Why Don't You Stab Him?!

Although she could not see Lin or Uchiha Itachi, Mikoto Uchiha's gaze never left her child as she lay on the bed.

He saw the tiny Uchiha Itachi suddenly begin to float, only to be slammed heavily onto the ground moments later.

Little Uchiha Itachi let out a heart-wrenching cry. Disregarding her weakened body, Mikoto Uchiha called for the wet nurse as she shakily climbed out of bed and reached for her child.

The tiny Uchiha Itachi was picked up. Under his mother's soothing embrace, his crying immediately ceased, and he became a well-behaved child acting spoiled in her arms. His lips kept opening and closing, and a smile appeared on his face.

"I-I'm sorry..."

Uchiha Itachi, dressed in casual clothes, had not expected his mother to care about him so deeply. But on second thought, what parent would not care about their child?

Perhaps such parents existed, but Mikoto Uchiha was certainly not one of them. Itachi knew better than anyone that she had nothing but love for her children.

Before he was born, his mother had not been exceptionally powerful, but she had still been a highly competent ninja. Yet after his birth, she had never carried out another mission. Instead, she had devoted herself to caring for him, tirelessly working for both him and his father.

Even Uchiha Itachi, clad in the Akatsuki uniform, silently watched the warm scene. The last time he had seen his mother was when Orochimaru had used Impure World Reincarnation to bring her back and pit her against him.

His feelings had already run deep then, but they had not been deep enough. Now, seeing what was perhaps a memory from his mind, even within a Genjutsu, it felt incomparably real.

"Just like he did back then! Stab him!"

"What are you