[Hokage] Thank you for loving me

"Yitai, what are you doing here?" Sakura ran to stand in front of him, raised her head and asked with a smile.

"...waiting for you." The street light shone far away on his slightly wet mask, making the contours of his face blurred and a little far away, and his voice was dull, as if he had passed through high and thick clouds.

"Wait for me?" Just hearing this voice, my heart jumped up because of the satisfaction of longing; and the content of the voice's answer doubled Sakura's joy.When I ran towards him, I actually had a speculation in my heart, "Could I be waiting for me?" But when I came to him and heard him say the answer himself, my heartbeat and breathing were still uncontrollable. He speeded up, and his cheeks became hot. I don't know whether it was the physical reaction of the blood pressure rising after the trot, or the strange feeling in the bottom of my heart.

"Uh...uh," Sakura felt her face was burning, quickly lowered her head, and pretended to raise her hand to brush her temple hair, "Long time no see."

"Yeah." Different from Sakura's embarrassment, Yi Tai said calmly: "Let's go, I'll take you back."

It's actually the same line as that thunderstorm day!Not wanting and unwilling to refuse this familiar invitation, Sakura said "oh", but noticed that he didn't have an umbrella in his hand at all.You want to send someone home on a rainy day, and you don't even bring an umbrella. How can you invite someone so confidently?She couldn't help but want to laugh a little bit, and under the restraint, she just passed the umbrella silently.

Yitai took the umbrella, although he couldn't see the expression under his mask, but judging from his actions of catching and opening the umbrella, he should be very calm.

The two walked out of the pavilion, stepped into the rain, and walked out of the central square in silence. Sakura felt that her rapid heartbeat had finally slowed down, and then she spoke up: "The last time I saw you was more than a month ago. I heard that you The mission of guarding Kakashi-sensei is over, and I have gone back to Anbu."

Yitai nodded.

"I thought I would never see you again, and I was quite disappointed. I didn't expect to see you again in the same rainy day and in the same place. It's so great!"

"...Are you so happy to meet me again?" Yitai hoarse, as if deliberately suppressing some emotions.

"Of course." Sakura replied frankly: "Because I'm leaving the village for a long journey soon, I wanted to say goodbye to you before leaving, but unfortunately I don't know your real name, and I'm too embarrassed to go to Anbu to inquire about you. It has been delayed until now..." After a pause, she excitedly sighed: "Fortunately, I met you today." Realizing that these words seemed to be too obvious to show good intentions, Sakura felt embarrassed and quickly added: "After all I was taken care of by you before, so I can be regarded as a friend, so of course I should say goodbye before leaving. Moreover, I have been saying goodbye to all my partners in the village recently."

"Everyone you know?" Yitai asked, with a strong sense of questioning in her tone for some reason.

Everyone except Sasuke... well, only three days until departure, don't say goodbye, she hasn't said a word to Sasuke since that night; plus the first two Tian had that erotic dream, and now even seeing him once was starting to make her shrink back.

Sakura felt guilty about this question, and after answering vaguely "Of course", she quickly changed the subject and said, "When it was time to say goodbye, I felt quite reluctant to leave Konoha Village. After all, I have lived here for such a long time. Although I performed the mission halfway and left, but this time the feeling is completely different.”

"How long do you need to stay there when you go to the Rainbow Country this time?"

Xiao Ying stared with round eyes: Yi Tai actually knew what mission I was going to perform! ?But after thinking about it, it's not surprising that he had been with Hokage for so long and knew some mission information in advance.

Shaking her head with a light smile, Sakura said with emotion: "I just don't know when I can come back after I went there. I feel both reluctant and anxious, so I feel that this mission is different from the previous ones. Yitai, do you know this feeling? ? Far away from home, and then don’t know when I will have the chance to come back again. That kind of wandering and restless mood.” Maybe it’s because of the rainy day, or maybe it’s because of the subconscious closeness to Ita, Sakura described her state of mind When speaking, the tone is very eager, very eager to get the other party's approval.

Yitai turned her head, staring at her face with empty black eyes, as if she was remembering something, and after a while, she replied: "I know. Because I have also been away from Konoha, for a long time."

"Eh? Is it a long-term outing mission? An escort mission? Or an undercover mission?"

The five fingers that were holding the handle of the umbrella were tightened, and the five fingers that circled the long metal pole seemed to have pinched into the palm of the hand. Yitai turned her head back to the front and replied, "Neither, I chose to leave by myself."

"So, did you leave Konoha without authorization? Is the captain of Anbu allowed?"

Yi Tai did not answer this question directly, but only replied: "... At that time, it caused a lot of trouble for the people around me."

"When you served as Kakashi-sensei's guard, you seemed quite cautious. I didn't expect you to be willful at times."

"Actually, I have tasted the bitter fruit of that self-willedness recently." Yitai's tone was full of self-deprecation, but her voice suddenly became bitter. Sakura's heart twitched when she heard that, and she hurriedly asked in an enlightening tone:

"What's wrong, what happened?"

"During the time I left Konoha, I hurt someone deeply. Now I want to save it, only to find that that person is no longer there."

Could it be that the man has died?Sakura held back the unlucky words, and asked in a tactful way: "Where did that person... go?"

Yi Tai shook her head, turned her head to look at her again, and slowly replied: "She's still by my side, but... she's just completely forgotten." His tone was so sad and sincere, it sounded like he was accusing her As if it was something that was closely related to her.

Looking at the approaching mask, Sakura felt inexplicably timid, and her heartbeat accelerated again.Only to hear Yi Tai continue to say: "At first, I was very angry and wanted to ask how she could forget me. Later, after feeling her care and tenderness that never changed even though she lost her memory, I thought of my brother."

"Back then, he had to leave me for some reason. However, when he made the decision to leave, he was always painful and entangled in private. And that person, who once valued me so much, has to give up now The memories between me and myself, I think the painful mood should be the same as that of my brother. How can I blame her again. "

While Yitai was reviewing the past, the two had already reached the door of Sakura's house.In Sakura's room on the second floor, the left-behind lights flickered faintly in the rain. It was both warm and lonely. Yitai put away her umbrella and stood under the eaves with her, without taking her eyes off her face for a second.

A voice in her head shouted "Dangerous! Don't talk about this topic anymore!", but Sakura swallowed her saliva, and asked Yitai in a mysterious way: "Then you... don't you want to save that person?"

"I can't, and I don't have time." The expression under Yitai's mask must be as helpless as his tone: "If, she chose to forget; if, this will make her happier in the future. I respect her choice."

Sakura's heart beat faster, and chaotic emotions surged in her body.I don't know if it's throbbing because of the topic he said just now, or because of the sadness of the upcoming non-parting.She felt an almost urgent tension, turned her brain, and blurted out the words before she realized Da: "By the way, I forgot to ask you last time...why do you know where I live?"

How come at this time!Ask the question!

Why does my voice tremble so much when I ask a question!

The person opposite did not answer, but slowly raised his hand and covered the mask with his slender fingers.Sakura stared blankly at Yitai, there were obviously still raindrops falling around, and the last second, it was crackling on the canopy outside the house, and this second, she couldn't hear anything, and her ears were completely silent.

Her hearing seemed to be lost in an instant, and instead, her vision became clear.

She saw that the heavy rain was pouring on Yitai's black hair, and the rain slid across his white forehead, from the center of his strange pupils, from the high bridge of the nose, from the bright red thin lips, and finally on the jade-like chin. It condensed into the shape of water drops and dripped down.

——Why, it is so similar and so familiar, but I haven’t found it all the time?No, in fact, I have suspected it a long time ago, and I have asked him tentatively, but in the bottom of my heart, there is always a voice reminding myself not to admit it.

Sakura just stood there dumbfounded, with a lump in her throat, unable to speak.

"Actually, I've already returned to the village. I'm sorry, I've been using Ita's identity to hide it from you." Sasuke's magnetic voice was like the only sound echoing in a vacuum, even with his breathing The sound is so deafening.

Why?Why are you lying to me?Sakura's mind was blank, only three big why characters were engraved in her brain like brand marks, occupying her entire brain.

"Do you still remember that when I left Konoha to wander, I promised that if I could meet again, I would take you on a trip together?" Sasuke said slowly, different from Sakura's chaotic emotions, his The sound is methodical and reasonably clear.

"Later, when I met you again in the Rainbow Country, I reneged on my original promise because I was afraid that I would not be able to respond to your feelings. I kept avoiding, avoiding missing you, avoiding seeing you, even if Kakashi asked me to Back to Konoha, I don't want to face you, and I put on this mask on my own."

"Until one day, by the Nanhe River, I heard a conversation between you and a little boy. You said, you have always wanted to help me, and you have always been willing to go all out to trust me, trusting a person who has been hurt countless times. Me who passed you. At that moment, I completely saw your true heart, and realized that you not only have obsession and admiration for me, but also care and trust from the bottom of your heart. Even if you lose your memory, this care My mind has never changed. After that, I made up my mind to respond to your feelings as Sasuke Uchiha, and imagined that even if you lose your memory, I will try my best to restore and make up for you.”

"That was the first time in my life that I desperately wanted to make up for it, and it was also the first time I tried to make up for it. However, before I started working hard, I was told that you actually chose to pay too much for me. Forgot. When I knew the truth, I was very angry and felt like I was betrayed by you. Gradually, the growing thoughts of you diluted the initial anger. At this time, I began to realize that if I really want to make up for you , respecting your choice is not a kind of compensation..."

This is probably the most words Sasuke has said to her since we met; his voice is so beautiful that it makes people addicted, and his tone is as if he is telling a tragic story, calm, but with a hint of helplessness.Unfortunately, Sakura couldn't understand half of what he said, making her feel like she was listening to irrelevant narratives.

As he said, it was because she forgot that she couldn't understand!

——No matter what you forget, at least give some feedback!Haruno Sakura!Please respond to Sasuke-kun!

Sakura's eyes widened anxiously, as if she could understand what he said as long as she held Sasuke in front of her eyes tightly.

Sasuke seemed to be amused by her appearance, the corners of his mouth slightly raised a gentle arc, touched her head, and said: "Now, before we part again, all I can do is to be as frank as possible to you. Although In this way, it is far from enough to make up for the harm done to you in the past; however, considering that I have lost the love I most want to repay in this world, and I have experienced the pain beyond regret, even if it is... we will not be mutual I owe it."

When he said these words, there was incomparable sincerity in the different pupils.

However, in this sincerity, there is a lot of unwillingness and pain.

As long as she tried to understand the mood of the man opposite him at the moment, Xiao Sakura's heart ached like a knife.She gasped, her lips trembling, and just about to say something, she was instantly hugged by Sasuke.As if coveting her body temperature, and imprinting each other's last marks, Sasuke almost hugged her and embedded her into his body, bone marrow, and soul.

The heavy rain fell on the two of them, and the cold wind hovered around Sakura's neck and spread to the whole body, but the part held tightly by Sasuke was very warm, because Sasuke's body was hot, just like his embrace, It was so hot that it seemed to melt people.In the tight embrace, Sakura felt as if she was in a dream, the dream where Sasuke loved her and kissed her, the difference was that it was so illusory and sweet at that time, but now it was so real that she wanted to cry.

I don't know how long it took, Sasuke finally let go of her, said "goodbye", turned around, strode into the rain curtain, and disappeared into the night.

Watching Sasuke's back go away, Sakura's mind went blank.The heavy rain hit her head, knocking out the thoughts in her head bit by bit, she couldn't think of anything, couldn't remember anything.She knew what Sasuke said was important, and she wanted to answer, but she couldn't say anything.

——Facing Sasuke-kun, I still can't say anything!

The heart swelled and pounded in the chest, Sakura raised her hand and stroked her chest.The hands rose and fell violently following the beat of the heart.

It was clear to her that it was more than hesitant anger at herself.

This is also the heartbeat that she can never miss again.

Walking back into the house in a daze, Xiao Ying collapsed on the bed with her wet clothes, and then completely lost sleep.

She tossed and turned on the bed. This time, she truly felt that she had indeed forgotten something, but when she cleared her mind, all her memories seemed to be complete.

The parts related to Sasuke in her memory, from the first meeting at the ninja school at the age of eight, to the reunion in the Rainbow Country at the age of 20, she remembers every time they met.The images of these 12 years turned into brightly colored playing cards, which floated, twirled and tumbling in her memory.Each card is printed with Sasuke's appearance, clearly drawing the clothes he wears, recording every word he said to her, and even his expression when he does everything.The only thing missing was her mood facing Sasuke at that moment.

Sakura buried the poker cards she remembered in her heart, but it seemed like a hole had been dug out, and it couldn't be filled no matter what.

—A certain feeling has been lost forever from your heart, and no amount of filling can fill its defect.

——But, what kind of emotion is that that I can’t remember?

It was as if two people were constantly talking in the brain, while passively persuading her not to pursue it, while painfully questioning.Xiao Sakura just listened to the chaotic voices in her head, and lay numb on the bed until the rain stopped, until the moon went down on the branches, until the east turned white, until the autumn morning light came into the window.She tiredly rubbed her eyes that hadn't closed all night, and took the alarm clock by the bedside to see that it was already ten o'clock.

After haphazardly changing into clean clothes, Sakura jumped up from the bed and decided to go find Sasuke herself.

She wants to talk about reconciliation with him, say goodbye to him, and ask him why he said those things to her yesterday. By the way, the most important thing is to ask him what he forgot.

Haruno Sakura rushed to the daimyo's hotel.Walking into the house, I only saw a few servants staying behind, cleaning the fallen leaves in the garden, or wiping the floor in the porch.After running around the corridor, she was surprised to find that all the guards and maids disappeared, and she couldn't feel any Chakra breath of Sasuke.

"Excuse me, where is Master Jinji?" Sakura ran to an old woman and asked anxiously.

The woman was wearing a navy blue lily-patterned kimono, with her hands on her hips looking at the servants working back and forth, she looked like the steward of the hotel.She looked Sakura up and down vigilantly, her eyes stayed on the ninja bag with the Konoha logo on her thigh, and then she replied slowly:

"The capital of fire returned early this morning. It is said that it is not safe to live here. Think about it. A few days ago, those gangsters who coveted the beauty of Her Royal Highness rushed into the hall so swaggeringly. You Konoha ninjas It’s really remiss of me not to notice at all.”

"Then... where's her guard?" Sakura paused, and added, "The one with only the right hand and left eye."

The old woman showed an exaggerated expression of understanding, and there was a hint of ridicule in her eyes: "Why, are you also that Uchiha admirer? I didn't say that, you young girls are too easy to be fooled. The face is deceiving. When he first moved to the hotel, there were many little girls like you who came to look around secretly, saying that you just need to look at him from a distance. It looks like you have never seen a handsome guy. The Konoha place is still too closed after all. If you catch a man who looks better, everyone will chase after him, even turning a blind eye to his physical defects. Face, thinking about it, I do have some skills, after all, Her Highness the Princess has such a critical eye, but she is also very satisfied with him, and..."

"And what's the matter?" Sakura finally heard the part she cared about most in the other party's rambling answer, so Sakura hurriedly raised her voice to ask.

Perhaps because she was startled by Sakura's tone of voice, the old woman put on a crisp tone and replied succinctly:

"And, brought him back to the City of Fire."

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