P.S. Happy Dragon Boat Festival, dear readers! Wishing you all peace and good health! A few chapters were a little short before, so I'm taking the holiday as a chance to write a bit more. Here are eight thousand words! I'd also be grateful if you could give me more votes and subscribe. Thank you all!
But that thought had barely crossed Sasuke's mind before it vanished. After all, Sasuke still wasn't that twisted in this life. He had personally killed Danzo, which had already taken some of the heat out of his desire for revenge. And now he was supposed to bring the man back with the Reanimation Jutsu? Forget everything else—even the fact that it required living sacrifices made it impossible for the Sasuke of this life to make such a decision lightly. Unless Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu were the sacrifices, he wouldn't feel the slightest qualm. As for anyone else... well, Naruto probably wouldn't let it happen.
Neji, who shared similar thoughts with Sasuke, was also staring at the gathered Konoha High Command with an utterly cold expression. Aside from Tsunade and Jiraiya, the rest were all his "enemies."
Don't tell Neji that his father had volunteered.
The mighty Konohagakure!
The foremost superpower, victorious in three Shinobi World Wars!
And yet, because Kumogakure made an unreasonable demand—and after its people had been the ones to provoke them—Konoha had handed over his father as a "gift" in negotiations. His father had died for such a ridiculous reason, only to be used as an experimental subject by Kumogakure for more than a decade. At the thought, Neji could no longer contain the rage churning deep inside him!
When he had personally led a team to destroy Kumogakure earlier, he had found the relevant records and intelligence inside the