Sasuke: The Sky Has Fallen

Naruto suddenly turned red-eyed and said with deep emotion.

"Heh, eat up, eat up."

Takuya smiled as he spoke and continued watching TV.

Naruto also ate snacks like a little hamster, munching away.

Before long, Mikoto finished tidying the room and came downstairs, standing on the stairs and waving at Naruto: "Naruto! Come on, Auntie will take you to see your new room!"

"Coming, dattebayo."

Naruto's eyes lit up and he dashed over in a flash.

The second floor.

Mikoto smiled and led Naruto into a room.

This room had originally been empty, and she had just tidied it up to serve as Naruto's room.

Next door was Sasuke's room, diagonally across was her and Takuya's bedroom, and directly opposite was Itachi's room.

At that moment, Naruto looked like Granny Liu entering Grand View Garden, his mouth wide enough to fit an egg.

The room was twice as spacious as the one he had been living in!

On top of that, it had a huge window with pretty curtains, a super-large bed several times bigger, plus a desk, a chair... A fluffy rug was spread across the floor, feeling warm and cozy underfoot.

"How is it, Naruto, are you satisfied?"

Mikoto leaned against the doorway and asked with a smile.

"I'm super satisfied, Aunt Mikoto!"

He ran back and forth across the rug with extreme excitement, touching this and sitting on that for a bit—so many novel things he was seeing for the first time.

"Alright, then Auntie can rest easy. Come on, let's head down, Auntie will give you a bath."

Hearing that, Naruto's face turned red in an instant, and he stood in place, fidgeting and twisting his clothes: "Auntie, can I take a bath by myself~"

Mikoto gently refused: "No way, Naruto, you don't wash clean enough. Auntie will help you!"

Seeing that he could not refuse, Naruto had no choice but to nod with a red face.

As the two of them went downstairs, the door to Sasuke's room right next to Naruto's crept open. Sasuke poked his little head out to look toward the stair landing and gritted his teeth: "Damn it, this guy is actually going to move in and live here!"

That bad prehension really had come true!

Sasuke ran into his older brother's room diagonally across the hall, and sure enough, he saw his brother still lying in bed. He threw himself onto his brother's bed with a wronged expression.

Uchiha Itachi looked up, and seeing that it was Sasuke who came in, he let out a breath of relief, having thought it was their father.

That was right, he had returned before dawn this morning.

Then he sat there blankly for hours, waiting until his father left the house before finally getting into bed to sleep. He had slept straight through to the afternoon, and when he woke up, he hadn't left his room either, lying in bed thinking instead.

"Sasuke, what's wrong? What's got you upset?"

Itachi still doted a lot on this only younger brother of his. Seeing him looking wronged and keeping silent, he couldn't help speaking up to ask.

"Nii-san, kaa-san hit me."

Sasuke pouted his small lips to complain to his brother.

Itachi rubbed Sasuke's little head. "Oh? How did kaa-san beat you?"

"Because kaa-san is making that annoying guy come live at our house."

"The annoying guy?"

Itachi was slightly startled and asked unconcernedly: "Who is it?"

Sasuke raised a hand to gesture: "It's that yellow-haired brat I told you about, named Uzumaki Naruto. He pesters me every day at school, it's so annoying."

Sasuke said with disgust.

Naruto!

Itachi was startled at first. He was also one of the few people who knew Naruto's identity, knowing that Naruto was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

How could the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki come to live at their house? Clearly, ever since the Nine-Tails Uprising, the Hokage had strictly forbidden the clan from having any contact with the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki...

Then a thought crossed his mind, and a trace of understanding flashed in his eyes.

Ah right, his father had already succeeded in the coup and become the Fifth Hokage; from now on, what the family head said went in the village.

Allowing Naruto to live in their own home was not that big a deal, either. Itachi's gaze flickered, figuring his father must have done it to better monitor the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki at close range, right?

Itachi couldn't help thinking.

Actually, Takuya really didn't have that thought at all; he simply couldn't stand seeing Naruto live such a miserable life and had brought him home to adopt him.

"Alright, alright, you'll be living together with Naruto from now on, so get along well with him in the future!"

Itachi knew that their father bringing Naruto back and saying they would live together was serious. He didn't have any good solutions for this either, and could only comfort Sasuke into accepting reality.

Seeing that even his brother wouldn't take his side, Sasuke let out a waah and ran back to his own room.

Itachi shook his head helplessly.

He hesitated for a moment, but still threw off the blanket and walked out of the room.

Since his father hadn't come to find him, he would go find his father.

He urgently wanted to know what his father planned to do from now on.

The fact that his father had seized the Hokage's authority through a coup could not be kept hidden for long. The other ninja villages definitely had spies planted in the village. Now that Konoha's martial law had been lifted this morning, this news must have already been transmitted back to those villages by every possible means by those spies, right?

Once the Kages of those villages got the news, would they join forces to invade the Land of Fire by then?

Itachi wanted to know if his father had made preparations on how to deal with it.

He deeply loved the village and didn't want to watch it be destroyed in an instant.

After going downstairs, Itachi saw his father lounging on the sofa watching TV.

The TV was broadcasting Channel One, which was talking about topics related to the livelihood and economy of the Land of Fire.

And Itachi also saw the yellow-haired child sitting beside his father, stuffing snacks into his mouth like a little hamster.

Itachi had also caught a few distant glimpses of the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki before, knowing that he was the Naruto whom Sasuke found annoying.

Seeing Naruto cast a curious gaze toward him, Itachi gave a friendly greeting: "Hello there, Naruto-kun. I'm Sasuke's older brother, Itachi. Since you're living here from now on, we're all family. You can call me big brother just like Sasuke does."

Upon hearing this, Naruto hurriedly swallowed the snacks in his mouth, stood up in a flash, and said with burning eyes: "Got it, Big Brother Itachi!"

Hearing his brother go downstairs just then, Sasuke had thought his brother was going to stand up for him, so he had sneakily come out of his room and run to the stair landing to watch.

As a result, he happened to hear Naruto call Itachi big brother, and his complexion instantly turned pale and weak.

He only felt as if the sky had fallen!

That damned Naruto, not only was he going to stay and live at his house, but he also wanted to snatch away his dear older brother?!

This odious, evil yellow-haired brat!

Sasuke could no longer hold back at that moment. He thud-thud-thud ran downstairs, executed a rushing slide to grab Itachi's arm, and glared at Naruto: "Naruto! You aren't allowed to call Itachi big brother! Only I can call him that!"

Naruto scratched his head, not understanding why Sasuke was angry: "But Sasuke, Big Brother Itachi is the one who told me to call him big brother. Why can't I call him Big Brother Itachi?"

Sasuke was so angry that his small face turned as red as if about to drip blood. You're still calling him that, you're still calling him that!

He irritably said: "Anyway, I just don't allow you to call him that."

Naruto scratched his head with an innocent look, not knowing where things had gone wrong for Sasuke to get this angry, dattebayo.

Seeing his father glance toward him, Itachi helplessly rubbed Sasuke's head: "Alright, Sasuke, stop talking. Didn't I just tell you to get along well with Naruto?"