Kakashi lay lazily on the branch, pretending to look at the little yellow book in his hand, and silently glanced at Sasuke, who was cultivating hard.

Just ten days ago, Sasuke suddenly found him and asked if the agreement made at the previous dinner party counted. Kakashi saw in the pair of whirling magatama that looked like former teammates. He asked Sasuke, who was frowning at the time, hiding his nervousness with silence, and tentatively in a lazy and casual tone.

"I don't teach revenge as the end of life, and people who have no opinions become strong."

"Protection."

Sasuke looked up at this Konoha technician, who was the strongest in Konoha except for the Hokage and the Three Shinobi, and did not hesitate to refute the opinion of the other party in his heart.

"Protecting my sister is the reason why I wield my sword. It's also my ninja. ”

“……”

Kakashi was afraid of Sasuke in front of him, who was clearly confused but said this firmly. He knew everything that Shizumi Uchiha had revealed to him. But she didn't expect that she would be the last compatriot in the clan, and it could even be said that she was her brother's Sasuke. They were all brainwashed by her.

- Do you have no one else in your heart except the instincts of the beast......

Kakashi knew why he fell in love with the girl who had only been married for a day, and how many good things about her were for him to admire. But he just couldn't accept the darkness she was buried in.

He feared that she would eat her husband like the rain spider he had encountered in the Land of Water as a child.

Holding on to the last chance of luck, Kakashi wanted to ask questions that would break his bond with her in razor-sharp words.

"It's the answer from the deepest part of your heart and what you want the most...... Is it? He felt that Sasuke's declaration was still unassertive. Kakashi, who knew this from the look on his face, asked one last question. I intend to end it all and decide the path ahead.

"I still hate that man."

Sasuke said the answer that made Kakashi's face change instantly, but he didn't know how complicated the face of the man who was covered by the mask was at this time. The remnant of the Uchiha continued, "But my sister's love for me has taught me one thing. Rather than chasing the lost past, protecting the things and people of the present is what I should do now. ”

The two faced each other in front of the waterfall in the martial arts arena and made a decision in their hearts. Sasuke's pupils became calm, not like the waves of the lake under his feet, rippling with ripples.

"He who chases after vanity is the most arrogant fool. And I'm ...... I want to welcome the future where I can enjoy the river with my sister. Confusion was no longer engraved on his immature cheeks, and he slowly said his request: "Master Kakashi Hachiki! Teach me strength! ”

"...... "I...... It's the fool who keeps chasing vain.

The river crashed down from a waterfall not far away, startling wave after wave, just like Kakashi's heart. He looked at his hands, and finally knew in the true sense why he fell in love with the being named Shizuzu Uchiha.

He saw the girl as everything he had lost in the past. Because she has the warmth of the sun like Teacher Watergate, and the belief that Obito keeps running without stopping, and most importantly, ...... He also had the gentleness of Lynn.

Even though he knew that these were all gestures she deliberately posed, he just couldn't help but want to chase them.

——Like a moth to a fire, like a white horse crossing a stream, and like the morning sun chasing the moon that can never be seen.

Kakashi took off the mask he used to hide his loneliness when his father traveled far away, and his grief when his relatives and friends died in battle. He said calmly, "Come with me." You already have the heart of a strong man. ”

……

……

In the Dragon Land Cave, no matter how bad an ordinary ninja snake is, at least it has spiritual intelligence, far surpassing that of ordinary snakes. The greatest benefit that cold-blooded snakes with human-like intelligence can get is that they know how to get food more easily.

Fuji is under Orochimaru's hand - no, the weakest ninja snake in the entire Dragon Ground Cave. It knows this very well, and tries to hunt like its own people, using the body of its prey to strengthen its body.

But it failed. And he became a weak person who was sarcastically ridiculed by cold-blooded animals in the cave of the dragon.

It successfully hunted, and also successfully felt the frantic struggle of its prey in its body. But it did not succeed in becoming stronger, nor did it have the right to chase after the patriarch Ten Thousand Snakes.

Frustrated, it keeps hunting and killing the prey that it is called weak, but it only kills but does not eat.

Until one day, it prostrated itself on the body of the giant elephant, and the letter, spitting out elephant blood, heard the call from far away. It knows that it is different.

- It can hear all the sounds it wants to hear, no matter how many miles away.

As a result, Fuji was fortunate to be taught part of the perceptual ninjutsu by the White Snake Immortal, and became one of the few politicians in the clan, and volunteered to ask for his life to be with Orochimaru, who was despised by the clan, so that he could go to the ninja world to find a way to become stronger.

And today, Fuji received a message from Orochimaru. It spat out snake letters, carefully recording Orochimaru's orders, and emerged from the corpse of the ninja cat, ready to relay it to its new owner.

“……”

Fuji searched for Shizue Uchiha, who had disappeared for a long time, but found that he could no longer hear her voice. It was as if Shizune Uchiha didn't exist in this world at all, and the thoughts in her mind were completely obscured by darkness, making it impossible for Fuji to find out.

It silently spat out the snake letter, slowly opened its mouth, swallowed the ninja cat that was lost in the Uchiha clan and was killed by it, and then clinged to the wall of the alley and swam along the bluestone, ready to find the third voice heard in the forest that day.

It knew that the man would be unassertive in helping it find its new master.

……

……

"Mute, aren't you okay?"

"Tsunade-sama, who told you to owe a lot of debt outside. And because there are so many creditors, they also post photos of you of all ages. Unless you're willing to use ninja tricks to trick them and break the traditions of the ninja world. Otherwise, you will have to accept makeup to escape. ”

In the dilapidated room, the blonde girl who had been sitting all the time seemed to be unable to endure the harassment of the girl on her side, and stood up and shouted, "Ahhh Anyway, after returning to the village this time, Tuan Zang's deflated calf will definitely give the old lady a lot of money. ”

"But before you enter the village, you have to dress up to avoid the creditor, and two days ago a fat boy named Cardo came to you with a big vote."

"That fat man has chased all his debts here! Isn't he a merchant in the Land of Waves......"

Listening to the education of the black-haired girl, Tsunade pursed her lips and let out a sigh, and could only reluctantly accept that the slender hand that made her tickle kept messing with her face.