[Comprehensive] Konoha flower season

35.

December 12st, the day before the new year, less than 31 hours before Namikaze Minato left Konoha.

I still haven't seen Minato, and I haven't even seen him coming in or out of the building after I deliberately moved the little table to the balcony.

Tsunade handed over the shift at the hospital, followed by a seven-day vacation. She returned home with a small number of medical ninjutsu books, and I lay on the table in a daze with the theory of sealing techniques.

"—Tell me what you don't know." The first thing Tsunade did when he came back was to take off his underwear and throw it far away, as if he was getting rid of the enemy.

I said with a guilty conscience, "Sister, have you ever thought about accepting an apprentice or something?"

Tsunade went to find an orange and peeled it to eat, and replied casually: "I have thought about it, but I find it troublesome. I have a headache if my aptitude is not good, and there are not many good aptitudes, why?"

I pointed to myself with a pencil, and asked cautiously, "Do you think I am qualified enough?"

"...Huh?" Tsunade put down the orange in surprise, "Do you want to learn medical ninjutsu?"

I nodded awkwardly, "Yes."

Tsunade was stern, put down the orange, sat across from me and asked, "Why?"

I remembered - Minato lying on the ground, bleeding from mouth and nose, dying.

"Because I can't protect the people I hold dear, and I can't even do anything if they get hurt." I said, "The idea of ​​'protecting them' didn't even cross my mind, because I've been through it so much, I don't know I can't do it, but I'm terrified of the idea... so I'm willing to be weak. But I find that if I'm weak, they get hurt — and I just sit there powerless."

"——so I want to learn medical ninjutsu." I looked firmly into Tsunade's eyes, "If you teach me, I will learn to live up to anyone——I have suffered a lot."

Tsunade looked me over.

Then she nodded and said: "If you have such awareness."

"After the New Year, when you have free time for work, you can help me in the hospital and come as an intern." She said bluntly, then put the oranges on the table and went into the bathroom.

In the evening, Tsunade and I ate a New Year’s Eve dinner (the two of us cooked together and almost killed us), and we slumped on the sofa to read books, and the sound of fireworks outside the window was endless.

"Aren't you going out to play, Kina?" Tsunade asked casually.

I shook my head and said heartily, "It's too cold, I don't want to move."

Tsunade flipped through the pages of the book and informed me: "—but, tomorrow, I will leave."

My ears moved and I put down the idle book in my hand.

"I thought you were going to meet your little love tonight—ah no, where is my friend Minato." Tsunade teased, "Aren't you going? He didn't come to see you either? Could it be that he came out of Hongxing?" wall?"

Hong Xing cheated out of the wall!I understand that Tsunade is also a melon-eating crowd waiting to see the excitement. I blew up and angrily told her that this kind of thing would never happen. Then I put on my coat and scarf, put on my boots and ran out.

Hong Xing cheated, he dared?

The lights are bright outside, and the store plays cheerful music.People huddled together, and children walked down the street holding their parents' hands.The snow accumulated a few days ago has not yet melted, and it is piled up in a small black pile beside the utility pole.

I ran out in a rage, but didn't know where to go to catch the rape-I didn't find someone, I walked around the street twice and didn't see any suspicious figure, and finally ran to the typhoon shelter to buy a cup of pudding milk tea .

I finally knew what Mikoto meant when she said 'fuck and run' that day. Namikaze Minato was really brave. He dared to play with me and disappeared for six days. This pigeon was ruthless.

When I found him, I wanted to skin him, and I fiercely clenched the milk tea receipt in my hand.

"What are you thinking?" a voice asked.

I replied: "Kill."

To kill a heartless person——peh, pei, pei, pei, pei, pei, pei, pei, pei, pei, pei, peiWhere is the heartless man!I wasn't scumbag.

I raised my head and looked over, and it was really a narrow road to the enemy—Namikaze Minato appeared behind me with two drinks, with a harmless smile on his face.

The murderous aura I had been brewing all of a sudden dissipated without a trace.

Minato handed me a cup of milk tea: "Who made you angry?"

I wanted to cover it up and said: "—it's okay."

"No matter how you look at it, you don't seem to be okay. You really seem to want to kill someone..." Namakaze Minato squeezed to me with a smile, a big umbrella was set up outside the typhoon shelter, and the two of us sat outside holding milk tea and stared blankly.

The atmosphere was better than I expected. I poked the straw and asked dryly for a while, "Are you leaving tomorrow?"

Minato nodded: "Are you reluctant to part with me?"

I blushed: "You—don't talk nonsense."

"You will come to see me off tomorrow, right?" Minato asked with a gentle smile, "I leave early in the morning."

I nodded generously: "Well - I will go."

I turned my head to look at him, the water gate was already much higher than me, and I suddenly felt a little indescribably disappointed.How tall will he be when he returns?When a person is a teenager, his memory is shallow, he has no stereotypes, and he is fickle. When he comes back-our current relationship may be vicissitudes.

But maybe my memory of him at that time was also vague, so no one will give up.

"To be fair, I don't want to wait for you." I said sadly, "Who knows when you will come back, it's boring to wait."

Minato didn't answer, but just asked me with a smile: "Then why did you come out alone today?"

I:"……"

I faltered and said: "Buy milk tea, what else can I do."

"Oh, come out alone to buy a cup of milk tea and go back? Then why kill people?" Minato asked with a smile, "You don't mean to wave Tu——"

I covered my ears and yelled, "Shut up!!!"

"It seems so." Minato pinched my face, "Huh?"

I exploded on the spot, reached out and pinched him: "Shut up!!"

"Hiss—" Minato gasped after being pinched by me, and hurriedly changed his words: "Okay, okay."

"Forget it, forget it, let's get up and walk." After waving the butcher's knife, I blushed when I realized what I was doing, and tried to find a step for myself, "—the air here is not good, and there are too many people."

The winter night is cold and windy, and the night sky above Hokage Rock is clear. Minato and I sat on Hokage Rock with milk tea in our hands, looking at the brightly lit Konoha Village below.

"Sometimes I like to come here to daze." Minato said softly, "It feels good to see people coming and going in the village below. How can I say it...it's very warm."

I asked him, "I thought to myself—maybe this will become the village you want to protect one day?"

Minato smiled and shook his head, "It has always been."

I smiled: "Actually, the concept of 'shadow' is very remarkable. He does not refer to a person, but a spirit that exists to protect the village...I will die for this, and I will be smashed to pieces for this belief."

Minato smiled and said: "But where there are leaves, there is a shadow of fire. This belief is not unique to shadows, but the vast sea of ​​people you can see below—their common belief."

Minato: "I like Konoha...Although it has so many bad things, people are warm, and warm things will happen in the coldest and sad winter."

"I've always wanted to be Hokage." Minato stood up, looking at the dimly lit city in the distance, the corners of his clothes fluttering in the cold wind. "—I know that being Hokage will inevitably experience a lot of setbacks, and there will be a lot of helpless things. I have thought about what it means to be Hokage for a long time before—but I finally feel that although this concept is not as strong as I have begun to think , not even as clean as I imagined, but I still take it as my ideal."

Namikaze Minato said: "Although there are tens of thousands of people, I will go."

I turned my head to look at him, and saw Minato's firm and sincere eyes.I suddenly felt vaguely that this boy is omnipotent, he represents a new force in the world, a new idea, a new everything - he is omnipotent.

He is the future, the sharp gun, the dawn and the rising flame; he is the world, the source of all planetary explosions, and the new power.

"I trust you." I said.

At that moment, I felt that he was the chosen child.He is so good.

"You must be careful outside." I put the milk tea cup aside, the cold wind blew, the plastic cup shook, and rolled down from the Hokage Rock.I feel like an old woman, telling him one by one: "Don't eat indiscriminately, don't go to places where Mr. Ziraiya collects folk songs - sister Tsunade said that those places are unreliable, and it is easy to suffer if you go there. Don't be indiscriminate. Get into an argument with someone, and avoid conflict if you can, okay?"

Minato laughed when he heard that, nodded and said, "Okay."

"It's three years, is it three years?" I endured it, and finally asked.

Minato said: "Will you miss me?"

I nodded quickly, turning my face away.

"Then I made a promise with you." Minato said in a gentle voice, "I will definitely return to Konoha four years later before the new year, how about it?"

I felt a little awkward, so I said stiffly: "Then I can't guarantee whether I will remember you for such a long time. We will all change a lot by then, and maybe you won't remember me. This agreement is really boring."

"Then let's wait and see." Minato reached out and rubbed my head, "——Qinai, your hair is really beautiful."

I didn't slap his hand off, and smiled gently: "That's right, I don't even look at who it is."

Huge fireworks exploded suddenly, but we who sat on Hokage Rock felt that the fireworks were close at hand, and the sound of the explosion was deafening.I was startled, and the water gate held my hand tightly to prevent me from falling.

"Happy New Year." He smiled.

Konoha's 36th year came suddenly amidst the fireworks, and I held Minato's hand tightly, as if I was holding my half body.

I don't know if he will remember today's agreement, and I also don't know if he will still treat me so well three years later.

But I will remember.

—I'll remember him saving me, I'll remember him complimenting my hair/beauty on a moonlit night, I'll remember the plum candy he handed me and the apple chunks he stuffed into his mouth, he lay The phrase in the pool of blood said to me don't cry - I will remember every little thing that makes me feel moved.

I hold his hand tightly.

The author has something to say: woo woo woo Every time I mention this sentence, I feel...these two people are really nice QHQ

Countdown to the end of this volume!Thanks to Mrs. Unknown Sea for mine x5! ! !

The author of the TvT update last night knelt down very guilty...

I hope everyone will forgive me! ! (Exit seat)

【1/7/22:53】Modify some cumbersome wording... _(:з」∠)_It may read a little more smoothly!

And bubbling... (crying