"Takemi is actually that amazing?!"
Kushina murmured.
She had seen Takemi's Wood Release in the spiritual world. But compared to now, it was still far off, this commotion was too terrifying.
"Oh no, they wouldn't be going to Takemi's side, would they?"
Naruto suddenly remembered something, and he immediately looked anxiously into the distance.
"Don't rush, Takemi also has Flying Thunder God, even far more powerful than you or me."
Minato saw Naruto's reaction and immediately reassured him.
"Let's go see Sasuke and the others first, then we'll go together."
"Sasuke, huh…"
Naruto turned and nodded.
On another piece of ruins, Sasuke and Itachi's battle continued.
Roars constantly came from afar, and the ground beneath them continuously undulated like an earthquake. Yet, they didn't stop, and they fought more and more fiercely.
'Everything I did was wrong?'
However, at this moment, Itachi's mind was buzzing.
Facing Sasuke's attacks, he had almost no intention of counterattacking, simply constantly evading.
Sasuke's words stimulated him too much, and his transformation was also too great.
'Was I really wrong?'
Itachi didn't know, but looking at Sasuke's cold eyes, filled with hatred and killing intent, for some reason, his usually indifferent self felt no joy this time.
Although he had originally wished for Sasuke to be like this, now, none of this was the outcome he had hoped for.
Whoosh!
Just as he was deep in thought, a kunai flew from somewhere, and Itachi instantly widened the distance.
But the next moment, Sasuke had already used the trajectory of the kunai to appear before him.
Buzz!
The short blade, flickering with Purple Lightning, instantly swung. Although the distance had been somewhat widened, for Sasuke at this moment, it was nothing.
With one strike, Itachi dodged somewhat awkwardly, but his chest was still grazed by the electric arc.
Immediately, a numbing sensation appeared, and blood even oozed from his chest.
"This Purple Lightning…"
He knew the power of Purple Electricity well, he had been hit by it himself. He should have been relieved that Sasuke had now learned this jutsu. But this Sasuke hadn't become the way he had hoped.
"Are you only capable of dodging now?"
Just as his mind was in turmoil, Sasuke's cold voice rang out again.
"Don't make that disgusting face. You don't deserve it at all. My life wasn't spared by you, it was fate that allowed me, as an Uchiha, to seek revenge on you."
"You've fallen too deep. You don't understand the situation back then."
Itachi gritted his teeth, only able to speak while barely dodging.
"Danzo was indeed not the Hokage, but he had many methods. He…"
"I don't want to hear your nonsense, you self-righteous fool!"
Sasuke took a deep breath, his Chakra was continuously building, and his offensive continued.
"Do you really think you're right? Then I ask you, do you know who caused the Nine-Tails incident back then?"
"That guy was the culprit who turned the Uchiha against Konoha. I don't want to hear anything about how even without him, the clan would have had problems."
"Those are meaningless topics. I just ask you, do you know him? Why didn't you try to expose him to prove everything?"
"Why didn't you think about dealing with that guy, or at least exposing him to protect the clan, to protect the village?!"
Boom!
Sasuke's rage had reached its peak. The Purple Lightning in his hand shimmered with dazzling light.
His eyes were crimson, as if a powerful ocular power was brewing within them.
"Don't say anything about you thinking he was Madara. If it was Madara, it would be even better. It would further prove that the problem back then wasn't with the Uchiha."
"And don't say anything about what the clan would do if they knew about Madara, those are just your conjectures. You weren't even willing to try?"
"And don't say you were worried he would kill me. If that were the case, I'd rather die, but what about you?"
"You actually cooperated with him to slaughter the entire clan! You deserve to die!"
Sasuke's words deeply pierced Itachi's heart, making him even more disoriented and in pain.
At this moment, his heart seemed to be collapsing.
Wrong?
Was he really wrong?
Looking at Sasuke, who was madly attacking him, for some reason, he felt a painful sensation in his heart.
Sasuke had grown stronger, possessing Flying Thunder God and Takemi's Purple Electricity. He already had a foothold in the Ninja World.
And it was said that Takemi was already the internal choice for Hokage, so Sasuke was bound to have a bright future.
But all of this seemed to have not gone according to his planned path at all.
In his vision, Sasuke would still be a member of Konoha, but definitely not like this.
He would hate him, detest him, and kill him, gaining the Mangekyo Sharingan, and…
'Obtain my eyes, and gain eyes that would never go blind, and become a hero of Konoha!'
But all of this had shattered. Everything he had thought had turned into an illusion.
He had even become a clown in his own brother's mouth…
"Die, Itachi!"
Looking at Sasuke's approaching blade, especially at Sasuke's eyes, which were indifferent yet filled with rage and killing intent, he suddenly didn't want to resist anymore, even though he still believed he was right.
After all, he believed the situation back then had reached an irreversible point.
But Sasuke didn't understand, or rather, the people of Konoha didn't understand him.
What was the point of living in such pain?
Pfft—
The sound of metal piercing flesh rang out. Sasuke's short blade had fully entered Itachi's chest.
Because of the excessive force, the short blade had even passed through Itachi's body, emerging from the other side.
"Sorry… Sasuke…"
Electric arcs flickered on Itachi's body, blood continuously dripped from the corner of his lips, and his mind became hazy.
But he still tried his best to speak, seemingly wanting to apologize to Sasuke, and also saying his final farewell.
"Shut up! I don't want to hear anything you have to say!"
However, what awaited him was only Sasuke's cold voice.
"Don't think I'll forgive you, and don't think the wronged souls who died by your hand will forgive you…"
The short blade pulled out, and Itachi's body seemed to lose strength, he fell to his knees.
Sasuke, with his back to the sun, looked down at him, his crimson eyes particularly intimidating.
"I will absolutely never forgive you, and I have no right to forgive you on behalf of others, and…"
Sasuke spoke indifferently, and Itachi slowly raised his head. He suddenly realized that Sasuke's eyes had changed.
The three tomoe had converged, and a pair of brand new Mangekyo was quietly forming in his eyes.
"Mangekyo Sharingan?"
Itachi murmured, but seeing these eyes, his heart felt only coldness.
And Sasuke's words made his already cold heart completely turn to ice.
"I will never forgive you. Your words, and you yourself, disgust me!"
"You really should have killed me back then…"