Konoha: Start by unlocking the caged bird

Chapter 56 Itachi's Enlightenment
"Please remember what you said today." Hinata Yuzuru spoke earnestly. The gentle emotion in his eyes rarely made Uchiha Itachi feel strange. It brought a power that made him feel warm.

Hinata Yuzuru stared at Uchiha Itachi and said carefully: "If Brother Shisui wants to stop you from becoming a ninja and thinks that is the only way to protect you, I don't think so. In this matter, I support your decision."

Uchiha Shisui sighed and held his forehead with his hand, but stopped trying to persuade him. He just listened quietly to Hinata Yuzuru's reasons.

"Just remember, your eyes may deceive you, and the truth you know may just be a lie carefully made up by others."

"Don't trust anyone, including me. Use all your feelings to find your own answers."

Uchiha Shisui frowned and whispered that this answer might not be reliable: "How can you guarantee that the answer you get is the right one?"

"Then you have to ask yourself what you really think in your heart and what you really want."

Hyuga Yuzuru looked at Uchiha Itachi and asked softly: "Perhaps we can add some restrictions to this answer. In this case, once multiple answers come to mind, we can use this to identify what we ultimately want. need."

"for example."

He smiled, and his voice was gentle and soft in the barbecue restaurant. Amid the crackling sound of the charcoal fire caused by the dripping fat of the barbecue, it reached the ears of the two people as clearly as thunder in the rain.

"I hope that in the future, every child of Konoha will not have to think about the so-called family and village issues like us, and will not have to ponder the difficult questions of life and death on the battlefield like us."

"I hope that war can disappear, oppression can be resisted, and justice can eliminate evil."

"I hope that one day, even people outside of Konoha can enjoy peace and happiness."

"Everyone has food to eat, everyone has clothes to wear, and ninjutsu is no longer used to kill, but to improve life and make everyone's life better."

“I hope, someday in the future.”

Even Uchiha Shisui had never imagined that the boy in front of him had such great ambitions, transcending the limitations of his family, not even limited to Konoha.

Uchiha Itachi was even more dazed for a moment. At most, he was just wondering why his clansmen and the village were arguing endlessly and why they were willing to sacrifice their lives for meaningless things. Hinata Yuzuru's words seemed to have thrown a bigger mystery to him.

The so-called ideas of peace, freedom, and equality are very different from the "will of fire" promoted and emphasized in the village, and the "will of the family" spoken by the adults in the family.

It's a wider world.

"Of course, it's difficult, and I don't think I can do it myself."

Hinata Yuzuru spoke frankly about his shortcomings, smiling, but his tone gradually became sharp: "But, only with such a beautiful future, it is necessary to work hard, isn't it?"

For a moment, there was only the sizzling sound of the charcoal being stained with grease under the barbecue. Hinata Yuzuru picked up the chopsticks and took a piece. He saved it in time and the taste was pretty good.

While he was eating the meat nonchalantly, he chuckled softly, as if what he just said was just a casual conversation.

"What I just said is nothing more than a beautiful fantasy like an Arabian Nights at the moment. However, if you use this as a reference, it shouldn't be difficult to make the right choice, right?"

"And, like I said, don't trust me, or anything I say, and let yourself think for yourself and come up with the answer."

"Perhaps, everything I said now is a lie, just to win your trust Itachi, with such doubts and the determination not to trust anyone, embark on the road of ninja again."

There was no emotion in Hinata Yuzuru's eyes behind his glasses. Even Shisui couldn't tell at this moment whether what he had just said was a lofty statement from the heart and a beautiful expectation for the future, or just some casual talk.

But regardless, Itachi and Shisui were both greatly shocked by this and fell into deep thought.

Especially for Shisui, what touched him the most was actually far from the ideals Hinata Yuzuru threw out, but the warning words at the end.

"Don't trust anyone." Is the will of fire taught by the second generation the truth of the world?

Is Konoha Village, or itself, really on the right path?

For the first time, Uchiha Shisui had some doubts and reflections about his beliefs and persistence, but he quickly suppressed them temporarily. It was impossible for him to question his beliefs and tolerance just because of someone else's words, even if Reality reminded him over and over again that something had gone wrong, but he still believed that as long as he followed the path of the Will of Fire, everything would be back on track.

As long as we follow the will of fire, the beautiful future that Yuzuru talked about will surely come to Konoha!

The three of them fell into silence. Only Hinata Yuzuru ate diligently. Since neither of them had an appetite, he would not waste the rare barbecue.

Who knows how long I will have to eat dry food when I go on a mission this time.

After Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi were silent for a moment, they began to chat with him about the so-called 'ideal', trying to understand the future he described in more detail.

Hinata Yuzuru was not stage-shy either. He combined the history and moral ideology he had learned before traveling through time and gave them a simple and easy-to-understand account of his ideal Konoha in light of its current situation. Of course, he was reserved and only spoke briefly, but even so, they were deeply shocked by its education, medical care, values ​​and outlook on life, and they could not calm down for a long time.

Of course, as he spoke, Hinata Yuzuru was eating hard, determined to stuff all the meat that he would not be able to eat for a while into his stomach and digest it slowly.

After eating with a round belly and giving full play to the appetite of a taijutsu ninja, Hinata Yuzuru half-slumped on the chair, looked at Uchiha Shisui, and smiled slightly: "Brother Shisui, please pay."

Uchiha Shisui came to his senses and subconsciously reached out to pay the bill.

The boss, who had been waiting for a long time, took out the bill with a smile on his face.

"Thank you for your patronage. I've already given you a small discount of ten thousand taels."

When did we order so much barbecue?

Isn’t it true that a portion of meat in this shop only costs a few hundred taels?!
Shisui touched his stomach and felt like he wasn't full yet.

But Hinata Yuzuru just smiled faintly: "It's time to go and do the mission, Shisui-senpai."

Uchiha Shisui stared blankly outside the house. From the angle of the sunlight, he could judge the current time. It was three or four hours away from noon. Just as Hinata Yuzuru said, it was time to gather and set off for the border.

This guy.
Uchiha Shisui looked at Hinata Yuzuru and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

What an amazing junior.

No matter from the perspective of thoughts or appetite.

And Uchiha Itachi didn't even move a chopstick.

He sat there blankly, and in his mind, the blueprint of a beautiful world slowly unfolded in his mind, like a mirage, making him feel out of reach, unreal and unreal.

But
Uchiha Itachi pursed his lips and looked at his good friend, Hinata Yuzuru's quiet and gentle face, which was now filled with a satisfied smile after eating and drinking.

For me, such a world is out of reach and as illusory as a bubble.

But he must have had an idea, or in other words, he had an idea early on, and he was forging ahead on the right path.

Don't believe you.?
Uchiha Itachi lowered his head.

Then look at it with my eyes!
If the end of the road you are walking on is the future I hope for, then we will move forward together, Yuzuru!

(End of this chapter)