Chapter 106
"Oh... could it be that you and Itachi already..."
"Hm?"
Seeing her daughter's confused expression, Uchiha Hazuki knew she had rejoiced for nothing... No, worried for nothing.
They haven't done it yet... "I'm feeling a bit unwell, Mom, I'm going inside first..."
Izumi turned and left. Uchiha Hazuki watched her daughter for a while before closing the door... Back in her room, Izumi hadn't even had time to sit down before she started taking off her jacket.
Because her body had suddenly become extremely hot.
"Hot... so hot..."
Izumi, feeling unbearably hot, quickly took off her jacket.
But that wasn't enough.
She was still dizzy from the heat.
So Izumi went to the refrigerator and took out a drink.
But even after drinking it, her thirst wasn't quenched.
"Ugh~!"
With a thud, Izumi, back in her room, collapsed to the floor.
She felt stars in her eyes and her whole body was burning.
The excessive intake of vitality caused a reaction, making her pupils dilate and her gasp for breath.
Perhaps it was due to the Uchiha Clan's lineage.
This reaction was countless times more intense than Yūgao Uzuki or Hyuga Natsu's.
In an instant, Izumi, engulfed by the heat, fainted... Chapter 48. Izumi's Dark Mangekyo: Ah~, it's all Naruto's fault~
"Izumi, Izumi, what's wrong with you~?!"
Hearing her daughter fall, Uchiha Hazukiimmediately rushed over and pulled open the shoji screen.
The traditional Japanese room allowed her to clearly hear what was happening.
Seeing her daughter collapsed on the floor and her body abnormally hot, Uchiha Hazuki immediately panicked.
"What's going on... Is it because she was discharged early?"
She had almost fainted when she learned her daughter was injured on a mission.
Later, visiting her at Konoha Hospital, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Today wasn't her discharge day.
But seeing Izumi return with Itachi, Uchiha Hazukihad thought her daughter was fine.
After all, Itachi always gave off a calm feeling.
He personally brought Izumi back, but Izumi... "Ugh~."
Suddenly, Izumi let out another painful groan, her body trembling continuously. The scorching heat burned her soul.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."
Her daughter suddenly began to apologize, her tightly furrowed brows almost touching.
Her eyes were tightly shut, but they didn't open.
Hazuki: "?"
"I'm sorry... Itachi..."
Even in a nearly unconscious state, Izumi was still apologizing to Itachi.
Because of the intense guilt... the remorse... she felt she could no longer be with Itachi.
In her muddled brain, all she saw flashing before her eyes were images of Naruto feeding her milk.
What's going on?!
Hazuki's heart skipped a beat, and she instinctively moved to get up and call for help.
But her daughter grabbed her.
Izumi, now awake, shook her head, her face filled with sorrow: "Mom, I'm fine..."
"Child, you're burning up like this, and you say you're fine? What exactly happened?"
Uchiha Hazuki asked anxiously, her mother's heart almost breaking.
"Anyway, I..."
As Izumi spoke, she fainted again.
"Izumi, Izumi~!"
Her mother's voice gradually faded, and she slowly lost all awareness... Konoha Hospital.
The unconscious Izumi was brought back to the Hospital by Itachi, who had returned.
After diagnosis by a Medical Ninja, Izumi's vitality was found to be greatly stimulated.
Although the principle was unclear, there were no safety issues.
Uchiha Hazuki finally relaxed after learning the results.
"Sorry, Mom, Itachi, for making you worry..."
Izumi lay on the Hospital bed, looking at her lover and her mother.
Itachi's expression had become very cold, the fire of anger burning in his eyes proving his true resolve.
That was... to settle the score with Uzumaki Naruto.
Although he didn't know why, Uzumaki Naruto had harmed Izumi like this.
But he would go and find trouble with him.
"It's good that you're fine, it's good that you're fine... Hehe..."
Uchiha Hazuki, standing nearby, was beaming with joy.
She couldn't help but often think of the future.
"Izumi, you and Itachi must get along well... One day in the future, pick a good day..."
From their romance, to engagement, to marriage, and after marriage... Her words made even Itachi feel embarrassed.
Such a beautiful vision, however, made Izumi show a pained expression.
She forced a smile, playing along with her mother's beautiful fantasies.
But... can everything truly be forgotten?
Even if she eventually ended up with Itachi, as her mother said, the past shadow had indeed occurred.
"Izumi, you get some good rest..."
Itachi gently released his right hand that was holding Izumi's.
He was going to... go find trouble with Uzumaki Naruto right now.
And resolve the matters concerning Izumi and his sister once and for all.
It was time to make a clean break.
What happened to his sister and Izumi was something he could absolutely not forgive.
After Itachi left, Uchiha Hazuki came back and held her daughter's hand, gently admonishing: "Izumi... in the future, you will definitely marry Itachi..."
"Mm." Izumi nodded, her heart growing increasingly sorrowful.
After her mother also left, Izumi was alone in the room and couldn't help but start sobbing again.
Slowly, she pulled the duvet up and covered her face.
The sorrow in Izumi's heart turned into immense pain.
Her mother's eager blessings, talking about marrying Itachi in the future... However, she already had a blemish... no longer the purity of white jade.
Nine-Tailed Demon Fox... Uzumaki Naruto... Her deceased father... What he did to her... Forgive... Not forgive... The immense pain turned into hatred.
"Ah ah... It's all Uzumaki Naruto's fault. He killed Dad, he hurt me... He made it so I can't be with Itachi..."
Izumi stared at the ceiling and suddenly understood this point.
It was like a flash of lightning across the sky, a sudden enlightenment.
Her father, who died because of the Nine-Tailed, her hatred for the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, she had originally intended to forgive the demon fox's incarnation, Uzumaki Naruto, but things had once again plunged into the abyss... The farmer and the snake... Izumi, feeling like she was that farmer, showed a strange smile.
The expression on her face also became very grim.
"It's all... Uzumaki Naruto's fault, ah..."
With this sigh, her three-tomoe eyes underwent a transformation.
The three black tomoe rapidly rotated, condensed, and finally... condensed into a strange shape!
"Kill... Uzumaki Naruto!"
...At the same time.
Far away, behind Konoha Mountain.
Naruto was purifying his soul.
The so-called purification meant standing in the mountains behind Konoha, being struck by spring water.
To learn the Sealing Technique with the priestess, he first had to complete the initiation ritual.
After all, that's what priestesses always do.
But I, Uzumaki Naruto, am a grown man.
Naruto thought to himself.
But there was no choice.
The Konoha higher-ups had arranged it this way.
Naruto could only continue to endure the impact of the waterfall.
Only after enduring for a considerable amount of time would the ritual be considered complete, and only then could he formally learn the priestess's techniques.
Naruto, still unaware of the danger approaching, did not know that Izumi had already activated her Mangekyo.