Satsuki felt that his legs were weak and trembling, and he slowly stood up. But once again, she subconsciously blocked Naruto behind herself.
The eyes of the two people shifted in horror. On one side, Naruto's whole body tensed up, and his blue eyes flashed with unprecedented vigilance. The fresh blood stain on his face was so dazzling that it made her panic.
On the other side, there was the sister she once admired and relied on the most, but now she was exuding a strange chill that made her blood freeze.
Just now... my sister really... attacked me?
"Sister... what are you... doing?" Her voice was full of tears and confusion.
Naruto's nervousness and alertness are not fake. Naruto knew that Itachi would not really kill them - even if it was just "not able to kill".
Recalling what Itachi Uchiha did in the novel to "motivate" his younger brother, he beat Sasuke black and blue, and then used Tsukuyomi to make him relive the nightmare of his father's death for seventy-two hours... Behind that kind of "not killing" is a "tempering" that is cold enough to completely destroy a person.
I've warned her this time... she probably won't do something like that.
"Sister... please...!" Satsuki's voice was full of desperate sorrow. She still prayed, prayed that this was just a bad joke, and prayed that her sister could suddenly change back to her former self.
A moment later, her plea came to an abrupt end.
All the sounds were stuck in his throat.
Because she saw——Itachi Uchiha, expressionlessly, she slowly pulled out the shorts behind her back with her backhand.
The subtle sound of unsheathing was particularly harsh on the dead street at this moment, "My stupid sister... haven't you recognized the reality yet?"
The substantial murderous intention came like a tide, but even at this point, looking at the shimmering blade pointed at me, and looking at the bottomless darkness in my sister's eyes...
Satsuki still had a trace of absurd hope that refused to be extinguished in her heart. She shook her head, tears finally bursting out, "Fake it... sister."
"Everything I do is to test my own strength." Itachi Uchiha's voice sounded calmly, without any emotion.
"Everything?"
Satsuki murmured the word repeatedly. She looked at the extremely familiar face in front of her, trying to find the slightest trace of joking or coercion. In the end, she only saw bottomless indifference. She still couldn't completely equate the man in front of her with the "murderer who massacred the whole family".
Looking at his sister's painful eyes that were still mixed with confusion and disbelief, Itachi felt heavy. Her original plan was by no means so mild. Menma's warning was like a cold shackle, tightly binding her actions - she was not allowed to use Tsukuyomi on Satsuki.
Well... at least use this.
The next moment, scarlet color suddenly appeared in Itachi Uchiha's black eyes! Three Tomoe emerged out of thin air and began to spin rapidly.
Genjutsu was activated the moment their eyes met!
Naruto stared at Itachi's movements. The moment he saw Sharingan appear, his heart was in his throat. He immediately saw Satsuki's figure stiffen suddenly, and the expression of sadness and disbelief on his face instantly froze, as if the pause button had been pressed.
Immediately afterwards, a new and more primitive emotion quickly filled her pale face like ink dripping into clear water - it was utter fear.
Her pupils trembled violently, and in Satsuki's consciousness, she was witnessing a scene as terrifying as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
"Satsuki!"
Without hesitation, Naruto pressed his hand hard on Sasuke's cold shoulder, and quickly formed the "" seal with his other hand, injecting his chakra into Sasuke's body, forcibly impacting the shackles of the foreign illusion.
"Solution!"
Along with Naruto's shout, the Genjutsu shackles that bound Satsuki's spirit shattered!
"Uhhh... ahhh! Why?!!"
Satsuki, who broke free from Genjutsu, seemed to have finally been cut off from the last line of defense of self-deception, and the pain and despair that could not be expressed in words instantly broke through.
She suddenly hugged her head with both hands, her tears rolling down like broken pearls and hitting the ground.
She finally understood the cruel and unquestionable status quo - all of this was really the work of her only sister... This was the reality Itachi wanted Satsuki to see.
Naruto looked at Satsuki who just collapsed and cried and fainted like the "work" he knew, and felt a little at ease. It seems that Itachi indeed just released a relatively ordinary Genjutsu to forcefully instill cruel reality, not the Dojutsu that was enough to completely destroy the spirit for seventy-two hours.
At this moment, Itachi Uchiha, silently stared at her sister's eyes that were filled with tears, full of pain and fear, but did not show the scarlet color she expected, and her heart sank slightly.
If... Isn't it enough to just rely on this level of stimulation?
"Just... just for this reason... killed mom and dad?!"
The accumulated sadness and despair was finally ignited by the boundless anger. Satsuki cried hoarsely and stood up from the ground suddenly.
She nailed Itachi Uchiha in the face. That reason was so light and flamboyant that it made people laugh, and it formed an extremely cruel irony with the bloody feud in front of them.
"What a joke!!"
Emotion completely overwhelmed reason, Satsuki let out a mournful roar, clenched his small fists, and rushed towards Itachi Uchiha desperately! Her movements were unorganized and completely dominated by turbulent emotions.
"Satsuki!"
The gap in strength is a natural chasm for people to despair.
Facing his sister's hateful but weak attack, Itachi couldn't even move his feet. She just raised her hand expressionlessly and extremely easily, and accurately grabbed Satsuki's wrist.
Satsuki All the momentum came to an abrupt halt.
Before she could react, a completely irresistible force suddenly came from her neck! Itachi's other hand grabbed her throat like an iron pincer, and easily lifted her whole body off the ground.
"Uh-huh!"
The feeling of suffocation suddenly surged over him. Satsuki kicked his feet feebly in the air, and his face turned red quickly. She tried in vain to pry Itachi's fingers with both hands, but the fingerprints didn't move at all.
It feels so uncomfortable... I can't breathe...
Itachi stared at his sister who was struggling in pain in his hands. Sharingan An almost imperceptible trace of unbearable and stinging pain passed very quickly in the depths of Sharingan. The next second, it was completely covered by the determination called "necessity".
In order to achieve that unreachable goal, this trial must continue.
She once again drew out her short knife and aimed it at Satsuki's shoulder, a spot that would not be fatal but was enough to bring pain and fear.
Reluctantly opening his eyes, which were blurred by tears, Satsuki saw the sharp blade that was so close to him, pointed at him. The huge fear and sense of betrayal pierced her heart like an ice pick.
She... really wants to kill me?
"Don't... stop..." She begged weakly from the depths of her throat, and her tears fell more violently.
"Let her go!"
Naruto, whose nerves were tense all the time, could not sit back and watch. Among the choices that the identity of "Uzumaki Naruto" could make, he did not hesitate to use his most powerful trump card.
Adamantine Sealing Chains!
Boo hoo hoo-!
Several dazzling golden chains shot out from behind Naruto! The moment before the short sword in Itachi's hand was about to touch Satsuki——
As if you had life, the golden chains wrapped around you instantly! One of them tightly bound the wrist of Itachi's sword-wielding arm, and the powerful force forced the blade to stop in mid-air. The other ones wrapped around her waist and other arm like lightning, completely locking her movement!
The sudden restraint and the overwhelming force coming from the chain were completely beyond Itachi's expectations. The body was restrained by this huge force, and the hand holding Satsuki's neck subconsciously loosened its grip.
"Cough! Cough cough cough..."
Satsuki fell heavily to the ground, held his throat and coughed violently, breathing in the cold air.
Itachi slowly looked at the blond boy who had been ignored by her and stood behind Satsuki.
Naruto stared at Itachi Uchiha who was temporarily imprisoned.
"If you dare to touch Satsuki again... I will kill you!"