The Fifth Leaf Village

Fujiwara Haruki shouted while nimbly avoiding shurikens and ninjutsu. When he couldn't avoid them, he used substitution techniques to resist. After several twists and turns, he finally came in front of Uchiha Zaito and stabbed the opponent with a kunai. However, Uchiha Zaito just stretched out his hand and grabbed the opponent's wrist, and the opponent's kunai fell.

Exhausted, Fujiwara Yoshu could no longer hold on and fell to his knees on the ground, gasping for breath.

At this time, Uchiha Zaidou glanced down at the other party and said coldly: "Is that all? It's really useless."

Seeing this scene, Uchiha Itachi frowned, shook his head, and walked towards his home.

[Is this how they treat their companions? The family is truly hopeless.]

However, after he left, Fujiwara Yoshu trembled and stood up again. Seeing this, Uchiha Zaidou's eyes showed a barely perceptible smile, but when he spoke, his voice was still extremely cold: "Finally, it looks a little bit good, but it's not enough. Go back and have a good rest, and continue to practice tomorrow."

"Yes!" Fujiwara Yoki raised his head with difficulty and responded.

The next second, a token was thrown into his arms, and Fujiwara Yoshu looked puzzled when he saw it.

"I haven't received my allowance for this month yet. Please collect it for me before you leave. Then go to the Nara family's pharmacy and buy five medicinal bath ingredients. I'll use them when I get home. The remaining money can be sent to my office tomorrow morning."

"Captain, that's not necessary. I still have money." Fujiwara Haruki said.

"Just take it if I tell you to!" Uchiha Zaidou said coldly, "You'd better keep that little money and buy something nutritious to replenish your body. If you still fall behind on the next mission, I won't let you off easily."

"Yes!" Fujiwara Haruki nodded, and at the same time a trace of shame appeared on his face. In this collective action of the Security Department, only a few people were injured, and he was one of them. This made Uchiha Zaito lose face. As soon as Fujiwara Haruki's injury healed, he dragged him to the Security Department for extra training.

However, Fujiwara Haruki had no complaints. You know, Uchiha Zaito is considered to be the top ninja among the same age ninjas in the village. Some of the senior ninjas in the village may not be able to get any advantage from him. The opportunity to receive one-on-one guidance from such a strong man is not easy to come by.

After finishing the training, Fujiwara Haruki went home with a smile on his face, and Uchiha Itachi had also arrived home.

"I'm back!" Uchiha Itachi opened the door.

"Itachi? You're back." Mikoto poked her head out of the kitchen and looked at her eldest son with a smile on her face.

"Mom, are you alone?" Uchiha Itachi asked.

"Yeah, your father is working overtime at the Security Department, and Sasuke went to learn new ninjutsu from his sensei."

"Teacher? When did Sasuke have a teacher? How come I didn't know?" Uchiha Itachi was stunned when he heard this.

"That's the Dohuan clan leader." Mikoto said with a smile, "Sasuke's Fire Style isn't as good as his Lightning Style, so your father deliberately got rid of the Dohuan clan leader to teach him."

"What?" Uchiha Itachi was shocked, "How can Sasuke be a disciple of Uchiha Dohuan?"

"Itachi, Patriarch Douhuan is the patriarch of the family. How can you call him by his first name?" Mikoto's eyes became stern. "Didn't your father and I teach you these etiquette things?"

"I'm sorry, Mom, but..." Seeing this, Uchiha Itachi hurriedly apologized.

"It's okay. Sasuke likes his teacher very much." Mikoto said.

"Okay." Uchiha Itachi had no intention of arguing with Mikoto. He put down the things he bought and hurried out. In his eyes, Uchiha Dohuan would only teach his lovely Oudoudou bad things, and he must not sit idly by.

"Oh, this kid." Looking at Uchiha Itachi running out of the house in a hurry, Mikoto could only sigh helplessly.

……

In the backyard of Uchiha Touhan's house, Sasuke quickly formed hand seals and summoned a ball of lightning. Compared to when he first learned it some time ago, Sasuke had made great progress in this technique. The lightning ball he summoned now was much more condensed than the last time, and its color also changed from the illusory light yellow to light blue. Although it was still a long way from Uchiha Touhan's solid lightning that was close to dark blue, he was able to achieve this at his age, which was enough to be called a genius.

Then, as Sasuke's fingers moved, the thunder ball circled around the two of them a few times before flying into the sky and exploding in mid-air.

"Teacher, I did it!" After doing all this, Sasuke looked up at Uchiha Dohuan with an expression of expectation to be praised on his face.

"Well, you did a good job." Uchiha Douhuan said, touching Sasuke's head.

"Then teacher, what are we going to learn next?" Sasuke asked curiously.

Sasuke's question really stumped Uchiha Dohuan. With his current chakra level, Sasuke was unable to learn the lethal ninjutsu he currently possessed, no matter whether he had learned it or developed it himself.

Chapter 74 Brothers talk at night

Uchiha Dohuan thought about it, took Sasuke to the study and picked out a scroll. After pulling it open, Uchiha Dohuan tore it open and handed him a small part of it.

"What is this?" Sasuke was a little confused by Uchiha Dohuan's behavior.

"When I was ten years old, I created a physical ninjutsu called 'Thunderstepping Instant Body Technique'," Uchiha Douhuan said. "It's also the introductory ninjutsu for my own lightning chakra mode."

"Go back and practice the first part of the Taijutsu. Although they are just ordinary Taijutsu, they should be enough for you to dominate the Ninja School." Uchiha Douhuan said, "And don't stop practicing the Thunder Ball."

"What about the rest?" Sasuke asked blankly, looking at the half-remaining scroll in his hand.

"You can't learn the latter part now. When your chakra amount and control can control four lightning balls at the same time as you did just now, I will teach you the rest." Uchiha Douhuan said.

"Okay," Sasuke nodded and put the scroll away.

"Okay, it's so late, you should go back early too." Uchiha Douhuan said.

Uchiha Douhuan sent Sasuke to the door. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Uchiha Itachi waiting at the door.

"Brother!" When Sasuke saw his brother whom he hadn't seen for a long time, he ran over immediately.

Uchiha Itachi reached out to catch Sasuke and touched his head lovingly.

"Itachi, you're back after completing your mission." At this time, Uchiha Douhuan also leaned against the door and asked, "You two brothers have a really good relationship. You came to pick up your younger brother as soon as you got back."

"Yeah." Itachi nodded and looked at Uchiha Dohuan, but at this moment his eyes seemed somewhat less friendly.

Seeing his expression, Uchiha Douhuan didn't care at all and said, "It's just right that you're here. It saves me from having to send this kid back home. Sasuke, go back with your brother."

"Yes!" Sasuke, who was hanging on Uchiha Itachi, turned around and said, "Goodbye, teacher!"

"Goodbye." Uchiha Douhuan smiled and waved to Sasuke before closing the door.

On the way back, Sasuke, who was carried on Itachi's back, kept talking.

"Brother, the teacher is really amazing. It took me a long time to practice the ninjutsu he taught me before I could be as good as him."

"Really? Clan leader Dou Huan is a genius in our clan. You can learn his ninjutsu. It seems that Sasuke has good talent too." Although Uchiha Itachi was full of thoughts, he still spoke patiently in front of his younger brother.

After a while, Itachi continued to ask: "Sasuke, did your teacher teach you anything besides ninjutsu?"

Uchiha Itachi was a little nervous when he asked this question. He was really afraid that Uchiha Dohuan would instill his ambition into his lovely Oudoudou.

"Yes!" Sasuke was showing off his new toy to his closest friends. "The teacher told me a lot of interesting stories and taught me a lot about life."

When Uchiha Itachi heard this, his heart tightened immediately. He wondered if his lovely Oudoudou had really been corrupted by Uchiha Douhuan.

"What did he teach you?" Uchiha Itachi asked hurriedly.

"Well, the teacher taught me a lot of things. Some of them I still don't understand, but there are also some that I think are very right." Sasuke said.

Uchiha Itachi heard this and wanted to ask more questions, but the two had already arrived at the door, so Sasuke said to Itachi: "I will tell you the details after dinner."

"Okay." Uchiha Itachi nodded and entered the house with Sasuke.

"Mom, I'm back!" Sasuke shouted energetically at the door.

"You're back, Sasuke. Go wash your hands and have dinner." Mikoto saw her energetic little son and a gentle smile appeared on her face. "And Itachi, go wash your hands and get ready for dinner."

"Okay." Uchiha Itachi nodded and took Sasuke to the bathroom at home. However, when passing by the restaurant, he did not see Fugaku, which made him full of doubts. He turned around and asked, "Mom, isn't Father back yet?"

"Yeah, it seems the security team has a big mission lately. Your father said he won't be home for dinner these few days." Mikoto said as she served the two brothers some food.

After the two brothers sat down at the table, Sasuke immediately began to eat voraciously. He had consumed a lot of chakra when he showed his learning results in front of Uchiha Dohuan just now, and now he was also hungry.

"Sasuke, eat slowly." Mikoto watched Sasuke finish a bowl of rice, shook her head helplessly, and then helped him serve a new bowl of rice.

"Hehe, mom's cooking is the best." Sasuke said with a grin, "Even Naruto said so after eating the bento mom made."

"Really?" Mikoto smiled. "Then it seems I'll have to bring more lunch boxes for Naruto tomorrow. By the way, Sasuke, do you know what Naruto likes to eat?"

"Mom, I am your son, why don't you even ask me?" Sasuke pouted.

"Haha, Sasuke, are you jealous?" Mikoto was also amused by her son's appearance.

"No!" Sasuke would never admit it.

The conversation between the two stirred up a storm in Itachi's heart. He knew Naruto's identity. Has the family now begun to contact the Jinchūriki openly?

Uchiha Itachi, who was shocked by the series of news, finished his meal in a hurry. After the meal, Sasuke took Itachi's hand and looked at him expectantly: "Brother, can we sleep together tonight? How about I tell you the story that the teacher told me?"

"Okay." Uchiha Itachi nodded.

After the two brothers returned to their room, Sasuke took out the textbook written for him by Uchiha Dohuan and began to explain it to Uchiha Itachi.

Uchiha Itachi patiently listened to Sasuke explain the meaning of the things on it one by one.

From "Man is born good" to "Isn't it a pleasure to learn and practice it from time to time", the more Uchiha Itachi listened, the more he felt something was not right. It's not that these things were not good. On the contrary, what Sasuke said was too good. If Sasuke could really do every one of them, then in the future Sasuke would definitely be a standard good ninja who inherited the will of fire.

This was completely inconsistent with his impression of Uchiha Douhuan as a conspirator.

Thinking of this, Uchiha Itachi tried again: "Okay, Sasuke, let's not talk about this for now. Do you know what happened in the village a few days ago?"

"I know." Sasuke was stunned when he heard Itachi's question.

"So, what do you think about this?" asked Uchiha Itachi.

"The Security Department did a great job. It was clearly the villagers who were wrong in this matter, and the Security Department gave them the punishment they deserved," said Sasuke.

[There is indeed something wrong with what Uchiha Douhuan taught Sasuke!] Uchiha Itachi thought to himself after hearing this.

Chapter 75: Brotherly Disagreement (Part )

"Sasuke...why do you think so?" Uchiha Itachi asked after a brief silence.

"The whole story is clear," Sasuke said, puzzled as to why his brother asked. "It was these villagers who first spread rumors and slandered the village hero, Kakashi-sama. The security department is simply following the law."

"Spreading rumors?" Uchiha Itachi asked in confusion. He only knew that the family and the security team had used violence in this matter, but he didn't know the specific situation.

"Yes, some time ago, there were rumors everywhere in the village that Brother Kakashi was a murderer and that dozens of his teammates died at his hands in the Third Ninja World War." Sasuke said.

"But even so, the family should not use force against the civilians in the village. We are ninjas and cannot use force against civilians." Uchiha Itachi said.

"That's not right, brother. My teacher taught me that punishing someone without teaching them is cruelty, and punishing someone who doesn't change after teaching them is the way of the king. If the Security Department does nothing and just takes action, that's definitely wrong. When the rumors first started spreading, the Security Department had already issued a law clearly telling the villagers that this was wrong, but those villagers still did what they wanted. So the Security Department is the right thing to do to educate them."

"Is that what he taught you?" Uchiha Itachi gritted his teeth. He didn't expect that his younger brother, who used to obey him in everything, would say such things now. Is this still his lovely younger brother?

"What's wrong, brother? Is what the teacher said wrong?" Uchiha Sasuke didn't understand why Uchiha Itachi reacted so strongly. This was something that even a seven-year-old child like him could understand.

"Of course not!" Uchiha Itachi wanted to change Sasuke's mind and refuted him on the spot, "The villagers are certainly wrong, but they can't use violence arbitrarily. The security department can obviously use more gentle means. Using violence will only widen the gap between the family and the village."

"No, brother, it's useless." Sasuke shook his head seriously. "My teacher taught me that villains fear power but not virtue. For villains, only by making them understand the price of breaking the rules will they understand the seriousness of the law."

"Sasuke!" Uchiha Itachi's expression became very serious, "How can you say that the villagers are villains?"

"Brother, that's not what I meant." Seeing Itachi was a little angry, Sasuke quickly explained, "Of course not all villagers are villains, but those who were captured by the Security Department can definitely be called villains."

"Why?" Uchiha Itachi asked with a frown.

"My teacher taught me that hearsay is the abandonment of morality. People who believe and spread rumors are immoral. People who have no morality, can't they be called villains?" Sasuke explained.

"Enough!" Uchiha Itachi interrupted Sasuke angrily. Sasuke's constant constant "teacher taught me" made him extremely annoyed. "Didn't he teach you what the Will of Fire is?"

Itachi's sudden outburst scared Sasuke. Sasuke looked at Itachi in confusion. He didn't understand why his brother was suddenly so angry.

Soon, Itachi realized that he might have frightened Sasuke, and hurriedly said to comfort him: "Sorry, Sasuke, I lost my composure. Didn't your teacher teach you the Will of Fire?"

Sasuke shook his head and said, "The teacher would occasionally mention it to me during class, but he would always say that this is something that is discussed every day in the ninja school, so he wouldn't tell me in detail."

Uchiha Douhuan really has bad intentions. While teaching these things, he actually didn't teach Sasuke the great Will of Fire.

Uchiha Itachi thought to himself, then took a deep breath, and then said: "Sasuke, do you think that what the Security Department did is in line with the Will of Fire?"

Uchiha Sasuke nodded and said, "Of course it fits. Where Konoha flutters, fire will also continue to burn. The flames will continue to illuminate the village and allow new leaves to sprout. Brother Kakashi is a hero who burned himself for the village. When the glory of heroes illuminates our way forward, we must also protect the heroes who burn for the village. If even heroes who burn themselves for the village can be wantonly slandered, then who will be willing to burn themselves for the village in the future?"

"Is this how you understand the will of fire?" asked Uchiha Itachi.

"Is there something wrong?" Sasuke was a little confused, "Then how do you understand the Will of Fire, brother?"

Uchiha Itachi opened his mouth. He wanted to refute Sasuke's words, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't find any loopholes in Sasuke's words.

"Brother, if you are a hero who burned yourself for the village, but after burning everything for the village, you are slandered and your family is implicated, what will you do?" Sasuke suddenly asked at this time. After experiencing Uchiha Dohuan's teachings, Sasuke also had his own set of right and wrong. At the same time, he also realized that his brother did not seem to agree with these things, so Sasuke also wanted to persuade his brother.

"I..." Itachi was speechless when he thought of that scene. After a while, he spoke with some difficulty: "I will endure all this silently, because we are ninjas. The so-called ninja is someone who can endure everything."

"Brother, do you really think so?" Sasuke asked, "You hesitated just now, right?"

Itachi fell silent. He really couldn't accept the scenario that Sasuke described.

"Brother, you can't accept this situation, right?" Sasuke looked at Uchiha Itachi, "Teacher once taught me, don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you."

Uchiha Itachi was speechless. After a long time, he sighed and said to Sasuke: "I know, Sasuke, you go to sleep first, I still have something to do."

The first chat between the two brothers after not seeing each other for a long time ended in vain. After Uchiha Itachi walked out of Sasuke's room, he sighed, changed his clothes, opened the door, and disappeared into the night.

At this moment, at Uchiha Shisui's house, although he had already gotten off work, Shisui was still in the study room repeatedly looking at the testimonies of the three clans who had colluded with Orochimaru, which were interrogated by the Anbu who came with him to investigate today.

There was a knock on the door. Uchiha Shisui looked up with a puzzled look on his face. Who would come to see him so late?