"Hmph, maybe it was because she pitied you, and also it might not necessarily be real..."
Grabbing Naruto's collar and then letting it go.
Sasuke also recalled the scene of seeing his mother Mikoto last night.
Although it was only a short instant before he suddenly disappeared, he did indeed see that scene. The scene of his mother rushing over to hug Uchiha Kage.
'Too strange, why would mother like Kage that much?'
'Not taking care of him is one thing, but even sending me into Uchiha Itachi's arms...'
'Could it be that her own son isn't even comparable...'
Sasuke really didn't dare to think about it carefully.
Because the more he recalled and thought about the past, the more he discovered the strangeness between his mother and "father."
'Mother seems to have... never really looked "father" in the eye.'
'She didn't even let me call him.'
'And "father" also didn't care, moreover compared to me, "father" only liked being with Itachi.'
"No, the instance isn't real, what am I even thinking," Sasuke hurriedly stopped his own drifting thoughts.
"Not real? Then am I also..."
'Turning into a baby, seeing a woman suspected to be my own mother, and even...'
'Even having this Kage as... father?'
Naruto wasn't an idiot, for other things he could laugh them off, but when it came to parents, he still very quickly sensed something.
"Sasuke, have you heard of a female ninja called Kushina? Also, she has the same Uzumaki surname as me..."
"Naruto," Just when Naruto was about to ask Sasuke, Uchiha Kage happened to appear nearby.
"Kage, you came just in time, about last night that was..."
'Was it real?'
Naruto looked at the approaching Uchiha youth with a face full of expectation.
He longed for some truths, but also didn't dare to think deeply about some things.
Like the Uchiha youth walking toward him now, whose complicated expression carried a bit of guilt.
"Last night's instance has already been settled, don't worry..."
Uchiha Kage gave Naruto a reassuring look.
"They're all fine."
"Really? Then you..."
Naruto really wanted to summon the courage to ask something, but in the end still couldn't say it.
"Forget it, I'm leaving first... The final Chunin Exams are about to begin, I need to go train!"
"Naruto," Uchiha Kage called after Naruto.
"Don't dye your hair anymore."
"None of your business," Naruto didn't even look back, slipping away like running away.
His best friend had become a suspected fatherly existence, he really didn't know how to face it now...
"Naruto..."
Naruto really had noticed.
This kid looked a bit foolish, but in reality maybe he was even sharper than Sasuke...
But Uchiha Kage also found it hard to explain all this to Naruto.
After all, even he himself wasn't very clear about it now.
"You two had a conflict in the instance last night?", Sasuke, interrupted by Naruto and Uchiha Kage, also stopped thinking deeply about his mother's matters.
He was just curious why Uchiha Kage and Naruto had such a conversation and reaction.
"Nothing much," Uchiha Kage also looked at Sasuke's face again.
'This kid really does look like me.'
"Good luck on the exam the day after tomorrow."
"Don't worry, in the Chunin Exam there's no one who can...", Sasuke, halfway through speaking, suddenly thought of Orochimaru and that masked Mangekyo mysterious man.
"Kage, regarding Uchiha Madara, how much is recorded in the clan?"
If possible, he wanted to seek apprenticeship under that 'Uchiha Madara.'
Although Uchiha Madara couldn't beat the First Hokage, dealing with a Uchiha Itachi should be easy.
He didn't want to meet Uchiha Itachi again and be as powerless as a baby.
———
"Big Sister?"
"Mmm..."
"Big Sister, it's time to get up and eat breakfast!"
Normally, Big Sister would wake up early to train, but today she still hadn't gotten up.
Curious little Hanabi couldn't help sneaking into Big Sister's room.
And then...
"Ah... Hanabi...", Hearing her little sister come in, Hinata, who was tossing and turning on the bed, hurriedly pulled out the little hand clamped between her legs.
"I-I'll get up in a while, you go out first..."
"Big Sister, your face is so red, could it be a fever?", Looking at her sister whose face was red as blood, panting lightly like she was gasping, Hanabi quickly thought Big Sister had caught a cold.
But she didn't know why, at this moment Hanabi felt there was a strange seductive aura around Big Sister.
This feeling, it was the first time she had seen it on her Big Sister.
"N-no...", Hinata used the blanket to cover her pretty face, then turned her body to face away from her little sister on the bed.
"I'll be fine in a bit, you go out first, Hanabi...", Hinata herself didn't know what was wrong, it was just that last night she hadn't "dreamed" of Uchiha Kage, and today she just couldn't muster any energy.
She even didn't want to get out of bed.
"Oh."
Although she felt Big Sister was a bit strange, since she wasn't sick, Hanabi didn't think much more.
'But...'
"Big Sister, you look just like Father when he was quitting smoking... Withdrawal reaction? I think Father mentioned this word..."
"D-don't talk nonsense, Big Sister isn't withdrawing... just occasionally wants to be lazy!"
'Withdrawal reaction?'
Indeed...
Because she didn't "dream" of being "loved" by Uchiha Kage last night, Hinata's heart indeed felt itchy.
She even couldn't help just now but put her hand...
But in front of her little sister, she would absolutely not admit it.
'However, why did Kage suddenly disappear from my 'dream'...'
'Could it be that I won't be able to have that "dream" again in the future?'
Thinking of this, a wave of irritation surged in Hinata's heart, and things like training, eating breakfast, were thrown to the back of her mind.
'If I can't dream of Kage anymore...'
———
"Mangekyo Sharingan can actually evolve into Eternal Mangekyo? But it requires fusing a brother's or relative's eyes?", After hearing Uchiha Kage's account of Uchiha Madara, Sasuke couldn't help but think of his own brother Uchiha Itachi.
"No wonder Itachi didn't kill me back then... He had a really good plan," Thinking that Uchiha Itachi spared him only to snatch his eyes later, Sasuke couldn't help but grit his teeth in hatred.
"He might not have had that idea... but, why are you interested in Uchiha Madara?", Uchiha Kage also didn't know how to evaluate Uchiha Itachi.
Saying he wasn't good to Sasuke, but he slaughtered the entire clan and yet spared his only little brother; saying he was good to Sasuke, he even left behind Shisui's Kotoamatsukami as a back-up, intending to turn Sasuke into a puppet at the end.
The only words to describe that guy were probably the nickname for "Edo Itachi" from the previous life's mobile games.
A guy who never acted cleanly, but in the matter of exterminating his clan he went full throttle, a clown.
"The masked man who appeared in the Forest of Death claimed to be Uchiha Madara, and he easily defeated Orochimaru."
"Uchiha Madara already died long ago, if you want to meet Uchiha Madara, maybe in future instances you'll meet the real one."
'And maybe even in the future you can encounter him.'
"You're right! With that mysterious instance around, I'll only keep getting stronger... just that...", Sasuke had a bit of psychological shadow over this instance experience.
He really didn't want to turn into a baby and get held in Uchiha Itachi's arms again.
"Don't think too much, you will definitely become strong."
With his own genes, not to mention Mangekyo, even the Rinnegan and such, Sasuke should be able to awaken easily in the future.
"Of course," Sasuke wasn't worried at all about becoming stronger.
"But... thank you, Kage, for always comforting me and reminding me when I'm at my lowest."
With Uchiha Kage's comfort, Sasuke felt that his previous frustration in the instance gradually faded away.
"Between us, no need to say thanks."
'Between father and son, no thanks needed.'
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