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Chapter 11 Sasuke's Questions
On the way back, Naruto was a little dazed, wondering if this was the only possible outcome for someone who had become a ninja.
When I got home, I lay in bed and started reflecting on the day's events: Yoshiya's threat, the Third Hokage's death, ninjas… they really can die. If only I were strong enough…
Meanwhile, Sakura returned home. "I'm home~! Hmm? It smells so good." She followed the scent to the kitchen.
"Sakura's back! Come and eat!" Haruno Meifuku was overjoyed to see Sakura return safely. She knew how worried she was when the monster was rampaging, and she was only relieved to receive the news.
Sakura suddenly paused, looking at Haruno Meibu, and suddenly felt that it was good that her parents were ordinary people. She decided to protect them. She thought of Sasuke and Naruto, "Aren't they good for us? ...I can't hold them back anymore!"
Orochimaru has already arranged for his subordinates to investigate Gen Uchiha. However, he won't devote too much energy to Gen Uchiha until his hands are healed.
After all this, it seems like Uchiha Gen is quite safe right now, but that's not the case. Don't forget he still has a brother complex, and he'll probably go berserk after hearing the news. Once the buffer period is over, he'll be facing Konoha, Orochimaru, and Itachi from Akatsuki. You could say that Sasuke is a ticking time bomb in his hands!
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The sky was clear, and the sun's rays shone lazily into the room, yet it didn't feel hot.
Sensing the light, Sasuke slowly awoke, the first thing he saw being a face with an inquisitive expression. His head was being held down, his eyelids forcibly pried open, and his eyes were forced shut. If someone were to enter the room at that moment, this position would easily lead to suggestive thoughts.
Sasuke's pupils contracted sharply, realizing what had happened. He slapped Genji's hand away—Genji hadn't used much force, of course. He jumped up to face Genji, his chest heaving uncontrollably. He tried to remain calm, but his eyes betrayed his panic. He checked his pockets; his weapons were gone. His head didn't move, but his eyes darted around, searching for a way to escape and fight back. "Where's Orochimaru?!"
Contrary to my expectations, the environment here looks like a hotel.
"Looks like he's recovering well." Uchiha Gen's eyes lit up with relief. Two nights had passed, and if he hadn't woken up soon, he would have suspected that he had accidentally caused Sasuke's problems.
"Recovering well...?" Sasuke suddenly seemed to realize something, and the forced composure on his face completely crumbled. He ran out the door in a panic. Uchiha Gen didn't stop him. In such a small place, if Sasuke at this stage could escape, he might as well go eat some meat.
Sasuke ran to the bathroom and looked at his eyes. He saw that his black pupils had turned blood red, with two comma-like black patterns surrounding his eyeballs. Sasuke felt relieved when he saw this.
At that moment, Uchiha Gen's voice drifted over, "Aren't you going to the restroom?"
Upon hearing this, Sasuke frowned, whether to hide his panic or because he hadn't relieved himself all night, he actually went to the toilet.
Uchiha Gen took out bags of things from the cabinet in the room. Sasuke stood warily in front of the table as he pushed open the door. Upon closer inspection, he found that the things Uchiha Gen took out were all food, including various snacks.
"I figured you must be hungry after not eating for so long. If you want to eat, then eat. Don't worry about any problems. If I wanted to poison you, I have many ways to do it." At the same time, a bead of sweat trickled down his spine because he couldn't taste the food and liked to buy it, resulting in a rather large pile of food.
"What exactly do you want to do?! Where is Orochimaru?" Ignoring the food on the table, Sasuke had many questions in his mind, and the Sound Ninja in front of him seemed to have no intention of explaining. He couldn't hold back any longer and questioned him, showing a kind of "nothing to lose" attitude.
Upon hearing this, Uchiha Gen was extremely displeased and sneered, "Always talking about Orochimaru, what? You really want to be his backup body?"
A spare body?! Sasuke knew Orochimaru's motives were impure, but what did he mean by that? Had this Sound Ninja betrayed Orochimaru? Thinking of this, Sasuke temporarily became more cautious. He didn't know what Yoshiya was thinking. If he were still Orochimaru's subordinate, and Orochimaru needed him, he couldn't do anything for him. But the current situation was not right.
"You betrayed Orochimaru?" Sasuke sat cross-legged, his mind filled with too many questions. He still had no intention of eating and asked with a frown.
Uchiha Gen was completely out of sync. Seeing that Sasuke was ignoring the food on the table, he thought, "So what if I have a sense of taste?" He didn't want to deal with Sasuke for the time being. He picked up a bag of instant noodles and took a vicious bite. It was crunchy. Even if you don't have a sense of taste, you can still hear the sound.
It wasn't that he intentionally wanted to ignore Sasuke; anyone would want to deal with that kind of attitude. Although strictly speaking, it was Uchiha Gen who kidnapped him, if he was unhappy, he was unhappy, and he wouldn't say anything, so what?
Seeing that Uchiha Gen didn't want to talk, Sasuke calmed down for the time being, looked at the food in front of him, and realized that there was nothing he could do right now, so he picked out two rice balls to fill his stomach first.
For a moment, the only sound in the room was the chewing of food, except for Uchiha Gen, who kept crunching away at his instant noodles.
Sasuke, who had a good upbringing, kept hearing this voice, and had already eaten two packs and was about to eat the third. His eye twitched, and he was speechless for a moment. "You can soak it in water before eating."
Uchiha Gen waved his hand. "It's nothing, I just like the sound."
Sasuke "..."
However, once the topic was brought up, Gen Uchiha finally explained Sasuke's current situation, including the possibility that Orochimaru might use him as a vessel to reincarnate.
"From what you're saying, it seems you look down on Orochimaru?"
"That's not quite right. As one of the Legendary Sannin, if it weren't for the Yellow Flash's emergence and the leak of human experiments, the Fourth Hokage on the Hokage Rock might have been Orochimaru." Uchiha Gen's assessment was entirely objective.
Sasuke looked surprised upon hearing this. The Fourth Hokage? Even so, Orochimaru's reputation plummeted in Sasuke's eyes that he had been so easily betrayed by his own subordinates. "Who is the Fourth Hokage?"
Uchiha Gen calmly said, as if he were talking about something trivial, "A sunny young man, Naruto's father."
Sasuke looked shocked. "The Fourth Hokage is Naruto's father?!"
"Um."
Seeing Sasuke fall silent in shock at the news, Uchiha Gen dropped another bombshell: "By the way, if nothing unexpected happens, the Third Hokage should have been killed by Orochimaru."
Sasuke "..."
After a long silence, he said, "Aren't you afraid of Orochimaru's revenge? He was able to kill the Third Hokage. Can you defeat the Third Hokage? Or do you have a trump card to deal with Orochimaru? And the most crucial question is, who exactly are you?! How does a mere Sound Ninja know so much about Konoha?!"
"Revenge? I can only say that I am stronger than Orochimaru at this moment. As for... identity, you are so smart, why don't you guess?" Uchiha Gen kept everyone in suspense. It was quite an accomplishment to act mysterious in front of Sasuke, the Emperor of the Forbidden Kingdom.
Sasuke remained skeptical of Uchiha Gen's claim that he could defeat Orochimaru. If he could, why would he run away? Wouldn't it have been better to just kill Orochimaru? "You used to be a Konoha ninja!" Sasuke stated definitively.
Uchiha Gen clapped his hands and smiled, "Congratulations on guessing part of it! You're quite quick-witted."
Sasuke scoffed. "Knowing so many of Konoha's secrets, and having followed Orochimaru, it's easy for you to guess. I'm not an idiot like Naruto. Besides... do you know where that man is?!"
Knowing that Yoshi was also a Konoha ninja, Sasuke lost interest in pressing him for more information. After all, he'd never heard of any other defector from Konoha who could rival Orochimaru, except for that man—he absolutely had to kill him with his own hands!