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"You must be famous, powerful, and have achievements that convince others."
"There are so many excellent people. Without enough and great achievements, who would recognize Naruto? How could he become the Hokage?"
"What you mean is..." Ino was not stupid, she quickly thought of something and her beautiful eyes widened.
"No matter how powerful a person is, he still needs a chance to prove himself." Sakura said, "A crisis is an opportunity."
"Is this okay? I understand your intention, and I can roughly guess what you are going to do, but..." Ino hesitated.
"What if it gets leaked out? What if someone finds out? What if Sasuke kills a lot of people in the process? Then..."
"So, it's just the two of us, and at most Hinata," Sakura said.
"It's enough for the three of us to know."
"Ordinary villagers and ninjas with insufficient strength will definitely be moved to a safe place for refuge."
"The people left to fight Sasuke can't be weak. If they can't beat Sasuke, they can protect themselves if they cooperate well."
"Don't forget that Master is here. She is the strongest medical ninja."
"Based on what I learned from Slug-sama about Hinata, I can confirm that..."
"As long as you and Hinata don't fight seriously, and Sasuke is as strong as Naruto described, no one in the village will be Sasuke's opponent."
"At the last critical moment, Naruto showed up and turned the tide. This is a credit that cannot be denied."
Chapter 180 Konoha, razed to the ground
Longdi Cave.
"There's no hope." The White Snake Immortal said, and when he saw that Sasuke's face was not right, and he seemed to be unable to suppress it and was about to explode, he thought for a moment and said again.
"I was seriously ill and my body was hollowed out by the medicine. I can say that I was able to persevere only by willpower and obsession."
"I can't do anything here, but there's someone who might be able to heal me."
"Who?" Sasuke.
"Tsunade, one of the three famous ninjas along with Orochimaru, who is known as a medical genius." White Snake Sage.
After getting the answer, Sasuke took Itachi away.
"Have you really decided to destroy Konoha?" Itachi whispered.
"What, you want to stop me using the eye technique you got from Shisui." Sasuke said sarcastically.
Having seen Itachi's memories, he knew Itachi's cards and plans.
Itachi, nothing to say.
"You are so self-righteous that you take it upon yourself to arrange the path for me, become a knife to my enemy, and kill your own family and tribe members." Sasuke said coldly.
"Itachi, you deserve to die."
"I won't kill you. I will do my best to heal you, and then, in front of you, I will destroy Konoha, the country you are loyal to even at the cost of exterminating your entire clan."
“…” Itachi.
Glancing sideways, he saw Itachi was breathing out more than breathing in, and his vital signs were unstable. Sasuke activated the Flying Thunder God and instantly arrived near Konoha Village.
He opened the space portal again, jumped over the barrier, and appeared directly on the roof of the Hokage Building.
Naruto, who was explaining the matter to Tsunade in the Hokage's office, was the first to sense Sasuke and Itachi's chakra: "Here they come!"
Tsunade, who still hadn't figured out what was going on, said in surprise, "It's coming? What's coming?"
The next moment, two people climbed in through the window.
Seeing who it was, Tsunade narrowed her eyes slightly: "Uchiha Itachi..."
Shizune, who had read the ANBU records and knew how dangerous Itachi was, had a serious face and was alert.
"Godaime Hokage." Sasuke said, "Based on your medical skills, can he be saved?"
Noticing that there was a scratch on the forehead protector that Sasuke was wearing, which represented the mark of a traitor, Tsunade said, "What do you mean by this? How has the village treated you unfairly? Why would you rather stand on the side of him who destroyed the clan and become the enemy of the village?"
"You didn't explain it clearly?" Sasuke looked at the wooden clone Naruto.
"I'm talking about it." Naruto said.
Sasuke understood, took a deep breath, and spoke calmly: "Listen carefully, why do I want to be an enemy of Konoha, because..."
As Sasuke spoke, Shizune, who had only heard from Naruto that Sasuke had become a traitor and wanted to destroy the village, and didn't know the reason, was stunned.
Even Tsunade, who was well-informed, couldn't help but be stunned.
"If you can heal him." Sasuke said.
"I can relax the standards for revenge and only kill the two advisors, and then kill the villagers and ninjas who have the same population as the Uchiha."
"From now on, the Uchiha and Konoha will have nothing to do with each other."
“It can’t be cured…”
"Then I'll see you on the battlefield. If I don't kill all of Konoha and remove my name from the ninja world, I won't be called Uchiha."
"You are threatening me." Tsunade said expressionlessly.
"It's not a threat, it's a fact," Sasuke said.
"The fact..." Tsunade said.
"Why the Uchiha were destroyed, you have to look for the reasons in yourselves. It is impossible for the Sandaime to target you for no reason or because he had nothing to do after eating."
"The Uchiha must have done something that harmed the village to the point where they can no longer coexist."
"He put all the blame on the village and wanted to destroy the village."
"Unreasonable."
"You're being unreasonable..." Sasuke's eyes turned completely cold.
"It's pointless to worry about who's right or wrong now. The result is that Konoha is safe and sound, but the Uchiha family is destroyed."
"Whether Konoha will repeat the same mistake and fall like the Uchiha is in the hands of you, the Fifth Hokage."
"Don't think that you can do whatever you want just because you have the Rinnegan," said Tsunade.
"Konoha is not a place where you can act wild, Yu..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Sasuke interrupted, "Just tell me if you can cure it."
"It's obvious." Tsunade said unhappily.
"It's obvious that he has a terminal illness and he's been through a war, so he's exhausted."
"Before the overdraft, I could have survived for two or three years. But now I'm doomed to die."
Sasuke said nothing, used Flying Thunder God, and took Itachi away.
"Sister Tsunade, is there really no cure?" Naruto said.
"That's not an injury, it's a terminal illness. I can't help you." Tsunade said, "Shizune, do you still remember the wandering ninja who came to me for medical treatment three years ago?"
"Wandering Ninja?" Shizune thought for a moment and said, "I remember it, but the impression is not very deep."
"If I'm not mistaken, judging from the symptoms alone," Tsunade said faintly, "that wandering ninja is Uchiha Itachi."
"What!" Shizune was stunned.
"This battle is inevitable. We must minimize the losses." Tsunade mused.
"Naruto, call your father, Shizune, gather all the jonin, and arrange for the villagers to move to the shelter."
“Try to finish it before dark.”
Shizune nodded in agreement and left first.
Tsunade called Naruto: "How is your health now?"
"I'm not fully recovered yet, so I can't fight a long battle." Naruto said.
"Really?" Tsunade said, "The best steel should be used on the blade. Then wait for my signal before you make your move."
the other side.
Sasuke didn't believe Itachi's words and chose to use the power of the Rinnegan to look through Itachi's memories.
From childhood to adulthood, after watching everything in a cursory manner, he still didn't understand, nor did he want to understand, why Itachi stood on the side of Konoha and destroyed Uchiha.
Time passes slowly.
Itachi, as Tsunade said, did not survive the day and breathed his last at 9:22 pm.
Sasuke sat there for a long time, then reached out, dug out Itachi's eyes, and transplanted them to his own according to the method recorded on the Uchiha stele.
His Mangekyō will not cause blindness, and the reason for this is to allow Itachi to witness how Konoha was destroyed.
As the days passed, there was no sign of danger coming, and the villagers of Konoha and most of the ninjas treated this as a drill.
The initial panic gradually faded.
More and more people left the shelter and returned to Konoha to continue their original lives and work.
Don't say this is just a drill. Even if there is a real attack or danger, we can't stop working just because of this danger that we don't know when it will come, right?
If I don’t work, how will I get the rent and utility bills?
If you don't work, what do you eat and drink?
It was in this situation that time advanced by sixteen days.
Even Tsunade couldn't help but have the illusion that Sasuke was all talk and no action and would not come.
It was on the evening of that day that a space portal opened out of nowhere in the former Uchiha clan's territory.
Sasuke walked out of it.
An invisible and terrifying repulsive force exploded from his body.
In an instant.
Razed Konoha to the ground.
Tsunade, who was buried in the rubble, crawled out, covered in dust and dirt. When she saw the current state of the village, she was shocked and angry.