[Hokage] Brand

"It's so late, what's the matter, father?"

"Hmm." Uchiha Qi Ran's face was a little stiff, "There is something wrong."

Rui Huo turned sideways to make way, "Then, let father come in and talk."

Uchiha Qi Ran bit the bullet and walked in. In fact, Ruihuo's room was arranged by him himself, but after Ruihuo was born, he didn't come in a few times.

He knelt on the tatami mat, straightened his back, and tried his best to look like a serious patriarch, but the corner of his eyes drifted to the cup that Qian Yan had just used on the table.

"Cousin Qianyan came to say goodbye to me just now." Ruihuo came over, brewed a pot of tea again, took away Qianyan's used cup, replaced it with another cup, and filled it up.

After completing this series of actions, Ruihuo sat down opposite Uchiha Qiran, put his hands lightly on his knees, and looked at him, "Father, can you tell me what's going on now?"

"Cough," Uchiha Qi Ran unnaturally looked away from Ruihuo's dark eyes. "This mission is far away from the clan's land, and it is quite special. The mission-related things have been prepared, and someone will bring them to you later." After speaking, he put the box in his hand on the table and pushed it over.

Ruihuo caught the box and opened it. "This is..." [Cannian] Ruihuo swallowed the last two words.

"This is left to you by your mother." Uchiha Qi Ran's serious face was softened a lot at the moment, and the sadness in his eyes seemed to overflow in the next moment. "This is made of chakra conductive metal. When you attach chakra to it, it will not make a sound. It is also engraved with runes, which are equivalent to amulets."

"Mother?" Ruihuo's tone is no longer as indifferent as before. From birth to now, everyone has deliberately avoided this word in front of her. She only knows that she is a premature baby and her mother died when she was born.Because at that time, in order to maintain the passing vitality of this body, she did not pay attention to how her mother died.

"Ah, your mother loves you very much." [Actually, I love you too] Uchiha Qi Ran finally looked at her squarely at this moment, looking at her tenderly with a father's eyes.

"So that's how it is." Ruihuo stroked the bell, frowned slightly, let go, and smiled in relief, 【It turned out that the cub was persistent and refused to leave because he was worried about the cub】

But in the eyes of Uchiha Qi Ran on the opposite side, it was Ruihuo who had always hated the mother's early death and his father's indifference, so he pretended that he was mature and didn't need the care of his parents. At this moment, he finally knew that his mother was The one who loved himself finally laughed like a child.

He suddenly resented that he escaped these years and failed to fulfill the responsibility of a father. He thought that Qianyan's family could take good care of Ruihuo. He thought that giving Ruihuo the best in the family would make Ruihuo grow up well. It turned out that For a long time, Ruihuo longed for his parents.He is really stupid. Where in this world is there a child who doesn't yearn for the care of his parents?

Ruihuo on the other side didn't know that Uchiha Qiran's brain hole had suddenly become so big, but he felt that Uchiha Qiran's eyes were inexplicably more guilty when he looked at her.

"Hey, father, can you put it on for me?" Ruihuo took out the bell and was about to hand it to him.In fact, she really just wanted Uchiha Qi Ran to be a bell, and she didn't have any other ideas.

However, the other party didn't think so.At the moment when he heard Ruihuo's words, Uchiha Qi Ran's heart seemed to be hit suddenly, his lips trembled slightly, and he felt a little hard to breathe. 【Sure enough, does Ruihuo still long for his parents?Even my so neglected father. 】

"Is father not willing? Then..." Ruihuo saw that he hadn't answered, thought he wouldn't either, and was about to take it back.

"No," Uchiha Qi Ran came back to his senses, and quickly stretched out his hand to grab the bell.The hand of an adult male is naturally many times larger than that of a six-year-old little Douding, so he held the bell and his hand in the palm of his hand.The soft touch made him slightly startled, it turned out that his Ruihuo was still so small.

With a light grip, he can wrap her entire hand, and with a little more strength, it seems that she can crush her tenderness.His child, his and Zhiwei's child is still so young.It should be the age when you are carefree and enjoy the protection of your parents wantonly.

That's right, in his distant childhood memory, when he was six years old, he should still be willful under the protection of his parents.But his Ruihuo has been quietly enduring alone for so many years.He suddenly didn't want to let go. His daughter should have been pampered and grown up, instead of having a father like this, but living a wronged life like an orphan.

Uchiha Qi Ran thought a lot for a moment, and finally he let go of Ruihuo's hand, took the bell, walked to Ruihuo's side, squatted down, and prepared to help her tie it on.He gently lifted the hair on Ruihuo's side, and the black hair was entwined around his fingertips like a fine silk. In a trance, he seemed to touch Zhiwei again.

His hair is always as sharp as thorns, but Zhiwei is different, her hair is as soft but tough as hers.

Uchiha Qi Ran slowly tied the ribbon, although the movement was slow but natural and smooth, it was a very skilled technique.

At this moment, Uchiha Qi Ran's heart was full of happiness and guilt. He suddenly begged that time would pass slowly, and slower. Since Zhiwei left, he had never been so close to his child. He has never felt so happy like this moment. He has been avoiding and suppressing before, as a father's natural love for his children, now it suddenly bursts out.

"Father?" Ruihuo couldn't see Uchiha Qiran's face at this moment, but could only feel his huge emotional fluctuations.Since they are direct blood relatives, some of Ruihuo's spiritual power was resonated.She felt extremely complicated fluctuations in mental power, and she knew that he was extremely happy, but at the same time, there was also great sadness mixed in.

"......Immediately, it will be fine soon." Uchiha Qi Ran didn't respond immediately, but replied gently after a while

If Ruihuo could see Uchiha Qiran's face at this moment, he would find his moist eye sockets and the kaleidoscope blood wheel eyes that she had never seen before.

In fact, at the moment when Zhiwei died with his own eyes, Uchiha Qi Ran opened the kaleidoscope blood wheel eye, and only his personal dark guards in the whole family knew that he would add an illusion to his eyes when using the blood wheel eye superior.The power of the kaleidoscope is enormous. Without these eyes, this lingering Uchiha family should have been wiped out six years ago, and it has been all these years supported by him alone.However, he couldn't bear it any longer.

Finally fastened.

Uchiha Qi Ran didn't walk away immediately, but stroked his daughter's little head.Rui Huo turned his face to the side, looked at him, tilted his head slightly, and the puzzled expression was clearly seen on this immature face.

"Ruihuo, this task is very important, you must complete it, you know?"

——This is the first time Uchiha Qi Ran spoke to her in such a soft tone, as if coaxing an ignorant cub.Oh yes, she really was his cub.

Realizing this, Rui Huo blinked his eyes and nodded obediently.

"Hmm." - He heard his daughter respond softly.