Chapter 115 Forgive Me Sasuke

"You catch a cold even when the seasons change. Are you really a Chunin?" This is Uchiha Sasuke who came to visit the patient and made a mocking comment.

"I'm so sorry that I, a Chunin, caught a cold." Haruko Asako looked at him resentfully.

Touched by her cute little cat-like expression, Uchiha Sasuke turned his head away awkwardly, picked up an apple from the fruit basket and started peeling it clumsily.

Not expecting that he had this skill, Haruko Zao looked up curiously.

"..."

Uchiha Sasuke, who was being stared at by her, began to stiffen, and accidentally even his skin and flesh were cut off.

Seeing his embarrassing scene, Haruko Zaoma breathed a sigh of relief and lay down at ease.

Uchiha Sasuke's face darkened and he clenched the fruit knife in his hand, "This is all because you were staring at me, it's not my fault!"

"Yeah, it's my fault, my fault." Haruko replied perfunctorily to the strong-willed cat in the morning.

"..." Uchiha Sasuke's eyes were filled with provoked anger. He was determined to peel a perfect apple today!

Uchiha Itachi, who was amused by his stupid brother, touched his head and then looked at Haruko Asagumi.

"I took Sasuke to observe yesterday, and only found out you were sick after I came back. I'm so sorry to come visit you only now, Haruko."

"No, I'm already very happy that you guys came to see me!"

Uchiha Itachi's heart warmed, "Haruko can actually ask for something, otherwise, it makes me, your brother, seem useless."

"Hmm..." Haruko thought about it seriously, then smiled, "Then please Itachi and Sasuke live happily together!"

Uchiha Sasuke, who was peeling an apple nearby, snorted when he heard her words, and accidentally broke the intact skin on his hand.

"...Pfft." Haruko Zao tried hard to hold back her laughter, but the sound still leaked out.

Uchiha Sasuke was furious, "From now on you are not allowed to speak!"

"Eh?! Sasuke is so authoritarian!"

"You can tell me when I'm done peeling."

"But if you have to keep others quiet while you peel an apple, then Sasuke's skills aren't necessarily that good."

"……Shut up!"

The room was filled with the noise of the two children's bickering. Uchiha Itachi looked at them with a quiet smile, but through Haruko's words just now in the morning, he suddenly saw the bloody scenes in his dream.

That day at the Nanga Shrine, after learning about his father's rebellious thoughts, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

"I didn't intend to tell you. After all, I already knew the consequences." Uchiha Fugaku looked at him deeply.

Uchiha Itachi clenched his fists, "What... does this mean?"

Uchiha Fugaku did not answer him, but directly activated the Mangekyō and used illusion to make Itachi see the future where Uchiha launched a coup.

It's just... it's the future where the Uchiha coup fails.

Under the moonlight, the Uchiha clan members were slaughtered one by one.

And the murderer...is Uchiha Itachi.

Faced with the blood-filled streets, his father found him and confronted him, asking him whose eyes they were, Konoha's or Uchiha's?

They all knew how fierce the battle for Kekkei Genkai was between the major powers. Many people had already gone missing in the village, including their own Uchiha clan. The Konoha Police Department led by the Uchiha clan had long been in name only, and it was difficult to reproduce the glory of its heyday.

In response to his father's questioning, he used the Mangekyō to show his father the future of Uchiha, just like his current father.

My father was unusually calm in the face of the failed coup. Since such an outcome had already come, he was no longer willing to kill his relatives.

Eventually, his father gave up resistance and died in his hands along with his mother.

"It was by chance one day that the possible future of Uchiha flashed through my mind." Uchiha Fugaku explained lightly.

Coming out of the illusion, Uchiha Itachi knelt directly on the ground in a daze. He slowly clenched his hands that were supporting him on the ground. The pain from the pulling of his nails could not relieve the pain he was experiencing in the bloody illusion.

The murderer who slaughtered the tribe... was him.

This illusion from his father's perspective matched the vague images that flashed through his kaleidoscope before.

It was the same night as today, and my father told me the same words -

Uchiha Fugaku hopes that Uchiha Itachi, who works in the Anbu, can serve as the family's spy to obtain intelligence and cooperate with other forces.

However, after weighing the pros and cons, Uchiha Itachi chose to report the news of the coup to the Konoha high-level officials.

"Uchiha is a part of Konoha and will never do anything to let Konoha down."

The Konoha high-level officials gave Uchiha Itachi a path: prevent the coup.

Uchiha Itachi knew very well that if the Uchiha launched a coup, even if he succeeded in gaining leadership, it would end in failure, and it would also provide an excuse for other countries to invade. In the end, even Konoha would face internal and external troubles and be destroyed.

So Uchiha Itachi chose to adopt a plan beyond Konoha's instructions and invited the masked man Afei to join him in the action of exterminating the entire Uchiha clan.

In the end, he was charged with treason and fled Konoha, leaving Uchiha Sasuke as the only survivor of the Uchiha clan.

Uchiha Itachi's vision was gradually blurred by tears. He grabbed the clothes on his chest fiercely, as if he wanted to strangle himself for seeing all this.

This can't be true...how can it be...

How could such an ending occur...

No matter how he deceived himself, Uchiha Itachi knew in his heart that if he had not known the future in the illusion, when he heard the reactionary voices of his clansmen, he might have chosen to report it to the Konoha high-level officials as he did in the illusion.

The horrifying sound of his clan members' death seemed to still linger in his ears, and Uchiha Itachi shook his head in pain.

He heard his father's voice passing through fantasy and reality, overlapping with the words he said when he turned his back to the butcher knife.

"Although I think differently, I am still proud of you."

Uchiha Fugaku walked up to him, squatted down, and patted his shoulders. Each pat was heavy, so heavy that Uchiha Itachi remembered that he was responsible for the lives of all the Uchiha clan members.

In the days and nights that followed, Uchiha Itachi seemed as if there was a veil between himself and reality, and he could not see his true self.

"Look! This is my true level!"

The voice of his younger brother, whom he had taken good care of since childhood, broke through the air and brought him back to the present.

Morning Haruko reluctantly reached out and applauded him, "Wow, Sasuke is awesome~"

"..." Uchiha Sasuke's face flushed. Why did he feel that this made him look particularly childish? !

Uchiha Sasuke handed her the peeled apple unhappily. Seeing that Haruko was satisfied with the meal in the morning, Uchiha Sasuke barely managed to not be angry with her.

Seeing how much she likes to eat the ones she peels herself, I reluctantly forgive her!

Haruko Zao ignored the tsundere cat's awkwardness and looked at the stunned Uchiha Itachi next to her, "Brother Itachi, do you want to eat an apple? I see Sasuke likes to peel apples very much."

"What do you mean I like to nibble?!" Uchiha Sasuke was suddenly amused by her.

"Hahahaha Sasuke is furious!"

"I didn't!"

The lively interactions between the younger brother and sister appeared before him. As happy as Uchiha Itachi was when he saw this in the past, he felt as miserable now.

Forgive me...Sasuke.

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