254. Mischief
The ninja world, like Toei in the real world, also has a way of committing suicide by seppuku.
During the mission of the country of birds, the strategist Hongming was sentenced to seppuku, and when the Sand Hidden Village hosted the middle ninja exam, my Airo's Wind Shadow assisted in the rebellion, and after being exposed by my Airo, he also ended his life by seppuku.
The ninja seppuku is exactly the same as the real-world Toei seppuku, where the seppuku wears a white gown, lays a white cloth, sits on the ground, bare the abdomen, and slices open the abdomen with a short rib knife or the tip of a long knife.
The laparotomy first makes a left-to-right incision, followed by a second incision slightly upwards to allow the intestines to overflow.
When the second cut is made, the wrong person holds the head, that is, swings the knife to cut off the neck of the disembowelment, but not completely, so that the head and neck are still slightly implicated.
Due to the precision of this sword, the person who intersected the mistake was usually a master of swordsmanship, and in general, the person who made the mistake would be a family friend, friend or the most trusted subordinate of the seppuku.
If you don't have to make a mistake, you can also cut your stomach, but the person who has been cut will suffer greatly, the process of death will be very long, and the death will be ugly.
It can be said that the person who intersected the wrong person was the executioner of the seppuku, and the person who made the seppuku did not die of seppuku, but died by the head of the person who intersected the wrong person.
Sasuke, of course, knew what Itachi was talking about seppuku and the wrong person, and he was surprised, "Why seppuku?" Didn't Naruto say that he wouldn't hold you legally responsible? ”
Itachi raised his eyes to look at the enshrinement ranks, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "The one who can adjudicate a person is not only the law, but also his own heart...... Right and wrong don't matter to me, it's time to give myself a break. ”
"It shouldn't be like this!"
Sasuke shook his head and said, "You are the one who was tunzang, apuetobi, and Obito...... No, it's not just them, it's also the cannibalistic system of the old ninja world, why should they take on the responsibility that they shouldn't have alone? You don't need to apologize! ”
Itachi approached Sasuke, stretched out his hand and put it on his forehead, and said, "Stupid brother, I'm not punishing myself, I'm just ...... Want to be liberated...... Can you understand how painful it is for someone who can't face their past and has lost their purpose for the future? Please, help me get out of this world. ”
"I ...... I can't do ......."
Sasuke never expected that the man he had dreamed of killing would beg him to kill him, but he said no.
"Brother, I won't force you anymore...... You can already make the right decisions on your own, and you don't need someone to push you behind it. ”
For Sasuke's refusal, Itachi was not disappointed at all, but showed an extremely gentle smile.
"I don't have to mind the wrong person, I can also cut my stomach, no matter what, I have to end my life today, in the place where I once killed my parents, use seppuku to feel their feelings when they were killed by me, the more painful it is, the more I can probably understand the pain of their being killed by their own son."
With that, Itachi began to prepare for seppuku on his own, changed into a white dress that had been prepared a long time ago, spread a white cloth in front of the shrine, and set up a wooden box containing the head.
He even had a suicide note ready and put the folded suicide note aside.
Straightening his waist and kneeling in front of the shrine, Itachi ripped open his shirt, exposed his abdomen, took out a short knife with a rib difference, wrapped the blade with a white handkerchief, and held the blade to aim the tip of the knife at the lower abdomen.
Sasuke stared blankly, not knowing what he was supposed to do.
Stop the ferrets?
A person who is bent on death, even if he stops it this time, what about the next time?
Watching him die in agony?
Maybe before he didn't know the truth, Sasuke could happily stand by and watch coldly, the more miserable Itachi died, the happier he was, but now, a little unbearable rose in his heart.
Just help him make a mistake and cut off his head with a knife to alleviate the pain before he died?
But isn't this just a repeat of the tragedy of the Uchiha clan's fratricidal brothers? Could it be that the Uchiha clan will never be able to escape the cycle of fate?
"Brother!" Sasuke blurted out, "Don't do this...... There are other options...... Death is not necessarily liberation! ”
Itachi turned his head, looked at Sasuke with a smile, and said calmly, "Brother, this is my choice, please respect my choice, please don't resent anyone because of my 'thoughtless belly', let alone the world." I'm sure you and your friends have found the right way to change the world, and the future will be bright......"
As he spoke, the tip of the knife pierced into the lower abdomen, and the weasel didn't even snort, but cut horizontally from left to right in the abdomen, and the blood and intestines gushed out at once, falling onto the white cloth, and smearing a large patch of crimson on it.
The ferret was already very weak, and when the knife was cut, it hurt even more so that his body trembled slightly, and the hand holding the knife was not very stable.
Sasuke only felt that his hands and feet were cold, his eyes widened, and the kaleidoscope writing wheel eye emerged, constantly spinning.
The Uchiha clan was subjected to a huge spiritual impact, often producing special yin attribute chakras, and even opening their eyes under strong stimulation.
Sasuke has already opened the kaleidoscope writing wheel eye, but under the stimulation of this terrifying and helpless scene, the pupil power exploded greatly.
Sweat crawled all over Itachi's cheeks, and there was no trace of pain on his face, and his knees were pressed together, trying to control his hands to avoid deviations in the seppuku.
After cutting this knife, the intestines have flowed out, but the person will not die soon, and the weasel began the second knife, first pulling out the blade, then pointing the blade upwards, and stabbing into the lower abdomen again, gritting his teeth and stirring upwards.
This is the most painful form of seppuku, which involves forming a cross cut with the cross-cutting knife from the bottom up, all the way to the heart.
When the first knife was cut, the Itachi's movements were quite clean, but the second knife was a little weak, and although it had exhausted its strength, the blade only slowly moved upward, centimeter by centimeter, blocked by flesh and bones.
In the hand holding the knife, the muscles were already bruised, and Itachi tried his last bit of strength to kill himself, but this effort was in vain, and the ribs blocking the blade were not so easy to cut.
"Help me, Sasuke......" Itachi muttered.
Sasuke then remembered that his brother had never begged him, and he had never helped his brother with anything.
However, the only time he asked, the only time he helped, what the weasel asked for was this kind of thing, incomparably absurd, incomparably cruel, and incomparably real!
Sasuke closed his eyes and tears flowed uncontrollably, he hadn't cried in years, but this time he couldn't suppress the sadness in his heart.
The sword flashed, and the grass pheasant sword was as fast as thunder, gently slashing across the weasel's neck.
The smiling head drooped downward, and there was still a trace of flesh involved, which was not completely cut off, and the body fell forward upright, prostrate on the ground, and the entire seppuku ceremony was perfect without a single flaw.
With a "dang bang", the grass pheasant sword on Zuo's assistant fell to the ground and knelt down in front of the weasel corpse in collapse.