Between the mountain ranges.
Sasori looked coldly at Grandma Chiyo and Sakura.
Grandma Chiyo had been observing Sasori's body the entire time.
In her eyes, it was clear that the enemy before her was nothing more than a puppet.
"How did you learn to create the poison that afflicted Kankuro?"
Grandma Chiyo asked coldly.
"Is that so strange?"
"Who else could it be but me?"
Sasori responded to Grandma Chiyo in a slow, languid tone.
In the back of Grandma Chiyo's mind, a figure flickered in and out of focus.
She stared intently at the Sasori of the Sand before her.
She still could not be certain if this was truly her grandson.
"Bastard! Hand over the antidote!"
Without another word, Sakura charged forward.
Sasori gave a cold smirk.
The sharp steel spikes on his back instantly aimed at Sakura.
"Watch out!"
Grandma Chiyo hurriedly maneuvered a puppet to block Sasori's attack.
At the same time, she used her left hand to control another puppet she had kept in ambush, which lunged out from Sasori's left side.
Sasori frowned and leaped into the air.
The next second, Sakura suddenly appeared directly above Sasori's head.
"Blind Falling!!!"
A powerful, monstrous strength erupted instantly.
Sasori's body could not withstand this attack at all.
It disintegrated right there in mid-air.
A figure leaped out from the collapsing puppet.
The moment Grandma Chiyo saw that figure, she was completely stunned.
Red hair, delicate features.
He looked exactly the same as he had back then; there had been no change at all.
One had to realize that so many years had passed.
The fact that Sasori could maintain his original appearance was terrifying.
However, it only took a moment for Grandma Chiyo to realize the truth.
Sasori had turned his own body into a puppet.
On the other side.
After Uchiha Chuanyu left the cave with Karin, he hurried toward Sasori's location.
After a long battle, Sasori had ultimately decided to embrace death.
It was not that Sasori wanted to be killed.
But how could he possibly dodge the embrace of the "Father" and "Mother" puppets?
At the critical moment, Chuanyu and Karin arrived quickly before Sasori.
The two of them simultaneously blocked the puppets' attacks, then supported Sasori as they retreated to the side.
"Wait!"
When Grandma Chiyo saw Chuanyu, she suddenly froze.
Memories flooded her mind.
That figure who had slaughtered an entire Sand unit—it was him!
"Uchiha Chuanyu...?!"
Chuanyu slowly turned around.
Grandma Chiyo's face instantly turned deathly pale.
"You still remember me, huh? It seems I left quite a bad impression on you back then."
How could I possibly forget!
But Grandma Chiyo couldn't understand for the life of her how Uchiha Chuanyu had joined the Akatsuki after so many years apart.
Seeing the cold sweat dripping from Grandma Chiyo's forehead, Sakura suddenly felt puzzled.
"Grandma, you know him too?"
Grandma Chiyo nodded heavily. "The scene from that day is something I'll never forget in my life!"
"If he joins the Akatsuki, the entire Ninja World will be affected and thrown into turmoil."
Upon hearing this, Sakura looked at Uchiha Chuanyu with disdain.
"You're Sasuke's brother, aren't you?"
"Where is Itachi?!"
Hearing Sakura say this, Chuanyu was stunned for a moment.
What did this annoying pink-haired girl want with Itachi?
And where was Sasuke?
"Your three-person team, why is Sasuke missing?"
Chuanyu asked coldly.
"Sasuke? You're with Itachi, aren't you?!"
"The Uchiha clan was wiped out, how could you not know?!"
Sakura scrutinized Chuanyu with a questioning gaze.
It was like a bolt from the blue.
Chuanyu's heart suddenly clenched.
"What... what did you say?!"
"The Uchiha... were wiped out?!"
The next second, Chuanyu's chakra erupted instantly.
With a single step, he appeared before Sakura, grabbed her by the neck, and lifted her into the air.
"Sakura!"
Grandma Chiyo cried out in alarm and quickly controlled her puppet to charge at Chuanyu.
"Get lost!!!"
As he turned his head.
The pupil of his left eye suddenly dilated.
Before Grandma Chiyo could react, she lost consciousness and collapsed on the ground.
"What exactly happened!"
"Speak!"
Chuanyu tightened his grip on Sakura's neck, and she felt her breathing become difficult, drawing closer to death.
"Chuanyu! Stop!"
"Be rational! If you continue like this, she'll die!"
Karin suddenly ran over.
Hearing this, Chuanyu finally regained some semblance of reason.
He slightly loosened his grip, and Sakura instantly fell to the ground.
"Cough... cough..."
Sakura gasped for air, looking at the purplish bruises on her neck.
Looking at Chuanyu again, she felt a lingering fear.
"Tell me..."
Chuanyu suppressed his emotions and looked at Sakura.
"It was one night, two years ago."
"The entire Uchiha clan was annihilated."
"And everyone knows Itachi did it!"
"Sasuke also defected from Konoha at the last moment of the Chunin Exams because of it!"
Sakura yelled, her voice choked with grievance.
"You're talking nonsense!"
Chuanyu stomped directly onto Sakura's abdomen.
The ground instantly collapsed. Sakura's expression turned blank, then she spat out a large mouthful of blood and fainted.
"Impossible! Impossible!"
"How could it be Itachi!"
"Everything I did was right! I made no mistakes!"
"Why... why is this tragedy repeating itself!"
Chuan Yu clutched his hair in agony.
Recalling Fugaku and Mikoto's faces, Chuan Yu knelt on the ground in grief and indignation.
Sand stung his eyes.
Not far away, Sasori looked at the unconscious Grandma Chiyo and suddenly smiled.
At the very end, he had seen his grandmother's true feelings.
He could finally let go.
"Two years..."
"Two years..."
"So the Uchiha were wiped out two years ago..."
"Sasuke still went to Orochimaru in the end..."
Chuan Yu refused to believe that Itachi had annihilated the Uchiha, no matter what.
Getting up from the ground, he turned and looked towards the northern sky.
"You take Sasori back to Akatsuki first."
"I'm going to find Itachi myself!"
With that, Chuan Yu quickly jumped onto a rock and climbed over the peak.
And on a large tree not far away.
Obito, wearing a mask with a swirl pattern, suddenly showed an interesting smile.
A vortex appeared around his right eye.
Obito was immediately sucked into it.
Konoha's border.
Itachi stood atop a high peak, gazing at the scenery of Konoha.
Suddenly, thunder rumbled, and in a moment, heavy rain began to fall.
"This isn't good for your body."
Kisame's figure appeared behind him.
Itachi remained silent, looking up at the sky, letting the heavy rain wash over his face.
"I don't know what you, so cold and ruthless, are thinking."
"But from here, it looks like you're crying."
With that, Kisame opened his umbrella and walked to Itachi's side.
"Mr. Itachi, don't catch a cold."
Sound Village.
In a dark underground laboratory.
A delicate young man pulled the Kusanagi Sword from a strange snake.
The young man wore a pure white kimono and dark blue pants.
On the back of the kimono was a small clan crest, and dark gray arm guards covered his forearms, extending to his palms.
A purple rope belt was tied around his waist.
"Sas... Sasuke..."
"You... cannot escape my grasp..."
The strange snake appeared very weak and covered in wounds.
"Katon..."
"Gokakyu no Jutsu!"
Flames immediately spewed from Sasuke's mouth.
The great fire spread, and the snake was instantly consumed by the flames.
"Well then, let's go now."
A vortex appeared out of thin air.
The next second, behind Sasuke.
Obito, wearing a swirl mask, slowly walked out.
"Then from now on..."
"We are on the same side..."
Flowing ears, scattered ears, ears, ears~
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