Naruto: I'm really not an evil scientist!

On one hand, he was excited and happy to see his relatives, and on the other hand, he couldn't help but feel resentful towards Minato Namikaze because he thought about all the hardships he had suffered outside.

Feeling deeply wronged, he thought: Why did they seal the Nine-Tailed Fox inside him?

He even had an urge to beat up Minato.

"It's been a long time, Jiraiya-sensei, Kakashi, and... Naruto." Minato had a gentle smile on his lips, and his eyes were full of affection as he looked at Naruto.

He pushed past the crowd, wanting to hug Naruto.

However, before he could even act, his wife, Kushina Uzumaki, had already hugged Naruto while crying and laughing.

She looked at Naruto with tears in her eyes and said in a choked voice, "Naruto, Mommy misses you so much."

“Mom…Mom…” Feeling this warm embrace, Naruto, who had been somewhat indifferent, stiffened slightly and a hint of emotion flashed in his eyes.

He stiffly reached out, hesitated for a moment, but finally slowly embraced his mother.

"Congratulations, Naruto." Gaara, who was slowly descending from the sky, couldn't help but whisper his congratulations upon seeing this touching scene.

Naruto couldn't help but feel a surge of envy; he so wished he could have such a heartwarming moment too.

However, at this moment filled with warmth and emotion, a warm and soft body gently embraced Gaara from the side.

Gaara froze, his taut nerves instantly sounding an alarm.

Immediately afterwards, he jumped up with a scream, like a startled rabbit, his eyes filled with panic and vigilance.

Who exactly is it that can get through the sand that always follows him and protects him from all sides, and hug him directly?

You should know that his protective power is always airtight, and no one has ever been able to penetrate this barrier to get close to him.

Just as Gaara was about to turn away from the sudden embrace, a slightly excited and trembling voice came from behind: "Gaara, Mom has finally seen you again."

Upon hearing this, Gaara was struck dumb, his entire body instantly freezing in place, as if he had been frozen in place by a spell, his whole body limp and unable to move an inch.

He silently and slowly turned his head, and before he knew it, tears had filled his eyes and silently slid down his cheeks.

At this moment, through Payne's perspective, we also witnessed this deeply moving scene.

He didn't immediately step forward to interrupt this heartwarming scene of parent-child reunion. Instead, he frowned, lost in thought, considering how to change his next course of action.

He had a vague feeling that something was not right. Minato Namikaze was the famous Yellow Flash, a ninja with super speed and super mobility.

If he uses his famous Flying Thunder God Technique to escape the battlefield with the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, what should I do?

How will we capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki then?

Therefore, we must first find a way to kill or find someone to hold off Minato Namikaze.

But who was there to restrain him?

After racking his brains for a long time, Pain suddenly remembered Itachi Uchiha.

Itachi Uchiha's Mangekyou Sharingan Tsukuyomi can unleash a powerful mental attack in an instant, trapping the opponent in an endless world of illusions.

Another eye technique, Amaterasu, causes black flames to ignite wherever the eyes look, and these flames are extremely difficult to extinguish.

Furthermore, Itachi himself is a ninja with many skills and exceptional intelligence, so he should be able to restrain Minato Namikaze.

"Hmm? Where did Itachi, such a big guy, go?" Pain's gaze swept across the battlefield, and suddenly, his eyes fixed on the edge of the battlefield.

There stood the handsome Itachi Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha, seemingly whispering secrets to each other, their feelings deep and unspoken.

"You've had a tough time all these years." Uchiha Shisui looked at Itachi with heartache, having always treated Itachi like his own younger brother.

"I'm sorry, Shisui, I have let you down."

Itachi Uchiha lowered his head with some guilt. He had consulted Shisui years ago, and Shisui said that he should protect the honor of the Uchiha clan and also protect the village.

However, in his youthful arrogance, he used the worst and most extreme methods. Although he protected the honor of the Uchiha clan to some extent, he ultimately became a rogue ninja.

"I heard... I was too naive back then, my death didn't change anything at all."

Uchiha Shisui's voice was somewhat low, carrying a hint of self-mockery and helplessness.

Looking at Itachi's mature yet weary face, Uchiha Shisui sighed and said, "After despairing, I took my own life, naively hoping that the Konoha leadership and my clansmen would change, but I didn't consider your feelings at all."

Finally, I'm entrusting you with the difficult wish of protecting the Uchiha name. I'm sorry, Itachi.

You must have suffered a lot these past years.

Shisui knew very well that Itachi's ultimate choice to exterminate the clan and bear all the infamy was an extreme way to protect the village and safeguard the name of the Uchiha.

There are too many untold stories of helplessness and hardship behind this.

Uchiha Itachi, a tragic song carried alone in the darkness.

The extreme measures taken to protect the village and uphold the Uchiha name reflect the profound influence of Uchiha Shisui.

However, in this matter, Itachi Uchiha himself did not need to bear too heavy a responsibility.

After all, he was young, and it was largely due to the trauma he suffered from the Shisui incident that led him down such an extreme path.

If someone else had guided him, perhaps Itachi Uchiha wouldn't have become so resolute; at the very least, he wouldn't have turned his sword against the elderly, weak, women, and children in his clan.

From a young age, Itachi Uchiha shouldered the dual responsibility of the Uchiha clan and Konoha Village.

This pressure was like an invisible mountain, weighing heavily on his young shoulders.

Apart from Shisui, no one else could make him open up completely and freely express all his inner thoughts.

Therefore, when Shisui passed away, Itachi, who was only 11 years old, instantly awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan.

After that, the power brought by the Mangekyou Sharingan was like an invisible vortex, gradually swallowing his heart and making him more and more extreme, while also tightly closing his heart off.

At that time, Itachi saw everything around him clearly, alone and in pain.

No one can truly enter his heart anymore, communicate with him on a spiritual level; no one can make him open his heart to rely on without reservation.

He was young, radical, and filled with despair, yet no one understood him.

He once harbored great dissatisfaction, even disgust, with those members of the Uchiha clan who were obsessed with past glory, arrogant, and constantly causing trouble.

Chapter 192 Xiao Nan

At the same time, this 11-year-old child has to bear the pressure of responsibility from his family, as well as the verbal inducement and psychological pressure from the Konoha high-ups.

Those subtle hints and complex power struggles were like an invisible net, tightly binding him.

What pained him even more was that he had to endure the manipulation and toying he suffered at the hands of Danzo, an ambitious man.

The oppression from all sides made it almost impossible for him to breathe.

However, he had to bear all of this in silence, because he knew that any careless action or any inappropriate word could become the fuse that widened the rift between the Uchiha clan and Konoha.

Therefore, he ultimately committed the extreme act of annihilating his clan, entirely because he was influenced by the various wrong choices made by a group of people with ulterior motives around him when he was young.

It was only because it was eroded by too much human ugliness that such a cruel result was achieved.

This is largely related to the Third Hokage. He was brainwashed and induced by the Will of Fire from a young age, which led him to have such thoughts. It is unacceptable to completely blame Danzo for the absence of the Third Hokage.

In reality, it was the growing ambition of his clansmen, the potential threat posed by Madara, and the scheming of Danzo, that gradually drove him into a desperate situation.

To put it bluntly, the situation at the time was that those old men with ulterior motives in the Konoha leadership, along with Obito, this dark-hearted kid, joined forces to bully Itachi, this simple, pessimistic, and extreme minor.

Itachi's estrangement from his father made it impossible for him to truly discuss countermeasures with him.

The only person he could communicate with to help him think calmly passed away early.

As an adult, Itachi Uchiha gradually came to his senses during his time as an undercover agent in Akatsuki. He realized that his decision back then was too impulsive and too wrong.

Perhaps if we had been more level-headed back then and thought of more solutions, there could have been better ways to resolve the issue. Exterminating the entire clan was simply too extreme.

He understood that even without the Uchiha clan, the war would continue in this ninja world.

The root of the war was not the Uchiha clan, but the ninja world itself, which was full of contradictions and conflicts.

However, it was all too late; there's no going back.

Even if he wanted to change things, the dead members of his clan would not return, so he could only place his last hope on Sasuke.

He could only continue to implement his original plan.

In his heart, his younger brother Sasuke was the only ray of light in that dark world, the hope that could help him emerge from the shadows.

If fate had given the two brothers more time to communicate, perhaps things would have been different.

But back then, Sasuke was still a simple child who would get a perfect score on a test and expect his father to praise him and pat his hair.

He didn't understand his brother's inner pain and struggle, nor did he understand the cruelty and helplessness of this ninja world.

And Itachi, alone in this endless darkness, could only bear everything and silently move forward.

Whether it was the hidden arrogance of an older brother or the many unspeakable complex reasons, Itachi Uchiha could not possibly discuss those extremely dark matters with his innocent younger brother Sasuke.

This seemed like an unsolvable knot, lying between the two brothers, and also reflecting the cruelty and helplessness of the entire ninja world.

So to some extent, it is ultimately the fault of the ninja world. It is this world full of strife and scheming that drove the Uchiha clan and Itachi into such a desperate situation.

Uchiha Itachi, as the guide of the Uchiha clan, was also deeply influenced by Shisui.

Standing before Shisui, Itachi's long-held aloof facade gradually crumbled.

He could hardly control his emotions; his body trembled slightly, and his eyes were a little moist.

For many years, he carried the heavy sin of annihilating his clan alone, walking alone in the darkness, his inner pain and struggles uncomprehended by anyone.

Uchiha Shisui saw it all and felt a pang of pain in his heart.

He stepped forward and hugged his younger brother, who was already terminally ill and exhausted, gently but firmly saying, "Itachi, I told you, no matter what decision you make, no matter which path you take, I will always stand by your side."

Those words, like the warm sun in winter, soothed the weasel's wounded heart.

After being brought back to life, Shisui read the Naruto manga provided by Hiruko.

The manga was like a thick history book, presenting the history of Konoha Village since its founding and all the things Itachi had experienced before his eyes.

After learning all this, Shisui's thinking underwent a series of earth-shattering changes.

Shisui once harbored a love for Konoha and upheld the belief of protecting the village and his clan, attempting to find a balance between the two.

But now, he sees a deeper darkness and decay behind the ninja world.

Hiruko also showed him materials on how modern society maintains peace, which mentioned that to truly achieve peace, sometimes a strong deterrent force is needed, just like a nuclear bomb.

This viewpoint, like a bolt of lightning, shattered the chaotic sky in Shisui's heart.