"Naruto-kun, if you really want to do this, I don't recommend choosing Wave Country."
Yakushi Nono spoke, her voice somewhat low.
"Tell me your reasons."
Naruto gestured for Yakushi Nono to continue.
"According to the information I've gathered over the past two months, Wave Country is an extremely impoverished nation. Even the Feudal Lord doesn't have money. Most of the population here are refugees, without fixed residences, and there are often scenes of starvation everywhere. If we really take over this country, I'm afraid it will just be a mess."
"Is that so?" Naruto smiled and said, "Why do I feel like this is more of an advantage?"
"Huh?"
Yakushi Nono couldn't quite understand.
"Think about it, a small, poor, and struggling place on an island, it would be difficult for the outside world to notice anything that happens, right? Plus, most of the civilians here are homeless and can't even get enough to eat, which means they have low national identity. Isn't this an opportunity for us to completely control this country?"
"But if that's the case, we won't have money to support those civilians."
"We don't have money, but someone does, don't they?"
A mischievous smile appeared on Naruto's face, and Yakushi Nono also realized.
"But, Gato is, after all, a businessman..."
"A bully who uses violence to monopolize a country's transportation can be considered a businessman? Nonou, we can be as warm as spring to our friends, but we must be as ruthless as severe winter to our enemies."
"This... alright."
Since things had been said to this point, Yakushi Nono didn't say anything more about it, and instead asked, "When will we take action?"
"Investigate the property situation of Gato Company carefully these two days, don't waste anything. At the same time, you can contact the Feudal Lord of Wave Country. If he's willing to agree to our demands, that's naturally the best. If he doesn't agree, then help him agree."
"Let's leave it at that for now."
Naruto planned to think carefully about how to change the country based on the situation in Wave Country.
"Naruto-sama, please wait a moment."
Seeing that Naruto was about to end the meeting, Uchiha Inaho quickly spoke up.
"Hmm?" Naruto thought the Uchiha was going to remain silent, but he didn't expect him to speak.
"Is there anything else?"
"It's about Uchiha Itachi..."
...
The night passed quickly.
The sun rose, and the world became bright again, but Uchiha Itachi, who had just woken up, still saw darkness, because his eyes were gone.
"Cough cough cough, cough cough cough—"
Uchiha Itachi suddenly coughed violently. He felt as if countless needles were pricking his throat, itching and hurting, and specks of blood spilled from the corners of his mouth.
Uchiha Itachi endured the discomfort in his body and tried to feel around, but found that his hands and feet were tied up, bound to a pillar, making it difficult for him to move.
"Where exactly is this? Was I captured by Naruto-kun? Then my eyes..."
Uchiha Itachi's mind was filled with thoughts. Just then, a familiar sound of footsteps came.
"Uchiha Itachi, you're finally awake." Sasuke's voice rang in his ears, causing Uchiha Itachi's heart to tighten, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Sasuke, is Itachi awake?"
Another gentle and familiar voice sounded, and this time Uchiha Itachi trembled all over, uttering two words with difficulty.
"Mother..."
Hearing her child's call, even Uchiha Mikoto, who had been mentally prepared, couldn't help but feel a tremor in her heart. After all, this was also her child.
She didn't know why Itachi, who had always been well-behaved and sensible, would do such a thing, but now that things had already happened, she had no chance to regret it. If it weren't for Naruto, she might have died at Itachi's hands along with her husband.
"Itachi... today... never mind, you'll find out later."
Uchiha Mikoto sighed. Sending her own child to his death was more painful than she had imagined.
"Mom, you go ahead."
Seeing his mother's tearful appearance, Sasuke felt a pang of heartache and wanted his mother to leave first.
Uchiha Mikoto stubbornly shook her head and touched Sasuke's little head. How could she show less resolve than her younger son?
The crybaby has grown up...
"How does the clan plan to deal with me?"
Uchiha Itachi opened his mouth with some difficulty. His actions had failed. Not only had they failed, but they had also caused irreparable damage to Konoha. He had personally dragged Konoha into the mire...
He was now resigned to death and didn't want to resist anymore. Having lost his eyes, he couldn't resist either.
"You will bear the crime of slaughtering the clan and die under the gaze of all the clansmen."
"And I am the one who will give you death."
Uchiha Itachi was stunned for a moment after hearing this, but his expression didn't change at all. The two black holes were facing Sasuke, making him feel a little uneasy.
"Hehehe, hahahahaha, hahahahaha—"
Uchiha Itachi suddenly laughed, his face turned upwards. The already scabbed eye sockets once again shed two lines of bloody tears, appearing exceptionally hideous.
"I see, Sasuke, I didn't expect you to be the one to end my life. In that case, let me see your magnanimity. Facing me, who slaughtered the clan, how much hatred can you have!"
Click!
Sasuke clenched his fists. He had never seen Itachi like this before. He clearly intended to kill all the clansmen, but why, why could he still laugh so wantonly?
"You, you damned bastard!"
Bang!
Furious, Sasuke directly punched Uchiha Itachi in the face. The powerful force caused Uchiha Itachi's head to turn completely to the side. If he wasn't tied to the pillar, he probably would have flown out.
"Cough cough cough, cough cough cough cough—spit!"
Uchiha Itachi coughed violently again, a large amount of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, finally spitting out several teeth that had just been knocked out, but still with a mocking smile on his face.
"My foolish brother..."
Bang!
"You bastard!"
Sasuke punched again, and Uchiha Itachi's head tilted again.
"I..."
"Shut up!"
Bang!
Another punch, and Uchiha Itachi's head tilted to the other side.
After several repetitions, Uchiha Itachi's face was swollen, and his mouth was closed. He originally wanted to provoke Sasuke a few more times to see if he could get the other party to open a few more tomoe, but now it seems that he would probably faint again before he could finish his words.
Uchiha Mikoto also sighed softly, without saying much, just gently said, "Let's go."
Sasuke untied the rope that bound Uchiha Itachi to the pillar and dragged him outside.
Uchiha Itachi's Chakra had been sealed, so there was no need to worry about him escaping. During this process, Uchiha Itachi had no reaction, nor did he try to anger Sasuke again. It was meaningless.
In the center of the village, a platform had already been set up, and now Uchiha Itachi was being forcibly knelt on it, with Uchiha Inaho and Sasuke also on it.
This village was built by the civilians of Wave Country at Yakushi Nono's expense. In the entire village, only the people brought by Naruto were present; others didn't dare to come at all.
"Naruto, what is going on?"
Neji was still unclear about what had happened. He had asked Sasuke last night, but Sasuke was unwilling to say, so he still didn't know the specifics.
"Didn't Natsu tell you?" Naruto asked, puzzled. He remembered that the two of them were still communicating together this morning.
"Uh, why would she tell me this?" Neji was speechless.
"Alright, it's just that Uchiha Itachi, for the sake of Konoha, was going to secretly massacre the Uchiha clan, but ultimately failed and was captured, and now he is going to be executed."
Naruto said it lightly, but it sounded like a thunderclap in Neji's ears. Could there really be such a person?
Even Neji had only thought about killing the people of the Hyuga Main Family, never about killing the entire clan. The Uchiha were indeed as strange as the rumors said.
"Uchiha Itachi!"
Just as Naruto and Neji were talking, Uchiha Inaho spoke on the platform, while Sasuke stood beside him with a tense face.
"I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with a selfish and self-serving guy like you. I'm too lazy to say it, and you don't deserve to hear it."
"But since you betrayed the Uchiha for the sake of Konoha, then we, the thirty-nine Uchiha present, swear that in the future, we will definitely completely destroy Konoha! Your eyes will also become the power of destruction!"
"..."
"I don't regret my choice, but it's a pity that I didn't consider the variable of Uzumaki Naruto..."
"Hmph!"
Uchiha Inaho just snorted coldly. Although he was unhappy, he had expected it. Uchiha Itachi was a white-eyed wolf.
He looked at Sasuke beside him, his mood easing a lot. Although Uchiha Itachi was a bastard, at least his younger brother was a normal person.
"Sasuke, is it okay? If it's not..."
Sasuke shook his head and walked up to Uchiha Itachi, looking at his brother with complicated eyes, his heart filled with mixed feelings, but his movements were unusually firm.
"Goodbye, Itachi!"
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