[Comprehensive] Doing a puzzle

After Sato Izumi's commission was submitted, it took more than a month to hear back.As agreed at the beginning, Sato Izumi went to the place where the ninjas accepted the mission with the remaining commission money.When she came here last time, she was mixed with other clients and queued up, but this time, someone actually invited her away directly, and led her to a room and outside alone.

"The one you mentioned has been invited."

The ninja who led the way said respectfully towards the paper door, and then disappeared with a flash.

The paper door of the Japanese room was moved away, and someone stretched out his arm and waved at her, beckoning her to enter.Izumi Sato restrained the hem of his clothes, walked into the room, and sat down upright.He raised his head, only to find that the person sitting in front of him was Uchiha Madara.

A man in a navy blue robe was kneeling on the tatami, with a trace of calm in his brows and eyes.In his hand was a letter of entrustment written by Izumi Sato himself, and beside him was a small stack of documents.

"You..." Sato Izumi showed a slightly surprised look: "Why are you?"

"I'm also a ninja, of course I will perform tasks." Madara said.

Izumi Sato responded, then lowered his head.

How this mission entrusted to Uchiha Madara's hands is really an unsolved mystery.

She kept her head down, revealing her beautiful fair neck.Although this angle looks good, Uchiha Madara frowned and asked, "Why, you seem to be afraid of me? You haven't dared to look at me."

[Of course I dare not look at you anymore. 】

[Senju and Uchiha are old enemies, she and Senshou are so close that they were discovered by the Uchiha clan...]

Although he thought so in his heart, Sato Izumi didn't show it on his face.She said softly: "It would be too rude to look directly at you. I've done this once, and I don't want to do it a second time."

Uchiha Madara was slightly stunned, thinking of her puzzling reaction when he met her last time, he felt happy in his heart."I'm not the narrow-minded kind of person, of course you can look at me," he said.

She raised her head as she said, and then a pair of black and white eyes, like black ink filled with snow, came into his vision.Although it was not the first time he had seen her appearance, he still couldn't help but be moved by her beauty in the bottom of his heart.

Madara turned his eyes away, looked at the power of attorney in his hand, and said: "The village you entrusted the ninja to find has some clues. It's just that the village has been in decline for a long time, and no one has lived there for nearly 40 years. ...is it your hometown?"

Quan flatly denied it: "No."

Uchiha Madara gave her a meaningful look, but said nothing. Instead, he handed her a sealed scroll and said, "Most of the village's situation is written on it. Are you literate?"

"Hmm." She nodded.

Izumi Sato took the scroll and handed over the entrustment money.When Madara took the entrustment money, he inadvertently pinched her with the palm of his hand.This light touch for a few seconds made the girl lower her head slightly with trembling eyelashes.

"Don't you want to take a look? If you leave here, we won't refund the entrustment money." Madara said.

"Okay." She unfolded the scroll.

While she was looking at the scroll, Ban held her cheek and started chatting aimlessly.

"Before I sent my subordinates to your work place, I wanted you to teach the girls in the clan. But, your boss said that you are no longer working there. Who are you working for now?"

【Work for your deadly enemy. 】

"I don't dance anymore," Quan said.

A strand of hair fell from her ear and hung dangly on her forehead, which made Madara's eyes flutter for a while.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Hmm..." She smoothed out the falling hair with her fingers, and said, "I just don't want to dance anymore. After saving enough money, I plan to live my own life, get married and have children and so on."

"Oh? Are you going to get married?" He asked casually.

"Almost." Quan thought of the door, chuckled lightly, and said in a joking tone: "Although that man always looks indifferent to me, saying that he will never marry a wife and have children for the sake of the family, I believe he is love me once."

This sentence is really familiar, just like the words of those resentful women who stay in their boudoirs.Izumi Sato would say this purely for fun.

"A man who won't marry a wife and have children?" Madara rubbed his index finger slowly in his ear, as if he had thought of something, he said, "I hope that man is just talking casually."

For some reason, Madara was thinking the exact opposite.

[I hope that man really doesn't want to marry her. 】

"Ah, that's right." Quan smiled and added: "He has a pair of beautiful red eyes."

Madara's fingers tightened, he hummed casually and perfunctorily, and said nothing more.His long, fluffy black hair hung down, covering half of his face, making his expression invisible.

Quan thanked Madara and withdrew from the Japanese room.Her feet wrapped in white socks are slender and cute, and her ankles are white and delicate, which makes people have the urge to play with them.When she lowered her head and rubbed her toes against the tatami, she appeared like a lady in Ukiyo-e, just like a book beauty who just stepped out of a print and was painted with bright ink.

Madara looked at her back, and thought of how he bumped into her eavesdropping that night.At that time, she looked even more helpless and defenseless, wearing only her pajamas, as if she was inviting a man into her room.

She had gone far away, and there was no one in the courtyard, only the green shade of summer fell on the ground, outlining a piece of fine shadow, wandering loosely and shaking with the slightly hot wind.Madara looked at the shadow of the tree, but a noisy thought floated in her heart.

It should be a good thing if time can always be frozen in a peaceful moment.

Life on the first day of June should be such a leisurely life without the shadow of death and war.She can think about her husband, family and children, and worry about the trivialities of life.

For some reason, Madara was a little envious of this woman.

Of course, such emotions are not recognized—he is an extremely proud and strong man who has endured countless life and death, and he believes that he is already strong enough not to "envy" that kind of life without war.

Madara thought that if one day the war was over, he might go to see that June New Year again.

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Izumi Sato spread out the scroll and looked at it slowly.

The village has no name because it has been deserted for four or fifty years.It is located in the corner of Chuanuo Country, surrounded by three mountains called "Three Mountains". There are many tombstones and abandoned ancestral halls in the forest.

Because it has been abandoned for a long time, the history of this village can only be heard from the residents of other villages and towns a few mountains away.

According to the old man, that village is very patriarchal, so there is a custom of strangling and drowning male babies.Over time, because of the prosperity of yin and the decline of yang, the clan living in the village declined and withered.

As she walked, she returned to her own residence.On this day, Tobuma did not come.

The next day, Tobuma still didn't come.

Tobuma didn't come until half a month later, he came to say goodbye, saying that the war between Senju and Uchiha was about to start again.He was going to the battlefield, and he didn't know when he would come back, or he might just die like this and never come back.

When Toikama said these words, his expression was dull and normal, as calm as drinking tea.

At that time, Quan stared at his face, finally able to understand why he could say such words as "a family without heirs".

For some reason, she grabbed Tobima's hand and said, "Please let me go too. I know medicine and can help the wounded."

Tobima let go of her hand lightly, and said: "The battlefield is not a fun place, you can die anytime, anywhere. Do you know what 'death' is? Don't go to death with the mentality of wanting to play."

"I know what 'death' is, and I know how terrible death is." She said word by word: "But, I want to become stronger. Going to that kind of place is the best way to experience myself, isn't it?"

Looking at her coldly, Fei Jian laughed silently and said, "Is the fox's tail finally exposed?"

"Master Feijian?" She tilted her head with pure eyes.

"Everything you do revolves around 'gaining power', like you instinctively want to make yourself stronger, and for this reason you are even willing to make choices that are too much for you, such as to a ruthless man like me Selling your beauty is like wanting to sharpen yourself by taking advantage of the cruelty of the battlefield." Feijian said: "I really don't know what to say about you."

"Would it be a mistake to want to broaden your horizons and become stronger?" Quan said.

"No." Tokama said, "Since you want to become stronger, go for it. But you must make it clear in advance that the victory of the family is my ultimate goal. If you die, I will not stay for any longer One second."

Quan responded with a slight smile.

She doesn't actually want to be a ninja.

However, on the night when she met Uchiha Madara for the first time, she deeply understood her own shortcomings and the truth that "only being strong can protect oneself".

She didn't want to be a complete ninja, and she went to the battlefield just to let herself get used to such an uncertain and chaotic world.Quan thought that if she had been huddled in the greenhouse to be a seedling that would fall when the wind blows, she was afraid that she would have to rely on the protection of the door to survive in the future.

Her understanding of ninjutsu is actually not thorough, and she is even better at it after practicing countless times of medical skills.Therefore, this time following Toikama, she was only helping to treat the wounded.And Tobima didn't allow her to leave the support team—although he looked cold on the surface, he didn't lose an inch of the protection he deserved.

Several ninjas in the Thousand Hands know the truth about her killing Daimyo.But this time, these ninjas did not accompany them to the battlefield, thus saving a lot of unnecessary trouble.

The battlefield environment was extremely harsh, but Izumi forced himself to get used to the conditions.Compared with those ninjas, her conditions are much better.At least she doesn't need to kill people, she just needs to face the high-intensity medical work and difficult conditions.

until one day……

The enemy ninjas who raided from the rear broke into the Senju Clan's flank defense line, and the backup force that had stayed at the end was attacked by the most elite ninjas of the Uchiha Clan.

Even the backup force is made up of ninjas from the Senju clan.They put down the gauze and medicine, and brought up the kunai and the short knife to fight.For a while, there was chaos beside the river beach full of stretchers, and the clear river was stained with bright red blood.And in this worst and most tense moment, someone like Quan with jerky hands and half-knowledge in ninjutsu seemed out of place.

She is sure that if such occasions happen a few more times, she will soon become a stable and stable person in times of crisis.But now, it was the first time she encountered such a situation where a battle was imminent, and she was really a little nervous.

The enemy's knife slashed up, and a dazzling light flowed on the silver blade.The strength of the other party was so great that she held Kunai's slender wrist trembling non-stop.

When she was about to lose her hold on, the knife suddenly loosened.

Quan raised his head, but saw a familiar man standing in front of her, his eyes were fiery scarlet, and three black hook jades were slowly rotating in rotation.

"...It turns out that it was just my own fantasy."

Uchiha Madara said so.