Hokage - Mirror Love

? Itachi and Sasuke seemed to be practicing in the backyard. Hearing Mikoto's voice calling them, two teenagers, big and small, appeared outside the door after a while. Sweat could still be seen on their foreheads. "What's wrong?"

Seeing Eri sitting on the cushion waving at him, Itachi was a little puzzled, "Why did you leave the hospital? Are you all right?"

Eri nodded, "The doctor said it's okay."

"Really." Itachi also sat down, took the towel that Mikoto handed him, and then helped Sasuke wipe off his sweat, Sasuke dodged a little embarrassedly, "No need bro, I'll do it myself."

"Sit down and don't move around." Itachi rubbed his head vigorously, Sasuke did not move as expected, a shy yet happy smile appeared on his face under the towel.

Ah... this pair of brother and brother.

Eri complained silently in her heart, then cleared her throat and said, "Actually, I'm here today to pack up and go home."

As soon as this sentence came out, not only Itachi froze, but even Mikoto and Sasuke looked at her in surprise.

"Well, I have been bothering you here for some reason... and now that reason no longer exists, and I am too embarrassed to continue to live here. After all, it has troubled you a lot..." Eri was a little a little bit stared at by their straight eyes. Embarrassed, the voice gradually became quieter, "So I came here to pack my things and prepare to move back to my own home."

"Why bother us, Eri is so cute, we all like you." Miqin took her hand and said with a gentle smile, "It doesn't matter if you stay with us all the time."

It's not good, once she gets her to stay, she doesn't want to leave, after all, Itachi's house is always very lively and warm, not as deserted as hers, Eri actually likes it very much in her heart.

No, no, no, Eri shook her head vigorously and threw out the thoughts in her head, she was just being polite and don't take it seriously.

"Eri, are you really going to move out?" Itachi asked her after being silent for a while.

The more she asked, the more hesitant she became, and her determination was not as strong as it was before she came here.

wrong!Eri, you have clearly made your decision!

"Yeah, I'm going to move out." No more hesitation, Eri wanted to cut off her retreat, stood up decisively and said, "Thank you for your care during this time, then I... will go to pack my things. "

Mikoto seemed to want to say something more, but Itachi held her hand down, and then stood up, "Let me help you."

"Itachi..." Mikoto looked a little worried, and Itachi lowered her head and smiled slightly, "Mom, I'll help her get her things there later, and I'll probably be back later."

Originally, Eri didn't bring anything here, so she didn't have so many things, and she didn't need Itachi to help. Eri lifted the bag to feel the weight, "Itachi, this is not very heavy, I will go back by myself That's it."

Itachi stood silently behind her, and it took a long time before he whispered, "It's okay, I'll take you back."

Eri stuffed the last textbook into the bag, then looked back at Itachi, and laughed out loud, "Is Itachi reluctant to part with me?"

Itachi and her stared at each other for a while, then looked away blankly, "No."

"Ah, there isn't one?" Eri suddenly became depressed, "I really miss Itachi."

Itachi's eyes moved, and he looked back at her, "Since you can't bear it, why don't you stay?"

"That's right...why?" Eri tilted her head and thought for a while, then stretched out a finger in front of Itachi's face, "Probably because people are bound by the environment, and you can't do it just because I think so." Do it...for such a reason."

"You are not bound by the environment now." Itachi paused, and seemed to want to say something, but in the end it just turned into a sigh, and then stretched out his hand to pat her head, "Let's go."

Eri's house hadn't been lived in for more than a month, and the things inside were covered with dust. I wiped the table casually with my fingers, leaving a large trace of dust on the fingertips.

"Looks like it needs to be cleaned up." Eri looked at her fingers with a sad face, "It's too dirty."

After cleaning up the things left by Tong, it basically returned to the original appearance of Eri's house. It took more than two hours to clean, and the room was finally much cleaner. Eri looked at her results with satisfaction, waved her hand, "Itachi, I invite you to eat ramen!"

Seeing Itachi's silent gaze, Eri paused, "Ah, let's eat the three-color ball."

"... just ramen."

Now that Itachi said so, Eri took him to eat ramen with peace of mind, probably because he went at the wrong time and missed the meal time, and there was no one in the shop at the moment.

"Uncle, a bowl of tonkotsu ramen," Eri turned to look at Itachi, "what do you eat?"

"It's the same as you." Itachi picked up a pair of chopsticks, and suddenly turned to look outside. Outside the store door, a child with blond hair poked his head out from behind the wall and looked at them secretly.

"...that child is..." Eri squinted her eyes, then opened them wide suddenly, covered her mouth with her hands and asked Itachi in a low voice, "he can't be that container, can he?"

Eri has heard adults discuss the matter of Kyuubi being sealed in a baby's belly for four generations. It is said that it is a child with blond hair and blue eyes, and there are six cat whiskers on his face.

No matter how you look at it, it matches the appearance of the child standing at the door.

The boy seemed to have noticed what they were talking about, and there was some hostility in his eyes, then he quickly turned his head and ran away.

"Ah, let's go..." Eri blinked her eyes for a moment, then came back to her senses, "What was he doing just now?"

Itachi shook his head, obviously puzzled.

"Probably just came to eat ramen." The uncle said with a smile, and then put two bowls of tonkotsu ramen in front of them, "Please use it."

Obviously it is Eri's favorite ramen, but at the moment, she doesn't know how to eat it. She probably knows something about the child who is the Kyuubi container.He has no parents but likes to play pranks, and many people in the village have been hurt by Kyuubi, so everyone talks about him with strong disgust and rejection. Very few people in this village have any kindness towards him.

It's no wonder that the child showed hostility to them just now. It should be that she and Itachi are also one of the villagers who hate him.

When I was a child, I was isolated and excluded only in school, not to mention that the existence of Itachi greatly relieved her loneliness. This child was rejected by the whole village... Obviously the incident with Kyuubi had nothing to do with him, and he was just a victim only.

"Worried about that child?" Itachi asked clearly.

"A little bit, when I think about my past self, I feel like I can't ignore him." Eri absent-mindedly twisted the noodles in the bowl, "Itachi, if I interfere in his life, will he feel that I am Meddling too much?"

"If you were in this situation, would you think you were meddling?"

"...No," Eri thought for a while, a smile gradually appeared on her face, "I will definitely be very happy, just like Itachi promised to be my friend back then."

Itachi's habitually extended hand froze, and then slowly withdrew it, "You think I'm a friend, don't you?"

Eri nodded, looking at Itachi in confusion.

"From now on...we've been friends too, haven't we?"

Itachi's tone sounded very serious, a big question mark appeared on Eri's head, and then seemed to react suddenly, and grabbed Itachi's hand in shock, "Does Itachi don't want to be my friend anymore? I did something wrong What's up?"

"...No." Itachi said with some difficulty, then lowered his eyes, "Sorry, I just asked casually."

"Itachi, you are my most important friend." Eri held Itachi's hand tightly, "This will never change."

"...Well, I know." Itachi's tone was still light, but he frowned slightly.

Eri let go of Itachi's hand a little at a loss, she didn't know what was wrong with Itachi, but there was something wrong with Itachi now, even if she was as dull as her, she could clearly feel it.

Sending Eri home, Itachi turned around and was about to leave, the clothes on his body tightened and forced him to stop, Itachi turned his head silently, and as expected, he saw Eri's hand grabbing the corner of his clothes.

"Itachi..." Eri looked at her worriedly, "If you have any troubles, you can discuss them with me."

"..." Itachi was silent for a while before nodding, "I'll go back first."

Having said all this, Eri could only loosen his clothes and watch his figure until he disappeared from sight.

"Is it because I'm not reliable enough?" Eri murmured to the air, the cold wind poured into her neck and she couldn't help shivering, then slowly turned and walked into her room.

When she lived with Itachi, she was used to having a second person in the room, but now she was alone again, and the room that was a bit crowded before, suddenly felt a little empty to Eri.

Now that she was discharged from the hospital, it was about time for her to continue going to the ninja school, but besides her daily studies, she had another hobby, which was to inquire about the nine-tailed container.

Although the kid was not yet old enough to go to ninja school, he was so famous that Eri collected a lot of things related to him without much effort, what was painted on the wall of the store, on the Hokage Rock Paint it, paint it on the poles...

Come to think of it, it's all painted. Hey!

Eri held his forehead weakly, because everyone in the village ignored him and wanted to use pranks to attract attention. She could barely understand it, but could she come up with some new ways?

Then what I heard more was the hatred and disgust for the nine tails in the child.

But he is not Kyuubi after all, he was forced to become a container, and he grew up under the strange eyes of these people in the village without knowing anything.

Eri wanted to say this, but she couldn't say it out loud. She had seen Kyuubi before, and she knew what a terrifying existence Kyuubi was. In addition, so many people died in that accident in Konoha, anyone would have such a thing as anger. .

Even she probably couldn't pat her chest and promise that she would treat him as an ordinary child. ?