Jiraiya left Konoha with Naruto Uzumaki, embarking on a journey to find Tsunade.
The negotiations with Fairy Tail went surprisingly smoothly. Although Drake seemed like he didn't want to deal with him, he didn't make things difficult for Konoha.
The condition was just to let Konoha be responsible for rebuilding the destroyed guild.
Drake didn't mention things like looking through the Book of Seals or handing over the culprit Danzō.
The former was because whether it was ninjutsu or forbidden techniques, they were only effective based on the special power of Chakra, and it wasn't as meaningful to Drake as studying the original energy of Chakra.
As for the latter... that was Sasuke's reserved target. As long as he didn't jump in front of Drake and court death, Drake was still willing to give his employer face.
And so, a turmoil subsided, and Konoha began reconstruction work, and everything entered a state of calm.
Drake had originally thought that making a big fuss would affect Fairy Tail's work, but he didn't expect to have even more guests.
He didn't know where the news spread from, but the fact that Fairy Tail had a conflict with Konoha and forcibly demolished half of Konoha, but Konoha bowed its head, was known throughout the ninja world.
Now everyone knew that Fairy Tail was strong, so many people came to the door on purpose.
And the residents of Konoha also took the word "bullying the weak and fearing the strong" to the extreme, and were respectful to the people of Fairy Tail one by one, for fear of angering them.
Natsu said bluntly that this place was far worse than Magnolia! This was also everyone's common idea.
And the exception was that Sasuke ran to Fairy Tail even more frequently.
After Naruto Uzumaki left the village with Jiraiya, Team 7's actions also temporarily stopped. Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno also trained separately.
On the training ground of the Uchiha family, after all, it had once been the noble clan of the entire ninja world, and this training ground was of the highest standard.
Although many of the Uchiha clan's legacies were scattered to who knows where after the night of the massacre, many things that were too obvious were still left behind.
For example, the Uchiha's clan grounds and various facilities, and this training ground was one of them. As Sasuke's training progressed, the venue had recently been moved to this place, which was more suitable for activities.
Drake looked at Sasuke, who was wrapped in lightning and was familiarizing himself with the ninja sword in his hand, and couldn't help but rub his chin.
An idea to cause trouble made Drake say, "Sasuke, I have an interesting idea. Do you want to try it?"
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Not many people in the ninja world now knew how powerful a renegade organization called Akatsuki was. And even fewer people knew how great their "ambition" was.
And one of the most critical existences to achieve their goal - the tailed beasts - had naturally been watched by them all along.
The sacrifice of the Third Hokage also made them see an opportunity, so two members of Akatsuki infiltrated Konoha to check the situation of the Nine-Tails.
But one of the two people that Akatsuki had sent, upon returning to his long-lost hometown, didn't rush to complete the mission, but instead went to eat his favorite three-colored dango first.
The result was that they were discovered, but four Konoha Jōnin, Asuma, Kurenai Yūhi, Kakashi, and Guy, couldn't take down the two immediately.
Because one of these two was a renegade from Kirigakure, Kisame Hoshigaki, who had the title of tailless tailed beast.
And the other was Itachi Uchiha, who had slaughtered the Uchiha clan. Kurenai Yūhi and Kakashi had been defeated by him with just genjutsu.
Itachi knew how terrible Guy could be when he was serious, and was planning to call Hoshigaki Kisame to leave when two people appeared in front of him.
Itachi Uchiha's expression changed. These two people weren't simple. One was the person who was rumored to have almost destroyed Konoha. This was someone who had been mentioned in the information to pay extra attention to.
But Itachi Uchiha was more concerned about the other person, because that person was his younger brother, Sasuke Uchiha.
Drake said, "We made it, we made it! I knew Itachi Uchiha would appear!"
Just now, Drake had stopped the sparring with Sasuke and told him that Itachi Uchiha might have returned to Konoha.
Sasuke's reaction could be imagined. Of course, he had asked Drake to take him over at the fastest speed.
But after really seeing Itachi Uchiha, his performance was much calmer. After nodding to Drake to express his gratitude, he calmly looked at Itachi Uchiha.
"Nii-san, long time no see!"
It was like the greeting he had given after returning home from a mission a long time ago. For a moment, Itachi Uchiha was stunned.
He had imagined many times the scene of reuniting with Sasuke. Would Sasuke shout "I will avenge the entire clan and kill you" and then charge over? How would he look at himself with eyes that wished he could pierce his heart?
He would bear and deepen these hatred, and let it become Sasuke's motivation.
But the only thing he hadn't expected was that Sasuke's reaction would be like this. If he couldn't feel the killing intent on Sasuke's body, he would even suspect that he had done too much on the night of the massacre and made Sasuke lose his memory.
Sasuke looked at Itachi Uchiha and said, "I have a question to ask you. Killing the entire clan, killing Mom and Dad, was your own choice, right?"
Itachi Uchiha quickly put down the terrible mood of things getting out of control, and pretended to be cold and said, "My foolish brother, I didn't expect that you're still asking such meaningless questions now. It seems that your capacity is only this much."
Sasuke shook his head and said, "It's indeed meaningless, but you've almost told me the answer!"
Itachi Uchiha was really stunned this time, because he saw three tomoe appearing in Sasuke's eyes, and as the tomoe rotated, they actually began to deform and were about to connect together.
It was just that in the end, it was a little short, and it turned back into ordinary three tomoe.
Sasuke couldn't help but cover one eye, and showed a wry smile and said, "I thought that seeing you would allow me to successfully open the same eyes as you! It seems that I still have to kill you or Danzō to fully open my eyes."
Before, Sasuke had opened the memories of the second reincarnator, and had grown again with the integration of the new Chakra.
However, the abilities of that reincarnator overlapped with the first one to a large extent, but it was already a great gain to allow the Sharingan to grow further.
It was just that the Sharingan hadn't evolved to the Mangekyō level. According to Drake's guess, evolution not only required dōjutsu power, but also required the power of Sasuke's own emotions. Because the Sharingan was ultimately an eye that reflected the heart.
The joy of his younger brother growing so quickly was quickly suppressed, because Itachi heard Sasuke say the name Danzō.
"What exactly do you know...!"
Itachi Uchiha stopped halfway through his words, because he was staring at Sasuke's scarlet eyes.
Even though he knew that Sasuke had grown a lot, Itachi actually hadn't really valued Sasuke... or rather, he had never faced his younger brother squarely.
And what Sasuke had said just now had also distracted his attention, and coupled with the fact that Sasuke's dōjutsu power had reached the limit of advancement, even though Itachi had the Mangekyō Sharingan, he was hit by Sasuke's genjutsu.
That's right, the second reincarnator that Sasuke had was skilled in genjutsu in addition to Lightning Release. Therefore, Sasuke's ability to use genjutsu or defend against genjutsu was now completely different from before!
Even Itachi, the genjutsu master who had crushed Kakashi and Kurenai Yūhi, two Jōnin, had been hit.
"Genjutsu: Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique!"
This was a genjutsu that Kakashi had used before, and it could allow the person who was hit to see the thing they feared the most!
In the blood-red world, Itachi opened his eyes, and what was in front of him was a destroyed Konoha, with corpses and blood everywhere.
And he saw Sasuke lying on the ground at a glance, and the wound that had severed his throat was still bleeding.
Itachi walked over with heavy steps, and reached out his trembling hand to touch Sasuke's face. But just then, the corpse-lying Sasuke suddenly raised his hand and grabbed Itachi's wrist.
Sasuke, with a face full of blood, said coldly, "Is this what you fear the most? I thought you feared the clan members you killed dragging you into hell?
What an excellent resolve. You haven't regretted what you've done at all, have you!"
Itachi Uchiha suddenly woke up, and the world in front of him shattered. Just as he was shocked by Sasuke's current level of genjutsu, lightning suddenly lit up in front of him.
Sasuke had come in front of him, and the ninja sword in his hand had directly pierced his heart.
Itachi Uchiha, who had just broken free from the genjutsu, showed a smile, and then his body disintegrated and turned into a flock of crows that flew away in all directions.
Sasuke turned the ninja sword in his hand half a circle, and swung it towards his back. Sparks suddenly burst out somewhere on the blade. Itachi Uchiha appeared behind Sasuke, and what Sasuke had blocked was his kunai.
"Itachi Uchiha, your eyes can no longer see my future!"
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