Chapter 8 Water Dragon Bullet? No, Form Ten: Flowing Life! (Part 1) (6000)

In the woods of the No. 4 Theater.

The completely wet chakra test paper, softened by water, suddenly became heavier and fell to the ground like a ball of white mud, making a "click" sound.

The three brothers took a step back, their faces different.

"Giyuu," Uchiha Sasuke didn't understand what happened, and said with some regret: "Why did you damage this paper? If so, I can't take it back to show my father."

Giyuu took back his empty hands, with an innocent look on his face.

"... I don't know what happened, it just happened suddenly."

"You don't have to worry, the test paper is a disposable item."

Uchiha Itachi shook his head gently, "However, Giyuu's situation is very special. The mutually restraining chakra attributes of water and fire rarely appear in the same ninja, and..."

He looked at Giyuu's eyes solemnly, his tone a little solemn.

"Your chakra has a very high affinity for water, so high that it is even higher than the fire attribute inherited from the Uchiha family. I'm afraid no one will believe it if I tell them."

"Is this a bad thing?"

Sasuke looked at Itachi with a strange look, full of inquiry, "Why does my brother look unhappy?"

"If Giyuu is willing to become a ninja, maybe it will be better."

[But it's not much better. ]

Itachi squatted down and explained to the two, "Although the offensiveness of water-based ninjutsu is not strong, it has a large range and can easily change the terrain and destroy wooden buildings. With Giyuu's affinity for water, as long as the chakra is enough, I'm afraid he can use B-level ninjutsu as a forbidden technique, and this does not take into account the existence of natural water sources around. Can you imagine how excited the clan members will be when they know this?"

In his mind, he has begun to imagine the scene of Giyuu behind his father, controlling the flood river to destroy the entire Konoha Village, while his father is laughing in front.

According to the records of the clan, before the establishment of Konoha, when the Senju and Uchiha were enemies, the Senju Tobirama, who was not yet the second generation Hokage, attacked the old site of the Uchiha with the water-style ninjutsu, completely destroyed the settlement of the clan, and caused a large number of casualties.

Now there is a chance to treat the enemy in his own way, and those clan members who hold grudges will not miss this opportunity.

The most important thing is that as long as the water-style ninjutsu of Giyuu is strong enough, the Sarutobi clan, who are also good at fire-style ninjutsu, will be restrained.

And in Konoha, there are very few earth-style ninjas who are good at dealing with water-style ninjutsu.

Even if the ninja can survive the flood and fight on the water, what about the civilians and the Genin who can't tread water?

Itachi didn't dare to think about it anymore.

"Let's make a deal."

He looked at Sasuke and Giyuu and said, "When father asks about today's situation, we only need to say that Giyuu's chakra is of water and fire attributes, and there is no need to talk about the specific situation when the chakra test paper changes."

Then he turned around and warned Giyuu alone, "If father gives you a test paper again, just refuse it as usual."

Giyuu nodded in agreement.

"But why do you have to hide this from dad?"

Sasuke didn't quite understand.

Being noticed by his father is obviously a good thing.

Before, Giyuu didn't care about his father's opinion, but now, even his brother is encouraging this behavior?

Is his father's approval really so insignificant to them?

"Sasuke, once father knows about this, Giyuu will no longer have freedom."

Itachi sighed. He and Sasuke couldn't explain the real reasons for many things, and Sasuke couldn't understand them either.

"Father will be forced by the clan's jonin to train Giyuu to practice water escape and cultivate him as a secret weapon. Then you won't be able to see him or eat the food Giyuu cooks."

[This doesn't even take into account what the clan members might do to help him improve his pupil power...]

Then he paused and stared at Sasuke with a sharp gaze, "Do you really want this to happen?"

"No, no."

Sasuke shook his head palely, "But dad won't do that."

"He is the head of the Uchiha clan first, and our father second. He must consider the future of the clan."

Itachi seemed to understand Fugaku very well, but his tone became a little colder.

He remembered that when he opened his eyes at the age of eight, his teammates Tianma and Xinzi were killed by masked men. His father didn't care that someone lost their lives. He just fed the fish and happily congratulated him on opening his eyes, "Really becoming a member of the Uchiha."

Since then, he has never expressed any real thoughts in front of his father, but just observed quietly.

However, the more he saw and heard, the more he resisted the so-called "Uchiha pride".

If he didn't want to leave Sasuke and Giyuu, he really wanted to leave this house.

Really wanted to.

"Sasuke, if you plan to become a ninja, remember this sentence."

Itachi touched Sasuke's tender face with tender eyes, "Sometimes, being better than others will only make you used and consumed earlier. If possible, I really hope you were born in the Fire City, not the Ninja Village and Uchiha..."

Sasuke was suddenly as cold as ice when he received such an abnormal wish, and he didn't know how to respond.

Giyuu looked at Itachi deeply, remembering that the other party had repeatedly refused his father to participate in the Chunin Exam.

Itachi must have known that once he became a Chunin, he would have to participate in more complicated struggles.

[Obviously only ten years old...]

[But have you seen the nature of ninjas as consumables? 】

For the first time, he felt that Itachi was working harder than when he was thirteen or fourteen years old.

At that time, he was engulfed by hatred for ghosts and shame for his sister and Qiu Tu, but he was able to use these feelings to push himself forward. He had inexhaustible motivation and did not have to think about "why he lived."

But Itachi intellectually understood the truth that he was a "consumable", but he could still persist and live unwaveringly, without being affected by the despair and meaninglessness...

This is definitely not something that can be summed up by words like "mature" and "precocious". There is also a hint of paranoia ready to rebound at any time.

He grabbed Itachi's clothes and said sincerely: "Don't force yourself too much."

Uchiha Itachi was stunned for a long time before he showed a bright smile.

At this point, the morning training is completely over.

After the three brothers finished lunch, Itachi said to the two of them: "Rest is also part of training. You can sleep here first, or you can go swimming in the shallow lake over there. I will leave for a while and return in the afternoon."

"Eh?"

Sasuke suddenly understood, "Brother, do you still have missions today?"

"Well, it's a C-level mission."

Uchiha Itachi nodded and said: "Because it is a commission from the Daming Palace, I must go there on time."

The place where the daimyo ruled was the capital of the Land of Fire.

But most of his family members, except his eldest son, like to spend their holidays in Konoha Village.

For example, Mrs. Daimyo, some of her dozen cats get lost every day. Finding cats has become a daily task for Konoha genin, and the rewards are generous.

"Then brother, you have to come back soon."

Sasuke said reluctantly.

Being alone with Yiyong when he is awake is quite a test of his endurance.

It was true that he wanted to talk and communicate with Yiyong, but Yiyong always said things that made people angry.

"I try my best."

Itachi rubbed Sasuke's head and said, "When I come back in the afternoon, I will teach you the secret of the fire ball.

"During this period, you are not allowed to quarrel with Yiyong, nor are you allowed to get into trouble and ignore him."

"oh."

Sasuke imitated Itachi's tone and said, "I'll try my best too."

Itachi smiled, poked his forehead and was about to leave, but was stopped by Giyuu.

"Wait a moment."

Giyu opened the bottom of the food box and took out a fox mask and handed it to Itachi, "This is for you."

"Disaster mask?"

Itachi immediately understood Giyuu's intention, "Thank you, Giyuu."

After saying that, he waved at the two brothers and disappeared from the spot with a teleportation technique. Sasuke was so surprised that he felt so handsome again and said he wanted to learn it.

What the two of them didn't know was that although Uchiha Itachi was gone, another pair of scarlet Sharingan eyes erupted in bursts of red light in the darkness of the deep forest, watching their every move.

…

"Courageous."

Under the shade of a tree, Sasuke lazily leaned against the tree trunk, skillfully throwing the kunai in his right hand with his right hand, hoping to elicit an expression of "envy" and "want to learn" from Giyuu.

But the latter lay down boredly at the end of the shade, his eyes reflecting the white clouds in the sky, as if he was pondering the shape of the clouds.

[The resolution of the breath of the moon is 10 times that of the breath of fire, so the breath of the sun should be similar. 】

[Itachi is a three-magatama, which can analyze three hundred thousandths per hour. Even if I can collect the resolution of the breath of the moon three times a day, it will take a full 10,000 days, which is more than 20 years, and that is too long. ...]

[In addition to Itachi, his father, mother, and Shisui are also three magatama. 】

[If I find some reason for them to cast illusions on me, maybe the progress will be much faster...]

Just as Giyuu was thinking, the face of his twin brother Sasuke suddenly came into his field of vision.

The latter was kneeling on the ground, staring into his eyes carefully, as if he wanted to see through him.

"do what?"

Yiyong asked in confusion, "If you ask me to train with you, please forgive me for refusing. We are too far apart."

[With the strength of this body, it should be able to punch a big hole in the round stone that Master Rentaki placed on the mountain (the one that Tanjiro chopped open before taking the test). 】

"Who told you not to train? How could you be my opponent?"

Sasuke snorted, completely misunderstanding what Giyuu meant, but in the blink of an eye a trace of loneliness appeared on his face.

"But if you get serious, you will surpass me soon.

"Your body is so good, your strength is great, and even your chakra attributes are so exaggerated."

Sasuke's voice became softer and softer, making Giyuu have to sit up to hear clearly.

Sasuke pursed his lips and said stammeringly, "You, can't you..."

"What's wrong?"

Giyuu patted Sasuke on the shoulder, "Speak clearly."

"I mean!

"You must have known for a long time that I was useless, so in order to let me go, you pretended that you didn't want to become a ninja and that you didn't care about your father's attitude towards you at all, right?"

Sasuke finally spoke his mind.

"If that's the case, I don't need your pity."

The summer wind passed through the canopy of trees above their heads, making a pleasant rustling sound.

After the cool wind blew by, Sasuke lowered his head and turned to the side in shame, his eyes red.

Uchiha Sasuke has been a child who refused to admit defeat since he was a child.

When Giyuu started doing housework, he also wanted to show himself, but he did a mess.

When he was criticized by his father, he was so flustered that he couldn't sit still, but Giyuu interrupted him directly and asked when he could prepare dinner.

Although Sasuke never said it, he really envied Giyuu for being able to easily do things that neither he nor his brother could do.

But as he gradually became sensible, Sasuke understood that what Giyuu was good at was not what his clan members and his father approved of.

This is a ninja village, a place where only the strong can have a sense of existence.

Only by having power and becoming a ninja, like his brother, can he get his father's praise.

When he was about four years old, Sasuke began to pester his brother to teach him shurikenjutsu, three-body technique and Uchiha's fire escape.

After a year like this, he felt that he was finally better than Giyuu.

He even felt sorry for Giyuu because he didn't want to become a ninja and was attacked by his father's eyes every night.

Until last night, this brother who had never trained suddenly opened his eyes for some reason. When his father said that "Giyuu's talent is stronger than Itachi and Shisui", Sasuke felt a little depressed.

This morning, when Giyuu easily lifted the lunch box and ran a long distance without even taking a breath, Sasuke finally understood what his father meant and realized that he was not wrong.

Gradually, the details that he had never considered in the past also flooded into his mind.

For example, every time Giyuu bought vegetables, the size and weight of those vegetables.

For example, every summer, he was sweating profusely, but Giyuu was cool around him.

For example, every time he went out, his mother would tell him to be careful, but she rarely said this to Giyuu, even though he had so much money on him.

Because his mother knew it a long time ago that Giyuu was not so strong just yesterday.

He has always been strong.

Think about it carefully, in this family-

He is the only one who is treated as a child and a weak person!

"Why are you crying."

Giyuu was a little annoyed.

He is not Kocho Shinobu, he doesn't know how to coax children.

"Answer my question first."

Sasuke stared at Giyuu with some reluctance, "Did you say you didn't want to be a ninja just to make me look so pitiful?"

The pupils of the Sharingan in the deep forest shrank slightly, and it was obvious that he also wanted to know the answer to the question.

Giyuu's "favor" for Sasuke would definitely do such a thing.

Giyuu took a deep breath and uttered a few words quite formally: "Absolutely not."

"Why?"

Sasuke was stunned for a moment, "Why don't you want to be a ninja?"

"You should ask yourself why you want to be a ninja."

Giyuu raised his head and asked without thinking.

"Hey, because dad, mom and brother are all ninjas-"

"You mean, you are just imitating them?"

"But dad also wants us to become ninjas-"

"That means you are just following the family's conventions and their expectations of you and choosing your goals."

Giyuu looked at him with a deep gaze, "Even if you don't know what you will do after becoming a ninja, as long as you have mastered the power, as long as your father and the tribe recognize you, as long as the Uchiha is famous, everything will be fine?"

"..."

Sasuke looked at Giyuu in surprise.

This was the first time the latter had said such a long string of words to him, as if he wanted to make up for what he hadn't said in the past few years.

"Is there anything wrong with this idea?"

Isn't this what every tribe member does?

Uchiha Fugaku in the distance also frowned, fearing that Giyuu would spread some weird ideas to Sasuke.

Giyuu didn't answer immediately, but stared at the clouds in the sky for a while.

The shape of the cloud was very similar to the way Gyoumei of Sad Island put his palms together.

"Sasuke, you chose to become a ninja, but do you know the price that might come?"

Giyuu turned his head and looked at his fellow brothers who looked a bit like him.

"Have you ever thought that one day you would fight with others, with blood flowing like a river and corpses everywhere?"

That was the scene when he fought with Muzan Kibutsuji in the Infinite Castle. They had to step on the corpses of their companions to hurry on.

"Have you ever thought about watching your friends and family being killed by enemies who are completely unreasonable?"

The bodies of his sister and Santo appeared in front of him in a mutilated state.

"You only see that the ninjas in the clan are respected, but do you know that they are only those who have successfully survived?

"It is easy to choose to become a knife in the hands of others as a career, saying that you want to become a person who holds power, but you have no idea of ​​the possibility of being killed, and have no concept of the pain of losing relatives and friends. Just for the empty words of "reputation", "glory", "pride", and "power", you give everything and are intoxicated by them. ”

Yiyong raised his head and squinted his eyes towards the sun.

“Use all kinds of beautiful words to trick children who know nothing and have never seen other choices into becoming ninjas. After they see the cruel truth, use the hatred and pain brought by the sacrifices of their relatives and friends to make these children maintain their identity as ninjas. Transform the contradictions and conflicts of interest between tool users into mutual hatred between tools, and pass them down from generation to generation as a matter of course until they become common sense.

“You ask me why I don’t want to be a ninja?”

Giyu glanced at Sasuke, who was already dizzy from the remarks that he couldn't fully understand.

"That's the reason."

"Pah, pah, pah—"

There was a sound of applause, but it wasn't from Sasuke.

Uchiha Giyu and Sasuke turned their heads at the same time and found a strange young man squatting on a wall of earth flow, more than ten meters away from them.

But the next second, there was a swipe, and the man had appeared in front of the two of them.

Not inferior to Itachi's teleportation technique.

The man had the unique Uchiha handsomeness, but his eyebrows were raised very high, and he looked like he had a bad temper. He was the one who just applauded.

"I didn't expect to hear such words from the patriarch's son."

There was a slight contemptuous smile on his lips, "Such a fallacy shouldn't be something a kid like you can tell, right? Did you listen to the clan leader, or did that coward Uchiha Itachi tell you this!"

"You are not allowed to insult my brother!"

Hearing that Itachi was called a coward, Sasuke angrily stood in front of Giyu, holding the kunai in his hand to his chest.

"In order not to meet me, he didn't even go to the clan's training ground and went to hide in such a far place. And you still say he's not a coward?"

As he said that, he looked behind the brothers Giyu and Sasuke, where three more young boys came out, "What do you three think?"

The three people exchanged glances, as if they wanted to say something, but when they saw the impatience in the leader's eyes, they quickly nodded in agreement.

"who is he?"

Yiyong glanced around at the relative positions of the four people, and was a little confused. These people must be members of the tribe, but they looked like they were coming with bad intentions.

"This guy is Uchiha Flame. He wanted to challenge his brother at the Uchiha show, but he was stopped by the jounin of the clan."

Uchiha Sasuke looked at Uchiha Flame, his eyes full of anger.

If it weren't for this person, he and his brother wouldn't have to run so far every day.

"Oh?" Yiyong suddenly realized.

Is that similar to the Immortal River in Demon Slayer Squad? The kind of person who always comes to trouble him for no apparent reason, but actually has no ill intentions?

But the word coward is much gentler than the word Immortal Kawa Saneya used when he scolded him.

He opened [Transparent World] and looked at a few people. It could be seen from the volume of energy in their brains that among these four people, Uchiha Enhuo had a three-magatama Sharingan, and the other three had a one-magatama.

In Itachi's words, these three people all possess genin-level chakra and should have graduated from ninja school.

"Okay, I'm too lazy to talk nonsense to you two guys who don't know anything."

Uchiha Yanhuo raised his head arrogantly, "I just heard the seniors in the clan said that Uchiha Itachi was at this venue, so I came here specially, but I only saw you two. So, where did that guy go? Were you there? Did you know that I was coming and hid again?"

"What does Itachi's whereabouts have to do with you!"

Sasuke replied: "You are still a chuunin at the age of fifteen. What qualifications do you have to yell here. Brother Shisui said that Itachi has already reached the level of a jounin, and he is many times stronger than you!"

A tic-tac-toe appeared on Uchiha Yanhuo's forehead, and the other three people showed expressions of disbelief.

Uchiha Shisui, although the elders of the clan did not agree with his position, publicly admitted that he was the first person in the clan. If it was his evaluation...

"How dare you say that."

He stared at Uchiha Sasuke and explained: "I was targeted by that guy Mito Gate Flame, so I didn't become a Jonin! Besides, I have been looking for that guy Uchiha Shisui for a long time. He is almost like your brother. , never dare to appear in front of me!”

"Wait a moment."

Giyu interrupted him and analyzed it quite seriously: "If you are hated by the people in the village and cannot become a Jonin, then go and make up the relationship. If you come to cause trouble for Itachi, even the clan will hate you in the future. Bar."

Uchiha Flame fell silent.

He stared at Yiyong quietly, looking at the other person's expressionless face, but it seemed to be full of ridicule...

A string in my heart suddenly broke.

He waved to a follower he had brought with him.

"Tie them both up, take them away and hide them."

Uchiha Yanhuo's face twisted, and he ordered with a sinister smile: "If Uchiha Itachi refuses to fight with me, let these two brats starve in the wilderness all night."

Uchiha Fugaku, deep in the forest, saw this scene and was prepared.

With Sasuke's character, he will definitely resist and will be subdued.

When the two brothers feel helpless and the desire for power arises in their hearts, his father will descend from the sky to prevent the situation from deteriorating further, and at the same time punish the younger generation who has recently caused resentment among the tribe.

While changing Yiyong's thoughts, it can also make up for the slightly stiff parent-child relationship in the past. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

However, as soon as he took a step, he saw the child who came to Yiyong holding the rope kneeling on the ground without warning, clutching his stomach.

Yiyong held the young man's shoulders and gently moved his feet to let him lie down.

[The beating was a bit heavy...]

"Sorry, Itachi has been very tired recently."

Almost in an instant, he had tied up the boy who was just about to tie him up (Inosuke:?).

"If it's just for the purpose of sparring and challenging, please don't disturb him and leave quickly."