Finally, the winter night of dinner was over, and he was left alone to wash the dishes.

When the work at hand was over, the time had already disappeared into the night, and when I washed my hands, I looked up slightly, and I could barely see from the kitchen window, the corner of the bright moon hanging far away in the sky.

There are guests at home, as the host's winter night, although reluctant, but still look at the other party to prepare dinner for themselves, prepare freshly brewed hot tea, holding two teacups of winter night, along the open door, towards the direction of the backyard, to the deep eaves corridor, can also be called the side of the place.

"Thank you."

Hinata Yuki, who was sitting at the end of the corridor of the eaves corridor, her legs suspended in the air, still some distance from the ground, she sensed something approaching, and turned her head keenly, just in time to see the winter night that handed her a teacup.

"No, you don't."

Faced with the person she decided to kill, she naturally took the teacup, from the day she took the initiative to break into this private space of Winter Night, and then, the two of them began to repeat this process at Winter Night's home.

The other party will say words of gratitude from the bottom of his heart like now, which is not enough to surprise Winter Night.

I sat down, just because I wanted to drink a cup of hot tea, so I calmly forgot about the workout I was used to for a while, and it wasn't that I couldn't indulge myself once.

Thinking like this, on a winter night, he sat down next to Hinata Snow from a short distance.

Sitting at the outermost end of the side, the right angle of 90 degrees makes people feel like they are sitting on a chair, but the difference is that the feet do not need to touch the ground, and when the suspended legs react, they have naturally begun to shake back and forth.

"There are very few stars tonight."

"When I'm outside, I can see more of it every night."

It was because the dark clouds at night did not obviously obscure the light of the stars, and when I thought about it on a winter night, I also looked up and saw the lonely crescent moon in the night sky.

"Do you like to look at the stars?"

"You seem to mean that a woman like you would look at the stars or something, and it would be weird."

I was almost choked on the winter night when I was about to drink tea, and it was obviously just a random topic, but it seemed to be over-interpreted by her, but.

"Sorry, just kidding!"

While talking by herself, the solemn face that was deliberately disguised with her tone suddenly collapsed, and then she began to laugh alone, she was really not suitable for jokes.

"Of course, I love the stars, but aren't they more interesting than the always big and scary moon?"

"It's really ~~~~ a unique reason!"

For the reason she explained, Winter Night could only reluctantly make a perfunctory response.

"Eh, you can't mean it?"

"What?"

As if feeling thirsty, she picked up the hot tea that was placed aside and was about to drink it, and suddenly stared at the tea inside the teacup.

"So, that's it."

As he spoke, he pressed the teacup to a similar position on Dongye's chest, so that Dongye could see the inside of the teacup clearly as soon as he lowered his head.

Then, I will probably be able to find out why she misunderstood her [deliberately].

However, it is only an approximation, so it needs to be confirmed.

"Is it because the tea stalks are erecting?"

"Isn't that a matter of course? Isn't it strange that a guy like you would hand me a tea with a special meaning that wants to kill you? ”

"So, if you really want to complain, isn't it even more strange that a guy like you who wants to kill me still specially prepares a non-toxic meal for me at my home?"

"So that's not something you've specially prepared?"

Heard the correct justification of the winter night, but still half-convinced Hinata Snow.

"No, by chance, it's all just accidental."

"You're going to get tea with the tea stems erected, it's all because you're lucky!"

Of course, Winter Night naturally won't admit that he hasn't done anything at all, and from another point of view, it's just the reason for the other party's [good luck].

"Really? Then no problem. ”

Hinata Yuki, who was relieved, tried to drink the first sip of tea.

"By the way, I heard that you became a mentor?"

"I'm going to pick up the members of your team today, how do you feel?"

She seems to have the attribute of a cat's tongue, while quickly blowing the heat of the tea, while changing the topic so that people don't care about her embarrassment.

"I didn't think about it at all, and suddenly it became a guide to Shinobi."

"I'm not qualified at my age, right, in my opinion, this time may just be a whim of the three generations of Hokage."

"Let a sixteen-year-old ghost teach a few ten-year-old ghosts, the third generation has really been doing something incomprehensible all along."

"yes."

In such a bland chat, it is obviously a very enjoyable thing to have a person who echoes and listens to you, but such a person will never be a friend on a winter night.

"As for the three imps." It seems to be engraved in my mind the faces of the three people I saw in the morning.

"If you have to talk about the impression, it's very similar to us at the beginning." It was natural to say this sentence on a winter night.

We were at the beginning!

Suddenly, the words that came out because I didn't know what I was thinking because of the winter night ushered in a silence that seemed to stand still.

And then.

"Really?"

Deflected towards the winter night, she was a weak smile.

"Then you have to be like Orochimaru Sensei, try your best to be a qualified instructor Shangnin."

Instead of looking at the smile, his distracted gaze narrowed slightly, and he stared at the curved arc of the sky again.

"I'll try my best."

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"Are the words I speak, the power I have, given by the will of fire, a reality that must be accepted for those children?"

On this night, Sarutobi still stayed in Hokage's office, looking up at the sky, staring at the vast night sky and the curved moon with too many people.

"If you want to rebel against the existing reality, if you are full of dissatisfaction with this reality."

"Will you be like those kids?"

The time I saw him again, a year and a half ago, I was vaguely aware of it.

"Break it all?"

The factors that no longer exist stably and begin to change and change, four years later, the ape flies and slashes, perhaps it is only really a glimpse of his bad side.

"Is this really what you thought in the first place? Or is it an idea that has only slowly formed since that time? ”

If that hadn't happened four years ago, or if I hadn't been involved in it, would it have been different?

There is no point in thinking about such a thing anymore, precisely because it is meaningless, so.

The next future belongs to the future of your time, and I don't plan to let it go so simply!