[Hokage] Thank you for loving me

"No need, sister Sakura!" Just as Dr. Iwasaki described, Xiao Xing was covered in sweat and mud, and happened to rush back at this time.

Carrying a large bag of ninja tools on his slender shoulders, he ran out of the gate panting into the courtyard, stopped in front of Sakura, raised his tired face, and said, "I'm back. "Then, he reluctantly pulled out a trace of the happy smile when he saw Sakura on weekdays.However, maybe because she felt that she was too dirty, Xiao Xing didn't throw herself on Xiao Ying's body and hug her waist to act like a baby this time as usual.

Xiao Ying lowered her head and looked at Xiao Xing who was dirty in front of her. She felt guilty that she had let down Yumen's entrustment, but also felt sorry for Xiao Xing who pretended to be strong and young.

She vaguely felt that Xiao Xing must have encountered something at school, so she asked softly: "Xiao Xing, if you encounter anything, just discuss it with me and Dr. Iwasaki, don't be such a person to be brave, okay? "

"I'm fine! Nothing happened!" Xiaoxing shook his head repeatedly.

"Then... do you have any plans for cultivating so hard these few days? Can you tell me?" Sakura continued to gently persuade.

"I just want to..." Xiaoxing looked into Xiaoying's gentle eyes, and for a moment, his eyes were full of grievances.

"What are you thinking about?" Xiaoying's heart tugged, and she quickly hugged him in her arms.

Xiao Xing felt that he was too dirty, and struggled to push Xiao Ying away.When he raised his head to look at her again, his face changed into the original forced smile expression, and he said bravely: "Nothing! I just want to become a powerful ninja soon..."

After he finished speaking, he seemed not to want to reveal any more emotions, he lowered his head and ran into the house, shouting, "Okay, okay, I'm hungry, it's time for dinner!"

"Wait!" Seeing that her friend Xiao Ying's gentle talk was useless, Ino couldn't bear it long ago, she stretched out her hand and grabbed Xiao Xing's collar.

I haven't been here for a long time, have the children in the psychological consultation room become so independent and difficult to serve?Obviously Xiao Xing has only been here for a few months, and he is still so young, so he puts on a face of "you don't understand my difficulties", and speaks so secretively, I really don't know who he learned from!

He dragged Xiao Xing abruptly in front of him, showing a threatening smile, and reminded him word by word: "Xiao Xing, you haven't greeted me yet."

Xiao Xing wriggled under Ino's claws a few times, seeing that she couldn't break free, she had to admit defeat and glanced at her, and whispered: "Hello, Aunt Ino..."

"What!?" Ino immediately felt her mind explode into a ball, and she protested sharply, "Why is Sakura a sister, but I am an aunt!" She squatted down, turned Xiao Xing to face her, and repeatedly Coaxed and said threateningly: "Quick, I'll give you another chance, shout again!"

The exhausted Xiaoxing really didn't want to be tossed about any more, so he yelled again with great reluctance: "... Hello, sister Ino..."

"That's about the same." Ino smiled with satisfaction, loosened Xiaoxing's collar, tapped his forehead lightly, then, his index finger rested on his forehead for a while, and then continued: "Okay Hurry up and change clothes, let's eat."

After Xiaoxing ran into the house and could no longer see him, Ino stood up and whispered to Xiao Sakura and Dr. Iwasaki with a serious expression:

"That child, at school recently, seems to have been... bullied by other children..."

Sakura knew that Ino had accepted Xiaoxing's memory information just now with the technique of mind-body communication, she glanced at Dr. Iwasaki worriedly, and murmured: "So...Xiaoxing wants to..."

"Yes, he wants to practice quickly, and after he becomes stronger, he will take revenge on those children." Ino said the next words for Sakura.

Dr. Iwasaki didn't express any opinion, just sighed and shook his head helplessly.

"Doctor, why aren't you surprised..." Seeing this, Sakura asked him, "Could it be that you already guessed it?"

"Yes." Iwasaki admitted frankly: "I have studied child psychology for so many years, and I can roughly guess the motives behind some abnormal behaviors of children..."

Sakura opened her eyes in surprise, paused for a few seconds, then lowered her face, and asked reproachfully: "Then why didn't you persuade him at first, and let him go out to practice like this every day!?"

You know, one of the purposes of her setting up the children's psychological consultation room is to eliminate this kind of hate thought of retaliating with force with force.She doesn't expect every child to face those who have hurt them with a smile and a tolerant heart like Naruto after they walk out of the consulting room; Retaliation by force is something she absolutely does not advocate and cannot tolerate!

Dr. Iwasaki was not angry because of Sakura's tone of voice. He glanced at the children playing happily by the sandpit, and said lovingly, "Whether it's a normal child or these traumatized children, when they grow up In the process, you always have to experience various emotions and learn how to face them.”

Then, he withdrew his gaze, and further elaborated his point of view to Sakura and Ino:

"This time Xiaoxing's hatred for others was ignited. If he didn't put it into action and face the consequences of revenge by himself; instead, we discouraged him again and again, saying something like 'Give up, revenge. It's not right' such empty words. Then, if the young seed of revenge in his heart is not released, he will continue to absorb negative energy, and finally grow into a towering giant tree that we cannot suppress and control. Once it collapses, the pair He will cause unimaginable harm to those he loves and those around him."

"So, the way to eliminate the hatred in a child's heart, besides correct guidance, should also let him experience the price of revenge."

Sakura's body shook, and a familiar figure suddenly appeared in her mind.

Wasn't Sasuke the same way before?Growing up in hatred, the only purpose of life is to avenge his own brother; what is ridiculous is that the people around him who know the truth are just vainly persuading him to "don't take revenge, don't take revenge", and those who don't know the truth just lament blindly "You can't get revenge at all"; no one is willing to help him, to channel the hatred in his heart, and to untie the real knot in his heart.

So much so that in the end, he had to go to the darkness like self-destruction, in exchange for a stronger revenge power...

From this point of view, Dr. Iwasaki's proposition may be correct.Xiaoxing must learn to face hatred alone, and the sooner the better...

Ino turned his face and saw that Sakura fell into silence, and her face became more and more dignified. She guessed at once that she must have remembered about Sasuke again, so she hurriedly interrupted: "Speaking of it, in case Xiaoxing can't resist It's not good to be bullied all the time... I'd better say hello to Shino or Naruto, and ask them to help take care of Xiaoxing when they are in ninja school..."

At this moment, Xiao Xing, who had just changed his clothes, came to the entrance, and was about to invite the three people in the courtyard to have dinner, when he heard Ino's suggestion, he immediately rushed to the door and protested, "Don't meddle! I can handle it myself!"

"But..." Sakura looked back at him worriedly.

"I'm already a ninja! I can solve problems by myself! Only weak people go to Sensei!"

After yelling these few words, Xiaoxing turned around without looking back, trotted all the way, and disappeared at the end of the corridor.Only Sakura and Ino were left standing there with shocked faces.

Dr. Iwasaki walked up to Sakura, patted her on the shoulder encouragingly, said "Trust him", and then, surrounded by other children, also returned to the house.

Looking at the empty and long corridor in the door of the consulting room, Sakura suddenly felt a little emotional.

Before that, she thought that she already understood the children's thoughts; she also knew how to take care of the children and get along with them harmoniously.

Now, she realizes that each child will have different emotions and ways of dealing with setbacks, and forcibly appeasing their negative emotions will only overcorrect.

What a real child psychologist should do in this situation, perhaps, is to respect the children's own choices...

Although the day before, Xiaoxing made a masculine declaration in front of Dr. Iwasaki and others, saying that he would solve it by himself; but the next morning, before he had time to become as strong as expected, he was heading to the training ground On the way of practicing, unfortunately, I met those classmates who like to bully me.

These children are all from ordinary families in the village, without the protection of traditional ninja backgrounds, so they always gather together to act and use some pranks to attract the attention of schoolmates and villagers.

One of their favorite pastimes is to take advantage of the large number of people and pick those classmates who have excellent grades, are thin and have no family background to bully.Xiao Xing happens to meet these three conditions, plus she looks pretty and cute, and has a pleasing personality, so she is very popular with girls and adults, which naturally attracts the jealousy and hostility of these children.

Usually in school, there are teachers' restraint and control. Apart from provoking Xiao Xing verbally, at most they dare to deliberately hit hard in the battle teaching to make Xiao Xing suffer.

However, today is the weekend, and they didn't expect that when they came out early in the morning to find the target of pranks, they would encounter toys that were automatically delivered to their door for entertainment on this sparsely populated alley.

"Hehehe, Sugishita Yuki, where are you going with so many ninja gear on your back early this weekend?" The leader of this group of children was a relatively tall and strong boy with a round face and narrow eyes among his peers. , a fat boy named Yuta, he found Xiaoxing from a distance, immediately took heavy steps, trotted to Xiaoxing, and blocked the other party's way.

"None of your business! Get out of the way!"

Seeing that there were six people on the other side, all of whom were taller than him, Xiao Xing's heart was already pounding with fear; but recalling the hard secret special training these days and the worried eyes of Dr. Iwasaki and others, he felt that no matter what You can't give in to these people.

"Oh, the tone is not small." Yongta patted the ninja backpack on Xiaoxing's back provocatively, and laughed: "I guess, do you want to do some secret special training, and then fantasize, fiercely Teach us a lesson?"

Xiao Xing was told what was on his mind, and his face turned red all of a sudden, but he still forced himself to fight back calmly: "Yes, so what? Do you dare to compete with me one-on-one?"

Yongta was taken aback, then with a dark face, he retorted: "You carry so many ninja tools, and I don't have any weapons. It's not fair for me to compete one-on-one."

Besides, even if he brought a weapon, one-on-one, judging from the actual combat record in the classroom, he is definitely not Xiaoxing's opponent.

His grades are poor, but he is not stupid.

Now, there are five companions standing behind him, how could it be possible for them to stand aside with their hands tied and watch him being beaten up by Xiaoxing for no reason.

"That's right!" A little boy in a blue shirt with a monk's head behind him echoed, "We are all Yongta's companions, if you want to do it, do it together!"

"Yongta! Don't talk nonsense with him, there are no adults here, let's throw him into the Nanhe River?" Another child suggested cruelly.

As soon as Xiao Xing heard the other party's conversation, he knew that he would not be able to escape the fierce battle of one against six.Now on this remote path next to the Nanhe River, no other adults passed by at all, and he didn't expect to be able to call for help.

We are all children, no matter how hard the other party hits, it is impossible to maim or kill yourself; the worst thing is to throw yourself into the river; he still knows how to swim, so after entering the water There won't be too much loss.

Although thinking about it this way, the ending would not be too pessimistic, but he couldn't let these guys deal with him.Now it seems that the best way is to give it a go.If you can attack first and focus on Yuta as the leader, maybe after he is restrained, the situation will turn around.

After Xiaoxing made up his mind, he rushed towards Yuta without hesitation. The moment he was about to get close to Yuta, he used the teleportation technique and shifted to the back of the target person, trying to clamp the opponent's shoulders from the armpit.

However, Yongtao had expected Xiaoxing's offensive early on, and when Xiaoxing disappeared, he was imprinted with a substitute technique and hid behind the two companions.

After he hid it, he pointed at Xiaoxing and shouted: "Quick! Grab him", while reaching into his pocket, he took out a handful of kunai.

Before Xiao Xing had time to attack, he was pushed down to the ground by two little boys who were following him, one on the left and one on the right.

Yongta came to him proudly, and asked: "How is it? Didn't expect it? This is the strength of unity, the strength of companions!" As he spoke, he half-kneeled in front of Xiaoxing, and with his fat hands full of dust, He slapped him heavily on the face, and laughed, "Your secret special training seems to be useless at all! If you don't finish every move, you lose."

Xiao Xing ignored the other party's words, but struggled twice, but just a little bit loose at the wrist, and was quickly pressed firmly to the ground again.He had no choice but to "tsk" unwillingly.

"What's the matter, are you not convinced?"

"Not convinced! Not convinced! Not convinced!" Xiao Xing shouted loudly: "If you are a real ninja, you should fight me one-on-one!"

"Don't you remember? Konoha's great hero, Uzumaki Naruto-sensei once taught us to value the power of our companions?"

"No! Naruto-sensei never asked you to gather together to bully the weak!"

"So you admit that you are weak?"

Xiaoxing was at a loss for words for a moment, choked by his own words, and could only give Yuta an angry look as a response.

"Hahaha, not only you are weak, but your brother is also weak!"

Yuta patted Xiaoxing's face hard again, relying on Xiaoxing's inability to resist, he said provocatively: "I heard that he didn't even pass the Chunin exam this year, he really sucks."

"You are not allowed to say that about my brother!" Xiaoxing blushed angrily when he heard the other party insulting Kyounosuke, and warned him through gritted teeth: "If you dare to say my brother again, I will never let you go !"

"I just said what happened to him? What can you do to me?" Yongta raised the kunai in his hand, swiped the point of the knife at Xiaoxing's face, and cursed viciously: "Both of you brothers He is an orphan with psychological problems, destined not to be a ninja for the rest of his life!"

"Damn it! Damn it!" Xiao Xing was told in pain, his nose was sour, and his eyes became hot.But he quickly realized that he must not show weakness in front of these people, so he took a deep breath and suppressed his tears again.

After stopping the tears, the furious Xiaoxing struggled twice with all his strength.He suddenly discovered that under the fierce struggle, his feet could move a little bit?

So, Xiaoxing raised his right foot without hesitation, and kicked Yuta hard at the chest.

Yongtai was caught off guard by a blow and kick, and his breath was stuffed in his chest, and he felt a burning pain; what made him even more unacceptable was that with the help of so many companions, in front of them, he was still beaten Fortunately, he fought back.

"You bastard—!" Yongta howled in anger and annoyance, raised the Kunai in his hand high, and was about to stab at Xiaoxing's fair little face.

fortunately!In the next moment, it was not Xiaoxing's face that was stabbed by Kunai, but a cylindrical wooden block specially used for stand-in technique!

"This...it's impossible!" The one holding Xiaoxing's right hand was a short-haired boy with triangular eyes. I did hold down my wrist just now."

"is it?"

Suddenly, a burst of smoke from the teleportation technique rose out of thin air among Yuta and the others, and then, Uzumaki Naruto in ninja costume appeared.

He hugged Xiao Xing in his chest with one hand, and patted the talking boy's head with the other hand, and asked with a half-smile: "Then you think you are doing bad things here, don't you?" Could it be found?"

"Wow--!"

A group of mischievous little boys suddenly lost their arrogance, and shouted in a panic, "It's Naruto-sensei!" while throwing away the ninja tools in their hands, and fled towards the corner of the river embankment in a hurry.

Because Yuta was the fattest and had a burning pain in his chest, he was quickly left behind.When his companions all disappeared around the corner, he only ran half of the distance out of breath.

"Boom!"

In a trance, Yong Tai wearily bumped into a tall and solid body, and was bounced back so that he sat on the ground.

He rubbed his sore nose impatiently, raised his head, and just wanted to complain about the other party bullying children or something.When he took a closer look, his face changed drastically in fright—he bumped into an Anbu who was on a mission!

Sasuke lowered his head slightly, frowned, and glanced at the fat kid sitting on the ground with disgust, then asked Naruto not far away in a cold voice:

"Hey! What are you going to do with this child?"

"... Let him go back and reflect on it slowly."

Naruto glanced at Yuta sullenly, and replied in a deep voice: "Anyway, when classes start on Monday, there will be plenty of time to teach them naughty children slowly."

Hearing Naruto's words, Yuta trembled with fright, and his face turned blue.You must know that although the other party is only a temporary substitute teacher of the ninja school, he is actually a hero of Konoha Village, an authoritative figure like Hokage.He said in person that he wanted to punish himself... I'm afraid it won't be as simple as just writing a self-criticism in school.

Yuta looked back at Naruto in fear, and wanted to say something to beg for mercy.But recalling the airy look he had just now, in front of Xiaoxing, he couldn't say a word of pleading.

So, he buried his head deeply, carefully walked around Sasuke who stood in front of him, who was motionless like a sculpture, stumbled, but still ran forward, and decided to escape here first.

Seeing that the children had run away, Naruto put Xiao Xing on the ground, stroked his little face affectionately, and asked, "Are you okay?"

Xiao Xing wiped the dust off his face, looked at Naruto with eyes full of admiration, and shook his head vigorously.

"Ms. Naruto didn't immediately punish those children who bullied you, will you be angry with me?"

"Don't be angry! You saved me just now, and I'm too late to be grateful." Even when Naruto was acting as a substitute, he had never admired his heroic figure so closely.Xiao Xing looked up at the face of the Konoha hero, his eyes sparkled with excitement.

Seeing that Xiaoxing was so sensible, Naruto couldn't help rubbing his forehead, and said, "Don't worry, I will give them a good lesson when the class starts on Monday. Next time you encounter such a thing, you have to do it in time." Tell the teacher or parents as soon as possible, okay?"

Xiao Xing's expression darkened in an instant, and he replied in a low voice: "I... have no parents, I only have an elder brother, and he has gone on a mission..."

"..." Naruto patted his little head distressedly, and said with some guilt: "Then, if you encounter this kind of thing again, just come to me directly, how about it?"

"Ah? Is it okay?" With the promise of protection from the hero in his heart, Xiao Xing changed his dejected expression into a grateful smile.

"Of course no problem." Naruto patted his chest and promised again.Then he pointed to Sasuke who was slowly walking over, and introduced to Xiaoxing with a smile:

"Actually, it wasn't me who saved you, but this one."

"Is this... uncle...?"

Xiaoxing couldn't see Sasuke's face, so he could only address him according to Naruto's seniority.Seeing Naruto nodded, he emboldened himself, bowed respectfully to the indifferent Anbe member in front of him, and said, "Thank you uncle for saving me just now."

And Sasuke slightly turned his head back, accepting Xiaoxing's thanks.

In fact, whether it was before or now, Sasuke is not good at dealing with children, let alone dealing with children's disputes.

At the beginning this time, he just wanted to simply take a walk with Naruto near the old place of Uchiha.After discovering that there were children arguing on the other side of the river, Naruto forgot to take a walk, and stood still and watched closely the movements of the children.

Not long after, those brats started besieging the thin little boy with bullying. Naruto saw it and stamped his feet angrily, rushing over to stop him; but Sasuke still didn't intervene. Nosy plans.

It wasn't until the child suddenly yelled, "You are not allowed to say that about my brother", that Sasuke turned around and began to pay attention to the child.Later, he discovered that Xiao Xing insisted on protecting his brother with all his strength even when he was in danger and was threatened and provoked.

Every shout and every expression of Xiaoxing moved Sasuke and touched the softest emotion in his heart—the precious brotherhood between him and Itachi.

So, in order to save Xiao Xing, at the critical moment, he risked his identity to be exposed, activated the eyes of reincarnation, and saved him.

Sasuke stared at Xiaoxing in front of him, and fell into the thoughts of memories for a while, and he was a little lost in thought.

At this moment, he was standing with his back to the Nanhe River, against the morning light; Xiao Xing was looked down by the weird fox-patterned mask covered with backlight shadows, and couldn't help but feel inexplicably afraid.He shrugged his shoulders and hid behind Naruto.

"Hey! Sasuke, don't scare the children." Naruto patted Xiaoxing's back lightly as if comforting, and reminded Sasuke with a smile.

Sasuke replied coldly: "Are you stupid? Why should I scare him? What's more, I'm wearing a mask. What expression do I use to scare him?" After speaking, he glanced at Xiao Xing, and reaffirmed the "children's love" in his heart. Sure enough, a troublesome creature" concept.

"Hahaha, Xiao Xing, why are you afraid of this uncle?" Naruto jokingly turned his head and asked Xiao Xing behind him.

However, Xiao Xing did not answer, but suddenly raised his index finger, pointing at the direction behind Sasuke and across the Nanga River, showing an expression of surprise and joy.

"That's it, Miss Sakura!?"

No way?

Naruto's heart tightened, and he looked in the direction of Xiaoxing's finger, and sure enough, he saw Sakura in casual clothes.

Then, walking beside Xiao Sakura, the one walking with her was actually his wife, Hinata! ?

At this time, the two people on the other side of the river also saw Naruto, and they were muttering something.After a while, the two seemed to have reached some unanimous opinion, and they walked towards this side.

"Hey, hey! No, it's really Sakura! And Hinata!" Naruto whispered in Sasuke's ear, and gave him a vigilant look.

When Sasuke felt that he was fighting Yao and Gokage alone, he didn't seem to be so nervous!

Subconsciously, he reached out and touched the mask on his face, and after confirming that it was still firmly on his face, he breathed a sigh of relief.Then, he also lowered his voice, and asked Naruto irritably, "Why are Sakura and Hinata here?"

Naruto spread his hands and replied, "How do I know! I ran out early in the morning to take a walk with you, how could I know what my wife has planned today."

Sasuke rolled his eyes at him and asked, "Did the two of them see us?"

"I saw it a long time ago, and now I have already gone this way!"

Naruto raised his head, and found that far away, Hinata was waving to him with a gentle face, so he had to smile wryly, and waved his hand in response.

Afterwards, Naruto buried his face again, and whispered in Sasuke's ear, "Hey, what should we do now?"

Sasuke pondered for a while, frowned, and asked, "Hinata...she...wouldn't see through my identity?"

"..." Naruto thought for a while, and finally replied without confidence: "If you don't roll your eyes, you probably won't..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Sakura and Hinata had already walked in front of the three of them.

Seeing that it was too late to dodge, Sasuke could only move his feet silently, and quietly stood behind Naruto's right.

On the other side, Sakura was also full of doubts.

She did know all three of them in front of her.

But what she didn't expect was, how did these three people know each other?Moreover, they appeared together by such a remote river early in the morning?

Before Xiao Ying could get a firm foothold, Xiao Xing couldn't wait to get out behind Naruto, threw herself into her arms, and called out "Sister Xiao Sakura" affectionately.

As usual, Xiao Sakura hugged Xiao Xing by her waist and rubbed his hair.

Then, she raised her head, looked at Naruto, and wanted to ask him, why did she appear here with Yi Tai from Anbu?And why are you with Xiaoxing?

Just when he was about to speak, he suddenly heard that Hinata next to him gasped in surprise, and then said softly as if saying hello:

"Isn't this... Sasuke-kun...?"

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