Naruto: The Legend of Mortal Bone Ninja

"Oh! They're back!"

"You've had a hard time on the mission, are you injured?"

"Really! Welcome back!"

The camp of the Earth Clan began to boil at dawn, with men, women and children crowding around to greet the returning tribesmen.

The mercenary group "Gray Wolves" is a clan of the Earth that has gained a reputation by taking on missions from outside. Anyone with a name like this needs to weigh their own strength.

The members of the Gray Wolves are heroes and envied beings to the Earth Clan.In this world full of discrimination and differential treatment, they use their lives to create a living environment for their people.

Only some people returned home after completing their mission. Even though they were physically and mentally exhausted from the battles and long journeys, under the genuine care of the tribesmen, all the pain seemed to have gone away at this moment.This is their tribe, their family where they can relax their vigilance towards outsiders, and their spiritual haven.

The innocent and lovely faces of the children looked up at these returning heroes, unaware that these heroes had their hands stained with the blood of innocents in exchange for the money they needed to thrive.

Survival has always been based on cruelty to others.

"what!"

The chubby little boy was lifted up by the two-meter-tall strong man and placed on his shoulders to sit down. The originally frightened little boy saw the world from a new perspective and laughed innocently.

"Wow! So high, so high!"

"It's not fair, I want to ride high too!"

The big man looked dotingly at the children surrounding him, as well as the little guy hugging his calf like a koala. He picked up the two children one by one, like a rotating facility in an amusement park. The children laughed loudly.

Although the children who were hugged by him felt that the uncle smelled a little bit, they were overshadowed by the sense of security and played happily.

"Sister Lihua, give you some water."

The little girl held a glass of water and raised it above her head with some difficulty, and said to a beauty with a cold face, not afraid of the cold gaze at all.

"..."

The iceberg beauty, whose lips were chapped, remained unchanged. She took the water handed to her by the attentive little girl and drank it in one gulp. She hesitated for a moment under the admiring and expectant look in her pitiful little eyes, and finally stretched out her hand to touch her head. Touching it, the little girl narrowed her eyes happily.

These are simple feelings that Li Zhen can understand, but is a bit annoying.

In the era when Li Zhen lived, people's indifference and increasing materialism replaced some words that were once called beautiful in the dictionary.Although Li Zhen has never yearned for... well, most children in their ignorant childhood will be educated to be friendly to others, and instilled with some concepts of peace, selfless dedication, sincerity, enthusiasm, humility, etc.They believe that kind themselves and kind others will get along well with each other, but with the growth of time and experience, others are not as asasi as they imagined. Pain brings experience and growth, and in the end those so-called beautiful things in the dictionary Vocabulary really only exists in dictionaries.

His self-perception was shattered by the big slap of reality, and his ideas began to be corrected. Although Li Zhen did not extremely deny those things called beauty, he himself had been on the opposite side for too long. Therefore, just like seeing dirty things, the beautiful scene of the Earth clan's harmony made him feel uncomfortable and nauseated, and he turned around and left.

"Really, the patriarch is calling you."

A middle-aged man with several scars on his face called to the leader of the crowd.

That was the black-haired young man who was the leader of the gray wolves. He was still young and inexperienced, but he had mastered the secret art of orc transformation. He was a rare genius in decades.

Unlike the gray wolves who are loved by the tribe, the young man named Zhu Xingzhen is also respected by the tribe. Once on the battlefield, his overwhelming strength gradually alienates the mortals. He has killed more people than It was more than all the members of the Gray Wolf combined, and they exuded a frightening aura.

"Clan leader... huh..."

Sitting casually at the desk of the clan leader, he had only been acting as the clan leader before, but he was not good at winning people's hearts. As his uncle, Morohoshi Shiba was very good at it, and he had been doing it for decades. The actor who plays the role is an image who thinks about his tribe and has no selfish desires. Even if he is pretending, it is remarkable enough.

"Sorry, really, just wait for me."

The father who was the leader of the clan died, and only the eighteen Morohoshis and a few others who came back alive were seriously injured.Being ambushed by the Mori Clan, the Earth Clan had also done this in turn. There were several people who witnessed the whole process of his father's death in battle, including many of his father's highly respected subordinates.No one would doubt that there was anything wrong with this matter, except Morohoshi himself.

My father fought until the last moment to cover the tribe's retreat.

Unfortunately, such lofty reasons cannot convince Zhu Xingzhen. Although it seems not good for outsiders to say this, Zhu Xingzhen feels that his father would not do that kind of thing, because that guy is just a Just a bastard.

Even though there are still people in the tribe who will starve, that guy will deduct part of the mission reward and keep it for himself.

It was not once or twice that he used the lives of his comrades to buy time and secretly deal with the wounded who were a burden during the battle.

He never hides these despicable behaviors in front of his son, and seems to unconditionally trust the continuation of his bloodline.

Such a bastard would sacrifice his life for others?

Even though he is such a bastard, he is extremely doting on the Morohoshi brothers and sisters who lost their mother prematurely. He is the best father in the world...

Although Zhu Xingzhen thought that it was natural for that guy to die when he suffered retribution, but if he was tampered with by one of his own people, as a son of man, he had to do something.

not to mention……

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting. There is something wrong with the team heading to Yu Country. Now..."

What's more, Zhu Xingzhen doesn't believe that there are saint-like existences like Zhu Xing Shiba in this world. He doesn't drink or smoke, is not married, and has no children. He has a gentle smile for everyone, tolerates the rudeness of others, and almost He has no selfish desires and only devotes his life to the ethnic group.

Ever since Morohoshi was a child, he has not understood what this person is thinking and what he wants to get, as if he is not living for himself...

The Eighteen Stars have no desire for power. Originally, the position of clan leader was combined with the identity of the leader of the gray wolves. However, when the Eighteen Stars temporarily assumed the position of clan leader, he overcame all objections and handed over the power of the commanding land clan to him. himself, and he is only responsible for the management and staff work of the ethnic group.With his efforts, the Earth Clan is gradually developing towards the good side, and is not even a bit better than his bastard father.

During his lifetime, his father was even more afraid that his overly outstanding younger brother would usurp his rights as the leader of the clan. He would exclude and exclude the power in the hands of the Eighteen Stars in various ways, so he even had the murderous intention to kill his younger brother.

However, after assuming the temporary position of clan leader, Zhu Xingshiba declared in front of the entire clan that he would never succeed the clan leader, and that he would be relieved of all his duties after Zhu Xingzhen cultivated him into a qualified clan leader...

At that moment, Zhu Xingzhen's people didn't know how to squeeze the former bastard clan leader into some nook and cranny in the hearts of the people. Among the cheering crowd, only Zhu Xingzhen felt inexplicably cold all over.

If the heir himself dies due to some accident...

"...That's it. I'm so sorry that I asked you to do such a thing just after you came back."

Without the inexplicable airs of an elder, the middle-aged man said to his nephew apologetically.

"It's okay."

"That young man named Li Zhen, just take him to the border of the Land of Fire and show him the way."

"I see."

"……that……"

"what's up."

"Be more careful."

"I see."

The brief words without emotion ended the conversation on this mission. Facing his nephew who got up and left without any regrets, a trace of sadness appeared on Morohoshi Shiba's always smiling face.

He was so cute when he was a child, why was he raised to be such a hard-boiled lump of ice now?

He only has these two relatives left in this world. How can he improve the relationship between uncle and nephew?

It's so... troubling.

The middle-aged man held his chin with one hand, a deep light flashing in his eyes.