[Comprehensive] living to death

When Shisui was 15 years old, his father died.Zhishui had been mentally prepared for this, but buried his father silently.Since losing a leg in the war eight years ago, the father who was forced to stay at home has become increasingly depressed. He has always been indulging in the past and cannot get out of it. Everything is taken care of by his wife and children, and he even started to drink alcohol. His body is in this depression. Gradually collapsed.The mother also went from washing her face with tears at the beginning to numbness and patience later, and only pinned all her hopes on Zhishui.

When my father died, my mother even felt relieved.

Zhishui couldn't tell what was in his heart.He understood his mother's feelings, but in his distant memory, his father was so high-spirited, and he was very close to his mother, but in the end, lying in the coffin was a depressed man with sunken cheeks, a thin figure, and black and blue eyebrows .

He thought he was just feeling a little uncomfortable, until he saw his own kaleidoscope Sharingan in the mirror the next day, and he was somewhat enlightened.

In fact, he was still very sad.

Every father was once a hero in the hearts of his children.Shishui can still recall practicing with his father when he was a child, the tall man held his hand and taught him how to throw a shuriken for the first time.The hero is constantly digested by life and suffering, and finally becomes a broken and irreplaceable phantom.But even so, that was his only father.

Since then, he no longer has a father.

Hokage gave him three days off, but Shisui didn't know what to do.He moved to a single apartment a few years ago, and his mother also has her own social circle, and she was born at a very young age, and she is only in her early thirties now.After burying her husband, it was as if she had been reborn, and she even looked refreshed. She lived her life peacefully and steadily every day, as if that person had never appeared in her life.

Just still sad.

He slept in the apartment all day, and in the evening he began to taste the bitter fruit, watching the sunset outside the window with his eyes open.The sky in late autumn is clear and picturesque, the green hills are accompanied by the magnificent sunset, and there are still a few fiery red colors on the hillside-red leaves.

The setting sun is already bleak enough, but there are still black crows "ahhh" flying around.Zhishui was a little upset, but he chose the psychic beast himself, and he couldn't blame others.

At that time, someone knocked on the door, and there was a burst of "bang bang bang bang".Zhishui groaned in his heart, turned over and covered his head with the pillow.

After a while, the door didn't ring.Shisui pulled himself out of the pillow, continued to watch the sunset, but was blocked by someone in the next second.

"What are you doing, aren't you here?"

Zhishui looked at her silently, but she didn't feel that there was anything wrong with her at all, she jumped off as soon as she flicked her hair, walked over with the brilliance of the setting sun behind her back, and stretched out her hand to pull the quilt on Zhishui's body.

"Mingyue, are you still a woman!" Zhishui quickly grabbed the quilt tightly, "What if I don't have any clothes on!"

"You're wearing it, I saw it." She raised her eyebrows and urged, "Hurry up, come with me!"

Zhishui got up helplessly, scratched his head that was sleeping like a bird's nest, and swallowed it back in fright when a glass bottle flew towards him before finishing his yawn.If he hadn't caught it quickly, he might have been thrown back on the bed again.

"Mingyue, what are you doing?"

The cold feeling sticks to the palm of the hand, and the liquid sloshes through the brown glass.Zhishui looked at the careless word "wine" on the bottle, and his expression suddenly became subtle.

"Zhishui, go!"

Mingyue dragged him to the door.

"Hey ninja can't drink..."

Zhishui paused, swallowed back the last half of the sentence, and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go and see the sunset."

They jumped on the high and low roofs of the leaves, and finally came to the east slope.The forests around Konoha are well protected, and many trees from a hundred years ago have been preserved, and they have grown to cover the sky and the sun now.They climbed up the tallest fir tree, just in time to see the setting sun melting gold on the opposite side.

Dark green branches and leaves slanted across their heads, and when they looked up, they could see the bright blue sky.The night rose from behind them, and there was a thin moon lying quietly in the sky.

The sunset was more and more brilliant, but when I thought that this was the last brilliance of the day, I felt extraordinarily desolate from that brilliance.

"Drink and drink."

Mingyue also took a bottle of beer and knocked the cap on the tree trunk next to her.A person who knows how to drink can knock off the bottle cap without a corkscrew, but she only knocked off the cap with a gap in her movements.

Zhishui squinted, and was glared at by her.

"What's so difficult..."

Unconvinced, she raised the handle of the knife at her waist, as if she was going to use her well-made and fine-quality rib to cut the wine cap.

"Forget it, let me do it." Zhishui took the beer, "I should cherish my beloved knife, or do you want to change its name to 'Beer Cut'?"

"It's a good name, I'll think about it."

She replied as if nothing had happened, smiling, still so cheeky.

Pop, pop.

Zhishui opened his own bottle, watched the sunset and took a big gulp.He hadn't drank too much wine, so he couldn't tell if it was good or bad. He only knew that the cold wine was poured into his mouth, echoing with the cool wind in late autumn, which awakened his sleepy brain a lot.

The Konoha under the setting sun is quiet and beautiful, so he can't look away.He didn't remember how long he watched it, but he only remembered that night fell, and the deep blue night sky was inlaid with countless diamond-like stars.

He drank a bottle of beer and passed another bottle beside him.Zhishui turned his thinking brain and asked, "Why didn't you drink?"

"Young man, what do you intend to do by letting a young girl drink alcohol?" She shook the drink can in her hand at him, "And I am a loyal Pocari fan!"

"Yes, since I was a child, I was forced to drink together, obviously I like Coke." Zhishui laughed at her.

"You don't understand, it's for your own good not to let you drink Coke."

"I thank you."

When the beer is swallowed, there will be a "gulp" sound.The Konoha lights in front of him flickered, blurring into a faint colored light.Zhishui suddenly remembered learning to swim when he was a child. At a certain section of Nanhe River, he took a deep breath and buried his head in the water, paddling jerkyly with his limbs. His father supported his stomach, and his broad palms were so stable in the cold water.

"If you want to cry, I will lend you my shoulder. We have known each other for so many years, so don't be restrained."

Only then did Shishui realize that he was crying.

"...It's a bit embarrassing."

This is already the second time, weeping weakly in front of her.I always feel like it should be the other way around.

"So don't worry about it so much. People have to have a place to cry, and keep being strong after crying."

She handed him a pack of tissues.

"Well, here it is for you."

"Be prepared."

"necessary."

Zhishui buried his face in the paper towel, tears kept flowing, but somehow wanted to laugh.

In the forest, an owl "cuckoos".

He raised his head and saw a round moon leaning against the blue sky.The faint moonlight shone on them, and the girl beside her was holding the tree trunk with both hands, with a tall and straight figure, black hair like a cloud, and a delicate and beautiful jade-colored profile.

Zhishui felt that his nerves should be paralyzed by alcohol.

"Moon."

"Aiqing is ready to play."

"You're so pretty." He looked at Qingmei's face and said seriously, "Really, I always thought you were pretty."

The eyes were filtered by tears, filtered again by alcohol, and starry night and moonlight, so the vision was hazy and soft, and what she saw was shimmering.

She was smiling, her eyes and brows were clear and unrestrained.

"Thank you, I think so too." She patted him on the shoulder, "I mean, I've always thought that I'm good-looking, and I belong to the kind who can rely on appearance but rely on strength."

They were laughing on the tree in the moonlight.

very nice.

Zhishui felt a kind of happiness that was almost sad, and he didn't quite understand what it was like, but there was never a moment like this, which made him very sure that they would be best friends for life.

They stayed in the tree that night, very late, and they didn't know why the time passed so quickly.The night wind in late autumn is already quite cold, but the moonlight is also extraordinarily clear and cold.

"Sister, Zhishui, how long are you going to stay here?"

In the end it was Itachi who came to find them.

"Hey, little weasel, you're here~" She waved her hand under the tree from the side, "Zhishui is drunk, come up and carry this guy away!"

"Hey, don't talk nonsense, I didn't..."

But the ferret had already leaped nimbly onto the tree trunk.This young man whose stature has not yet matured, but whose eyes are deep and steady, first looked at his sister, and then asked him: "Zhishui, do you need help?"

He shook his head.What a joke, even if he admits Itachi is a rare genius, Shisui doesn't want to be humiliated.And two bottles of beer will not make people drunk.

"Go back." Itachi said.

The wind moved through the forest, the shadow of the moon swayed slightly, the owl was still hooting, and there were a few frogs croaking in the distance.Some people have already turned off the lights, leaving a piece of peace.There was a sweet fragrance in the air, Zhishui thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't remember what kind of flower this fragrance was.

The village is so beautiful at night.

such peace...

"Itachi," Shisui said, "Sure enough, as ninjas of Konoha and Uchiha, we have to protect the peace of the village."

The young child looked at him with a clear expression, "Yes."

"Ahaha... Zhishui."

She grabbed his neck and gritted her teeth a few times with a threatening look on her face. "Did you just say you missed a name?" she said. "Me, me? Sexism is bad, you know?"

Shisui showed a smile.He and Itachi beside him looked at each other, tacitly seeing the same emotion in each other's eyes.

"This is something only men can understand." Zhishui said.

"Hehe, Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Itachi, I think we have to fight today..."

The light made the shadows of the three of them very long.

In fact, I just want to protect important people... This simple mood has nothing to do with gender, strength or weakness.Whether it is him or Itachi, they are all in the same mood.

Of course, so did she.

At the end of the day, they are all the same people.

After getting the kaleidoscope Sharingan, Zhishui and Mingyue studied his eyes together.His ability is called "Bie Tianshen", which can instantly invade other people's brains and permanently modify the other's will. To put it modestly, it can be regarded as the strongest illusion.

"The strongest ghost, it will cool down for more than ten years after using it once. It's so tasteless, it's not as good as my 'Dongzhen'." Kaleidoscope knows the name of its ability and its characteristics, which is a bit scary."

"Really, what's so scary?" He asked with a smile.

"'Brain in a vat', the highest will of the universe or something..."

He remembered that it was a sunny day, and the leaves above his head turned translucent bright green in the sunlight.

"How about eating dumpling?" He suggested, "I'll treat you."

"Let's go!"

But having said that, "Bie Tianshen" is still a very useful ability, the only fly in the ointment is that Zhishui doesn't know who to use it on.

"How about Shimura Danzo?" She suggested enthusiastically, "That cool old man has always been suspicious, why don't you instill in him some beliefs like 'make the world full of love'?"

"This is..."

"I'm curious about it, Shisui!" Her eyes lit up, "What will happen if you convince him that 'I'm a girl'? Tell me, will he confess his love to the third generation?"

Zhishui's jaw almost dropped to the ground.

Of course, they all knew it was a joke.Danzo is a big man in the village, surrounded by heavy guards, it is unlikely that Shisui will have the opportunity to perform illusions alone.Even if there is no need for that.

After all, this is the era of the Fourth Hokage.Moreover, the Uchiha clan, which was once imprisoned in a corner of the village, has gradually dispersed in every corner of Konoha. After about a hundred years, only Tokueda can inherit this long-standing surname.

Although it sounds embarrassing, Zhishui believes that this is the best way for the family and the village.

"By the way, Shisui, let me tell you, I found out that a girl confessed to my little Itachi!"

Mingyue is always elated when talking about her younger brother.

Shisui thought about Itachi's age. "That's right, Itachi is 12 years old, it's time to fall in love." He asked, "Did he agree?"

"I don't know." She said wryly, "I didn't see it, someone else saw it and told me. Hey, I found out that there are a lot of girls who like Xiao Itachi. For example, he has a junior. Well, I doubt Xinxiang I liked him too..."

Sometimes Zhishui doubts whether her own Qingmei regards Itachi as her younger brother or her son, and she can talk endlessly every time she talks about her younger brother, which makes Zhishui think of her mother.

Speaking of mothers...

"My mother is also in love." Zhishui said, "I will probably get married soon."

The guy was silenced immediately.She blinked a few times, then stroked the broken hair around her ears, looking a little at a loss.

"Oh..." She would blink faster when she was nervous, "Then I'll buy you a drink!"

Zhishui burst out laughing.

"Then I drink again, do you drink Pocari?" He patted Qing Mei's back, "Thanks, but no need, I don't think there is anything wrong with it."

Unlike her, her mother is a vine-like woman who needs to be attached to a big tree to be happy.Everyone has the freedom to choose their own way of life, even as a son, he has no position to interfere.

And he really felt good about it.

"Let's go eat dumplings." Zhishui said.

"Don't be sweet, I want to eat barbecue!"

"Okay, I'll treat you!" He said briskly.

But after eating the barbecue, they still took a detour to the dumpling shop, because Mingyue was going to bring three-color dumplings back to Itachi.

"This is the so-called 'Uchiha ancestral younger brother control', Shisui! This is a curse!" She had a heartbroken face, "Poor me, I can't escape!"

"...Mingyue, you haven't wiped the barbecue sauce off the corner of your mouth."

It was obviously such a calm day, but at that time Zhishui had already faintly felt that Mingyue seemed to have something on his mind.Under that flying look, hidden is the fear that no one knows.

Later, recalling the past, he felt that he should have discovered it long ago.There is no second person like her, who almost never thinks about her own affairs, and only thinks about pushing others and letting them go farther and better.The same goes for the family affairs, as if she knew something in advance, so she is so eager to force everyone to change.

Before she left, the last words she confessed to him were to give Itachi her eyes.Not a hypothetical "what if...", but a sure "give my eyes to Itachi".

... What does Mingyue know?

He never had a chance to ask again.