Rika first felt Kakashi's "unstable world" when the ninjas of Sand Hidden Village came to Konoha for support. Hearing that Kazekage was captured by an organization called "Akatsuki", Hokage Tsunade immediately sent Kakashi's team to Sand Hidden Village.

Rika didn't notice anything at first, even if she was in Konoha, Kakashi would often go out on missions, and she was used to having fun on her own. It wasn't until a few days later that Kakashi was carried back to the village by Akai and was immediately hospitalized by Tsunade. When she rushed to the hospital after hearing the news, the silver-haired ninja said to her in an unusually weak, half-dead tone: "Princess, don't change doctors this time, I'm so tired to apologize one by one." ”

After examining his injuries, Tsunade said to Rika before leaving the room, "Don't worry, you can't die yet." ”

Rika sat down on the edge of the bed, staring at his pale face without a trace of blood, and her voice was a little choked: "I dare to boast that I am very powerful." ”

The silver-haired ninja's weak tone was not convincing at all: "It's just that you see it every time you get hurt, sorry, sorry." ”

Kakashi was hospitalized to recuperate, and the seventh class was temporarily led by Tenzo. The wooden ninja would often discuss things with him after dinner, and when he saw that Rika was there all along, he showed a very happy and relieved expression.

Rika was inexplicable: "Tianzo-kun, did I do anything worthy of your happiness to be like this?" ”

Tianzang scratched his head and smirked happily: "I'll just say, how can the first CP of the Fire Country be so easy to be dismantled......" casually looked at the silver-haired young man on the hospital bed, obviously the other party was still too weak to have any attack power, but Tianzang still shivered as if he was conditioned, and quickly changed his words: "Princess, don't call me Tianzang, my name is Yamato now." ”

Rika felt that this Tenzo-kun/Yamato-kun was somewhat similar to the Nishitsu who had previously guarded the Twelve Ninja Warriors, but unfortunately Nishitsu was killed in the civil strife of the Shinobi a few years ago.

Speaking of which, the 12 ninja warriors, who were famous in the daimyo's mansion back then, are now only left with Jilu and Asma.

For Kakashi, the time to recuperate is always very slow, sometimes waking up in the afternoon, the sunlight outside pouring into the room, reflected on the marble floor, quietly warm, it is easy to give the illusion that the years are quiet. There was a girl sitting on the edge of the hospital bed, dozing with one hand on her cheek, probably because she was sleeping in this position uncomfortably, and her brow was slightly furrowed in her sleep.

She must have never stayed at the bedside of a person for such a long time.

Kakashi looked at her sad face even when she fell asleep, and thought to herself that maybe she was right, maybe he was really her retribution.

The wind blew in, and the girl's hair was blown across her cheeks, and she was already sleeping unsteadily, and her brows involuntarily wrinkled deeper.

The silver-haired young man reached out and brushed the broken hair that had fallen on her face back behind her ear with a very light movement, and she knew nothing in her sleep.

In the evening, the doctor came to inspect the room and said that the first technician was recovering well and would be discharged from the hospital in a few days. After the doctor left, the first technician called Rika to him: "Princess, you don't want to stay in the hospital all the time, you won't take care of people anyway." ”

Seeing that his face had improved a lot, Rika finally put down a big stone in his heart, thought about it and smiled: "But I can urge you to be taken care of by others obediently." ”

Tsk, she's the most crooked.

After Kakashi recovered from his injury, he began to train Naruto day and night. Rika remembered that he was also thinking about how to quickly improve the strength of his students every day during his recuperation, although he seemed to be lying in bed and recuperating, but his mind never relaxed for a moment.

Whether it's Sasuke or Naruto, even though he never says it, he really cares about these two students in his heart.

In this world, probably the person he cares about the least is himself.

"So, someone like Kakashi-senpai should find a woman who will take care of you like a baby."

Due to the unstable strength of the Nine-Tails in Naruto's body, Kakashi enlisted Tenzo to assist him in his special training. The Ninja admired this former boss who couldn't wait to work hard when he first recovered from his injury, and he had always been poisoned by a certain pure love and entertainment newspaper, so he said this to the first technician during small talk.

Kakashi's gaze, which was originally watching Naruto's training, turned to the face of the junior of the dark department who began to break out in a cold sweat, and the dead fish's eyes were unwavering, and his tone was as lazy as usual: "Tenzo, when I didn't ask you other questions, don't say anything superfluous." ”

Obviously afraid of the retaliation of his former boss, but he always likes to be dead, the wooden ninja laughs dryly, and looks away.

- Someone who cares for him like a baby?

As the first technician of Konoha, it would be quite humiliating to be treated like this. However, the silver-haired genius had to admit that he seemed to have met it.

***

The Temple of Fire is suddenly attacked by Akatsuki's Kakuto and Feidan, and the abbot Jilu is killed, and the corpse capital is sold to the black market at a high price. The surviving monks rushed to Konoha to report the news, and Tsunade, shocked, did not hesitate for a moment to send twenty squads to hunt down the invaders.

Hearing the news of the death of her old friend, Asma endured the grief in her heart, jumped on the roof and looked at her lover Sunset from afar, and then resolutely led the four-person team out of the village.

In the Hokage's office, Shizun asked as if he remembered something, "The Daimyo Mansion and Jilu-san have a deep relationship, do you want to send someone to inform the princess?" ”

Tsunade thought for a moment, "Well, you go and arrange it." ”

Silent Command.

On that day, I heard from the maid of the Konoha Palace that Princess Rika accidentally broke an antique vase worth 10,000 gold.

And in the Daimyo's Mansion, after receiving the news of Jiriku's death, the Daimyo accidentally dropped his favorite folding fan that never left him into the pond, and Hidetoku locked himself in his room and did not eat or speak for half a day.

If you want to talk about the relationship between the land and the Daimyo's mansion, I am afraid that it is the envy of all the guards. Among the 12 ninja warriors of the first generation, Jilu was the first to serve in the Daimyo's Mansion. From the age when Rika began to remember, Jilu had been in the Daimyo's Mansion until he went to the Fire Temple to be the abbot, and he probably stayed in the Daimyo's Mansion for more than ten years.

For the Daimyo family of the Fire Nation, they have invested a lot of trust and warmth in Jilu that are different from those of other guards.

Therefore, when the first technician came to the palace at night, Ryoko said to him worriedly, "Rika-sama is in a bad mood today. The silver-haired young man looked up at the girl sitting alone on the roof blowing the cold wind, her figure looking particularly thin in the vast night.

"Do you see a star you like?" Too lazy to use the teleportation technique, the silver-haired young man honestly walked up the stairs to the roof step by step.

Rika turned her head to look at him: "What about the one you like?" Do you pick it up for me? ”

The first technician looked at the starry canopy and said in a slightly distressed tone, "This is not very good, right? If you take the stars off, the night sky won't look good. ”

Rika didn't want to pay attention to his clichés about coaxing a three-year-old.

I don't know how many times this is the first time the two of them have sat on the roof and looked at the stars. If you want to investigate it in detail, the princess of the Fire Nation will have the interest of "climbing the roof in the middle of the night", and the culprit seems to be the silver-haired young man next to her.

Although it was mid-spring, the night breeze still carried a hint of winter cold. Rika wrapped the feather weave tightly on her body, but she still felt cold all over her body.

Neither of them spoke, and there was silence all around.

"It's said that people become stars in the sky when they die, is it true?" Rika asked suddenly.

The first technician pondered for a moment: "Who knows." Then he bent his crescent eyes at her and smiled: "However, it is better to believe that it is there than to believe that it is not." ”

"Why?"

"Because the fate between people is short-lived. If you end up with someone in this world, you will think that you may have a chance to meet in another world. ”

Rika's gaze fell on his crooked crescent eyes.

These words were so relaxed and casual for him, probably because he had experienced many moments when he was forced to cut ties with the people around him.

Rika felt a lot of sadness in her heart, and couldn't help but raise her hand to caress his face.

A few days later, bad news came back to Konoha - Asma's team met Kakuto and Feiduan, and there was a fierce battle, and the captain Asma was killed.

Rika was about to drink water, but the guard suddenly came to report the news, and the cup in her hand stopped in mid-air for a long time.

Two familiar people were killed without warning in succession, and Rika felt that this year's spring was really going by so slowly. She walked to the courtyard and looked up at the unreachable sky, the sky was clear, and the stars were not visible during the day.

In addition to sadness, there is also a fear that comes from nowhere that is gathering little by little.

At Asma's funeral, Rika stood next to Kakashi, holding his hand tightly. Sunset Red walked to the tombstone and put down the bouquet, the grief in her heart was faintly visible on her seemingly calm face, and Rika couldn't help but tremble slightly. The silver-haired young man bowed his head slightly, only to see the girl next to him pursing his lips, and his beautiful and pale face showed a look of unbearable and fear.

After the funeral, when everyone dispersed, Rika heard Tsunade behind her say to someone who she didn't know to say, "Death is always with ninjas, although sometimes it's hard to accept ......"

She didn't hear the rest of the words, and looked back at Kakashi, who was going to stay and discuss things, and always felt that it was God's favor to look at him more.

"Rika-sama." Ryoko whispered to her worriedly. Rika retracted her gaze and walked out of the cemetery with the crowd.

The Shinobi who remained in the cemetery began to talk about the situation.

"How's Naruto's special training?" Tsunade asked.

The first technician replied, "It's going well, it's not bad." ”

Tsunade furrowed his brows: "Akatsuki captures the power of human pillars all over the world, and it won't be long before Konoha is found." ”

The first technician inserts both hands. In his trouser pocket, looking at Asma's tombstone in silence, not knowing what he was thinking.

***

Early one morning, before dawn, the members of the 10th class, who had lost their mentor, gathered at the entrance of the village, intending to pursue Kakuto and Feiduan privately, but were severely stopped by Tsunade.

Kakashi suddenly appeared and offered to be the captain of the tenth class. Tsunade glared at the four of them, and finally said discouragedly, "Forget it, whatever you want." ”

Before the new tenth class was ready to leave, the first technician said to the three of Pig Deer Butterfly: "You wait for me here, I still have some things to deal with." After finishing his words, he disappeared in an instant.

Maybe because of something in her heart recently, Lixiang slept very lightly, and she didn't feel sleepy early in the morning, and she didn't want the maid to follow, and she fed the carp by the pond in the backyard all the time.

When the First Technician appeared out of thin air, she was surprised: "Kakashi? ”

It's not the godless dead fish eyes on weekdays, the look in the eyes of the silver-haired young man at this moment is extremely serious, and his whole body is awe-inspiring. Under Rika's surprised gaze, he knelt down on one knee and made a very formal salute, looked up at her and said word by word: "Princess, please return to the Daimyo's Mansion immediately." ”