[Hokage] Flower Time

The line of sight moves forward, and the trees on both sides recede back, quietly hiding in the darkness.The sound of water waves hitting the cliff gradually approached, and the sound of surging water gradually rang in my ears.Finally, the trees disappeared from the sight, and a familiar yet unfamiliar cliff appeared in front of him.

Standing tall and straight on the side of the cliff, he turned his back to Itachi Uchiha, as if he was looking at the torrent under his feet.Suddenly, there was a gust of night wind, slightly blowing his short black hair.His black jacket with a round fan pattern also fluttered with the gust of wind.

The moment she saw him, Hua Shi fell into surprise.

——It’s Zhishui!

The one standing in front of him was undoubtedly her brother, and she was very familiar with Zhishui, so there was absolutely no mistake.

In this strange place, seeing the elder brother in her memory again, she couldn't help but want to rush forward, wrap his arms around that man's body, ask him a series of questions, or simply hold him tightly, not to let him go. He leaves again.

"Where did you go?"

"Are you really killed?"

"Why did you abandon me?"

These questions lingered in her chest, making her heart dull and unable to make any sound.She wanted to move, but suddenly remembered that she was in Uchiha Itachi's memories, this is the perspective of his memories.

Once I realized that "this is a memory", my heart, which was still a little hot just now, instantly cooled down.

My brother is gone, it's just a phantom of nothingness.

Her mood gradually calmed down, and she could concentrate on following Uchiha Itachi's gaze to investigate everything in front of her eyes—the young man standing in front of her heard the soft footsteps, but she didn't turn her head back, and kept looking straight ahead.

"I'm sorry to bother you so late."

The familiar voice fell into her ears, even though she knew it was just a phantom in her memory, she still couldn't help the trembling of her arms.

"No." Itachi said gently, "No trouble."

"Right now, the rebellion of the Uchiha clan can no longer be stopped." Shisui's words sank, he lowered his head slightly, and said, "I originally wanted to use other gods to change the patriarch's will, but Danzo didn't trust me. He took my right eye."

As he spoke, he turned his body towards Itachi.

His face gradually turned into the center of sight, gradually revealing a familiar and distant appearance to Huashi.He tightly closed his right eye, which was slightly sunken, with two bright bloodstains dripping down, and there was obviously nothing in the eye socket.And in his other open eye, there is a kaleidoscope pattern.

When Huashi saw the pattern in his eyes, his heart was a little complicated.

When she was still worrying about some trivial matters, her brother already had the Kaleidoscope Sharingan.The conditions for opening the eyes of the kaleidoscope were very cruel. She couldn't imagine what kind of situation the excellent brother opened the eyes-in the past, he would never tell her these things.

"If the rebellion of the Uchiha clan is allowed to continue, then the civil war in the Land of Fire will begin. Once the order is broken, other big countries that are eyeing the tiger will definitely take advantage of it. Such a thing must never happen."

There was worry in Shisui's words—these were the words she didn't like to hear in the past. Every time Shisui and Itachi discussed the village and the country, she would become drowsy.However, at this moment, all this sounds so shocking.

"I'm afraid Danzo will take away my other eye sooner or later. Before that, I will give you my eye." Shisui said, turning his body sideways again, as if deliberately blocking himself Move, lest Itachi see this slightly bloody scene.After a few strange noises, he moved his arm away from his eye socket, turned around and handed it to Itachi.

He closed his eyes, although there were bloodstains under his eyes, he didn't show any expression of pain, and even the tip of his eyebrows didn't rise or fall.He said peacefully: "The only person I can trust is you, and I entrust the excellent name and future of the Uchiha clan to you."

He stretched his hand forward, and between the fingers, a few drops of dark red wet liquid dripped.

Uchiha Itachi's hand moved, and he took Shisui's eyes.Suddenly a crow flapped its wings and landed on his shoulder, and a few black feathers fell down.

"Ah, and..." Zhishui suddenly had a smile on his face: "My ignorant younger sister is also entrusted to you."

"Shishui..." There was hesitation in Itachi's words.

"Because I don't have parents, I have always been very indulgent towards her...Maybe because I spoiled her too much, I spoiled her when she was spending time. She has a bad temper and is scary when she is willful. She is afraid of pain and hardship. In short, she is not a A patient child... Even so, she is also my most cherished sister." The smile on the corners of Zhishui's lips grew even wider.

"As an older brother, you should be able to understand." Zhishui said: "You can ignore everything else, but your younger brother or younger sister must be the best."

"Yes." Itachi replied.

After a while, Itachi said, "If it's for spending time..."

Shisui chuckled, and said: "Even you have noticed it yourself, this is not the right choice. It is impossible to continue to act under Danzo's eyes. The only thing I can do is to give my eyes to you. You do the rest."

Maybe the blood on his face was too hot, so he wiped the blood on his cheek with the back of his hand.The originally neat vertical lines were loosely wiped away, leaving behind a small piece of faint trace.

"She has a sweet tooth and falls asleep in the hallways in the summer with no scruples. If the room gets messy or if the laundry isn't cleaned in time, she can get very angry. She doesn't like salty things at dinner." Things...would rather not eat. According to Sasuke, she likes little dinosaurs very much, but the little dinosaurs given to her on her birthday made her very angry, incomprehensible girl, right?"

Zhishui's words were no longer as clear and orderly as before, and gradually became messy, as if randomly picking up pieces of shells in the sea of ​​memory, saying whatever came to mind.

"Please be more tolerant in the future." Zhishui said, his voice suddenly sank.He was silent for a while, and said: "Forget it. The more you say this, the more you will miss it. You have already made up your mind a long time ago, but at this moment, you have the idea of ​​regretting it."

"..." Itachi looked at him and didn't speak, maybe there was nothing to say at all.

Convince him to stay, and then protect him from Danzo's hunt?Let him use a Sharingan to fight against other people's suspicions and accusations from Konoha's high-level?

"I really want to say sorry to her, but I don't think I have the chance." Zhishui said, paused for a while, and suddenly said: "You to her..."

He seemed to want to say something at first, but hesitated when he said it.In the end, he just sighed and said, "I have treated you like my own brother since I was a child, and I believe in you."

"In short." Shisui's tone became heavy: "I have already written the suicide note. The future of Konoha and the Uchiha clan, as well as my spoiled sister, are all entrusted to you."

"At least... At least, Hua Shi must not be charged with rebellion. If she is allowed to bear such a stigma, she will be very painful."

After saying that, his heels stepped back, and Kong stepped on the edge of the cliff.

"Stop the water!"

Uchiha Itachi let out a low cry, and stretched out his hand forward, trying to grab Shisui's body that fell backwards.When Zhishui fell backwards without hesitation, Hua Shi also wanted to cry out, and wanted to reach out and grab his body, but she couldn't do it.She could only watch what happened clearly in front of her eyes.

Itachi's movement slowed down a step, and the black-haired boy fell straight down towards the depths of the cliff behind him, followed by a dull splash of water.

The night wind whizzed past, blowing the black hair on the side of Itachi's cheek past his eyes.He half-kneeled in front of the cliff, stretched out his arms, but there was nothing in his palm.The Nanhe River under the cliff kept surging towards one side, and the sound of rushing was endless.

Itachi's field of vision gradually narrowed, and finally fell into darkness.When he opened it again, Huashi attached to his consciousness also realized that his eyes had changed—Itachi had acquired the kaleidoscope Sharingan that required drastic emotional changes to open.

Witnessing everything in front of him, Huashi finally understood what Itachi meant by "the truth of everything".

The truth she saw was completely different from what Uchiha Itachi had told her.Itachi didn't kill Shisui to gain higher power, Shisui committed suicide.For the sake of the village and the Uchiha clan, he chose to abandon his family and ended his life beside the cliff of Nangachuan.

Witnessing the scene of Zhishui throwing water with her own eyes, she had the urge to cry, but she couldn't cry out.

how come?how come!

What echoed in her chest was boundless remorse—why didn't she try to understand these things more at that time?She has been living under the wings of her brother's protection, and she has never touched the reality under the peaceful appearance.

If, if she could know the exact truth of that rebellion, if she could try to change Zhishui's thinking, if she could make Zhishui not care so much about the family and the village, if she could stop the rebellion with them, is it true that Zhishui So you don't have to drown yourself?

Regret spread in her heart, but she couldn't make a sound.

In addition to self-blame, there is also anger that I don't know who to pour out to - why should I care so much about irrelevant people!Obviously just each other is enough, isn't it?Why care about other people's happy and humble life?

The scene in front of me went dark, and the scene seemed to change to another place.The time seemed to be different. She didn't know which day it was in Itachi's memory, but she continued to read it patiently.

Is this in... the hidden room in the upper level of Konoha?

Looking down, it was obvious that Uchiha Itachi was kneeling on the ground.So, he is carrying out the mission as Anbu, right?

The four people sitting directly in front of him are the four elders of the Konoha Advisory Group, and they are arguing endlessly about the topic.Those voices of discussion fell into her ears——

"Absolutely intolerable! If the Uchiha clan rebelled in the name of revolution, they should be executed immediately in the same way as Konoha traitors."