Chapter 32: Change Begins at This Moment
In the early summer of Konoha 45, two ninjas held their funerals on the same day.
One is Shimura Danzo, who is a great hero of Konoha. During the war, he served as the Hokage's assistant, assisting the three generations of Hokage in managing government affairs, managing the village in an orderly manner, he and his roots collected countless intelligence for Konoha and eradicated countless enemies for Konoha in peacetime.
As the root of the tree that secretly supports Konoha, his exploits can shine in the annals of history, and his spirit can be a model for ninjas. His death is a huge loss for Konoha.
His funeral was solemn, glorious, and comparable in scale to the shadow level, and up and down the entire Konoha area, countless ninjas came to his funeral to offer flowers, mourn, and see him off.
In contrast, the funeral of another ninja seemed bleak and lonely.
On the south wind plain, the summer breeze blows, the shallow grass sways like waves, the sky is full of stars rippling a purple ocean, and in the middle of the flowers, a new grave is erected, and the monument in front of the tomb reads "The Tomb of the Uchiha Naoki Couple".
One by one, the people of the Uchiha clan stepped forward silently and bowed, leaving silently, each with a heartfelt sadness on their faces.
For the outside world, it is a shame for the people who die here, and every Konoha ninja is eager to eat their flesh and sleep their bones.
But for the Uchiha clan, there is a hero and his wife buried here.
At the end of the funeral, it was dusk, the twilight clouds were combined, the sunset was like a rainbow, the grassland was lonely, only the evening breeze kept blowing, Mingyu and Sunset Red stood in front of the tomb, silent.
Sunset Red shook his hand, didn't speak, turned around and walked down the grassland, as an empathetic girl, she knew that men had a lot to say and didn't want anyone to bother.
Mingyu sat in front of the stele, put a pot of wine, two cups, poured one glass, sprinkled it in front of the grave, poured another cup, and drank it all by himself.
As a man in two lives, this is the first time he has been dipped in alcohol, and the wine has entered his throat and intestines, and he rushes upwards with a breath, forcing people to speak: "Speaking of which, although you led me to think of myself as a confidant, I didn't even know that you liked to drink, but for ninjas, this is not a good habit." I told you that there was a lustful guy, he was also greedy for cups, once there was a war on the border, that guy, people fought under the city, he actually got drunk on the city wall, and he went crazy, the other party thought that we were suspicious, and we didn't dare to attack, and our eyes fell out......"
“…… Do you remember the first time we met? At that time, you were so crazy that you told me to make four moves, and I was slapped in the face, and you actually beat me up and went to the hospital. At that time, I was very angry, thinking that such a guy, his hair had not grown, and he had no one in his eyes, and he shamelessly bullied the small with the big and the weak with the strong, and then made a two-year contract with a rush of blood. That's really bloody, sometimes I feel ashamed to think about it, and then our war contract kept pushing back, pushing back, saying three years and three years......"
He was four years old when the war contract was made, he was eight years old, and now he is ten years old, and he has died young, separated forever. Who would have thought that this impulsive agreement would become a lifelong bond between the two, beyond the fetters of life and death.
He kept drinking and talking, and then he didn't know what he was talking about. A lot of things kept spinning in his mind, and many images kept shaking.
He couldn't help but say.
When I woke up the next day, I had a splitting headache and felt hot and uncomfortable after being exposed to the sun, and it took several bowls of hangover soup to get better. He drank before he was seriously injured, which hurt his body very much, but Keiko, who used to be very strict in this regard, didn't say a word more this time.
She knows that her son has grown up, and she also knows that there are many things between men, and only when they drink alcohol can they say it happily.
This week, he didn't go anywhere, while healing, he practiced ninjutsu.
His body has been greatly improved by the increase of Feiyuan, and of course, more importantly, with the huge chakra of the Heavenly Attraction Stone as a foundation, he no longer has to worry about the inability of the chakra to succeed. In the case of the great improvement of both the inside and outside, the conditions for cultivating ninjutsu have been fully matured, and it is a matter of course, and the entry of ninjutsu is advancing rapidly.
When he first started cultivating last year, it took him thirteen days to run a chakra for a week, but later his physical fitness was improved and shortened to nine days.
Every day at dusk, he would go for a walk in the suburbs with Sunset Red, send Red to the orphanage, and he would go to the Nanfeng Plain, and stand quietly in front of Naoki's tomb for a while to remember his old friends.
One day, he unexpectedly saw two small figures in front of the tomb.
It's a two-year-old ferret.
Geniuses are always different from ordinary people, Itachi's early wisdom made the Uchiha clan exclaim that another Mingyu appeared, only two years old, and other children are probably still learning to talk and play with mud, and he is already throwing shuriken.
"Brother Mingyu!" Zhishui said in surprise when he saw the shadow covering him.
Itachi called out to the teacher shyly, Itachi was born as a student of Mingyu, of course, Mingyu was busy with the war in the past two years, and he, the teacher, has not shown up a few times.
"Why are you here?" Mingyu laughed.
"This weekend, I took Itachi to see Brother Naoki," said the water, "I heard that Brother Naoki died for the clan, right?"
"Yes. Mingyu nodded.
"So, what kind of person is he?"
Itachi also looked at Mingyu with a blank eye, even if he is a genius, he can't avoid human nature, and geniuses love to listen to stories when they are young.
"You want to know, come, let's sit down, and you listen to me slowly. ”
Itachi and Zhishui sat on either side of Mingyu respectively, Mingyu put his arm around their shoulders, looking at the remnant sun in the west, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "First of all, he is a very interesting person, he is obviously very soft-hearted, but his face is very cold, even to his good friends......"
The evening breeze whispered, the weeds undulated, the tired birds returned to the forest, the purple smoke curled in the distant sky, the clouds were like brocade, Mingyu's voice was as soft as the night breeze, undulating like the weeds, his eyes were also shining bright like the birds returning home, and his face was filled with a soft look like purple smoke and red haze.
A genius, a hero, but also a friend, a relative, his tortuous and wonderful life, his beautiful and singing love, from Mingyu's mouth.
"Why did he go to that sister? ”
"That's love. I'll tell you a story, once, there was a hero on the grassland who raised a pair of white eagles, the pair of white eagles were inseparable, one day in a battle, the female eagle was accidentally killed, the male eagle had a chance to escape, but after it saved the owner, it also hit the cliff and went with the female. Because it knows that the female eagle is dead, and the world is so big that it has never had a place to place its soul, and it has no nostalgia for this world. ”
The two children nodded incomprehensibly. Itachi suddenly asked, "Why does he have to die for the sake of the clan?"
Mingyu's expression became serious, staring at Itachi's innocent and immaculate eyes, and said solemnly: "Because the clan is the place where he was born and raised, his relatives, and the destination of his soul." Itachi, you have to remember that as a ninja, we can fight for the ninja in our hearts, for our lover, for our family, for our own people, for the whole village, and even because of the contradiction of ninja, we can also leave a clan. But you have to remember that a clan is the place where we were raised, it is our roots, and we can leave it, but we can't cut it down, you know?"
The teacher's solemn expression and earnest teaching were reflected in Itachi's dark and shining eyes, engraved in his young heart, and he was ignorant, but he also nodded solemnly.
At sunset, Mingyu smiled, and the two children also smiled. The evening breeze blows through the fields, bringing the fragrance of the stars. 2510