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Side Story: After the Cub Traveled to Shippuden 8
🕑 Added 2025-08-26 14:50:52 +0000 UTCSide Story: After the Cub Traveled to Shippuden 8
Humans are emotionally sensitive animals.
Although Itachi Uchiha agreed with Kisame Hoshigaki's words, he couldn't help but feel that something was not quite right. "Kisame, I feel like you have a very good impression of this world's me...?"
"Perhaps it's because the Mr. Itachi of this world hasn't been contaminated by our Lord Strategist!" The shark-faced man looked cautiously at Konoha's Fifth Hokage and said after some deliberation, "And they all possess a freedom that we envy…"
"…"
Have you gone insane from wanting to defect?
The Hidden Mist Village has already fallen completely under the control of the Land of Waves. You, an esteemed founder of our trash organization, why are you always thinking about such pointless things…
Kisame Hoshigaki looked at the ever-changing expression under the Hokage's robe and said with a faint gaze, "And, Itachi-kun, don't always talk about such things in front of our village's Lady Mizukage. Mei Terumi has already been arguing with me about this for many years… You know how much she nags…"
"…I have never mentioned it to the Mizukage." Itachi Uchiha calmly retorted, "I suspect it was Lord Tobirama who said it!"
Kisame Hoshigaki: "…"
Look at you Konoha people!
You all have the same face when you're passing the buck!
"Alright, let's talk about the Akatsuki problem!" Itachi Uchiha coughed a few times, changing the subject. "Although Mr. Orochimaru has left the Akatsuki, he was once a member. He should be able to tell us some intelligence about the Akatsuki, right?"
"Hehehe…" Orochimaru laughed and said, "I never thought you would know about this matter as well?"
"Of course. After all, back then we all thought it was Orochimaru who founded the Akatsuki…" Kisame Hoshigaki raised his Samehada greatsword and chuckled softly, "But the Akatsuki is merely the puppet of others. Orochimaru is the true great hidden danger of the ninja world!"
Orochimaru: "…"
Do these people have some kind of misunderstanding about me!
My hands are still sealed right now, I can't even use any jutsu!
Although he had already found a way to release the Reaper Death Seal, this was not something he could tell outsiders…
Honestly, he was a little curious to know what kind of earth-shattering deeds his other self had done in the other ninja world to make these two look at him in a different light…
"Please rest assured, Mr. Orochimaru. We will not do anything excessive to you."
Kisame looked at the wary Orochimaru and comforted him with a smile, "No matter what figures you reanimate with Edo Tensei, or how many experiments you conduct, Itachi-kun has sufficient confidence to suppress them…"
"After all, you are a once-in-a-millennium genius of the ninja world, a figure who can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Indra, who created ninjutsu a thousand years ago!"
Orochimaru: "…"
Well, thank you so much for thinking so highly of me!
Fortunately, Orochimaru was a man of quality and would not do anything irrational. If it were anyone else, the family trees of the Hoshigaki and Uchiha clans would have probably been recited several times over by now…
Besides that, it was the nature of a scientist to not be ashamed to ask questions. Facing a rough man like Kisame, Orochimaru didn't mind lowering his head. "Then could I ask you two to tell me who this Indra is? I don't think I've ever seen his name…"
"Ancestor Indra was the eldest son of the Sage of Six Paths. He left the Uchiha bloodline in the ninja world, and he also left his transmigrating chakra."
Even Itachi Uchiha, who had now completely surpassed his ancestor, couldn't help but feel a little admiration when he mentioned that person. "He was the first human to use chakra for combat, and also the person who invented ninjutsu and hand seals."
"His chakra was extremely powerful, and his ocular power far surpassed any clansman I have ever seen. He could easily use a Perfect Susanoo."
"The most terrifying thing is that he could completely copy any jutsu he observed with his Sharingan and then research a jutsu to counter it. Even S-rank forbidden jutsu, he could master with ease."
"And every once in a while, the ancestor's chakra would descend upon a certain Uchiha clan member, granting them at least the power to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan…"
As someone who had personally witnessed Indra in battle, Itachi couldn't help but have some doubts about life. Their Uchiha clan had truly been declining with each generation… It wasn't until the appearance of Madara Uchiha that there was the first person who could truly be considered to be on par with their ancestor in terms of power.
Although Madara Uchiha's power came as a gift from Indra's chakra… there was no doubt that Madara was the most beloved descendant of Indra, perhaps giving Indra a feeling of seeing his own brilliant self in him.
And he, the esteemed Fifth Hokage, the strongest person in the history of the Uchiha and even the Otsutsuki clan, was rejected by Indra… simply because his chakra was too similar to Indra's father, the Sage of Six Paths.
Orochimaru narrowed his eyes. "It seems the chakra on Itachi-kun is what that Uchiha ancestor Indra possessed…"
"It's not me."
The Hokage robe turned slightly to the side, looking at his pathetic little brother on the other side.
The unspoken meaning of his words was self-evident.
His little brother Sasuke… compared to Madara, was probably just a tool to carry Indra's chakra, loved by neither.
If it weren't for Sasuke and Naruto ending the battle between Indra's and Asura's chakra, it's likely Sasuke would have been buried in the sands of time just like the other reincarnates who had carried the ancestor's chakra throughout history…
"It's actually Sasuke…"
Orochimaru could only say that his knowledge was shallow. From any angle, Indra's chakra should have landed on Itachi Uchiha!
Even the Itachi Uchiha of their ninja world was far more outstanding than Sasuke…
At eight years old, Sasuke's entire clan was annihilated, and he awakened a one-tomoe Sharingan… At the same age, Itachi Uchiha had awakened a two-tomoe Sharingan because a teammate had died in battle during a mission.
Yet this year, Sasuke was sixteen, with a three-tomoe Sharingan… But Itachi Uchiha had spread the fame of the Sharingan's power throughout the ninja world after the age of thirteen. It was speculated that he had awakened his Mangekyo even earlier.
Of course, Orochimaru didn't know that the Fifth Hokage from another world before him had even possessed the Mangekyo Sharingan at the age of seven or eight.
Unfortunately, this Itachi Uchiha had put the cart before the horse. Not only did he not spread the fame of the Uchiha clan's Sharingan Kekkei Genkai, but he had actually caused the reputation of the Sharingan Uchiha to decline quite a bit. The ninja world now mostly referred to their Uchiha as:
The Sage Clan of the Naka Shrine.
Sigh… how bizarre!
"I know you are plotting to take Sasuke's body, but the chakra he carries is the reincarnation of the ancestor Indra from a thousand years ago…" Itachi Uchiha looked at Orochimaru and said, "Clearly, you understand my meaning…"
To dare to covet the reincarnated body of Indra's chakra, one would need to possess a higher level of chakra or soul to suppress it. Clearly, Orochimaru did not…
"In that case, Itachi-kun, with such a warning, you're even willing to reveal such important intelligence, and you haven't laid a killing hand on me. Surely you don't just want me to give up Sasuke's body?"
Orochimaru licked his tongue, his pair of snake eyes staring intently at Itachi. "What is it you want me to do?"
"Join us and go cause trouble for the Akatsuki!"
Kisame Hoshigaki answered first, because the man before him surely had a lot of intelligence on the Akatsuki. "Nagato, Pain, Konan… you must be very familiar with them! Obito Uchiha, Madara Uchiha, you don't need to worry about them too much…"
"What we care about more is that guy named Zetsu in the Akatsuki!"
"Which Zetsu is it!"
