Chapter 86: Aster
Although the name of the country sounds eerie, it is actually a country with a beautiful natural environment. Compared to the surrounding snow country, earth country, and bear country where birds don't, it's a paradise.
There are no daimyo in this country, and the nominal ruler is a shrine maiden who has been passed down from generation to generation in the domestic shrine maiden village. This generation of shrine maidens is Shion. She has a particularly powerful chakra, and her mission is to seal monsters. And her mission also brought bad luck to the people around her, who was predicted to die by Aster, and only by escaping from Aster's side could she live.
The essence of the witch's ability to predict the death of others is the ability to protect the life of the shrine maiden, seeing the scene of her own death, and then the fate of death is transferred to the people around her to protect her, so it seems to predict the death of others.
Therefore, the witch's prophecy is only about herself, unlike the great toad immortal who can predict the development of the world.
Aster is also aware of future changes. It's just that she doesn't see the rebirth of a blonde boy and a red-haired girl like the big toad immortal. But after she was born, she had a slight memory of another future Aster, which was deeply imprinted in her mind.
These future memories are not coherent, but intermittent fragmentary memories. It's another memory that comes to mind before and after each time Shion initiates a prophecy.
And these memory cut-offs are when Naruto Uzumaki traveled back in time through the dragon vein in the ancient kingdom of Loulan.
Of course, Shion herself doesn't know this, because she doesn't know anything that has nothing to do with her.
It's just that Naruto Uzumaki and Sarah's rebirth disrupt time and space, and it also affects Shion's prophetic ability, allowing her to receive scattered future memory messages as soon as she is born.
If Aster is born and gets a complete life memory of the future, it will be no different from a reborn. Of course, there is nothing wrong with it now, but her personality and ideas have changed accordingly.
Shion feels that her future life in her memory is a bit sad, so she wants to live a different life.
Although it was only a small memory of the future, even if she was ignorant and ignorant when she was a child, she did not know the meaning of these memories, but it also made her mentally precocious. When the young Shion's ability to predict death for the first time was fulfilled, she finally understood the preciousness of these memories that could be from the future.
For this reason, she did not hesitate to disobey the wishes of her mother, the witch Maitreya.
Aster was born with the powerful power of Maitreya, but Maitreya was worried that the young Aster would not be able to control the power that was too strong to hurt others and herself, and hoped that Aster would live a normal child's life. Therefore, Maitreya sealed the power of Shion, and even forbade the people around him to teach Shion the related techniques of using power.
But Shion recognizes the importance of strength: if I have enough strength, I don't need anyone to protect me and die for me; In the future, he will not be a burden to Naruto Uzumaki, and he will not be able to seal the monster and fail to almost kill him.
Therefore, with no one to teach, she began to practice in advance to discover her potential power based on the spiritual experience of her future memories. No one else knows.
Sure enough, as her strength grew, the number of predictions of death became less and less, or even almost none.
In her future memories, the bell amulet left by her mother Maitreya once exploded with power, cutting the terracotta warriors into pieces with purple chakra threads. She realizes that even if no one teaches her how to attack, her chakra itself contains powerful attack power.
Before the Five Great Ninja Villages sent Shangnin to protect Shion, it wasn't that there were no ill-intentioned people who wanted to hurt her. But these people don't know anything about Shion's powers, and think that she is a harmless witch to humans and animals. As a result, many people were carelessly killed by Shion using her powerful and special chakra line to condense in the sand.
Although except for those who volunteered to stay in the shrine maiden village to protect her by Maitreya's grace, the others were still afraid of the death prophecy. But she didn't care, nor did she put on a mask of indifference, and closed her heart alone.
Because she knew from her future memories that there was a ninja named Naruto Uzumaki in Konoha Village, who fought side by side with her and worked together to defeat the Dragon. At the same time, it broke the death prophecy and gave her the courage to change her fate. At the same time, Naruto Uzumaki also knocked on her heart in the process.
What makes Shion regret and even resentment in future memories is that the love expressed to Naruto Uzumaki could not be conveyed to Naruto Uzumaki, an elm pimple.
In future memories, after defeating the Spirit, Shion lets go of the girl's reserve and shyness, and asks Naruto Uzumaki to help inherit the power of the shrine maiden. Naruto Uzumaki also promised to wrap himself in him, and he would lend her no matter how much power he had.
Then, there is no then. Naruto Uzumaki never returned, leaving Shion to wait in the shrine maiden village, falling into sweet and sour memories every day. This is also the main content of the subsequent parts of the future memory.
Because of future memories, Shion has inexplicable feelings for Naruto Uzumaki, whom she has never met. But there is no future memory of Aster's strong and deep feelings. It's obviously her memory, but because she didn't have a personal experience, it was like watching a touching movie. After substituting as an actor, the feelings are real, but after returning to reality, the feelings are a lot weaker.
This is not only because of the differences in the experience of asters in different periods, but also because of physiological differences. The Aster in the future memory is the age of the girl Huaichun, and the current Aster is still a little Lori.
Shion, who wants to confirm her heart, in order to meet Naruto Uzumaki, has sent her henchman Foot Spike to Konoha Village to issue a mission commission, designating Naruto Uzumaki to protect her.
However, Aster has no experience in publishing assigned tasks. She was confused for a while, worried that Ashiho didn't know Naruto Uzumaki, so based on the Naruto Uzumaki in her memory, she drew a watercolor portrait similar to Naruto Uzumaki.
But I didn't know that Naruto Uzumaki's appearance changed greatly after he was reborn, and the portrait was somewhat similar to Naruto Naruto.
Therefore, Konoha Village refused the task on the grounds of incorrect information.
Of course, even if Shion wasn't mistaken, Konoha Village wouldn't be at ease to let the Nine-Tails Pillar Force Uzumaki Naruto leave Konoha Village too far, because he knew that there was a Akatsuki organization eyeing the Tailed Beast. What's more, the country of ghosts is a neighbor of the country of earth, and the country of earth is suspected of being the birthplace of the Akatsuki organization, and he is not worried about letting Naruto Uzumaki go to the country of ghosts.
If it weren't for the three generations of Hokage Yuan Fei Ri Slash, he was worried that Naruto Uzumaki would not get the experience and be raised into waste, so he fought for it. Shimura Danzo even had the idea of keeping Naruto Uzumaki in captivity in Konoha Village.
Even so, Naruto Uzumaki's range of activity was already limited to the neighbors of the Fire Nation without her knowing. For example, the country of waves, which is across the sea, is also in the sphere of influence of Konoha Village.
Shion took advantage of the middle ninja exam, escorted by the upper ninjas, to come to Konoha Village in person, wanting to meet Naruto Uzumaki.
Before meeting Naruto Uzumaki, Shion hesitated inwardly, suspecting that his feelings for Naruto Uzumaki were due to the influence of future memories.
After meeting "Naruto Uzumaki", she fell in love at first sight, and immediately put her hesitation behind her: although Naruto didn't grow up, he was still so handsome and handsome. I still like it so much. Not because of the memory of the future, but because of the mind of the present. This time, I won't let go. I'll make you like me too. Besides, I'm not going to hint at you idiot, let's go on the offensive.
Shion, who was wandering in the shade of the tree, saw Naruto Naruto and Moonlight Storm coming downstairs, and spread her arms, and the swallow threw herself on Naruto's chest like a forest. She hugged Naruto and poured out her thoughts.
"Naruto, I miss you so much, I like you. Naruto, where's your beard? I almost forgot that you haven't grown up yet. ”
"First time we met, I'm Naruto Naruto."