Way of the Ninja

Not the same.

He felt that his world seemed to have become a lot more interesting.

He began to feel that tomorrow was something to look forward to.

So he ignored Kankuro's dissuasion and decided to join the regular army.He decided to rely on his own efforts to become an existence recognized by everyone.

So he gradually learned many things, and one of them is very special, called "promise".

It was a little girl who taught him this.

"Yo! I'm here to fulfill the promise, boy!" Under the moonlight at this moment, the silver-haired little girl was showing her trademark canine teeth, smiling and standing on Gaara's window sill...

If he hadn't discovered that she was not an enemy just in time, she might have been restrained by a sand.

Facing the little girl who suddenly appeared on the window sill of his house, Gaara showed a rare look of surprise on his face, "Hamura Asahi?...Why are you here?"

"Hahaha... Your house is quite easy to find, even the uncle who sells apples at the entrance of the village knows the location of your house hahaha~" Asahi casually leaned on the railing of the window sill, "You are quite powerful, I think The aura is well hidden, but you discovered it so quickly."

Gaara felt a sudden surge of emotion called "speechless" in him.

"Ham, I planned to go to Artisan Village after I slipped away last time, but I didn't expect to find that the whole village was deserted when I got there. It was embarrassing, so I thought that I had never been to the Land of Winds before, so I came here to look for you by the way. Fulfill the promise!" Asahi scratched her hair in embarrassment.

"Promise?" Gaara was puzzled.

"Yeah~" Asahi pointed backwards outside the house, "I promised to treat you to a popsicle, let's go?"

Although the identity of the other party is a mystery, and it is not even known whether it is an enemy or a friend, there may be other purposes.

But Gaara just nodded inexplicably, and ran out of the house in the middle of the night following Asahi.

"Wow, wasabi-flavored popsicles?? Is this a specialty of Sand Ninja Village?!?" Asahi looked at the green things in the freezer, his eyes lit up.

"This... I don't know..." Gaara really doesn't know, his childhood memory is only assassination, and no one bought him food for these children, nor did he eat it.

"Hey?! Is this so? Then buy it and try it together!~" Asahi smiled and shouted to the boss, "Boss! I want two of these wasabi popsicles!~"

A little overwhelmed, he took the popsicle from Asahi. He watched Asahi walk to the side and sat down on the swing, biting down expectantly.

"Hmm..." Asahi's facial features were wrinkled into a ball, holding back tears, and smiled at Gaara, "It's quite delicious haha, you can try it!"

Seeing Asahi's strange look, Gaara also became curious about the popsicle in his hand, and he took a bite.

"Um..." Is this... really suitable for children to eat? !Gaara not only frowned because of the pungent nose, but after the spicy taste, a burst of sweetness melted in the mouth. How to describe this feeling? ...

"It's pretty good!" Asahi wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and took another bite.

"Indeed..." Gaara had to admit, taking another bite at the same time.

This seems to be the first time, oh no, the second time someone invited him to eat.And twice, it was this Hamura Asahi...

"By the way, is there anything delicious or fun in the Land of the Winds?~" After eating the popsicles, Asahi was swinging casually, looking at the stars in the sky, and couldn't help but sigh, "Wow, the starry sky in the desert is so beautiful. It's pretty."

"I don't know..." Gaara answered a little lonely.

He really doesn't know.He obviously grew up here since he was a child, but he never even noticed any customs and characteristics here.

Asahi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said to Gaara, "It's okay, it's okay to start to understand now!" For some reason, he suddenly became interested in the Land of the Wind, but it is a pity that Yuki has been dispatched to Orochimaru. Zheng worried that no one would play with her, "How about going around with me? You should at least know the way to go to various places, don't say you don't know this!"

"This... I'm afraid this won't work..." I didn't expect the other party to say such a thing, as expected, he was still a child.

"Hey? Why?" If Youxi was by your side at this time, you would definitely complain mercilessly: Tang Ze Asahi, do you think that everyone in the world is as free as you? !

"I... have already joined the regular army, and I will be very busy in the future, so..." Gaara replied, watching Asahi's expectant expression gradually disappear, he also felt a little lonely for some reason.

It seems that this is the first time someone has sent him an invitation to play together...

"Okay~" Asahi was not too entangled, "Then I will come to play with you when you are free~" Smiling, she jumped off the swing, "It's a happy deal like this!" She said He held out his little finger to Gaara.

Gaara looked at her confused.

"Hey? Don't you know this?!" Asahi didn't expect this guy to have no common sense at all. She sighed, took the other's hand, and hooked his little finger. The representative agreed!"

"Promise?..." Looking at the hooked little fingers, Gaara murmured blankly.

"Well! My mother said that the most important thing in life is to keep the promise~" Asahi withdrew his hand, "If you are free, you must come and play with me~"

"But...how can I find you?"

"Hmm..." Asahi took out two scrolls in her bag, and she handed one to Gaara, "This is my mother's invention before, what is the principle of the walkie-talkie? I don’t understand either, you write the message you want to convey on it, and then inject chakra into the scroll, and the other scroll on my side will display the message~” Asahi said, he took out a pen and handed it to the scroll. Give Me Gaara, "Try it?"

"Oh?..." Gaara took the pen from Asahi's hand, opened the scroll, he hesitated for a long time when writing, and finally wrote two words——

"Ice... stick?" Asahi looked at these two words and couldn't help laughing out loud, "Hahaha you are too interesting!!~"

Gaara turned her face away in embarrassment, and injected chakra into the scroll at the same time.

Asahi opened the scroll in her hand, and showed Gaara the two words that appeared on it, then she took the pen from Gaara, and started writing with her back to Gaara.

Gaara stared at the scroll in his hand, and soon four words appeared on the scroll.

"Tarase Asahi..." Gaara read the words above, and he looked at Asahi suspiciously.

"Mom said, be honest with your friends~" Asahi explained with a smile, "My real name is Tang Ze Asahi~ Don't tell anyone else, or I won't come to play with you again!"

Tang Ze... Gaara seems to have heard of this surname before. He thought that his father mentioned it once. It seems to be a famous ninja in Konoha, and he seems to have defected... This little girl, could it be that she was with the traitor? Forbearance? ...

He is indeed a suspicious person...

Although thinking so, but Gaara still nodded in a strange way.

"Okay, I won't tell anyone."

【3】

Kazekage's succession ceremony lasted all day, and when Gaara returned home, it was already late at night.

Sighing a little tiredly, he took off the bamboo hat with the word "wind" written on it.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew by, Gaara seemed to feel something, he turned his head to look at the window sill, there was already a figure there.

"Your habit of going through windows is really..." Gaara looked at the visitor with a somewhat helpless expression.

"Otherwise, should we go through the main entrance? Hey——is Master Kazekage at home—is that so?" The girl's silver hair was tied into a high ponytail, and her obsidian eyes shone strangely against the night sky. Tang Ze Asahi walked up to Gaara and turned around, and finally stopped in front of him, "Not bad, not bad, you're very handsome, Kazekage-sama!"

The corner of Gaara's mouth couldn't help but raise a smile, "Okay Asahi, you obviously don't think so in your heart."

"Cut~ I'm sincere, otherwise why would I come all the way to congratulate you on becoming Kazekage!" Asahi raised his eyebrows.

"Thank you...I didn't expect you to come here..."

"Okay, okay, thank you should be shown in actions! I haven't eaten that wasabi popsicle for a long time, let's go, Kazekage-sama, are you embarrassed to let me, a brat, pay for it?~"

There were almost no people on the street at the moment, and the two climbed up a sand dune in Sand Ninja Village after eating popsicles.

It happened to overlook the entire village, and Gaara observed Asahi beside her, realizing that something seemed wrong with her.

"What's wrong?" Gaara asked.

"Ah?" Asahi, who was still distracted, was pulled back by Gaara's words, "What's wrong?"

"You seem... not quite right..." I have known Asahi for almost 3 years. Although the two of them don't meet many times, Gaara already knows the personality of this little girl very well. She obviously has something on her mind.

Asahi also fell silent at the moment, she looked at Sand Ninja Village under the sand dunes, as if she was thinking about something.

In the end she still spoke, "Gaara... you... finally got it, everyone's approval..."

In the past three years, I have watched the young man change constantly, and now he has finally become Kazekage. It is impossible for Asahi to say that he will not be moved.

"Actually, I don't know whether everyone agrees with me...but I will work hard to protect everyone, this village, and everything I value." When the boy said this, the brilliance in his eyes made Asahi's innermost feelings Guilt and uneasiness escalated.