Yaya lowered her head and looked fixedly at a certain place.

Sasuke is the same as him? He just forgot to protect himself, so Mom and Dad said about him? Mi also felt that his brother's words were just a nice remark.

Speaking of which, my brother still thinks that he is wrong and that his approach is problematic.

He just wanted to protect everyone, but why did they all seem to be unacceptable? And he felt that he had clearly made the best choice, and that he was not as careless and self-conscious as they said.

The hand placed in the corridor unconsciously picked something, Yaya finally couldn't hold back the disbelief in his heart, he raised his head and looked into Itachi's eyes and said: "But the situation was really urgent at that time, and we couldn't sit still, otherwise both of us would definitely be in danger, so we had to take the initiative to attack, and sacrifice one of me in exchange for Sasuke's safety, isn't that right?" As he spoke, Yaya lowered his eyes and clenched his hands, "Just because I'm too weak, when I want to take the initiative to protect others, everyone thinks that I am immeasurable, impulsive, and adventurous, if I am strong, do you think I am brave and great?" ”

These words have been buried in his heart, and he dare not say them to anyone.

If you say it, you are afraid that people will be sad, and if you don't say it, you will feel wronged.

Itachi looked at Yaya quietly, there was no emotion in his dark eyes, and he didn't speak.

Yaya continued: "Mom said that my brother went to the battlefield when he was four years old to protect Konoha Village and fight to defend the country, but what about me? When I was four years old, my brother didn't allow me to touch the shuriken, for fear that I would hurt myself, I knew that I was not in good health and weak, but I also wanted to do my best to protect you. As he spoke, the mist came up from his eyes, and Yaya kept blinking his eyes, blinking and blinking, forcibly suppressing the sourness and swallowing all the emotions into his abdomen.

"Mom always says, 'Itachi, you have to take care of Yaya', 'Sasuke, Yaya is not well, you let him do more', 'Sasuke, you must watch Yaya at school', but obviously my shuriken and physical skills are better than Sasuke', if someone bullies Sasuke at school, I can also help Sasuke out, but my mother will never say to me, 'Yaya, you also have to take care of Sasuke', it's because I'm not in good health and I'm always sick, so I don't dare to do anything, if I take the initiative to do something, my mother will have to worry."

The hand was held tightly, the thin finger bones were faintly white, and the bandages on the arms were also showing some blood, but Yaya didn't feel it at all, and continued to confide: "Brother, do you think I don't know anything? You are always secretive when you speak, obviously you are looking for medicine for me, but you always lie to me and say that it is to relieve headaches and supplement the body, I don't know how my body is? I'm afraid that I'm sad and don't tell me anything, I'm afraid that I'm worried so I hide everything from me, can't I see the way I force a smile in front of me? You feel sorry for me and worry about me, so do you know that I also feel like a burden. ”

Yaya lowered his head and looked gloomy: "It doesn't matter if I'm as important to you as Sasuke or not, anyway, I won't live long anyway......"

The words that were suppressed in my heart felt very comfortable at once, but in the end, regret came to my heart like a rising tide, and Yaya's tone when he spoke was not as righteous as at the beginning, leaving only a melancholy uneasiness, and when he said the last sentence, he was already stubborn.

A layer of window paper that had been hidden was pierced in this way, and the fact that everyone was silent and wanted to endure was exposed to the white sunlight.

After saying that, Yaya didn't dare to look up at his brother's eyes at all.

The wind was blowing softly, and you could hear the leaves sizzling, and the sun was still high in the sky radiating warmth.

The atmosphere under the quiet corridor was so silent that it was suffocating, and she could hear the gentle breathing of the people around her.

The person beside him didn't speak, and Yaya became more and more confused, until suddenly his hand was grabbed by someone to avoid the wound, and Yaya suddenly looked up at Itachi and whispered, "Brother." ”

Itachi lowered his head, looked at the place where Yaya had the bandage on his hand and said, "The wound has broken again, I'll go get the medicine box." ”

"Brother......" Yaya tried to see something on his brother's face, but couldn't see anything.

Itachi still had that faint look, and his obsidian-like eyes were so deep that they seemed to contain the entire dark night.

When Itachi came out with the medicine box, Yaya still sat motionless in that position, allowing his brother to help him remove the bandage and reapply the medicine, and then change to a new bandage.

When you raise your eyes slightly, you can see my brother's focused expression, his long and thick eyelashes flutter gently, and his drooping eyes are tinged with melancholy tenderness.

The unwillingness and grievances in his heart all disappeared, and Yaya's lips squirmed, but he couldn't say anything.

――Why did you say it all? Obviously shouldn't have said it.

"Yaya, you have done nothing wrong, there is nothing wrong with our love for you, and there is nothing wrong with Mom and Dad's hope that you will be safe." Bandaged, Itachi gently lowered Yaya's hand and put everything into the medicine box.

He has been thinking about it for the past few days, what makes Yaya, who has always been weak and accustomed to being protected, so brave that he can even ignore his life, but he never thought that the ultimate reason is the love from his family, and the heart that has been suppressed and wants to protect his family.

Yaya looked into Itachi's eyes and asked, "Who's wrong then?" ”

Itachi shook his head: "No one is wrong. ”

Yaya frowned and looked at Itachi with an accusatory look, as if to say that he was perfunctory.

"Mi will also want to protect Sasuke, because of love, Dad and Mom are worried about Yaya, because of love, those words they say to you, also because of love, Mi will also have so much dissatisfaction, or because he wants to express the love in his heart." As he spoke, Itachi pushed the medicine box aside, raised his hand to put his arm around Yaya, and lay down with him backwards, his dark eyes reflecting the free birds in the sky, "Yaya thinks, is there something wrong with love?" ”

Yaya lay down, pillowed his brother's arm, looked at the white clouds floating in the sky, and shook his head: "No." ”

"Yaya's heart is holding back so many words and not saying it, because you know that if you say it, we will be worried, right?"

Yaya nodded, "Hmm." ”

"But you don't say anything, so how do we know what you think?"

Mi didn't speak either.

Itachi didn't go on anymore, he left enough time for Yaya to think for himself.

He had always known that Mi didn't understand anything like he seemed on the surface, but he didn't expect that Mi also knew so much.

It was he who was negligent.

Now that Ya also knows, then he will no longer hide it.

But he was really helpless about Yaya's illness, even if he went to borrow more books and used the opportunity of the mission to find more treatments, in the end he still found nothing, he could only watch Yaya faint with a fever again and again, but he couldn't do anything.

Ya also felt sad, he didn't feel very lost, he felt sorry for Yaya, so you can imagine what his father and mother felt in their hearts.

Breathing in the fresh air, Itachi also set his sights on a cherry tree planted by the pond, the flowering time had passed, and only green leaves were left on the branches that should have been piled up with pink petals, which Yaya had planted with his own hands in the year he was born.

There is another tree next to it, which was planted by his father and given to Sasuke.

The trees grow very fast, and in six years the trunk is thick and the canopy is lush.

Obviously they were planted together, but the seedlings of the same variety also had a difference in how fast and slow they were growing, and the one in Yaya was much shorter than the other tree next to it.

After a long while, Itachi whispered, "Yaya, my brother will do everything he can to protect you."

Miya blinked, and all the negative feelings that had accumulated in his heart disappeared, as if the whole person was much more relaxed, and it felt really good to talk about it, and there was nothing to suppress in his heart and hide it.

Yaya tilted his head and looked at his brother's side face: "Hmm...... Then I'll do everything I can to survive. ”

If you really can, you don't have to die...... That would be great.

A flock of birds flapped their wings in the direction of the sun swept across the pale blue sky.

The sunlight was still a little dazzling, and Yaya squinted and chose to close his eyes.

Just as Yaya was about to fall asleep, Itachi's voice sounded again: "Then it's decided." ”

Yaya opened his eyes and nodded, "Okay." After saying that, he thought about it again, and after a while, he turned his head to look at Itachi, because he was lying in his brother's arms, Yaya could only see the delicate, well-defined chin outline: "Brother, I also want to protect you." ”

"Well, I know, Mi can do it too. But Ya must also promise me that in the future, you will have to consider not only us, but also yourself, you know? …… We love you all too much. ”

"Hey. Okay~"

Itachi hooked the corners of his mouth.

Rather than meticulous protection, a proper sense of responsibility may make Yaya feel happier.

Even a six-year-old child will have a heart that wants to dedicate himself to protecting others.