Chapter 100 For
At the seventh training ground, the night was getting darker.

Iris and Kasumi had already left after their passionate extra training. Uchiha Sasuke leaned against a rock exhausted and suddenly spoke:

"I want to... know the second story."

Link stood not far away, looking at the sky. The moon tonight was particularly dim and incomplete. He slowly began to narrate: "The story begins with a man named Uchiha Shisui..."

This time Sasuke did not interrupt him, perhaps because he had exhausted all his energy from training, or perhaps because he had already made some guesses, so he just listened quietly.

With Link's current perception ability, there was no way the Anbu could get close and eavesdrop. Even if the Sandaime Hokage used the telescope technique to spy on him, he would be able to feel it. He was not worried that his words would be leaked because he had already figured out why he knew so much.

So, he simply told a clear story about all the people, events and things involved in the Uchiha clan genocide, including Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Itachi and Danzo.

In the comics, Obito intentionally blurred the time when the Uchiha clan was ostracized, and moved what the Second Hokage had done decades ago to before the Uchiha clan was exterminated. He led Sasuke to attack the hostile Konoha Village, and did not tell the truth until the Fourth War when Orochimaru summoned the four Hokage.

The so-called exclusion happened decades ago. The root cause was that Uchiha Madara left the village and then controlled the Nine-Tails to return and try to destroy Konoha.

Everything that happened afterwards was due to the unresolved conflicts and suspicions at that time. The second generation tried to resolve them but died at the hands of the Kinkaku and Ginkaku forces. The third generation was unable to resolve them, so when the Uchiha attempted a coup, Shisui and Itachi had few choices left.

They just chose the worst solution under the guidance of Danzo and Obito.

As Link's gentle and somewhat childish voice rang out, clouds drifted over the horizon, blocking the waning moon. The story came to an end after Uchiha Itachi became a spy of Konoha Village and went undercover in Akatsuki, entrusting the Sandaime Hokage to take care of his younger brother.

Uchiha Sasuke was quiet for a long time before he broke away from the 'story' and asked without any emotion in his tone: "Why do you know?"

"I have had the ability to communicate with the dead since a very early age..." Link gave a half-true and half-false reason.

Uchiha Sasuke did not ask for confirmation, but asked: "Why do you want to help me?"

After hearing so many secrets, he didn't think the other party would be a pure, ten-year-old Chunin. So, what was the reason for helping him?
Just for the so-called "companions in the same village"?
"I was born during the war. My mother went to the battlefield without realizing my existence. She was seriously injured while on duty and found me. She returned to the village to recuperate and died when I was two years old."

Link talked about his past, "My father also died on a mission when I was five years old."

He recalled his childhood after coming into this world, from joy to sadness, and finally to working hard alone in silence and having nothing. It seemed that it could be summed up in just these two simple sentences.

"Hey, Sasuke..." He held out his hand and said, "You should understand the feeling of loss."

"..."

After a while, Uchiha Sasuke's voice sounded: "Proof..."

"Prove me what you can do."

[Step 3…]

Link smiled, smiling at the fact that he was about to get an excellent meat shield, not caring about the indifference shown by the other party.

Refining chakra, forming seals, releasing——

Spiritualism!
The summoning technique infused with excessive chakra directly constructs the image of a deceased person in the world.

"You are crossing the boundary between life and death..." The translucent man who was pulled out had short black hair and was wearing a dark blue gown with the Uchiha clan's round fan pattern tattooed on his back. He just opened his mouth to ask the question but fell speechless when he saw Uchiha Sasuke.

"Sasuke..." he called softly.

Uchiha Sasuke was in a trance, his body was shaking, and he couldn't say anything. [This guy...]

Link showed no expression on his face, but he was very surprised in his heart. Why would the dead person he randomly called out be Uchiha Fugaku? !
What exactly is the medium needed for spiritualism? !

"..."

Uchiha Sasuke forced himself to suppress his surging emotions and formed hand seals to try to break the illusion, but nothing happened. The figure from his childhood memory was still standing not far away.

"I'm... Link."

Link introduced himself to break the silence, saying, "I'm Sasuke's companion, and I'm the one who summoned you this time."

Uchiha Fugaku looked over from the side, and when he saw the forehead protector from the Leaf Village, his gaze paused for a moment, and he said in a slightly more relaxed tone: "So, what do you need me to do?"

"Sasuke, I have something to ask you." Link slowly backed away, "I will not get involved in this conversation between you and your son..."

Uchiha Sasuke raised his head, watched him walk away quietly, and then spoke:
"Father……"

Link stood in the shadow of the woods and walked away. The voices of the father and son over there became increasingly vague and unclear. He looked up at the sky, where strands of rain, almost forming lines, were falling with the summer night breeze.

"It's raining."
-
After half an hour.

"Hualala~" The rain was getting heavier and heavier, almost forming a continuous piece. In the rain, everything in the forest seemed to be foggy.

Link walked over step by step on the muddy ground. Ten minutes ago, Uchiha Fugaku returned to the pure land because of the removal of the technique.

Uchiha Sasuke still remained standing motionless, standing there, looking into the distance, not knowing what he was thinking, his whole body was wet, and his face was covered with rain.

"Now that you know everything..." Link's voice was a little blurry in the rain, "Why are you pursuing power?"

He asked the same question again.

After a while, Uchiha Sasuke turned around, with an embarrassed face, looking at the person who let him know everything.

Pain? Sadness? Resentment?

No, he had already experienced the madness that wanted to destroy everything before he came to listen to the second story.

At this moment, all he had left was extreme confusion and emptiness.

"Although... this world is pretty bad." Link met his eyes and extended his hand again, "Ninja is not a very good profession either."

"But there are always some things worth cherishing."

[I have lost everything before... so I don't want to see my beloved friends die in front of me again...]

Uchiha Sasuke's eyes seemed to be re-injected with souls, the experiences with his teammates in Team 7, the smile he showed to Link in the sun that afternoon, and Iris's inappropriate arm around his shoulder...

He slowly raised his hand, as if his arm weighed a thousand pounds. After holding the other's hand, he looked at Link's gentle smile and said in a voice that he couldn't even hear:
"In order to never lose anything again."

His palms were clenched tightly and he did not notice that three magatama appeared in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)

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