Tsunade has hemophobia.

Only close people and a few high-level officials in Konoha know about this.

The Second Ninja War, which lasted for several years, took away the two most important people in Tsunade's life at that time - his younger brother Nawaki and his lover Kato Dan.

The despair, grief and powerlessness of being unable to save her loved ones made her inevitably suffer from this disease that does not affect her life and health but is no less than a terminal illness for a ninja.

As Tsunade's teammate who grew up with her and her closest comrade-in-arms, Orochimaru was naturally aware of this matter.

But the interesting thing is that Tsunade only faints from the outside world's blood, not her own blood. Because of this, the moment she realized that she was probably unable to do anything, she summoned her own psychic beast——

Slug.

"Tsunade-sama?"

"Leave me alone, quickly, take the children and leave!"

"Grandma Tsunade!" Uzumaki Naruto helped Tsunade, who was obviously shaking, "What's wrong with you? What happened?"

"Don't even think about running away." Orochimaru sneered, and decisively used his psychic skills to summon his "old buddy"——

Thousands of snakes.

"Orochimaru? Where's the sacrifice?" Wan She looked around and said dissatisfied.

"I'll make it up next time." Orochimaru replied, "Your mission this time is to stop the slug and prevent it from leaving with these brats." Originally, he wanted to find a random person from the village as a sacrifice.

However, that place was the place that Jiraiya had marked. With the mentality of "not wanting to cause trouble for himself", he let it go for the time being. Anyway, the ninja world is so vast, and there are many things like sacrifices.

"You'd better remember." Wan She tutted and looked at Slug, "It's been a long time, Slug. I didn't expect that we would be tit for tat when we meet again. Orochimaru didn't give me a sacrifice, so I have no idea of ​​fighting.

, but how about this, if I don’t move, you don’t move either?”

The slug did not speak, but moved its body to block the cubs behind it. In this way, if the snakes attacked, it would be the first to suffer.

Orochimaru didn't care about the overly obvious paddling behavior of the psychic beast. As long as it could block the slugs and prevent the psychic beast from causing trouble for him, that would be enough. In this case, Tsunade's last resort would be limited.

, he can concentrate on nothing else——

Caught the cub!

"Run!" Nara Shikamaru shouted decisively, "Especially Sasuke and Naruto, run quickly! I will restrict his movements, you... damn it! So fast!"

The shadow imitation technique unique to the Nara clan can control the enemy in place for a short time.

And in the brief contact just now, he had already judged one thing with his too smart mind, "The rebel ninja Orochimaru is most interested in Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto."

"The Nara clan..." Orochimaru glanced at the boy with the braided hair from the corner of his eye, "As smart and decisive as ever, but in the face of the huge gap in strength, he is not worth mentioning."

The next moment, he appeared in front of Uchiha Sasuke.

"Just in time!" The black-haired boy showed no fear in his eyes. He raised his hands and formed the seal very steadily, "Fire Release Hao..."

However, before he finished reciting the name of the move, the black-haired man who was very close to him had already flown backward——

Involuntary.

The Weasel, which had swatted the opponent away with one paw, turned over and landed firmly in front of the younger brother in this world. He leaned down slightly and stared at the abductor with sharp eyes.

"...Ah," Uzumaki Naruto looked confused, "Grandpa Renegade, was slapped away by Tuanzi...is he so weak?"

Tsunade: "???" The too fantastic reality made her forget for a moment that she was about to faint. She suspected that her old teammate had taken some wrong medicine in the spirit of crazy experimentation before coming, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to

As for that.

The rest: "..."

Slug: "..."

Uchiha Sasuke, who was forced to give up halfway through the move and swallowed some sparks: "..."

And in this "confused" situation, Weasel's body was suddenly covered with a layer of white smoke.

Weasel: "!" No!

He never thought that his forbidden thing would be touching Orochimaru.

After all, no normal person would think of such a disgusting thing.

Unfortunately, it's too late.

Moreover, he couldn't leave now because he would put his brother and the other cubs in danger.

After a "bang" sound...

Wearing a dark blue Uchiha uniform, a young man with smooth black hair appeared in front of everyone. He had a handsome face and calm eyes. What was different from ordinary people was that he had a pair of black cat ears on his head, and behind him

It has a slender cat tail with smooth fur.

"...Cat, the cat has turned into a human!" Yamaino exclaimed.

Nara Shikamaru: "..." Hey, are you serious? If you do this again, I can't help but doubt Ya Na's daily life...

Akimichi Choji: "..." He wants to eat melon...but there is none here...

"Duanzi, has Tuanzi turned into a human?" Uzumaki Naruto was not surprised by this kind of thing. After all, this was the third cat out of four that turned into a human. But the problem was, "He turned into a human."

Who does it look like?" He tilted his head.

"Okay, so handsome..." Haruno Sakura said subconsciously, because the young man in front of her was indeed handsome, but he was of a completely different type from Sasuke. She struggled a little between "Should I choose this or Sasuke?", and finally sadly realized that she

It was probably an untimely desire to eat, but, hey, a girl’s occasional fantasy is completely understandable!

Tsunade: "..."

Orochimaru: "..."

There is no doubt that they all know who this cat-eared young man is - the rebellious Uchiha Itachi who is famous for massacring his entire clan in one night.

"...Itachi-kun." Orochimaru, who had slid down the tree trunk and stood up, looked at the young man not far away in front of him, and said with some doubts in his eyes and expression, "Is this your... new interest?" Strange, Itachi-kun.

He must be only seventeen years old now, right? Why does he look like he is in his twenties now? Although he is naturally older in appearance, he does not grow up in such a hurry.

As for the cat ears and tail...

Orochimaru must admit that those who can enter the Akatsuki organization are basically perverts. Although Uchiha Itachi seems to have no problem, thinking about the things he did, he is definitely a pervert. However, the direction of Itachi's perversion should not be this.

On the one hand, this is the interest of the Scorpion guy - to change his appearance at will and make himself weird.

Itachi Uchiha: "..." He didn't know for a moment whether it was his own style that was being harmed, or his style in this world, so he could only remain silent. And compared to other things, his focus now is...

Sasuke.

The black-haired boy stared at the young man standing in front of him, his whole body almost trembling.

He never imagined that the black cat dumpling would look like this after turning into a human form.

……No.

No.

This is not a cat.

This is that guy!

Uchiha Sasuke may have mistakenly recognized other people, or he may have mistakenly recognized himself, but he will never mistake his brother - Uchiha Itachi. Therefore, from the moment the other person appeared, he instantly realized -

This guy who always appears in the form of a cat is none other than Itachi Uchiha!

Stop telling lies about "it's like this on purpose"!

He will never be fooled again!

"This...what...means..." He gritted his teeth and almost squeezed out the words from between his teeth.

This sentence can be said to be trembling, but it is not because of fear, but because of excessive emotion.

The evidence is——

The boy's Sharingan, which had been hidden all this time, opened silently at this moment.

Single magatama eyes.

...No, now I have double magatama eyes because I have suffered enough shock and stimulation.

As he asked——

What does this mean?

What does that count now?

You killed your parents, you killed the brother I once loved so much, you killed all the people, and left me a shabby and empty Uchiha and a hatred that is deeper and more desperate than the sea.

He left so gracefully.

I thought day and night about how to increase my strength, how to become stronger, how to kill you for revenge, but you turned into a cat and came back to me, pretending to care about me, love me, protect me, and care about me, that's it.

Always with me.

...What is this?

When I was training hard and studying hard to seek revenge from you who was nowhere to be found, you were just watching me silently from the sidelines. Are you still secretly laughing at me in your heart, laughing at my stupidity and overestimation of my abilities?

What do you still want--
To be continued...