Fake, it was all fake!

"Long time no see, Sasuke."

Itachi Uchiha lowered his eyes to look.

Anger quickly turned into confusion on Uchiha Sasuke's face.

?

He stared blankly at Itachi Uchiha in front of him.

How could they just swagger into the village like that?

This has happened before, but!

Itachi Uchiha's current attire is quite outrageous.

It looked like something a nouveau riche would wear, covered in patterned accessories, red and green.

Is this still Itachi Uchiha?

He was bewildered, but those two obvious tear troughs were something he had never seen on anyone other than Itachi Uchiha.

"What... what are you doing in the village?!"

Sasuke, regaining his senses, quickly jumped back, took out Kunai in mid-air, and glared fiercely at Itachi Uchiha in front of him.

"My silly little brother, of course I came to..."

Itachi Uchiha abruptly stopped mid-sentence.

He suddenly realized that he wasn't there to cause trouble; he was clearly planning to settle down in Konoha Village.

Then the previous sales pitch won't work anymore.

"Ahem," he coughed lightly, composed his expression, and looked earnestly at Uchiha Sasuke: "I'm here in Konoha now because I'm returning to the Konoha Village."

"Ah?"

Uchiha Sasuke looked puzzled.

What do you mean by saying you want to go back to Konoha Village?

He still watched Itachi Uchiha with wariness, mainly because he knew he couldn't beat Itachi Uchiha in his current state. Otherwise, like the previous two times, he would have rushed up and given Itachi Uchiha two Itachi Uchiha the Kunai he saw him!

After being taught by Kanami, his mindset has improved significantly and stabilized.

He couldn't bring himself to rush up and stab the other person twice with Kunai.

"It means I'm going to stay in Konoha for a long time, that is, settle down, or rather, I'm going to return to Konoha and become Konoha Ninja again."

Itachi Uchiha calmly explained.

Uchiha Sasuke:???

"What the hell did you say?!"

"You're going back to Konoha to become Konoha Ninja? You, a rogue ninja, are telling me you're going back to become Konoha Ninja?"

"Your head is probably still on the bounty poster, isn't it?"

He didn't believe Itachi Uchiha's story at all, especially since the other man's attire was so strange, making him look like an undercover agent who had infiltrated Konoha.

Seeing that Sasuke didn't believe him, Itachi Uchiha had nothing to say. He simply activated his Sharingan and played back the scene he had seen for Sasuke.

The scene shows the conversation between Tsunade and him being projected through Sasuke's Sharingan.

Sasuke's eyes widened, Sharingan appeared.

"How is that possible?!"

"That old hag Tsunade actually agreed to let you join the village?! And she even believed your nonsense!"

"How could you be a double agent? I don't believe it!"

"You have no choice but to believe it, this is the truth, Sasuke. You have to learn to accept things that seem illogical but are actually real."

Itachi Uchiha said calmly.

He just watched silently as Sasuke's eyes widened, as if he were about to collapse.

"Then why did you kill our parents!"

"Mom and Dad love you so much!"

Sasuke was even more furious.

In his memory, his parents loved his older brother very much, and even he himself loved his older brother Itachi Uchiha, very much.

Therefore, he couldn't understand why Itachi Uchiha was capable of committing the massacre of even his own parents.

In the end, they left him alone and tormented him from time to time.

"I know my parents love me very much, so they didn't want to fight me. Instead, they chose to trust me and the future I saw, and therefore willingly died at my hands."

Itachi Uchiha thought that it would be extremely painful for him to say this in front of Sasuke.

However, he now finds himself not in much pain, or even feeling nothing at all.

He didn't know what was wrong with him.

"Itachi Uchiha! You're a beast! If I were you, I'd rather commit suicide than kill my own parents!!"

Uchiha Sasuke trembled all over, Three Tomoe Sharingan began to vibrate, as if it were about to spin.

Itachi Uchiha's eyes narrowed instantly.

This is?!

Intense emotional fluctuations!

Sasuke seems to be showing signs of Mangekyō Sharingan.

Silly little brother, I have to give you another hand.

As he thought of this, his facial expression suddenly began to change.

The corners of his mouth began to turn upwards, higher and higher.

"Sasuke, hahaha! You actually believed me! Hahaha, I was just saying that casually! You even believe the murderer who killed your own parents! It wasn't that Mom and Dad didn't resist, it's that they couldn't resist. I told them that if they dared to resist, I would kill their precious son first!"

Itachi Uchiha's face twisted in a grotesque grin.

Uchiha Sasuke:...?

His pupils trembled rapidly, fluctuating back and forth!

Fake?!

"You're saying everything you just said was a lie?"

"Yes! Sasuke!"

"Impossible! Your parents' most beloved son is you, not me!"

On the eve of his collapse, the last shred of reason clung to his mind, a reminder of Fugaku Uchiha's oft-repeated words, "Compared to your brother, you're still far inferior."

Similarly, this unbroken thread of reason was also the last vestige of his belief in Itachi Uchiha.

Deep down, he still believed his brother's words were true; he just refused to admit that it was all Itachi Uchiha's choice made under the village's arrangement.

Otherwise, what exactly was he aiming for all these years in his relentless pursuit of Itachi Uchiha?

"It's you! Mom and Dad always say that Sasuke is their favorite, so I hate you. You're not as good as me in any way, but you always get the most love from Mom and Dad!"

As he spoke, a thin tear rolled down Itachi Uchiha's cheek, making him appear genuinely saddened by his parents' lack of love.

Only he knows what his true emotions are.

"Otherwise, what makes you think you can survive? I just wanted to show you all this cruelty, this hellish scene is what you deserve, Sasuke!"

At this moment, Uchiha Sasuke's ears were ringing, and Itachi Uchiha's laughter and words were echoing in his mind.

"It's all fake... Everything I believe is fake... What I see is fake too..."

"Tick-tock!"

A single tear fell.

Uchiha Sasuke's Three Tomoe Sharingan stopped trembling.

The next second!

Rapid spinning!

A powerful Eye Power emanated from his eyes!