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Is he trying to save Sasuke?
Itachi's expression instantly turned ugly.
Sasuke doesn't need him to save him at all!
The real Itachi muttered to himself...
"He's nothing but a counterfeit who grew up in a flawless dream, never experiencing true despair or betrayal... What makes him think he is? What does he know?!"
A naive 'self' might be more dangerous than Danzo!
The cold light in Itachi's eyes grew even colder, and a chilling killing intent quietly gathered in Itachi's heart.
Your magnanimity is far from sufficient, and your so-called goodwill will only ruin Sasuke!
Even though he was hidden inside the tree, the chill emanating from him silenced the nearby insects and birds, and the air seemed to freeze.
His gaze was fixed on himself in the courtyard below, and he had already made up his mind.
In any case, he would never allow anyone to interfere with the future he was preparing for Sasuke.
The previous idea is still valid. Although the people who came have changed, it wouldn't be impossible to replace "myself" with them.
P.S.: One more chapter added, the next chapter will be a little late.
Chapter 240 Weasel vs. Itachi, The Battle of Two Robbers
Crunch—bang!
The old door was slammed shut.
Not far from the gate, Kakashi, Jiraiya, and Naruto stopped when they heard the commotion, and all three turned around to look at the suddenly closed gate.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes slightly, his expression becoming serious.
Just as he feared, not everyone is as harmless as Rope Tree!
……
In the courtyard.
The Dream Weasel closed the door, temporarily shutting out the outside world's disturbances.
He turned and walked back to Sasuke's side. He glanced around and sighed at the sight of the once glorious Uchiha mansion in its current state.
Dream Itachi's gaze finally settled on his younger brother's somewhat dazed face.
Sasuke was still distraught, with tears still glistening in his eyes.
A gentle smile appeared on Itachi's face as he reached out and ruffled Sasuke's messy hair, teasingly saying, "Sasuke, if I'm not mistaken, we... should have 'met' before, right?"
Sasuke paused, then looked up blankly at Dream Itachi, unsure of what he meant by those words.
Seeing his younger brother's confused expression, Dream Weasel chuckled and shrugged.
He extended a finger and gently tapped Sasuke's forehead with his knuckle, feigning helplessness as he said, "After all, my good-for-nothing brother doesn't train as hard as you do."
A simple sentence, yet it reveals everything.
Sasuke was suddenly jolted, instantly understanding the meaning behind his brother's words.
His pupils suddenly contracted, a buzzing sound rang in his ears, and he froze on the spot.
Nissan actually found out!
A surge of immense shock and panic overwhelmed Sasuke, leaving his mind blank.
Shocked by the exposure of his identity and flustered by the revelation of his secret, his face turned pale instantly, and he involuntarily took a half step back.
What made him even more uneasy was...
Will the Nii-san in the dream blame him for having once possessed Sasuke's body in that world?
[Ding! Emotional fluctuations from Uchiha Sasuke have been detected! Emotional value +2000!]
Seeing his younger brother's sudden panic, Dream Itachi felt a pang of anxiety.
He quickly stepped forward, his warm hands firmly pressing down on Sasuke's shoulders, and gently leaned down to look his younger brother in the eye.
The warmth emanating from his palm made Sasuke's violently heaving chest pause slightly, as if pulling him out of a deep abyss of panic.
"Don't be afraid, Sass," Dream Itachi gently comforted her. "I didn't mean to blame you."
At the same time, a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.
"I just...feel a little strange and confused."
"Puzzled……?"
Sasuke looked up at Nisan with a puzzled expression.
Dream Weasel slowly shook his head and said nothing more.
In fact, at this moment, he could clearly distinguish in his memory that in that world, his younger brother had shown two completely different states.
One of them was someone he knew very well, who loved to act cool and act cute, and who always slacked off and cheated during cultivation.
The other one was more like Sasuke standing in front of him right now, with a fierce determination in his eyes, and... a deep sadness that he couldn't understand.
However, before arriving here, he never felt that anything was wrong.
It was as if an invisible hand was blinding him in his own world, making him take for granted that the two Sasukes, who were completely different people, were the same person, without any doubt.
He even suspected that his arrival here was not yet a true physical manifestation of his body...
This feeling of "his body and memories being controlled by an invisible hand" sent chills down his spine.
Dream Weasel took a deep breath, suppressing the strange feeling in his heart.
He did not intend to let Sasuke know these secrets.
Telling him will only add to the troubles of this already suffering little DouDou.
After calming himself down, Dream Itachi refocused his attention on Sasuke.
He reached out again and gently patted Sasuke's head, encouraging him, "Sasuke... now tell me about yourself?"
After saying that, Dream Weasel glanced around at the desolate courtyard.
The wind blew through the weedy courtyard, swirling up a few withered, yellow leaves that danced around their feet.
"Tell me, who in this world has harmed the Uchiha clan, causing you to suffer such misery!"
From Itachi's sharp tone and angry eyes in the dream, Sasuke clearly sensed a deep-seated, chilling rage.
The anger was not directed at him, but rather unreservedly directed at the culprit who caused all of this.
Sensing that Nisan's intense anger was for his own sake, Sasuke felt an unprecedented surge of confidence.
The person who's backing him up has arrived!
He is no longer alone in this world.
Hope rekindled in Sasuke's eyes, and an idea surfaced in his mind.
If it were a Nissan, it might actually be able to beat that fake!
With this almost instinctive trust and expectation welling up inside him, Sasuke no longer hid anything and immediately told everyone he knew.
He clenched his teeth and tried his best to remain calm and composed throughout the story, striving to present all the facts to Nissan exactly as they were.
Sasuke began his story with that bloody, dark night a few years ago.
From the tragedy of the Uchiha clan being wiped out overnight, to how the "fake" impersonated Nisan to commit the crime, to how he learned the truth and was burdened with a blood feud, he poured out his heart to Nisan in front of him with uncontrollable resentment.
As memories flooded back, Sasuke clenched his fists tighter and tighter, hatred and anger gradually overriding his reason.
"It's all that damn imposter's fault! He killed our real brother and then impersonated him... and wiped out the entire Uchiha clan!"
Dream Itachi listened quietly to his younger brother's heart-wrenching accusations, his eyes slowly narrowing, a look of disbelief and shock flashing across them.
He muttered repeatedly, "Fake...?"
However, before Dream Itachi could finish speaking, a sudden change occurred!
Without warning, the ground beneath Sasuke's feet suddenly cracked open, and a pale hand burst forth from the earth, gripping his ankle tightly.
"Nissan!"
Before Sasuke could react, he let out a short cry of surprise and was dragged into the ground by that hand!
He felt dizzy and his body was instantly swallowed by the mud. His lower body sank into the ground at an extremely fast speed, as if he had been swallowed up by a giant mouth that suddenly opened.
Sasuke was terrified and frantically waved his arms, trying to grab onto something, but all he could do was move around in soft soil.
"Sass here!"
Itachi was horrified and lunged forward, trying to grab his sinking brother, but he only managed to touch Sasuke's clothes before his brother's figure disappeared completely into the mud.
The crimson Sharingan then activated furiously in Itachi's dreamlike eyes!
With his all-seeing eye power, he clearly sensed a chakra rapidly moving away from the ground.
Dream Weasel's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he roared, "Don't even think about escaping!"
Before he finished speaking, his figure transformed into a black shadow, and he suddenly chased after the direction in which the chakra fluctuation had disappeared.
Almost at the same instant that Itachi rushed out of the Uchiha mansion in his dream world, he was captured by Kakashi, who had stayed behind to keep watch.
not good!
It's that guy...
Kakashi's heart skipped a beat, and he vaguely guessed what was going on. He thought to himself, "This is bad." Without thinking too much, he immediately took off and gave chase.
……
Following the trail of chakra remnants, Dream Itachi sped along at full speed, his heart filled with anxiety, pushing his speed to its absolute limit.
He felt as if his heart was about to leap out of his chest, and all sorts of ominous thoughts were growing wildly in his mind.
What if something happens to Sasuke...
He didn't dare to think about it too much, and could only rely on his instincts to keep pushing his legs faster and faster!
The shadows of the trees rushed past him, and before long, he had broken through the northern boundary of Konoha Village.
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