[Hokage] Terukawa

Take it easy?

It wouldn't be tiring at all just squatting in Konoha to live.When I have something to do, I go out on missions to fight, and when I have nothing to do, I eat, drink, and train myself—to be honest, Kakashi’s half-tight little smelly face always makes me happy. Can eat more than half a bowl - and then argue with him, and if necessary, ask Chun Riqing to be the referee.Forget what Minato and Kushina said, they will just pull us away one by one, and then carry us into the house under their armpits, and carry out the "education of love of blood red pepper".

Once again, if you just squat in Konoha to live, life can be very comfortable.

Who doesn't like Konoha?

The tiring thing is to deal with all kinds of heart and old yin ratios, such as Shimura Danzo and Yang Yi, of course I think the pharmacist Nonoyu should also be added.

When dealing with these people, one must be cautious in words and deeds, and step by step, otherwise, if one is not careful, one will die without even knowing how to die.

Who still remembers that I left the village to avoid the undercurrents in the village and seek self-protection?In order to behave more naturally, he randomly picked three quest scrolls and carried them with him.According to the previous plan, I should spend about a week wandering outside Konoha, but now only one day has passed, and so many things have happened... Did I really avoid anything?

On the way down the mountain, I sighed leisurely, but stopped before taking the next step.

Wait... Quest?Yes, I came with a mission.

I put the mission scroll in the post house in the city. Apart from destroying the group of "bandits" on the mountain, there is also a mission to carry souvenirs and collect samples.

I thought for a moment, then turned around and went up the mountain again.

Not far after all...

On the other hand, behind a few dead trees about ten steps behind, the three fugitives who had been ambushing here for a long time were exhaling with their mouths wide open, "ho ho", obviously even the muscles on their cheeks were twitching, but they were moving I can't even curl up.

Gein and each of them had a thousand copies drilled out of their throats.

From the back of the head, through the tree.

I don't like to use Qianben, but it's not that I can't.

Although these few ran away from the mountain, they set up an ambush at the bottom of the mountain, and they don't know who they want to ambush.

There are so many lifeless people in the world.

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"Borrow Ninja?" Pharmacist No Naiyu was stunned for a moment, and then calmly said, "Yangyi just left, and you are going to report the news? Even use Ninja to force me to bind you?"

"Ah?" I was stupefied, "What, what is this? You can eat food, but you can't talk nonsense!"

In order to prevent any misunderstanding, I immediately gave a serious explanation on the borrowing of the Ninja Beast.

The agreement with Yang Yi and the others is "before seizing the city, don't act recklessly." Now that the time for seizing the city has not been determined, instead of procrastinating, it is better to send a trustworthy Ninja Beast to bring back the entrusted souvenir directly. .Sample collection requires me to personally identify it, but buying a product does not.

Yang Yi probably won't really restrict my actions by coercive means, but... they are already accomplices, and it is also my duty to provide some psychological security.

It's not some bloody "tip report"!

"...That's okay. If there are trustworthy Ninja Beasts, I do have them here."

Pharmacist No Naoyu coughed twice in embarrassment but politely, and when she raised her hand again, a very beautiful paper crane flapped its wings in her palm.

After letting the paper cranes fly freely, the pharmacist No Naoyu didn't bother to look at me again: "Just wait for a few minutes."

Two minutes later, I stared wide-eyed at a big cat that was as tall as my waist, grayish-yellow and densely covered with black spots, and subconsciously opened my mouth.

Pharmacist No Naoyu raised his eyes: "What?"

"What a big, beautiful lynx!" My eyes lit up, "It's not bad except that the way I look at me looks like I'm looking at a mentally handicapped cat."

"What's wrong with this? A cat will care for everyone equally with the eyes of a mentally handicapped person."

As if it could really understand human speech, the bobcat flicked its short tail, turned into a big hairy chicken leg on the spot, and began to lick the fluff on its hind legs bit by bit.

Seeing it licking vigorously, I couldn't help reaching out to poke that round, hairy butt.The first poke got a warning glance, and the second ordered it to stop licking and stare straight at my retracted fingers until it was finally so annoyed that it lit its paws and hooked. After wiping off the thread on my sleeve, I calmly stood up straight, and said to the pharmacist No Naoyu who watched the whole process of my crime: "It's decided!"

"People in the world say that cats are crazy, and I don't think you will give in too much. Go, Captain Black Fox." Pharmacist No Naoyu waved his hand, and dismissed me without raising his head.

You could tell she was really busy.

"I live in the post house in the city, contact me when there is a plan for action, and I will be your internal response."

I nodded, leaned over and picked up the big lynx on the ground and left the stronghold.The cat in his arms only twisted symbolically a few times at first, and then settled down completely, turning into a big warm ball of hair.

It's heavy, but much lighter than it looks.I thought about it silently, and felt that my chest, which had been relaxed a little, was filled with heavy thoughts again.

I changed another road down the mountain, and sent a few people to cast new tires. So far, the two smoothest mountain roads have been cleared, and the water left specially can last for three hours, which is enough for the old woman. I went down the mountain safely with the girl.

As for the remaining "bandits"... they will be happy to deal with the Yang Squad when they are free.

I stopped by the stream at the foot of the mountain, looked around a few times, and finally found a clean place to sit down.It is rare to have such a place at the beginning of heavy snow.

"Just here." I slowed down my voice, softened it, and tried my best to fit the shadow of my past.

"……haven't seen you for a long time."

"It's been a long time." I lowered my head and looked at the golden cat pupils, with mixed feelings in my heart, "Mountain wind."

The big cat in his arms licked its paws: "It's rare that you still remember my name. I thought that no one in Konoha remembered us anymore."

I stared at him silently, mobilizing the skill of "reading feline expressions" after a long absence.

Last summer, the fighting took a break.Chun Ma is still on standby at Konoha Hospital, but we are so busy that we don’t touch the ground every day—I don’t know how Chun Ma straightened out the time. Anyway, on a sunny afternoon, the five members of the former team Reunited at a table.

"I want to make an announcement."

Haruma's tone was unusually pompous, and he took a deep breath the next moment, bent over and hugged Shanfeng, who was defenseless and dazed, by his side, and raised Shanfeng's paw Waving in greeting, his maroon eyes were filled with tenderness and joy.

"From today onwards, Shanfeng will be an adult bobcat!" He announced loudly, quite different from his usual low-key and gentle appearance, like every loyal friend and every kind family member.

I was only stunned for a second—one second was enough for me to easily bypass Chun Ma's word game.

I stood up extremely quickly, bent down, and rubbed Shanfeng's forehead with an agility that made everyone dumbfounded—he had long been reluctant to be touched by anyone other than Haruma—"Happy Birthday!"

Shanfeng didn't bend over to scratch the thread on my sleeve immediately, but turned his round cat eyes and stared at Chunma's face.

Dazed, confused, shocked, at a loss, cautious, tentative, joyful, jumping for joy.

I was not the only one who comprehended the skill of "reading feline expressions" that day.

So Haruhiqing also shot at the speed of light and rubbed Shankaze's furry belly; Shiori went to pinch the meat ball; The wind sings birthday song.

One by one, the past has become a floating moon in the well.Suddenly, suddenly, it was like a big dream.

I came back to my senses and smiled subconsciously: "How could we forget? I just don't worry about you. We have long regarded you as a family just like him."

Spring horse, spring horse.

After the spring horse went first, the mountain wind disappeared.Qingshang and I searched for a whole half a month after he recovered, but we could only figure out his approximate location after leaving the village.We have known for a long time that Shanfeng is smart, but we never thought he could be so smart.

Shanfeng didn't respond immediately, and the fluffy cat's face, which was a little bigger than my slap, showed a very humane expression of "thinking", and then returned to plainness after a short "thinking".

He raised his head, stared at me silently for a while and said, "If you just came to persuade me to go back to Konoha...I'm afraid it's not now. I'm not ready yet."

Persuade Konoha?Of course not—I don't have a belonging-based attachment to Konoha, nor to Yamakaze.Rather, when I found out that Shanfeng was missing, I thought, "That's right."

The psychic scroll of the Lynx family is the spoils of a certain mission.It doesn't belong to Konoha, it naturally belongs to Haruma.

Mountain wind, mountain wind.When naming it, Chunma said that he hoped that he could be like the wind in the mountains, sweeping thousands of mountains and ravines without being stained with dust, able to afford and let go, and never trapped in the scenery of one side.

It's just...if the person who evokes the mountain wind takes the first step, where should the wind go?

It was up to Shanfeng to find out for himself.No one can help him.

I denied his guessed purpose of coming here, and added: "I happened to meet you, so it's only natural to come to say hello, right? Let me tell you something I thought I was going to rot in my stomach... You also look a lot changed."

Yamakaze didn't seem to care: "I've been hanging out with those ninjas—real animals all day long. Change is inevitable. You've changed too, and you're much more peaceful than before."

As expected, he deliberately stayed on this first mountain.

I don't want to talk too much about whether I have changed or not, so I directly asked, "Why do you want to stay here?"

"There are many reasons, but the most important thing is... I want to get more information about the sand ninja puppet master." After receiving my clear answer, Shanfeng obviously relaxed a little, and his eyes pointed in one direction. The kingdom of wind is not far away, it is humid and rainy, and there is a lot of vegetation. It is the same as the shit climate of the kingdom of wind. Those puppet masters need to refine mixed toxins, and there are too few raw materials. The poisonous insects and snakes in the desert are difficult to satisfy their needs. Needs. I heard from the locals that occasionally some weird people with hoods and professional equipment come here... The more we know about the formula of poison, the more confident we will be in diagnosis and treatment.”

Shanfeng Maotuantuan's body did not move, but his eyes changed completely in an instant, but the unspeakable wildness was only high-profile for a moment, and then returned to calm in the next moment.If it weren't for his gloomy voice still echoing in my ears, I would almost think that the moment just now was just an illusion.

"So you stayed here to pretend?"

"It's very reasonable, isn't it, are you worried about me?" Yamakaze bit my arm lightly, "You can rest assured. I regret my life. I'm not as free and easy as that guy. I'll be fine."

"Chun Ma is not free and easy at all, don't imitate him."

I shake my head.In my memory, Haruma doesn't often confide in his thoughts, but he often says things like "medical ninjas lack means of attack"—whether it's a rhetoric or an excuse, and I can't verify it now, but I have a subtle and hazy feeling because of it Feel.

Haruma probably...unable to reconcile with his sincerity until his death.

His answer is engraved in my mind to this day - "I will only be a little bit unwilling".

"some"?laugh.

If he really gave up revenge, where did the entanglement and "unreconciled" towards the "medical ninja" come from?

If he didn't really give up revenge, how could the position of "medical ninja" be an obstacle to a smart person like him?

I lowered my eyes: "Collect information and kill with one blow—just like when your family hunted."

"I understand, I understand, Chunma has told me many times that my attack 'must be like a real mountain wind, where I don't know where it starts and where it ends'."

As if to echo the words of the mountain wind—the bleak and cold wind screamed, and it took only a moment to engulf our voice and leave for dozens of miles.The blowing snow dust is like waves rolling up the ridge, making people have to squint their eyes slightly and then hold their breath, lest they be completely frozen from the outside to the inside.

Subconsciously, I turned slightly sideways to cover most of the snow and dust rushing towards the mountain wind, and after realizing it, I couldn't help laughing aloud: "Like this gust of wind?"

Shan Feng was not pretentious, and immediately shrank his neck and pushed away my arms. After stretching his four slender cat legs, he stuffed himself into my arms.The thick long hair is warmly covering my thighs. If this is not in the mountains or by the lake, but in the house and by the fire, then this scene is a great joy in the winter world--it's a pity , assumptions are only assumptions after all.

I saw Shanfeng trying very hard to poke his head out of my protective circle - "Just like this gust of wind!"

The lynx is not small in size, but now that he got into my arms and tried his best to talk, the round cat head naturally hurt my jaw, causing me to almost bite my tongue.

Shan Feng let out a "meow" in shock, and I didn't know which muscle was wrong - my jaw was still hurting, but I opened my mouth out of nowhere and said, "...Meow?"

Shanfeng:?

I:!

I really wanted to slap myself, but I didn't do it because Shanfeng was staring at me with indescribable eyes.Under the gaze of a new species that seems to have been discovered, all I can do is to keep my mouth shut and try to return myself to the category of "normal person" in the eyes of an old and familiar cat.

"...Is your work pressure in Anbu a little too much?" After a long time, Shanfeng thought about his choice of words, and said quietly—this seemed to be a question, but his tone was completely determined.

Sure enough, a considerate person (cat?) will take the initiative to help the chat partner find a good level.

I let out a few muffled laughs.The feeling of chatting with an old and familiar cat is different. Before chatting a few words, the mood and mentality are much more relaxed.

Hope it's the same for Shanfeng.Pretending to be an ordinary Ninja beast to lurk here and obtain information... It's not easy anyway.

I seized the opportunity, stretched out my hand to touch Shanfeng's long coat, and pinched the muscles and bones under the fur.

Thinner, but still healthy, and even better without those innocuous scrapes or strains.

Needless to say, my medical ninjutsu is not perfect, but it is enough to deal with this small injury.

Shanfeng was probably not used to being touched by others—or maybe he just became unaccustomed during this time.His muscles are so tense that just the slightest touch can cause several unnerving tail flicks.

As soon as I glanced, I saw those sharp claws like eagle beaks stretching and shrinking between the claw pads, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

"..." Well, it's an opportunity.

I swallowed my saliva, but my throat was still dry and bitter.

"I feel ashamed of Chun Ma..."

It's okay to keep silent all the time, but when the first rolled stone finally lies on the river bed, the failure of the dam is only a matter of days and nights.

Remembrance, confusion, examination, thinking—many thoughts about Chunma finally found their outlet today, so I poured them all out to the object in front of me.

The world knows that there are only two individuals I am thinking about this time, one is Chunriqing, and the other is Mountain Breeze.It’s just that Chunma passed away on Chunriqing’s back after all. When it comes to pain, he will be more painful than me... The only thing left is Shanfeng who was sent away by Chunma at that time for some unknown reason.

It must be uncomfortable, but because of this, I know that Shanfeng will not refuse now.

In order to fight against Dashemaru and not lose the wind, on the night when I received the "gift" of the photo, I had to force myself to use the most sober and calm mind to think deeply about many issues that I had never faced directly or even deliberately avoided ——For this, I should probably thank Orochimaru.

I realized... though we both had revenge as our goal, Haruma and I never took the same path.

There is no standard answer in the examination paper of fate, and everyone's questions are both traces and hearts. "Similar" will always be "similar". Others' answer sheets can be used for reference, but they are only for reference.

I actually hoped to meet fellow travelers on the way of revenge - how can such a delusion not make people laugh?To put it bluntly, it's just... a weak fear of being alone.

How cowardly, how ridiculous.

I should have walked this road alone.

I learned this too late, and my last conversation with Haruma ended in tit-for-tat quarrels and unrecoverable regrets.

When I heard the news of his death at Konoha Hospital, my thought was "no accident", and my thought was "it really is".I struggled to turn my head to Miss Shuoyue, who came to change the medicine and delivered a message, smiled and nodded to say goodbye. I turned my head and stared at the ceiling, trying to regain the ability to think, and savored the blood that had cooled down in an instant. A feeling that flows through the heart and throughout the body.

……what a pity.

what a pity.

The non-stop wind chased the falling snow from the high place to the edge of the pool. At some point, the thin ice that was almost transparent on the surface of the pool was covered with pale frost again.

It was as if everything stood still.

I heard Shanfeng murmuring: "So it is so... so it is."

"Why so?" I asked.

"..." Shanfeng stared sideways at me, "One night last year, when he returned to his residence, he looked distraught and asked me two inexplicable questions.

"'Why am I a medical ninja?'

"'What do you think of a man who allows the enemy who killed his parents to live? Do you think he is... greedy for life and afraid of death, shameless?"

"I've been puzzled before. I don't know why he would ask such a question. I just heard you say it... that was probably the night when he confessed his thoughts to you."

Shanfeng paused when he said this, and his tone suddenly became cold: "Greedy for life and afraid of death, shameless... Is this what you said to him?"

"Absolutely not," I said firmly, "I just felt sad and disappointed at the time, but I never attacked his thoughts. If he really doesn't want to go, it's pointless to force him."

Shanfeng nodded: "Okay, I believe you are the same."

"So how did you answer Chunma at that time?" I became anxious.

No matter what the reason is, and whether the reason itself is tenable-chunma, who did not get positive feedback from me, must be in desperate need of approval from people close to him at that time, so he chose Shanfeng, the closest to himself. A close contract psychic beast.

"I told him that being a medical ninja is a sign of his talent. Others break and destroy, and he heals and rebuilds.

"As for the second question, he never mentioned those things in detail in front of me, but I saw that he was not in the right state at the time, so I said to him, 'If a person can let go of such hatred, if he is not greedy for life and fear of death, and does not know The shameless villain will only be a person who understands reason and is gentle in nature'."

Shanfeng stepped on the moss emerging from the crevices of the stone with his two front paws a little uneasily.

Seeing that Shan Feng became anxious, I hesitated for a moment before saying: "Then he must have kept your words in his heart. He will be reliable as usual in the subsequent battles."

The movement of stepping on the moss stopped for two seconds, Shanfeng nodded slowly.

"But I still didn't accompany him on the last journey," he said. "Do you still want to ask him what he explained to me at the end? I can tell you-it was the first and last one he posted to me. Task, that has nothing to do with you, and it won't affect you in any way, you...don't worry about it."

"Then, that's fine."

I paused slightly, and began to search my mind for practical instructions for Shanfeng—now that the bandits have been cleared, everyone who has nothing to do with them will go down the mountain and return home, and there is no need to seize the city, so I am afraid there will only be one thing left up.

"Dough".

After telling Yamakaze all the requests for souvenirs and warnings about "dough", I said goodbye to Yamakaze and turned to go down the mountain.

It is true that I have to go back to the post house, but there are still many things to do, and it is unreasonable to just wait.

Previously, there were no conditions, but now the first capital city is in sight... Maybe it's time to pave the way for the future.

I want to build my own intelligence network.