Naruto You

Long time, long forward.

Konoha, the long summer season, finally waited for this year's fireworks display.

Needless to say, the first fireworks of this year will be lit by Naruto. As night falls, in front of Hokage Rock in Konoha, a young man in a light-colored bathrobe is surrounded by a large group of people, holding a torch to light the first fireworks of the year. A bunch of fireworks, looking up at the sky after the first sound of burning, followed by the splendor of a hundred flowers blooming, slowly and involuntarily reminded of Uchiha Sasuke who hadn't seen it at this time in the joyful voice of the crowd.

Probably because I haven't come back from the mission, so I missed this kind of time...

Naruto thought of this, seeing everyone laughing and laughing, couldn't help but wonder if they would remember Sasuke at such a time...

If there is a feeling of being lost, it wraps around the beating heart slowly and gently like water plants.

Why can't they remember Sasuke...

Naruto thought about this in a daze, turned his head to look at the excitement around him, and suddenly felt that they were very different from himself - they would not be thinking about where Sasuke was at this time, because they would not be as dazed as he was ——They just participate in a fireworks display after work to relax their minds. Each of them has their own life and a clear life trajectory, and they don't have too many empty thoughts to care about the existence of a certain person... and now Uzumaki Naruto's life is complete and fulfilling compared to theirs, with past memories that can be inherited continuously, and the expectation that he has been working hard...

"Naruto, why are you in a daze?"

Someone suddenly turned his head to look at him and said this, and then another person reached out and grabbed his arm and pulled him into the lively crowd...

"Our Seventh Generation Lord is the protagonist tonight..."

"Yeah, you like the fireworks display the most, so it's time to make a fuss regardless of Hokage's identity..."

"I still remember one year..."

At that moment, Naruto listened to their excited and happy voices, and listened to the memoryless past in their mouths, and the unreal sense of alienation subsided...

They are not like me...

They are different from Sasuke...

The childish young man under the flickering light spots was a little lost. He looked around again, and suddenly hoped that Sasuke would appear in this place at this moment. His dark abyss-like eyes looked at him very seriously in the silence...

However, the fireworks all over the sky are brilliant and the prosperity of the world is everywhere. In the joy of men, women and children, Naruto has never seen the appearance of Uchiha Sasuke...

Maybe tomorrow, before the multi-day celebration ends...

Naruto with this idea began to look forward to Sasuke returning to Konoha earlier, but such expectations slowly fell through while waiting.

The fireworks display on the last day is coming to an end. There are no people on Konoha Street in the middle of the night. Naruto walks slowly home amidst the sporadic sound of fireworks, kicking the stones on the ground with his head down, flickering lights and shadows His shadow was cast on the ground, looking a little lonely...

The lonely person did not return, and the lonely person returned alone.

Naruto returned to the attic, but when he opened the door, he heard gasps behind him unexpectedly, he turned around in surprise——

The dusty man lifts the raccoon mask on his face...

The last few fireworks in the sky ignited, instantly shining brightly on that exquisite and beautiful face, when the black eyes looked at him, there was still a kind of loneliness that he couldn't understand... But there was a kind of seriousness, and the other people ,are different……

"I am back."

After saying this in a hoarse voice, Naruto looked up at him, grinned, and pointed to the sky.

"Hey, it's over, you bastard Sasuke."

The person standing at the door has no intention of leaving, and the person holding the doorknob is also hesitant to open the door and enter the house.

Naruto leaned against the door and held the doorknob with one hand, looking at the person in front of him, he suddenly didn't want to say "good night and see you tomorrow" under normal circumstances...

Tomorrow, maybe I have another mission to leave, and it feels like I haven't seen you for a long time, and I don't want to leave in a hurry as soon as I meet...

For a moment, the two fell into an ambiguous and frozen atmosphere, holding similar moods, looking at each other quietly, but they didn't know how to take a step forward to approach each other. After a long silence, they tried to open at the same time. Mouth——

"I'm hungry."

"Do you want to have supper?"

In the quiet night, the two voices fell one after the other, and some kind of familiar tacit understanding quietly connected in the silence for a moment after finishing speaking. After a moment of silence, Naruto grinned, "Ha! You can treat Sasuke to some instant noodles."

As he said that, he turned and pushed open the door to turn on the light. The moment the warm light leaked out of the door, he turned his back and missed the expressions on Sasuke's face...

"Hey, I secretly hid a cup of instant noodles behind Sakura's back, Sasuke, don't let Sakura know!"

There was no response from behind, and Naruto who was about to enter the room was puzzled and turned around to see the person behind him still standing where he was and did not follow.

"Sasuke?"

He yelled, raised his head to meet Sasuke's eyes, the black eyes reflected the bright light leaking from the room like water waves under the moonlight, what was tired and flowing fell into the bottom of his heart at once...

A moment of trance.

After staring at each other for a short time, Sasuke hurriedly turned his face away and looked away. Naruto, who had missed his gaze, realized his ecstasy, and instantly felt embarrassed, "Ah, what are you doing, bastard Sasuke!"

He yelled and grabbed Sasuke's arm and pulled him into the room, his loud words were all to cover up the unknown emotions that were suddenly aroused in the last moment, "Why don't you come in quickly if you're hungry, how can I treat you to instant noodles!"

Naruto said and pushed Sasuke to the table, then turned around and tossed the boiled noodles pretending to be busy to hide the embarrassment caused by the unknown emotion.

Neither of them opened their mouths to speak, and for a while, the only sound in the room was the sound of Naruto tossing and boiling water.

Sasuke pulled out the chair and sat down at the table, folded his hands and propped his chin to look at Naruto quietly, and would not look away when Naruto turned around occasionally.

The small attic room is not much different from a long time ago. Familiar doors and windows, familiar furnishings, messy graffiti on the walls, people who disappeared for a time finally come back, an unbelievable miracle in my lifetime...

"All right."

With a bang, a bucket of cup noodles was placed on the table in front of Sasuke, interrupting Sasuke's trance. Naruto, who finally managed to get the boiling water, pulled over the chair and lay down in front of the table, with his chin resting on the table, his blue eyes staring at the cup. Noodles, sniffing the smell of instant noodles, muttered, "Wait another 3 nasty minutes."

He glanced at the clock on the desk as he spoke.

A long time ago, because those similar places turned around like reincarnation, Sasuke smiled when he saw Naruto like this, and the person lying on the table turned his head to look at him when he heard the sound, grinning back, "That's right, Sasuke must also find it boring to wait for 3 minutes."

The eyes with a pure smile are so different from the blue eyes in the last memory...

Are you still in the same place?

Sasuke was stunned for a moment, the smile on his lips faded like a shallow wave, and the pain was caught off guard——

Such emotions seemed to easily infect Naruto, and Naruto, who was smiling at first, slowly faded away, looking at Sasuke who suddenly became lonely again, vaguely at a loss, "Sasuke?"

"Yeah." Sasuke responded lightly, rolled his eyes away, took the cup noodles and lowered his head to eat, "It's ok."

As he spoke, he changed the topic again, asked some small things to try to calm his mood, and Naruto, who was slowly being distracted, talked about the interesting things about the fireworks festival in the past few days.

But the blue eyes slowly fixed on the instant noodles that Sasuke was eating and couldn't move away.

After noticing this, Sasuke's originally complicated emotions suddenly became a little more subtle, and finally couldn't help turning away his face and smiling amidst Naruto's slobbering sound, "Do you want to eat?"

he asked, a little amused in his dark eyes.

Naruto who was asked such a question suddenly stood up like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and the chair fell to the ground with a big movement, "I, I really want to eat it!"

As he spoke, he quickly bent down to lift up the chair in a disguised manner, but after lowering his head, he unexpectedly saw bloody footprints on the ground——

"Sasuke!"

"Ok?"

"Do you know your leg is bleeding?"

Sasuke flinched from being asked such a question, but didn't look down at his legs, "It's okay."

As he spoke, he stood up in a hurry. There was no obvious blood on the black trousers, and the left thigh was wrapped by a dark cloth belt. Bloody footprints.

Naruto frowned. He originally thought that Sasuke didn't know he was injured, but unexpectedly he didn't deal with it on purpose. He took a step forward to check Sasuke's injury, but was dodged——

"It's really all right."

"What are you hiding-"

"Nothing, just a small injury."

He interrupted Naruto's dissatisfied yelling, stepped back towards the door to avoid Naruto's sight, and abruptly changed the subject, "It's late, you have a good rest, I'm leaving first."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave without waiting for Naruto to respond. He never lowered his head to check his injury. Naruto saw him hurriedly avoiding the injury, and suddenly became annoyed, "You are planning to leave it alone, right? !"

Naruto, who was a little angry because of Sasuke's dodging, didn't stop the topic this time according to his intention, stepped forward two steps, grabbed Sasuke's arm and pulled him to the bathroom, "Obviously, the legs are full of blood You bastard!"

Sasuke wanted to break free from Naruto's tugging, but he was so scrupled that Naruto's emotions couldn't do it and just walked away. Naruto pushed him to the bathroom during the tugging, "Don't make trouble with Naruto——"

"Don't make trouble! Just say that you don't need to push around like this to deal with the wound, right? Don't run anymore!"

While speaking, Naruto pushed Sasuke to sit in front of the bathtub, turned on the light, turned around and found the medicine box, and said, "Take off your pants."

After tossing around for a while, I found the medicine box, but when I turned around, I saw the injured man sitting stiffly on the edge of the bathtub and watching himself not moving, "Sasuke, what are you dawdling about? Get off!"

Naruto urged him to open the medicine box and put it aside, bent down to help Sasuke, the person who had been sitting stiffly did not move until Naruto's hand touched his waist, trembling slightly Squeezing Naruto's hand, "I'll do it myself."

As he spoke, he pushed Naruto's hand away and took off his black trousers. He never looked at his injured leg without opening his eyes. His slender hands shrank slightly when they touched the sticky liquid on the trousers. The tip was drawn across the snow-white bathtub, leaving bright red marks.

There was blood on the left leg.

Naruto squatted down to check Sasuke's injury. The wound on the outside of the thigh was large, but it didn't look too deep. Although it seemed to be bleeding a lot before, it has gradually stopped now. The blood is still gurgling out.

"I only have some simple things to deal with here, but it's better than you leaving them alone."

Naruto flushed the uninjured part of Sasuke's left leg with water, picked up the cleaning items from the medicine cabinet and wanted to treat Sasuke's wound, his hands just researched and unintentionally rubbed on Sasuke's leg twice before being grabbed by Sasuke.

"what happened?"

Naruto was puzzled, raised his head to meet Sasuke's black eyes, and after Sasuke looked away uncomfortably, he found his eyes widened like a new land, and his blue eyes were full of playful smiles, "Ha, you won't be Are you afraid of pain?"

Sasuke turned his eyes away and shook his head, without explaining, just said, "I'll do it myself."

As he spoke, he took what was in Naruto's hand and pushed Naruto's hand away. After a short pause, he lowered his head and wanted to treat the wound by himself. When he saw the blood on his leg, the tweezers in his hand fell to the ground with a snap, Sasuke He raised his head abruptly and took a deep breath, hesitating for a moment, facing the puzzlement in Kami Naruto's blue eyes——

"You still come, Naruto."

"So what are you fussing about..."

Naruto grunted, looked at Sasuke in confusion, then took out clean cleaning items from the medicine box to help him clean the wound, then applied medicine and bandaged it...

Technology sucks.

In the process of treating the wound, it was inevitable that there would be big and small accidents and confusion, but from the beginning to the end, Sasuke didn't say a word and didn't lower his head to take a look, except that his breath was slightly disordered and heavy.

Naruto, who was finally done, wiped his face, and the childish face stained with blood unknowingly looked messy. He looked at the unsightly bandage he had put on, and then looked at Sasuke, who was still sitting still. , stretched out his hand and waved in front of Sasuke, "Come back to your senses, bastard!"

But Sasuke backed away violently as if he was frightened by Naruto's hand stretched out in front of his eyes.

Naruto withdrew his hand in a daze, looked down at the blood on his hand as if he understood something, he stood up slowly, Sasuke, who was sitting on the edge of the bathtub, slowly raised his head as he got up, and stared at him uncontrollably. Be careful to get those bloodstains on the light-colored bathrobe, the confusion in the black eyes finally turned into unmistakable panic when they met his blood-stained face...

"Sasuke..."

Naruto yelled, seeing Sasuke's panic suddenly became a little helpless, he scratched his head subconsciously, the blond hair was not immune to blood stains under carelessness.

"Are you... afraid of blood—uh!"

Before he could finish his probing questions, the person who was sitting by the bathtub suddenly stood up and hugged him, slamming him against the cold wall under the shower——

"You bastard—uh!"

The moment he opened his mouth, warm water splashed down his head without warning.

Sasuke suddenly turned on the shower and disturbed Naruto's sight. Naruto closed his eyes and turned his head away from the impact of the water. At this moment, his slender and bony hands held his face and turned his head back. The person squinted his eyes in the water and looked at the person in front of him. The anger that was about to erupt disappeared in the whisper that suddenly sounded in his ears...

"It's okay, it's okay..."

The low and hoarse voice in the rushing water seems to be filled with water vapor, as if the comforting repeated murmur cannot hide a certain helplessness...

Holding his cheeks with both hands, his thumbs brushed across his eyelids to help him wipe off the water that slipped past his eyes, and the slightly bloody water slowly became clear...

The blue eyes narrowed slightly in the mist, and Naruto slightly raised his head to meet Sasuke's face close in front of him, seeing his black hair wetted by the pouring water sticking to his face, the clear water sliding across the dark His eyes slipped from his thin chin, his flustered expression seemed to be wetted by water, and he gradually calmed down...

Sasuke...was washing the blood on his face...

Thinking so, Naruto didn't try to break free from Sasuke's shackles.

The light-colored bathrobe was drenched with water, and the blood stains that had not been stained for a long time were easily washed away. At this moment, Sasuke's series of inexplicable behaviors all found an answer that could be explained——

"Sasuke... is afraid of blood..."

He raised his hand and patted Sasuke's back tentatively. He couldn't figure out what the touched emotion in his body was called. He asked softly, with a hidden meaning of comfort. He didn't expect the man who was used to silence to speak. Answered, but unexpectedly, Sasuke would suddenly lean down and press his forehead against his, his dark abyss-like eyes were filled with mist from the raindrops...

"afraid."

He said, the slight voice mixed in the water mist was like a humble and submissive sigh, "So don't let me see you stained with blood..."

As he spoke, he slowly slid his hands down. His fingertips slid across Naruto's cheeks, neck, collarbone, arms, and finally wrapped around Naruto's back. The tight arms squeeze the confined space little by little, so tight that you can clearly feel the shape of muscles and bones close to each other...

Naruto felt the closeness of Sasuke's sudden entanglement, confusion and bewilderment flashed across his childish face, and he wanted to shrink back from the undisguised intimacy, and the slight struggle fell silent in the voice ringing in his ears ,"Naruto……"

"Naruto……"

The name he yelled in his ear seemed to flow across his body with the current of water, touching the numbness of every pore one by one, and seemed to penetrate the whole body little by little through the pores...

"Naruto……"

Repeating the syllable of the same name tirelessly, the thin lips rubbed down along the forehead and cheeks while exhaling, like an excuse to kiss, and softly like worship.The touch and the water flow had a strange smoothness. Naruto's breathing gradually became a little unsteady. He felt a certain loss of control. He tried to push Sasuke away again, but he was unwilling to let go with his slight movements. His arms were brought closer to his bosom, like tightly coiled but not fatal boa constrictors.

The two people under the shower are entangled, the warm light reflects the mist of the water, the water droplets on the wall are unbearably thick and the mist slides down, there is a kind of gentleness in the quietness of the water.

Strange fluctuations began to rise in the body, Naruto felt flustered, a panic that he didn't know what would happen, "Sasuke, let me go..."

He said, turning his head slightly, the corner of his lips brushed against Sasuke's, and then hurriedly turned his head to the other side, the disordered and suppressed breathing became clearer in his ears, and the originally restless person spoke to him After that, he stopped slowly.

It took a while before he spoke, "Naruto, I... I'm just a little messed up, just give me a hug."

The entangled arms slowly let go of the confinement on Naruto, Sasuke slowly stood up straight, with his head against the wall, one hand under his forehead, and one hand slightly raised to signal Naruto to leave.

Naruto hesitated for a moment and left the world where Sasuke was imprisoned, and then stood outside the pouring water curtain with a little breath, looking at the figure still drenched in the water, watching the arm raised by Sasuke slowly drop again , and then exhausted all energy, generally just hanging in the water curtain...

The white bandage on the leg was bloody again, smudged a little bit and then washed away by the water flow...

"You...you can take a shower, and I'll bandage it for you when you're done."

Seeing the person in the water curtain nod slightly, Naruto turned around and left the bathroom. The wet bathrobe stuck to his body was a bit messy, and the tiny gurgling water flowed down the wet clothes and slid down his calves, printing on the ground. Each watermark...

Naruto ended up letting Sasuke stay in the loft that night - because it was too late, because his clothes were wet, because he was injured and needed a good rest - or simply had a feeling of reluctance to see him go alone Into the dark night, the darkness where the end is unknown...

So let's just stay for one night, anyway, we are friends, right?

After tossing around for most of the night, it must be too early to open my eyes the next day.

When Naruto got up in a daze, he was hindered by the arm around his waist, and then he remembered Uchiha Sasuke lying beside him.

He looked back at the quietly sleeping person, smiled and muttered, "So you also like to stay in bed."

He got up and walked into the bathroom lightly like a thief. His careless habit still made a bang bang. When he came out of the bathroom, Naruto looked at the bed guiltily. She closed her eyes as if she hadn't been disturbed, and fell asleep without moving her body.

Reassured, Naruto approached the bed, saw the bandage on Sasuke's leg, and decided to go to Sakura - after a few times of tossing and turning last night, the wound medicine was almost used up, it was time to go to Sakura Take some more wound medicine bandages, and change the medicine after Sasuke wakes up.

Thinking this way, Naruto walked towards the door lightly, and Naruto who left didn't know that the person pretending to be asleep on the bed opened his eyes when he closed the door.

Sasuke sat up and caressed the sheet beside him, his beautiful thin lips curled into a smile...

Idiot, who is lying in bed.

The familiar pattern in my heart is a bit boring, and there is a kind of warm and real shallow happiness in such a mood.

I just want to stay where you are, that's all.

Sasuke stood up, and the smile on his face was replaced by sharp indifference after feeling the instant tingling pain in his left leg. His black eyes became deeper and deeper, and he didn't stop any longer. Sasuke also left the attic shortly after Naruto left. Go to the Naruto House.

"You've run out of medicine? Naruto, what's wrong with you?"

Naruto, who had taken the wound medicine at Konoha Hospital, saw Sakura's nervous expression before realizing that he would be suspected by Sakura when he came to get the medicine like this. In the end, the young man who was not good at lying was forced to the wall, but he was still no match for Miss Sakura's violence, showing his feet...

After saying Sasuke's name at that moment, Naruto clearly saw the complexities flashing across Sakura's face, the breeze in the hospital aisle blew lightly, and the hidden secret was blown away like that. Mingguang, and the desire to know more in the bottom of my heart couldn't hold back all of a sudden.

"Sakura, do you know that he is afraid of blood?"

Naruto leaned his back against the wall and asked Sakura who was approaching in front of him. Sakura looked at Naruto and said nothing, turned around and lay down by the window facing the outside of the aisle, and opened his mouth with his back to Naruto.

"Well. It's not a secret, many people know that Sasuke Uchiha is afraid of blood... so scared to death... it's ridiculous."

Naruto felt a vague sense of loss because of Sakura's complicated tone, and finally asked what he had been wondering all along, "Do you all hate Sasuke?"

Sakura, who turned her back to Naruto, asked instead, "Do you know why he is afraid of blood?"

"why?"

"Because he killed the person he cared about most a few years ago."

Naruto was stunned for a moment and his heart beat slightly out of order. Before he answered, he heard Sakura continue, "A person who everyone cares about... Maybe everyone doesn't hate him, but I don't know how to accept him without any grudges."

After finishing speaking, there was a silence between the two of them for a while. Sakura, who didn't hear Naruto's questioning, was a little puzzled, turned around to look at Naruto who had been silent all this time, and saw the boy lowered his eyebrows thoughtfully. , she smiled, not quite understanding her emotions, "Do you care about him?"

"Ah?" Naruto came back to his senses, scratching his head in embarrassment, "That's not true, I just think he works in Anbu, and if he's afraid of blood, it will be troublesome to get injured..."

"Don't worry, no one can hurt him, the one yesterday, it must have been an accident—"

Sakura paused as if she remembered something, stared at Naruto, changed the subject and warned, "You are not allowed to run around recently, if I catch you leaving the village without authorization, you will be unable to get out of the village for half a month bed."

Sakura finished speaking and looked in the direction of Hokage, and couldn't help guessing what kind of accident would hurt Sasuke?I'm afraid it has something to do with the organization that Anbu recently traced...

At this time, Tsunade in Hokage was also asking Sasuke about this mission.

"Many of their places are indeed like the former dark temple." With the tanuki mask on his back, Sasuke leaned against the window and said softly, "It has nothing to do with me."

"So did you find anything?"

"It's not very clear yet. I only know that it's a group of rats digging holes and hiding in Tibet. There may be many rat holes. So far, I haven't met anyone who is considered a master among them, but their ability to create traps is very subtle."

"Your injury?"

"Triggered off while trying to sneak into one of their rat holes, no big deal."

As he spoke, he lowered his head slightly, glanced at his injured left leg, his black eyes fluctuated slightly, and then fell into deepness again, "Strengthen the guards around Naruto, there are rumors from the outside world... about the tailed beast They are still inside Naruto, Naruto's amnesia and ignorance are all designed by Konoha to control the ten tails."

After saying this sentence, the room fell into a moment of silence. Sasuke pulled up his mask to cover all the emotions on his face. Without further explanation, he turned and left, "Protect Naruto."

The harm that has ended will not be let go easily, and the cause and effect generated in time will continue to cause new sorrows and joys in the continuation.

When Sasuke shuttled in the dark to pick up the new crimes, Naruto continued to be at a loss in Konoha.

Almost all the ninjutsu that can be learned during this period of time can be mastered, but some skills that are unique to the Seventh Hokage still have no one to guide. ever.

A little boring.

Naruto sat in front of Tsunade's desk in a daze. Recently, Grandma Tsunade began to ask him to go to the Hokage Building to study for a period of time every day. Those things that are Hokage seem really boring.

Naruto was lying on the table and wandering in Taixu, and couldn't help but wonder why his former self wanted to be Hokage so much?

For what?

He doesn't remember the past when he was obsessed, but now he doesn't seem to be interested...

The clock finally pointed to three o'clock in the afternoon. Today's study time was over. Naruto greeted Tsunade and got up and left Hokage Building. On the long steps outside the building, he once again met Uchiha Sasuke who hadn't seen him for a long time.

Naruto, who was lazily lying on the railing and sliding down, was stunned for a while, his blue eyes stared at Sasuke, and when he saw Sasuke lifted his mask, he regained his energy.

The last time Sasuke left without making a sound, when he took back the medicine and bandages from Sakura, he only saw a large bowl of packed Ichiraku Ramen on the table in the attic, but the sleeper didn’t know place.

"When I got back I was all muddled."

Naruto suddenly said this, walked two steps forward to Sasuke, bent over and pinched Sasuke's injured left leg, then straightened up and raised his hand to pull off the tanuki mask on Sasuke's head and put it on his back. Grinning, "You want to ask me to eat noodles today to make up for it."

"Okay." Sasuke nodded lightly. Although Naruto's words came out of nowhere, he could always respond tacitly, "Ichiraku Ramen."

"So hurry up and report to Grandma Tsunade, I'll wait for you here, don't dawdle."

As Naruto said, he took a step forward and walked behind Sasuke, pushed his hands on Sasuke's back and pushed him up the stairs. After watching Sasuke's figure disappear in front of the stairs, he leaned on the railing and looked up at the sky again.

Fingertips hooked on the strap of the raccoon mask, wandering around carelessly, and accidentally threw the mask to one side on the ground, Naruto bent down to pick up the mask, but someone picked up the thing on the ground first .

"Sasuke is back, isn't it..." A lazy voice sounded, Naruto looked up and saw Shikamaru handing over the mask in his hand, "You are waiting for him here, are you going to eat noodles again?"

Naruto nodded, and took the raccoon mask, his blue eyes were full of surprise, "Shikamaru guessed it just by looking at this mask?"

"Well, probably." Shikamaru said and leaned on the railing of the stairs, squinted at Naruto, didn't bother to explain how the genius's brain circuit thinks, but suddenly jumped out, "Naruto Man, do you like Uchiha now?"

"Ah?" Naruto was stunned for a moment, but Shikamaru didn't expect Shikamaru to say that suddenly.

"It's nothing, I just feel that you treat him differently from everyone else." Shikamaru raised his head and looked lazily at the sky, "If Naruto doesn't want to talk about it, forget it, I'll ask."

Naruto on the side didn't answer, he leaned on the railing and looked up to watch the cloud with Shikamaru, but his thoughts wandered around Shikamaru's question, and he spoke again after a long while, "Probably because Sasuke told me and everyone It's different."

After finishing speaking, he asked again, "Shikamaru, who do you think I am?"

"It's Uzumaki Naruto."

Naruto frowned, elbowed Shikamaru who was leaning on his side, then raised his hand and pointed at the head with whiskers on Hokage Rock, "Him?"

Shikamaru glanced at Naruto's expression, didn't make a sound, quietly waiting for Naruto to continue——

"Actually, I always have the feeling of breaking into someone else's story halfway through."

"A great story, a hero that everyone likes - you don't have any extra expectations for 'me', because your expectations are the determination of seeing the ending of 'Uzumaki Naruto' in advance - you have seen his wonderful , So I pointed to his head and told me that I was him in the end, it must be him—even if I didn’t remember anything at the beginning, you all believed me for no reason because you believed in Uzumaki Naruto... ..."

"Then I found that I do have some abilities that I don't understand. It seems that you don't have to work too hard to learn all ninjutsu, because the body is already there-I seem to have stolen someone's body and inherited everything from him. ——I kind of... don't know what to do."

"A little light and dazed?"

Because I didn’t remember my hard work, I went straight to the end. I removed the very tired and painful part, so I also forgot the desire and expectation that inspired me to go through those pains.

Shikamaru gradually understood Naruto's thoughts, and after Naruto finished speaking, he added this sentence lightly, turned his head to look at Naruto's childish face and asked, "And you think Sasuke has different expectations from us for you?" ,right."

"Hmm." Naruto looked at the raccoon mask in his hand, and nodded, "He seems to feel a little...some loss towards me?"

Because of some unspoken expectation...

"Because of that loss, there is a gap in his eyes between the current you and the former 'Uzumaki Naruto'? So you think—we can't see you now, but he can?" Shikamaru took Naruto again. A person asked a question.

Naruto scratched his head, "Well, that's how it feels."

Shikamaru smiled and shook his head.

Probably it will be different, if Uchiha Sasuke, there really is no way to let go of the past as easily as we do...

But it seems that Naruto's state is indeed not very good now. Sure enough, memory is like a part of the soul, and it cannot be thrown away easily...

It was almost sunset when he came out of Ichiraku Ramen, Sasuke still quietly followed Naruto all the way to the attic waiting for Naruto's goodbye as usual.

Naruto stood under the attic and looked up at the balcony, but he didn't intend to go upstairs. After a while, he turned around, his blue eyes were smiling, he looked up at Sasuke and suddenly said, "Hey, Sasuke, I haven't been to your house—take me to your house!"

"……it is good."

You come and I just prolong the time we are together. Those thoughts are the common secrets that we don’t talk to each other. In the process of approaching carefully, we are tied down by vague feelings and don’t want to leave.

I don't want to leave, so I will accompany you to move on.

Walking along the bustling street, and then walking along the river to the remote, Naruto walked beside Sasuke, looking at the sky with his hands behind his head, talking about big and small things, and turning his head from time to time to look at the quiet people around him. In the sky behind them, the slanting sunlight cast long shadows on the road in front of the two of them. They walked slowly from sunset to the dissipation of the rays of light, from sunny evenings to the shining white sky with dark clouds...

When Naruto saw the big house of Uchiha's house, Naruto couldn't help yelling, Sasuke, your house is so big. Sasuke paused when he opened the door, hummed lightly without saying anything, slowly opened the courtyard door and turned around, "You ...Do you want to come in?"

Naruto hesitated for a moment, a little curious, and when he looked into the courtyard through the gate, he felt a dull depression in his heart, and the pain buried in his memory was vaguely strange, but he looked up at the anticipation and excitement in those black eyes. After being careful, he finally nodded, followed Sasuke into the gate, and walked into the courtyard step by step.

The sound of footsteps could be clearly heard on the wooden corridor. The two people walking one after the other in the quiet and empty Uchiha mansion did not speak for some reason. Naruto looked around and could not see anyone else walking around in the mansion. The figure finally couldn't bear the depression in the silence after turning another corridor, and said, "Where's your family, Sasuke?"

walking ahead