After learning the place where Itachi was training from Fugaku, Shisui left the Uchiha clan's territory and went to the remote riverside.
Sure enough, Shisui saw Itachi practicing the Great Fireball somewhere.
A huge fireball landed in the water, stirring up a large amount of water mist.
"Itachi." Shisui greeted Itachi with a smile.
Hearing this familiar voice, Itachi quickly looked back and saw the figure he had always missed in his heart slowly walking towards him.
"Shisui." Itachi's usually calm expression disappeared, and his little face was filled with joy.
I haven't seen this for a long time.
The two walked together, Shisui placed his hand on Itachi's shoulder and smiled, "I've been a bit busy lately, so I haven't come to see you. How's your training going?"
When Shisui talked about training, Itachi thought of Kabuto. With Kabuto training with him, his strength increased faster.
Itachi thought about it and said, "Not bad."
"That's good. Why don't we have a long-awaited battle and see how much progress you have made, Itachi." Shisui challenged Itachi.
Although if the current Itachi faced a serious Shisui, he would be killed instantly.
However, when fighting with Itachi, Shisui would deliberately suppress his own strength and serve as a sparring partner.
Shisui felt that Itachi was very similar to him. Although he was young, he was good at thinking and would think about many issues that adults would not think about.
"Okay." Itachi nodded and took an attacking stance.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two kunai flew towards Shisui.
Shisui didn't even open his Sharingan, he just slightly tilted his body and easily dodged the two kunai.
Boom!
The bitterwood was firmly inserted into the tree.
But Itachi didn't expect to defeat Shisui with just two kunai.
In the previous battle with Shisui, Itachi realized that Shisui was a ninja without any flaws, and the only way to defeat Shisui was to rely on brute force.
Itachi quickly fired three more shurikens. However, this time the shurikens were not as simple as the kunai from last time. The three shurikens collided with each other and finally stabbed towards Shisui at a weird angle.
Shisui smiled slightly. He was the one who taught Itachi this. Itachi was still a little immature to deal with him.
Shisui quickly took out a shuriken from his ninja tool bag, narrowed his eyes, calculated the trajectory of the collision, and then swung out the shuriken with a burst of chakra.
Ding ding ding!!
Three consecutive metal collision sounds were heard.
In the meantime, Shisui's shuriken was the first to deflect the shuriken that was about to hit him.
The shuriken that was deflected pushed the other two shurikens away, and the final collision sent Shisui's original shuriken towards Itachi's position.
Itachi's feet exploded with chakra, and he stepped back suddenly, avoiding the strange shuriken.
Itachi had to admit that he was just showing off his skills in front of an expert. Compared to Shisui, his shuriken throwing skills were still far worse.
"Fire Style? Great Fireball!" Itachi quickly formed hand seals and soon spit out a fireball that was two or three times bigger than any other and attacked Shisui.
Shisui smiled and formed the exact same seal as Itachi.
"Fire Style? Great Fireball!"
Shisui also spit out a large fireball and pressed it towards Itachi.
Although Shisui let in a lot of fire, he was still a strong man who had made a name for himself in the war. When the two fireballs collided, Itachi's fireball was suppressed instantly.
Itachi saw that his ninjutsu didn't work, but he wasn't surprised. He withdrew his chakra and quickly flashed into the water.
Sizzle!
A powerful fire escape exploded on the surface of the river, generating a large amount of water vapor that blocked the view.
whoosh!
The moment the white fog appeared, three sounds of quickly running were suddenly heard.
The three Uchiha Itachi attacked Shisui from different directions.
But Shisui did easily recognize Itachi's true form, and grabbed the attacking Itachi with his right hand, and threw it hard, breaking the two shadow clones of Itachi.
"Shisui, how did you find me?" Itachi asked curiously, getting up from the ground.
Shisui pointed at Itachi's wet clothes and said, "Itachi, you are the shadow clone that you used after coming out of the water. Except for your original body, the clothes of the shadow clones are all dry."
Itachi was stunned. It's not that he didn't think about the problem of his wet clothes, but at that moment there should have been white fog blocking his view, so he could only see the general shape of his body.
How to practice whether the clothes are dry or wet is discovered.
Seeing through Itachi's confusion, Shisui pointed to his own bloodshot eyes.
It turned out that Shisui had already opened his three-magatama Sharingan at some point.
"Under the power of the Sharingan, your flaws will be infinitely magnified, so when you fight me, you must not reveal even a single flaw." Shisui reminded gently.
Itachi nodded and remembered the lesson in his heart: when dealing with an enemy with the Sharingan, he must not use smoke to block his vision.
Shisui pulled out the wakizashi from behind him, went to the woods to cut some wood, brought it to Itachi's side, and then lit it with fire jutsu.
The two sat in front of the fire and started chatting.
"Shisui, what have you been busy with recently?" Itachi asked curiously.
Although Shisui was busy before, he still found time to guide him in his practice and talk with him.
Shisui thought about it for a moment, then said, "It's a confidential job, so I can't tell you, but it's a very meaningful job."
"Very meaningful?" Itachi became even more curious, but since Shisui said it was a job that had to be kept secret he didn't ask for details.
Shisui nodded and said, "It makes perfect sense. If this succeeds, the relationship between the village and the family will improve."
"That does make sense." Itachi nodded.
Although he was very young, he could also feel the conflicts within the family and the village. There was something wrong with the atmosphere of the Uchiha clan.
Sometimes he would often hear his Uchiha clan members coming to his father, Uchiha Fugaku, to complain about the village.
"Shisui, will you still be so busy in the future?" Itachi asked.
"It will be easier this week, but we will be busy later on." Shisui nodded.
Looking at the somewhat silent Itachi, Shisui smiled, rubbed Uchiha Itachi's head, and said with a smile: "To borrow a sentence from Captain Nagase, a ninja should do what he should do, not what he wants to do."
"This time, I finally got to the point where what I want to do and what I should do come together. I want to do my best to do it."
"Captain Nagasawa? Who is he?" Itachi asked curiously. Shisui actually quoted the conversation of Captain Nagasawa, which meant that the man was definitely recognized by Shisui.
"He is one of my predecessors. He is the true successor to the will of fire. There are so many things I can learn from him." Shisui sighed.
“…” Itachi said nothing, silently memorizing the name Nagase in his heart.
This was not just recognized by Shisui, Shisui respected him very much.
Itachi was very curious about what kind of person was there who was so highly respected by Shisui
"Actually, I met a nice guy recently..." Itachi thought about it and talked about his encounter with Kabuto.