It was as if Yota had never existed.
Sasuke had no idea how many of the Rookies were pretending to be clueless. A week had passed in a daze, and no one had brought it up.
Nothing came of the plan to have those who had been captured wait for questioning, either.
That weekend, the Rookies decided, as usual, to hold a lakeside barbecue party at the Uchiha Clan Grounds.
Honestly, having a group of people happily gathering together right after a friend had died was far too heartless.
Even knowing that the Rookies had been placed under some kind of Forgetfulness Spell, it still made Sasuke, who knew the truth, feel uncomfortable. It definitely was not because watching them squander his food reserves annoyed him.
The only comfort Sasuke found was that there were no additional girls at the party. Sakura seemed not to have gone through the experience of raising a child with everyone else, so she only watched him from afar, much like Hinata spying on Naruto. At least Hinata had chances to get close to Naruto.
Even though they were all only eight or nine years old, after Hinata had joined the Rookies' parties a few times, "Hinata has a crush on Naruto" had become a secret that almost everyone except Naruto himself knew. Every now and then, they would create opportunities for Hinata.
All he could say was that the memory-erasing technique was too powerful. How had it managed to make several people forget so precisely at the same time? Yota had not been very old when he died, had he? Yet he could use such a powerful brainwashing genjutsu. Had the caster really been Yota himself?
Sasuke did not dare think too deeply about it. The more he thought about it, the more it