Got You

He's been caught.

Uchiha Itachi's clone tried to pull his arm away, but found that the girl's delicate hand was surprisingly strong. Her slender fingers gripped his wrist like iron clamps, and no matter how hard he tried, his arm remained motionless.

"So he really is a brute force type?" Itachi frowned. This strength was a bit excessive, completely suppressing a skill-based player like him.

Having your hand grabbed is nothing compared to the fact that.

What's even more troublesome—Itachi glanced at the underground river and the location of the ventilation shaft—is that the room is surrounded by thick, hard ice walls, and the entrance that was just a moment ago connected to the outside world is now sealed off by ice blocks saturated with Chakra. To escape from here, one either needs to be proficient in Space-Time Ninjutsu, or pull the main body over and see Susanoo can break through this ice shell...

"It seems," Uchiha Itachi said calmly, dispersing his condensed Chakra, "That I have indeed been captured by you!"

"Hmph~"

Sakura Haruno watched with satisfaction as Itachi gave up resisting and released her grip on him.

"Now... you're mine."

She took a step back and looked him up and down a few times. The previous few times she had seen him, she was always in the midst of fierce battles and had neither the time nor the inclination to care about other people's appearances. Now she finally had the chance to observe him carefully. He was indeed quite handsome, with very refined features. No wonder he was so popular in her previous life.

Uchiha Fugaku Sakura Haruno seen Fugaku Uchiha's appearance in person at the Ninja Academy several years ago, and it was truly hard to imagine how that ordinary-looking face could have given birth to two sons like him.

Uchiha Itachi ignored her and his gaze fell on the container holding the Sharingan on the table beside him. "That's... Shisui's other Sharingan?"

"So, you killed Shimura Danzō?"

"You're in Shadow Clone form right now," Sakura Haruno didn't answer him directly, but instead smiled. "So you want to pass the information to the real person? Sure. You take one question, I'll take one. You have to tell the truth. You can change the questions you don't want to answer, how about it?"

"Can."

Itachi nodded without hesitation.

"Very good." The girl stepped back a few paces, sat on the table, tapped the container with her glossy fingernails, and replied, "I didn't kill him. Danzo is still alive."

"It's my turn to ask a question. Why did you leave a Genjutsu inside me? What does this have to do with Sasuke?"

"It's just a safety net. The power of Kotoamatsukami can interfere with a person's will and thoughts; it will prevent Sasuke from doing wrong, or, if Sasuke makes a wrong choice, turn the tide." Itachi replied calmly, his tone completely indifferent.

"Now for my question: what are your plans to do with Shisui's Sharingan, and in particular, how do you intend to use its Mangekyō Secret Technique — Kotoamatsukami?"

Sakura Haruno wrinkled her nose. "That's two problems."

"You also asked two questions," Itachi reminded him.

"Okay." Sakura raised her hand in admission of guilt. "To be honest, I don't have any particular need to use the Sharingan. Anyway, I won't transplant the Sharingan to myself, at least not to the original body."

She pointed to her eyes and shrugged. "Did my pupils change color overnight? I don't want to give that away."

"As for Kotoamatsukami... I certainly won't use that technique on my companions."

Even if Sasuke were to defect from Konoha?

"This is the third question." Sakura cleverly avoided the question. "It's my turn to ask, Itachi."

"What Genjutsu did you leave behind in those Kotoamatsukami?"

"It's 'Protecting Konoha'," Itachi said calmly. "Sasuke's personality is sensitive and fragile, making him prone to going down extremes; this is probably a common trait among our Uchiha Clan."

"To prevent him from going down the wrong path in the future, I need to leave him some kind of insurance."

"I'm asking you, Sakura Haruno. If Sasuke really does defect from Konoha in the future, will you use your Sharingan to cast Kotoamatsukami on him?"

The girl stopped tapping the container leisurely.

She stared intently at the weasel, pondered for a long time, and then said, "I won't let that happen."

"Is that so?" The handsome man looked at her noncommittally.

An answer that was not directly related to the question seemed to have gotten away with it.

Sakura Haruno quickly asked, "I'm a little curious... since you weren't ready to activate your Kotoamatsukami at the beginning, what were the conditions for triggering the Genjutsu? And what was your plan?"

"That's a very long question."

Uchiha Itachi said calmly.

"I'm sorry, my Chakra is no longer sufficient to sustain my existence, and I cannot answer your question. Well then, farewell, Sakura Haruno."

His body gradually transformed into black feathers, which drifted into the air.

"Hey, wait, hang in there, Uchiha Itachi!" Sakura Haruno hurriedly jumped off the table and rushed over to grab Itachi's hand, but unexpectedly Itachi's hand suddenly turned into a ball of feathers and dissipated.

She opened her hand, and in her palm, besides air, she grasped only a few black feathers.

Meanwhile, Itachi's body continued to disintegrate, his hands, arms, legs, and then his torso all disintegrating uncontrollably; and so, the increasingly light Uchiha Itachi slowly rose up amidst the countless black feathers fluttering and swirling.

Sakura Haruno looked up at Uchiha Itachi, who was receding further and further from the ground and fading into the distance. She paused for a moment, then suddenly shouted—

"Uchiha Itachi! Since you intend to use Kotoamatsukami as a way to restrain Sasuke, why don't you use Genjutsu on him yourself instead of leaving Kotoamatsukami on me?!"

Itachi's disappearing form seemed to pause for a moment.

Then, Sakura Haruno heard his final reply, "You and Sasuke share a deep enough bond... If Sasuke really goes down the wrong path of turning against the village in the future, the only person who can make him change his mind is you."

"Because you consider him a brother... you will definitely stop him from going down the wrong path."

In mid-air, Sakura saw Uchiha Itachi, who had dissipated to only his shoulders and head, and a slight, almost imperceptible smile appeared on her lips.

"I'm so glad Sasuke has a friend like you... That puts my mind at ease."

Goodbye, Sakura Haruno.

Uchiha Itachi smiled faintly and then completely disappeared into the air.

With a soft thud, Shisui's Sharingan eyeball fell from the air and landed in the girl's palm.

Shisui's second eye is in hand.

Sakura Haruno gripped the Sharingan, tilted her head back, and gazed in the direction Itachi had disappeared, her emotions complex, remaining silent for a long time.

A long time.

She chuckled, "You're overthinking it, Uchiha Itachi..."

"I will not let that happen!"

Sasuke's composure is impeccable!

She shook her head, banishing the extraneous thoughts, and placed the eyeball in her hand into the container filled with yellow nutrient solution. Then, she took out another sealing scroll from her person.

With a bang, the scroll was unsealed, releasing a large amount of smoke; amidst the swirling smoke, the fair and jade-like body of a young girl lying flat on the table was faintly visible.

"Although it's not easy to replace the Sharingan with my original body..." the girl chuckled.

"But I can experience what the Sharingan feels like using a clone!"

[Second update. It's a bit late, but at least I managed to finish it.]