Sasuke called out loudly.
"To settle your situation."
Itachi spoke.
Sasuke froze, stunned.
Kakashi, who had been watching with his arms folded, shuddered at those words, his eyes narrowing.
Itachi's words were brief, but their implications were anything but simple.
There was only one way to interpret settling Sasuke's situation: he intended to take Sasuke away from Konoha.
Sasuke's situation was undoubtedly an unresolved issue from the past, even though more than ten years had passed since that night.
Relations between the two sides had long since calmed, and they no longer stood in bitter opposition as they had back then.
"Father and the others!"
Sasuke blurted out, unable to hide his nervousness.
"You'll see him soon."
Itachi smiled.
Sasuke's heart trembled. In that moment, he did not know what to feel.
Afterward, Kakashi led Itachi toward the accommodations Konoha had arranged.
Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura gathered together.
Kakashi was on official business, so they naturally could not disturb him.
"Sasuke, is the leader from the Hidden Rain Village really your brother?"
Sakura asked quietly.
"Yes!"
Sasuke nodded.
The connection and bond in their blood could not deceive him.
Besides, Xia Le had personally confirmed it.
"But why is he in the Hidden Rain Village?"
"If any members of the Uchiha Clan survived, shouldn't they have returned to Konoha?"
Naruto asked in confusion.
"That's the truth I've been searching for all this time!"
Sasuke said gravely.
A member of the Uchiha Clan was actually a Jōnin of the Hidden Rain Village.
What exactly was the reason behind that?
After speaking, Sasuke raised his head and stared quietly at the river ahead, lost in thought.
He had a feeling that, with the arrival of the Hidden Rain in Konoha, the truth of that year would gradually unfold before him. But the