The leaves are fluttering

——Many things can happen in five years, such as men becoming handsome and women becoming beautiful, such as the rapid improvement in strength, such as... Suddenly there is an extra person.

Five years later.

In the blue sky, a brown-feathered owl fluttered across the sky, passed through the sea of ​​clouds, and flew into Ushio Village, but the sealing array in Uzuo Village did not respond at all. There are only two kinds of situations that can happen. Possibly, either the owl is just an ordinary bird, or it is someone's psychic beast in the village.

Passing by countless houses at low altitude, the speed of this owl did not slow down at all, flapping its wings, it flew straight into a shrine in the corner of the village, and then stopped on the high platform of the shrine.

"Mito." The owl tilted its head and called out to the red-haired girl sitting under the high platform with her eyes closed. It could be heard that it was a clear female voice.

The red-haired girl didn't respond at all, her legs were crossed, her hands folded on her legs and she bent out, motionless.Mito has been doing this for a long time since before the appearance of the owl.

Seeing that Mito didn't move at all, the owl was not in a hurry, but waited quietly.

After a while, Mito's eyelashes fluttered slightly and then opened. In the deep brown eyes, there was a soft light shining with perseverance and confidence. Maybe it was the reason of the sunlight and the angle, which made people pay attention unconsciously. I was so focused on her eyes that I didn't notice that the diamond shape on her forehead had deepened a lot.Mito got up and smoothed the folds on her dress, then turned around and took a few steps forward, with a happy smile on her lips, she stretched out her right arm forward, and the owl also flew to Mito's right arm .

"Mito, have you made another breakthrough?" Owl asked with concern.

"Well," Mito was obviously in a good mood, and the corners of her eyebrows and eyes showed joyful emotions, "The improvement of the Yin seal has been completed, and the chakra that can be stored has become more. I put the chakra that I don't usually use They are all sealed in, and the time for sealing and sealing has also been shortened."

"Athena, is it Mingyin and Sakura-san who sent the news?" The "Athena" in Mihu's account, the owl, is her psychic beast.

For the past five years, Mito has been in touch with each other through the owl Athena and Akane's psychic beast, a ninja cat named "Tanko".Although it is difficult to detect through the humble psychic beast, the two are still very careful, so they contact at most twice a year.

"Duanzi said that Mingyin has accepted a mission during this time, and she will come to the southeastern border of the Land of Fire, just in time to meet with her." Athena repeated the information she got from Ninja Cat Duanzi.

Mito nodded. The southeast border of the Kingdom of Fire is right next to the Kingdom of Uzumaki. This is an opportunity.Since Ming Yin was fine, Mito also focused on the other person, and she asked, "What about Sakura-san?"

Hinata Sakura, who suddenly joined Mito and Akane four years ago, can be said to be Mito and Akine who rescued the seriously injured Hinata Higen, or it can be said that Hinata Sakura found Mito through the scroll on Mito's body. over here.That's right, Hyuga Sakura is the person who was hunted down by the Hyuga family with whom Mito once met, and Mito also took away the scroll that the other party deliberately hid.

Due to various reasons, Hyuga Sakura made a deal with the two girls and joined the ranks of the two.Later, the thoughtful Mito discovered the unusual relationship between Sakura and his brother, and even noticed that Sakura was inextricably linked with the Slug Immortal or the Three Great Immortals. The relationship has become much closer.In the past four years, although the three of them had very few chances to meet each other, and almost contacted each other through psychic beasts, they also discovered some unknown things.

"Sakura said that he's been free recently, so it doesn't matter what time and where he is."

"That's it...then we can start when Akane arrives." Mito turned and stepped out of the shrine, lowering his right arm at the same time, and Athena also tacitly flapped her wings away from Mito's right arm, hovering around her .

"Athena, go and tell Mingyin and Sakura-san that the meeting place this time is set at the junction of the Uzumaki Land and the Fire Land, and the time will be the same as before. Yes." After thinking for a while, Mito planned the meeting of the three of them, and she instructed Athena who was flying in mid-air.

"Okay." Athena replied, and then vigorously flapped her wings and flew away towards the distant sky.

When Athena turned into a black spot in the sky, Mito also walked towards home. Regarding the meeting with Ming Yin and Sakura, she needed to talk to her brother first, and... Mito stretched out his hand Catching the lightly falling white, the cold wetness melted in the palm of my hand, it was snowflakes.Another year is about to pass, and it has been five years since Mito suddenly returned to Uzushio Village from the battlefield of the Wind Country.

It's been five years... and it's going to be six years soon.

A few days ago, her father's words suddenly flashed through Mito's mind. Her cheeks gradually turned a faint red, and her long eyelashes drooped down like butterfly wings. Meet again between the pillars.He didn't have much feeling before, but now Mito is curious about what has become of Hashirama after so many years, and why he is busy now.

But... before that, she needs to solve the scroll that has troubled them for several years with Mingyin and the others.

Putting away the scattered thoughts, Mito straightened his face, and then rushed towards the distance without stopping a step.

The snow fell for two days and two nights, and the snow stopped in the early morning of the third day. The slightly pale sunlight cast a layer of fluorescent light on the snow.Looking from a high altitude, white covers the entire country of vortex, even the forest belonging to the country of fire adjacent to the country of vortex is not spared.

In a certain silver-white forest, a figure quickly shuttled between the trees. Her figure was extremely fast, leaving only a very shallow imprint on the snow every time she passed the branches.Finally, the figure stopped on a branch of a slightly thick tree.It was a young woman. Her long black hair was tied up behind her head for the convenience of fighting. The dark blue half-sleeve dress was obviously a style for easy movement. The only strange thing was that there were no family symbols on her clothes. picture of.

"Duanzi, which direction is it?" The woman, Mingyin who came to meet Mito and Sakura, asked the psychic beast black cat who had been lying on her shoulder.

"I've told you that I don't want to be called 'Tuanzi' with such a shameful name!" The black cat didn't respond to Mingyin's question, but turned its face away.

"Five small dried fish." Mingyin knew the character of her psychic beast very well, and she threw out the bait without hesitation.

"Just... even if you say that... I... I... no... I won't... agree!" Hei Maotuanzi's eyes froze into a line instantly when he heard his favorite dried fish, and his whole body His fur also exploded due to excitement, but he forcibly suppressed his inner desire—according to his understanding of Mingyin, as long as he persisted, he could get more dried fish.

Unfortunately, this time it didn't develop as Tuanzi expected.Mingyin sighed regretfully, then stood up, and said softly, "Oh, it seems that those dried fish can only be cheaper for other cats."

"Wait...wait a minute!" Startled by Mingyin's words, the dumpling slid off Mingyin's shoulder without paying attention, and finally climbed up Mingyin's shoulder with great difficulty. Xiao Yugan lowered his noble head, "Five is five! But...you have to give me one in advance."

Mingyin looked at the dumpling with amused eyes, turned over a small dried fish with her left hand and it appeared between her fingers, and then she threw the dried fish to the right.Under the effect of force, the dried fish flew into the air, Tuanzi kicked hard with his hind legs, stretched his body, grabbed the dried fish with two front paws, and finally fell back to Mingyin's shoulders, all movements were done in one go.

"Woo...beside the group...on the left." Nipping the dried fish contentedly, Tuanzi told him in the right direction.

"Don't get the oil on your clothes." Touching the forehead of Tuanzi, Mingyin's figure disappeared on the branch.

Arriving at the scheduled location as quickly as possible, Mingyin stood in front of an ordinary cave deep in the forest. Under her high-speed movement, Tuanzi was still able to lie firmly on her shoulders, and even talked with relish. Eating small dried fish.Now, Mingyin has arrived at the destination, and the small dried fish of the dumpling has also been eaten, smashing his mouth, the dumpling sticks out his pink tongue to lick the oil on his paws, and then the sharp-eyed it finds that it has stopped. On a pine tree not far away, Athena is integrated with the trunk.

"Mingyin, you're here!" Seeing that the waiting people had arrived, Athena flew down from the tree and landed in front of Mingyin. "Mito and Sakura have arrived, you follow me." Saying that, Athena flapped her wings and entered the cave first.After hearing what it said, Mingyin also followed it into the cave.

After Mingyin and Athena entered the cave, the two footprints where Mingyin stood on the snow in front of the cave disappeared, as if no one had ever been here.

Mingyin followed Athena and walked into the depths of the cave. The light from the outside disappeared after gradually deepening, but this kind of darkness was nothing to her.After turning a corner, a slight light appeared in Mingyin's eyes, and after walking a few more steps, her eyes suddenly brightened.

At the end of the cave is a spacious space. There are lit candles on both sides of the stone wall as lighting tools. In the center of the cave illuminated by the candlelight, two people, a man and a woman, are waiting there.After hearing footsteps, the two turned around one after the other.

"Mingyin, you're here." The eyes of Mito and Mingyin intersected, and joy flashed in Mito's eyes, and the smile on the corner of her mouth deepened a lot.

"Yo, Mingyin, I haven't seen you for almost two years, and you've become beautiful again!" Hinata Sakura half-raised her hand to beckon to Mingyin, and at the same time praised him, his tone was casual and lazy, I really couldn't hear much credibility.

After nearly two years, the three of them met again for the sake of the scroll that has not yet been opened.

The author has something to say: I thought that summer vacation would be a good time to spend time, but...there is also a summer social practice TAT