I'll brand you with the Dark Chakra Brand!
That way, I can keep track of your condition at all times!
Naruko had the protagonist's script as the heroine. If she got kidnapped once, there would be a second time.
Maybe... next time, Otsutsuki Toneri would capture her.
Thinking this, Mingren slowly approached Naruko...
Sasuke raced through the forest.
His face was full of anxiety.
Itachi followed swiftly behind him.
"Sasuke, don't be so anxious..." Itachi urged.
"How could I not be anxious?!" Sasuke shouted.
After all, that bastard... wanted to use Naruko as a breeding vessel!!
Naruko was his pre-determined wife!
She was supposed to help him restore the Uchiha clan!
Seeing how worried his younger brother was, Itachi suddenly felt somewhat relieved.
Because...
After losing his family and clan, his younger brother had never shown such concern for... another person.
The fact that Naruko could make Sasuke this nervous meant she had succeeded admirably.
What she had once said... about treating Sasuke like a brother had been fully realized...
However...
Itachi sensed that Sasuke's friendship toward Naruko seemed somewhat different now.
In other words, their friendship had changed.
Was that a good thing?
Perhaps.
Itachi could not help but think of his lover, whom he had personally killed... Izumi Uchiha.
Bang!
The Nine-Tails' Chakra shattered at the sound.
Nine-Tails' Roar was suppressed as well.
The five fingers of the outstretched hand pressed forward relentlessly, growing larger and larger in Naruko's vision.
Finally...
They landed on her lower abdomen!
"Urgh~!"
Naruko's eyes widened, her face filled with disbelief.
She could sense it.
"The Emperor's Chakra... is flowing in..."
Whoosh...
Dark Chakra acted upon the Eight Trigrams Seal.
It seeped into Naruko's mental space...
Black.
Naruko had been dyed in the Emperor's color.
Within the pure white space, a