[Comprehensive] The male protagonist never shows up

"Want to run?" The other party's voice revealed the confidence of winning.

Luna who jumped into the air suddenly felt that her body was bound by something, but Luna was not an ordinary person, her body was made of sophisticated machinery, and her weight was beyond ordinary people's expectations. After a short pause, Her body broke free from the shackles relying on gravity, and continued to fall straight down.

"Oops, the calculated route has been shifted—" Luna panicked, trying to struggle to move forward.But the speed at which she fell was so fast that she could only wave her hands and feet in the air a few times in vain, and only heard a loud plop, and she was already submerged in the river.

The fluctuating sky became farther and farther away, and Luna stretched out her hands towards the sky with some difficulty.

"Wanzi will always wait at the entrance of the village for her mother to come back." The little Wanzi showed a pleading look in her arms, "You must come back soon, mom."

Luna will be back soon, Luna is sure - consciousness is cut off, the world has become dark.

ball--

The surprised ninja immediately bent down to look at the bottom of the cliff, only to see that the escaped female ninja fell into the river at the bottom of the cliff, and never came up again: "——It's really vulnerable."

Every day in Muye Village is full and peaceful. Maruko got up as usual, dressed and folded the quilt by herself, washed up, and went directly to the small restaurant for breakfast.

"Oh, Wanzi, I woke up very early today too!" The shop owner put an extra piece of char siew on the meatball.

"Well, because I have to exercise." After Wanzi thanked him politely, he began to eat the first meal of the day.After breakfast, Maruko practiced shooting and seal marks alone in the grove for a while, and then entered the ninja school on time.

"Ah, Maruko, come to my house for lunch and dinner today!" Tsunade rushed up to talk with Maruko after class, "Mom said that before Luna-san comes back, Maruko will be completely handed over to us!"

"Well, okay." Maruko didn't refuse, because Luna told him so before leaving.

"Tch, Maruko, isn't it boring to go to Tsunade's house for dinner every day?" Jiraiya squinted at Tsunade with his hands behind his head, then patted his chest and said, "Why don't you go to my house! We can play ninja games for a while after eating! What's so interesting about Tsunade being a girl—ah—”

Tsunade showed an innocent and cute smile, and slowly withdrew his right hand that punched just now, then grabbed Maruko's hand and walked out: "Don't pay attention to him, Maruko, let's go back to have lunch first, today I Mom has prepared your favorite dishes."

As Maruko followed Tsunade away, she turned her head to look at Jiraiya, who was clutching her stomach and squatting there crying, and then sighed silently: Tsunade's strength is really great, does it really matter to Jiraiya?No wonder my mother likes Tsunade so much. Speaking of strength, the two of them are really similar.

In the afternoon, Maruko still studied very seriously, and then watched Jiraiya get kicked away again, and followed Tsunade to her house for dinner.After eating the rice balls, they were ready to leave without staying.

"Oh, Maruko, it's still very early, and it's not dark yet? Are you going home so soon?" Tsunade's mother brought out the cut fruits and watched Maruko walking towards the door in surprise.

"Well, Maruko wants to visit the village entrance." Maruko smiled a little shyly, and then walked away at increasingly faster pace.

"Maruko... Really looking forward to Luna's return!" Tsunade's mother put down the fruit in her hand with some emotion, looked at the door with some worry and whispered to herself, "So we still have to have someone together Hard-working adults can do it, once Luna is out on a mission, Maruko can only live there by herself, she is still so young......"

"Don't worry about it." Tsunade's father drank tea with a casual expression on his face, "I think Maruko is like Luna-san, very strong, and besides, they should finish their mission and come back in a few days."

"Really!" Tsunade's mother stretched out her hands happily, "Then let's hold a small celebration for them then! This is the first time that Luna has given such a big mission!"

"As you please!" Tsunade's father ate the fruit indifferently.

The sun gradually moved to the west, and the shade of the big tree at the entrance of the village was stretched by the setting sun. Maruko stood under the tree alone, looking up at the entrance of the village eagerly.People kept coming and going around Wanzi. There were adults and children, some walked by alone in silence, and some walked by talking and laughing with their relatives and friends.The tall ones, the petite ones, the fat ones, the thin ones.

But there is no familiar figure that Maruko has been longing for.

Night has come.

"ball."

Maruko came back to his senses, looking at Hiruzaru Sarutobi who came to him.

"I didn't see you when I went to your house just now, so I guess you came here again to wait for Luna-san." Hiruzaru Sarutobi smiled a little, reached out and patted Maruko's already firm shoulder, "Okay, today she is I won't be back, I received a message that they will be back tomorrow afternoon, let's rest early today, if there are two dark circles under the eyes, Luna-san will definitely feel distressed when she sees them."

"Really? Teacher." Maruko was really happy when he heard the news. He showed a big smile and his eyes sparkled instantly. "Then I'll go back and rest right away, and I'll wait for you tomorrow afternoon."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi couldn't help showing a relaxed expression, watching this little figure standing firm at the entrance of the village every day, he really felt that little figure made people feel very lonely and sad, now Luna finally coming back.

Although Wanzi returned home obediently, he was so excited that he couldn't fall asleep at all.He rolled around on the bed, even rolled himself into a sushi with the quilt, and silently recited the sleep aid formula taught by Luna in his heart, one little sheep, two little sheep, three little sheep. . . . . . .

But until the 769th lamb was counted, Maruko couldn't fall asleep.It didn't feel the same, mother's arms didn't feel like that.Maruko kicked off the tightly rolled quilt a little depressed, lying on the big doll that Luna specially bought, recalling the previous night.

"Sleep well, baby, the night is falling, the head of the bed is covered with roses, to accompany you to sleep. Baby, baby, the song lulls you to sleep, baby, baby, the song lulls you to sleep—"

"Sleep well, baby—" Wanzi hummed unconsciously, his eyelids became heavier and his voice gradually blurred.As usual, Luna was lying on her side beside her, with a gentle smile on her face, patted his back and hummed a weird lullaby.

mother--

"What did you say?" Hiruzaru Sarutobi had an unbelievable expression on his face. He stared fiercely at the returning ninja in front of him with wide eyes, feeling as uncomfortable as if a knife was being scratched in his heart. He murmured in confusion, "Impossible, impossible. She was only there to assist with the mission. It is impossible for her to die because of being discovered by the enemy. Did you make a mistake? She just fell off the cliff. It is possible that she It was caught by a tree branch, or it may be injured and there is no way to call for help, or it may have drifted downstream along the river..."

"Sarutobi. I know you like Luna-san very much, but we have searched that area secretly. Even Dinin said that he saw her fall into the river with his own eyes and did not survive." The leader ninja who was grabbed by the collar also It was very uncomfortable, but he still had to tell the cruel truth, "She is dead, Sarutobi, I can't lie to you and give you a false hope."

"Then what about her corpse?" Hiruzaru Sarutobi let go of his hand a little decadently, lowered his head, and his voice was painful.

"I haven't found it for the time being, and the enemy has surrounded that area. They think that Luna-san has hidden things near there. We can't continue to take risks, so we can only come back first."

"What about Maruko?" Hiruzaru Sarutobi clenched his hair in pain, remembering that little stubborn figure, "He has already lost his family, if he lost his mother now—"

"Ah, Maruko—" Tanaka exclaimed in surprise.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi shook his body, and quickly raised his head to look at the door, only to see a small figure running away.

"Maruko!" He heard it?How much has he heard, did he already know about Luna's death?Countless questions flashed through Sarutobi's mind, and he chased after him.

Maruko didn't go anywhere else, he went straight to the entrance of the village.If they didn't want to pick some flowers as gifts, if they didn't happen to pass by there, would they tell themselves the truth?Wanzi ran numbly until he reached the big tree at the entrance of the village, then stopped.

"Maruko." Hiruzaru Sarutobi yelled worriedly. Maruko lowered his head slightly and stood there quietly looking towards the direction of the village entrance. He was still tightly clutching a small bundle of light bulbs in his lowered hand. A small blue flower, the flower is a little broken after being thrown all the way, and the flower stem is almost broken.But even so, he didn't let go.

"Luna-san will definitely be sad to see you like this." After a while, Hiruzaru Sarutobi slowly approached Maruko who was standing there stiffly. He reached out and touched the top of Maruko's head lightly, looking at The voice in the distance was low, "Become a man, Wanzi, and then protect those weak women and children. Luna must hope so."

"As long as you become strong, is it all right?" Maruko asked a little blankly, he felt that his heart was empty, but no one could fill it up, and there would never be another beautiful woman from the pile of corpses. Standing up, he stretched out his hand without hesitation, and showed a gentle smile.

In fact, Maruko has always known that her parents died in the battlefield long ago, but the Luna who smiled at him gently is like a gift specially given to him by God, although she had a lot of problems at the beginning. She was inconsiderate, and didn't like to be too close to him, but when she couldn't help calling her mother, she still showed a gentle smile without hesitation, hugged herself back, and became the mother of Wanzi.

You came to Wanzi because of Wanzi's wish, and now you have finally returned to the sky?Mother!

"As long as we become strong enough, we can prevent others from taking all the precious things around us." Sarutobi Hiruzen held the little Maruko tightly in his arms, raised his head and looked at the sky and said in a low voice, "Cry, Maruko, Luna won't hear you in Teacher's arms."

The small body in the arms began to shake slightly, and finally there was a way to vent the full of sadness and pain. Maruko was pressed tightly in Luna's soft embrace, which was different from Luna's soft embrace, and finally burst into tears.

"Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

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