After Sasuke opened his eyes, his first reaction was to stand up, but the vines on his body were unsuccessful, and after breaking free twice and finding that he couldn't untie them, he calmly lay on the ground and watched the four Katsuragi.

"Sasuke..."

Looking at Sasuke's appearance, Sakura felt uncomfortable for a while, and just wanted to step forward to say something, but was stopped by Katsuragi reaching out.

"I didn't expect you to be like this." Katsuragi stepped forward, looked down at the silent Sasuke, and then manipulated the vines to make him sit up.

Sasuke's face did not fluctuate in the slightest for Katsuragi's words, and he silently turned his head sideways to look at the yellow sand around him, not knowing what he was thinking.

"This guy..."

Sasuke's appearance made Naruto super unhappy, and when he wanted to rush over and teach Sasuke a hard lesson, he suddenly saw Sakura's sad look, and finally clenched his fists tightly and stayed where he was.

"Well, get out of here first and find a safe place."

Looking at the collapsed desert around him, Katsuragi was not in the mood to talk to Sasuke here, although the location here is very remote, there is no guarantee that the movement here will not be noticed by the sand.

After saying that, Katsuragi untied Sasuke's feet, wrapped his upper body, and then said coldly: "If you want to escape, you can try, but you also have to think about the cost." ”

Hearing Katsuragi's words, Sasuke just glanced at Katsuragi calmly, showing neither fear nor anger or anything like that.

The five of them walked in the desert, the atmosphere was very depressing, and no one spoke on the way, although Sakura wanted to talk to Sasuke, but she didn't know what to say when she opened her mouth several times.

And Hinata could see that Katsuragi was in a bad mood, so she didn't bother him, but obediently accompanied her and held Katsuragi's hand, hoping that this would share some heavy feelings.

As for Naruto, he seemed very depressed, firstly, because he had lost to Sasuke again in the previous battle, and secondly, like Sakura, he didn't know how to make Sasuke change back to his original self, or that the two of them still didn't understand why Sasuke was like this.

Night was slowly falling, and because of Sasuke, they couldn't hurry up, and when the sun was completely set, several people found a cave and prepared to rest for a while, while Katsuragi also wanted to know something.

"Naruto, Sakura, can you go find some branches."

In the cave, Katsuragi first said a word, then turned his head to look at Hinata and said, "Hinata, you go with them too, if there is something to signal, send a signal in time!" ”

"Huh!? Do you want to pick up so much? ”

The stupid Naruto didn't pay attention to Katsura's meaning, but Sakura and Hinata both saw that Katsuragi wanted to be alone with Sasuke for a while, so Sakura dragged Naruto over and said, "Just come along." ”

After the three of them left, Katsuragi turned to look at Sasuke, who hadn't said a word along the way, sighed and asked straight to the point, "Have you already seen Itachi?" ”

Sasuke raised his head and looked at Katsuragi intently, nodded and replied, "Hmm! ”

"So there are some things you asked him?"

"He showed me the truth of what happened back then!" Sasuke said in a cold voice, Katsuragi's words reminded him of the previous incident, and at his urgent request, Orochimaru found the Akatsuki organization with Katsuragi's information and asked Itachi to trade the information.

Out of jealousy of Katsuragi, Payne agreed to Orochimaru's conditions, so that Sasuke finally met his brother, Uchiha Itachi, whom he had not seen since the extinction.

Until now, Sasuke's heart was still full of anger as he remembered everything he knew that day, and it was for this reason that he refused Sakura, Naruto, and Kakashi's kindness last time.

"What kind of truth?"

Katsuragi looked at Sasuke, who was suddenly angry, and asked lightly, he really wanted to know what Itachi said.

Sasuke took a deep breath, calmed down, and looked at Katsuragi and replied in a voiceless voice, "He let me see what he went through, how Konoha made him an undercover agent, and how he used me as a threat to make him stab his own compatriots and even his own parents. ”

Looking at the emotional Sasuke, Katsuragi's body paused slightly, he didn't expect Itachi to really tell Sasuke all the things, I have to say that the moon reading technique is really convenient and can't work.

"You can't blame Konoha for everything."

At this time, Katsura didn't know what to say, Itachi's life was indeed miserable, no matter what, he couldn't change the fact that he killed his compatriots and killed his parents.

"You've known about it from the beginning, have you?"

Sasuke suddenly looked straight at Katsuragi and asked seriously, "You already knew about it when you told me that it had something to do with the roots, right?" ”

"Yes, even earlier."

Katsuragi didn't deceive Sasuke and said, "I have some special abilities in intelligence and can know a lot of things, and I really knew this from the beginning. ”

"Then why didn't you tell me!"

Hearing this, Sasuke asked excitedly.

"What about telling you!?" Regarding Sasuke's excitement, Katsuragi just looked at him calmly and asked, "After the extermination of the clan, you only think about revenge, if you know the truth, with the original situation, you will only kill yourself." ”

"After this, I, Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi-sensei, in order not to immerse you in hatred, tried my best to change you, and in order not to make you resent Itachi, I also told you that there is a secret in this."

"I don't know why Itachi suddenly chose to tell you the truth, but I want to ask you, is he happy with the path you chose?"

"Or are you right about all this he's done for you?"

Katsuragi's words were like a sharp sword straight into Sasuke's chest, causing him to lower his head, recalling Itachi's disappointment and loss when he saw him at Orochimaru's place.

"You have a reason to resent those who let you exterminate the clan, but do you have a reason to resent the whole of Konoha?"

Looking at the silent Sasuke, Katsuragi continued: "Like Sakura and Naruto, they did something wrong, they even risked their lives in order to find you, they just wanted to get their former teammates back. ”

"As I said, I'm not who I used to be."

Sasuke took a deep breath, shook his head, and said, "Although you are right, I still can't forgive Konoha. ”

Hearing Sasuke's words, Katsuragi asked directly, "Then what do you want to do?" Revenge? Like the previous Orochimaru, ruined the entire Konoha? ”

Sasuke stood in place and couldn't answer, in fact, he was already confused in his heart, on the one hand, in the face of the family's misfortune, Itachi's unfair treatment, and on the other hand, Naruto and Sakura's perseverance in redeeming it.

It left him at a loss as to what choice to make the right one.