Witty Naruto Life

Chapter 240 The Death of Uchiha Itachi
Naruto couldn't help but turn his head to look at Sasuke.

The two locked eyes, Sasuke's expression calm and indifferent, as if he were talking about something trivial.

"Wow..." Naruto looked away and exclaimed in Itachi's direction, "You really have the makings of a clan leader now."

As the leader of a clan, in addition to having great strength, one also needs to have a deep enough mind and be mentally prepared to be ruthless at any time.

Politics is not about fighting and killing. Even a ninja god like Hashirama needed Tobirama as his strategist to advise him.

Sasuke, having grown wildly over the past few years, has become more self-controlled and is no longer the naive boy he once was.

Sasuke glanced at Naruto sideways: "Aren't you going to be honest with me beforehand?"

Naruto smiled and shook his head: "No... there's nothing to be honest about, just do it."

He had nothing to confess. Even if Sasuke read Itachi's memories through his Sharingan, he could only discover that Itachi had hidden Kotoamatsukami inside Naruto's stomach.

This is Itachi Uchiha's scheme, what does it have to do with me, Naruto Uzumaki?

From Itachi's perspective, Naruto's statement did not reveal any additional information.

"Sizzle, sizzle—"

The lightning Kirin glared angrily at Uchiha Itachi below, waiting for Sasuke's order to tear him to shreds.

Itachi Uchiha allowed red skulls to regrow all over his body, but it had become shaky and unsteady.

The next moment, Sasuke summoned the Lightning Kirin, which struck straight at Uchiha Itachi!

"boom!!!"

"boom!!!"

"boom!!!"

The lightning transformed into a raging inferno, completely engulfing everything below and turning it to dust!

The explosion kicked up thick smoke, which began to spread in all directions. Sasuke spread his wings and leaped into the smoke, causing waves to rise in the sea of ​​smoke.

Sasuke drew the Kusanagi sword from his back. He was in good condition, completely different from his wretched state in the original story.

Thump, thump, thump.

As Sasuke approached step by step, he soon saw Itachi Uchiha collapse to the ground with a thud, his limbs limp and lifeless on the rocks.

"The moment has finally come, Itachi. It's time for you to pay the price."

Sasuke slowly approached, filling the Kusanagi sword with lightning, ready to sever Itachi's head in the next moment.

Suddenly,

Sasuke saw Itachi's mouth opening and closing, as if he wanted to say something.

"What did you say?"

Sasuke moved closer, trying to hear what Itachi was saying.

suddenly!

Itachi suddenly stretched out a hand, but Sasuke reacted quickly, grabbing it tightly with his own hand, making a "crackling" sound as he squeezed the bones in his palm.

Blood slowly dripped from their hands, falling to the ground with a "drip-drip" sound.

Sasuke's eyes slowly widened, and he realized that a kind of ocular power seemed to be flowing into his body through Itachi's hand!

This is a detail that Sasuke didn't notice in the original story, but it's not surprising. In the original story, both of them used all their strength, which is completely different from Sasuke now who has awakened the three-tomoe Sharingan.

"Why……"

Sasuke was puzzled, but the next moment, he lunged forward, grabbed Itachi's neck with his left hand, looked him up and down, activated his Sharingan, and was about to read Itachi's memories.

But soon, Sasuke released Itachi's neck, looked at the latter's dilated pupils, and let his body fall limply to the ground.

He is dead.

Sasuke cannot use his Sharingan to extract secrets from the dead, unless he is resurrected using Edo Tensei.

This man, who was condemned by everyone both on and off screen, has retired from the ninja world.

Immediately afterwards, Sasuke saw Naruto slowly walking towards him from behind.

"Finally, you've gotten your revenge... How do you feel right now?"

Naruto looked at Sasuke quietly, his mind filled with a myriad of thoughts.

I never expected that I would be able to personally intervene in this history with Sasuke's approval.

It must have been a rather peculiar experience.

Sasuke's expression was complicated, and he had deep questions about Itachi's actions before his death and the various abnormalities that had occurred before.

His intuition told him that this was not over.

"It's strange. He transferred his eye power to me before he died. I even doubted whether my Sharingan was seeing things."

Naruto felt a chill run down his spine; he hadn't escaped his keen eyes after all.

It seems I need to find a time to tell him the truth as soon as possible.

The next moment, Sasuke turned to Naruto: "But I feel that you should know a lot of inside information,"

"You, who have given Orochimaru and the Akatsuki trouble, should be able to give me an answer, don't you think?"

Naruto looked at Sasuke and remained silent.

Just as the two were gathering their emotions,
suddenly,

Naruto's inner self issued a warning to him:

Examine the ferret's body.

Naruto was startled, and a bad premonition instantly welled up in his heart.

"Wait a minute, Sasuke..."

Naruto immediately went to Itachi's side, gently touching his shoulder with one hand, allowing his true form to sense the abnormality of the body. [...There are traces of contamination on his body.]

Upon hearing this, Naruto's heart skipped a beat.

He instinctively looked at Sasuke and asked, "Sasuke... are you feeling unwell right now?"

Sasuke frowned slightly: "No... what happened?"

"Itachi has been corrupted... but thankfully you're not injured," Naruto said in a low voice.

The truth of the incident gradually came together in his mind.

After the Black Hand officially attacked them last night, Naruto summoned the Toad Sage to help him in order to prevent contamination. This action deterred the Black Hand from taking further action, and they turned their attention to Itachi Uchiha instead.

Or perhaps, from the very beginning, the mastermind's target wasn't them.

What about the scene of Itachi Uchiha shedding tears that we saw before?

Naruto further speculated that this was probably not his hallucination, but rather Itachi's outward manifestation of the pain he felt after realizing that his younger brother had completely abandoned him.

Similar to the famous scene in the original work where Sasuke sees Itachi Uchiha laughing maniacally as he tries to steal his eyes through an illusion.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes: "So the eye power Itachi just transferred to me was the result of it being corrupted?"

Naruto remained silent, while Sasuke, without dwelling on it, said, "Naruto... we should go now. We can discuss the Black Hand matter later."

As he spoke, he hoisted Itachi Uchiha's body onto his shoulder: "We'll probably need this when we report back to Konoha, so I'll take it with me for now."

Just as Naruto was about to nod, he suddenly received a series of memories from his clone.

It's the masked man. He's gotten rid of the shadow clone's delay and is now heading in this direction!
"The masked man is coming... Sasuke, come closer!"

Naruto quickly stepped forward and grabbed Sasuke's shoulder.

"Whoosh!"

The two disappeared into the ruins of the outpost.

Half a minute later.

A jagged creature emerged from the ground, splitting open to reveal the face of a hermaphrodite.

"Why didn't we stop him?" Bai Jue asked regretfully, looking in the direction where the two had disappeared.

Black Zetsu said hoarsely, "As long as Naruto Uzumaki is still by his side, we cannot easily attack him."

"This is Afei's idea. He realized a long time ago that he didn't have many chances of winning Sasuke over."

"So what should we do next? We still haven't retrieved the One-Tailed, Eight-Tailed, and Nine-Tailed beasts, and our progress has been delayed again..." White Zetsu sounded somewhat frustrated.

"Don't forget the leader's next plan," Black Zetsu said in a low voice, then hesitated, "...In short, the next task will be left to Tobi and Deidara."

"……Understood."

The hermaphrodite burrowed back underground.

……

Deidara's place.

The once lush forest is now covered in frost, with countless deep craters blasted out, creating a battlefield that presents a stark contrast between ice and fire.

Deidara was above, his dragon tail now missing several pieces, and his face bore faint scratches, like marks left by a sharp blade.

Now look down.

The dense forest was filled with mirrors made of layers of frost, and these prisms were different from the secret technique "Magic Mirror Ice Crystal" in the original work; they were all pointing in Deidara's direction.

This is an improvement on the original secret technique. The original secret technique had a rather demanding condition for achieving its power: the enemy needed to be at the center of the secret technique.

However, when faced with highly mobile ninjas like Naruto or Deidara, the original secret techniques become somewhat inadequate.

Bai discovered this weakness early on, so he began to improve his secret technique long ago, resulting in its current new form.

He can still move through the magic mirrors, but he can also freely adjust their positions, like now, so that they are all aimed at Deidara.

Thus, this technique transformed from a bombardment of flying needles in a confined space into a long-range method, its power undiminished.

Looking closely at Deidara's expression, one can see a hint of madness beginning to creep into it.

The reason is simple: Haku's ability to move between the magic mirrors greatly enhances his mobility, while Deidara can quickly generate a second magic mirror simply by destroying one.

If the chakra isn't exhausted, this process will go on indefinitely.

"Damn rat, I'll make sure you hide for a good time, hmm!"

Deidara pulled out a large lump of explosive clay, put it in his mouth and chewed it fiercely, staring at Haku with wolf-like eyes.

Bai, however, showed no sign of panic. Instead, he recited Deidara's methods as if reciting a memorized text, and loudly proclaimed to him:

"C4 Garuda can disperse molecular-sized explosive clay into the air and eradicate enemies at the cellular level."

Deidara stopped swallowing and stared at Haku in disbelief: "You, how do you know all this?"

His mouth was full of clay, making his speech sticky and difficult to understand, but Bai guessed his thoughts and said coldly:

"Your file has already been entered into Konoha's archives. Guess who compiled this information?"

Deidara suddenly felt a blockage in his throat. He didn't know if he was choking on the exploding clay or if he was angry. In any case, his face turned as red as a pig's liver.

"You... you..."

The next moment, he actually swallowed the clay with saliva in his mouth, looking quite angry.

Deidara's eyes widened in anger:

"Naruto Uzumaki, it was Naruto Uzumaki who did it, wasn't it!"

"Damn it... I'm going to kill him! I'm going to kill him!!"

(End of this chapter)