"Naruto, why don't you come with us?"
People from Caravan are helping several children from Uchiha clean up Puppet.
As if he was used to the other party's occasional frustrations, Sara calmly took some gifts from Caravan to appease the other party, and then asked Naruto.
"It's not urgent. In fact, I'm not the protagonist this time. Sasuke It's been so long since he met his tribe again. He definitely needs some private time, so I won't bother him yet."
Naruto looked at the unyielding look on Taro Uchiha's face in front of him, and felt that he seemed somewhat similar to Konohamaru.
He stepped forward and touched his head, and asked with a smile, "Can you tell me more about how you say Uchiha outside? I can help you fix Puppet!"
On the other side, Sasuke was already walking inside alone.
This was the Ruins that used to be Ancient Rōran Kingdom. The towering Tower and the walls can occasionally be seen to be extremely rigorous and precise, but they have been destroyed to the point where only part of the artistic pattern is visible. You can still vaguely see how glorious the Rōran was.
But now it has become a residence for survivors.
Sasuke was still confused at first, why no adults came over even though the noise caused by the children just now was not a small one.
However, when he walked into a place that looked like a street and just took a look, he understood.
There were not as many tribesmen living here as he had imagined. Except for a few elderly-looking old men sitting at the door and looking at him as a stranger, no other young people could be seen anywhere.
Most of the old people here are elderly, and even if the person in front of them looks slightly familiar, it is difficult to recognize who he is.
[Were the only Uchiha that survived were the old, weak, women and children? Or was there other changes?]
Sasuke's heart sank.
The houses renovated with Ruins along the way are all marked with the Uchiha Clan and Insignia, proving that they have not forgotten their Family glory.
But the house renovated by Ruins, even if it is called "simple", it is an exaggeration.
At this moment, everything that Sasuke saw no longer corresponded to the Uchiha Clan that he remembered as being glorious in Konoha.
The houses are even slightly separated from each other, and everyone does not live together as a group.
Instead, there are a group of houses that were obviously built later. The architectural style is somewhat similar to the Uchiha Clan Compound houses of Konoha before. They look much more normal when connected together, but these houses are far away from the Ruins here.
Sasuke went over to check and found that no one was living in the houses that were built later, but it was still possible to see that people lived in a few houses.
He returned to the same street as before, looking at the occasional elderly people standing at the door and some children poking their heads at home, trying to recognize a few familiar faces in his memory.
But unfortunately, most of the people Sasuke knew when he was a child were the neighbors around his home and the subordinates of his parents who occasionally interacted with him.
But those people have long since become the dead souls of Uchiha Itachi.
There is no one he knows among the Uchiha here.
"Hello..."
Sasuke plucked up the courage and tried to communicate with them.
But in the face of the other party's slightly wary look when looking at a stranger, he finally just put away his words and continued to walk forward in silence.
Sasuke became more and more disappointed, and couldn't help but begin to wonder if he actually didn't care much about his own people.
Because I have been looking forward to meeting these people for so long.
Instead, he felt a strange flatness in his heart. There was no happiness, sadness, joy or any other emotions that he had imagined.
Even though he knew they were the surviving Uchiha Clan, he seemed to be just looking at a group of strangers with the same surname "Uchiha".
He even felt a little bit of restraint and oppression, and the further he walked, the more it became more so.
It was as if there was a voice in his heart telling him, "Don't stay here anymore. You are just imagining the once glorious Uchiha Clan. You can't even sympathize with them after they have fallen into decline. In fact, the people here have never had anything to do with you."
This idea frightened Sasuke--
[Am I actually the same as that guy Uchiha Itachi...]
Suddenly, Sasuke, who heard a conversation, stopped and couldn't help but look over there.
"Auntie, you are not in good health. In fact, the main reason is that you don't want to go out for a walk. Although the scenery here is not very good, you will still get bored if you stay at home all the time. Remember to take the nutritional supplements I brought you this time. It is more effective than ordinary medicine!"
"Hey, Leader, don't always worry about me, an old woman. I'm of no use. You really don't need to come here every time..."
But before she could finish speaking, looking at Uchiha Izumi's sincere eyes and dimple-like smile, she couldn't continue.
He just sighed, "Okay, okay, I'm going to walk around more now and go there to have a look, Leader, you can go back too."
"Okay, then I will also let those children come to your place more often and move around more. It is better to watch the children than to stay alone, right?"
Hearing the child, the old man's eyes obviously became a little brighter and he nodded.
After comforting the old man who had been sick recently, Uchiha Izumi watched him walk away on crutches.
She did not look back at Sasuke standing behind her, but put away her smile and said, "How is it? Is it very different from what you imagined?"
At this time, from Sasuke's perspective, although he could only see the other party's tall back and black hair, he still realized her identity--
The Older Sister who was once very gentle in his memory is also the real Leader mentioned by Sara Queen who is now Uchiha Clan!
[It was she who truly shouldered the burden of the Uchiha Clan when Uchiha Clan suffered a devastating disaster.]
[Unlike the self-righteous self who hides in Konoha, she is Uchiha's...]
"Clan Head Izumi."
However, when she heard Sasuke calling herself this, Quan was also stunned. She turned around with a very surprised look on her face.
However, she could only hear one more sentence. "Thank you for your hard work these years, Clan Head Izumi."
Quan blinked and looked at the figure in front of her who was so blurry that her face could not be seen clearly. She did not show the smile she just showed to the old man, but instead let out a sigh, "You have grown up, Sasuke Uchiha."
There was no concealment of unfamiliarity in her tone, which even made Sasuke vaguely feel that she was showing this emotion on purpose.
After all, for the Uchiha Clan at this moment, he, the son of the former Clan Head and the brother of the genocide murderer, is completely an uninvited guest...
Sasuke, who has a lot of inner drama, doesn't even know how to speak, but Quan seems to know what he wants to know:
"Not all the people who survived are here. In addition to children and the elderly, there are still some young people."
"Then... have they left?"
Sasuke can almost imagine the scene. After the genocide, the desperate old man gave up hope and was willing to die alone in such a place.
But the young people are not willing to give in. They also want to take revenge on Uchiha Itachi.
Of course, the target of revenge is not only Uchiha Itachi, but also his own brother, Uchiha Itachi.
Sasuke Uchiha, who has been shamelessly living in Konoha but has not done anything for them, should also be punished...
"Of course I left. If I don't go out to work early in the morning, how can I live here for the rest of my life?"
"I think so, they must also... wait? Go to work?"