(Sasuke POV)
"You see, his target was Naruto this time. He also wasn't interested in you as you are too weak now. He asked me to tell you this. He seems to be not interested in me too." Kazuya said.
I was enraged to know this.
Me being too...weak..?
DON'T JOKE AROUND ITACHI!
"...What..." I said.
It was truly the worst feeling I've ever gotten.
This gnawing sense of being made to be aware of what you lack...
I hate it.
This weakness of mine...even after working so hard with Kazuya...It still didn't leave.
WHY?!
"I have a solution for that though. It depends on you, whether you want it or not." Kazuya said.
Is there truly any solution for the revenge to be taken?
Am I not going to be this weak and become truly strong?
"...Explain further." I said.
"You see, the mark on your shoulder, the cursed seal of heaven, is a seal that will be a source for Orochimaru's revival. It is a fuinjutsu that makes the user's soul descend into the victim's body and take over. It also gives you a significant power boost while using it. What I speculate is that a group of people will come to entice you with more power and follow them to Orochimaru's hideout. You will follow them. You will be technically a spy. It will be an S-rank mission only for you. It will be to spy on Orochimaru and at the same time, increase your power overall. But you need to be extremely careful. One wrong move and Orochimaru will take over your body. What do you say?" Kazuya said.
I see...
I was just escaping from the truth.
I am an avenger.
My true purpose was revenge.
I forgot my goal...Something I was working for all these years.
Even if he is my brother, he can only help me so much.
I need to get more power.
Itachi is only interested in me that means something must be special about me.
I will take revenge for you too, Kazuya.
Orochimaru huh?
"You don't need to do anything other than stay near him and go with the flow till the critical time comes around. I will personally come to pick you up. Besides, if you want revenge, this will be the best course of action." He said with a smile.
I could see what lies beyond that smile...
Endless sense of insanity that must've emerged due to our parent's death.
(A/N: He is getting a big misunderstanding here. Our protag is insane since birth lmao.)
What should I do?
Should I take this opportunity?
Should I take care of Kazuya for the time being so that I may not lose what I already have in my hands?
Should I pursue Itachi?
Am I worthy enough to take revenge for both of us?
No...My thinking....
It's wrong.
I am unworthy right now.
I need to get stronger now.
Only revenge can help Kazuya.
Only revenge can help me.
Only strength is needed for revenge...
I will do it for both of us, Kazuya.
I am determined to see it through the end.
"I accept." I said.
"Great! Now listen the details of the mission. It will be a secret S-rank mission no will will know that you were actually asked to do this, not even your own team. You also need to grow a lot under his tutelage. This will be your chance to take away a Sannin's tutelage. A group will come to you to kidnap you, you will also deceive them and make them think that you think that I am nothing and you only care about strength and revenge. You will also be sought out by a team of genins that I will release to 'rescue' you. Just defeat them and go on your merry way to the mission." He said.
This was a bit hard to follow.
Being asked to leave the village, getting pursued by others and other activities...
It will be hard for me.
Is it truly necessary?
'You will also deceive them and make them think that you think that I am nothing and you only care about strength and revenge.'
I am truly...pathetic.
To get some measly strength, I need to mock my twin brother.
The only one that shielded me from the world, in time of distress.
The only person I truly care about...is asking me to mock him in order to get strength.
How low have I fallen?
This humiliation...
I cannot muster enough will power to do so.
But I need to do it...
It will be mocking his resolve and efforts if I back down now.
"This is the only way. Anything else will end your life and I don't want even you to die. I've already lost too much and this decision pains me but it is necessary for the greater good. I am offering you this mission for your own growth." He said.
I could see he clenched his fist so hard that blood started dropping from it.
It must pain him immensely.
He knows that this is necessary for me and will be extremely harsh.
I cannot disappoint him anymore.
"...Okay. I will do it." I said.
"Good. When the shinobi comes to you, just leave with them after putting some resistance. Now go and start training again. I have other matters to attend now." He said.
I promptly left the office.
I could feel myself getting crushed because of the heavy feelings that welled up from bottom of heart.
I couldn't obtain strength like Kazuya did.
He shielded me.
He cared for me.
Only he was truly there when everyone else threw only pity towards me.
I wanted cry.
I wanted to rip this weakness away from me and protect my brother now.
It was my duty to protect him now.
For that, I will obtain strength.
Tears started to well up from my eyes.
I always prevented myself from crying.
I let them flow today.
These tears will signify my resolve for protecting him and taking revenge for both of us.
From this moment on, I refuse to be weak.
I refuse to be like this...
I REFUSE TO BE LIKE THIS!
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(3rd POV)
One could see Sasuke's 2-tomoe sharingan spinning rapidly as tears fell from his cheeks.
After spinning for a while, It stopped but some change was there.
His eyes, gained another tomoe.
Uchiha Sasuke, awakened his 3-tomoe Sharingan today.
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(MC POV) (The next day after Kato dan and Nawaki were summoned)
I was now discussing terms with Tsunade right now.
With a bit of persuasion, she agreed to train 2 disciples by herself and become the medic head for the Konoha.
I immediately asked her to train Hinata as well as Sakura.
I recommended them because Hinata is from Hyuga clan, A clan that can utilize chakra far better than the average populace and Sakura because she was in team-7 and has good chakra control.
I wanted to recommend Neji as well but Tsunade was adamant about having only 2 disciples now. She didn't want to be overwhelmed and didn't want to train bad medic nins.
I had to give up.
I will prepare something else for him.
She asked me to take them for a test to see if they can do it or not.
After the deal was done, I decided to work on my strength.
From Mito's memories, I also started to make a strength of a hundred seal on my chest.
It will have chakra to help me in cases of emergency as well as potentially use Amenoukihashi in future.
From Mito's memories, higher ups of Uzumaki clan used this mainly.
These seals are used to store the excess chakra and use it later in case of emergency.
It also was considered to be one of the reasons why Uzumaki clan was extremely hard to deal with.
They could use the chakra from this seal to pull off extremely chakra demanding techniques.
It also requires constant focus, something I possess because of having so many ninja's memories.
It requires a lot of effort to keep your sense of self with so many memories.
I had more than thousand years of life's worth of memories inside my head.
From my speculations, I can store upto 4 tails worth of chakra in one seal.
After that, it starts to get harder but I can make another seal if I want to.
The chakra won't disperse.
The very first seal, I made it on my right chest.
From estimations, I can make this seal in about 8 months with 20% of my chakra reserves.
It is a lot of time considering I have reserves of a Kage.
I will accelerate the process after I get a few seals made up.
I decided to meet Hinata.
"Yo Hinata! How are you doing?" I said.
"K-Kazuya-kun? What are you doing here?" She asked.
"Oh I was here to just check on you. I need to check on my cute girlfriend after all." I said with a smile.
She had a red face now.
"You are just so fun to tease Hinata. Anyway, I decided to inform you that you need to immediately leave for Konoha Hospital and ask for Tsunade the Sannin. She intents to take you as a disciple. You need to take a test to pass though." I said.
She was really surprised.
"I suppose it's alright, Kurenai?" I asked as I looked towards Kurenai who surprised too.
She quickly calmed herself and asked, "Why was Hinata selected though?"
She is getting skeptical huh?
Of course I would recommend Hinata but she doesn't need to know.
"Hyuga clan boasts extreme chakra control as well as good understanding of chakra that others. This was the selling point. Also Tsunade wanted a young student so that she can mold them as a good medic nin. She fits both the conditions and hence was chosen as one of the students." I said.
"Oh...Who is the other student, Hokage-sama?" She asked.
"The other candidate is supposed to be Sakura Haruno as her chakra control is also considered quite good. Now I'll be leaving I have duties to attend to." I said as I left.
It was now time to more training for team-7 again.
I was mainly really bored so I will just leave a shadow clone for the paperwork.
I also need to work on Naruto.
He is just half decent in Taijutsu and only knows one jutsu correctly and that is Wind style: Breakthrough and he is just started training in Rasengan now.
I rushed to training ground 33 where team-7 regularly trained.
"Yo!" I said.
"Kazuya-sensei/ Hokage-sama?! What are you doing here?" Kakashi, Sakura and Naruto asked.
Sasuke was a bit surprised to see me.
"Come on, even the Hokages can get bored once in a while and I can just leave shadow clones for the job." I said.
"So you're escaping from your duties?" Naruto whispered.
"I am sorry Naruto, What did you say? I didn't quite catch it." I asked.
"N-Nothing!" He said.
Good. He is getting better after sensing a bit of Killing Intent.
"Anyway. I am here for to inform all of you a change in schedule. Sakura you are going to go to Konoha Hospital and ask for Tsunade the Sannin. She intends to take you on as a disciple. Sasuke, you will train with Kakashi and master the Sharingan usage from him and start working on expanding on Chidori too. Naruto, you will come with me. I am going to train you from now on." I said.
Sakura immediately left after hearing that Tsunade intents to take her on as a disciple.
Sasuke was about to leave with Kakashi too but I went next to him and whispered, "Prepare yourself. I am doing this so that you can leave peacefully and not be too bothered by your team. No one should know about this mission."
"Understood, Brother." He said.
"Now go and train hard. We don't want you getting left behind by Naruto." I said out loud as I messed up his hair.
"YES SASUKE! I WILL LEAVE BEHIND IN NO TIME IF YOU DON'T WORK HARD, DATTEBAYO!" Naruto screamed with excitement.
"Kakashi how is your training going?" I asked.
"The progress is quite amazing. I think that I am already stronger than my previous self." He said.
"That is some good progress. Make sure to take proper rest. You will need it. No need to overwork yourself so much." I said.
"Hai, Hokage-sama." He said as he left with Sasuke.
"Now Naruto...Let's eat some ramen. We will start our training after we eat something good." I said as I smiled.
"Yay! Ichiraku Ramen here I come!" He said as he jumped in excitement.
I let him have some fun for now.
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(A/N: Did you like it?
I think this one was a bit more satisfying to write.
Some may think that I am including a lot of training but it's necessary dattebayo!
Deal with it.
This is the real ninja world and training is something that is needed absolutely.
I will also expand on Konoha in next chap too.
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