[Naruto] It turns out you are the tail end of the crane

Grass and trees flourish and wither.

Winter turns to spring, spring turns to summer.

In Konoha 53, two major events happened to the Uchiha clan.

The first thing happened in the spring of the new year.

This was something that showed Uchiha's ambition - after being recommended by a senior executive, Uchiha Itachi joined ANBU and became a member of the Sixth Team.

He couldn't figure out what the senior executive was thinking, and he was really worried about something happening to the Uchiha clan.

With this in mind, Yuzu compressed the original five-day mission into three days, rushed back to the village overnight, and broke into the Sixth Team lounge in one breath.

Before she had time to report, she pushed open the door suddenly and saw the two people inside looking up and looking at each other in surprise, "You can actually come back."

Yuye:......

After a few seconds, she took a step back slightly, raised her eyes guiltily and scanned the house number at the door several times.

You obviously didn’t go wrong!

Tianzang was the first to react from the shock and waved to her with a smile, "Senior."

"Finally willing to come back? I thought you had forgotten me as captain." The silver-haired boy sitting on the sofa lazily turned over a page of the book, with a rare hint of ridicule in his tone.

Yuye: "Don't dare."

She raised her hand to catch the drink thrown by Tenzo, her eyes fell on the book in Kakashi's hand, and she opened her mouth and said randomly: "Kakashi, what book are you reading? It looks a bit like the ones I have at home. "

Tenzo, who knew the contents of the book, immediately showed a subtle smile to Yuzuha.

Didn’t you expect that a seemingly upright senior would have such a strange book hidden in his home...?

Yuye:? !

She glanced at Tenzo and Kakashi, feeling baffled.

The latter immediately straightened up and coughed weakly.

He closed the book with a "snap" and said nonchalantly: "It's just an insignificant book... Why did you come back suddenly?"

Yuzuha didn't bother to care about his few books.

She remembered the business and asked with concern in a low voice: "Where's Itachi Uchiha? I heard he joined the Sixth Division?"

"You are very well informed." Kakashi pulled up his mask and adjusted his sitting posture.

After a pause, he continued: "He has been here for three days."

Yuye:......

A cross jumped on her forehead.

She glanced coolly and said, "Kakashi, I think I still like the way you don't speak."

Kakashi: "..."

The honest man Tenzo on the other side couldn't stand it anymore.

He kindly replied: "Itachi-kun, he has a day off today, senior, do you have anything to do with him?"

Such an answer made the turbulent emotions in Yuye's heart suddenly calm down.

On the surface everything is as usual.

She suppressed her worries, raised her legs and walked out, "It's okay, it looks like it should be okay."

Just when she was about to leave, Kakashi's voice suddenly sounded from behind, "Xi Yan is coming back soon... won't you see her?"

The lively purple-haired girl came to mind, and Yuzuha's hand on the doorknob paused for a moment.

After a moment, she said: "No, I have something else to do."

After walking out of the ANBU building, Yuzuha stopped for a moment in front of the Hokage building and decided to go to Nakajima Dai's office.

At this moment, this new consultant is having a meeting with several other people in power.

——The content of the meeting was naturally about Uchiha's upcoming coup.

As for the content of the high-level discussions, Yuzuha did not know about it.

By the time she passed, the serious meeting had come to an end.

It didn't take long for her to see Nakajima Dai walking out behind several elderly people with empty steps, looking extremely tired.

His peripheral vision quickly caught a glimpse of the black-haired girl standing by, and he hesitated before waving to her.

Yuzuha followed closely behind and returned to the office with her superior.

Soon, she discovered that Nakashimayo was in a worse mood today than before——

He wanted to make tea for her, but accidentally burned himself.

Yuzuye quickly picked up the teacup that was about to fall to the ground, avoiding the fate of it falling apart. "Excuse me, what happened... What happened to you?"

Nakajima Dai only looked at her blankly.

After a while, he unconsciously showed an ugly smile, "...it's okay."

"Are you really okay?" Yu Ye was full of doubts, "Something must have happened, right?"

Love is bright and flowing, falling on the girl's beautiful eyebrows. Her black hair is tied high behind her head like ink, with a few strands hanging down to her chest.

She has just come of age this year and is so bright and beautiful.

——"It's really unbearable! The rebellion of the Uchiha clan is just around the corner, and we must take some measures to suppress it!"

——"That's right, they must not be allowed to threaten the safety of the village."

——"Using hatred to strengthen oneself, such a family cannot stay no matter what!"

Nakashimadai couldn't bear to think about it any longer.

He closed his eyes slightly, and his hands hidden in the consultant uniform could not stop shaking.

He was still immersed in the suffocating memories, but the girl's slightly cautious voice came to his ears, "...Is there something I didn't do enough that made your grandfather unwilling..."

He was unwilling to mediate for the Uchiha clan anymore.

Looking at his expression, Yuzuye felt extremely uneasy.

Nakajima took a deep breath and made a decision immediately in his mind.

He opened his eyes, looked at her steadily, and replied: "No, nothing happened."

"Really?" Youye tilted her head, her expression relaxed slightly, "The teacher looked terrible just now, I thought something had happened."

"When did I lie to you?" He bent down and rubbed Uchiha's hair. "Don't worry, nothing will happen to you."

"Well, I know, that's why I trust you so much," Yuye rolled her eyes, "Then what I asked you to do..."

Nakashimayo nodded, "Okay."

Seemingly feeling a little embarrassed, the girl pondered for a moment and then continued: "If there is really no way to solve it, please tell me the truth. I can do it alone..."

Before he finished speaking, Nakashimayo rubbed his eyebrows in displeasure.

He opened his mouth to interrupt, "What can you do alone? Or should you go with me..."

The black-haired girl opposite fell silent for a moment.

After a moment, she whispered: "...I can't give up my family. If at the last moment, I really have to make a choice between the village and my family..."

After pondering for a moment, she bowed deeply to him and solemnly said: "Please forgive my selfishness and cowardice."

"I will return my eyes to my family..."

The warm spring breeze carried the scent of green grass and flowers, blowing her words into pieces.

"Give my life back to Konoha."

Suicide...?

The moment he watched her bow down, Nakajimayo felt his lips and teeth ache.

When he lost Tachibana Tai, he secretly made up his mind that he could no longer let his students be put in jail.

What's more, he is the student he cares about the most.

"Don't be like this, I will, I will try my best," he said impulsively: "Uchiha is also part of the village."

"I will definitely..." Nakashimayo's deliberately lowered voice dissipated in the wind.

Yuzu didn't hear clearly, "Huh?"

Nakajimayo rubbed his temples and shook his head.

After thinking for a moment, he asked again: "Did he still ask you to go to the Uchiha gathering?"

Yuzu thought carefully and answered: "You probably haven't let me go for a long time. Do you think I will leak information to you...?"

Nakashimayo narrowed his eyes, "Really? That's really..."

too naive.

This kind of coup planned under surveillance is absolutely impossible to succeed, even if Yuzuha's kaleidoscope ability is given up and she is excluded.

So, if we really want to kill them all, how can we save her life?

At this point the conversation seemed like it could go no further.

Nakajima Dai sat back on the chair tiredly and began to close his eyes to rest. Yuzuha knew that he was giving an order to expel guests.

She got up to say goodbye.

……

After coming out of the Hokage Building, Yuzuha walked slowly down the street towards the tribe.

The golden sunset spread out and covered the entire earth.

A few naughty children were running and playing on the street, playing childish "ninja" games. These children, who lived in a peaceful era, were raised to be innocent and childlike, and were far from aware of the cruelty of the "ninja" profession.

Yu Ye stood on the eaves, watching them in a daze.

Amidst the vague noise, a familiar voice came clearly, pulling her out of her thoughts, "What are you doing here?"

Youye turned around and saw a curly-haired boy of the same race standing on the roof on the other side across the road and waving to her.

She laughed and raised her chin, "I was watching them play games."

Shisui's clear eyes also showed a smile, and he joked, "That's great, children's fun is so simple."

"Who said it wasn't."

The two of them sat cross-legged on the roof across the road, silently watching the child's childish play.

The tired bird returning home gathered its wings, flew across the sky, and suddenly disappeared into the forest.

The eternal Hokage Rock is bathed in the bright sunset, overlooking the entire village.

In the midst of peace and tranquility, Shisui suddenly called her name, "Yu Ye."

Yuye looked at him following the sound, "Huh?"

"Between Uchiha and the village, Yuzuha is——"

The shouts of mothers calling for their children could be heard in the distance, instantly covering up his slight voice.

"What are you talking about?" Yuye asked with a smile, "I didn't hear clearly."

"I mean..." He said with a smile on his face, "Yu Ye is a very good ninja."

Yuzu looked at him in surprise.

She thought for a while before answering: "No... I am a failure. Everything I do ends up in failure."

——Akiaki, Tachibana Tai, Obito, Yondaime.

Her life is full of regrets and failures.

The curly-haired boy shook his head and said softly: "No matter what... you have worked very hard, please take a rest."

He knew that everything she did for the family was definitely not "protecting oneself wisely" or "finding a way out for oneself" as the tribe said.

Yuzuye opened her eyes slightly.

When she looked over again, she found that the other person was holding the sword and looking beyond her into the distance.

It was getting dark, and the children followed their parents' calls, said goodbye to each other, and went home after lunch.

It wasn't until she saw the last child leaving that Yuzu finally stood up.

Catching the silhouette of the person opposite her with her peripheral vision, she waved to him, "I'm going back first, you should go home early."

Under dusk, the haze is bright and dark.

When the darkness was about to swallow up the light, Shisui seemed to give her a quiet smile.

What kind of smile is that?

——With comfort and determination, it seems to also contain a touch of relief.

That was the last time she saw his smile.

……

The second thing was Uchiha Shisui's suicide.

Konoha year 53, summer.

The cicadas kept chirping, and the sunlight was so intense that it was extremely dazzling.

A copy of the suicide note was placed in front of Yuzuha by Kakashi, "The news just released, Uchiha Shisui..."

Yuba unfolded the paper as thin as a cicada's wings, and Kakashi's voice came to her ears at the same time, "...suicide."

His distant and cold voice and the black words written by Shisui instantly overlapped.

——"I don't want to go on any more missions. If this continues, the Uchiha clan will have no future at all..."

Yuzuye opened her eyes numbly, and for a moment she felt her mind went blank.

She turned it over and over, her finger bones holding the suicide note turned slightly white, and she was about to crush the fragile paper.

……is that a lie?

How could a person who would tell her "take good care of your life no matter what happens" commit suicide?

Did something happen to him?

Something must have happened to him.

After a long time, she finally found her voice: "...Is this true?"

The silver-haired boy lowered his eyes and replied seriously: "It's true. He drowned and died. Please forgive me."

After a pause, he added: "Ah, it's Uchiha Itachi's confession."

At that moment, Yuzuye's face turned extremely pale.

A sudden feeling of dizziness came over him, and several double images overlapped and swayed in front of his eyes.

The dull pain of tearing could not be suppressed but rolled through his lungs. Youye silently swallowed the sweet smell in his throat.

She bit the tip of her tongue and finally regained some consciousness in the coldness all over her body.

The room was silent. Someone handed her a glass of water, but she gently brushed it away.

In a daze, time stretched very long.

But it seemed that only a moment passed before Yuzu forced herself to calm down and regained her sanity in the chaos.

Immediately afterwards, she calmly finished writing the report, and very calmly applied for leave to her superiors.

It was the scorching summer, and the noisy chirping of cicadas was heard one after another among the trees.

Yuzu walked aimlessly while recalling things from the past.

When passing by a meatball shop, Yuzuha thought of the three-color meatballs that Shisui gave her.

It was the summer of Konoha 47.

"Well! I heard that someone seems to want to compensate Wanzi," the curly-haired boy pointed at himself with a smile, "Then please, can I come with you?"

When passing by a tree full of flowers, she remembered the coming-of-age gift given to her by Shisui and Itachi.

It was Konoha's 53rd New Year.

It was night, and the heavy snow was flying like white butterflies in the dark night sky.

Youye, who had just returned home, saw two shadowy figures under the warm yellow light at the corner, approaching and then separating from each other.

Before she had time to think about it, her hand tightened on the kunai in her ninja bag like a reflex.

The next second, two shadows poked their heads out from around the corner, "Good evening, senior."

It was Shisui and Itachi.

Yuye:......

A drop of cold sweat slipped from her forehead.

Yuzuha put down her kunai, a little speechless, "Good evening, but it's almost early morning."

The corner of her eye caught sight of the black cloaks they were wearing, and she asked doubtfully: "Did you just come back?"

The two teenagers looked at each other and showed a mysterious smile.

Yuzuha was confused by them.

She became even more confused and pinched the to-do list in her pocket. "Do you have anything to do with me? I have plans later and I can't play with you."

"It only takes a few minutes." Shisui said, took out two flowers from his cloak and handed them over solemnly.

Under the warm light, the dark green leaves make the petals bright, and they look particularly bright in the cold snowy night.

It was a toon flower that had just been broken off a branch.

After Yu Ye was stunned for a while, she felt extremely frightened.

Not quite understanding the meaning of the flower sender, she twitched her lips, feeling extremely tormented in her heart: "What...are you doing?"

Shisui replied: "Originally I wanted to prepare well, but because we had a temporary mission... so we only had time to send this. Senior probably won't care."

Yuye:?

what?

She opened her eyes slightly, in disbelief, "Sorry... I won't accept it, I, I, I don't like you."

"puff--"

Realizing her misunderstanding, the curly-haired boy across from him was stunned for a moment, then bent down and laughed, and his shoulders began to shake slightly.

Yuye:! ?

A cross deftly jumped onto her forehead.

Yuzuha glared at Shisui fiercely, but received even more unrestrained ridicule from the other party.

Itachi couldn't help laughing when he saw it, and explained kindly: "No, it's just that we thought about today..."

Before he finished speaking, Shisui hugged his shoulders and said, "Senior, you won't forget that today is your birthday, right?"

...My own birthday?

Yuye looked confused and confused, because she hadn't celebrated her birthday in a long time.

It seemed like no one had ever said "Happy Birthday" to her.

Not even Obito had, and even Akaki rarely mentioned it.

Zhisui raised his eyebrows, "What? How could you not even remember your birthday?"

The sourness fades away instantly like a tide.

After thinking for a moment, Yuzu couldn't help but defend herself: "Maybe it's because New Year and birthday are overlapped, so I don't remember it."

"Yes Yes."

Heavy snow fell, drifting in the cold wind along with the warm and soft light.

Zhisui pointed at the flowers in her hand and introduced them seriously: "One is from me, and the other is from Little Weasel."

"Don't they all look the same?" Yuzu whispered.

"Because they were picked from the same plant..." He waved his hand, "It doesn't matter. Senior should be an adult today. Happy birthday."

She stumbled all the way to the rushing Nanga River.

It was the late spring of Konoha's 46th year.

"But no matter what, this is very dangerous behavior and will make people very worried."

"No matter what happens, please don't treat your life so casually."

His smile was stretched infinitely in the warm sun——

The long and messy past came to an abrupt end here, as if someone had suddenly pressed the pause button.

He is not an adult yet.

He is still very young.

With the taste of rust in his mouth, Yuzu fell to his knees as if he could no longer hold on.

Her eyes looked unfocused at the turbulent water surface. The sunlight passed through the mulberry trees and was divided into countless pieces and spread on it.

The waves are sparkling and seem to be very warm.

But she had struggled there before, and knew the rapidity and desolation of the undercurrent.

But now, the person who pulled her out of the realm of life and death stayed here forever.