"Please remember what you said today." Yuzuru Hyuga spoke earnestly. The gentle emotion in his eyes, so rarely, did not strike Itachi Uchiha as strange. Instead, it carried a warmth that filled him from within.
Yuzuru Hyuga fixed his gaze on Itachi Uchiha and carefully instructed him, "If Brother Shisui wants to stop you from becoming a ninja because he believes that is the way to protect you, then I don't see it that way. In this matter, I support your decision."
Shisui Uchiha sighed and rubbed his forehead, but he no longer tried to persuade him. He simply listened quietly to Yuzuru Hyuga's reasoning.
"Just remember this. Your eyes may deceive you, and the truth you understand may itself be nothing more than a carefully woven lie."
"Don't trust anyone, including me. Use every feeling you have to seek out your own answer."
Shisui Uchiha frowned and quietly pointed out that such an answer might not be reliable. "Then how can you ensure that the answer you reach is the right one?"
"Then ask yourself what you truly think in your heart. Ask yourself what it is you really want."
Yuzuru Hyuga looked at Itachi Uchiha and asked softly, "Perhaps we can add a few constraints to that answer. That way, once several possible answers surface in your mind, you can use them to determine what it is you ultimately want."
"For example."
He smiled. Within the barbecue restaurant, his voice was gentle and soft, yet amid the crackling of meat grease dripping onto the charcoal fire, his words reached both of their ears with the clarity of thunder in the rain.
"I hope that in the future, every child in Konoha won't have to think about so-called questions of clan and village like we do, nor face questions