[Comprehensive] living to death

"You can be discharged from the hospital. However, I still invite Itachi-kun to come for a check-up every month."

The doctor lowered his head to write down something in the notes, and couldn't see his expression clearly, but Itachi was still keenly aware of the surprise on the other side.

"Few people recover so quickly." The doctor said with emotion, "Is it true that it is Konoha's best ninja Itachi-kun?"

No, unless it is a trauma that is assisted by medical Chakra, the recovery speed of ninjas will not be much faster than ordinary people.But ordinary people always tend to exaggerate every aspect of a powerful ninja, which is the ignorance of the "unknown".

Itachi had this thought in his mind; he was not evaluating anything, but was observing the world every moment, and using his own way of thinking to give answers.This is his habit since he was a child, and it must be like this in the future.

"I'm going to trouble Dr. Nakano during this time." Itachi slightly bowed and replied sternly.

This 13-year-old boy is no longer a childish child; being watched by Itachi's deep and serious eyes, many adults will unconsciously tense up.

Nakano is no exception.

"This is our duty." He tensed his back unknowingly, and replied squarely.

"Itachi, is your body really alright?"

The mother, Miqin, still couldn't restrain her worry; her eldest son, who had always been strong, fell seriously ill. Even though the hospital said that the illness was completely under control and almost recovered, she still couldn't help checking Itachi's health again and again.

Itachi was about to answer, but was preempted by another person.

"No problem, no problem!" The man hugged his shoulders and patted his shoulders with a smile, "Children get sick occasionally, which can help improve immunity! Our weasel is healthier now than before. Be strong... oh no, be healthy!"

"Mingyue, be careful." The mother was very helpless, but she smiled again, "Your brother has just been discharged from the hospital."

Itachi saw his sister give him a smug sideways look and winked at him; Itachi couldn't help laughing too.The little nurse next to her stared wide-eyed, and her face was a little red; but Itachi didn't notice.

He only saw his sister raised her chin and said plausibly, "That's right, Mom~ right, Dr. Nakano?"

"Hey? Yes, yes!" Nakano replied in a panic.

Itachi suspected that Nakano hadn't heard what Qingmingyue was saying.Every time, when his sister laughed, very few people were not in a daze.

"Then take my leave."

On the way back, my mother was still talking to them in a whisper.Itachi noticed that his mother would laugh out loud from time to time, and would give her elder sister a light slap in reproach, but her elder sister's expression changed back and forth, but the bright smile in her eyes remained the same.

My sister always makes everyone around me happy, even my serious father.Itachi thought so, and found that he also kept a faint smile on his face.

"...Mingyue, in short, your younger brother is recovering from a serious illness, so you are not allowed to bully him." The mother teased them, looking at her child with loving eyes, "As a big sister, should you be more considerate once in a while?"

"I've always been considerate!" Mingyue plausibly said, "Little Weasel, tell me, am I a considerate, gentle and lovely sister?"

"... If my sister wants to say 'yes'," Itachi sighed deliberately, "That's right."

"Hey!"

When Mingyue pouted, the other two laughed even more happily.She glanced left and right at her family, crossed her hands, and stood still.

"Okay, in order to show that I'm really a good sister, I decided to treat everyone to eat three-color dumplings." She said, "That seems to be Xiao Itachi's favorite, right?"

Facing her sister's ridicule, Itachi silently gave her an evaluation: childish.

It's as childish as he is 13 years old and his sister still wants to call him "Itachi-chan".

"Then Mingyue will go with Itachi." The mother said with a smile, "There are still chores waiting for Mom to finish at home."

"Ah, then I will use my shadow to help..."

"No need."

Mingyue's words were interrupted by her mother.

"Mingyue has only been back for a few days, right? Just take a good rest." Seeing that she wanted to say more, her mother suddenly reached out and touched her head, "It's okay, there's not much housework."

"Mom is really happy to have such a sensible child like you." Meiqin said softly, her gentle and beautiful face was full of satisfaction.

Mingyue's eyelashes trembled slightly.

"Of course, I also feel that I am sensible! Hahaha~"

She slapped Itachi on the back.

"Let's go, weasel!"

******

The afternoon sky was bright and clear.A cat was lying in front of the dumpling shop, lazily basking in the sun, flicking its tail from time to time.When it saw two humans approaching here, it let out a "meow" and ran away in a hurry.

This is a newly opened dumpling shop, and at this point in time, there are no customers inside, only the dark blue curtains swaying gently in the breeze.

Mingyue walked ahead and opened the curtain.

"Welcome... ah! Senior Mingyue!" The clerk's eyes fell on Itachi who was following Mingyue, his eyes widened in surprise, "Itachi-kun?"

It was a girl about the same age as Mingyue, with a delicate appearance and a bit of hearty and pungent eyes; Mingyue knew her.

Inari Shinka, Itachi was also a teammate during the ninja period.

"Hey, isn't this Xinxiang?" Mingyue waved her hand, "Long time no see, are you working as a shop assistant here?"

"Yes!" Xinxiang smiled a little embarrassedly, "Actually, I had the idea of ​​quitting the ranks of ninjas a few years ago... Sure enough, I still can't persevere with my aptitude, so let's be an ordinary person."

Her expression was a little regretful, but more of a satisfaction with the current ordinary life.

"Long time no see, Xinxiang." Itachi greeted lightly.

Mingyue glanced at her younger brother, and found that he was as cold as ever in front of outsiders, even when facing his former teammates.She poked her younger brother's waist and signaled him to be more enthusiastic with her eyes, but unfortunately her younger brother responded with small eyes that seemed deep but were actually dazed.

The villain in Mingyue's heart sighed in the vicissitudes of life.

"It's been a long time, Itachi-kun!"

Xinxiang was very used to Itachi's indifferent appearance, so she didn't think it was disobedient, but rather happily responded.

"Then Xinxiang, give me a bunch of soy sauce dumplings and a bunch of matcha dumplings, give this guy next to me two bunches of three-color dumplings, and two cups of hot tea." Mingyue quickly ordered, "What else do you want, little girl?" Itachi?"

Itachi tilted his head and glanced at his sister, "No, these are fine."

"'This guy', 'Itachi-chan'?...? Are you talking about Itachi-kun?" Xinxiang laughed narrowly, "Oh, itachi-kun didn't object. He is really cute and cute in front of my sister, right?"

"Xinxiang." Itachi showed a helpless look.

"Yes, I got it!" Itachi's former teammate waved his hand, "Please sit down for a while, Senior Mingyue and Itachi-kun, refreshments and tea will be brought over soon!"

The store is not big, Mingyue found a place to sit by the side.There is also a banyan tree outside the window, with swaying branches and leaves, which also adds a bit of fun and coolness to the room.

The younger brother on the opposite side was wearing a forehead protector, with a small speck of light swaying on it; some broken hair was scattered on the side of the shiny forehead protector, and the rest of the long hair was gathered behind the boy's head and tied into a bundle .

Sensing his sister's gaze, Itachi looked over, his handsome face still had an overly calm expression.

"elder sister?"

Mingyue smiled.

"This is for you." She held her face and smiled, "I saw it when I went out this time, and I thought it looked pretty good, so I bought it."

Itachi was taken aback, but still took the thing from Mingyue.

"This is... a necklace?" He observed with some confusion, trying to read what his sister said was "pretty" in this dull, ordinary light blue crystal.

"Simple, unadorned, rough, and manly!" Mingyue said, "It's very suitable for you, right! Quickly, quickly, let me see!"

Itachi: "..."

Although it was a bit strange for my sister's eagerness, itachi still put on the necklace silently because he was used to his elder sister's thoughts.He lowered his head and adjusted the position of the pendant, and looked up to see his sister looking at him and smiling.

It was an extraordinarily warm and soft smile, so soft that it didn't look like his hot-tempered sister anymore.

But it's just fleeting.

"It looks good, after all, it's my vision." Mingyue admired.

"No, sister, it's just a very ordinary necklace."

"Little Weasel! When did you learn to complain?!"

"Just tell the truth."

Before his sister glared, Itachi turned his face nonchalantly, with a small arc at the corner of his mouth.

"The dumpling is here," he said.

Xin Xiang, who was carrying a tray, walked to them and set the cups and plates one by one. "Really, what if Itachi-kun asked me to say something first?" She complained half-truthfully, "Then, this belongs to Senior Mingyue, and this belongs to Itachi-kun."

Although she is no longer a ninja, Xinxiang's movements are still smoother and more dexterous than ordinary people, and she hardly makes the sound of cups and saucers colliding.

"Speaking of which," Xinxiang asked, "Itachi-kun is also a jounin now, right? Congratulations, Itachi-kun."

"Thank you."

Itachi is always stable when dealing with outsiders, neither warm nor wrong.Xinxiang has long been accustomed to the calm restraint of this former teammate, and only needs a little response to continue talking enthusiastically.

"Ah, it's great to be talented. Whether Itachi-kun or Mingyue-senpai, they all became jounin at a young age." She said, "Mingyue-senpai, do you know that for a long time, I was the senior role model; if there were no seniors, I might have chosen to give up earlier."

Itachi graduated from the ninja school at the age of 7, and was teammates with Xinxiang, who was 12 years old at the time. In other words, Xinxiang was actually one year older than Mingyue; but she called Mingyue "senior" without any pressure at all.

"A role model? Me?" Mingyue pointed to her nose, blinked, and said calmly, "Yes, Xinxiang, you have a good eye."

"Hahaha, Senior Mingyue's words are still so interesting." Xinxiang smiled, "However, after witnessing Itachi-kun's amazing talent, I am finally sure that no matter how hard I try, I will not be able to catch up with you; No such talent."

She spoke very calmly, probably already accepted this fact.Mingyue noticed that after Xinxiang finished speaking, her younger brother looked at her very seriously, looking thoughtful.

"Isn't it good to not have the talent to fight and kill?" Mingyue picked up her soy sauce dumpling, bit off a bite, and said while chewing, "No one stipulates that only the 'talent' of a ninja is a 'talent'. Well... um... For example, Xinxiang's dumplings are much better than others', and they can be called the best in Konoha, right Itachi?"

Itachi held up his three-color dumpling in his hand, swallowed the one in his mouth, then thought about it seriously, and nodded.

"Don't look at this guy like this, in fact, he has eaten all Konoha's dumplings, and he already has a review list in his heart." Mingyue lowered her voice and said to Xinxiang, "After all, my little itachi is a dumpling lover!"

"...Sister!" The young man showed a little embarrassment.Itachi is not used to showing his true self to others, including the little hobby of dumpling.

Sure enough, Xinxiang smiled in surprise: "Really, Itachi-kun?"

Itachi didn't want to lie, so he nodded silently and reluctantly, and secretly threw a condemning look at his sister.

"Haha, yes, I am very confident when it comes to dumplings!" Xinxiang said, her eyes sparkling, "I want to make the most delicious dumplings in the world in the future!"

Amidst Xinxiang's laughter, Mingyue took a sip of tea - she choked on something in a hurry to speak - and then said unhurriedly: "So it's all right, everyone goes according to their own minds. Doing what you are good at is itself a manifestation of 'talent'."

The leaves outside "shua la la" and "shua la la" sounded.

Xinxiang bit her lower lip.

"...Am I being comforted by Senior Mingyue? I'm really a little embarrassed." She smiled, "Well, I will work hard! Senior Mingyue and Itachi-kun also work hard!"

After Xinxiang's back disappeared behind the counter, Mingyue looked away and looked at her younger brother who was quietly eating dumplings.

"Hey, weasel."

She put her elbows on the table, leaned forward, and hooked her fingers at her younger brother.

"I'm talking about Itachi," Mingyue asked with a half-smile, "Just now when Xinxiang said that she gave up becoming a ninja because of your talent, what were you happy about?"