Night fell.
Dark clouds crowded outside the window, shrouding the sky like a black curtain.
The night felt as heavy as Naruto's mood.
From the moment he truly accepted Sasuke as a girl in his heart, he had never intended to use his strength to forcibly interfere with Sasuke's life.
Truly loving someone did not mean treating them as a greenhouse flower or a puppet on strings.
When Naruto first transmigrated into this world, all he wanted was to leave the cage called Konoha, gain true freedom in both body and soul, and explore the secrets of this world.
Only after Sasuke found his way into his heart did Naruto truly begin wanting to carve out a place in the world for him.
And accepting Sasuke's feelings meant he had to face the hatred born of the Uchiha Clan's massacre.
Even the fairest judge could not untangle a family's affairs. They were only dating now, but even if they married someday, Naruto still could not interfere with Sasuke's decision about Itachi.
After all, blood was thicker than water. Human emotions were so complex that an outsider could never fully understand them.
Itachi had murdered his parents and joined forces with others to slaughter his clan. To ordinary people, those were heinous crimes deserving death by a thousand cuts.
But from Sasuke's perspective, if he knew that Older Sister had done all of this just to keep him alive... how would he weigh it all, facing the older sister who had both hurt him and saved him?
Even though Naruto understood Sasuke well enough in this life, he could not be certain how Sasuke would handle those complicated feelings.
So, to let Sasuke truly grow, Naruto could only respect his wishes and quietly support him from behind the scenes.
Yet although