A few people who founded the village back then still remember what it looked like when Nohara first came to Konoha that year.

The five-year-old child is not tall, with fair skin and big watery eyes, with a bit of innocence unique to young children.

The man with the knife on his back held him in his arms somewhat unskillfully, but his eyebrows and eyes were gentle.

He said to his friends, "This is my son." ”

At that time, Tsuruma was already married, and the children were already in their teens, and when he heard this, he asked, "What about your wife?" ”

Nohara didn't answer, just touched the child's head over and over again. His hair was the same color as his father's, black, but his eyes were warm brown with his mother's.

Zhu Jian stopped asking, and changed the subject: "What is his name?" ”

The child didn't know what his name was, so he looked up at his father, whose expression was silent and complicated, and the young child couldn't understand.

After a while, he heard his father's tone with a sigh: "His name is Nohara Hatsu." ”

"The 'beginning' of not forgetting the original intention"

At that time, Nohara Hatsu was happy that he had a name, but he didn't pay attention to the not-so-good-looking faces of the uncles in front of him.

Later, Nohara Hatsu learned that at that time, due to the death of Madara Uchiha, his father and Hokage were not getting along happily.

When he grew up, Nohara Hatsu once asked his father why he didn't approve of his treatment of Madara Uchiha, even though his thoughts were more biased towards Hokage-sama.

"You said you would have made the same choice if it were you."

My father was silent for a while before he said, "He's not me." ”

"You don't understand, we grew up in different environments." The father interrupted Nohara's desire to ask: "It's problematic that he made the same choice as me, unlike me. ”

Father's eyes were dazed and sad, at this moment, he was no longer a strong and calm "ghost knife" on the battlefield.

Xiao Chu felt that his father must have a long, long story of his own.

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Even if there are contradictions, after a period of time, the relationship between several people has basically recovered.

Hokage-sama's health is getting worse and worse, and his father is very pampering with him, even more than Kazuma-sama-sama's for him. His father resignedly helped him approve the papers, handle official business, and even help cover when he went to the casino, although the tone was always lazy or impatient.

The adults in the pillars like Xiao Chu very much, and Xiao Chu often goes to him to play, and sometimes the pillars will use the wooden escape to change some gadgets for Xiao Chu.

Father also loves him very much, and his father's status in the village is very high, although he doesn't want Hokage-sama and Madara to be family ninjas like them, but his status is also the same as Kazuma-sensei, second only to Madara and Hokage-sama.

But Nohara Jiang never forced him to cultivate, and even sometimes he persuaded him to "spend more time on cultivation for his good." But his father didn't care, he said: "When Xiao Chu goes to school, I will naturally urge him, and now he wants to play cultivation or play." ”

One day a long time later, when the father and son were chatting, Nohara Jiang smiled and said, "When I was young, I always learned this. At that time, I thought, if I had a child, I would not force him. ”

"He doesn't need to be strong, just be safe and happy."

"I don't want my children to have no childhood like me."

Under his father's indulgence, Nohara often ran around the village, climbing trees and mountains, unrestrained. His father was Nohara E, and the people in the village liked him very much, and women often wrote him balls and candies.

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The relationship between my father and the adults is getting worse and worse.

They used to be good friends, but now their relationship is becoming more and more rigid because of the Uchiha's problems.

Hokage-sama's thoughts are biased in favor of his father, and he believes that the Uchiha is also a member of the village, but most of the higher-ups disagree, they consider the Uchiha to be harmful.

To be fair, the Uchiha is really unlikeable. Most of them are arrogant and gloomy, and some of them are a bit extreme, this attribute is cute in the second dimension, and in the third dimension...... Not everyone is as broad-hearted as Pillarma.

Of course, there are some exceptions, but under the drag of a group of 'pig teammates', there are really not many people who can patiently distinguish between them.

Even if it's a father, if it weren't for Madara, he wouldn't really want to care about Uchiha's affairs - nonsense, no relatives, no reason, this kind of thankless thing who likes to do it.

On that day, Kochu learned that he had been handed over to Lord Kazuma-sama to teach, and that it was arranged by the Hokage.

Xiao Chu was surprised, he didn't understand why, and he thought that his father would not agree. But to his surprise, his father agreed, and his face was calm, as if he had expected it.

His father patted him on the head: "White ...... Kazuma is a good teacher, learn from him well. ”

Xiao Chu hesitated: "The relationship between you and the adults is ......."

Father was slightly stunned, then smiled, his voice was very good: "I am just different from him, and these have nothing to do with you." He will teach you well, and I am assured that he will teach you. ”

As my father said, Lord Kasama is a very good teacher, he is very good to Xiao Chu, and even because Xiao Chu is the youngest disciple, he prefers Xiao Chu a little more.

Xiao Chu is nearly ten years apart from Tuanzang Mito, and these brothers and sisters also take good care of him.

Among the six senior brothers and sisters, he prefers Uchiha Kagami and Koharu Zhuan, the former has a gentle personality, and the latter is a girl and is more careful. Xiao Chu didn't like Tuan Zang very much, but he didn't say it.

The door room was very busy, and my father was also very busy, and during that time, Xiao Chu was brought up more by his brothers and sisters. Unexpectedly, he was a fire attribute, so the mirror taught more time.

The Uchiha Mirror is smart and considerate, and even Kazuma never mixes him with the 'Uchiha' he loaths. For Xiao Chu, the mirror brother is also like a teacher.

Following the side of the Kazuma, Xiao Chu gradually became influenced by him, and as he grew older, most of the disciples of the Kazuma did not like Uchiha, and Xiao Chu's father favored the Uchiha, so he naturally felt a dilemma.

He is good with Kagami, and with the influence of his father, he has no ill feelings towards the Uchiha. However, he did not want to see the relationship between his father and his teacher straining day by day, so he hesitated to persuade his father, who saw his embarrassment and patted him on the head as he did when he was a child.

"You don't have to worry about it," said his father, "and that's probably what he thinks." ”

"I understand Kazuma's thoughts, but I don't agree with them."

Although my father and teacher had a cold war, they had a good tacit understanding. Sure enough, when he saw his distress, he also said to him: "You don't have to care. ”

Nohara Eno's son, a disciple of the second Hokage, is enough for him to decide his position as he pleases - neutral, Uchiha, or anti-Uchiha, it's okay.

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Hokage-sama's health is getting worse day by day, and according to the medical class, he is just getting by.

It was bad news for both Kazuma-sama and his father, and during that time, their relationship was much better because of Hokage-sama's illness.

One day, Hokage-sama suddenly proposed to repair the statue in the Valley of the End.

When he said this, he was in good spirits and in high spirits, and his eyes were shining as he looked at his brother and his friends.

There was something complicated in his gaze. Kazuma didn't notice, but Nohara Jiang seemed to notice, and he looked at the pillar for a long time, and lowered his eyes in the eyes that slowly fell silent.

There is a strong opposition from the door - what kind of statue does the eldest brother of Konoha who is already tight with money want to build for him and Madara Uchiha?! If you can agree, there will be ghosts!

However, Nohara Jiang agreed, two against one, K· O·

The mood between the thousands of hands, it is estimated that it can only be described as me.

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What Kazuma didn't expect was that this was the last order given by Senju Tsuruma as Hokage.

After this order, he was about to abdicate.

The prestige of Kazuma and his father is about the same in Konoha, and the rights are the same, and the next Hokage is to choose one of the two, and it stands to reason that the chances are the same, but Tsuruma has his own ideas.

Compared to Kazuma, he supports Nohara Jiang more.

It's not because Nohara E, Madara Uchiha, and Senju Tsuruma have set their dreams together since they were children, but because-

"He knows the door too well." Nohara said so.

And the choice of the first Hokage cannot be ignored, and with his support, Nohara Jiang almost made up for the position of Hokage.

In this regard, Kazuma did not have any grievances, he was just worried about the problems of the Uchiha.

But Nohara refused.

That day, when Kochu went to visit the Hokage, he faintly heard the conversation between his father and the Hokage.

"Don't be discouraged." In the end, Hokage-sama said this helplessly.

The father looked very calm: "I don't." ”

Xiao Chu didn't listen to it all, only wondered why his father refused, but this incident had little impact on him.

Later, when the teacher heard about this, his face was very strange, he went to his father, and Xiao Chu didn't know what they said.

A month later, the Hokage abdicated, and Senju became the second Hokage.

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A year later, the statue was built.

It is rare to have the spirit among the thousand hand pillars, and I am very happy to see it with great interest.

But when he got there, the moment he actually saw the statue, he suddenly fell silent.

His gaze was silent, mournful and complicated, and Xiao Chu couldn't understand his gaze.

In the end, the ninja god who dominated the ninja world, the first Hokage, and the patriarch of the Thousand Hands barely pulled out a laugh.

"That's nice......" he muttered.

Xiao Chu noticed that the place where the eyes of the adults between the pillars were staring was a statue of another person.

That person's name was occasionally said by the senior brother and sister in an inquiring and disgusting tone, by the teacher in a jealous and disgusted tone, and by the father in a nostalgic and complicated attitude.

"Madara Uchiha."

Xiao Chu heard his father say softly to Lord Zhujian: "If you don't want to laugh, don't laugh." ”

He looked at the statue of the handsome and arrogant man, and thought silently in his heart—

Madara Uchiha, what kind of person is he?

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After returning, the Pillar Master fell unconscious.

As if he had fulfilled his last wish and had no regrets, he closed his eyes and looked very satisfied.

At dusk, the weather was gloomy, and Xiao Chu stood outside the door of the rescue room with his father.

Finally, he heard the female doctor come out and say in a crying nasal voice, sad and apologetic, "It's a pity that the first generation saw him...... Already went. ”

He heard the sound of his father leaning his head against the wall unsupportively, heard the low roar between the doors, felt his nose sour, whimpered in his throat, and looked at his cheeks, and then he knew that he was crying.

The thousand-handed pillars who would accompany him, touch his head, tease him with wooden escapes, and reason with him and teach him to practice left forever.

On the day that the statue in the Valley of the End was built, the Thousand Hands Pillar was gone.