Chapter 271 Stay
Pretending not to notice his secret sadness, Uchiha Fugaku raised his right hand and tapped the corner of his eye with his index finger.
After his father's reminder, Uchiha Itachi's thinking changed.
"Father is saying that my aunt has pupil skills? This is her pupil skill ability?"
"Yes." Uchiha Fugaku whispered, "This matter must be kept secret."
"I see."
The room fell silent again for a moment.
Seeing that his son remained silent but did not get up and leave, Uchiha Fugaku knew that he had more questions to ask.
Sure enough, Uchiha Itachi hesitated for a long time before speaking slowly.
"The previous coup also included..."
His voice froze, and he found it difficult to utter the other Uchiha's fate, but after meeting Uchiha Fugaku's steady eyes, he skipped that word and continued with the rest of his words.
"They are all real things that happened, but they were changed by my aunt, right?"
"……Um."
Even if Uchiha Fugaku didn't want to admit it, the facts were right in front of him.
The ethnic group he swore to protect for life ultimately ended up launching a coup and even exterminating the entire clan.
The kaleidoscope image disappeared, but the pain and melancholy mixed in it will not disappear.
Such a great Uchiha clan ended up having to be saved by a child.
Uchiha Fugaku could not blame anyone, everything had become a thing of the past, or rather, it did not exist at all.
The reforms magnified the Uchiha clan's voice, and the succession of the Fourth Hokage eased the relationship between Konoha and the Uchiha clan. The clan members lived a stable and happy life, and no one would propose a coup.
It seems that Uchiha will always prosper under his leadership.
His sons worshipped him, his clansmen respected him, and the higher-ups admired him.
Only he himself knows that he is not a competent clan leader and he cannot lead the Uchiha clan towards a better future. If he really has the ability, the Uchiha clan would not have ended up like that.
What would have been the outcome of the Uchiha coup if Haruko had not participated in the change?
If they lose, the Uchiha will fall.
If he wins, the Uchiha will be condemned by everyone.
He couldn't help but fall into self-doubt, wondering whether he, as the clan leader, was really worthy of the responsibility of the Uchiha clan.
When Uchiha Fugaku heard about the tragic fate of the Uchiha from the sister he raised, he did not believe it. He even stubbornly refused to believe it after seeing the image reflected by her eye technique.
His mind is confused.
Half of him stubbornly believed that it was impossible for Uchiha to fall to this point, and half of him rationally forced himself to accept it and make plans for Uchiha.
Embarrassing and ridiculous.
He is both the beloved head of the Uchiha clan and an incompetent man who fears the future of the Uchiha clan.
And he always thought that Haruko, who was still a child, was much stronger than him.
She taught ideology classes to children, proposed work style construction for the police department, established a good image of Uchiha externally, and at the same time tried her best to eliminate all factors that might put Uchiha in an unfavorable situation.
Although she is not a member of the Uchiha clan, her love for the Uchiha clan is no less than that of her clan members.
It seemed like it happened in an instant, and she became the steady person that Uchiha Fugaku had hoped for.
But Uchiha Fugaku was not pleased at all.
In that short yet long period of time, she ran around everywhere, trying her best, which made her frail body even worse, and her eyes were filled with unconcealable fatigue.
Her coughing became more and more frequent and she couldn't even eat sweets.
In order to maintain her physical condition, she, who was always afraid of bitterness, drank bowl after bowl of bitter medicine without blinking an eye.
Often when she took too much medicine, she would avoid them and go to the toilet to vomit, suppressing her voice so as not to worry them.
It all stems from her brother's incompetence.
It was his incompetence that made her, who looked like a child, work so hard.
So Uchiha Fugaku worked day and night, racing against time to get ahead of her and complete what she wanted to do in Uchiha.
Cooperate with her plan, even at the cost of using the power of the clan leader to pressure her.
The Fourth Hokage was indeed as she said, a fair, selfless and fair Hokage.
With the advancement of reforms, Konoha's attitude towards the Uchiha improved, and the police department was no longer slandered when performing official duties outside.
Later, Haruko discovered that reducing the use of chakra could slow down the rate at which her body weakened.
Everything seems to be getting better.
But one day, she said she was going to leave the village to travel.
Everyone knew that she had traveled away from the village with Tsunade, one of the three ninjas, before, so when she went on this long journey, the tribesmen only carefully reminded her to take good care of herself.
Each family brought a lot of things to her door, especially asking her to take them back in case of emergency, and they all said they were looking forward to her coming back.
Under the sunlight, Haruko waved goodbye to them with a bright smile.
Just like a normal trip away from home.
Feeling inexplicably uneasy, Uchiha Fugaku changed his usual silence, walked forward and hugged her gently.
He rarely took the initiative to hug his sister, and rarely took the initiative to change his sister's decisions.
But this time, he lowered his voice so that only the two of them could hear it.
"Stay here. Once you get better, you can go wherever you want."
Haruko hugged him back and didn't answer for a long time, just quietly feeling her brother's warm embrace.
Where Uchiha Fugaku couldn't see, a crystal tear quietly slid down Haruko's face, and then was wiped away by her concealing action.
Haruko stepped out of his arms, still smiling brightly.
She spoke her final farewell words in a relaxed tone.
"Fugaku, I...will miss you."
Uchiha Fugaku was left standing there, staring at her back, unable to say anything to keep her.
He has always been a taciturn person, but at this moment, he felt disappointed in his silence for no reason.
If she had been able to stay, would her sister still be around?
Uchiha Fugaku knew that this was impossible, because she, who came from the future, would one day return to the future.
In fact, didn't he already notice it the moment Haruko said goodbye?
But just like when he faced the fate of the Uchiha before, he was unwilling to believe that this was their last meeting.
Outside the yard, the hoarse and shrill crows sounded.
The twilight sky and the warm room blend and separate, only the coldness is howling and raging in my heart.
Uchiha Fugaku rubbed the bridge of his nose. Now was not the time for him to be depressed. He still had many things to worry about, especially the cost of using the eye technique.
No one knows better than the Uchiha the price of possessing powerful eye techniques.
The Uchiha clan's Mangekyō will cause great damage to the caster's vision and body.
Blindness caused by overuse is considered a minor crime.
Powerful pupil techniques are not a good thing. The more powerful they are, the more you are destined to pay a price for the power you gain.
"Going back in time and changing history, I wonder how much she will have to pay for this terrifying ability..."
Hearing his father's mumbling, Uchiha Itachi suddenly became panicked.
He pushed himself up from the table and asked incoherently.
"The price? Will she disappear again? Or something worse?"
"Based on the comparison of memories, she is now in good health and has no memory of returning to the past."
Uchiha Itachi's hands were so tight on the table that they turned pale. His long hair covered his forehead protector and fell in front of him, hiding all his expressions.
For a moment he didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
These are just the problems they have discovered, what about the costs they have not discovered?
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