After explaining everything to Sasuke, Yeyu glanced at the sky. "It's too late. I should head back and get some rest."
Sasuke looked up. "Why are you so indifferent about getting stronger?"
That was something Sasuke had always been curious about.
Yeyu turned to look at Sasuke. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Maybe it's because no one has appeared yet who'd make me feel I absolutely have to get stronger."
"Unlike you. You have a family grudge, and someone you have to kill. That person is stronger than you—far stronger—so you're going crazy trying to get stronger."
"But I don't have that. We're not the same."
Sasuke's mood immediately sank. He murmured, "Yeah. We're not the same."
But Yeyu was the first person in all these years to spell that out for him.
Though Sasuke was downcast, those words had truly struck home.
He had already trusted Yeyu, and now he trusted him even more.
Yeyu was the only person who hadn't told him to give up his revenge.
He had even supported Sasuke's pursuit of revenge. In all these years, he was the only one.
After I kill Itachi, maybe I'll be able to be like you, Sasuke thought silently.
While Sasuke sat in silence, Yeyu had already disappeared.
The entire Training Ground was deserted. Only Sasuke remained, surrounded by the huge craters Yeyu's Nintaijutsu had made.
Anyone who didn't know better would have thought a great battle had just taken place there.
As soon as Yeyu returned home, he saw Kakashi sitting in the living room.
"You two are really something, you and your student. Kakashi-sensei, you're going to scare me to death if you keep doing that."
Yeyu sat down opposite Kakashi.
Sipping his tea, Kakashi looked puzzled. "You and your student? Who came to