Naruto: First Love

Chapter 291 Heartache
When Itachi woke up, he was already in Konoha's hospital.

He didn't know how this mission was calculated, but it was probably a failure. The client was dead, so how could it not fail?
This was his first mission failure, and he paid a huge price.

It was his father who came to pick him up. When he saw him, there was relief in his eyes. "Yes, I heard from Mizunotsuki that you have opened your eyes."

"Yes, father, it's not just me, but also Xinzi..." Xinzi also opened his eyes, and the price was Gastrodia elata!

This cruel fact kept reminding him.

"I know, but she is dead. You are the future of the Uchiha clan!" Uchiha Fugaku waved his hand coldly, interrupting him, cruel and cold.

Itachi stared, not wanting to accept this fact, but when he saw his father's hopeful eyes, he couldn't say anything to refute.

Two more names were added to the memorial tablet. Mizunotsuki stood behind him and apologized painfully: "I'm sorry, Itachi..."

Itachi didn't say anything. He, who was usually quiet, looked even colder.

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His name is Uchiha Itachi, and he is a genius of the Uchiha clan. At least, that's what the people of the Uchiha clan say about him.

When he was four years old, he followed his father to the battlefield. At that time, there were corpses everywhere, some familiar and some unfamiliar.

A ninja from the Iwagakure Village asked him to save him, and he gave the man water to drink, but the man wanted to kill him.

He wouldn't let anyone kill him, so he killed the man without hesitation.

He asked his father why the ninja wanted to kill him when he had done nothing.

My father said: This is war. It is not a fight between people, but a fight between countries, so there will be meaningless fighting between strangers. This is the world of ninja.

His father told him not to forget what he saw, so how could he forget it?
He hated war; too many lives had been lost.

When the Third World War ended, the whole village was mourning those who died in the war, including the Uchiha clan.

The Third Hokage is about to resign, the Uchiha clan hopes that his father will become the Fourth Hokage, and are also discussing Hatake Kakashi, who is not from the Uchiha clan but possesses the Sharingan.

My father is also trying hard to maintain peace and doesn't want to cause trouble, so many people hope for peace, right?
He asked the man standing in front of many tombstones, what is the meaning of life?
He said: There is no meaning, and if there is, it is when life is eternal.

He thought, if there is no meaning, what is the point of living? So, he jumped off a very high cliff, and only tried to survive when he heard the crows calling.

No one wants to die, right?

In the summer of the following year, he had a younger brother, a brand new life.

Life will be born, life will die, life will fight, and life will be saved.

He loved his younger brother very much. He was different from those fighting and dying lives. He was a brand new life that had just been born.

During the Nine-Tails incident, the Fourth Hokage, who had only been Hokage for one year, and his wife both died.

The destroyed village and the dead villagers once again made him witness the birth and death of life.

Not long after moving to the new house, he went to school. The knowledge in school was very simple and his classmates called him a genius.

Because of the word "genius", he was alienated by everyone and could not integrate with his classmates.

He started skipping classes, or maybe it wasn't really skipping classes, as he always used his shadow clone to go to class while his real body practiced outside. It was at that time that he met Shisui.

Shisui, like him, hated war, and if fighting could be stopped, they all wanted to stop it.

He graduated successfully from the first grade, and after getting the forehead protector, his father was very happy, and there was pride in his eyes when he looked at him.

Xinzi is an optimistic and cheerful person. Moreover, as a member of the Uchiha clan, she is very aware of the various unfair treatments the Uchiha clan has received in the village and has a broad mindset towards life.

The difference is that Xinzi’s dream was just to survive. At that time, he didn’t understand why he had such an idea?

The first time they met, it was on the battlefield. She had never been to Konoha, was curious about everything, and was a cheerful person. Until her mother died. That night, he was supposed to save Konoha, but in the end he saved Izumi, and Konoha's mother died because of saving her.

Sometimes Itachi felt a little guilty. If he had taken Kokoro with him at that time, would her mother have not had to die?
After the Nine-Tails incident, I haven't seen Xinzi for a long time. I heard that Xinzi has gone to the Ninja School and is a senior student one year older than him.

She seemed to have lost her former sunshine after the Nine-Tail incident.

She probably knew that she liked to eat tricolor meatballs, and she often brought tricolor meatballs with her, but she always said that it was actually because her mother liked to eat tricolor meatballs.

During that mission, it was probably the first time she faced that kind of danger. She didn't react immediately. Seeing her heart in such danger, her body moved even faster to save her. At that time, he didn't understand why.

When Xinzi thanked him, he felt a little embarrassed and finally made up a reason: it was just for the mission.

Maybe you are a little disappointed?
When he returned from the mission, he returned home and trained while taking care of Sasuke.

Xinzi seemed to know them very well, and knew his and Sasuke's preferences. Even he didn't know that Sasuke liked to eat tomatoes. He thought, maybe it's a coincidence? In fact, too many coincidences would still make people suspicious.

But he couldn't doubt it. How could he doubt it? They were all from the same family. Knowing their preferences, he could only say that he cared about them, right? He cared about them, right?

Xinzi is very smart, sometimes even more mature than Tianma, which is why he likes to train with Xinzi. He knows how to train without having to say too much.

During the Cat Demon Temple mission, Xinzi was obviously in a bad mood. The complicated look in his eyes deepened, and he could see worry and fear in it.

What are you afraid of? It's just a task to catch a cat. There's no danger. Of course, except for the accident that Tianma almost fell to his death while trying to get the cat's whiskers.

But perhaps it was that accident that made Xinzi a little concerned, and she was not even very happy about getting a new cat.

Shisui had more tasks to do, so he rarely trained with Shisui. Sasuke was very attached to him, and most of the time, even when he went to training, he would take Sasuke with him.

Before setting out on this painful mission, he heard the conversation between Xinzi and the black cat, in which the cat said that he would have a short life, and he thought that was probably the case.

When Xinzi is with the black cat, she really looks like a young girl, innocent and charming.

like? What is like?

Does she like herself?
He likes Sasuke as much as he likes Kokoro, but he feels that the two kinds of likes are different. Exactly what the difference is, he, a genius in the eyes of others, doesn't know yet.

But before he could finish, Xinzi left. Itachi wondered if Xinzi was angry.
Xinzi got something called Iron Jade from Tianma, which seemed to be useful to the Uchiha clan, and Xinzi gave him a few.

Holding the iron jade, he thought, it was great to have these two companions.

But why? Why would she rush forward and die just to save him?

Remember what Tianma said, I will definitely return this favor to you! Because of this, because of this, he died! Died in front of him!

And Xinzi, did she know she was going to die? That's why she looked at him with such a complicated look and let the cat take care of him?

How could this be?

The sky was blood red, the dazzling colors, the terrifying enemies, the sacrificed companions, the sad hearts, he finally understood the feeling of losing companions, it was too painful!

His eyes gradually turned blood red. He wanted revenge, but even with his Sharingan, he was no match for that man. Watching his heart being washed away by the flood, he lost...his most beloved companion!

(End of this chapter)