In the end, to avoid attracting the village's attention,
Naruto had no choice but to bring Sasuke along and helplessly sent a message.
[The Dead-Last Jinchuriki: Group Owner, can Sasuke join our group? He's had it pretty rough too. His whole clan was wiped out, I think.]
Naruto often saw Sasuke practicing Ninjutsu alone.
This youth with an aloof exterior and a cold expression
Carried just as much heavy pain in his heart.
[Dark Group Owner: You ran into Sasuke? What a coincidence.]
Hattori's eyes widened.
He had guided Naruto onto the path of darkening, to the point he didn't even want to be a Shinobi anymore.
He thought Naruto's future life path would be completely disconnected from Team 7.
But who would have thought that he still encountered Sasuke.
'Could this be the cursed fate between Asura and Indra? No matter how the world line changes, they're always bound together?'
Hattori wondered suspiciously.
But he still had to give Naruto an answer first.
[Dark Group Owner: Given his qualifications, he can join the Darkened Group.]
[Dark Group Owner: But, you must ask him clearly if he truly has this resolve. Tell him exactly what I say...]
Hattori opened a private chat and sent a long string of secret words to Naruto.
After reading them, Naruto's pupils contracted sharply.
[The Dead-Last Jinchuriki: Group Owner Mister, is all this true?]
'If what the Group Owner sent me was really the secret truth of that year…'
Naruto let out a scornful, cold laugh,
'Then Konoha was truly rotten to the core.'
[Dark Group Owner: The details might be even worse, but in terms of the general direction, everything I told you is true.]
Hattori sent the message and couldn't help but sigh.
Among Naruto's fans, many dislike Sasuke.
But in Hattori's view, he was just as pitiable as Naruto and should have turned dark long ago.
His clan was annihilated when he was young, and his beloved older brother became his enemy.
Day and night, he aimed for that back.
For revenge, he was willing to sell his soul, exhaust everything to become stronger.
And the result?
A laughable political conspiracy, a flawed clan extermination plan.
Uchiha Itachi, with his strength, had ten thousand ways to resolve the conflict peacefully.
But he chose the most extreme one.
He killed his mother, murdered his father, slaughtered the entire clan, not even sparing the elderly, weak, women, or children.
Sasuke killing him was completely justified.
Konoha couldn't tolerate the Uchiha Clan, and Danzo coveted the Sharingan.
His only older brother was mentally unstable.
Why shouldn't Sasuke turn dark? Why couldn't he?
'Just because Itachi was popular, could he rely on his looks to do all sorts of illogical things and have countless people whitewash him?'
'Don't make me laugh.'
[The Dead-Last Jinchuriki: Thank you, Mister. I'll tell Sasuke everything exactly as you said.]
Naruto took a deep breath.
His gaze gradually turned icy.
"Sasuke, you crave power so much to get revenge on your brother, Uchiha Itachi, right?"
"How do you know?!"
Sasuke's pupils contracted sharply as he looked at Naruto in surprise.
'This dead-last...'
'From the moment we left the village, his entire demeanor had changed dramatically.'
'Cold, evil, dark.'
'As if a real Demon Fox had awakened before him.'
'And now he was revealing such shocking secrets.'
'Could it be...'
'The powerful figure behind him had reached the level of knowing everything?'
"Naturally, it was told by the one behind me. He asked me to ask you one thing. Sasuke, are you truly prepared to know the whole truth?"
Naruto looked coldly at Sasuke.
His tone was calm.
"I..."
Sasuke looked at this Naruto, who radiated a gloomy, dark aura.
His body trembled inexplicably.
"I am prepared."
Finally, the confusion about Itachi, the blood feud of his clan…
The bloody scenes that revisited him in his midnight dreams made Sasuke's heart feel as if cut by a knife. He clenched his fists.
No matter what, he wanted to know why Itachi had done it.
"Good."
Naruto responded indifferently, tapped twice in the air with his right hand, and chose to invite Sasuke into the group.
[Ding! The Dead-Last Jinchuriki has invited you to join the group. Will you accept?]
Sasuke was stunned.
'Such a powerful Genjutsu! It could directly produce sound in my mind without me noticing at all.'
'Even my Sharingan hadn't detected any Chakra Fluctuations around.
"Yes."
[Ding! Second Pillar Thinks He Can Do It has joined the group chat.] (T/N: Second Pillar is Sasuke's nickname in Chinese's Internet.)
[Cat Burglar: Welcome, welcome! You're from the same world as the Jinchuriki, right? This is the first time someone not invited by the Group Owner has joined!]
[This Queen Is So Beautiful: Judging by the name, feels like a guy who's not all there mentally.]
[The Strongest Assassin of Xuanwu: Brother Second Pillar, us newbies should stick together for warmth. I'm the strongest Shadow Assassin of Xuanwu, Seven. I'll have your back from now on.]
[Second Pillar Thinks He Can Do It: ???]
Sasuke looked at the diverse and varied information flooding his mind.
Dazedly, he typed three question marks.
[Second Pillar Thinks He Can Do It: I'm not here to chat. Where's that Group Owner Naruto mentioned? Hurry up and tell me, what really happened back then?!]