Remnant bones

"Cough, cough, cough..." The suffocating pain made the white-haired boy struggle to wake up from his sleep.Lying on the side of the bed, the sound of coughing violently, even though it was forcibly suppressed to the minimum volume, was still extremely harsh in this quiet morning.

Warm and wet liquid overflowed from between the fingers, and the faint smell of blood was extremely pungent to the sensitive ninja.

The white-haired boy who had recovered a little bit gasped for breath.The emerald-like eyes that were hazy from physical tears, the first thing after the anxiety of Qing Qing was to reach out and grab the quilt to wipe the blood seeping on the tatami.

You can't let your brother see... Even if you know, such a move is futile.

"...Jun Malu." As the door was opened from the outside, the bright morning light poured into the room, leaving no place to hide the dark red blood.

The slightly slender wrist due to serious illness was imprisoned by a long white and slender hand.Jun Malu stopped himself to cover up in a futile manner, involuntarily avoided the sight of the person in front of him, tilted his head, and replied in a muffled voice: "Brother." After the genetic disease worsened, he regretted more than once why he chose this The room closest to his brother's dormitory... Otherwise, with his speed, it would not be impossible to hide it from the other party.

"Don't think about 'destroying corpses and eradicating traces', Junmaro." The faint blue flame accurately burned away the dried blood, but did not damage the tatami under it.I let go of my hand, changed the sheets for him, let him lie down again, and then flicked his forehead and warned: "You know, it's useless."

"...I'm fine, brother." It's just vomiting blood, he's gotten used to it for the past six months, so there's no need to be so careful.

"Forty degrees." With the palm of my hand alone, I accurately obtained his body temperature. While adjusting the infusion needle removed by his previous action, I said coldly without raising my head: "Yesterday Your body temperature is only 38 degrees before going to bed at night, if you don’t want to burn your brain and become a fool like Naruto, you’d better be obedient and honest to me.”

"..." Jun Ma Lu honestly let the place be fiddled with. Compared with the foot restraint, the lethality of this threat is only high for those who are familiar with Naruto.

Fortunately, it is only a minor situation, not to mention worse.

The set of instruments under the Konoha Hospital was moved to Junmaro's room in the Uchiha Mansion because the basement was not used for other preparations. Basically, it is in a state of long-term overload operation 24 hours a day and a half a month. .With it as an aid, coupled with the improved medicine that I have not stopped until now, the condition was barely controlled within a certain range.

If the patient cooperates, the current Anbu "White Lotus" who has not retired when the condition is good, will occasionally go out on missions.Although they are all D-level errand delivery missions in the name of confidential missions, I didn't completely restrict him to cultivate.

Knowing his aggressive nature as the "Kaguya Clan", blindly restricting and resting will not achieve any good results for him.It's just that there is a limit to such laissez-faire, his current physical strength is less than [-]% of the normal state, not to mention the frequent attacks of the three days...

"Find a time, and I will help you with Anbu's retirement procedures." Hesitating for a while, I still slowly expressed my plan.

Junmalu, who felt uncomfortable as soon as he lay on the bed, was about to force himself to sleep again, but his eyes widened in surprise because of the words that came from his ear.A trace of sadness flashed across the emerald eyes, but although he couldn't hide his disappointment, he obediently said without the slightest objection: "I see."

I rubbed his head, it's not that I don't know what he's thinking, it's just... I was about to get up when a pure white snow sculpture flapped its wings and landed on my shoulder.Familiarly, he turned his head and rubbed against my neck, the humane little guy raised his paw, and a sealed bamboo tube swayed from side to side as it moved.

"Bai's letter?" She wanted to sit up with surprise on her face, but realized her current situation under my admonishing eyes.Jun Malu lay down obediently, stretched out his hand to call the snow sculpture that had been removed from the bamboo tube, and skillfully stroked the fluffy feathers under his neck with one hand, and asked softly, "Is there any mine?"

Each of us has always had a copy of Bai's letter, and this time is no exception.

Nodding my head, I couldn't help frowning after reading my share, then handed him another unopened scroll, and took the snow sculpture.

"One thing, I will go out of the village tomorrow at the latest." Standing up, I took out the dried meat I carried with me as a reward for the snow sculpture, and said before leaving: "At that time, I will let Asi Ma is here to help, don’t force yourself to do some things.”

"Tomorrow?" The hand that was opening the letter suddenly stopped, and Junmaru frowned and raised his head and said, "...Today is the graduation exam for Naruto and Sasuke."

Leaving the village tomorrow means that the other party must submit an application to Sandai to go out within today.No matter how efficient Konoha's customs clearance procedures are, it is normal for it to take a long time. Even if the applicant is a Jonin, as long as it does not involve official business, it must be done according to the procedures.

Baihe Zabuzhan is a traitorous ninja, and one of them is one of the well-known Wunin Seven Swordsmen. Once the fact of befriending them is exposed, it is tantamount to "betrayal" and "collaboration" for a ninja who belongs to him. It is absolutely not a good thing to attract the attention of Konoha's senior management.However, if you go out due to private affairs, there is no possibility of shortening the time for issuing customs clearance certificates.

They promised...at least one of the brothers will go to Naruto and Sasuke's graduation ceremony.

His body is hopeless for the time being, and he didn't expect his brother to... Jun Malu was a little distressed, and he didn't even have the mood to read the letter.He didn't want to break his promise, but the situation really made it impossible for both of them to spare time.

"Sorry..." I don't know if it's for the two little guys who weren't there, or Jun Malu who couldn't hide the guilt in front of me, I said in a deep apologetic voice: "I will tell them personally when I come back." The letter from you involves a precious medicinal material that is currently in short supply, and I cannot refuse.

It's just that no one expected that when they met face to face again, it would be several weeks later.

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"Damn, damn, damn... Iruka the cheapskate!" The blond boy who just walked out of the examination room was annoyed and stomped the dirt under his feet as if venting his anger under the shade of a tree in the corner of the playground: Just a little bit! It’s just a little bit away, so what if I let it go!"

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, Naruto kicked the ground more vigorously, but after a while, he dug a small hole in the ground that was still damp after the rain, and he was also panting from exhaustion.Glancing at the swing beside him, he sat down on it.

And once he calmed down, the chirping and whispering voices around him began to drill into his ears all-pervasively: "Look, the one over there is the one from before...Why isn't he dead yet?"

"I heard that the person who graffitied on Hokage Rock a few days ago was also him! How dare he do that!?"

"I really don't know what the third generation thinks? Why did you keep that little monster! How many people died because of him... and let him go to school. I heard my son said that he never passed the mock exam. ~"

"How can a monster compare with our excellent child! I don't even think about who raised him with hard work. He doesn't know the rewards, and he makes trouble all day long! He shouldn't have been left in the first place!"

"That's right, there's balababalabala..."

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"Cut!" It's not the first time I heard it, Naruto just twitched the corner of his mouth, not even motivated to go up and argue: "A group of old witches who only speak bad things about people behind their backs..."

Brother Kaguya, and Junmaro...why haven't they come~

Dangling their calves boredly, their azure eyes moved over the foreheads of the little ghosts who happily came out of the examination room, flashing a look of envy from time to time.Naruto originally wanted them to see how handsome he was as a ninja, but suddenly remembered that he hadn't been able to get that stunning forehead guard, and couldn't help shaking his head desperately and praying in his heart.

No no no!You can't let them see this embarrassing appearance of my uncle!It's best not to...but... "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Couldn't help shouting out the last sentence, the little fox, who obviously didn't want the other party to come, but also wanted the other party to come, was so entangled that his mind was tied up.He grabbed his hair and tugged wildly: "It's so annoying~ Someone tell me, what should I do~!!!"

"What should we do? Let's do it again next year...Hang, car, and tail." The black-haired boy who graduated from No.1 came with his arms crossed, with undisguised disdain on his delicate and handsome face.A simple avatar technique can't even be done, it's a pity that he showed his own experience to him before!That stupid fox with no brains!

"My majestic future Hokage-sama, don't repeat a grade!" The little fox was furious, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that the forehead guard on the opponent's head was so eye-catching!

"Hokage? Let's do your daydream! There are a few Hokages who can't even graduate, and they have told you all the answers, but you can still make mistakes, stupid fool without brains!" The other party was tutoring, but the other party still failed to pass the test because of some low-level mistakes, and Sasuke was also irritated by Naruto's big words of overreaching.Originally, the idea of ​​comforting the other party in his mind was thrown away somewhere, and he spoke directly to the other party's vitals.

"No, no! Who stipulated that if you fail the exam, you can't be a Hokage!?" The little fox blushed with anger, and retorted loudly: "Don't think that you can be dragged to the sky if you get a No. 1 Who knows what kind of heart An De is when you pretend to help!"

"I don't want to talk to you, you unreasonable guy!" Angrily, Sasuke also forgot to be disappointed by the absence of the other two, glared at each other and turned away: "I don't want to see you at Uchiha's house again!"

"I don't care about your big, lifeless mansion either!" Naruto turned his head and sulked after branding a harsh sentence.

When he raised his head again, the sun was setting in the sky, and the whole school was empty without a single figure in sight, except him.

"Liars, they are all liars!" Feeling aggrieved by the failure of the trusted person, Naruto mumbled and choked a few times, and finally suppressed his tears forcefully.Just as he was about to return to his old den, which he hadn't returned to for a long time, he suddenly found a familiar figure standing not far away, obviously waiting for him: "Teacher Mizuki?"

"Hi! Naruto." Smiling and beckoning, the eyes of the young people under the shade of the tree flashed an imperceptible coldness: "I have something to tell you..."

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Due to Junmaro's physical condition, the dinner was brought by Asma.

At the normally lively dining table, half of the people were missing at once, making it extremely deserted.Junmaro, whose body temperature had finally dropped to near normal, rarely appeared on the dining table.After finishing his portion of clear porridge, he looked at Sasuke who had a gloomy face and was desperately shoveling rice into his mouth, but never looked at his favorite tomato, he pondered for a while, and said, "Sasuke , where is Naruto?"

The hand that ate the chopsticks slammed, the black-faced kitten almost choked on the rice, struggled to pour down the boiled water handed by the other party, and after panting heavily for a long time, the expression on his face was indifferent and cold Said: "Who knows what stupid thing that stupid fox is doing again! He didn't come back yesterday, but he went to eat his ramen with Mr. Iruka...don't worry about him!"

"Today all the teachers are in Hokage Building, holding a group meeting." Jun Malu said softly as if drinking her cup of herbal tea that was too bitter, without changing her expression.The volume of the voice was not loud, but it was enough to reach the ears of the people at the same table without saying a word.

As for the meaning?Isn't this obvious~ Iruka is busy with work, but he doesn't have the time to add to the bottomless pit of the little fox~ Sasuke, who has always been smart, won't be like that idiot who can't hear the subtext.The handsome little face that was originally dark, the corners of the mouth twitched slightly, trying to refute that he didn't care whether that stupid fox was starving, but subconsciously felt that if he did so, it would only make him blacker...

"Crack!" Frustrated, the little black cat slapped the table and stood up: "I'm full, I'm going back to my room first!" After saying that, he consciously packed up the tableware and went to the kitchen.

"Ahem, Naruto's share is in the food box next to the cupboard..." Jun Malu kindly said only one sentence, but only heard the sound of a typhoon passing through the kitchen.

So, after Jun Malu's witty "falling asleep" early, a small black shadow carefully climbed over the wall and left the mansion with the familiar food box in his hand, walking in one direction while looking for the target. .

The white-haired boy who slept until he was almost full of hair grew up sat up cross-legged, scratched his hair, looked at the sneaky little guy and couldn't help chuckling.He didn't turn on the lamp until the other party walked away, looked in the direction where the figure disappeared, and read the letter he received in the morning carefully.

After a while, I couldn't help but sigh with a smile on my lips: "It's nice to be young...haha, two awkward little guys~"

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It is really troublesome to apply for customs clearance procedures through formal channels.Signing on one side and stamping on the other all afternoon, I didn't get the wooden card for one-time customs clearance from Genma Shiranui who worked overtime until the dinner time was long past.

"What? Going out?" the brunette ninja sat behind his desk, mechanically stamping documents, and asked casually.

"The drug dealer I entrusted told me that I found which kinds of medicines that were missing in Jun Ma Lu's medicine, but it was a bit difficult to get them." The fact that the bodies of the Hui Ye clan are incomplete has long been known to everyone in Konoha. I took the wooden sign and put it away indifferently, and replied.

"Then I wish you the best of luck...huh?" Halfway through the speech, he suddenly received a summons from the superior, and said to me: "Hui Ye, the third generation is looking for you, the office."

"Yeah." In response, I frowned slightly, and couldn't figure out why the third generation was looking for me... Forget it, let's go and have a look.

As a result, as soon as I opened the door of Hokage's office, I happened to see a group of Chunin performing escapism and leaving each other, and there was a familiar figure among them... My colleague when I was working in the school, Uno Iruka, seems to be the two of my family. The head teacher of a little guy.

"What's going on?" Didn't hear the enemy's alarm, what happened to suddenly dispatching such a team of Chunin?

"Oh? Jun Mai~ You came just in time, come and have a look with me~" I saw the third generation holding a pipe, took a towel and carefully wiped the crystal ball that he had left for an unknown period of time, and stretched out his hand to call me over.With the input of CKL, a clear image gradually appeared on the surface of the transparent crystal ball. After watching it for a long time, I figured out what was going on.

"You did it on purpose." I affirmed without hesitation.

Leaving aside how things like the "Book of Seals" would be stolen by the little fox, a half-baked ninja who failed the graduation exam, with that kind of inferior method, in terms of manpower to hunt down, Chunin is obviously less.

Rather than saying that Naruto fell into Mizuki's trap and stole the "Book of Seals".It would be better to say that the third generation set up a game from the beginning, waiting for the other party to steal!Although that person is not necessarily Naruto, there will definitely be someone who will take risks for such a thing, but what is waiting for him at that time is not a "separation technique" that can be easily solved.

I'm afraid that even more than half of the things in that scroll are fake Xibei products.

"Don't say that, Jun Mai~ Am I doing this to make that idiot Naruto pass?" Unaware of the embarrassment of being exposed face to face, Sandai smiled and complained: "The son of the genius Hokage was repeated, how can I I'm sorry for his father~ This is the well-intentioned efforts of an old man~ I thought that with your clone, that little devil would be able to live up to his expectations!"

"You know, the reason why I let him live in Uchiha's house is because I promised those old immortals that I would never interfere with their growth." I sneered disdainfully at the old fox's prostitution. road.

Whether it is Jinchuriki of Kyuubi, or the last survivor of the Uchiha clan, the elders will never let them out of their control.What they want is not powerful power, but power that can be used by themselves. If it is beyond the scope...the only ending is to be obliterated by it.

"Regardless of strength, at least I am very satisfied with the current Naruto." Looking at the crystal ball, Sasuke found the little fox covered in injuries but with a round belly in Naruto's den, and couldn't help but become angry from embarrassment was furious.The two of them wrestled and made the room a mess, but they sat together with each other shortly afterwards and shared the dinner that was reduced to a midnight snack.The third generation smiled cheerfully, his eyes were full of kindness: "Thank you, Jun Mai."

"...No need, I've always done this because of that person's entrustment." Pushing open the door, I hesitated before leaving, and warned with a deep meaning: "This matter will definitely not end here , you...don't be too attached to the past."

"..." With his back to me, the third generation took a deep breath on the pipe in his hand, exhaled a smoke ring and said with a low smile: "When people get old, they will always cherish the past habitually, so it's not because of regret... ...I have my own measure, after all, I am the only remaining 'main beam' of Konoha."

I glanced meaningfully at the thin back who couldn't hide the vicissitudes of life, and I didn't say anything more: "Let's go."

"I wish you the best of luck~" Three generations of low voices came out from behind the closed door.

I squinted my eyes and pondered for a while, but I hurried out of the village that night.When passing by the forest road, the vaguely familiar signal did not make me stop for even half a second.

- as long as you think you are right...

Orochimaru, according to the reservation, I will not intervene in half a step.