[Hokage] Flower Time

Uchiha Itachi took a step forward from behind the stone pillar, revealing his figure.

Compared with two years ago, his appearance looks much more mature.His facial features are still familiar to Hua Shi, at least the past two years have not changed his appearance too much.The beautifully contoured eyes and the obsidian-colored pupils are the same as before, but now he doesn't look like the former him.

In the past, he was gentle and silent, but now he is more restrained, hiding all his thoughts under his expressionless face.There is no smile, nor the tenderness that was once in the eyes.Rather than being introverted, it is better to say that it is a kind of indifference without memory.

He put his right hand in the skirt of his clothes and poked out the back of his hand.On the ring finger of his right hand, there is a ring with the character "Zhu".The horizontal scratch on the forehead, like the scar on her chest, reminded her of everything that had happened.

A gust of wind and sand blew past, and the nearby stone pillars let out a low whimpering sound, as if someone was crying faintly hidden under the surface.

Sure enough, as she expected, when she saw him again, she couldn't say anything for a while.

Whether it is accusation or anger, sadness or regret, they are all suppressed in the heart, and they are messed up in a mess.

Finally, it was Itachi Uchiha who broke the silence.

"I thought you were dead."

His words lowered the temperature in an instant.

Huashi remembered that unforgettable night full of blood and despair, and suddenly felt that the wound on his chest that had healed began to hurt again.

"I should have died." She tried her best to keep her voice cold, trying to suppress her anger and sadness, and tried her best to show a kind of calm and indifference, but the uncontrollable trembling at the end of the words still betrayed her: " You didn't show mercy at all with that knife."

Uchiha Itachi's knife really pierced her body precisely, and at the same time marked a bloody knife for her life.

"No..." Uchiha Itachi's eyelids drooped slightly, he didn't move, and said in a low voice: "I thought you, who was listed as a traitor, had been executed during these two years of fleeing....I didn't expect you Still alive."

Uchiha Itachi's attitude made Huashi a little unbelievable.

"You seem unhappy to see me alive?" she asked. "Are you regretting that your cut wasn't accurate enough?"

"No." He replied slowly, with a calm and indifferent tone: "Your life and death are meaningless to me."

Hua Shi was startled by his cold words, and subconsciously asked, "...why?"

"This time, you found me." Uchiha Itachi raised his head slightly, looking into the sky: "You want to ask me why I did that. The reason..."

"The reason is very simple." He said slowly, closing his eyes: "This is the real me."

Such an indifferent weasel is very strange to Huashi.The heart that took two years to calm down began to tremble again from shock.

What is he saying?

"In the past, I had to play an excellent brother and ninja to cover up my extraordinaryness. I was tired of this kind of life, and the xenophobia and narrowness of the Uchiha clan with no future, so I decided to follow my own wishes and obliterate my The other people I hate... At the same time, I am also testing whether I am strong enough."

She subconsciously pursued the logic in his words, repeatedly knocking on the key points in those words.But no matter how she tried to figure it out, all she could think of was the word "ridiculous".

"how come……"

"I hate the family, so I wiped it out. That's why. Whether it's you, or my parents, it's a meaningless existence to me. I'm tired of continuing to pretend to be an unreal me in front of you .”

"Impossible!" She waved her hand and retorted aloud, with excitement in her words: "It's obviously not like this! I know... I know this is a task given to you by Konoha's senior management, and I already know everything! The village and the country will choose to kill the family..."

The reason Uchiha Itachi said is completely different from Uchiha Madara's.

In Madara's mouth, he is still the ninja who knows righteousness, forbearance and gentleness, but in Itachi's own mouth, he has become a random and heinous murderer.

Whose words should she believe?

Obviously, she should trust Itachi more... He grew up with her, and she had always believed in him until that night.But at this moment, Uchiha Itachi has become so unbelievable again, she would rather choose to believe Uchiha Madara's statement.

Who do you trust?understand who?All this is like a deadlock in a circle.

"That's what Madara Uchiha told you." Itachi's eyes moved, his black pupils flicked aside slightly, and his eyes followed the undulating stone pillars: "You actually choose to believe him?" Words. It's ridiculous."

She was startled.

Why did she choose to believe Uchiha Madara's words?

Was it because she had no choice at the time?Or is she willing to believe that Uchiha Itachi is still the excellent silent ninja?

"Uchiha Madara's words are always full of deceit and lies. He fabricated unfounded falsehoods in order to obtain your abilities, but you chose to follow him and believe his words...It's really childish and ridiculous." Saying this, Itachi sighed slightly: "You are still alive like this."

Huashi took a step back slightly, feeling the urge to cover her ears.The so-called "truth" fell apart again before her eyes, and the absurd words spoken by Uchiha Itachi made her unable to confirm what was real.

Do you trust Itachi?

Still believe in Madara?

It seems that no one is so credible.

"Now you, I'm afraid you hate me very much." Itachi stared at her face with pain, and said, "I killed your relatives, and I killed you. If you hate me, then work hard to live Go down, and then be strong enough to have the ability to take revenge... I don't want to see you controlled by Uchiha Madara anymore."

Huashi suddenly opened his eyes, and the pattern of the kaleidoscope slowly emerged in his eyes.Her mind became peaceful in an instant, and her thoughts also changed from anxiety to calm.

"I'm not weak or naive." She raised her head and looked into Itachi's eyes—she found a slight look of surprise on the other's face: "I have these eyes, and you should know mine too." Strong or weak."

"The truth about genocide..." She repeated slowly: "I don't need to care. No matter what your reason for doing such a thing, I don't need to care. I just want to ask you one thing. "

"That night, you were the last person to see Zhishui." She took a deep breath and said, "Where did Zhishui go?"

"Kaleidoscopic Sharingan..."

Itachi frowned slightly, looking into her scarlet eyes.His eyes also changed accordingly, and a rotating black pattern emerged.The two looked at each other, but there was no words or conversation.A wind with gravel came suddenly, raising a burst of dry sand and stones, blowing past their feet.

Itachi looked down at her indifferent face, and after a long time, said, "...I don't know about such things."

"You must know." She gritted her teeth and said, "You were the last person to see him."

——And, Uchiha Madara also said...

——Wait a minute, why should she believe Uchiha Madara's words?

Why does she always subconsciously choose to believe in Uchiha Madara at the intersection of these choices?

This kind of cognition made her suddenly panic.

"..." Uchiha Itachi closed his eyes and said, "After I separated from him, I never saw him again."

His tone and expression made Huashi understand that he can't say anything now.Even if there is really something inside, he will never reveal half of it.

"Then I'm sorry." She said, "Before I came here, I made up my mind that no matter what means I use, I must get clues."

Two pairs of kaleidoscope Sharingan looked at each other, scarlet and black intertwined and swirling.She tried with illusion, and the other party also responded with illusion.In the vision and spirit of the two, time has passed for a long time, and they have fought each other countless times.It was her kunai that pierced his heart in the illusion, and it was his kunai that crossed her neck, leaving trails of splattered blood.

The figure in the field of vision disappeared and reappeared, and the black feathers of the crow fluttered down one after another.The black moon and the red sky are always circling, and the stars are rising and setting at an extremely fast speed.

Taking a step back, Hua Shi took a slight breath.

The two used their pupil power to perform illusions on each other, torturing each other's spirit.Originally thought that with her illusion skills, she should be able to ask the answer she wanted without hindrance, and the clinker opponent's illusion skills were not inferior to hers.

The two are about the same age, but there is still a difference in ability.

As if it has always been like this...

Even when he entered school in the same year, he had always been better than himself, and he still is now.

Huashi noticed that his vision had dimmed, and realized that the remaining power was not enough to support him to continue to use pupil power without limit, and began to think about the next step in his heart.

Uchiha Itachi's illusion gradually gained the upper hand. In the illusion world, she was bound in the submerged ice-cold lake, her mouth and nose were filled with moisture, and her breathing gradually became difficult.She wanted to choke her own throat, and even had the idea of ​​ending all this painful torture.

In reality, she gradually raised her hand and reached for her neck.

Someone suddenly stretched out a hand, hindering her movement.

A soft "pop" broke the absolute silence and freed her from the shackles of the environment.It was as if he stretched out his own saving hand when his life was hanging by a thread on the top of the Jedi Mountain, as if he was giving enough oxygen to survive in a moment of darkness and suffocation.

"Don't go too far. Uchiha Itachi"

Madara held her wrist tightly, and slowly lowered her high-hanging arm, but did not let go.His gaze shifted from Hanahi's body to Uchiha Itachi's body, his red eyes half closed slightly.

Uchiha Itachi didn't make a sound, the kaleidoscope pattern in his eyes gradually faded, and turned into an ordinary black three-pointed jade, and then faded along with the red, everything returned to a deep black.He looked at everything in front of him expressionlessly, like a bystander, watching the slight panic on her face without noticing.

"She was killed by you in the past." Uchiha Madara said: "I saved her, so her life also belongs to me."