Half an hour later.
Uchiha Fugaku hurried home and after checking Giyuu's body, the seriousness on his face immediately relaxed a lot.
Uchiha Itachi's face darkened.
[Looks like I guessed it right...]
He was very familiar with the way his father looked with his mouth raised slightly, half-smiling. To the deep-thinking leader of the Uchiha clan, this was almost like laughing wildly.
"dad……"
Sasuke leaned in Uchiha Mikoto's arms, holding Giyuu's hand tightly, with tears in the corners of his eyes.
He asked with a pale face: "What happened to Yiyong?"
"You don't have to worry about him."
Uchiha Fugaku shook his head slightly: "Giyuu, this kid must have opened his eyes. This is a good thing."
"What?!"
Uchiha Mikoto lightly covered her mouth, her expression completely opposite to Fugaku's "secret joy", but similar to Itachi's expression.
Their mood at the moment was more confused and worried than happy.
"How can this be?"
As a Jonin of the Uchiha clan, Mikoto certainly understands what opening her eyes means.
The Sharingan, also known as the eye of spiritual reflection, will only awaken and evolve when the tribesmen endure a sudden stimulus that they 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 she was extremely sad.
At that time, she was still a genin and thought it was just an accident. But when the pets of other tribesmen also died one after another, she guessed the truth that her parents did not want to say clearly——
These pets who have grown up with them have the ultimate mission of forcing them to open their eyes at the cost of death. The ones who killed them were the parents and elders who desperately needed their children to open their eyes.
But even so, not all Uchiha children can open their eyes smoothly.
If you want the Sharingan to evolve, "opportunity" and talent are indispensable. For example, when Itachi was eight years old, he awakened the second Magatama Sharingan because his teammates were killed. He was already considered a peerless genius.
However, Yiyong is only five years old today!
Given his usual indifferent character when scolded by his father, what kind of stimulation did he receive to the point where he could open his eyes without even having chakra?
Mikoto felt a pang of self-blame when she thought that Giyuu might have endured a stimulus that he couldn't face at this stage, but didn't say it out loud.
I should work harder and communicate with that kid Yiyong...
"Nothing is impossible."
Fugaku pondered for a while and said: "Maybe it's because Giyuu didn't like to express since he was a child. He accumulated emotions, and maybe he suddenly exploded when he encountered some stimulus. This kind of thing has happened before, but those tribesmen are very old. That’s all.”
Having said this, he turned to look at his eldest son, whom he was most proud of.
"Itachi, you should be with him then. What was Giyu doing before he fainted?"
Uchiha Itachi calmed down and restrained his subconscious impulse. He did not look at the butterfly specimen on the kitchen window sill, but said casually: "Chopping vegetables. Just like usual."
Uchiha Fugaku opened and closed his lips, and then asked with some urgency: "What vegetables should I cut?"
"Salmon."
Itachi paused and suddenly came up with a hypothesis that was easier to convince others than the truth, "Could it be that Giyuu didn't want me to come into the kitchen and disturb him, but he wasn't good at expressing his anger, so he opened his eyes?"
"..."
Except for Sasuke, who was still a little confused, the other three people lowered their eyes and fell silent.
Fugaku and Mikoto are thinking about the connection between opening their eyes and the kitchen, but their motivations for thinking are obviously different.
And Itachi looked at Giyuu with his eyes closed, and the turmoil in his heart was far more exaggerated than what he showed on his face.
To be fair, he didn't like his father's attitude towards Giyu, or even the clan's attitude towards the Sharingan.
For the sake of strength and the so-called "Glory of Uchiha", these elders ignore the pain of young people, regard the price of opening their eyes as a sacrifice to gain strength, and glorify the self-repression that tolerates this price as the "measurement" of ninjas.
Anyone who can give up the things he loves and accept this pain in exchange for strength is a "capable" tribesman, so he has a bright future.
Most of the children of one tribe grew up in this creed, and then poisoned the next generation of tribesmen...
Under this weird and twisted logic, every 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 tribe, as long as it can evolve to the level of Uchiha Madara, all sacrifices are worth it.
Right now, his father was excited about opening the eyes of the five-year-old Yiyong, which made him feel a strong anger.
Especially when Sasuke saw the desire and envy in his father's eyes looking at Giyu, his heart ached and he clenched his fists unconsciously.
[Sasuke, you have no idea what these eyes mean! 】
Just when this weird silence was going to continue, Yiyong's eyelids trembled. This was a sign that he was about to wake up.
"Yoyong!"
Uchiha Mikoto let out a cry of relief, but Uchiha Fugaku moved faster.
He seemed to want to express his love for the son who troubled him the most, and stretched out his hand towards Chao Yiyong's pillow, trying to help him up.
But just when he was about to meet Yiyong, the latter suddenly opened his eyes and grabbed his father's wrist extremely quickly.
Fugaku frowned.
He felt the pain, and Yiyong's strength was surprisingly strong. He continued to stretch his hand forward, but Yiyong's hand was like a tightened nut, preventing him from scoring another point.
[Are you kidding me? 】
Fugaku was shocked beyond words.
This means that without using chakra to enhance the strength of his hands, Giyuu's strength is not inferior to him?
What happened to this child?
Why is he so strong?
If this kid didn't look exactly like Sasuke, he would have doubted whether the other person's surname was Senju or Uchiha.
Fortunately, Yiyong quickly saw who he was and let go of his hand without any expression. The reason why he is vigilant is because his father's aura is the most unfamiliar to Yiyong.
He said nothing and didn't know what to say. In fact, Yiyong was so distraught that he didn't know whether the sound he heard before he fainted was true or false, and he didn't know how to verify it.
After scanning everyone's face with his deep gaze, he stood up directly from the floor of the Japanese room and looked at the clock hanging on the wall.
7:30 p.m.
It was exactly half an hour since he put the ingredients into the stew pot.
"It's time to eat."
After finishing his sentence, he was about to go to the kitchen to turn off the gas stove, but Fugaku grabbed his arm and had to stop.
"etc."
Looking at his son with a plain face, Fugaku frowned, "Yiyong, do you know what happened to you just now? Do you know why you fainted?"
His son was not only not interested in foreign objects, he was also indifferent to his own body.
"I didn't stand firm."
"It's not as simple as not standing firm."
Fugaku pointed at Giyuu's eyes and explained patiently: "You awakened because of the power of the Sharingan eye, but there was not enough chakra to control it in the body, which caused the body to be overloaded, and then you fainted. I understand. ?"
Uchiha Itachi and his mother looked at each other, and they both guessed what their father was going to say next.
"Although it is not clear yet that you are the Sharingan of Jima Magatama, as long as you learn to extract chakra, you will soon have the strength of a genin."
A trace of pride emerged on Uchiha Fugaku's face, "This is the power of our Uchiha clan, and this is the limit of the strongest blood successor in the ninja world.
"And Giyuu, I have never heard of a child with eyes your age. Maybe your talent is better than Shisui and Itachi..."
Uchiha Fugaku held Giyuu's shoulders, his eyes gleaming with anticipation.
"As long as you are willing to practice hard, you will soon become a powerful ninja in your own right. At that time, the clan will be under the pressure of the village..."
"No need to say it."
Giyuu was not affected by his father's almost abnormal fanaticism at all, and his eyes were cold, "I have no interest in becoming a ninja."
He remembered things very early, so he had seen Itachi come home stained with blood at a young age.
Especially when he was eight years old, Itachi often lay awake all night long, sitting outside the window meditating, and occasionally crying secretly. Because he lost his teammates but couldn't show his vulnerability in front of his father, he could only bear it all silently.
Yiyong kept this incident in his mind and felt very uncomfortable when he thought about it.
The so-called ninja is a person who does dirty things for others for reward. Regardless of whether the target is innocent or not, as long as the employer has a request and it is not inconsistent with the interests of the village, a ninja will not hesitate to take a person's life in order to complete the task and put himself as a human being. Put aside the emotions, call it the basic qualities of a ninja, and replace the basic conscience of a human being with professional ethics.
When Giyuu thinks about it, if a ninja identifies with his profession more than anything else, like Otozu Usui's father and brother, even if he wants to kill his closest relatives, it won't be a problem.
Ghosts prey on humans in order to survive. Yiyu cannot forgive them, but he can still regard them as wild beasts that can communicate. After all, they can't live without eating people.
But ninjas have great power, but they take human lives for reward, and kill people to silence them to keep secrets. To a certain extent, they are worse than ghosts.
This makes it difficult for him, who used to be a volunteer to protect people's lives, to accept being one of them.
"Confused! Do you think this is just a question of whether you are interested or not?"
Fugaku's face darkened, "You are my son, a rare genius. You naturally shoulder the mission of honoring the Uchiha clan. For the future of the clan and the balance between you and the village, you must become a ninja!"
"My mission is to take care of Itachi and Sasuke."
Yiyong frowned, opened his father's two hands on his shoulders at the same time, and said word by word, "This matter ends here."
This time is different than usual.
When Yiyong said this, he exuded a sense of majesty that he had never experienced before, something that was irrefutable.
This is an unshakable aura that belongs to the water column and should not appear in a child.
To be honest, for Yiyong, it is always a bit awkward to respect these two people who are no more than ten years older than him (Yiyong’s total age is 28 years old in his past and present lives, but his mental age may fluctuate between 8 and 80) as his parents. It felt inconsistent, but he persisted for five years.
This was the first time he consciously faced his conflict with Fugaku.
"you!"
Being contradicted on the spot, coupled with all the previous frictions, Fugaku was furious, his blood-red three-magatama Sharingan suddenly opened, spinning rapidly in his eye sockets like an electric fan, "Do you take me as a father seriously? !”
"husband!"
Uchiha Mikoto quickly stood between Giyu and Fugaku, looking at her husband with a hint of vigilance, like a lioness ready to attack.
"Giyu is just a child."
His wife's words and gestures soaked into Uchiha Fugaku's heated brain like cold snow water.
He immediately calmed down, snorted and walked away.
"Hmph. I'm going to take a shower. You guys can eat first!"
After saying that, he went to the bathroom without looking back, while Yiyong went to the kitchen on his own.
The mother and son in the room breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. Sasuke was purely scared. He had never participated in a clan meeting, so he had never seen his father lose his temper in anger.
As for Itachi and Mikoto, they were worried that Uchiha Fugaku had just used some genjutsu on the chakra-less Giyuu in a fit of rage, causing irreversible mental damage.
"Itachi, although I also want Giyuong to be an ordinary person according to his ideas. But you know, your father will never let this matter go. If the clan members know about Giyuu's eye-opening, they will also put pressure on your father. .”
The Uchiha clan is notoriously xenophobic, which also means that they have a highly unified logic of "family first".
Although Giyu is the son of the clan leader, he is actually the "public property" of the clan just like Itachi. The clan will never allow a genius who opened his eyes at the age of five to bury his talent because of the child's "playful" nature. .
If the jounin in the clan exerts pressure, Fugaku will be in a very embarrassing situation, and he may be forced to take "special measures" against Giyu. It's even possible that some elders would find an opportunity to secretly plant illusions on Yiyong.
Mikoto looked worried and whispered to her eldest son, who had always been resourceful: "Can you advise Giyu, even symbolically, to at least learn to extract chakra first, otherwise it will be difficult to control the Sharingan alone..."
"I will find a way, please don't worry."
Uchiha Itachi comforted, "Please and father, please hide this matter from the clan first."
"I understand. Thank you, Itachi. It's great to have you here..."
In this way, mother and son reached a tacit understanding on this matter. Although Sasuke on the side didn't understand what he heard, he at least understood one thing——
The fact that Giyuu is very talented but doesn't want to become a ninja bothers his father, mother and brother very much.
Although hearing his father say that Giyuu would be more powerful than his brother made him feel a little uncomfortable, it wasn't much. It was rare for his younger brother to be treated seriously by his father, and he was happy for his bravery.
But what really troubles Sasuke is why Giyuu refuses to care about everything he desires...
He didn't care about his brother's favor, his father's expectations, or even the family's ninjutsu.
"My mission is to take care of Itachi and Sasuke."
He remembered this sentence very clearly, and he could see that the seriousness on Yiyong's face was not just talk.
He thought about it and finally came to one conclusion.
The only things Yiyong cares about most are his brother and himself!
Thinking back to his mother's request to his brother just now, an idea suddenly came to Sasuke's mind.
If it were him who made a request to Yiyong, would Yiyong agree?
…
When Uchiha Fugaku came out of the bath, Uchiha Mikoto and his three sons had already eaten half of the food.
Seeing that no one was waiting for him, a hint of depression emerged on Fugaku's face. After glaring at Giyuu who was silently serving him the soup, he sat down with a sullen face, then picked up the spoon and poured the milky white fish soup into his mouth. In the mouth.
【It tastes really good. 】
After one sip, his mood not only didn't get better, but actually got worse.
[As long as he has devoted half of his attention to cooking to practicing since he was three years old, he should be at the same level as Itachi was when he was six or seven years old. 】
He hadn't forgotten how hard Giyuu 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 gifted, right?
Excellent physical strength, coupled with the five-year-old Sharingan...
Such a good talent for cooking? Uchiha Madara's spirit in heaven would not forgive such a thing.
However, after taking a bath, Fugaku calmed down a little.
Past experience told him that it was useless to force children like Giyu, Itachi and Shisui who had their own ideas. In order for Yiyong to practice, he must desire to become stronger.
Just to be specific, how to operate...
["My mission is to take care of Itachi and Sasuke."]
[He said that before, right? 】
Uchiha Fugaku drank the fish soup calmly, but his eyes rolled back and forth on Itachi and Sasuke.
[What if he understands that if he wants to take care of Itachi and Sasuke, just cooking and washing clothes is not enough? 】
One after another dark thoughts belonging to the patriarch came to his mind, but they were immediately buried by the sense of responsibility as a father. Although it was not formed, at least it had a direction.
At this time, Sasuke suddenly said: "Mom, did you buy a wishing candle today?"
"Ah, Sasuke has already thought about his wish for this year?"
Finally, we had a slightly warm topic, which made the restless Uchiha Mikoto smile. "You and Giyuu, don't eat too much. I'll get the cake right away."
As she said that, she got up and went to the kitchen, took out three triangular cakes from the refrigerator, put five candles on two of them, and distributed them to the three children.
"Here, the strawberry flavored one belongs to Sasuke."
"The one with the wisteria flavor is for volunteers."
"This chocolate-flavored one is Itachi's."
After placing the three cakes, she stood up and stood next to the light switch, and said to Fugaku with a straight face: "Dad, I leave the lighting of the candles to you."
Uchiha Itachi laughed on the spot.
He recalled Giyuu's comments about Sasuke's "Gorgeous Fireball Technique".
"To actually use Konoha's best fire escape on this, it's really..."
After Fugaku symbolically complained, he said to Sasuke and Giyuu: "Look at the gesture I am making now. This is the Yin Seal, a special hand seal that converts chakra into flames. Almost all fire escape ninjutsu are based on This print ends it."
Seeing the familiar movements, Sasuke opened his eyes wide and was very excited, but Giyuu showed no reaction, his eyes were like watching a sparrow pecking.
【This kid...】
Fugaku saw the fire in his eyes, and after completing the hand seals, he spit out two bud-shaped blue low-temperature flames from his mouth. The bud flame flew above the two cakes and suddenly bloomed into a fleeting lotus, igniting ten candles at the same time.
This subtle chakra control caused Sasuke to marvel, and even Itachi showed a look of admiration. What my father demonstrated was a very skillful transformation of the fire attribute chakra form. I am afraid that there will not be any stronger among Konoha ninjas.
And Uchiha Itachi still has a long way to go before he can reach this level of fire escape.
Yiyong was stunned because he heard the voice before fainting again.
[Uchiha Fugaku used fire escape ninjutsu next to you. Flame breathing resolution +0.04%. 】
"Click."
Mikoto turned off the light, and the candles on the two cakes became the most conspicuous light sources in the darkness, but they could only illuminate the faces of the twin brothers.
Uchiha Itachi noticed that even so, Giyuu's eyes still had no reflection.
[The so-called black hole refers to this. 】
"After making your wish, you can blow out the candles."
Mikoto said softly, "Then who comes first? Giyu is the younger brother, so..."
"I come first, I come first!"
Sasuke had already been prepared.
Mikoto glanced at Giyuu who was indifferent and could only nod helplessly, "Then Sasuke will come first."
"My wish is-"
Sasuke seemed to have forgotten the rule of "wish must be expressed in the heart to come true" and said loudly to the cake: "I hope that when my brother teaches me how to practice in the future, Giyu can come with us!"
After saying that, without waiting for anyone else to react, he blew out the candle with a "fu" sound. His two dark eyes were hidden in the darkness, staring closely at Yiyong's face illuminated by the firelight.
Uchiha Itachi and Mikoto were both 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: "As expected of my son!"
Sasuke's attack was not over yet.
"Mom, you said that your birthday wish will definitely come true, right?"
"Well...if it's not too much, it should be like this."
[But the objects of your wish before were us and Itachi. 】
"Then Yiyong will definitely agree to me, right?"
"This depends on Yiyong's own thoughts."
Mikoto raised her eyebrows. Sasuke, the child, was much more thoughtful than she thought. He actually used this method... to force Giyuu?
The whole family fell silent, waiting for Yiyong's answer.
After a long time, Yiyong uttered a few words: "Then you have to eat outside at noon."
【He agreed! 】
The same thoughts came to the other four people's minds.
"Then it's settled."
Sasuke rolled his eyes, "Brother said that he will continue to teach me the secret of Gou Fireball tomorrow, will you come too, Giyu?"
"Um."
Yiyong nodded.
Seeing this scene, Fugaku wanted to pick up Sasuke and lift him high.
As long as Giyuu saw the various ninjutsu Itachi displayed, he didn't believe that the child would not be tempted at all!
Moreover, in order to avoid some young tribesmen who like to find trouble, Sasuke and Itachi usually go to the training ground outside the village to practice, which means that Giyu finally exposed himself to a relatively "dangerous" area.
It will be much more convenient to arrange whatever you want to do at that time.
"Then it's time to make a wish bravely."
Mikoto blinked and said, "It doesn't matter if you say your wish like Sasuke did."
Everyone cheered up.
They all want to know, what will Yiyong's wish be like?
Yiyong stared at the candle in front of him, not knowing what to say...
Suddenly, he remembered that the voice in his mind seemed to have said something about being able to resurrect Flame Pillar Purgatory Anjurou.
[Then who will speak again? God? 】
[Is he telling the truth? 】
[If purgatory works, what about other dead people? 】
[Mr. Wei Mingyu, Butterfly, Ganlu Temple, Qiu Rabbit, and that child Tokitoru, will they all meet me in this world? (Xiaobanai:?)]
Although Yiyong was dubious about the content of the voice, he gradually had an idea in his mind and said:
"My wish is...
"Don't be hated by them."
[If they can really be resurrected. 】
Then, in a way that Sasuke couldn't understand, he put out the candle with a gentle wave of his hand.
Like an invisible god, there was an answer to this wish.
