[Hokage] That's all

When I woke up, I saw the blue sky and the leisurely clouds floating in the sky. After thinking about it, it seems that I haven't seen the sky so leisurely for a long time.

Even though the sun was glaring, he couldn't bear to look away at this moment.

The bird in charge of vigilance uttered a bright cry, and looked away lazily. A familiar figure appeared under the tree not far away. He turned his head and realized that the other party was obviously waiting for him to wake up with good intentions.

It's rare.

"I didn't expect you to come here in person. Is it because of Nine Tails?" Turning over, he jumped down from the tree trunk of Xiaoxi, casually dusting off the dust on his body, his gaze was flat.

The other party's gaze turned to his own eyes with interest, and after turning around, a faint redness appeared in the mask.

My heart beat slightly, and the scarlet color was very familiar.

The pupils formed by the illusion did not seem to have the usual focus, and were sparse like mist.

"No, I just came to visit an old friend." After a long time, the other party answered.

"Ahhh—Didara and Scorpion are both working hard. Is it really okay for the famous Yinji Highness to be lazy on the side like this~" After a while, the other party instantly switched to the magical voice line, and even the movements changed. It's hilarious.

Looking at the schizophrenic patient in front of him blankly, there was a little distress in his eyes.

"Ah, why do you look at Ah Fei with such eyes, Ah Fei will be shy (=)"

"........."

"The order I received is to clean up the mess when necessary." Looking at the red torii gate that is barely accessible in the distance, according to the news from the bird, it seems that the battle has already begun.Close your eyes and feel for a while, the five forbidden seals have obviously been triggered.

"The current stage is still overwhelming. Naturally, there is no need to do anything. Besides, I don't think that Konoha's people will break the trap of the five forbidden seals so quickly." After finishing the explanation, the illusory eyes turned to this person again Unidentified but apparently related to Uchiha.

"I hope so." The conversation is over, it seems that Akatsuki is the only one who is passively sabotaging.

The figure of the other party seemed to be distorted, and then disappeared in place.Is it space-shaped ninjutsu?This is the first time I have seen such a powerful space ninjutsu except Flying Thunder God.

However, if you continue to slack off at work, not only this one, but even that nagging partner will come to urge you.

This time the battle will probably only end in the death of you and me. The current members around here include the chatty vegetable partner who seems to be everywhere but has no fighting ability, Scorpion, Didara, and The guy who calls himself Hobby.

It seems that for some reason, A Fei rarely shows his figure. If the five forbidden seals eliminate some members in this battle, then he may make a move when he has a chance to annihilate all members. As for that partner, he should only pass it on. It is impossible for organizations far away in the country of rain to respond to the information.

If it is really going to be the worst situation, I am afraid that I will make the worst move.

What a strange idea, what kind of stand do I stand on to think about such a problem?

Obviously, Konoha could no longer return.

The only doomed ending is a dead end. Before that, no matter what path I take, it doesn't seem to matter.

Akatsuki's purpose, said to be for world peace, there will be no more wars.

For me, such a goal is too great.

So, what is my goal?

…………

The goal I once said is that I don't want to watch anyone familiar die.The fantasy I once had was to open a dessert shop in Konoha after retirement.

So now, my identity is dead, I am facing a familiar person, I am standing in a hostile camp, what is the meaning of my existence?

Am I still lost?Or, I have never found myself.

From the bottom of my heart, what do I want?What do you want to be?What do you want to do?What do you want?

Another scary question.

【You are tools, the sharpest weapons in the Kingdom of Duan. 】

Who said so?

As the ninjas of the Kingdom of Duan, all we have to do is to complete the tasks, and the rewards of the tasks will be used to support those who live in peace on the island, so that they can live a peaceful and worry-free life.

Now, the Kingdom of Duan has perished, under Yankong's plan, except for Yankong and me, no one has survived.

To this day, I still can't figure out whether Yan Kong's actions are revenge or salvation. I have learned early on that revenge is a meaningless action.

However, now that Yankong is dead, the answer to the question has long been lost.

What about after that?

Obeying Yan Kong's orders and instructions, he went to Konoha and hid himself as an ordinary refugee.

Still fresh in my memory, on that road leading to Konoha, after the team was attacked by bandits, the kid who lost his family cried bitterly, his words full of incomprehensible emotions.

【"Wait... wait until Muye Village... I, I also want to become a ninja, and kill all those who destroy my homeland... all, all! Grandpa—————"】

Revenge is irrational and meaningless.

And death is a rule that needs to be accepted and understood.

The little ghost who cried bitterly like this died of intracranial hemorrhage before arriving at Konoha. In order not to slow down the plan to go to Konoha, I killed him with my own hands.

And on the first day after arriving in Konoha, what Yan Kong said to Konoha Ninja was actually what he said to me, and I still couldn't understand it.

【"I'm sorry... I've been through so much... I just want him to be an ordinary person..."】

Before that, everything she said was a lie, but this sentence was different from the previous one.

But I, besides becoming a ninja, do I have any other choice?

Perhaps, like your uncle and aunt, open a dessert shop and live an ordinary and unremarkable life?

Then, died in a certain, accidental massacre in an accident.

[No one wants to die. 】

No one would want to die.

In countless assassination missions, I just understood the meaning of this sentence.

The emotion that erupts just before death is called fear.

However, before I really felt that moment coming, I never knew what it was, even if I knew it, I turned a blind eye to it in more life-and-death struggles.

After all, the rules are set by people. The rules we learned before were only made to make us become the swords of the Kingdom of Duan. If the Kingdom of Duan disappears, all the rules will also disappear.

I probably can't get out of such a bondage.

I have also been protected by Yankong all the time. He seems to be repaying something on me that I don't owe on credit. Until his death, he has been protecting me in such a subtle way. That person doesn't seem to be afraid of the coming... die.

After all, human beings are complex and strange creatures. They once thought they could understand the so-called emotions, but they still couldn't understand these people who are running around for emotions.

At an age that knows nothing about the outside world, the first touch of kindness comes from uncles and aunts. I really don't know where the gentle and unreserved kindness came from.

【"Xiao Er is going to school this year, right? The children of the Uchiha clan will go to the ninja school to study, and they will become excellent ninjas when they graduate."】

At that time, he didn't want to obey Yankong's instructions. In this strange world, the only sense of security came from the ability to kill other people.

Maybe it's for hiding, maybe it's just to make uncle and aunt happy, maybe it's just getting used to the inherent learning.

After all, you have to become a ninja.

why?

【"Xiao Er, most of the Uchiha clan are excellent ninjas. They protect the village, the family, and us, so we can live in Konoha in such a safe way. Those adults are quite Great people."]

It seems that when telling a story, what my aunt once said was once buried deep in my memory, but I suddenly remembered it for some reason.

When my uncle and aunt left, all I had left was Konoha, a place to adopt me.

In my memory, the group leader who often patted himself on the head with a gentle smile, in my memory the husband and wife who always smiled at me and were full of confidence, in my memory that Naruto with a bright smile, in my memory that pair of brothers with gentle and bright smiles, in my memory they treated me very well. He is more or less a well-cared-for Hiki, a child from a certain Uchiha family who often comes to buy meatballs in my memory.

Except for Naruto, none of them exist.

The dead leave, brothers turn against each other.

Only Naruto still smiled and moved forward.

And he has his own way to go after all.

There is also the elder brother who is gentle and considerate and takes good care of his younger brother.

Uchiha Itachi.

I have no way of guessing the truth about the extermination of the genocide, but I have a strange feeling that my younger brother is the only one left behind. After such a long time, my curiosity has long been exhausted, even though there was news about the genocide before my eyes. , and never tried to read it.

This person seems to be a special existence, contradictory and special.

Ninjas exist to protect ordinary people, and both Broken Country and Konoha seem to think so.The strong must protect the weak.

Am I strong enough?If it is enough, then who can I protect?

This is a meaningless question, or is it a meaningless thinking.

I can't protect anyone.

I don't know the name of the kid, uncle, aunt, Himeki, and... Akita.

One by one died, left, and dissipated in the world.

I seem to be hollow, there is nothing inside, and nothing can stay.

The problem is back to the beginning.

What is my goal?

They died in war, they died fighting.

I don't want to watch anyone I know die.

So, what did I do before?

If there are no more familiar people, then no more familiar people will die.

Run away, run away, hide.

And what already exists, even if it is denied, is meaningless. What I did before was nothing but evasion.

Now that things have come to an end, there is probably no use in escaping.

That person, I was doomed to be irrescuable, everything he did seemed suddenly clear, and the incomprehensible seemed to be understood.

Maybe it's time to knock something out of that person's mouth. After all, he made an agreement similar to an alliance. Apart from fighting, he seemed to need to know something.

Let the rule of "follow orders when you don't know what to do" roll aside.

I should try to do something that I haven't tried before.

Regardless of the outcome, it was done.

right.