Tu Sheng [Hokage]

Life is fragile.

When I used my ninja sword to end the enemy's life, the blood that splattered stained my face red, and the hot and humid liquid slid down my cheeks. I barely looked at his expression, and ignored his malicious eyes. The lifeless body fell to the wet ground.

I'm sorry, but you must die.

The bright sunshine was blocked by the layers of branches and leaves. I burned the hideous-looking corpse, thinking that his family would never be able to wait for him, and suddenly I felt sad.

This is my usual thinking mode. I will feel sad for the life lost, but I have never been soft-hearted when the person really deserves to die. This is the rule. He broke the rule, so he must die.

I don’t know if the rotten guys in the upper echelons of Konoha are imagining something. Recently, I have been assigned more and more tasks to deal with rebellious ninjas. Judging from the insidiousness of those guys, they are probably threatening me with death.

Ridiculous.

I stood under the tree for a long time, until the blood gradually dried up and became sticky, and I couldn't quite figure out the reason.

They are afraid of me, but they also need me. These people in high positions regard everything that may be beyond their control as a thorn in their side. I don't care, but I am afraid that they will use Sakura and the others to threaten me in the future.

Sakura and her parents shouldn't be hurt because of me. The meaning of my life now is to protect them. The branches and leaves of the fir trees were dripping with rain, and the dappled sunshine disappeared without knowing when. It started to rain, and I had to go back to pick up Sakura.

Let those messy fights go to hell. I have had enough of these entangled things in my previous life. It really gives me a splitting headache. If they really want to do something, just kill them all before they do it.

I wiped the blood off my face indiscriminately. The taste was too bland to whet my appetite. I would not let this bloody desire control me. I would only eat when I was about to starve to death.

I still remember that I was an evil dragon crawling out of hell, a powerful, greedy, and vicious creature. Human beings, the most fragile creatures, were just food in my eyes, but when I came back to life, I found that I have some feelings that only weak people can have.

I don't want blood to stain my family, I don't want my sister to be bullied, I don't like to see my parents quarreling, I don't want to... lose them.

The evil dragon side of me has not been completely killed. It is still lurking deep in my soul, ready to come out and kill when my fragile feelings collapse, and once again become a demon that is despised and feared by everyone.

Then I will lose everything again.

So there was no way I was going to let that happen, ever.

Sakura happily threw herself into my arms, smelling of dust and rain. The chaos in her heart was soothed at this moment. I patted her head gently.

"Let's go."

I gently held Sakura's hand, fearing that my strength would squeeze her fragile palm. It was so troublesome to get along with humans, and so greedy for such pure and stupid creatures...

Sakura suddenly stopped and looked at two people, one large and one small, walking towards them not far away with a flushed face.

?

"Wait...brother"

"what happened?"

Sakura, who has always been smart and well-behaved, felt stuck at this moment. I guess it was probably because of those two people. I raised my eyes and looked at them, and it suddenly became clear to me.

Those were the Uchiha clan members, Uchiha Itachi and his younger brother. I didn’t know the name of that fair-skinned, beautiful child, but I only vaguely remembered that Sakura had mentioned this classmate whom she had a crush on before.

"Would you like to say hello?" I gently asked Sakura, whose brain was almost on standby, feeling a little uncomfortable. After all, my lovely and pure sister might like a brat, and any brother would be happy if he knew about it.

"Hmm... um!" She looked at me expectantly.

"that's not allowed"

I stood in the distance, with human beings coming and going in the middle. They walked outside the noise, and there was something more affectionate in their deep eyes.

The clan you love, Uchiha?

I suddenly became interested.

It’s not like I haven’t had experiences with humans before. When I was just a sub-adult (40 years old), a human broke into my lair. At that time, my mind was not fully developed, and most of the time I was just a pure beast. , but humans are not my main source of food, so I just let that human run around in my lair, treating him as a different-looking mouse.

It's been too long, and what happened next is that I only remember that human flesh and blood was not sweet. To describe it, it was tasteless and extremely unpalatable.

I tried to remember the time when the lair was filled with mountains of animal carcasses, and the smell of blood filled the entire space. In the end, I only remembered the human scream and collapse.

I admit that I was careless about human life in the past, but now that I am a human being, I have begun to long for their warmth and happiness. For this reason, I have blocked most of my perverted senses to prevent myself from being controlled by the desires in my blood. Rip open those warm, soft bodies.

But even so, as they gradually approached here, I smelled the deadly aroma in the air.

Sweet and fragrant.

I once swore that I would never be a slave to desire again, but it is obvious that at this moment, I am about to fall.