chsdbacks Chapter 288 Alright, you're the one who taught Konohamaru the Sexy Technique too, kid.
Chapter 288 Alright, you're the one who taught Konohamaru the Sexy Technique too, kid.
Chapter 288 Alright, you're the one who taught Konohamaru the Sexy Technique too, kid.
Naruto felt like he'd been hit on the head by a lightning release. After all that, the culprit turned out to be himself?!
"Hey, what are you two whispering about over there?"
Xiang crossed her arms and leaned closer, her eyes practically sparkling with curiosity.
Her gaze darted back and forth between Naruto and Sakura, and it didn't seem like they were talking about health at all.
"Huh? No, it's nothing! Really, it's nothing!"
Sakura reacted quickly, almost reflexively pressing Naruto's head down to stop him from talking nonsense.
She turned around with a perfectly polite smile on her face.
"I just suddenly remembered some things from the Chunin Exams, haha, hahaha————"
However, both Xiang and the dream version of Naruto looked at Naruto.
The moment their gazes met, Naruto shuddered. A mix of guilt, panic, and an inability to feign indifference all contorted his expression.
"Th-that—we are—"
Naruto frowned slightly in his dream.
A clue that he had previously overlooked but which was now all too obvious suddenly surfaced from the depths of his memory.
Naruto mentioned before that in his dreams, Sasuke sometimes becomes the Sasuke of this world.
There is a possibility that consciousness may have switched between the two worlds.
"If Sasuke could switch—" Naruto's pupils contracted slightly in his dream, "Then wouldn't I be—"
The moment the thought crossed his mind, he froze on the spot, completely numb.
He looked at Naruto again, his eyes filled with disbelief.
The memories of that night, Sakura's reaction just now, and Naruto's expression at this moment all overlapped in his mind, forming a guess that was both laughable and absurd.
Naruto in his dream state said, half-laughing and half-crying, "Could it be that you were the one who accepted Sakura-chan's confession that night?"
i,
Naruto and Sakura's bodies trembled simultaneously.
Sakura's heart skipped a beat.
We're doomed! We can't hide it anymore!
"You idiot Naruto! It's all your fault! Your facial expression control is zero!"
She suddenly jabbed Naruto hard in the lower back with her elbow.
"It's all your fault!"
"Ouch! That hurts!"
Naruto doubled over in pain, clutching his back and grimacing.
"How can you blame me entirely!" he retorted pitifully in a low voice. "If you hadn't suddenly reminded me, I would have completely forgotten about it!"
"Yes! It's all Sakura-chan's fault!"
"Huh? You actually dare to blame me?" Sakura raised her eyebrows.
Watching these two clowns immediately start shifting blame onto each other, Naruto in his dream world felt a throbbing pain in his temples.
"Alright, alright, stop arguing."
He reached up and touched his forehead, rubbing it gently. He took a deep breath, trying to stay calm.
"So—" He looked at Naruto and slowly asked, "It really is you?"
Seeing he couldn't hide it any longer, Naruto simply raised his hands and confessed, "I'm... I'm sorry, my other self. That was the first time I'd ever had a dream like that, I really don't know what happened! I was totally stunned when Sakura-chan suddenly confessed like that!"
Naruto in the dream watched him quietly.
The expression on his face changed from initial shock to realization, and finally to a sense of helplessness.
Naruto's reminder triggered a flood of incongruous fragments from the depths of his memory, which he had dismissed as misremembered.
Now, everything matches up.
"I see—"
Just then, Naruto's eyes narrowed in his dream.
Naruto felt a chill run down his spine and instinctively straightened his back.
An ominous premonition arose in my mind.
In the dream world, Naruto slowly spoke, his teeth clenched: "That was you who taught Konohamaru the Sexy Jutsu, wasn't it?"
The words "seduction technique" were emphasized with such force, filled with resentment.
Naruto's expression froze instantly upon hearing this accusation.
He scratched his head and looked around, but he didn't dare to look at Naruto's face in his dream.
Not only did I teach him, but my mom also caught me red-handed.
Ugh.
"Ugh————"
Naruto in the dream world let out a long sigh, finally shaking his head helplessly, with a sense of "I knew it."
It's kind of funny.
"Never mind." Dream Naruto spread his hands and said self-deprecatingly, "Anyway, Konohamaru and the others had a lot of fun learning. Because of this, I got a good lecture from my mother for a long time."
As he spoke, an expression of unbearable memories surfaced on his face.
"I'm sorry, my other self—"
Upon hearing this, Naruto lowered his head even further.
"I never expected it would lead to you getting punished —"
[Ding! Naruto's emotional fluctuations have been detected! Emotional value +400!]
Naruto in the dream glanced at him.
This guy has been sincerely apologizing since just now.
Thinking of this, the slight dissatisfaction in Naruto's dream dissipated.
He raised his hand and gave Naruto's blond hair a good ruffle.
"Never mind, I know you didn't mean to cause me trouble."
"However, if you wander in again in the future, at least think carefully about whether you'll confuse others. If you cause trouble, I'll be the one who suffers."
Naruto nodded repeatedly.
"I understand! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"
"that----"
He bit his lip, finally blurting out the question that was on his mind most: "You wouldn't—not let me go back there, would you?"
"I want to go see my mom and dad over there—"
Naruto's voice was very soft when he talked about his parents.
Naruto in his dream world froze for a moment, remaining silent for several seconds before letting out a soft sigh and saying, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"No matter which world it is, it's our home, our parents. How could I possibly stop you from going home to see them?"
"However, if you go there again in the future, you'd better think more about the consequences of your actions, or you'll embarrass me again."
Naruto was stunned.
My chest felt like it was being burned by something hot, my eyes burned, and I blinked frantically to suppress the tears welling up in my eyes.
Instead, a bright smile appeared on her face.
"Okay! I understand!"
[Ding! Naruto's emotional fluctuations have been detected! Emotional value +500!]
Xiang, who was standing to the side, stared wide-eyed.
The words Naruto said in her dream were incredibly cool to her, and she silently labeled him with several tags: reliable, gentle, responsible, and a great older brother.
Sakura noticed this and inexplicably became much quieter.
"really----"
She let out a soft sigh of relief.
As expected of Naruto in the dream world, his tolerant attitude just now was just like that of a real older brother.
"that----"
Naruto, still basking in the joy of being forgiven, started daydreaming again. He scratched his cheek, stole a glance at Sakura beside him, and blurted out, almost without thinking, "So, you don't mind what happened with Sakura-chan anymore—right?"
Naruto in a dream: "————"
Sakura: "————"
Karin: "!!"
"Ah, this—" He usually spoke clearly and concisely, but now he began to stutter, his voice rising and falling, "Well, that—no, I don't mind at all—"
"oh--"
Xiang drew out her words meaningfully, crossed her arms over her chest, and her eyes were filled with "I knew it," her gaze sweeping back and forth between Naruto and Sakura in the dream.
Sakura initially tried to smooth things over for Naruto in his dream, but when she saw his face turn red to the roots of his ears while he tried to remain calm, she couldn't help but feel guilty.
She coughed, turned her head away, and avoided the seemingly indistinct gaze of Naruto in her dream.
"Hmph."
Xiang nudged Sakura gently with her elbow and lowered her voice: "I told you, there was definitely something wrong here."
"W-What's wrong?"
Sakura's ears turned bright red, and she forcefully lowered her voice to retort, "Don't talk nonsense!"
The two girls, one embarrassed and annoyed, the other teasing, exchanged a fleeting glance before simultaneously looking away.
Naruto in his dream world cleared his throat and changed the subject, saying, "Ahem, ahem, isn't it getting late? Naruto, didn't you just say you were going to show me around Konoha? Shouldn't we—be on our way?"
As he spoke, he turned around first, his back view clearly conveying the sense of fleeing in panic.
In the land of grass, deep within a cave, a pool of black water spreads out quietly, reflecting two fiercely intertwined figures.
"drink!"
Sasuke gritted his teeth, raised his right arm, and forcefully blocked Madara Uchiha's sweeping front kick.
The tremendous impact caused the rocky ground beneath his feet to crack and his body to slide several steps backward.
At this moment, Sasuke's breathing was erratic, and fine sweat was rolling down his forehead.
It's not just about physical exertion, but also mental exhaustion.
The Uchiha Madara before them, every punch and kick, was so precise it was breathtaking.
To make matters worse, Sasuke's attention has been unable to concentrate since the beginning.
"You'll die if you get distracted, you know?"
Madara Uchiha's calm voice rang out, carrying an innate arrogance and mockery.
He leaned forward and lunged forward again, aiming straight for Sasuke's face.
Sasuke barely managed to raise his hand to block, but he was clearly a beat too slow.
My arms were numb from the shock, and my thumbs and forefingers ached.
He felt a surge of irritation.
"hateful----"
In any case, he couldn't pull his mind back from the other two directions.
On one hand, there is concern about Naruto's whereabouts.
On the other hand, there were the words that Black Zetsu had said last night.
Two completely different thoughts were entangled in his mind, making it impossible for him to devote all his energy to the battle as he used to.
Madara Uchiha clearly noticed this as well.
He originally planned to take things step by step and slowly train this junior.
However, seeing Sasuke struggling more and more to defend himself and his eyes becoming increasingly unfocused, Madara's patience was visibly wearing thin.
"You think you can talk about revenge with this little bit of knowledge?"
Madara Uchiha said coldly, his voice echoing between the stone walls.
Before he finished speaking, he shifted his feet and moved like a black afterimage to Sasuke's side.
Immediately afterwards, a side kick came at an unimaginable speed.
boom!
A dull thud echoed deep within the cave.
Sasuke felt as if he had been struck by a giant hammer, his back slamming heavily against the rough rock wall behind him, sending fragments of rock flying everywhere.
A sharp pain shot up his spine to his head, and he couldn't help but groan, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
The next moment, he slid down the rock face, knelt on one knee, and barely managed to keep from falling over by bracing his fingers on the ground.
Madara Uchiha pulled his legs back and stood still.
He looked down at Sasuke, who was kneeling on the ground, his expression unchanged, as if he had only kicked a stone.
"When cultivating, one's mind becomes restless and agitated, looking around aimlessly!"
"They can't even maintain the most basic focus."
"What revenge? How laughable!"
As Madara Uchiha finished speaking, Sasuke's shoulders trembled slightly.
"....
"I had thought that with Uchiha blood flowing through your veins, you might be a promising prospect." Madara Uchiha's voice was filled with undisguised disappointment. "It seems I overestimated you."
Sasuke had his head down, his bangs covering half of his face, making it impossible to see his expression.
He wanted to argue, to say that he was just not in good shape, and that he would become stronger, stronger than anyone else.
But the facts are clear: he couldn't even block a simple leg strike from Madara Uchiha.
No amount of explanation can change that; it's all just empty rhetoric.
A brief silence fell over the air.
"If your revenge is only this level of resolve, then it's better to die at the hands of your enemy and disgrace the Uchiha clan to the last vestige of their honor."
"It would be better to end it all now, so as to save my time."
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Sasuke's body visibly trembled.
Revenge was the sole motivation that kept him alive.
From the night of the annihilation of his clan, all his training, all his patience, and all his efforts were for that day.
Now, some people are telling him to his face that he is not worthy to talk about revenge.
That feeling was even more painful than the kick to the chest.
But he couldn't refute it.
Because what our ancestors said was the truth.
Madara Uchiha didn't look at him again, seemingly already planning to end this round of training.
"If you don't even have the basic ability to maintain your state of mind, then there's no need for you to continue wasting my time."
That's all for today.
He turned around, his back to Sasuke, his tone cold and indifferent.
"Come find me again when you can fight without being swayed by distractions."
Sasuke gritted his teeth and suddenly shouted, "—Wait a minute!"
He tried to get up, but as soon as he exerted force, the sharp pain in his chest almost made him kneel down again.
In the end, he could only maintain his half-kneeling position, raise his head, and stare intently at Uchiha Madara's back.
"Uchiha Madara".
His voice was slightly hoarse from the pain, but it carried an unprecedented stubbornness.
Madara Uchiha paused in his steps.
"explain."
Sasuke clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and knew he couldn't let himself be scolded like he had before.
We can't let those questions keep swirling in his mind and drive him crazy.
"I have something to ask you," Sasuke looked up and asked, "Where is Black Zetsu?"
This problem seems to have nothing to do with the training we just did.
Madara Uchiha turned around, stared at Sasuke for a few seconds, and asked with a half-smile, "Oh, you have something to ask him? What's the question—just ask me."
"Everything Black Zetsu knows originates from my will."
"He is nothing more than my shadow and executor."
"What he knows, I naturally know as well."
"And what I allow you to know, you will naturally know as well."
Sasuke was slightly taken aback, somewhat confused. In Madara Uchiha's mind, Zetsu was merely a tool that faithfully obeyed orders.
But those cold and somber words last night seemed to reveal many secrets unknown to others.
Seeing that he remained silent, Madara Uchiha slowly stepped forward, looking down at his junior with a sneer, and said, "Now, tell me, you brat from the Uchiha clan."
"What is it that has made even your will for revenge waver?"
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