[Naruto] Raiders of large dogs

In the village on the border between the Land of Winds and the Land of Rivers, Kinako was walking back and forth in the guest room restlessly, which made Kai and Genma beside her feel anxious.

"I said, Your Royal Highness, it's useless for you to be in a hurry. Ma Qi has already gone to check, and there will be news soon." Xuanjian said helplessly, propping his head with Qianben in his mouth.

"Xuanjian, how can you say that! This is a pure friendship! It's really touching!" Kai protested to Xuanjian with tears in his eyes.

"Ah, ah... well, it's up to you, I'll go out and see if Maggie is back." Sighing, Genma decided to go out and chat with the sand ninjas who were guarding on the roof.

Genma, who was about to open the door, was suddenly slammed into the wall, and the dusty Kakashi held the rolled snow and led Kanna to rush in panting.

"Snow!" Seeing the girl in Kakashi's arms, Kinako hurried forward, but was stopped by Kanna who was following her.

"Your Highness, the situation is not very stable now, it is better for you not to get close to senior."

"But……"

"It hurts to death, what's the matter with you, let me tell you." Supporting his hit head, Xuan Jian came out from behind the door.

"I'll explain later." Kakashi bypassed Kai and Kinako, put Yuki on the bed and covered the quilt carefully.

When Kai and Genma saw that there were only two half-dead wounded in Anbu's unit, they roughly guessed the situation, so they could only keep silent and stopped asking, and the atmosphere in the room became depressed for a while.

Markey, who followed up, looked at the people in the room and said helplessly, "The goals of so many of you are too obvious, so you can't stay here for too long."

"But Snow..." Kinako looked at the unconscious girl worriedly.

"Let's divide into two teams here." Kai pointed to Konoha's people and said, "The wounded will stay, and the others will continue to perform their missions."

"..." Kakashi hesitated looking at the still unconscious Snow.

Maki patted Kakashi on the shoulder and raised his chin towards the door: "Don't worry about the strength of the escort team, we have sent strong backup."

"That's right, we're going to act together this time, the strength is enough."

As soon as Markey finished speaking, a young man's steady voice came from the door of the room.Everyone looked towards the door, only to see Temari and Kankuro walking in following Gaara, and the Konoha ninjas who had seen the power of Izubi felt an invisible pressure.

"It's really reassuring to be a teammate." Seeing the person Kakashi finally felt relieved.

"It's just a favor." Gaara said coldly, crossing his arms.

After the discussion, the people quickly split up and acted separately. Kakashi packed the stone and returned it to the reluctant Kinako, and stayed with Kanna at the rest point.

Sand Ninja's medical ninja quickly treated Shenna's wounds and sent him to rest quickly. However, the rookie who was always tired this time insisted on waiting for Yuki to wake up.

Helpless, Kakashi had no choice but to let him wait for Xue's treatment to finish. The two who were driven out the door looked at the night in the corridor relatively silently, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

"...Kakashi-senpai...I... am I not suitable to be called Anbu..." After a long silence, Kanna lowered her head, not sure if she was talking to herself or asking others.

"I originally joined Anbe because I thought it would be cool to protect the village in the dark...I can support no matter how heavy the work is, but...but...today...I really...think, am I not suitable for this job? An Anbu is not even fit to be a ninja..."

Kanna crouched by the wall, hugging her head and weeping softly. The evening wind blew, and Kakashi seemed to be recalled by the coolness. Looking at the younger generation who showed his weak side, it was like seeing his former self.

Before he could speak, the door of the room opened, and Sand Ninja's medical ninja signaled: "She is awake, but I only did emergency treatment, and you still need to take her back for regular treatment for the rest."

Kakashi thanked Sand Ninja and watched him go to Maki to report back, glanced at Kanna who was still sluggish, took off the dusty vest and put it at the door and walked into the room alone.

The girl's body was covered with white bandages, and her thin body sat on the bed quietly looking at the scenery outside the window, like a still picture scroll, making people unable to bear to break the tranquility.Kakashi, whose stomach was full of reprimanding words, couldn't help but lighten his steps and walked slowly towards the girl.

"...This is the village where we went on a mission for the first time." Just as Kakashi walked to the bed with light steps, the girl suddenly spoke, the voice from the bandaged neck was a bit hoarse, but the coldness The tone is the same as always.

"At that time, I thought it was just a simple extra-staff task like before, but I didn't expect to become a member of the team, and even... like having a family." Before Kakashi could reply, Yuki continued on. , the girl babbled in a different way than before, not knowing who she was talking to, or she just wanted to confide, "Tsuruta was afraid that I would stab me in the back like the rumors and wouldn't let me stop, but it turned out In the end he still remembered."

"...Teacher." The girl turned her head, and Kakashi's never-before-seen expression appeared on her face covered with tape, and her bloodshot eyes flickered faintly.The expression of the mask, which was originally unmoved by anything, had cracks visible to the naked eye, dripping onto the bedding like glass.

"Does the teacher remember that rock climbing owes me a winner's reward?"

"Well, what do you want?"

"I want to ask the teacher...turn around..."

The silver-haired Kakashi hesitated for a while, and finally turned around slowly. Suddenly, he felt a warmth on his back. The girl clutched Kakashi's clothes tightly, and put her head on the only support, as if the gate had finally been opened. , the steady voice trembled.

"I don't want... I don't want the teacher to see me now... Please, don't look at me..."

The girl's words were accompanied by a crying voice, which was a voice Kakashi had never heard before, like the howling of a beast at the end, desolate in the dark night, and went straight to the heart and lungs.

"Yes, I'm sorry... Teacher... I'm sorry... Well, I still... Didn't listen to you... I killed my teammates... I was too arrogant... Please, um, please don't hate me... "

The intermittent sobbing made the girl's words almost impossible to complete a complete sentence, and her back felt wet, and the increasingly intense trembling gave Kakashi the urge to turn around and hug the abandoned little leopard.

"But teacher...I understand...as a ninja...sacrifice is inevitable...I have seen many times, uh, companions die...but...but...why is it so uncomfortable this time?"

The girl finally let go of her emotions and felt this completely unfamiliar emotion. This was the first time she had tasted the taste of "crying" since she was sensible.

"I... I don't want to have teammates anymore... I don't want... I don't want to be like myself..." Anbu Huoyue, who used to be frightening in the past, screamed like an unreasonable child, " I don't need any teammates!"

The silver-haired jonin restrained his urge to turn around, and said slowly, "Then, are you going to forget your teammates?"

The girl behind her didn't answer, but quickly shook her head against Kakashi's back, choking with sobs, trying her best to deny the sharp question.

"They risked their lives to protect you, but you want to deny everything they have done?"

"I...I didn't...I just..."

"Think about what they have passed on to you, and the belief they need you to inherit, and feel it in your heart." Kakashi felt the girl behind him gradually stop trembling, as if she was concentrating on waiting for her words, "The passing away Comrades will always be with you."

It seems to be said to a crying girl, it seems to be said to Kanna who is hiding outside the door and eavesdropping, and it seems to be said to myself who recalls the past.

"But...but I..."

"Be strong, become strong enough to protect important things." Kakashi finally violated the agreement, turned around and touched the girl's forehead, the crescent-shaped eyes under the mask were still so warm, "Be good now." Cry out."

Snow, who could no longer restrain his emotions, threw himself into Kakashi's arms, and the injured wild leopard cried wantonly as if wanting to vent all his sorrow at once, tears wet Kakashi's clothes mercilessly , until exhausted.

After a long time, Kakashi followed the hair of the kitten who had been crying for a long time, and after confirming that the girl was asleep, he slowly closed the door and left the room.Looking down, she saw Kanna who was still squatting outside the door, hugging her knees, wondering what she was thinking.

"...I have always thought that Huoyue-senpai is omnipotent, a perfect ninja who is not disturbed by anything just like the rumors. It turns out that the senior also has such emotions..." Kanna who was sitting blankly said suddenly.

"It's because I rely too much on the seniors, and I always rely on the care of the seniors to act like a baby. Tsuruta-senpai is right, no matter how she looks, Huoyue-senpai is still a 13-year-old girl, how can I be so ashamed as an older brother. Wiping away the tears on his face, Kanna stood up, looking straight at Kakashi with a blunt and firm gaze, "I won't cry anymore, it's my turn to protect my sister from now on!"

The light of the new moon was faint and distant, Kakashi looked at the faint bright color, it was the light of new life and hope.

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In consideration of reporting the task and further treating Yuki, Kakashi decided to set off to rush back to Konoha the next day.After bidding farewell to Maki's team, he and Kanna set foot on the way back.

Although the wound was treated and the person became conscious, Xue still seemed to have difficulty adapting to the sudden overload of chakra, and she developed a high fever when she woke up in the morning.

Kakashi could only run all the way carrying Yuki who continued to fall asleep due to fever.The girl was wrapped in a blanket, with her head resting on Kakashi's shoulders, she seemed to be trapped in a nightmare and kept whispering, but when she listened carefully, she said "I'm sorry" mechanically.

Lifting the girl up, Kakashi suddenly regretted it. He wishfully pulled the lone wolf into the pack of wolves, but he didn't think about whether it would collapse once it returned to being alone again.

Maybe I was wrong?

The wounds of the body can heal, but the wounds of the heart will always leave hideous scars.Worried that the girl would never recover from this fall, Kakashi returned to Konoha with his thoughts rolling.

When he arrived at the medical class, he was busy again. Tsunade's disciple Shizune was still treating Yuki, so Kakashi was urgently called to Hokage's office, and heard another news that shocked him-Uchiha Sasuke's defection.

The author has something to say:

One more time for the Lantern Festival, now I completely let myself go [self-destructive] hahaha o(*≧▽≦)ツ

This task is to pinpoint the time period when Kakashi and Kai went out for the task before Sasuke defected. The content of the second volume is the time before the end of the first part of Shippuden. I am slowly writing. I don’t know when I can write enough. .

The manuscript is finally almost finished, there are probably two more chapters like this o(*￣▽￣*)ゞ

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