The Otherworld Itachi took out a set of books on red thought and handed them to this world's Itachi.
This world's Itachi only glanced through the books before he began reading intently, as though he had found a guiding light.
Just then, Nagato, who had been helping the villagers irrigate their fields, walked over. He glanced at this world's Itachi, who was studying earnestly, and said, "Looks like... your chuunibyou in this world isn't as bad as we imagined. You're pretty easy to talk to!"
The Otherworld Itachi took a deep breath at that. "I want to see this world's Sasuke..."
Nagato really wanted to say, Brother, that's quite a leap from what we were talking about...
But although he thought it, he didn't say it.
Nagato knew that Itachi doted on his younger brother. His feelings for Sasuke were no weaker than Nagato's feelings for Yahiko...
To hear that the entire Uchiha clan had died except for Sasuke... just how much pain Sasuke had suffered back then was easy to imagine.
"If you want to see him... then go see him!"
"Haven't Naruto and the others already set out to find Orochimaru? Sasuke is with him..."
"Yeah..." Itachi nodded. "Once this world's me finishes those Red Books, we'll set out!"
In truth, after Itachi learned what had happened to this world's Uchiha clan and what this world's Itachi had done... he had been furious, furious enough to want to beat his counterpart senseless.
But Itachi thought it over carefully... if Naruto hadn't taught him and Shisui red thought in his own world... this world's Itachi would probably have been his future...
After all... both he and Shisui had once believed wholeheartedly in the will of fire.
Slaughtering his clan for the village, suppressing his humanity and killing his