"Uchiha Itachi, your words are pale and powerless, and your death is meaningless."
After saying this, a few blood vessels also appeared in Sasuke's eyes, but he didn't shed bloody tears like Itachi.
The Calamity Flames began repairing the damage to his eyes the moment he used his Dojutsu.
[Magatsuhime!]
When stared at by those lotus-patterned eyes, a chill from the inside out completely enveloped Itachi's entire body.
It was a malice from all things.
The materialization of misfortune.
"Cough! Cough!"
Itachi uncontrollably began to cough, all the old injuries he had accumulated previously erupting almost simultaneously.
It was a one-in-a-million probability, but at this moment, it became inevitable.
He raised a hand to cover his mouth, but couldn't stop the blood from overflowing.
"Sasuke..."
Itachi wanted to say something, but what met him was Sasuke's cold gaze.
As if looking at a stranger.
Within the indifference, there was also a trace of pity.
"I am different from you, Uchiha Itachi."
Sasuke extended a hand wreathed in blue Calamity Flames and, with a sizzling burning sound, directly pierced through the Susanoo's body and touched Itachi's forehead.
Itachi didn't choose to resist… or perhaps, just standing and breathing was already difficult for him now. His vision was also beginning to darken.
"Having these eyes, I also gained the ability to see through all misfortune."
As he spoke, Sasuke gently tapped his own eyelid with his other hand.
"But unlike someone like you, who only submits to misfortune, wallows in it, and is moved by your own suffering."
The hand resting on Itachi's head suddenly changed from an open palm to a grip, clutching the other party's head.
"I, Uchiha Sasuke! Will completely sever misfortune!"
Sasuke's lotus-patterned Mangekyo Sharingan and Itachi's shuriken-patterned Sharingan stared at each other, not caring in the slightest if he would consequently fall into the other party's Genjutsu.
"...Sasuke, cough... you don't understand... it was for..."
Itachi, his head gripped, coughed while trying to explain something.
Although he didn't understand the principle, after hearing Danzo and Shisui's names from Sasuke's mouth, the last trace of wishful thinking in Itachi's heart was extinguished.
Sasuke already knew the circumstances of that year.
Originally, in Itachi's heart, he did all of this for the village, for Sasuke.
He believed that after his death, Sasuke, knowing the whole truth, would understand his difficulties and would likewise continue to protect the village.
But the words spoken by the other party now seemed to completely negate his naive thinking.
"I told you, stop trying to bewitch me with those pale words."
Sasuke directly lifted Itachi and, carrying him, floated into the air.
At this moment, the orange Susanoo had completely dissipated due to its user's condition.
The two brothers were now truly face to face.
"You still want to interfere with me with words like before?"
The blue Calamity Flames transformed into a ribbon, actually binding Itachi's body as if it were substantial.
"Urgh-"
There were no burn marks where the flames touched, but Itachi let out cries of pain.
It was pure pain.
A 'sensation of pain' attached to the spirit.
"It hurts, right?"
Sasuke released his hand, allowing the blue flame ribbon to hang Itachi in mid-air.
"Those Uchiha Clan's members who died by your and the masked man's hands, their pain was thousands, tens of thousands of times greater than yours!"
Finally, words carrying a trace of emotional fluctuation came from Sasuke's mouth.
"Danzo is already dead."
"But my revenge is not over yet."
Hearing this, Itachi, enduring the pain, raised his head and stared intently at his younger brother's grief-stricken and indignant expression.
"Every accomplice behind this matter, I will find them all."
"Don't worry."
"I will only punish the chief culprits. I won't, like you, kill innocent people."
To kill a person is to destroy their heart.
This statement undoubtedly completely exposed everything Itachi had concealed under the guise of 'love'.
In Sasuke's view, after understanding the cause and effect, his brother's actions were undoubtedly 'foolish'.
In fact, not even foolish enough to describe it.
'Because your own clansmen didn't get along with the village and wanted to launch a coup, so you killed all the clansmen preemptively?'
'Stupid!'
'If you don't get along, then leave the village! With such power, couldn't you have forced them to follow you?'
'You weren't soft-hearted when killing people?'
'And you believed Danzo's nonsense!?'
'Did your brain and your backside switch places!?'
'Of course, the most foolish thing is that you shouldn't have spared my life.'
'My brother.'
Sasuke's gaze towards Itachi was very complex.
His feelings for Itachi contained the love between brothers, and also the hatred between enemies, but among them, there was absolutely no forgiveness.
"Sasuke... let it end here... let it end with me..."
Itachi actually, enduring the bone-deep pain, raised his head to look at Sasuke.
The next moment, countless crows flew out, blocking Sasuke's vision.
"Even now, you still think this kind of Genjutsu is useful?"
Sasuke let out a disdainful light laugh, then prepared to use the same Sharingan's Genjutsu as a counterattack.
But at that moment, a shout came from below.
"Sasuke! Don't look at that eye!"
'What!?'
Unfortunately, Sasuke's movements were still a step too slow.
One of those crows had a pupil that was actually a Mangekyo Sharingan.
Different from Itachi's triangular shuriken pattern, that eye's pattern was four-sided.
It was Shisui's eye!
In his previous observations, Sasuke had seen this eye.
He also knew what terrifying power this eye possessed.
[Kotoamatsukami]
That was an absolute Genjutsu capable of completely changing a person's will!
"Sasuke! Let my death be the end! Let the hatred end here!"
Itachi roared, blood foam spraying everywhere indiscriminately.
"Don't even think about it!"
Sasuke knew it was too late to avoid it now.
Or rather, he had already been hit.
But that didn't mean he was willing to accept this fate.
When he obtained this power, he had already promised that he would sever all misfortune!
The lotus-patterned Sharingan spun wildly, vaguely taking on a 'blooming' appearance.
The next moment.
The second ability of Sasuke's Mangekyo Sharingan also unveiled its veil.
"Michikaeshi!"
Michikaeshi.
In myth, Michikaeshi Okami that divides the human world and the underworld, existing in the blurred gap between life and death.
As Sasuke's ability activated, everything in the world seemed to slow down.
Naruto's movement of dispelling the earth and stone barrier, the flapping of the crows' wings, the rising of the flames… everything became slower and slower until it completely stopped.
Then, all things began to 'rewind' as if following their original paths 'back'.
It was as if fate had reached this point but was turned back by a [Road Closed] sign.
The ability activated, the crow flock dissipated, and Sasuke and Itachi both fell from the sky.
It seemed the consumption was too great, and Sasuke couldn't even maintain his transformation to fly.
Fortunately, Naruto's movements weren't slow.
Although he vaguely sensed a 'sense of disharmony' just now, rescuing people was urgent.
He immediately used the Ultra Light-Weight Rock Technique to take off, catching both of them before they hit the ground.
Compared to Sasuke, who was pale and seemed somewhat weak, Itachi's condition was clearly much worse.
At this moment, one of his eyes had completely lost focus, possibly already blind.
Although there were no wounds on his body, blood poured from his mouth as if it cost nothing.
The misfortune brought by Magatsuhime had ended, but the recurrence of his old illness was real and wouldn't completely end just because the misfortune was eliminated.
But strangely, no matter how much Itachi vomited blood, no matter how his old injuries recurred, his life force always remained.
Although it was as faint as a candle in the wind.
It showed no intention of extinguishing at all.
Naruto was somewhat curious, but Itachi seemed to have lost the ability to respond at this moment.
His consciousness seemed to have left this body.
'So, what exactly happened just now?'
Naruto turned his head and looked at Sasuke beside him with a curious expression.