Chapter 368: Sasuke and Naruto
"Sasuke, it's time to eat."
At the Uchiha clan residence, unlike the original history where most of it was confiscated by Konoha, since Uchiha Itachi was now the head of Konoha's Anbu and possessed great strength himself, Konoha preserved most of the Uchiha autonomous territory.
To keep Sasuke from being lonely, Itachi had specially brought in some ordinary people as residence servants so they could take good care of Sasuke.
"Yes..."
Sasuke's face was a bit stiff. He sat silently beside Itachi, eating his food like a robot without any expression on his face.
Seeing his younger brother like this, Itachi felt a bit helpless. Ever since Sasuke woke up from that incident, he had consistently been in this state, clearly brooding deeply over the annihilation of the clan.
Moreover, the rebellion of the Uchiha clan directly caused Sasuke to suffer all kinds of criticism in the Ninja Academy. In particular, many children had lost their homes and families because of Uchiha Kaede's Crimson Sun, and many people's parents had died in that incident.
This made them direct their anger even more toward Sasuke. However, as Uchiha Itachi's younger brother, Sasuke's talent was very good. Under the stimulation of that night of clan annihilation, he accidentally awakened the Sharingan, and it was even a two-tomoe.
With a two-tomoe Sharingan, Sasuke's strength was far beyond what an ordinary civilian ninja could match. Therefore, after frequently beating down a group of children who came to provoke him at school, no one dared to cross this guy anymore.
Similarly, compared to the original history, Uchiha Sasuke's dark side was much stronger, which made Itachi worry even more about Sasuke's future.
"Sasuke, how about you stop going to school?"
Hearing Itachi's words, Sasuke sneered twice: "I've heard what should be heard, I've been cursed at how I should be cursed at, and I've beaten up who I should beat up. Is there any need to avoid it by not going to school?"
Itachi was choked up and did not know how to respond. Watching Sasuke step by step leave the residence, he wanted to say something but could not speak.
He had absolutely no qualification to lecture him. In Sasuke's eyes, he himself was the executioner who massacred the clan and murdered their parents, while the Konoha higher-ups were the culprits who forced the Uchiha clan's hand.
All along, Sasuke was a person who was cold on the outside but hot on the inside. He loved his family deeply, but he did not talk about this affection constantly; instead, he low-key put it into actual action. To gain his father's recognition, he trained hard at the Ninja Academy and achieved excellent results.
However, on the eve of the clan's annihilation, Sasuke knew about the cold war between his father and brother. The young Sasuke did not know the inside story, but he longed for his father and brother to clear up their misunderstanding and maintain family harmony.
It was precisely based on that love for his family and clan that Sasuke's life underwent a transformation after encountering the clan annihilation.
Facing the clansmen who died in a single night, Sasuke felt incredibly sad and angry inside. From then on, he closed off his inner self, focusing entirely on hoping to obtain powerful strength to soon avenge the Uchiha clan.
Konoha and Uchiha Itachi were both objects of his disgust.
Therefore, he wanted to find Uchiha Kaede at all times, hoping to be guided by him to give himself strength.
In the past within the clan, Uchiha Kaede also frequently came to look after him and guided him on how to throw ninja tools, making the young Sasuke extremely close to Uchiha Kaede.
On the night of the clan annihilation, Uchiha Kaede directly declared war and resisted against Konoha. From the moment the Crimson Sun he created fell upon Konoha Village, he was already the hero and powerful expert of the Uchiha clan in Sasuke's heart.
The power of resentment all over his body grew day by day within Sasuke. Although Itachi really wanted to use genjutsu on Sasuke to change his view of Konoha, every time he saw his brother's stubborn gaze, Itachi felt extreme heartache all of a sudden and could not bring himself to do it.
This was also a part of Shiraishi's plot against the Sage of Six Paths. Although Uchiha Kaede could not influence this generation's Asura reincarnation, Indra was right inside the Uchiha clan.
By cleverly using some methods, it naturally allowed the negative destructive emotions inside Indra's body to rise to the absolute limit.
Sasuke did not want to care about his older brother's thoughts. When he walked out of the main gate gloomily, he heard a laugh ring out.
"Haha, show-off Sasuke, what are you doing here!"
Naruto Uzumaki's voice sounded exceptionally piercing to Sasuke, but for some reason, it gave him a special sense of closeness. Still, he maintained that poker face and looked coldly at Naruto Uzumaki: "Are you an idiot?"
Due to the Nine-Tails attacking Konoha, the Fourth Hokage sealed the positive chakra of the Nine-Tails inside Naruto, who was still an infant at the time.
Although the Minato couple left final words before dying, hoping that the Konoha villagers would view Naruto as the village's hero, for the sake of secrecy, except for the Third Hokage and a small number of villagers who knew the inside story, Naruto's life background was not made public to the outside, and even Naruto himself did not know.
Most of the people in the village viewed Naruto as the incarnation of the Nine-Tails, treating him coldly one after another.
Naruto grew up in loneliness from childhood. He always wanted to get recognition from others; therefore, he frequently pulled pranks in the village to attract attention. His pranks were even serious enough to paint graffiti on Konoha's Hokage Rock.
Sasuke and Naruto, in factual reality, had already recognized each other invisibly, which was why they had all kinds of daily interactions and one-sided beatings...
Naruto came to provoke Sasuke at his door at all times and would then get beaten up, which conversely allowed a portion of Sasuke's hostility to fade quite a bit. However, recently Naruto's strength seemed to have gone up quite a bit.
At least in some basic combat, he would have some clever taijutsu movements, which surprised Sasuke a lot.
"Recently I met a strange pervy hermit... he taught me quite a lot of things."
After Orochimaru passed away, Jiraiya felt a sense of urgency regarding the situation; therefore, he spent most of his time in Konoha, and one of his main tasks was to take good care of everything for Naruto.
Compared to the Third Hokage and other Konoha higher-ups, Jiraiya truly cared for Naruto because he was the orphan of the Fourth Hokage. In a certain sense, he viewed Naruto as a continuation of the Fourth Hokage.
This parental affection allowed Naruto to feel more warmth in addition to Teacher Iruka. Coupled with his bond with Sasuke, this Asura reincarnation was actually in a very good state of mind now, and his view of the world was not as dark as Sasuke's.
Naruto's increase in strength was also a good thing for Sasuke. He truly needed a sparring partner of the same age...
Time slowly advanced, and with the arrival of the beginning of the year Konoha 60, both Naruto and Sasuke were continuously improving and growing. In view of this, Konoha directly gave them graduation status and established Team 7 along with Sakura Haruno.
The leader Jonin was still Kakashi Hatake...
But there was no so-called Land of Waves mission, nor were there ordinary D-rank or E-rank missions to train them.
On the very first day Kakashi led the team, it was to suppress bandits and a group of rogue ninjas, solely for them to learn how to kill on the battlefield and overcome their psychological fear.
Right now, Konoha simply had no time to train the next generation little by little like in the original work; instead, they used the wartime model to train the Genin.
It turned out that just the year before last, a group of mysterious pirates captured the coastline of the Land of Hot Water and then directly invaded the entire territory of the Land of Hot Water.
By the time the Cloud ninjas reacted, Sunagakure stationed itself in the Land of Hot Water under the name of clearing out bandits.
No matter how the Cloud ninjas protested, Sunagakure remained stationed with heavy troops, and the smell of gunpowder across the entire shinobi world grew more and more serious.
As for Shiraishi, he was currently preparing for the third opening of the alternate world barrier along with Unohana Retsu...
Because the memories of the third mirror were completely sorted out, and the world coordinates had appeared.
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