Tsunade has hemophobia.

Only close people and a few high-ranking officials in Konoha know about this.

The Second Ninja War, which lasted for several years, took away the two most important people in Tsunade's life at that time - his younger brother Nawaki and his lover Kato Dan.

The despair, grief and powerlessness of being unable to save her loved ones made her inevitably suffer from this disease that does not affect her life and health but is no less than a terminal illness for a ninja.

As Tsunade's teammate who grew up with her and her closest comrade-in-arms, Orochimaru was naturally aware of this matter.

But the interesting thing is that Tsunade only faints from the outside world's blood, not her own blood. Because of this, the moment she realized that she was probably unable to do anything, she summoned her own psychic beast——

Slug.

"Tsunade-sama?"

"Leave me alone, quickly, take the children and leave!"

"Grandma Tsunade!" Uzumaki Naruto helped Tsunade, who was obviously shaking, "What's wrong with you? What happened?"

"Don't even think about running away." Orochimaru sneered, and decisively used his psychic skills to summon his "old buddy"——

Thousands of snakes.

"Orochimaru? Where's the sacrifice?" Wan She looked around and said dissatisfied.

"I'll make it up next time." Orochimaru replied, "Your mission this time is to stop the slug and prevent it from leaving with these brats." Originally, he wanted to find a random person from the village as a sacrifice.

However, that place was the place that Jiraiya had marked. With the mentality of "not wanting to cause trouble for himself", he let it go for the time being. Anyway, the ninja world is so vast, and there are many things like sacrifices.

"You'd better remember." Wan She tutted and looked at Slug, "It's been a long time, Slug. I didn't expect that we would be tit for tat when we met again. Orochimaru didn't give me a sacrifice, so I didn't have any idea of ​​fighting.

, but how about this, if I don’t move, you don’t move either?”

The slug did not speak, but moved its body to block the cubs behind it. In this way, if the snakes attacked, it would be the first to suffer.

Orochimaru didn't care about the overly obvious paddling behavior of the psychic beast. As long as it could block the slugs and prevent the psychic beast from causing trouble for him, that would be enough. In this case, Tsunade's last resort would be limited.

, he can concentrate on nothing else——

Caught the cub!

"Run!" Nara Shikamaru shouted decisively, "Especially Sasuke and Naruto, run quickly! I will restrict his movements, you... damn it! So fast!"

The shadow imitation technique unique to the Nara clan can control the enemy in place for a short time.

In the brief contact just now, he had already judged one thing with his too smart mind, "The rebel ninja Orochimaru is most interested in Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto."

"The Nara clan..." Orochimaru glanced at the boy with the braided hair from the corner of his eye, "As smart and decisive as ever, but in the face of the huge gap in strength, he is not worth mentioning."

The next moment, he appeared in front of Uchiha Sasuke.

"Just in time!" There was no fear in the black-haired boy's eyes. He raised his hands and formed the seal very steadily, "Fire Release Hao..."

However, before he finished reciting the name of the move, the black-haired man who was very close to him had already flown backward——

Involuntary.

The Weasel, which had swatted the opponent away with one paw, turned over and landed firmly in front of the younger brother in this world. He leaned down slightly and stared at the abductor with sharp eyes.

"...Ah," Uzumaki Naruto looked confused, "Grandpa Renegade, was slapped away by Tuanzi...is he so weak?"

Tsunade: "???" The too fantastic reality made her forget for a moment that she was about to faint. She suspected that her old teammate had taken some wrong medicine in the spirit of crazy experimentation before coming, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to

As for that.

The rest: "..."

Slug: "..."

Uchiha Sasuke, who was forced to give up halfway through the move and swallowed some sparks: "..."

And in this "confused" situation, Weasel's body was suddenly covered with a layer of white smoke.

Weasel: "!" No!

He never thought that his forbidden thing would be touching Orochimaru.

After all, no normal person would think of such a disgusting thing.

Unfortunately, it's too late.

Moreover, he can't leave now, because this will put his brother and other cubs in danger.

After a "bang" sound...

Wearing a dark blue Uchiha uniform, a young man with smooth black hair appeared in front of everyone, with a handsome face and calm eyes. What was different from ordinary people was that he had a pair of jet-black cat ears on his head, and behind him

It has a slender cat tail with smooth fur.

"...Cat, the cat has turned into a human!" Yamanaka Ino exclaimed.

Nara Shikamaru: "..." Hey, are you serious? If you do this again, I can't help but doubt Ya Na's daily life...

Akimichi Choji: "..." He wants to eat melon...but there is none here...

"Duanzi, has Tuanzi turned into a human?" Uzumaki Naruto was not surprised by this kind of thing. After all, this is the third cat among the four cats that has turned into a human. But the problem is, "He

Who did it look like?" He tilted his head.

"Okay, so handsome..." Haruno Sakura said subconsciously, because the young man in front of her was indeed handsome, but he was a completely different type from Sasuke. She was slightly entangled in "Should I choose this or Sasuke", and finally found out sadly

I probably wanted to eat at an inappropriate time, but, hey, a girl’s occasional fantasies are completely understandable!

Tsunade: "..."

Orochimaru: "..."

There is no doubt that they all know who this cat-eared young man is - the rebellious Uchiha Itachi who is famous for massacring his entire clan in one night.

"...Itachi-kun." Orochimaru, who had slid down the tree trunk and stood up, looked at the young man not far away in front of him, and said with some doubts in his eyes and expression, "Is this your... new interest?" Strange, Itachi-kun.

He must be only seventeen years old now, right? Why does he look like he is in his twenties now? Although he is naturally older in appearance, he does not grow up in such a hurry.

As for the cat ears and cat tail...

Orochimaru must admit that those who can enter the Akatsuki organization are basically perverts. Although Uchiha Itachi seems to have no problem, thinking about the things he did, he is definitely a pervert. However, the direction of Itachi's perversion should not be this.

On the one hand, this is the interest of the Scorpion guy - to change his appearance at will and make himself weird.

Uchiha Itachi: "..." He didn't know for a moment whether it was his own style that was being harmed, or his own style in this world, so he could only remain silent. And compared to other things, his focus now is...

Sasuke.

The black-haired boy stared at the young man standing in front of him, his whole body almost trembling.

He never imagined that Black Cat Tuanzi would look like this after turning into a human form.

……No.

No.

This is not a cat.

This is that guy!

Uchiha Sasuke may have mistakenly recognized other people, or he may have mistakenly recognized himself, but he will never mistake his brother - Uchiha Itachi. Therefore, from the moment the other person appeared, he instantly realized -

This guy who always appears in the form of a cat is none other than Itachi Uchiha!

Stop telling lies about "it's like this on purpose"!

He will never be fooled again!

"What...does...mean..." He gritted his teeth and almost squeezed out the words from between his teeth.

This sentence can be said to be trembling, but it is not because of fear, but because of excessive emotion.

The evidence is——

The boy's Sharingan, which had been hidden all this time, opened silently at this moment.

Single magatama eyes.

...No, now I have double magatama eyes because I have suffered enough shock and stimulation.

As he asked——

What does this mean?

What does that count now?

You killed your parents, you killed the brother I once loved so much, you killed all the people, and left me a shabby and empty Uchiha and a hatred that is deeper and more desperate than the sea.

He left so gracefully.

I thought day and night about how to increase my strength, how to become stronger, how to kill you for revenge, but you turned into a cat and came back to me, pretending to care about me, love me, protect me, and care about me, that's it.

Always with me.

...What is this?

When I was training hard and studying hard to seek revenge from you who was nowhere to be found, you were just watching me silently from the sidelines. Are you still secretly laughing at me in your heart, laughing at my stupidity and overestimation of my abilities?

What do you still want--

How far are you playing with me?!!!!!

"...Sasuke?" Uzumaki Naruto, who was keenly aware that something was wrong with his companion, grabbed Uchiha Sasuke's shoulder and asked worriedly, "What's wrong with you? Why are you looking at Dango like this? What happened?"

Orochimaru licked his lips again: Oh... double magatama? The twelve-year-old double magatama is really a good talent, and it is a very suitable and good container. Although it may not be more suitable than Itachi-kun's, it can be obtained.

, is the best.

Uchiha Itachi silently stared at his younger brother in this world. Just as the latter recognized him with just one glance, he also confirmed his younger brother's current thoughts with just one glance. Brothers are connected, so at this moment he can fully

I even felt the sadness and resentment in Sasuke's heart even more.

He originally wanted to say it more tactfully, but...

As Sister Daizi always said, "Plans are always faster than changes." A person can never predict how reality will suddenly change. Therefore, one must make various preparations.

To be honest, ever since what happened between Oiko-chan and Sasuke, he had been prepared to accidentally touch something illegal before being honest. However, Sasuke's reaction at this moment was more intense than he expected.

but……

It’s natural, right?

After all, I was hurt so deeply.

Sister Daizi said that even a sword engraved with love will bleed when it pierces into people's chests. And because of love, it will be doubly hurt, because loving someone means putting yourself

The weakness and power of harm are completely handed over to the other party.

The more Sasuke loves...himself in this world, the greater the harm he will suffer.

Thinking of this...

Uchiha Itachi walked up to his younger brother very decisively. In the latter's eyes, which contained many emotions including vigilance, doubt, hostility, hatred... he leaned down slightly, stretched out his hands to hold the latter's face, and said softly:

"Sasuke, I know that you have a lot to say to me now and a lot of things you want to ask me. I also have a lot to say to you, and I will answer your questions well in the future. So, now,

Give me a little more time, okay?" Orochimaru and the others are still here, and they haven't come back yet, so it's really not the right time.

"..." After a short silence, the black-haired boy stared at the man in front of him and gritted his teeth and said, "Why do you want me to believe you? After you have done so many crazy things! Uchiha Itachi————

!!!!!!" He hated the person in front of him, but at the same time, he hated himself even more, because just such a word from the other party actually made some inappropriate expectations surge in his heart——

Maybe, he has some difficulties;

Maybe, things are not what I thought;

Maybe, what I saw was not the whole truth;

…

The little boy was almost driven crazy by the complex emotions that filled his chest and almost overflowed at this moment.

The young man looked at his younger brother with gentle and loving eyes, and then he opened his arms and hugged the latter, wrapping one hand around his back and the other hand holding the back of his head. He looked at the sudden widening of the other person's eyes and the tears that flowed down subconsciously.

In the middle, he whispered: "If you are really angry or disgusted, you can hurt me as much as you want, Sasuke. But please, don't hurt yourself."

"..."

The author has something to say: Sasuke still has some expectations for Itachi, although he himself doesn't want to admit it at all. But this is actually a painful thing. He can no longer love nor can he hate resolutely. It is too cruel.

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