Naruto: Reincarnated as Sasuke Uchiha with Perfect Talents.

Watching Jūgo, who seemed as if reborn, with his chakra fluctuations rapidly intensifying.

Naruto, who had been observing all this from behind, cast a puzzled glance at Sasuke.

"What did you do to him? Why does he suddenly seem so much stronger?"

Hearing this, Sasuke smiled. "It's not that he seems stronger; he truly has become stronger."

After speaking, Sasuke turned to look at Naruto.

"Following me all this time, what is it that you want?"

Naruto sighed lightly. "The threat of the Ōtsutsuki isn't over, Sasuke!"

Of course, Sasuke knew this. "So?"

Seeing that Sasuke didn't seem to take it seriously at all, Naruto's emotions were somewhat complex.

"Sasuke! Come back! Let's fight these so-called Ōtsutsuki together. Their power isn't something one or two people can handle alone."

Naruto wanted to join forces with him to fight the Ōtsutsuki?

The idea wasn't wrong, but Sasuke didn't have that much time to spend with Naruto.

You know, according to the original story, who knows how long it would take for the Ōtsutsuki clan to arrive.

So rather than waiting for the Ōtsutsuki clan to come to them, Sasuke wanted to seek them out proactively.

Of course, going alone was indeed risky, and even Sasuke worried about unexpected situations.

Therefore!

That's why he had Kimimaro and Jūgo also fuse with the Ōtsutsuki bloodline.

And successfully enhanced their own powers. Although they had fused with the Ōtsutsuki bloodline, they weren't completely considered part of the Ōtsutsuki clan.

"I understand what you mean!"

Sasuke looked at Naruto.

But he regretfully shook his head. "However, I don't plan to fight the Ōtsutsuki with you!"

"Sasuke!"

Naruto heavily called out Sasuke's name.

Then, with a hint of confusion in his eyes, he asked, "Why? You know how terrifying the threat of the Ōtsutsuki is!"

"Why are you still unwilling to... come back!"

As for the reason, it was simply too much of a waste of time.

And returning to Konoha might eventually lead to marrying Sakura!

Sasuke didn't want that to happen, and it was also too much of a waste of time.

"I've grown accustomed to freedom, Naruto!"

"And I don't care about teaming up with others anymore!"

Hearing this, Naruto was suddenly stunned. "Haven't we fought together before? Why can't we do it now!"

"Sasuke, what exactly do you want to do?"

"I've never understood. You clearly hold no malice towards Konoha, yet you stole the Book of Seals."

"You clearly don't care about the tailed beasts, yet you fought against the Allied Shinobi Forces!"

"After doing all these things, what is it that you want?"

This question, Sasuke remembered he had answered many times before!

Yet, it seemed like Naruto hadn't been listening at all!

"I've said it before, my goal has always been only one thing!"

"And that is to become stronger!"

"To continuously grow stronger. Beyond that, I don't care about anything else."

Kimimaro and Jūgo both smiled.

They were quite certain about this. Lord Sasuke was solely focused on pursuing power. Despite having talent far beyond ordinary people, he still worked extremely hard.

That kind of rigorous training probably couldn't be sustained by anyone else.

Lord Sasuke's desire to become stronger was absolutely unwavering.

"Become stronger! What will you do after becoming stronger?"

After becoming stronger?

Sasuke sighed lightly.

"Become a god!"

Hearing this, Naruto's expression changed immediately.

Because wasn't the last person to say something like that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki?

That so-called Ōtsutsuki clan was ultimately pursuing some kind of divine power, and then they would go around causing destruction.

If Sasuke was also striving and working hard towards this goal, perhaps one day even Sasuke would...

Become like Isshiki.

"Sasuke! Is becoming a god really that mesmerizing to you?"

"Of course!"

Sasuke answered without hesitation.

Becoming a god would free him from the threat of death and offer the chance for eternal life. Who would give that up?

Saying that eternal life would lead to a loss of joy is something only a fool would say.

Perhaps in the end, life might seem uninteresting, but that would be hundreds or even thousands of years later.

If one day he truly felt that living was meaningless, wouldn't it be better to choose death then?

"Sasuke! You've truly been consumed by power."

Consumed by power?

Sasuke was speechless. What did it mean to be consumed by power?

Just because he wanted to become stronger, he was considered consumed by power?

What kind of logic was that?

"If you continue like this, one day you'll become just like those Ōtsutsuki!"

As he spoke, Naruto looked up at Sasuke.

"Sasuke, if one day, you had to destroy a world to gain the chance to become a god, would you do it?"

"Yes!"

"Why?"

Naruto was somewhat unable to accept that Sasuke would give such an answer now.

He felt that Sasuke had completely become a different person.

Sasuke was speechless. Was this hard to understand?

He wasn't some saint. Although he wouldn't call himself a bad person, he never claimed to be a good person either!

It's fine to consider him a bad person.

Destroying a world, as long as it's a world unrelated to him, what's the problem with its destruction?

But if it's related to him, and there are people in that world who have interacted with him, and they are decent people, then Sasuke wouldn't choose to do so.

Although this might seem selfish, humans are inherently selfish.

For himself, for his own people, providing some preferential treatment, what's the problem with that?

"There's no why. A world unrelated to me, why should I consider so much?"

"But Sasuke, those are all living lives!"

On this issue, Sasuke was even more speechless.

"Fish live in water, why do humans catch and kill them?"

"Beasts live in the forest, why do humans capture and kill them?"

"Birds fly in the sky, why do humans shoot them down and kill them?"

Three consecutive questions left Naruto speechless.

"But they are just... animals after all! Humans need meat, hunting some is not..."

"I just need power, another world is ultimately unrelated to me, destroying one or two doesn't affect anything!"

Using Naruto's words to refute Naruto.

Stunned, Naruto looked at Sasuke. "You're being sophistical."

"Am I... being sophistical?"

Naruto didn't know how to argue with Sasuke anymore.

"I can't argue with you!"

"So?"

Sasuke looked at Naruto indifferently.

"Then let's settle this with strength! Sasuke... I challenge you for the last time."

The last time?

Sasuke smiled. Admittedly, Naruto's current strength was not bad, having absorbed the chakra of nine tailed beasts, plus obtaining a pair of Rinnegan?

Where did this pair of Rinnegan come from?

Never mind! It's not important.

What's important is that with the Rinnegan and the chakra of nine tailed beasts, Naruto's current strength is probably even stronger than the strongest Six Paths Naruto in the original story.

But... compared to himself, Sasuke didn't take him seriously.

"Are you serious?"

"Go to that place, you should know where it is!"

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