The next morning, Itachi, fully dressed, bid farewell to Sasuke.
"Sasuke, I'm going out for a while. I've already prepared your lunch for noon, you just need to heat it up. Also..."
Sasuke listened to his brother's nagging and couldn't help but recall the scene he had witnessed that day. He turned his head away, pouting, "I can take care of myself, you don't need to worry about me!"
Itachi chuckled softly and tapped Sasuke on the head, "I'm leaving!"
"Damn it!"
Sasuke's face flushed red. He realized he felt a surge of joy. Sasuke, oh Sasuke, how could you forgive your brother just like that!
It would take at least 100 more times before he could forgive him!
Sasuke watched Itachi's figure gradually disappear from his sight, his steps becoming lighter as he returned to the house and changed his clothes.
Today, he would go find that idiot Naruto to play!
...
"You're here. Are you ready?"
"I'm ready, Teacher Lin Yu."
Lin Yu sized Itachi up. "You're wearing ninja attire for an interview?"
"..."
Itachi maintained a stern expression and remained silent. As long as he didn't speak, it would be Lin Yu who felt awkward!
Lin Yu stopped talking. Other than Obito, the Uchihas were all very taciturn and uninteresting.
A golden magical circle projected in Lin Yu's eyes, and he gestured with his gaze.
It was the first time Itachi had seen Lin Yu's spatial dōjutsu, and he was shocked. With such spatial dōjutsu, one could quickly reach any part of the ninja world.
This meant the organization's members could be spread throughout the entire ninja world!
The organization's terrifying power was likely far beyond his imagination.
Itachi hesitated no longer and stepped into the magic circle. Wisps of golden light enveloped him, but he felt nothing. Reaching out to touch them, they passed through as if they were air.
Before Itachi could observe further, the golden light suddenly intensified, and his body felt as if it had entered a time-space tunnel, accompanied by a sense of centrifugal force. He couldn't help but close his eyes.
When Itachi opened his eyes again, the scenery before him was no longer Konoha, but a town shrouded in dark clouds, with towering spires and a predominantly dark color palette.
They had arrived in Amegakure, the Village Hidden in the Rain.
Even though Itachi had been mentally prepared, experiencing the instantaneous travel from the Land of Fire to the Land of Rain left him with a lingering sense of astonishment.
This was too overpowered!
"Yo! Ohayo, Obito!"
In the Land of Rain, Lin Yu could teleport three people: Konan, Nagato, and Obito.
Taking the young Uchiha Itachi with him, Konan was immediately ruled out. Nagato was currently in his chuunibyou phase, so it was best to avoid him!
Therefore, Lin Yu teleported to his useful tool, Tsuchi-ko, but it seemed he had arrived at an inopportune time.
*Plop!*
"Ohayo my foot!" Obito only exposed his head, glaring at the two uninvited "peeping Toms"!
"Don't mind him, Obito. We're all on the same side!"
Lin Yu walked over to the wooden bucket and quickly glanced inside. "Yo! You've got some assets!"
"Damn it!"
Obito was so furious he felt like his lungs would explode. Was it easy for him to take a bath in the morning? And now these two had seen everything!
Lin Yu spread his hands. "I didn't know you took baths this early in the morning. What normal person has such a habit!"
What normal person uses their spatial dōjutsu like this!
Although Obito gritted his teeth inwardly, they were all men, so there was no need to dwell on it too much.
Obito looked at Itachi, who was standing far away, and said, "Isn't it too early to bring Itachi here now? He hasn't even awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan, has he?"
"Obito, you're getting old. Young people nowadays surpass their predecessors!"
"Oh?"
Obito observed Itachi with a hint of surprise. To awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan at such a young age, could his body handle it?
But then he thought of Teacher Lin Yu's yang energy and that unknown flame, and he chuckled, shaking his head. He was overthinking it!
*Swish!*
Lin Yu's vision blurred. Obito, now fully dressed, appeared before him, even wearing his signature spiral mask. Obito was truly fast!
"Alright, let Itachi come with me. I'll take him to see Nagato."
Itachi stepped forward and followed behind Obito. After Shisui's introduction last time, Itachi had already guessed Obito's identity, so he felt relatively at ease.
Obito, on the other hand, was inwardly seething. In just a few days, the boy behind him had achieved a meteoric rise, awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan and undergoing a drastic change in power.
He was even here for an Akatsuki assessment now!
Obito felt his face had been slapped really quickly. He should have revealed his identity last time!
"You must have guessed my identity by now, right?"
Itachi nodded, remaining silent.
"You were brought by Teacher Lin Yu and Shisui, but I must also remind you that my identity cannot be revealed to anyone else."
Itachi nodded solemnly, still silent.
"..."
If not for the faint sound of footsteps behind him, Obito would have thought he was talking to himself.
Even the chuunibyou Nagato would blurt out a few dramatic lines. How could Uchiha Itachi be so silent, like a tightly sealed bottle!
But Shisui had told him that Itachi was very polite!
Never mind! He would leave it to Nagato to test him!
...
Within the Akatsuki base, a chaotic network of pipes permeated the interior of the towering structure. Without over ten years of experience, one couldn't find the correct route.
Lin Yu was lost again. He had intended to check on Kimimaro and the others, but he didn't know the way at all.
Konan also seemed to be away from the base. Lin Yu sensed the fluctuation of an undead冥炎 to the north, quite far from their current location.
"What's the point of all these convoluted pipes!"
Lin Yu truly didn't understand what the chuunibyou youth Nagato was thinking. Wouldn't he get lost too?!
*Creak...*
Lin Yu pushed open a door, and the first thing he saw was a metallic tail, tipped with green poison, lunging directly at his chest.
*Clink!*
Lin Yu extended two fingers and caught the giant metallic tail. He said to the shadows, "Teacher Orochimaru, is this how you treat guests?"
"Hehehe, I didn't do this. Who told you to disturb a scientist's experiment."
Orochimaru, dressed in a white lab coat, emerged from the shadows, followed by an "old man" in a red cloud black robe. The metallic tail was indeed his doing.
"Chikamatsu Sasori?"
Lin Yu looked at the Hiruko puppet, whose eyes were wide open. Its artistic ability wasn't that impressive.
Why not create a loli beauty, and instead hide inside an old man's body!
This Sasori was also not normal!
"Oh? You know Sasori too, Lin Yu-kun? He joined the organization recently, but I didn't expect him to be someone with such a fanatical love for experimentation."
"Orochimaru, don't speak carelessly. I'm only interested in the art of the human body. Puppets are eternal art, and science is merely a supplementary tool!"
Facing Sasori's denial, Orochimaru merely smiled and said nothing more.
"Lin Yu-kun, are you here to see the progress of the experiments?"
"That's right!"
Lin Yu casually swatted away Hiruko's tail and walked in with his hands behind his back.
He couldn't possibly say he got lost and entered the wrong room. That would be too embarrassing!
It was a good opportunity to see what kind of things Orochimaru had concocted. Winter was also approaching, perhaps it was still time to build an air conditioner!