Konoha Koi

Chapter 211 Kosuke Maruhoshi's Vow, Pain and Balance
"Uchiha Aurora!" As a small figure descended, a familiar voice sounded from Aurora's ears.

"Maruhoshi Kosuke?" Aurora, who was lying on the shore because of exhaustion, suddenly got up, looked at the boy of the same age, shook his head and said:
"Are you here to challenge me again? I'm sorry, I don't have that kind of mood, so just treat it as if I'm afraid of fighting... If you want the title of the strongest Chunin, just take it, and I'm willing to agree... "

"No..." Kosuke Maruhoshi shook his head and said, "I have sworn to the Second Hokage-sama that I will always, always be a ninja!"

"Huh?" Ji Guang patted the dust on his body, looked at Kosuke Maruhoshi who always looked high-spirited in the past, and asked, "What are you talking about?"

"Sure enough... You have never taken me as a small person in your eyes, but I, a fool, always compare yourself to you. So in your eyes, I must be a fool, right?" Maruhoshi Kosuke said in a low voice road:

"In the previous battle, because I was eager for quick success and instant benefits during the execution of the mission, I rashly commanded and ordered two companions to die... So, I am such a fool..."

Saying this, Kosuke Maruhoshi fell into memory:

Outside the village where the sun was setting, Kosuke Maruhoshi hid blankly in front of the unfinished cemetery, guarding the corpse of his former companion...

"Maruyoshi Kosuke, because of your meritorious service, the village has decided to upgrade you to a zhongnin. Moreover, you will be specially approved to enter the secret intelligence department, and I will directly supervise you..." Danzo stood behind him, and the middle nin Announcing the new transfer order with great enthusiasm.

At the first moment when the village was raided, Ji Guang himself was the first to discover the enemy's target, and that was the information obtained from Lei Ying.Danzo Shimura and Kosuke Maruhoshi who was in contact with the psychic blood mosquito were the first to pass on the information.

However, the price was that four of Kosuke Maruhoshi's teammates died in the hands of the enemy one after another, and he was the only one who survived.It is precisely because of his eagerness for quick success and his refusal to listen to Uchiha Fei's dissuasion that led to the sacrifice of his teammates.

What made Maruyoshi Kosuke even more collapsed was that he realized afterwards that even without them passing on the information, the Yamanaka Clan's secret technique combined with the psychic blood mosquito could share the information as quickly as possible.It seems that his efforts are not for the glory of his companions, but just for Shimura Danzo's meritorious service to prove that's all. (Even Aurora doesn't know that the psychic blood mosquito can combine with the secret art in the mountains for communication)
"I'm sorry, Danzo-senpai..." Maruhoshi Kosuke stood up and turned around, fixedly looked at Shimura Danzo and said, "It is because of my recklessness that the sacrifices of my companions were in vain, so I have to do it for what I did. Atonement.

I swear, Kosuke Maruhoshi will only be a ninja forever and will never be promoted! "

"Did you swear..." Danzo narrowed his eyes, and the 20-year-old couldn't help but froze.

You know, for ninjas, oaths are very important.The oath is equivalent to the way of ninja, and the ninja who violates the oath is equivalent to losing the most basic dignity.

A few minutes later, when Danzo left, Kosuke Maruhoshi turned to look at the corpse of his comrade covered in a white cloth.The setting sun shines on this grassland, and there are scattered ninjas digging graves not far away.

Pfft!
"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." Kneeling in front of the four former partners, Maruyoshi Kosuke sincerely repented: "I am eager for quick success and quick benefits, and I don't deserve to be promoted at all, so let me accompany you forever as a ninja... "

"Being a ninja forever... is it because you are afraid of death?" A voice came from behind Kosuke Maruhoshi.

"That's not true! Even if I'm just a ninja, I can sacrifice everything for the village and for my partners! It's just... for me... glory and status... I don't deserve it anymore... because it belongs to the partner I sacrificed..." Maruyoshi Kosuke wiped away his tears and retorted loudly until he saw who was coming.

The familiar blue metal hanging armor, silver hair and red eyes, iron forehead with a face shield on the face, three red marks on the cheeks, and a white feather collar connected to the back on the shoulders.

"My lord!" Maruyoshi Kosuke consciously and hastily rushed into Senshou Feijian, completely at a loss.

"I already understand your determination to be a servant for the rest of your life...but I will never allow you to slacken yourself..." Senshou turned around and turned to the bewildered Maruhoshi Kosuke: "Come on, I want to hand over my technique to you...continue to protect Konoha instead of your partner..."

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"Are you just going to be a ninja forever?" Aurora sat by the river, looking at Kosuke Maruhoshi who spoke his mind.

"Indeed, your strength in the past is not worth mentioning in my opinion, this is the truth." Aurora's words made Maruhoshi Kosuke's head lower by half a point.At this time, Aurora suddenly patted his shoulder and said with a smile:

"However, I never use strength to recognize the strength of an opponent. Because in my opinion, sooner or later I will overtake those who are stronger than me, and those who are weaker than me may not be able to catch up with me. Just like Shimura Danzo, no matter how strong he is, I can't look down on him. And you, although your strength is not as good as him, but your heart is far stronger than him!"

As Ji Guang said, he poked his other hand towards Kosuke Maruyoshi's heart, and continued: "The strength of the heart is the real strength! A powerful soul will not be limited by the body!"

"Thank you!" Maruhoshi Kosuke bowed sincerely, and suddenly said again: "But what I want to tell you is, Uchiha Aurora, you are still my opponent for life! Shinobu. I will also prove that Konoha's lower ninja can also beat the upper ninja!"

"Really... I believe this..." Aurora nodded in agreement: "Konoha's ninja is already very strong... But, I won't be beaten by anyone..."

"By the way... Regarding what happened to the first generation of adults and the Uchiha family, please forgive me..."

"Ah... just now I felt a little calmer, and you made me uncomfortable again. You did it on purpose..."

"Escape is not the solution, ninjas should face the pain..."

"There is no pain... just give me time, and I will bring everyone back to life!"

"I'm starting to talk nonsense, Mr. Bo Fei is right, you really are the best at bragging..."

In the following time, the two just sat by the stream below the waterfall and chatted without saying a word, venting the loneliness and depression of the past few days.The pain has been buried in the bottom of my heart, but there is nowhere to vent.

Since the attack, Konoha has not completely entered the stage of pain as imagined.For various complicated reasons, all kinds of weird suspicions and rumors are everywhere.

About the traitor Senju Kenji who appeared in the Senju family, and how the Senju family was destroyed, whether it is really inseparable from Uzumaki Mito;

There are rumors about the Uchiha's collective appearance of Sharingan, and there are even three pairs of Kaleidoscope Sharingan publicly available.Everyone is also wondering why the casualties of Uchiha, who was also attacked by the main force, are so strange.

The two strongest families in Konoha are one disabled and the other disabled, Senshou adults are almost dead and have no pillars, and Uchiha's family is also ruined.

It was also from that day that the orphans of the Senju family and the young men of the Uchiha family all became the focus of discussion.

Uchiha Aurora is also caught in the vortex, because the attempt to kill the fire country daimyo on the battlefield also led to a series of evil consequences:
The daimyo of the land of fire passed away not long after his return. Although he himself did not leave any words, the daimyo's eldest son and second son, who wanted to snatch the inheritance right, both tacitly pointed their finger at Aurora.For this reason, Konoha has since lost all support from the Nation of Fire, whether financial or material.

It has been thirteen years since Aurora came to this world. Through frequent contact with the high-level officials of Muye Village, he has learned many things that others do not know.

Konoha's relationship with the Nation of Fire is somewhere between "mercenaries" and "army". It can be understood as a cooperative relationship between a country with almost no military strength and a country with only military strength.

Although the two are relatively equal, no matter how strong Ninja Village is, it is just a village, and no matter how weak the country is, it still has a large area of ​​land and subjects.

Today's Konoha is not short of financial resources, and the existence of "Konoha Bank" ensures that ninjas have sufficient funds.However, due to the lack of supplies, Konoha must rely on the supply from the Kingdom of Fire to maintain it.

In the non-war period, most countries other than the Fire Nation would also support Konoha, sending resources to the village continuously for money.But today is different from the past, Konoha has become a "public enemy of the ninja world", and the major ninja villages around have begun to block Konoha.

At the same time, the core families of Konoha's high-level families have begun to quarrel:
"My lord, please make a decision! Questions about Uchiha must be prevented before they happen!"

"That's right, so many Uchihas have opened Sharingan, and there are even four pairs of kaleidoscopes! Without Senju's check and balance, Konoha's strength balance has been seriously tilted!"

"Let's go to war! Send Uchiha to the battlefield..."

"No, that way there will be more Uchiha powerhouses..."

"Don't underestimate the ninja world... Even if Uchiha Madara is reborn, I dare not say that there is no existence that can threaten him! For example, the land of the earth..."

(End of this chapter)