirth. Sooner or later, there will be pain. The inevitable process cannot be omitted..."

Spreading his hands, putting an innocent smile on his pure and gentle face can still alleviate people's disgust.Although the pair of extremely reflective glasses still makes people feel a little uncomfortable, but there is no such extremely dangerous and disturbing factor that Sasuke felt before.

"Here, here, take a sniff."

Without waiting for Sasuke to scold him impatiently, Kato consciously took out a small bottle, and immediately after opening the lid, a light fragrance emerged.

Let Sasuke's somewhat irritable mood quickly stabilize.

He was a little surprised to feel the lightness of the mood at the moment, and looked at the bag.

"I feel it, your mood is easy to fluctuate because of the medicine I gave you in the morning, your nerves will become more sensitive, and some negative emotions will expand a lot.

The illusion you experienced before cannot be said to be your fantasy, it is actually your own fear, what you are afraid of will appear, and the entire illusion is created by you based on your own memory, so it is your own. There will be no loopholes.

My words and actions in the morning are intended to make you vigilant and guide the fear in your heart. After that, I followed into the illusion to control the development of the illusion as much as possible.

Our original plan was to let Zofan die in front of you, which just meets the eye-opening requirements of the kaleidoscope.

Of course, because the fear in people's hearts is uncontrollable, I can only guide it, so when accidents happened before, I actually had no effect.As for the illusion is not the cause of Zofan's death but torture...

Well, this may have something to do with me.

When Zofan told me about this plan, I considered that people's psychological endurance is limited, and the illusion is too real. If it appears too much, it may have a bad influence on you, so the theory you are most afraid of is not will appear..."

"Theoretically?"

Sasuke was very good at focusing on key points, raised his eyebrows, and threw his murderous eyes towards his pocket.

"Cough, that's right, I guess what you fear most is Zuofan's death, but the illusion is to open the kaleidoscope, and the kaleidoscope needs stimulation to open its eyes, so it somehow became like that... Although the stimulation is relatively large, the result is more effective That's it."

Dou pushed his glasses, the smile on the corner of his mouth did not let go, he still felt a little cowardly in his heart, but he knew Sasuke, so he probably wouldn't do anything to him... right?

The tranquilizing medicine given by Zuofan should still be very effective.

Although Sasuke really wanted to beat him up, he really didn't do it, but turned his attention to other places.

"Did you just say that the people who appeared in my illusion all appeared based on my memory?"

"...Ah, so, is it really the phantom question? I said that generally speaking, you shouldn't think of such a person." Dou rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

"Oshemaru probably won't come back for a short time, I'll go out for a while."

After Sasuke finished speaking, he pulled Itachi and left directly.

The pocket left behind tilted his head and muttered helplessly

"You should explain clearly whether you plan to do something about that phantom, or if you don't do it, I'll do it."

Sasuke naturally wouldn't keep the person he could foresee, who could almost be equated to his nightmare in the future.

On the way out of Otono Ninja Village, he found Gen by the way, and then without giving Gen any chance to speak, he dealt with him very simply with Yikunai.

They themselves are hostile positions, and Sasuke doesn't think it's wrong for him to abolish and kill an opponent at all.

After leaving Otonin Village, afraid of being recognized, Itachi and Sasuke both put on bamboo hats, and the tassel-like white cloth strips on the outer edge of the bamboo hats well concealed their figures and faces.

Taking care of his own business, he chose Uchiha's restaurant, and Sasuke asked for a single room.

"Brother, you should be ready to tell me those things when you come here this time."

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