My Villainous Life Starting with Naruto

Chapter 47 Illusion and Reality

"Hey, cheer up! Today is your big day!"

"Am I unhappy?" he asked his friend, puzzled.

"Of course! Look at you, your brows are all furrowed up. The bride won't be happy with that kind of look!"

He glanced at the mirror and saw a tall, handsome man in a magnificent hotel banquet hall, surrounded by laughing and chatting friends and family. There was a nine-tiered giant black swan cake, a red rose garden bigger than a car, and many people took out their phones to take selfies, which they then edited and posted on their WeChat Moments.

The man was familiar with the scene... yet there was a strange sense of unfamiliarity.

"Cheer up, you've married the woman you love most." He looked in the mirror, pinched the corners of his mouth, and forced a smile upwards.

The man in the mirror showed his fangs, his face twisted and grotesque, like a grinning beast.

He shivered and dared not look in the mirror again.

Ding-dong! Ding-dong!

The wedding march blared, and flowers danced in the air.

He instinctively turned around, and at the end of the red carpet, the bride in a white wedding dress walked gracefully towards him.

So beautiful… The man stared at her, mesmerized, until the bride walked up to him and he snapped out of his daze.

"What's wrong with you?" The bride chuckled.

"It's like you're meeting me for the first time."

"...I just think you look beautiful today."

"Oh? Even more beautiful than yesterday? Which one is more beautiful?"

"Well……"

"Haha, just kidding... silly boy." The bride seemed to be laughing very happily.

"Look, even our little prince is smiling."

"Little Prince? We have a son?" The man was momentarily dazed before noticing the baby in the swaddling clothes the bride was holding.

The baby's face was rosy and chubby, with delicate skin, round and adorable, and it was looking at you and smiling.

"My child..." The man felt an indescribable tenderness in his heart. He reached out and wanted to stroke the baby boy's face.

The man froze on the spot.

He saw that on the baby's delicate, fair forehead was a hideous fluorescent green pattern.

This is a humiliating symbol of slavery, meaning that the child will become a caged bird just like himself.

This cursed fate will be passed down from generation to generation, and will not change in the slightest until the end of the world.

He felt ice-cold all over, as if he had fallen into hell.

The magnificent banquet hall suddenly twisted and transformed into jagged, precipitous cliffs. Close friends, guests, the bride, her infant daughter… everyone turned into monsters, their cackling laughter chilling and menacing.

"A caged bird for a moment, a caged bird for a lifetime, a caged bird for eternity... You have nowhere to escape, your soul and body have no freedom for a moment, this is a tragic fate that even death cannot change..."

The man's eyes were bloodshot, and with a courage that seemed to come from nowhere, he raised his fist and charged at the monsters with a resolute and frenzied ferocity.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"Then I'll kill you all! Kill until no one dares to cage me again!"

Even if I fight my way to the point where I'm the only one left in the world, I will still...

Hinata Yuto suddenly felt a sharp pain.

The excruciating pain came from the mouth, or more precisely, from the tender flesh beneath the tongue.

The illusion collapsed, and reason returned to Hinata Yuto.

He quickly realized what had pierced his tongue and mouth... Before the impact of the explosion, he had taken out a short, thin needle and put it under his tongue.

Fortunately, he developed good habits... Hinata Yuto thought to himself, trying to find some humor in his predicament.

Suddenly, he felt something wet on his face.

He opened his eyes and saw a soft-bodied creature the size of a head lying on him, its eyes at the tips of its tentacles looking at him with watery eyes. It was a little scary, but also a little cute.

"Oh, Yuto-kun, you're awake." The slug's voice was still so gentle.

"Hmm..." the boy from the separated family groaned, his words muffled.

"Lord Slug... how long have I been unconscious?"

"A day and a half."

"That damned Mushishi Jinpachi..." Hinata Yuto sneered.

"He tried to drag me down with him before he died."

"Yuto-kun, getting angry slows down your body's healing process... Eh? Your voice sounds a little strange."

"That's because my tongue hurts," Hyuga Yuto sighed inwardly, trying to brush it off.

Thinking back on everything that happened that day, the boy who had separated from his family felt a wave of fear.

The power of 20,000 explosive tags was immense, almost indistinguishable from a Tailed Beast Ball. In the moments before the impact struck, Hyuga Yuto only had time to do three things:

Put a fine needle in your mouth to prevent yourself from saying the wrong thing while unconscious.

He summoned a slug through spiritual means, hid it on his body, and used it to treat unconsciousness.

He desperately used "Lion's Fang Bite" to shield himself from the shockwave and prevent it from killing him instantly.

As it turned out, Hinata Yuto's choice was absolutely correct. He survived, albeit tragically, but he still had his arms and legs intact and was not disabled—a stroke of good luck amidst misfortune.

As Tsunade's disciple, he naturally possessed a life-saving artifact left by his teacher—Tsunade placed her own chakra into a slug, which could automatically unleash the Palm Healing Technique upon being summoned. This was a marvelous use of the slug's splitting and chakra transfer, demonstrating Tsunade's profound mastery of both support and medical ninjutsu.

"We still can't underestimate anyone. Even though Munashi Jinpachi... he didn't have much screen time after being resurrected in the Fourth Shinobi World War, he still has such terrifying decisiveness and secret techniques." Hyuga Yuto frowned and began to summarize the gains and losses of this battle.

"I'm still not very skilled at using the Tenshu-kyu technique. The best place to release this kind of ninjutsu is on land. We should strike first and do it in that shop."

"I gave too much chakra to the Resurrection Technique, causing the enemy to fly too far. If I can capture those few Kirigakure Chunin alive and throw them towards Munashi Jinpachi, I might be able to delay the roll's explosion. That way, I'll have a chance to use the Body Flicker Technique to take his head off."

"I don't know mid- to long-range ninjutsu, which will put me at a disadvantage in fights against skilled opponents. Although Lion Fang Bite's dash speed is very fast, the endurance of my arm is still a major problem..."

In this battle, Hyuga Yuto was very close to death. In fact, he hadn't talked in his sleep for a long time. He was just woken up by a needle, which also showed that his physical condition was extremely poor, and he didn't even have any instinctive alertness.

He thought for a long time, took a breath, and wanted to stand up and move around a bit, but he found that his body was very tight as he stood up.

Hinata Yuto looked down and only then did he notice the bandages wrapped all over his body.

A slug can't possibly use its antennae to bandage me, can it...?

He couldn't quite describe how he felt, and stood there, stunned.

Just then, a voice came from the cave entrance.

"My lovely apprentice has finally woken up... Oh? What's wrong with you? It's like you're seeing me for the first time."

The blonde woman tossed an unidentified fruit to Hyuga Yuto and chuckled:

"Let's go back, my Jonin apprentice."

(End of this chapter)