In the capital of the Fire Nation, the sun that hung high in the sky but was dimly lit gradually tilted to the west. 『』

It was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the streets were noisy, and the white smoke with the smell of roasting wafted from the stalls selling takoyaki on the side of the road.

The children were held by the elders, and they didn't walk well, just looking around and jumping around. Couples in pairs have to snuggle up and walk like maltose, eager to blend together, and the sunset has not yet set. It's really a world that is going down, and the world is going down.

There are two people who are no better—like older children with troubles, and like young couples on a date. Outwardly, the latter is perhaps more likely?

The girl's face is as beautiful as a person in a picture, and the curiosity and excitement of new things on her face are not lost to children at all, and she is often surprised by some ordinary and extremely small things. The young man next to her was probably a few years older than her, dressed in a Konoha ninja costume, and because he couldn't see his face while wearing a mask, his figure was so tall and well-proportioned that he could score at least ninety-five points.

"Gong ...... The Daimyo's Mansion is here, don't run around......"

Occasionally, I would hear young people whispering such things in a feeble voice.

It's a pity that the girl didn't hear it, pulling his sleeve like participating in a festival and shuttling between the pù stalls of one shop and another, even though she didn't know any physical ninjutsu, but the pace of her movements was surprisingly light and flexible.

- This guy must have been an active fish in his last life. The First Technician sighed with a slight headache.

After a moment's flash, the sleeve of his left hand suddenly lost traction and fluttered against his wrist. The silver-haired young man looked in the direction where the pull disappeared, and saw that the girl was already a few meters away from him, almost lying on the cooking table of the stall in front of him, staring at the ...... in front of him with big eyes Banana chocolate.

……

…………

……………… Anyway, she is also a princess of a country, can you pursue a little higher, hey!

The silver-haired ninja scratched the back of his head, and the tips of his broomstick's hair, which usually pointed to the sky, drooped like a cluster of withered straw, and the only dead fish eyes that were exposed were half-staring, making one wonder if he must have a bitter gourd face under his mask.

Before he could say anything, he saw the girl stop in front of him like a fish swimming back with her tail wagging her tail, holding a banana chocolate in one hand, and stretching out her palm upwards towards him with the other, and the look on her face was so natural that people did not dare to question it at all.

"Give money!"

“……”

If you don't have money, you dare to take other people's things casually!

Kakashi looked at the vendor in front of him, and the shopkeeper's uncle smiled and gave him an incomprehensible thumbs up.

The girl in front of her tilted her head and looked at him, as if she had nothing to do with herself, and said with wide eyes: "If you don't have money, you have to stay and work--the uncle over there said." ”

Kakashi squinted at her, "If you want to stay, it's also the one who eats the overlord's meal." ”

"Okay." The girl turned unusually cheerfully. She believed that if he was given a hundred guts, he would not let her stay and work.

- Okay, you're big, don't make a fuss!!

Hurry up and give him a good time back to the Daimyo's Mansion! Canaries deserve to stay in their cages!

The silver-haired ninja sighed resignedly, and took out his wallet from his ninja bag, although it didn't cost much, why did he have to do this kind of thing that only the local tyrant male protagonist in a third-rate romance novel would do!

And if you take 10,000 steps back, this dead girl in front of you is the real local tyrant lady!!

"Alright Princess, it's really time to go back." The young man lowered his voice and urged.

Lixiang pursed her lips and pouted her head when she didn't hear it, and was about to run to the goldfish shop dozens of meters ahead, when she was pulled back from behind in the next second. The movement was very light, but it was just the strength that she couldn't break free.

"I'm embarrassed if you mess around like this." The voice of the man behind him did reveal a bit of embarrassment.

Rika pouted at an angle he couldn't see, then looked back at him and raised her index finger, as if she had made up her mind, "One last place." ”

The silver-haired ninja glared at the dead fish's eyes: "...... You've said this five times in an hour. ”

Rika puffed out her cheeks and argued a little annoyed, "This time it's serious! Seriously! ”

“…… This sentence has just been said. ”

The first lady of the Fire Country, whose credit is overdrawn, wrinkled her nose and looked displeased - the man who cares about it is so annoying!

Seeing this, the silver-haired ninja suddenly leaned over to look at her slightly, then raised a hand and put his thumb and forefinger against his chin, and said in a tone that was not joking, "...... I didn't realize before, princess, you look like Parker. ”

Rika was furious when she heard this: "You say I'm like a dog?!" ”

The first technician who noticed the gaffe scratched the back of his head and sneered: "Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I accidentally said it, that's not what I meant...... Ah wait, you're going in the wrong direction......"

Rika didn't want to talk to the man who said she was like a dog. (`w)

***

When I returned to the Daimyo's Mansion after many twists and turns, the first star hung in the sky far away, the moon had not yet shown its face, and the sky had not yet completely darkened, but the street lamps on the street had already been lit up one after another.

Outside the golden and majestic gate of the Daimyo's Mansion, a group of maids were in a hurry. Seeing that their princess had returned safely, Ryoko was the first to rush to her side and salute, "If Rika-sama doesn't come back, we really have to apologize." The rest of the maids also calmed down, raised their sleeves to wipe the tears from the corners of their eyes—they finally picked up a small life.

It was still Ryoko who was the calmest and fastest, and did not forget to lead the maids to thank the silver-haired ninja who had saved them many times in dire straits.

The first technician politely reminded them kindly: "Well, you should be optimistic about the princess in the future." He was glared at fiercely by Rika beside him.

On the way back just now, Rika pursed her lips angrily, no matter what he said, she just wouldn't say a word to him. It's a shame that she can bear it.

"So, I'm gone, princess." The silver-haired ninja who had completed the extra task said goodbye to her, and his tone seemed like a sigh of relief.

Rika still pursed her lips and glared at him, but there was more grievance in her eyes than anger. That look reminded Kakashi of how he stared at him silently in protest when Parker was a young man, when he had not yet become a qualified ninja dog, and every time he threw the rest of tempura to him for dinner.

- Ah, it's better for him not to say it.

I don't know if it's because he remembered his own ninja dog or something else, Kakashi restrained his relieved expression, the corners of his mouth under the mask and his exposed right eye bent together, and his big hand was raised and gently pressed on the top of the girl's head in front of him: "Princess, it's not cute for a girl to be too willful." ”

Lixiang was stunned.

It's a foul to show such a gentle smile and touch the top of a girl's head, hey! - Obviously, this first technician of Konoha who has zero experience in love has no real experience at all. ╮(╯▽╰)╭

The reason why he does it so naturally and skillfully is because it is his usual way of coaxing children.

Ryoko has always felt that it is not easy for the first technician of Konoha to be liked by her princess, and now it seems that it is not easy for her princess to like the first technician.

Alas, I asked what the world was like. The chief maid of the princess of the Fire Nation sighed secretly.

The sky was still a little bright, and the light orange light hit the girl's fair cheeks, like a clotted white jade shrouded in a layer of transparent tulle.

Rika finally stopped pursing her lips, her eyes were filled with some kind of different love, and she muttered in a small voice: "I don't have to be cute." ”

The silver-haired ninja tilted his head in confusion as if he hadn't heard clearly.

The girl blushed and broke free from his hand, jumped to the side and looked up at him, and opened her mouth to speak—

From the inside of the gate of the Daimyo's Mansion came a noise that was getting closer and closer.

In the next second, five or six men who were walking and talking appeared at the door, all dressed in the formal clothes of the interview, and the expressions on their faces still showed excitement and excitement. Maybe they were really too excited, they didn't notice Rika and the others.

"This time I was fortunate enough to be received by the Daimyo-sama, all thanks to the eldest brother."

"Haha, no one in the entire capital city knows that Lord Nikaido is the most powerful retainer of the Daimyo Mansion. Judging from just now, Kojikaido-san is also very popular with the Daimyo-sama. ”

"Wherever you are, it's all for everyone's benefit."

"Little Nikaido Sang came from afar, we will do our best to wash the dust for you, and please also ask Lord Nikaido to appreciate your face."

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……

The two leaders of the group were middle-aged men in their forties, well-dressed, and they were complimented by their peers and smiled. From the conversation just now, it is clear that it should be a sibling of the Nikaido family.

The two younger men in the second order hall suddenly flashed their eyes, put aside the compliments of their companions for the time being, and strode straight towards the beautiful girl who was only a few meters away from him.

"Lily of the valley?! How did you end up in the capital? Mama Sang said...... "The rough voice was full of surprise, mixed with surprise that could not be concealed.

As he spoke, he reached out to pull her to his side.

At the moment when everyone hasn't reacted yet—

The hand of the man with the Nikaido clan crest embroidered on his sleeve stopped in mid-air. Even the girl's clothes could not be touched.

The man was stunned, his half-empty hand holding as if it were not his own.

Another hand grabbed his wrist in that brief moment. Strange to say, it was clear that the other party's movements were not rough, but he could clearly feel it—the hand wrapped in the ninja's gauntlet could crush his wrist lightly with a single force.

A drop of cold sweat slid down the man's forehead.

The sudden situation made Rika's face bloody. From the moment Nikaido called her "Lily of the Valley", the girl's face quickly turned pale as paper.

It was a memory she didn't want to be known. Although sometimes she also unconsciously remembers her days in Kitano Castle (not nostalgic, of course), people related to Kitano are never allowed to appear in front of her to reveal her scars.

The man in front of him...... Rika remembers him - the benefactor of Kikyo, the famous and wealthy Nikaido in Kitano Castle.

The girl bit her lower lip, and there was a look of resentment in what should have been bright and clear eyes.

Probably feeling her body tremble slightly, the young man next to her gently pressed her shoulder with his free hand.

There was a reassuring temperature over my shoulders. Rika turned her head to look up at the owner of the big hand, only to see that he kept one hand grasping Nikaido's wrist, and the other hand pressed her shoulder, looking directly at the middle-aged man in front of him, and said under the mask: "...... Nikaido-san, right? Please respect yourself. ”

After speaking, he forcefully let go of the man's wrist, and Nikaido did not stand firm for a while, staggering back a few steps.

Immediately after that, the young man's words sounded, and Ryoko, who had recovered from his stunned state and stepped in front of Rika, roared: "Presumptuous! A mere civilian, how dare to be rude to Lord Rika! ”

Hearing this, the guards of the Daimyo Mansion showed expressions of resisting the enemy and drew their swords.

The rest of the men who were traveling with Nikaido were still in a state of astonishment, and they stood in place dumbfounded. Only the other older Nikaido rushed over quickly, grabbed his younger brother, and knelt down on one knee with a plop: "Princess, forgive your sins!" ”

Xiao Nikaido was stunned by the unexpected situation, and said tremblingly: "In, in, in, under the eyes of the eyes, recognize the wrong person......

In the end, in his own territory, Rika has gradually regained her aura, looking down at him condescendingly, without saying a word.

Xiao Nijietang simply knelt down on his knees and lowered his head: "Damn it!" ”

Rika let out a sigh of relief, and finally replied coldly: "Damn indeed." ”

After finishing speaking, he ignored the two brothers, turned around and stepped into the daimyo's mansion surrounded by the maids.

Outside the door, the second-order cousin, who was still kneeling, was suddenly paralyzed to the ground.

"Big brother, big brother, what do you mean by the princess's words...... Isn't it really ......?"

The young man's slightly lazy voice answered him: "Don't worry, Nikaido-san." The princess said you deserve to die, but she doesn't really want you to die. ”

The two Nikaido looked up at the sound of the voice, and the silver-haired young man wearing a mask was reading a small book with an orange cover in his pocket with one hand in the other, ignoring them.

"You ......"

"Well, don't care, it's just a nosy passerby." The silver-haired ninja paced away leisurely.

Far away, far away in the sky, a second star appeared at some point.

- Speaking of which, it's really thanks to that Nikaido who came out to stir up the situation, and the princess forgot about him in a fit of anger and continued to pester him hahahaha.

In the Daimyo's Mansion, Rika, who noticed this slowly, was so remorseful that she wanted to throw the Nikaido into the Songyang River to feed the water monsters!!