Sasuke demanded, "Why? Why did you choose me?!"
"The price is that, after Itachi dies, your body belongs to me."
With that, Snake Aunt vanished in a puff of smoke.
"My body... she's after our Uchiha Clan's bloodline?" Sasuke murmured. He lowered his head to look at the cursed seal on his wrist and hesitated.
But a moment later, he drove that mad thought away.
"No, I can't do that. What would happen to Naruto if I did?"
Though he said that aloud, Sasuke kept asking himself whether he could really kill Itachi through training alone.
"Ah..."
On one side was a blood feud etched deep into his soul; on another, a bond forged through hardship that he could not bear to sever; and on yet another, his own older sister...
"Aaaah... why? Why did it have to turn out like this?!"
Crack...
Just as those unbearably tangled emotions erupted in his heart all at once.
Sasuke's pupils actually began to spin, and another tomoe appeared within his Sharingan.
Now, on top of the unbearable pain in his shoulder, agony surged through his eyes and brain like crashing waves.
At last, Sasuke's eyes rolled back, and he passed out.
As Sasuke lost consciousness, the cursed seal markings spread across his face slowly withdrew into the Cursed Seal of Heaven on his shoulder, like swallows returning to their nest, and disappeared.
Through the Telescope Technique, Naruto clearly saw and heard every fight and conversation that had taken place around Sasuke.
Seeing Sasuke, who always put on a strong front around others, go from fear to shattered confidence, seeing the defiance, despair, and anguish in his eyes and hearing his furious cries...
It made Naruto want to burst out of the giant snake's body and save Sasuke several times.
But reason told