Tsunade looked at the child whose eyes had been closed, and who was a little paler than before. helped her to lie down on the hospital bed again, caught the peach blossom petals floating from the window, and silently asked herself in her heart - do I hate flowers?

"It's too fragile, so I don't like it." Tsunade avoided the other party's innocent speech that seemed to be flattering but did not have any interests. She said with a wry smile: "Also, little ghost, you remember, although my sister's title is quite nice, I am in my forties." ”

"But your heart is still blooming."

“……”

"I don't like flowers."

"But your hands are so warm."

"That's just a normal trait of good health!"

Tsunade unconsciously raised his voice and retorted the other party's tireless topic about flowers, but suddenly shook his voice, and the breath that was about to come out of his abdominal cavity descended in the calm and fearless eyes of the other party.

"My sister is so beautiful, just like it." The child seemed to know that Tsunade would not hurt her, and he seemed to know the sudden drop in tone. She had opened her eyes for less than half a second, frolicking with the petals that had accidentally drifted to her cheek—she had no friends.

Tsunade was a little speechless in front of the child's innocent smile, and she snorted her lipstick-smeared lips, like a toddler who had just learned to speak, and asked softly, "Those ten days of fragrant flowers are full of flowers...... Is it enough? ”

"Not enough." The child obviously did not have the eyes that could convey the spirit, but his face was full of sorrow from the bottom of his heart, as if he replied silently. It's like an old man who sits in front of a tree after decades of wind and rain.

She snorted like Tsunade, trying to intersect her lips and teeth, squeezing out one word after another, and said softly but firmly, "But I will wait, wait for the next ten days, the next ten days, until the gods come and take my soul and let me see more flowers." ”

"Why don't you go and see the cactus that is evergreen and never withers?"

As if amused by the question, the child smiled and replied, "It's one of the few flowers I hate, like the thorns, because they hurt people." ”

"Even if it wasn't intended?"

"Even if it is unintentional."

Tsunade got the answer she hated most from the child. She hates the rules of survival made by this powerful person the most, and she hates the people who approve of it the most. She felt that the thorns and the unsightly cacti were born to protect others, and the child in this hospital bed evaluated this flower in the form of ornamentation.

She patted the dust on her body, unconsciously brought the tone of the march, and said sonorously: "I understand, then...... Uchiha Shizun, I swear, I will never heal you in my life. ”

The child smiled so innocently, as if she didn't care about the other party's vows, she took off the wreath on her head and gave this beautiful thorn that had met for less than a few seconds.

"You love flowers."

Tsunade silently took the peach blossom laurel that was stained with a lot of blood, and when he saw the pair of green fingers full of wounds, he couldn't help but want to help the other party expel the pain, but he suddenly held back, and opened his lips and said slowly: "No, I don't like it." ”

- In the heart of every Senju Clan, there is a flower tree that will never wither, but Tsunade's one is different. It is the thorn that can protect others, and it is only a spike, but it is a beautiful thing.

She repeated, as if to emphasize, as if to convince herself.

"No, I don't."

The wind took away all the petals from the branches of the peach trees in the courtyard, wrapped them up and carried them into the house, and seemed to drive away the thorns that had polluted the forbidden place, sending her out of the house and back to where she was supposed to be.

……

……

"Tsunade-sama, the Uchiha Shizune it said is the one we were entrusted with by Danzo to heal this time." Shizune stood behind Tsunade to remind her, and received a grateful glance from Fuji.

Tsunade woke up from the memory, looked at the vine that was about to be pinched and exploded by her unconsciously strengthened fingers, and snorted: "Mute, do you like flowers?" ”

"I like it." Shizune replied without hesitation, and wondered why Master would suddenly ask such a question at this time in this place.

"But it's so fragile." Tsunade tied the vine as a belt on his body to prevent the other party from escaping, as sharp as a thorn without mercy.

Shizune, who rarely feels sentimental, suddenly falls into this confused look, not knowing how to answer this question that is incomprehensible to her and has no meaning. It can only be answered in the most ordinary and modest way: "Because it blooms only ten days a year." ”

"Then do you think these ten days are enough?"

"Of course it's not enough."

“……”

She knew, but she couldn't wipe her face, and could only recall the last words of the old man in her heart.

- Look at her, and make up your mind...... All right?

……

……

Kakashi looked at the passage that reached the darkness, not knowing how to get in. He frowned and thought for a long time, but he was not worried that what Fuji said was a lie.

There is no point in deception without an interest relationship, and he and Fuji have neither an interest relationship nor a family or friend relationship, so it can basically be judged that what the other party says is true.

"Hello, Hagi-sama." A certain puppet on duty at the root stepped out, smiling like a sunny smile, as if welcoming Kakashi's arrival.

"I'm looking for Shizue Uchiha." Kakashi felt a little uncomfortable with the false divine emotion, and couldn't help but be even more worried about Shizue Uchiha, who had been staying here. Suppressing the irritability in his heart, he continued: "Show me the way. ”

"Lord Qimu, Lord Jing is no longer here, she ...... a few days ago"

"What a joke!" Kakashi slammed his palm into the abdomen, piercing the ninjas' protective wire smock and stunning the poor doll.

He used spiritism to summon the ninja dogs, gave instructions to search for her, and provided a hairpin that the Uchiha Shizun accidentally dropped so that the ninja dogs could search for her more easily.

Parker sniffed the hairpin and said to Kakashi with a flat face, "Hey...... Why don't you smell of that girl on this thing at all? It can't be because you've been holding it in your arms for too long, right......? ”

"......" Kakashi silently put his hand into his arms as if rubbing something, and after checking it for a long time, he placed his right hand, which had not taken out anything, on the tip of Parker's nose, to let it remember the strong fragrance that had not yet dissipated in his palm.

"......" Parker glanced at Kakashi silently, resisted the fear of the idiot in his heart, crouched down, turned around and took the lead to find Shizuzu Uchiha.