Forced to sell misery

"Sometimes, I really hate your jutsu." Looking at Kakashi indifferently, Jing Ye said calmly, "Whether it's Chidori or Raikiri, they are always so ruthless when taking other people's lives."

The blood-stained arm was slowly pulled out from Bai's chest, but with a rare tremor, Kakashi pulled away.

Without paying any more attention to Kakashi, Jingye leaned over to catch Bai's falling body, and a soft chakra light appeared in his hands.

——Although it was in vain.

He is a medical ninja, so he should understand how fragile and fleeting life is.

"Do you regret it?"

Looking into Bai's gentle chestnut brown eyes, Jing Ye asked softly.

Although his consciousness was beginning to blur, Bai still shook his head with difficulty.

"I knew it."

With an ambiguous sneer, Jing Ye's hand trembled for a moment.

"Lord Jingye--" Looking at Bai in Jingye's arms, Kimimaro widened his eyes in shock.

Shiro was slightly stunned as his chestnut brown eyes met Kimimaro's emerald green ones.

Those eyes, that look...

In a distant memory, a child with emerald green eyes overlapped with Kimimaro in front of him——

The look in his eyes... is exactly the same as before I met Mr. Zabuza...

They... have seen it before.

On that path when Zabuza took him away from Kirigakure.

"Is it someone from Kirigakure?" The white-haired, green-eyed child clenched the bone spur in his hand, and the look he gave him was fierce and dangerous like a lone wolf.

"Do not."

Although he said the answer in the negative, Zabuza's hand had already pressed on the hilt of the beheading sword.

"Oh, really?" The fierceness in his eyes faded away, and ignoring the dangerous feeling, Kimimaro looked like just a child.

Kimimaro looked at Bai and said helplessly, "I'm sorry."

When he met Kimimaro's gaze, he stood there in a daze.

"Bai," Zabuza did not take this little episode to heart. He walked forward a few steps, turned around and called Bai.

"No, nothing." Bai came back to his senses from his daze, "Mr. Zabuza."

"There's no time to stand there and stare blankly. Let's go."

"Yes!"

Following Zabuza, Bai turned back to look at Kimimaro's back.

"His eyes are the same as mine, the same as I was before I met Mr. Zabuza."

He knew then that their fates were similar.

And now, it's the same.

Kimimaro, who had such eyes, and himself, who had lost his usefulness.

The two children with similar fates eventually went their separate ways after that brief meeting.

Until today, we meet again.

"So... we are all people who have lost the meaning of existence again..."

Looking at Kimimaro, Shiro smiled slightly.

The tearful eyes flickered with tiny rays of light, representing shattered hope.

The soft green light gradually weakened, and Bai's pupils began to dilate.

"...Your name?" Kimimaro asked softly.

"Bai, my name is Bai."

A pair of beautiful eyes curved slightly, and Bai Xiao smiled very beautifully.

However, such a smile withers in an instant, just like a small flower that survives briefly in the cold winter.

Before I knew it, scattered snowflakes were falling before my eyes.

Snowing.

This world is so cold, how can a weak and lonely flower survive for long?

How sad.

"One by one... all like this..."

Jing Ye gently put down Bai's gradually cooling body and stood up.

——He's really had enough.

"Zabuza Momochi, I just want to ask you one thing," Jing Ye looked directly into Zabuza's eyes, his tone was terrifyingly calm, and he asked word by word.

"I killed Cardo. The mission client is dead. Why are you still continuing the mission?"

"Because I'm a ninja."

Zabuza's eyes left Bai, who was lying on the ground and had lost all sound, and he stared at Jingye.

"very good,"

Slightly raising his head and looking at the falling snow, Jing Ye raised his hand.

"Then I will give you the last chance to die as a ninja."

The condensed black rod pierced through Zabuza's heart, and blood splattered -

The beheading sword in his hand flew out of his hand and Zabuza fell down.

He once asked Zabuza if he wanted to make a deal.

——Use Bai to exchange for his life.

And now, Shiro is gone, and he has taken Zabuza's life.

Maybe he was wrong from the beginning, but unfortunately, it's too late now.

Sure enough, he has never been anyone's salvation.

I originally thought that Zabuza would understand.

Unfortunately, his repentance came at a high price.

That's too late.