Chapter 216 - Kotoamatsukami... (1/2)

Chapter 216

Title: Kotoamatsukami...

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During the end of November, in one of Orochimaru's bases, a sixteen-year-old Sasuke is in deep meditation, wondering about a decision that he should make lately.

He knows that soon Orochimaru will try to take over his body. In no way he will accept that, so he can either escape Orochimaru or kill him.

But what he doesn't notice is the space behind him crack behind him and a hand appears and grabs his head.

His eyes widen and he attempts to go for his sword, but before he can do anything of the sort. His eyes go dull for a split second and the hand retreats back into the space crack and it disappears as if it never happened to begin with.

When Sasuke comes back to his senses, he frowns a little and thinks. 'If I can't defeat someone like Orochimaru, how can I ever hope to kill Itachi.'

In Konoha Yami looks at the man in front of him, Jiraiya is in Yami's office. He is sitting in front of Yami, with his posture completely relaxed.

”I need you to go to that suicide mission I told you about.” Says Yami, calmly and leaving no room for discussion.

Jiraiya doesn't seem startled about this, he just sighs in resignation. His eyes are empty as he looks Yami on the eyes. ”Yami… can I ask you something?”

Yami nods when he hears this. ”Yeah, sure, I don't see why not.”

Jiraya interlocks his finger and winces a little when he sees his missing pinky finger that was cut off by him in order to appease Yami.

”Yami… why does someone like you get everything in life. You have Tsunade in one arm and other women in the other. During my whole life, I have been the best man I could be. I tried to fix the world however little I could. Tell me… why?... why does someone as terrible as you get everything I ever wanted.”

Jirays clenches his fingers. ”I hate it… I am so jealous of you. Your power, women, money, and… Tsunade. Why? Why does someone like you get to live happily?”

Jiraiya speaks his heart out to Yami. Expressing his envy towards Yami and his lifestyle. His clan and his fame.

Yami on the other hand listened to this with a calm look on his face. He could definitely see where Jiraiya was coming from. He didn't say anything when he was called evil by Jiraiya straight to his face. Because even though Yami doesn't see himself as evil, he knows that he has done and continues to do horrible things for his own benefits.

He doesn't hate anyone that he has killed because at first hating a dead person is stupid to him. And second, he doesn't lie to himself in order to console himself, yes he is mostly killing killers (except some innocent children and clans). But even then they too are people and he has accepted that he doesn't have the illusion of being a good person.

In the end, Yami thinks for a second on what to say to Jiraiya, in the end, he just says. ”I am not saying that you doing good actions has anything to do with it. Nor do my so-called evil actions have to do anything with this. It's just simple, I am powerful, that is all that there is to it. Power is just power, I have everything because of it. If you have power but don't have something else, then that means that you just don't have enough power. Does that answer your question?”

Jiraiya looks at Yami wide eyes full of shock… in the end, he smiles a little and sighs. ”I see…”

He then gets up and walks away, Yami smiles at this as he sees Jiraiya's back.

'It seems like quite some people must disappear from Konoha's history.' Thinks Yami, he has already manipulated the books by educating the children that Yami is the best Hokage. The a.d.u.l.ts already see the improvements that Yami has made so they don't need to be convinced. This whole generation of people in the Land of Fire is in Yami's palm.

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Weeks later, the news of Jiraiya's death comes. Naruto is devastated by this, and his recent failure,...

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Month's later, the news of Sasuke killing Orochimaru came soon after that news of him killing Deidara and Itachi Uchiha. He still hadn't returned to Konoha…