Chapter 279 When Different Destinies Converge
Chapter 279 When Different Destinies Converge
He found visitors from another world - they were having dinner at a tempura restaurant.
Sasuke watched them for a moment and decided to place something on Naruto to ensure he always got their location.
This choice was not because he was most familiar with Naruto, but because the other mission members were Shikamaru, Sai, and Sakura...
Naruto was the last person to find himself being targeted.
Before he was about to leave, he saw three people in the tempura shop talking about something and smiling.
The girl named Chaolu looked at her two companions, her eyes filled with bright light and her smile was so brilliant that she didn't look like an Uchiha at all.
Are you doing well?
In another world?
Do you and your companions trust each other and have a strong bond?
Will they not ask of you things which you yourself are incapable of doing?
There is no shadow in your smile, yet you can control Susanoo. Have you never experienced heart-wrenching suffering in the process of opening your eyes?
Sasuke gave her one last look and turned away.
Even in Konoha, he was still careful not to let anyone notice his presence, and he moved forward like a shadow stealing in the shadows.
……
After putting the ninja hawk feather into Naruto's coat, Sasuke observed Naruto for a moment from a distance. He saw that Naruto did not check and did not notice anything unusual. He grabbed the clothes on the bed and stuffed them all into the luggage.
Naruto……
Sasuke wanted to sigh.
Maybe it was because he was in Konoha that he was so defenseless, or maybe Naruto knew that there were too few things in this world that could hurt him, so there was no need to waste energy and spend time being cautious and prepared for anything.
Logically speaking, there are very few things in this world that can hurt him. Sasuke looked up at the sky, but why couldn't he relax like Naruto?
They set off on Sai's Ninja Bird. Tracking in the air was too obvious, so Sasuke let the Ninja Bird follow behind them and he chased the Ninja Bird on the ground.
When he stepped into the ground and jumped into the deep pool, he suddenly saw Itachi.
A little boy rushed past him and threw himself into Itachi's arms, "Brother! You're back! Come play with me, brother!"
Sasuke stood still and looked around, only to find that the surrounding environment had turned into the Uchiha residence without him noticing.
In fact, he could hardly recall what his home looked like when he was a child, when his parents were still alive. However, as soon as he saw this house, he could instantly recognize that it was his home.
"Sasuke!" Mom walked from inside the house to the door and scolded, "Brother still has to do his homework for the ninja school. You should wait until he finishes!"
Sasuke turned around and looked at the beautiful woman behind him.
He was currently standing at the entrance, his younger self was standing outside the door holding the young Itachi, while his mother was standing inside the house with a laundry basket in her hands, obviously doing some housework.
She had been absent from his life for too long, and Sasuke actually felt a sense of strangeness towards her.
mom.
Mother……
"It's okay, the homework is not urgent...it's very simple."
Hearing his brother speaking for him and standing on his side, young Sasuke, who had just been very frustrated by his mother's lecture, immediately smiled happily.
Sasuke suddenly understood Naruto's feelings. If he lived here, he would probably be as careless as Naruto and would never carefully check whether there was an extra feather in his coat in his own home.
Home……
So that's how it is. For Naruto, Konoha is his home, and people will not feel alert and vigilant at home.
And his home no longer exists anywhere in the world.
This is an illusion, Sasuke determined it in an instant, and once an illusion is recognized as an illusion, it is not difficult to break, not to mention that Sasuke also has the Sharingan.
In the entire ninja world, no one would want to compete in illusion techniques with the Uchiha family.
But the difficulty with illusions is that sometimes people know they are under an illusion but still don't want to get rid of it.
"Let's go back, Sasuke..."
"But you promised to teach me new shuriken techniques!"
"I have an important mission tomorrow...I need to prepare."
"Brother, you are lying..."
Seeing him holding the kunai and unwilling to go home, Itachi smiled helplessly and waved at him.
Sasuke immediately ran towards him happily, thinking that his brother had changed his mind.
But Itachi stretched out his finger and poked him on the forehead.
"Sasuke, forgive me... I'll teach you next time..."]
Next time, next time, next time…and then the last time.
There is no next time.
He will never fulfill his promise.
Looking back at the age of 19, Sasuke clearly realized that his brother Uchiha Itachi was a huge bastard who broke his promises and deceived the children.
[Itachi carried his brother on his back and walked home.
Sasuke leaned behind him and asked expectantly: "Brother, can I still practice with you next time?"
"Okay..." Itachi said gently, "But I'm often on missions, and you're going to Ninja School tomorrow, so I'm afraid we won't have that much time together."
Sasuke was quiet for a while, then gently closed his arms around his brother: "It doesn't matter... as long as we are together occasionally."】
Sasuke felt that he should lift the illusion. His next memories would lead to that bloody night no matter what, and he had no interest in reliving it again.
However, looking at their receding backs, he wanted to see them again, even for just one more second.
Suddenly, a childish voice came from behind: [“There is absolutely no way I can like Uchiha Sasuke! I really, really hate him!”]
Sasuke was slightly stunned.
The voice was extremely unfamiliar and Sasuke couldn't figure out who it was.
He turned and looked in the direction of the sound behind him, only to see the young Shikamaru.
Standing in front of him was a girl who was about his age - judging by her appearance, she should be the little girl named Chaolu.
How could he see her in the illusion?
...Is this her memory?
But why are their memories connected?
Shikamaru glanced up but Sasuke didn't think he could see him, so he looked down following Shikamaru's gaze, only to see a younger version of himself standing over him.
He looked at the girl with her back to him and pursed his lips.
[Naruto was very angry: "What is Shikamaru doing? It's so weird! How is he related to Sasuke again? Why does Chaolu have to hate Sasuke? And Chaolu has already said that she hates him!"]
The scene changed to the rooftop of the Ninja School.
Naruto, Asaka and Shino sat together eating lunch.
Naruto and Shino having lunch together is like Gaara and Hyuga Neji being a team, which gives people a strong sense of incongruity.
But it was this sense of disharmony that told Sasuke clearly that this was not his world.
It seems that Shikamaru had a quarrel with Asaka, and the reason for the quarrel was because of "himself".
[“Shikamaru probably feels… that he is no longer your most important friend.” Shino said, “Maybe he feels that your attitude towards Sasuke is different from your attitude towards others, so he feels uneasy.”
Chaolu looked at the sky and asked in confusion: "Does Shikamaru think that I'm too good to Sasuke?"
"No, that's not the case." Shino said, "Like you said, Uchiha Sasuke threw grass seeds at you... It seems like he hates you, but it's not certain what a person thinks in his heart. For example, even if you call Naruto an idiot, Naruto won't be angry, and others won't think you have bad intentions... People's behavior and their inner thoughts are sometimes inconsistent."】
Throwing grass seeds?
when?
why?
Sasuke frowned in slight confusion. When he was a child... he had never done such a thing.
Moreover, he threw grass seeds at the girl.
So... they are really people from another world?
[“That is to say… even if you tell Shikamaru that you hate Uchiha Sasuke the most, it doesn’t mean that you really think so. Shikamaru doesn’t think so, so he is angry.”]
Sasuke saw the girl's confused look.
There are many people who dislike him, most of them are boys. This is the first time that a girl has called him "hateful".
Moreover, even if others disliked him, Sasuke didn't think he would take it to heart. He had no friends when he was in the ninja school because he only thought about how to become stronger and how to take revenge.
But the me just now...
He seemed to care about being disliked by her.
That was a completely different destiny from his. Sasuke suddenly became very curious about what kind of future that Sasuke would have.
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