"What's the point of living?"
A five year old Itachi asked.
"Nothing."
Orochimaru answered.
What a bunch of weirdos.
I ignored them and went to clean the graves of Father, Minato-sensei, Kushina, Rin and Obito. Well, I am only doing it for Obito to keep up appearance.
Obito's corpse was actually recovered. But it was most likely a White Zetsu. Though I doubt a White Zetsu is actually still inside the coffin.
"Why don't you ask him?"
Orochimaru's voice came.
So I turned around and looked at Itachi.
The psychopath who will kill even children and elderly just to protect his little brother. Yet not kill Danzo instead and solve the ROOT of the problem.
Still, by killing Danzo and Obito, Uchiha massacre will be prevented. But who knows what this psycho will do?
I don't have any doubt that he will be easily manipulated by Black Zetsu. And while Itachi will not become as strong as Obito, he is far more intelligent than that idiot.
...Might as well try to make him... less psycho?
What philosophical bullshit I should spout? As the future sensei of Naruto, I should be able to be somewhat proficient in talk-no-jutsu, right?
Let's see... Let's go with power of friendship.
And might as well use this opportunity to meet Fugaku.
"Life isn't something whose purpose you can determine by brooding over it. It's purpose is to interact with other lives, and protecting those lives and getting protected.
All lives are connected to each other. Alone, they don't have any purpose or development..."
Afterall, if the story focuses on a single person, you know, like a certain Solo Leveller, the story becomes quite boring and not worth continuing.
While saying these things, I got reminded of Father's corpse lying on the floor. Of Rin's face after she jumped on Kakashi's Chidori.
"And the development can be good or bad. And loosing a precious life almost always leads to a bad development."
I patted Itachi's head.
"Where is your father? I have to inform him that his kid is being suicidal."
"What!? You are misunderstanding. I... Am I suicidal?"
... Atleast deny it kid.
He really has some loose screws in his head.
Maybe it's the chakra disease? Lung cancer? What did Itachi have in canon?
I don't really know.
He already has stress lines starting. Kakashi never got them. Even Shisui's situation wasn't that bad.
Maybe Itachi's mental fortitude is just weak?
Anyway, I looked at Orochimaru, who was looking at me with his creepy curious look.
He must be about to defect in the near future, right?
"Then I will be going, Orochimaru-sama."
"You seem to have changed, Kakashi-kun. Did you find a purpose in life?"
Purpose in life huh?
Killing Danzo and Obito are some of my main purposes, but they aren't the purpose of my entire life.
I don't really have a proper, defined purpose in my mind.
"No."
"Kukuku. If you say so."
Orochimaru snicked at me and left.
What a weirdo.
He is in my kill-list as well.
"Let's go."
So, I went to the new Uchiha clan compound with Itachi.
It's on the outskirts of the village, surrounded by taller buildings at all sides.
If the clan wanted, it could have made the walls taller to block the surveillance.
But it seems that Fugaku believes that being submissive will solve the problem.
While fighting will definitely make the problem worse, being submissive to this extent will only lead to the Hokage and his friends of politicians getting more and more bolder, even thinking about genocide, and the Uchiha clan's resentment rising to levels beyond control.
Well, we are ninjas. So we aren't really that educated in such things.
I had internet in my past life, and lots of real world stories so I can see some patterns and similarities. It's unfair to harshly criticize them for things they don't know well.
In fact, it's actually arrogant of me to believe that I know better than them.
I didn't look around, but the Uchihas were giving me quite the stares.
Well, I am an outsider carrying around Sharingan in my eye. So it's quite understandable.
"Ah. Kakashi, welcome!"
"Sorry I didn't bring anything, Mikoto-san."
"Don't worry about things like that. Come in!"
So, I entered Sasuke's home. I must say, in comparison to Naruto, Sasuke looks quite ugly as a baby.
Despite Naruto being a newborn, who are supposed to be ugly.
And Fugaku was already inside the house.
He must have gotten news that I am coming and come home early.
"Kakashi. Condolences for your loss."
I nodded, and said, "I think you should take better care of Itachi. I think he is suicidal."
"What!?"