Naruto Sakaki

Chapter 28 Yahiko's Idea

In the corner of the village, they met the old woman and the child.

Yahiko greeted warmly: "Mother-in-law, we meet again! Yo, kid, you look good!"

The child smirked at Yahiko, Yahiko took the initiative to pat his head, and stuffed a handful of candies: "This is a gift for you!"

The child smirked and stuffed all the candies into his mouth. Seeing this, Xiao Nan quickly knelt down to stop the child, took the candy back, peeled off the icing on one candy, and stuffed it into the child's mouth.

The child sucked the candy happily, and the old woman asked silently, "Who are you?"

"Grandma, you don't remember us, we've been here twice already...Look at me, do you have any impression?"

Yahiko pointed to his own face, and approached the old woman so that her cloudy eyes could see more clearly.

"Oh, it's you young people! Why are you back again? There's only me, an old bastard, and a little fool here, but there's nothing to entertain you!"

"We want to rebuild this village, and we will entertain you in the future!"

"What did you say?"

The mother-in-law didn't seem to hear clearly, so Yahiko shouted loudly in her ear again.

"Oh, rebuilding the village...why?"

"Because we want this 'dead' village to come back to life!"

"How can a dead thing come back to life? Besides, the people are gone, so what if the village is built again..."

"Dead people cannot be resurrected, but as long as hope is established, the living will definitely gather. At that time, the village will come back to life, and many 'dead' things will come back to life."

Yahiko's words were full of longing, and he wanted to turn that longing into reality, and by then, the light of hope guiding everyone would surely appear.

"You won't come back to life. A dead person will never come back to life... You young people, live your own life well, and don't mess around when you have nothing to do."

The old woman turned around, hunched over, and walked away slowly with a cane on her back.

Yahiko shouted loudly: "Grandma, we are not messing around, we are living ourselves!"

The mother-in-law turned around, took a look at Yahiko, and shouted to the child: "Tai, don't come back with me!"

Before leaving, Tai Tai looked at the candy in Xiao Nan's hand anxiously, Xiao Nan peeled off another candy and stuffed it into Tai Tai's mouth, then smiled softly: "So your name is Tai Tai, I will give you candy next time." Eat, go back now, mother-in-law is calling you."

Xingtai seemed to understand, and ran to catch up with the old woman foolishly.

Yahiko shouted in a louder voice from behind: "After the reconstruction of the village is completed, mother-in-law, you will be the first villager in this village, and Yuta will be the second. More people will live in this village in the future! Also, mother-in-law, we will be neighbors in the future, if you need help, please feel free to ask."

The old woman left, she didn't seem to hear Yahiko's words, or maybe she did, but she was indifferent.

"Xiaonan, Nagato, Sakaki, let's rebuild this village together from now on?"

"Yahiko, are you serious?" Both Nagato and Konan seemed a little incomprehensible.

Sakaki smiled and said: "It seems that after these days of thinking, you have some new ideas!"

"That's right!"

Yahiko nodded heavily, and asked again.

"Sakaki, do you think it's right for us to kill bad people all the time?"

Sakaki nodded: "Of course, no matter how many scumbags die, it's not a pity. After killing all these scumbags, wouldn't the world be peaceful?"

Yahiko asked Konan and Nagato again: "Do you think Sakaki is right?"

"What Sakaki said... makes sense, but I... don't want to keep killing people like this..."

Konan said silently, but Nagato's attitude was even more clear.

"I think that what Jiraiya-sensei wants to convey to us is not the truth. I think there must be a better way to make the world a better place!"

Yahiko nodded, expressing his approval of what Nagato and Konan said, then looked at Sakaki, and said: "Sakaki, when I saw the destruction of this village, I was completely controlled by anger. The same idea, thinking that killing all these bad guys will make the world a better place! But, I was wrong, the world has not changed for the better because of this.”

"But at least the bad guys are punished!"

"However, the dead still can't come back to life, and all the scars can't fade away..."

"Then don't you need to be punished for doing evil?"

"No, that's not what I mean! I just think there's a better way to handle these things!"

"All ears."

"In this village, we killed those two ninjas, and the accomplices of ninjas destroyed the village. We killed the bad guy with his wife and children, and his wives and children will hate us murderers. And There are many other bad people killed by us, they also have relatives, children and even companions, hatred will be born in their hearts..."

"What you should care about is how to subdue the hatred in the hearts of ordinary people who have been hurt or even killed by the bad guys and the people they are connected with. Only revenge can avenge hatred!"

"I used to think the same way. The ninja killed my parents, and my heart was full of hatred. At that time, if possible, I would kill my enemy with all my might!
So when Mr. Jiraiya said that people can understand each other, I refuted loudly, saying that unless I let the other person also experience my pain, there is no way for people to understand each other.

Jiraiya-sensei didn't refute me at the time, but now I understand that even if the other party tastes the pain I have suffered, all they get is pain and the hatred generated by the pain. If this continues, the pain will produce more pain. Hatred will breed more hatred, and pain and hatred will spread like chains joint by joint, and finally people will not be able to understand each other at all!
Therefore, I want to cut off the chain, the chain that connects everyone and transmits pain and hatred! "

"What should I do?" Nagato murmured.

Yahiko asked back: "Nagato, can you forgive the Konoha ninja who killed your parents? What about those who hurt you, are you willing to forgive?"

"I... only Konoha ninja who killed my parents, I will never forgive!"

After receiving Nagato's answer, Yahiko asked Konan again, and Konan's answer was similar.

Yahiko looked at Sakaki again, but Sakaki shrugged and said nothing.

Yahiko suddenly closed his eyes, took a deep breath and said, "I, I have decided to forgive those ninjas who killed my parents!"

Nagato and Konan looked at Yahiko in disbelief.

Yahiko didn't open his eyes, he seemed to be immersed in some kind of great power, stroked his chest, felt the throbbing, powerful beating heart inside, and said.

"I choose to forgive! But I will always remember the pain of losing my parents! This pain will remind me that if I hurt others, others will feel the same pain!

It is because of your own pain that you think that others will suffer the same pain, so you will not hurt again!I think that if others experience the same pain, new pain and hatred will be created.So, why not try to forgive those who hurt you and treat everyone more gently with the compassion you learned in your pain? "

Nagato listened silently, and suddenly remembered that night, and Jiraiya-sensei had said the same thing.

——Once you are hurt, you will have hatred... On the contrary, if you hurt others, you will attract resentment, and you will feel guilty in your heart. However, because you know the pain, you will know how to treat others gently. This is Humanity.

Put down the hatred, remember the pain, choose to forgive...

Nagato was immersed in these gentle words, and at this moment, Yahiko in his eyes was shining with a light that infiltrated people's hearts, just like the former Jiraiya teacher.

Xiao Nan thought silently.

"If I choose to forgive, you choose to forgive, he chooses to forgive, and all the hurt people choose to forgive, then there will be no new hatred in this world. If you treat others with a gentle heart , then the pain will be healed, and no new pain will arise again, the world at that time..."

Sakaki asked: "Let's not talk about how many people can forgive others! Just one question, if all the hurt people choose to forgive, then wouldn't those who hurt others be more unscrupulous!"

"So, they need atonement! However, atonement is not to kill them, because it will only bring new pain and hatred, this chain will be extended infinitely, and ultimately make the world worse."

Yahiko finally revealed the real purpose of coming to this village.

"I don't know what kind of atonement can make those who hurt others atone for their sins and get forgiveness from those who have been hurt, so I think we should start with ourselves and find a way for sinners to be forgiven. The road! So, let's work together and rebuild this village!"

Yahiko's thoughts sounded naive, but the extremely resolute look on his face proved that he was not talking about it, but was really going to do it, and he would do it to the end.

"The reconstruction of this village is not only our self-redemption, but also our first step towards the world we want!"

(End of this chapter)