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Side Story: After the Cub Traveled to Shippuden 7
🕑 Added 2025-08-26 14:50:32 +0000 UTCSide Story: After the Cub Traveled to Shippuden 7
(Part 7)
The dark clouds in the sky were dissipating.
Sasuke Uchiha had attempted to create a favorable environment to release his Lightning Style: Kirin by drawing lightning, but it was destroyed by a certain Lord Fifth Hokage who was more familiar with the laws of natural energy.
When it came to natural energy, it was estimated that there was no ninja in this world more proficient in its use than him…
The palm under the Hokage's robe slowly opened. Looking at the little brother from another ninja world, he praised him, "A very nice Lightning Style jutsu. At least it can be used for illumination. After all, Mr. Orochimaru's bases are always so dark and gloomy…"
Orochimaru: "…"
Sasuke Uchiha: "…"
To destroy someone's unfinished jutsu with one palm and then praise it like that, is every generation of Hokage like this? That sounds really insulting!
"Hahahahaha…"
Kisame Hoshigaki immediately burst out laughing. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Itachi-kun, that sounds way too perfunctory! At the very least, you should learn from Madara Uchiha's imposing manner!"
The person under the Hokage's robe habitually tilted his head. "…I can't. I can't learn Madara's arrogance. Kitahara would get the urge to spar with me…"
"That's true…"
Kisame Hoshigaki nodded. "After all, even Itachi-kun can't create a jutsu that attacks by harnessing natural energy like that!"
Sasuke Uchiha glared angrily at the shark-faced youth, irritably raised the ninja sword in his hand, and charged forward. "Are you mocking me!"
"Hahahahaha… did you really think I was praising you! The last guy Itachi-kun praised, I remember he was your teacher… In this world, your supervising Jonin should still be Kakashi Hatake, right?"
Kisame Hoshigaki swung Samehada, blocking Sasuke's path with a single slash. He frowned in thought before answering, "The Kamui Mangekyo Sharingan he has is just a toy. Did you really think a common Lightning Style ninjutsu deserved more praise from Itachi-kun?"
"You people!"
Sasuke gritted his teeth, his three-tomoe eyes fixed deadly on Kisame Hoshigaki and the Hokage robe behind him. The Itachi Uchiha from that other world was clearly an insurmountable mountain!
As he had grown and trained under Orochimaru, Sasuke had once thought he was on the verge of killing his enemy. Yet now, he felt he didn't even have a chance of harming that Hokage robe!
If the two ninja worlds have some similarities, does that mean his own biological brother is also this strong? At least, not an existence he could defeat at his current level!
"A three-tomoe Sharingan…" Kisame Hoshigaki sneered, "That training speed can't even match a little girl like Izumi Uchiha!"
"Izumi is a genius within the clan at training the Sharingan. Even when compared to Izumi, I am somewhat lacking in my mastery of the Mangekyo Sharingan…" Itachi Uchiha shook his head, speaking a rare, fair word.
After all, Izumi Uchiha had devoted herself wholeheartedly to training her Sharingan. She had a three-tomoe Sharingan before she even graduated from the Ninja Academy. Not long after graduating, she awakened her Mangekyo Sharingan and had even cultivated her Susanoo to a near-perfect form!
In contrast, as the Fifth Hokage, before he had awakened the Rinnegan, he had needed to use Six Paths chakra to cultivate a Perfect Susanoo… It was a bit embarrassing.
Although he was speaking the truth, it was particularly piercing for Sasuke to hear!
"Go to hell!"
The Kusanagi sword swung continuously around Kisame Hoshigaki's body. With a flick of his wrist, Sasuke was about to slit the shark-faced man's throat!
"This is the swordsmanship taught by Mr. Orochimaru. How exquisite…"
Kisame Hoshigaki also praised him. Based on this skill alone, few of the new Seven Ninja Swordsmen of their Mist could match Sasuke!
Neither Zabuza Momochi nor that little genius Chojuro could match the exquisite swordsmanship of the Sasuke before him. Perhaps only Suigetsu Hozuki, the all-around master known as the Waterman of the Mist, could surpass the Sasuke in front of him.
"Unfortunately, the Uchiha Style Kenjutsu is the true treasure!" Kisame Hoshigaki's wrist twisted slightly, and a shuriken landed in his palm. The small shuriken moved nimbly in the shark-faced man's hand…
After just a few moves, Sasuke's arm was cut by the shuriken in Kisame's hand, and he was forced to retreat in a sorry state!
Uchiha Style Kenjutsu. This guy Kisame was actually very proficient in it!
Itachi Uchiha faintly felt that something was not right and asked, "Who… did you learn this from…"
"Shisui!"
Kisame Hoshigaki flicked his wrist, and the shuriken lodged itself in the ground beside Sasuke. Seeing Sasuke's eyes tighten, he explained with a light laugh, "Mr. Shisui and I are allies! Otherwise, wouldn't our Lord Strategist be the sole power in the organization?"
Itachi Uchiha: "…"
Coming out on this trip, I've really learned a lot of secrets!
But seriously, he felt that if their organization's great strategist Tobirama didn't have a brother and a grandniece holding him back, Kisame and Shisui tied together would probably be no match for that political master, the Second Hokage…
After all, he had studied under Tobirama in the Rain Village for a period back then. He had only learned a little, but it was enough to make him the most skilled ninja in diplomacy among the Five Great Nations!
"I have some questions I'd like to ask…"
Orochimaru looked at the frightened Sasuke and spoke a fair word in a low voice, "Did you come here to kill Sasuke? Or to save… take him away? Or… just to simply humiliate Sasuke?"
He didn't dare to say the word "save"…
It sounded as if it would expose his own little thoughts…
Back then in the Akatsuki, that rogue ninja Itachi Uchiha had subdued him with a single Sharingan genjutsu. At that time, Orochimaru had already felt he was terrifying… Today, an even more terrifying Itachi Uchiha had appeared.
His hands had been sealed into the Reaper's stomach, and he couldn't use any ninjutsu at all, not even the ability to put up basic resistance…
"We are just trying to prevent him from getting into a conflict with the other Mr. Itachi…" Kisame Hoshigaki grinned, and with one hand, he lifted the greatsword Samehada and pressed it on Sasuke's chest. "If he doesn't listen… hehehe… then we'll have to use some of the methods I learned from Mr. Shisui!"
Orochimaru shook his head. "Is that so? To stop the brothers from killing each other… But Itachi killed all of his own clansmen. It's impossible for Sasuke to give up his revenge!"
"We don't care if he gives it up or not…"
Kisame Hoshigaki grabbed Sasuke's head and gave him a ferocious smile. "After all, he's just a useless thing. Isn't it enough for him to just listen obediently?"
The Fifth Hokage under the Hokage robe looked at his little brother, whose face was full of resentment, and couldn't help but cover his forehead. He spoke up to stop his companion's violent behavior. "Kisame!"
"Tsk, but I'm just speaking the truth!"
Kisame Hoshigaki kicked Sasuke away and spread one hand. "If no one helps him realize the cruelty of this ninja world, he will always maintain that arrogant nature… It's the same for the Sasuke of any world. They won't cherish the grace and tolerance of others."
"…"
Even Itachi Uchiha could not refute this statement.
Although the Sasukes of both worlds had suffered a lot, they still maintained the pride of the Uchiha, which was a good thing… However, when facing people worthy of respect, they should also have the humility that a ninja should possess.
The little brother of that world had already learned enough lessons…
And the Sasuke of this world had clearly not learned enough…
Author's Note:
Hokage Itachi: 21 years old.
Sasuke: 16 years old.
Time: Beginning of Shippuden.
