[Hokage] Snake Scale

Facts have proved that Tanaka Shangshan's conjecture is correct.

As soon as they returned to the village, they saw Zilai waiting at the entrance of the village. He saw Snake opened his mouth, and finally swallowed what he wanted to say.

"Snake, you should go to the hospital and the comfort monument."

The snake's footsteps paused.

She looked at Jiraiya, trying to read something from his face.

But the sky had already darkened, and the snake couldn't see his expression clearly.

"You go back to my house first." Snake ordered Tian Zhong up the mountain, and then quickly ran towards the hospital.

......

There are many dead bodies in the morgue.

One of them is very small.

Snake lifted the white sheet, revealing the covered face.

The boy's face was delicate, with blood on the corner of his mouth.Snake lifted the entire quilt, and stroked the boy's chest, then to the lower abdomen, and then to the arms with his fingers.

There was a wound from the waist to the navel, which was very deep and directly hurt the stomach.There were multiple stab wounds on the arm, and some cross-shaped wounds were bleeding and coagulated scars because they could not be sutured.

His body was still warm, and he should have died not long ago.The wound showed signs of medical ninjutsu, but apparently it couldn't be saved.

No breathing, no heartbeat, just a corpse after all.

Snake stood there for a long time before gently covering the quilt back, and disappeared in the same place the next moment.

......

The red-haired girl sat there with her arms around her knees, her hairpin-less red bangs blowing down to cover her eyes, trembling slightly.The blond boy sat next to her and patted her on the back.

The red-haired girl flinched when the snake reached them, and the blond boy froze.

"Master Snake, Kushina..." Minato's voice was full of worry.

Snake lowered his eyes and made a gesture.Minato understood, stood up and walked away slowly, Snake was walking in, they passed each other, Minato walked to the place where she was standing before, Snake stood next to Kushina.

There was some anxiety in Minato's blue eyes, he knew that Kushina was in a bad mood right now.

"..."

He looked back at Jiu Xinnai and Snake, then turned and left.

"It should be... no problem."

He knew that Kushina was a strong girl, and if Mr. Snake was by her side... there would be no problem.He is relieved.

After Minato left, Snake stood beside Kushina, but his eyes shifted to the stone tablet in front of her.

There are countless names on it, but there is a line of crooked characters underneath, obviously just engraved with ninja tools, and those words only make Snake feel extremely glaring.

"Mountain city empty knowledge".

"Mr. Snake, am I so weak?" Kushina suddenly said, "If I were stronger, if I hadn't been captured by Yun Ninja, wouldn't Soraka not die?"

Sorachi was with her when she was taken away from Konoha, and then he was killed.

Minato can save her, but not the dead Yamashiro Sorachi.

In less than a week, their team lost one person.

That person is very annoying, and often calls her the most hated "tomato".

But he's gone now.

...and it was impossible to call her a tomato anymore.

Snake fell silent, then shook his head.

This happened within a day of her leaving.

In the final analysis, she is still too concerned about the so-called "future" and ignores what will happen in the near future.She should have known earlier that Yunin would come to catch Uzumaki Kushina at this time.

She is too confident, too conceited.

The early end of the war, getting the main force of Senshoubeijian, and the "future" in her mind gave her the illusion that everything had changed.

But the reality is "no".

"Jiu Xinnai." Snake shouted.

"Soraka is dead." Kushina said before Snake continued, "Because of me."

Snake frowned slightly.

She was the first to recognize this student because of her perseverance, but if she was crushed so early, it would only mean that her recognition was given too early.

"Do you remember what I said during the execution?" Snake asked, "I said, I don't want you to tremble in front of your companion's corpse in the future."

She asked like this at that time, and the child named Uzumaki Kushina replied with the most confident voice:

"...No way."

"I am the one who will become Hokage, and I will protect everyone so that they will not turn into corpses!"

"But what are you doing now?" she went on. "You want to be a shivering wretch here?"

Snake's voice was not harsh, even gentle.But Kushina's arms were hugged even tighter, and she huddled into a ball.She bit her lip and let out a low whimper.

"But Sokichi lost." Kushina said sullenly, "He wanted to protect me, he lost, was defeated, and died."

"Kong Zhi has not been defeated." Snake said softly, "People can be killed, but they cannot be defeated."

Kushina was startled, and raised her head to look at Snake.

"You have to know that a ninja will die at any time." Snake's voice paused, "...and, as long as you are a human, you will die sooner or later."

That's why she pursued the so-called eternal life.

"But now we're alive," she sighed.

She stretched out her hand towards Jiu Xinnai, her golden eyes shining brightly in the dark night.

"Life is like a rose, each petal represents a dream, each thorn reveals a reality."

"Your name is Uzumaki Kushina." Her voice was low and demagogic, "Your dream is Hokage."

"So tell me, what will you do? Do you cry here, lament powerlessly, admit your weakness and uselessness, or hold on to what you want to hold on to?"

Kushina stared blankly at her hand, tears streaming down her eyes.

"I...want to become stronger." Her voice trembled.

Snake stood there quietly, waiting for her next move.

Kushina stood up with her arms on the ground, her legs were a little numb after squatting for a day.After she stood still, she firmly grasped the pale and slender hand.

"I want to become stronger." She gritted her teeth and said, her voice was unprecedentedly firm.

"If the rose has thorns, then I will pull out the thorns." The girl cried out, but uttered this sentence clearly, "Even if my hands are bloody, I will never let go!"

The little hand was trembling, and the eyes were streaming with tears.A suppressed cry came from her throat, but she never made it out of her mouth.

But what is unquestionable is her determination.

The snake lowered its eyes for a while.

"Good boy."

she says.

Yes, this child is Rose.

The bright red rose, even though it was born among thorns, can still bloom the most beautiful flowers.

The author has something to say: life is like a rose, each petal represents a dream, and each thorn reveals a reality.

—Alfred de Musset

Kushina is a strong mother_(:з」∠)_