[Naruto] Survival Records of the Warring States Period

You confront a rat one-sidedly.

A big brown-gray rat.

Some sporadic screams and moans floated from a distance.

Boss A Cong has not returned yet, and the prison environment in the execution center is also very awkward. The only thing that can make people feel relieved is that at least you are assigned a single room - that is when the mouse appears in front of you.

It's what you see when you turn your head.

This mouse is rubbing up and down on the small pile of dead grass on the ground, completely ignoring you as a living person.

It really doesn’t need to take you seriously. After all, you are still sitting there thinking about whether to wait patiently for this uninvited guest to go away or go up and drive it away.

Reason tells you that the best solution is to rush up and kill this rat that dares to break into the cell. Unfortunately, your brain can't control your body, and your whole body is frozen in place.

It gnawed a few dry yellow grass stems, then burrowed to the side, blending perfectly into the environment and disappearing from your eyes.

You suddenly became excited and regretted why you didn't rush up to deal with the mouse just now. You became more and more careful to pay attention to the signs and sounds around you, for fear that it would flash next to you if you were not paying attention.

It has been a long time since you last ate, and you can only tell from the changes in the intensity of the light coming from outside the prison that it has been about a day.

There is a burning pain in your stomach, your hands are a little weak, your attention is losing faster and faster, your body and spirit can't stand it any longer, you hold your knees with your hands and rest your head on them, falling asleep.

But the missing mouse is like the sword of Damocles hanging over your head. Whenever you are about to fall asleep, it breaks into your mind and makes you look up and look around.

After repeating it several times, you couldn't hold it any longer. Not only did you not wake up in time, you simply fell to the side, allowing your body, which had been tense for a long time, to relax a little.

The moment you fell down, you barely opened your eyelids and looked ahead, but your brain was already in chaos and you weren't thinking about anything.

In a daze, you seemed to see a few people walking towards you in the corridor. You vaguely thought that the boss was finally back and fell asleep directly.

The sky is big and the earth is big, sleeping is the biggest.

At this point, even if Kyuubi suddenly appears at the shrine and makes a fuss, it won't be able to pull you out of your sleep.

You don’t know how long it took, but you woke up from hunger. Your head hurt, and it was extremely heavy. Your whole body was filled with a kind of drowsy sleepiness.

Your body sends an alarm that you haven't eaten for too long. You feel nauseated, your stomach twitches, your limbs become weak and cold, and you experience heart palpitations for no reason.

You held your head and waited for a while before you gradually recovered from the dizziness caused by lack of physical strength. Your ears caught a subtle rubbing sound.

You followed the sound and looked towards the cell door. I don't know when there was a wooden box like a food box in the prison. I don't know who brought it in when you were asleep, and the mouse that disappeared before going to bed was picking at it. Boxes, grinding teeth on boxes.

you:……

Rat: rustling.

You cursed for the first time in a long time. The anger of being deprived of food made you prop up your body and fish it aside. You grabbed a handful of dead grass and whipped it towards the mouse.

The mouse was frightened and ran away. While you were thinking viciously about whether Nyonosuke could catch the mouse, you stumbled to the prison door and checked the box.

Fortunately it wasn't bitten through.

There was only one steamed bun, a plate of dried radish, a small bowl of water, and a pair of chopsticks in the box.

There is no so-called aroma of food, but there are a few strange aromas floating vaguely in the dirty air, which smells a bit like incense.

But you know nothing about incense, and you can't tell what the specific fragrance is.

You glanced at the cell next door, but the boss didn't come back.

Weird.

you think.

The person I saw before going to bed was not the boss. That person came to see the boss? Or are they here to find you? That person also brought the food?

Who is the other party?

Moreover, the people who use incense are basically people you can't usually come into contact with, and there is no reason to come and see you.

If I came to see you, why didn't I call you when you were asleep? That person obviously had the ability to deliver food, but the things he delivered were too ordinary, which seemed to contradict his identity.

These thoughts flash through your mind.

But you really can't care about that much, and you don't have to guess whether there is poison in the food. You eat everything in the food box without leaving a drop of water.

After all, if you don't eat, you will starve to death.

After eating, you rested for a while, your strength gradually returned, and the sleepiness that had been lingering in your mind dissipated a little.

Only then do you have the energy to think about food.

The whole thing has been strange since you and your boss were imprisoned in the asylum.

The first is the observatory.

You and the store manager are locked up here, and the guards basically don't go this way. It's as if you are isolated after being imprisoned. No one even provides the basic diet for prisoners to maintain their body functions.

Then there's the unidentified visitor and the sudden appearance of food.

You don't even know what that person looks like, and the other person didn't leave a single word, just... a meal?

You checked the food box again. The box was generally clean. There were no patterns that could prove its provenance. It looked like it was bought at any market.

There is also a faint scent of incense remaining on the food box.

Thinking back to the mouse just now, you were afraid of infectious diseases and didn't dare to get close to the box and smell it carefully. But you can also confirm that the smell is very similar to the scent of incense lingering in the air.

You smelled along the railing next to the corridor again, only the door of the cell had a stronger aroma. There is almost no fragrance in other places, including the cell next to the boss, so the visitor probably did not stay long.

——That person is here to find you.

However, you can't find a person from your dating list who meets the two conditions of being fragrant and capable of handling the situation of visiting the prisoner from the prison and delivering things.

Finally, you choose not to embarrass yourself, empty your mind, stop thinking, and reduce energy consumption.

Who knows where the next meal will be.

You don’t know how long you’ve been in a daze, and unless you pay special attention, it’s easy to lose track of time in prison. Even the time when you first traveled through time was not as difficult as it is now.

Finally, after hearing the sound of approaching chains, the boss was brought back. But the guards escorting the boss did not leave. Instead, they went to your cell to interrogate you.

"..."

You really can't think of anything they could ask out of you. How much is your monthly salary? Or let me ask you, what does it mean when you write in the novel that the common people kill the nobles in the ending?

While you are worried about the torture you may face, you also remember a statement you saw before traveling through time.

There are two possibilities for interrogating a person and the other person never opens his mouth. One is that the other person has an amazing will, and the other is that the other person really knows nothing.

You're probably the unlucky guy who doesn't know anything.

you think.

Then you thought about the fact that Fengsheng had ignored your dietary issues, and you couldn't help but start to wonder if this was the other party's torture routine, starving people half to death before continuing with the rest of the work.

You followed the guard through several twists and turns, and finally got out of the prison.

When the bright sunlight from the outside world hit your pupils, you closed your eyes subconsciously, but you were pushed forward by the guards behind you. You almost fell down, so you had to raise your arms to block the sunlight and squinted your eyes reluctantly to move forward. We walked and were finally taken to a large and indoor room.

Not the torture chamber you imagined.

The room was clean but not very decorative. The paper used for the shoji door is light and transparent, allowing daylight to penetrate well. When it falls on the bamboo curtain hanging on the side of the room facing the courtyard, it gives people an inexplicable refreshing feeling.

There was only an old man with half-white hair in the room. He was sitting on the only seat in the room, with a stack of familiar manuscript papers on the table in front of him.

The guard who sent you here asked you to wait in the room and then left on his own. He didn't even worry that you would attack such a seemingly powerless old man and then run away.

Of course, with your ability, even if you don't have this old man, it will be difficult for you to run out of the monastery alone.

The luxurious clothes on the other person's body and the Izumi family crest that represents the daimyo family make you realize that the other person is a noble. There was a faint scent of incense floating in the room, but not the kind that would appear in a prison cell.

——Not the same person before.

You bow your head obediently and salute the other person.

"Did you write this?" The person opposite pointed at the manuscript paper on the table with a fan, and his tone was condescending and sarcastic.

"It was written randomly by a villain."

Your heart trembled and you buried your head even lower, your forehead almost touching the ground. After admitting, you opened your mouth to apologize.

"Boring and rebellious," you heard the other person's comment. The wooden fan bone tapped the other person's palm again and again, clearly and clearly. "Listen to Qingshui Satoshi, have you been with him the longest?"

"Really? I went to Qingshui, Master's bookstore to study three years ago." You vaguely sensed something ominous from this topic.

The old man opposite had a somewhat dissatisfied tone and muttered: "Only three years?"

"That's all, you are now managing most of Qingshui Bookstore's publications?" he asked again.

The ominous premonition in your heart is even worse: "Yes."

"Writing such crazy words, you could not escape death!" You heard the other party say in a very stern tone, but the next moment his voice became much softer, "Did you know that Qingshui begged you for mercy? "

"He has managed Qingshui Bookstore for me for many years, and now he has committed a capital crime. Do you understand what this means?"

Although you had a premonition, you still raised your head and asked in disbelief: "What crime did Mr. Qingshui commit?"

When Minazuki Satoshi returned to Qingshui House, Qingshui's house was already in chaos, with people everywhere running away with their belongings.

The employers were all dead, and the Hinata family had almost evacuated, with no one to be seen.

When Minazuki Satoshi found Shimizu Haruka, she was sitting by the corridor, holding Nyanosuke's body in her arms, leaning against a pillar and looking at the weeds and bright green moss growing in the damp shadows, looking at the people running behind her. The scattered servants turned a deaf ear.

"Shimizu," Minazuki Satsuki called her. The white cat's body was in a stiff and unnatural state, with dried brown blood clots on its formerly smooth hair. She was cleaning the partner in her arms again and again. Shun Mao, "What are you looking at?"

he asks.

Qing Shuiyuan's condition is not good.

Her hair was disheveled, there was a large pool of blood on her torn clothes, and she didn't know if the wound on her forehead was still bleeding.

"Grass."

Qing Shuiyuan looked at the weeds longingly and replied without raising her head. She didn't even realize that the person asking her question was a ninja who shouldn't be here right now.

"Qing Shui, it's very dangerous here now. I'll take you away first." Shui Wuyue cleverly realized that it was the best choice to take advantage of the chaos and leave together at this time. Qing Shui Ren had just died, and all parties had no time to act. Wait until Qing Shui Ren's enemies remembered It would be difficult for people here to escape.

As he explained, he held Qingshui Haruka's wrist and pulled her away.

Qing Shuiyuan stood up obediently and followed him into the fleeing crowd. It was unknown who set a fire in the mansion, and black smoke billowed in the sky.

She was still holding Nyanosuke in her arms.

Minazuki Satoshi finally paid attention to Nyanosuke at this time and asked Nyanosuke what was going on.

"Someone forced me. Nyanosuke went to catch him, but he was thrown out." Qingshui Haruka's tone was oddly calm.

Shuiwuyuecong's steps stagnated and he didn't speak.

Qingshui Yao said again: "I will kill him."

She asked again: "Shui Wuyue, did I do something wrong?"

"It's not your fault." He said, "This will pass. Don't think about it."

"Is dad really dead?"

Yes.

But Minazuki Satoshi didn't answer.

Qingshui Yao seemed to understand and remained silent.

Nyanosuke's body was too obvious, so he sealed Nyanosuke into a scroll and left the capital with Qingshui Haruka.

When he arrived at the river, he handed the scroll to Qingshui Haruka.

Qing Shuiyuan took the scroll. After a long time, he lowered his head and said, "Nyamonosuke was given to me by my father and mother on my birthday. He told me that the white cat represents auspiciousness."

"Nyanosuke will protect me."

Qingshui Yao's mother passed away two years ago, and her father also died not long ago.

Thick reeds grow along the river, and a large piece of it is swaying in the wind.

Qing Shuiyao's eyes turned to Wei Cao again, and he couldn't take his eyes away.

"Your hair is too conspicuous and needs to be cut." Minazuki Satoshi noticed Haruka Shimizu's current abnormal state. He skipped all topics related to the Shimizu family and Nyanosuke, and said to Haruka Shimizu after pondering for a moment.

Qingshui Haruka's hair is like that of many aristocratic girls. It is long, smooth and well-maintained, and looks eye-catching wherever she goes.

"Well, cut it off." Qing Shuiyuan still stared at the reed grass.

So Minazuki Satsuki used a kunai to cut off Qingshui Haruka's long hair, and Qingshui Haruka's hair became short and curly, and then he changed his appearance.

He took Qing Shuiyuan with him, and faced the unknown journey in the future, he gradually felt a sense of strangeness.

The enthusiasm he felt when he left his clan brother gradually cooled down. What would he do if not be a ninja? He has been a ninja since he was a child.

But he wasn't panicked.

They took a boat to cross the shore, and there were two passengers on the boat.

Qingshui Yao sat beside him without saying a word. A passenger opposite him wore a bamboo hat, covering most of his face.

He noticed that the man seemed to be sizing up him and Qingshui, which kept his ninja's sense of crisis on alert.

But the journey was uneventful.

"It will be safe once you leave the Kingdom of Water. Where do you want to go?" Minazuki Cong asked Qingshui.

Qingshui Yao was so quiet along the way that it scared him. She always stared at one thing in a daze. Sometimes it’s the clouds in the sky, sometimes it’s the flowers on the roadside, sometimes it’s the water in the river.

When he asked her, she would answer, but when others spoke to her, she acted as if she didn't hear and was lost in thought.

"Anything is fine." Qingshui Yao replied, staring at a wild duck swimming in the river.

"You said before that you wanted to grow a lot of wheat..." Minazuki Satoshi recalled, "Both the Fire Country and the Thunder Country are suitable. Which one do you prefer?"

"..." Qing Shuiyao's calm eyes finally moved. After a long time, she said, "Come closer."

Closer to the land of water.

Closer to her hometown.

Be closer to her parents.

"it is good."

"With Nyonosuke."

"Okay. When we get to the Land of Fire, we will bury Nyanosuke next to the house, and he will watch over you."

It is difficult to leave the Kingdom of Water as an ordinary person.

He spent a lot of time completing the formalities, but the day before their departure, two people blocked their way to the port.

Minazuki Satoshi recognized that one of them was the passenger who crossed the river with them that day.

——A member of the Hinata family.

That day, he noticed some strange chakra on Minazuki Satoshi, and suspected that he was from the Minazuki clan, and confirmed this during subsequent tracking.

Minazuki Satoshi is the heir to the bloodline who has left the ninja clan alone, so capturing him is of great significance.

On the surface, it's two versus two, Ice Release versus Byakugan and Soft Fist, seemingly evenly matched, but Haruka Qingshui is just an ordinary person, and it's actually one versus two.

He fell to the disadvantage and was seriously injured when he finished dealing with an enemy. Haruka Qingshui was also controlled by Hinata Wataru.

Qingshui Haruka's abnormality was not hidden from Hinata Wataru.

He asked Qing Shuiyuan, who was wandering in the world: "What are you looking at?"

Qing Shuiyuan looked at the weeds on the ground: "Grass."

Hyuga Wataru asked her in confusion why she was looking at the grass. Minazuki Satoshi leaned against a tree not far away, suppressing the blood that kept pouring out of his mouth, holding Senbon: "She has always been like this, just an ordinary person. Let her go and I'll go with you."

He was seriously injured anyway and would be defeated sooner or later. And the value of a living person is higher than a dead person.

At this time, Qingshui Haruka turned to look at Minazuki Satoshi and answered Hinata Wataru's question: "Grass is very good. It can grow and live anywhere."

"It would be nice if I was grass too."

"Nyanosuke doesn't have to die."

"We can live together."

"Thank you."

Minazuki Satoshi suddenly felt panicked when he heard the other party's seemingly inconsistent words.

Qingshui Haruka is an ordinary person, an ordinary person that Hinata Wataru completely ignores.

Qingshui Haruka was also a noble, and the favor given to her by her parents gave her many things.

Minazuki Satoshi didn't know where the detonating talisman in Haruka Shimizu's hand came from, and how she used it to detonate it.

When Hinata Wataru noticed it, it was already too late, and the power of the explosion was greater than that of an ordinary detonating talisman.

Even though he quickly threw away Qing Shuiyuan and fled when he realized that the detonating talisman had been detonated, he was still affected by the explosion and fell to the ground exhausted without making a sound.

Qingshui Yao had nothing left.

Miyanosuke's scroll has always been with Qingshui Haruka, and she will be with Miyanosuke forever.

He wanted to save Qing Shui, but was saved by Qing Shui. Maybe ninjas shouldn't leave the ninja clan without authorization.

Minazuki Satoshi took away a handful of soil.

The ships in the port have already set sail. He bought a small boat, backed into the cabin, let go of the rope and let the wound collapse, drifting on the sea.

He recalled Qingshui Haruka's words before his death, the "ideal" they talked about when they were children, and his clan brother who taught him that ninjas should abandon all emotions.

Sometimes it was painful for him to want to be an ordinary person, and sometimes it was even more painful for him to want to be a ninja. It's painful to abandon emotions and allow emotions to grow. Why can't ninjas be weapons that are born without emotions?

Those ideas of being a businessman, a craftsman, and a chef flew away to no one knows where. Perhaps they died together with Qingshui Yao in the explosion.

Ninjas should never have had these wild ideas in the first place.

Let's just let the ninja Minazuki Satoshi be buried in the sea, so we don't have to worry.

He thought this before losing consciousness.

When he opened his eyes again, he was picked up on the boat by the Fire Nation nobles who were out for fun.

"Are you a ninja?" the other party said, ignoring his words denying that he was a ninja, "I saved your life."

Ninja again.

Of course he could see that the other party was complacent because he had picked up a lone ninja who denied the ninja clan and ninjas.

It's a great deal to repay a favor and get a ninja to work for you.

He didn't want to be a ninja, he wanted to be an ordinary person like Haruka Qingshui thought.

"Ah, whatever." He replied.

"What's your name?" Izumi Yoshimi asked again.

He hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Satoshi Shimizu."

A trace of disappointment flashed in the noble's eyes. This was not the surname of a famous ninja clan in the world.

But he soon figured out what a useful and concealed sword an unknown ninja with no support from the ninja clan could be.

As long as it is no longer needed, you can throw it away at any time. You don't have to worry about the ninja behind it. Others can't investigate it if they want to.

"I can help you be an ordinary person in the Land of Fire, but you have to help me when necessary." Izumi Yorimi said.

Qingshui Cong looked at him quietly.

"it is good."

In the end, he still couldn't escape his fate and his identity as a ninja.