Half an hour later.

Uchiha Fugaku hurried home, and after checking Yoshiyu's body, the seriousness on his face immediately relaxed a lot.

Itachi Uchiha's face sank.

[Looks like I guessed correctly......]

He was very familiar with the way his father now had a slight upset mouth and a smile that seemed to be smiling, and to the deep-thinking Uchiha clan patriarch, it was almost like looking up to the sky and laughing wildly.

"Daddy......"

Sasuke leaned into Uchiha Mikoto's arms, clutching Yoshiyu's hand tightly, with tears in the corners of his eyes.

He asked with a pale face, "What the hell is wrong with Yiyong?" ”

"You don't have to worry about him."

Uchiha Fugaku shook his head slightly: "Yiyong, this kid should have opened his eyes, this is a good thing." ”

"What?!"

Uchiha Mikoto covered her mouth slightly, her expression was diametrically opposed to Fugaku's "stealing joy", but it was similar to Itachi's expression.

Their mood at the moment is not so much joy as confusion and worry.

"How is this possible?"

As a shinobi of the Uchiha clan, Mikoto certainly understands what it means to open her eyes.

The Sharingan, also known as the Eye of Spiritual Reflection, awakens and evolves only when the clansman is exposed to a stimulus that he or she suddenly cannot face, especially extremely strong negative emotions.

Uchiha Mikoto opened her eyes because she came home one day and found that her pet cat had died inexplicably and was overly sad.

At that time, she was still a shinobi, thinking that it was just an accident, but when the pets of other clansmen also died one after another, she guessed the truth that her parents did not want to say-

These pets, who have grown up with them since childhood, also shoulder the ultimate mission of forcing them to open their eyes at the cost of death. It is these parents and elders who desperately need their children to open their eyes that kill them.

But even so, not all Uchiha children can open their eyes smoothly.

If you want to write the evolution of the wheel eye, "opportunity" and talent are indispensable, for example, when Itachi was eight years old, because his teammates were killed and awakened to the second magatama writing wheel eye, he is already a peerless genius.

However, Yiyong is only five years old today!

With his character, which is usually indifferent to being scolded by his father, what kind of stimulation did he get to the point where he would open his eyes without even chakra?

The thought that Yiyong might have suffered a thrill that he couldn't face at this stage, but didn't say it, Mai Trin felt a pang of self-reproach.

I should work harder and communicate with that kid......

"Nothing is impossible."

Fu Yue pondered for a while and said, "Maybe it's because Yiyong didn't like to express it since he was a child, and he accumulated his emotions, but he encountered a certain stimulus and suddenly exploded. This has happened before, but the people are very old. ”

With that, he turned his head to look at his eldest son, who was the proudest of all.

"Itachi, stay with him then. What was Yiyong doing before he fainted? ”

Uchiha Itachi calmed down, restrained his knee-jerk impulses, and instead of looking at the butterfly specimen on the kitchen windowsill, he casually said, "Chop vegetables." As always. ”

Uchiha Fugaku's lips opened and closed, and then asked with some urging, "What kind of vegetables?" ”

"Salmon."

Itachi paused, and suddenly gave an assumption that was easier to convince others than the facts, "Could it be that Yiyong didn't want me to go into the kitchen to disturb him, but he wasn't good at expressing his anger, so he opened his eyes?" ”

“……”

Except for Sasuke, who was still a little ignorant, the other three all lowered their eyes and fell silent.

Fugaku and Mikoto are thinking about the connection between the opening of eyes and the kitchen, but their motivations for thinking are clearly different.

And Itachi looked at Yiyong with his eyes closed, and the turmoil in his heart was far more exaggerated than what he showed on his face.

In all fairness, he didn't like his father's attitude towards Yi Yong's eyes, or even his family's attitude towards Sharingan.

For the sake of strength and the so-called "glory of the Uchiha", these elders ignore the suffering of the young people, see the price of opening their eyes as a sacrifice to gain power, and glorify the self-suppression of tolerating this price as a "measure" of ninjas.

Whoever can give up what he loves and accept this pain in exchange for strength is a "measured" clansman, so he has a bright future.

Most of the children of one clan grow up in this creed, and then poison the next generation of clansmen......

Under this strange and distorted logic, each clan member is no longer a human being, but a tool for the evolution and reproduction of the Sharingan itself. It seems that in the eyes of the clan, as long as it can evolve to the point where Madara Uchiha was back then, all the sacrifices are worth it.

Right now, his father was excited about the five-year-old Yiyong's eyes, and he felt a strong anger.

Especially when Sasuke saw his father's eyes looking at Yiyong at this moment, the longing and envy in his eyes made his heart ache even more, and he unconsciously clenched his fists.

[Sasuke, you don't know what these eyes mean! 】

Just as the strange silence was about to continue, Yi Yong's eyelids twitched. It was a sign that he was about to wake up.

"Brave!"

Mikoto Uchiha let out a cry of relief, but Uchiha Fugaku moved faster.

As if he wanted to express his affection for the son who bothered him the most, he reached out to Chao Yiyong's pillow to help him up.

But just as he was about to meet Yiyong, the latter opened his eyes sharply and grabbed his father's wrist with great agility.

Fuyue frowned.

He felt pain, and the strength of the righteous brave was surprisingly great. He continued to push forward, but Brave's hand was like a tight nut, preventing him from scoring any more points.

[What are you kidding?] 】

The shock in Fuyue's heart was beyond words.

This means that without using chakra to enhance hand strength, the strength of Yi Yong is actually not lost to him?

What's going on with this kid?

Why is he so strong?

If it weren't for the fact that this kid and Sasuke looked like each other, he would have wondered if the other party's surname was Senju or Uchiha.

Fortunately, Yiyong quickly saw who he was, and let go of his hand expressionlessly. The reason why he is vigilant is because his father's breath is the most unfamiliar to Yiyong.

He didn't say anything, and he didn't know what to say. In fact, Yiyong was so confused that he didn't know whether the voice he heard before he fainted was true or false, and he didn't know how to verify it.

After his deep gaze circled over everyone's faces, he stood up directly from the floor of the Japanese room and looked at the clock hanging on the wall.

Half past seven in the evening.

It had been exactly half an hour since he put the ingredients in the saucepan.

"It's time to eat."

After leaving the next sentence, he was about to go to the kitchen to turn off the gas stove, but Fu Yue grabbed his arm and had to stop.

"Wait."

Looking at his son with a flat face, Fu Yue's brows furrowed, "Yiyong, do you know what happened to you just now?" Do you know why you fainted? ”

His son is not only not interested in external things, but he is simply indifferent to his own body.

"I didn't stand still."

"It's not that you can't stand firm."

Fu Yue pointed to Yi Yong's eyes and patiently explained: "You fainted because the pupil power of the writing wheel eye awakened, but there was not enough chakra in your body to control it, causing your body to be overloaded, understand?" ”

Itachi Uchiha and his mother looked at each other, and they both guessed what their father was going to say next.

"Although it is not clear at this time that you are the writing wheel eye of several hook jades, as long as you learn to extract chakra, you will soon have the strength of the lower ninja."

A hint of pride welled up on Uchiha Fugaku's face, "This is the power of our Uchiha clan, this is the strongest blood inheritance limit in the ninja world.

"And Yiyong, a child of your age, I have never heard of it. Maybe your talent is better than that of Shishui and Itachi......"

Uchiha Fugaku held Yoshiyu's shoulders, his eyes shining with anticipation.

"As long as you are willing to practice well, you will soon become a powerful ninja in your own right. When the time comes, the clan will ...... under pressure from the village."

"Needless to say."

Unaffected by his father's almost perverse fanaticism, Yoshiyo's eyes were cold, "I'm not interested in becoming a ninja. ”

He remembered it for a long time, so he had seen Itachi come home bloodied at a young age.

Especially at the age of eight, Itachi often couldn't sleep all night, sitting outside the window in contemplation, and occasionally secretly weeping. Because he lost his teammates, but he couldn't show his vulnerability in front of his father, he had to bear all this silently.

Yiyong has always kept this incident in his heart, and he feels very uncomfortable when he thinks about it.

The so-called ninja is a person who does dirty things for others for the sake of payment, regardless of whether the target is innocent or not, as long as the employer has a request and does not contradict the interests of the village, the ninja will not hesitate to take people's lives in order to complete the task, leaving behind the feelings of being a human being, and calling it the basic quality of a ninja, replacing the basic conscience of being a human being with professional ethics.

In Yoshiyu's mind, if a ninja identifies with his profession more than anything else, like Otojo's father and younger brother, even if he wants to kill his loved ones.

The ghosts prey on humans in order to survive, and Yi Yong can't forgive them, but he can still treat them as a kind of wild beast that can communicate. After all, they can't live without cannibalism.

But ninjas have great power, but they take people's lives for reward, and kill people for the sake of secrecy, and to some extent they are not even as good as ghosts.

This made it difficult for him to accept his courage in protecting people's lives in the past.

"Confused! Do you think it's just a matter of whether you're interested? ”

Fugaku's face was gloomy, "You are my son, a rare genius, and you naturally shoulder the mission of glorifying the Uchiha clan, for the future of the clan, for the balance between you and the village, you must become a ninja!" ”

"My mission is to take care of Itachi and Sasuke."

Yi Yong frowned, broke his father's two hands on his shoulders at the same time, and said word by word, "This is the end of the matter. ”

This time was different from usual.

When Yi Yong said this, he exuded a sense of majesty that he had never felt before, and there was something irrefutable about it.

This is an unshakable aura that belongs to the water column and should not appear in a child.

To be honest, for Yi Yong, there was always a sense of disobedience to respect these two people who were no more than ten years older than him (Yi Yong's previous and present lives combined were 28 years old, but his mental age may fluctuate back and forth between 8 and 80 years old) as parents, but he still persevered for five years.

This was the first time he consciously confronted the conflict with Fugaku.

"You!"

Being hit on the spot, coupled with all kinds of friction in the past, Fu Yue was angry, and the blood-red three-hooked jade writing wheel opened suddenly, and the electric fan spun in the eye socket at great speed, "Do you really put my father in your eyes?!" ”

"Husband!"

Uchiha Mikoto hurriedly stood between Yoshiyong and Fugaku, looking at her husband with a hint of vigilance, like a lioness ready to attack.

"Yiyong is just a child."

His wife's words and gestures soaked Uchiha Fugaku's hot brain like cold snow water.

He suddenly calmed down, snorted coldly and walked away.

"Hmph. I'll go take a bath, you guys eat first! ”

After saying that, he went to the bathroom without looking back, and Yiyong went to the kitchen on his own.

The three mothers and sons in the room breathed a sigh of relief, Sasuke was pure fear, he had never participated in the clan meeting, so he had never seen his father's angry appearance.

Itachi and Mikoto, on the other hand, were worried that Uchiha Fugaku would use some illusion on the righteous courage who did not have Chakra in a fit of anger just now, causing irreversible mental damage.

"Itachi, although I also want Yiyong to be an ordinary person according to his ideas. But you know, your father will not give up on this. If the people knew about Yi Yong's eyes, they would also put pressure on your father. ”

The Uchiha clan is notoriously xenophobic, which also means that they have a highly unified "family first" logic within themselves.

Although Yiyong is the son of the patriarch, in fact, he is the "public property" of the same clan as Itachi, and the clan will never allow a genius who opens his eyes at the age of five to bury his talent because of the "playful" nature of children.

If those upper ninjas in the clan exert pressure, Fuyue's situation will be very embarrassing, and I am afraid that he will be forced to take "special measures" against Yiyong at that time. It is even possible that some elders will find an opportunity to secretly plant illusions against Yiyong.

Mikoto's face was full of gloom, and she whispered to her eldest son, who had always been resourceful, "Can you persuade Yiyong, even if it is symbolic, at least learn to extract chakra first, otherwise it will be difficult to control the chakra just by writing the wheel......"

"I'll figure it out, please don't worry."

Uchiha Itachi comforted, "Please also ask you and your father to hide this matter from the clan first." ”

"I see. Thank you, Itachi. It's great to have you here......"

In this way, the mother and son reached a tacit understanding on this matter. Although Sasuke on the side seemed to understand it, he understood at least one thing-

The fact that Yoshiyo has a good talent but doesn't want to be a ninja is very troublesome to his father, mother, and brother.

Although he felt a little unhappy when he heard his father say that Yiyong would be more powerful than his brother, it was not much. It is rare for his younger brother to be treated squarely by his father, and he is also happy for his bravery.

But what really bothers Sasuke is why Yoshiyu doesn't care about everything he desires......

He doesn't care about his brother's favor, his father's expectations, or even the family ninjutsu.

"My mission is to take care of Itachi and Sasuke."

He remembered this sentence very clearly, and he could see the seriousness on Yiyong's face, not just talking.

He thought about it and finally came to only one conclusion.

The only thing Yiyong cares about most may be his brother and himself!

Thinking of his mother's request to his brother just now, Sasuke suddenly came up with an idea in his head.

If it were him, if he made a request to Yiyong, would Yiyong agree?

……

When Uchiha Fugaku came out of the bath, Uchiha Mikoto and her three sons had already eaten half of it.

Seeing that no one was waiting for him, a faint depression welled up on Fu Yue's face, and after glaring at Yi Yong, who was silently serving the soup for himself, he sat down with a stiff face, then picked up the soup spoon and sent the milky white fish soup into his mouth.

[It's delicious.] 】

took a bite, but his mood not only did not get better, but worsened.

[As long as he started at the age of three and used half of his cooking thoughts for cultivation, now he should have the level of when Weasel was six or seven years old. 】

He hadn't forgotten how hard he had been when he had held his wrist before.

Considering that Yiyong had just woken up from a coma at that time, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was talented, right?

Excellent physical strength, coupled with a five-year-old writing wheel eye......

Such a good talent for cooking? Madara Uchiha in the spirit of the sky will not forgive such a thing.

However, after taking a bath, Fugaku also calmed down a bit.

Past experience has taught him that it is useless to persecute children like Yiyong, Itachi and Zhishui who have their own ideas. If he wants Yiyong to cultivate, he must be eager to become stronger.

It's just specific, how do you do it......

"My mission is to take care of Itachi and Sasuke. ”】

[That's what he said before, right? 】

Uchiha Fugaku drank the fish soup blandly, but his eyes swirled back and forth between Itachi and Sasuke.

[What if he understands that if he wants to take care of Itachi and Sasuke, it's not enough to just cook and wash clothes? 】

One dark thought after another that belonged to the patriarch welled up in his mind, but it was immediately buried by the sense of responsibility as a father, and although it was not formed, it at least had a direction.

At this time, Sasuke suddenly said, "Mom, did you buy a wishing candle today?" ”

"Ah, has Sasuke already thought about his wishes for this year?"

finally had a slightly warm topic, which made the restless Uchiha Mikoto smile, "You and Yiyong don't eat too much, I'll go get the cake right away." ”

With that, she got up and went to the kitchen, took out three small triangular cakes from the refrigerator, put five candles in each of them, and divided them among the three children.

"Well, this strawberry-flavored one belongs to Sasuke."

"Wisteria flavored is brave."

"This chocolate-flavored one is Itachi's."

After putting the three cakes away, she got up and stood next to the light switch, and said to Fuyue, who had a straight face, "Dad, I'll leave the matter of lighting the candles to you." ”

Itachi Uchiha laughed on the spot.

He remembered Yoshiyu's evaluation of Sasuke's "Hoi Fireball Technique".

"It's really ...... to use Konoha's best fire escape on this."

After Fugaku complained symbolically, he said to Sasuke and Yoshiyu, "Be optimistic about this gesture I'm doing now." This is the seal of Yin, a special mudra that transforms chakra into flames, and almost all fire escape ninjutsu end with this seal. ”

Seeing the familiar action, Sasuke's eyes widened and he was very excited, but Yoshiyu did not react, his eyes were like watching a sparrow peck.

[This kid ......]

Seeing that his eyes were on fire, Fugaku made his mudra and spit out two blue low-temperature flames in the shape of buds from his mouth. The bud flame flew above the two cakes and burst into a fleeting lotus flower, igniting all ten candles at the same time.

This subtle chakra control caused Sasuke to exclaim continuously, and even Itachi showed a hint of admiration. What my father showed was a very clever fire attribute chakra form change, and I am afraid that among the Konoha ninjas, there will be no stronger one.

And Uchiha Itachi is still a long way from this level of fire escape.

Yiyong was stunned because he heard the voice before he fainted again.

[Uchiha Fugaku used Fire Escape Ninjutsu by your side. Breath of Flame Resolution +0.04%. 】

"Click."

Mai Tamin turned off the lights, and the candles on the two cakes became the most conspicuous light source in the darkness, but they could only illuminate the faces of the twin brothers.

Itachi Uchiha noticed, and even so, Yoshiyu's eyes still didn't reflect.

[The so-called black hole refers to this. 】

"Once you've made a wish, you can blow out the candles."

Mikoto said softly, "So who will come first?" Yiyong is the younger brother, so ......"

"I'll come first, I'll come first!"

Sasuke had been prepared for a long time.

Mikoto glanced at the indifferent Yoshiyong, and could only nod helplessly, "Then Sasuke will come first." ”

"My wish is—"

Sasuke seemed to have forgotten the rule that "wishes must be said in the heart to be fulfilled", and said loudly into the cake, "I hope that when my brother teaches me cultivation in the future, Yiyong will come with us!" ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for the others to react, and blew out the candle with a "huh", and his two dark eyes were hidden in the darkness, staring closely at Yiyong's face illuminated by the firelight.

Uchiha Itachi and Mikoto were a little surprised, they didn't expect Sasuke to make such a wish.

On the other side, Uchiha Fugaku almost laughed out loud.

He really wanted to pat Sasuke on the shoulder and shout, "It's my son!" ”

Sasuke's offense isn't over yet.

"Mom, you said that your birthday wish will definitely come true, right?"

"Hmm...... If it's not too much, it should be. ”

[But the object of your wish before was us and Itachi. 】

"Then Yiyong will definitely promise me, right?"

"This, it depends on Yiyong's own thoughts."

Mikoto raised her eyebrows, Sasuke, the child's heart, had more eyes than she imagined, and she actually used it in this way...... Persecuting the Righteous Brave?

The whole family fell silent, waiting for Yiyong's answer.

After a long time, Yiyong spit out a few words: "After that, I will have to eat outside at noon." ”

[He agreed!] 】

The other four had the same thought welling up in their hearts.

"Then let's talk about it."

Sasuke's eyes rolled, "My brother said that tomorrow he will continue to teach me the trick of Hodo's fireball, and you will come too, right?" ”

"Hmm."

Yi Yong nodded.

Seeing this scene, Fugaku almost wanted to pick Sasuke up and lift him high.

As long as Yiyong saw the various ninjutsu displayed by Itachi, he didn't believe that this kid would not be tempted at all!

Moreover, in order to avoid some young clansmen who like to find faults, Sasuke and Itachi usually go to the training ground on the outskirts of the village to practice, which means that Yoshiyong has finally exposed himself to a relatively "dangerous" area.

When the time comes, it will be much more convenient to arrange whatever you want.

"Then it's time to make a wish."

Mikoto blinked and said, "Like Sasuke, it's okay to say what you want." ”

Everyone cheered up.

They all wanted to know, what would the righteous wish look like?

Yi Yong stared at the candle in front of him, not knowing what to say......

Suddenly, he remembered that the voice in his head before seemed to have said something like being able to resurrect Flame Pillar Purgatory Kyojuro.

[Who's going to talk again?] Gods? 】

[Is he really right?] 】

[If Purgatory is okay, what about the other people who have died? 】

[Mr. Beimingyu, Butterfly, Ganlu Temple, Rabbit, and Shi Tou that child, will they all meet me in this world? (Little Barnet: ?) ）】

Although Yi Yong was skeptical of the content of the voice, he gradually had an idea in his heart, so he spoke up:

"My wish is......

"Don't be hated by them."

If they could be resurrected. 】

Then, in a way that Sasuke couldn't understand, he extinguished the candle with a gentle wave of his hand.

Like an invisible god, answering this wish.