"Damn! Are you two going to start a battle of youth with me? I'm not going to lose to you! ”

In the dirty and muddy streets and alleys, an orange melon skin, covered in black cotton cloth and holding a maltose in its mouth, fled forward frantically.

Behind him, two blue-haired women, one big and one small, were in hot pursuit.

"Damn thief, give me back the fabric!"

As a mother and daughter of Yoko who was born in the slums, she has seen a lot of such little thieves since she was a child, and if she wants to protect her property, she can't be a lady or anything.

I have to say that although the practice is a little deserted, Yahiko's physical foundation is still good.

If he was placed in his previous life, he should belong to the kind of child who can still trap many people during the physical education test even if he doesn't exercise.

In short, although Yahiko has been a little prostrate after the food poisoning incident a few days ago, with his talent and the route he planned early in the morning, he is not able to catch up.

"It's just a little bit, and you can ...... when you get to the front"

Turning around a street corner, Yahiko sped up violently and pounced towards a dog hole in the corner.

This trick of the vicious dog pounce is one of the eight dozen styles of Natsuhime taught by Yasuo, and Yahiko has completely mastered it with his good understanding.

The tiny body just slipped down the dog hole, and Yahiko ran towards the forest on all fours.

"Xiao Nan, stop chasing!" Seeing that the thief had fled, but her daughter didn't listen, Yoko shouted anxiously.

But Xiao Nan obviously had no intention of turning back, she ignored the mud on the ground, lay down, and also passed through the dog hole, chasing after the shiny orange melon skin head......

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"Tick-"

"Tick-"

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The sound of water drops falling on the leaves is so mechanical that the rhythm is disturbing.

I don't know how long later, a red-haired child's eyelashes moved slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.

If there were a mirror, he might have noticed that the strange concentric circles in his eyes slowly faded and eventually disappeared.

"Where is this? Who am I? The red-haired child looked at the towering trees around him and the moist dirt beneath him, his heart full of confusion.

He had a feeling that the scenery was very unfamiliar, and that the sea, the sandy and mudflats, which were supposed to be, were becoming more and more blurred......

……

"Come to think of it, it's war, it's an abominable war!"

The young red-haired teenager finally remembered his name, Nagato, without a surname.

There was an ageless sadness on his face, and he covered his forehead with his palm.

A plausible memory was implanted in his mind, in this vague memory.

He was born into a family of a civilian couple in the Land of Rain, and not long ago, he lost both his parents in a ninja battle and became an orphan.

And now, Nagato knows that he hasn't eaten in two days.

"I'm hungry......"

Nagato touched his shriveled stomach and staggered to his feet, trying to find something to eat in the woods.

I don't know exactly when I learned this knowledge, but Nagato knew that on a rare cloudy day in the Land of Rain, there would be a lot of edible fungi on the rotten wood of the forest.

Careful to avoid the slippery moss beneath his feet, Nagato began to search around one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Suddenly, Nagato's brow furrowed slightly, and he turned his head to look in the direction of some empty object in the forest, then scratched his head in confusion and turned away.

A moment later, in the empty space, a black shadow slowly emerged from the shadows of the trees.

There was a hint of fear on that blurred face.

"What a perceptive little ghost! Is it the reincarnation eye that was just installed, and there are still some spots of chakra left? ”

Hei Jue shook his head and said softly to himself, "I was too careless just now, but without the chakra of Madara, that kid shouldn't have such insight anymore." ”

"Anyway, let's try to minimize the frequency of appearing near him, there shouldn't be any mess, hey, there have been too many headaches lately, and I can't pull away......"

As he spoke, Hei Jue suddenly waved his hand, stretched out a wooden thorn, and stabbed a leopard hiding in the shadows to death.

"The quality of this year's Bai Jue is really getting lower and lower, obviously let them clean up the pests here, there are still fish that have slipped through the net, and in the next period of time, the master must catch the production training of Bai Jue......

As he spoke, Hei Jue sighed and sank into the ground again.

……

Nagato held a lotus-like leaf containing some mushrooms that he had collected over the course of more than an hour.

Nagato's face showed some exhaustion, although there were not many of them, but if it was used as dinner, he should be able to hold out until tomorrow.

"Huh?"

The tip of his nose loosened slightly, and Nagato suddenly stopped.

He carefully brushed aside the grass, and in a clearing in the woods, he suddenly saw a lot of pastries that had been arranged.

Although it doesn't look too fresh anymore, and there are even traces of dirt pollution, it ...... This is indeed a pastry made from fine flour!

"Gollum—"

With a slight movement in his throat, Nagato looked around and saw that there was no suspicious person, so he tiptoed over to the food.

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After twisting and turning in the forest, Yahiko had to stop and began to breathe slightly, after all, such a long distance run was still a little reluctant for a child.

With a happy face buried in the cotton, Yahiko felt the warmth that he had not felt for a long time.

Stuck out his tongue and licked the maltose......

It's so sweet......

Yahiko kept licking, licking and licking, and suddenly a salty smell appeared on the tip of his tongue.

It turned out to be two lines of tears running down his cheeks and into his mouth.

"Brother Yasuo, I don't want a three-day trip to the Land of Rain, I want to go home, and I don't want a level 50 for the legendary account, just give me level 49!"

Yahiko licked the lollipop, extremely remorseful in his heart, he said that he would go on a three-day trip, but now it's been three weeks, when will this nightmarish trip to the Land of Rain end!

Speaking of which, as Suzo Maru grew from a bandit leader to the mayor of Trois-Rivières, Yahiko really hasn't had a hard time, and he used to eat one lollipop like the one in front of him.

"This must be a test given to me by God, to test whether my youth is pure!"

Fortunately, Yahiko, who inherited the soul of the melon skin, was terrible, and after a short period of depression, he regained his vitality: "At least I still have the Avanti magic lamp given by Brother Yasuo, and I can realize three wishes at a critical moment, but it's really not good, let's use it once tonight!" ”

Just as Yahiko was comforting herself, a small blue figure suddenly appeared at the edge of the forest.

"Damn, this little girl is too persevering!"

Yahiko took a sip, quickly wrapped himself in cotton cloth, and ran towards the depths of the forest.

"Fortunately, there are only some small animals in this forest, and there are no fierce beasts, so that little girl should not be in any danger...... She shouldn't be so stupid to follow all the way deep into the forest......"

After running for a while, Yahiko finally shook off his little blue tail and began to think about today's dinner.

It was obviously unrealistic to make dinner on that lollipop, but the clever Yahiko had already found a way.

"With those 'terrible' foods, it's easy to hunt greedy small animals, and I don't know what will happen today, whether it's a rabbit or a fawn? I'm really looking forward to it......"

Yahiko licked the corners of her mouth and thought longingly......

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