Hokage: The little fox picked up by the Hatake family

When the men heard Masako's words, the scene instantly fell silent, leaving only the chirping of cicadas in summer.

When Masako's mother heard what Masako said, she hugged the duck in panic and knelt down towards the men to apologize: "Yes, I'm sorry! Masako is still young! I just said the wrong thing!"

"Tsk, take this stinky girl back and lock her up, it's really disappointing." Matsumoto Sosuke looked at the woman kneeling down holding Masako, his face full of disgust.

Compared with the blind man who came today, the woman he snatched away was more than a little worse.

But now he is not in the mood to teach mother and daughter a lesson.

Sosuke Matsumoto led a group of people towards the house where Saaki lived.

After everyone walked away, the woman hugged Masako tightly, tears on her face unstoppable.

"Mom... I'm sorry... please stop crying..."

Masako was so thin that only a layer of skin remained, and her hands hanging on the bones were hurriedly wiping her mother's tears.

Seeing the worry on the face of the child in her arms, the woman's crying became louder and louder: "Masako... It's mom who's sorry for you... It's mom who's sorry for you..."

"Mom... will... in the future... that sister will die like those sisters before? Mom, why did dad kill those sisters? Can't we save them?"

The woman listened to Masako's questions in her arms. She didn't dare to answer because she didn't know how to answer. Over the years, she had seen too many girls or girls who mistakenly entered the village like she did today.

Some of them are young ladies from declining aristocrats, some are children of passers-by, and some are young ladies of wealthy businessmen who have eloped with their sweethearts.

But they were all drugged to sleep by people in this village, robbed of their money and killed.

For so many years, she survived for so many years because she was favored by the leader.

Seeing one incident after another, she struggled to escape, and also informed passers-by who accidentally entered this place.

But she never succeeded. It wasn't until Masako was born that she gradually gave up the idea of ​​​​escape.

She couldn't answer Masako's question, she didn't know what to do.

The woman's cry was very small. She suppressed her cry for fear of being heard by the leaving men.

Masako was held in the woman's arms, helplessly wiping her tears.

She didn't understand why her mother was crying, but she only knew that she didn't want her to cry.

Neither of them noticed that the men's voices disappeared at some point, leaving only her suppressed cries and the chirping of cicadas.

Masako seemed to hear the movement and turned to look forward in the woman's arms.

At this moment, she seemed to see the goddess.

The girl's white hair is longer than her waist, and her sapphire eyes are so beautiful. The moonlight falls on the girl's body, seeming to add a touch of charm to her.

"Sister is so beautiful..."

Masako said blankly.

When the woman heard Masako's words, she quickly raised her head and looked in front of her.

"Are you ready to cry?"

Saaki's tone was calm, which was different from the brisk tone when he spoke to Masako during the day.

"You..." The woman looked at the girl in front of her in shock, not expecting that she was still standing here at this time.

"Aren't you...blind..." Before getting an answer, the woman answered in her own voice the next second: "Are you a ninja? You...killed them?"

"I am not a ninja." Zaoki took a few steps towards the two of them: "But I did kill them, and now they have turned into meat. Do you want to admire them?"

After Zaoji finished speaking, a smile appeared on his lips again.

Masako looked at Saaki dreamingly, and then she was put down by the woman. Saoki looked at the woman stumbling away and looked sideways at Masako standing on the ground.

"Masako, your mother is dying."

Masako came back to her senses and stared at Saaki with confusion in her eyes: "Mom is obviously alive and well? Why did she die?"

"Because..." Zaoji turned to look in the direction where the woman stumbled away: "Her heart ailment is gone."

……

The sky gradually becomes brighter until it is completely dawn

Saaki leaned against the tree trunk with his arms folded, watching Masako dragging her thin body into the pit that she had been digging all night.

She had no intention of helping, and the surrounding land was littered with scraps of meat.

Masako's mother's health has been suffering for many years. After giving birth to Masako, her nutrition did not keep up. She started to be busy before her body was well taken care of, and her body could no longer hold up.

It was only because of Masako and her hatred for everyone in this village that she persisted until now.

When everyone in the village died last night, her hatred dissipated, and her body finally couldn't hold on under the stimulation of her emotions. When Saaki took Masako over, all she saw was a smile on the woman's disheveled face. passed away.

The woman didn't explain anything and just left quietly. In other words, she had long wanted to be liberated. Although she loved Masako, half of the blood in Masako's body came from the person who ruined her life.

Or maybe the woman did love Masako, but the moment she saw her enemy die, she didn't want to hold on anymore, so she left Masako and was liberated.

But Masako just sat blankly next to the woman for a long time. She did not see her mother for the last time.

Speaking of which, Masako didn't do anything wrong, it's just that she shouldn't have been born, or in other words, she shouldn't have chosen this family to be born. Not everyone is born with expectations, right?

Later, Masako got up from the woman's body and dug a pit.

Zaoji didn't care too much about this ending. When she arrived at the village through her starry eyes, she already knew the ending, and she had no idea of ​​changing it.

Just like the noble lady died out of her own kindness, Masako's mother's death was inevitable and she could not change it.

Masako didn't finish burying her mother's body until the sun turned west.

At this time, Zaoji had already dug out the money he had thrown to the village chief, and gained a new amount of coins by the way.

Saaki, who tied his eyes with cloth strips again, turned his head to look at Masako who was sitting in a chair and put a sum of money on the table.

"Put these away yourself."

Masako looked up at Zaoki blankly for several times before coming back to her senses: "Okay, okay...Thank you, sister."

After finishing speaking, he still sat on the chair stupidly.

"Want to be a ninja?"

Zaoji's voice sounded again.

Masako looked at Saki again, her eyes sparkling: "I, can I do it too? Is it... can I be as powerful as my sister if I become a ninja?"

Seeing the light in Masako's eyes, Saaki didn't say anything about the fact that ninjas couldn't defeat her, but just nodded slightly: "Yeah."

Masako was very thin and did not look like an eight-year-old child. Zaoji reached out and touched Masako's hair, which was thinning due to malnutrition.

"Live well."

"Yeah! I will definitely become the most powerful ninja! And then I will protect my sister! What is your name, sister?"

"Kisaragi Saaki."