Starting from Konoha to Sand Hidden Village, if you choose the shortest road and use the strength of a ninja's feet to travel day and night, I am afraid it will only take three days.

Although Seiichi and Obito did not travel day and night, the perfection of their state also made the speed of their running much higher than that of normal marching.

On the second day after leaving the village, the two of them had already arrived at an old battlefield still some distance from the border of the Fire Nation.

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It was a place of unknown origin, and there was not even a relatively large human settlement around it.

Only the continuous but peakless course of the mountain gives it an unremarkable name.

'Kikyo Mountain'.

And it's such a seemingly deserted place... But it also witnessed the most tragic battle for life in the Third Ninja World War, and witnessed the loss of countless lives.

Under the desperate fight of superhumans like ninjas who have the ability to move mountains and reclaim seas... The small villages, which were scattered around the area, were also buried under the fires of the war.

More than a year later, this place is nothing more than a ghost.

Except for the occasional cry of birds and beasts, there is no anger at all, only if there are endless souls mourning.

The trees are scattered and the land is crumbling, and it will not be enough to repair the mess on the land for a short time.

Two young ninjas stood on the edge of it, as if in silent mourning.

...

The look under the mask was slightly unnatural.

He didn't directly participate in the head-to-head battle of Kikyo Mountain, and now the broken earth in his eyes made him feel... Feeling unwell?

On such a shattered ground, if it weren't for the fact that both the Fire Country and Konoha had someone in charge of cleaning the battlefield... I wonder how many broken corpses will be on it...

"Seiichi, what you threw away... On which side? ”

"I..."

There was a rare look of confusion on Seiichi Uchiha's face.

"I don't remember which side it was on..."

The terrain had been so badly damaged that the shattered land in front of him didn't match what he had in mind.

If you lose your reference, how can you find it...

Seiichi suddenly smiled bitterly for some reason: "How could I forget such an important thing..."

They are dead people, and there is no longer the flow of chakra, and even the perception of immortal magic can no longer be directly explored.

At that time, it was a mission picked up on the march, and the distance between it and the main front of the Konoha ninja is not clear...

Find the corpses of a few people in the middle of such a huge and shattered battlefield...

It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Even if you can have the help of ninja cats and dogs, the taste before and after death is very different.

A reference that can be used... It was the task they had taken on in his memory.

'Detour from the southwest corner, interfering with and cutting off the flank raiding force assembled by Shayin. ’

Southwest Corner...

Seiichi took out the map and roughly compared the other party's position.

However, due to the destruction of the terrain, he could not confirm the exact location, so he could only draw a large circle.

It then extends to its southwest corner.

Seiichi beckoned gently to Obito and hurried towards the possible location without saying a word.

In memory... They went from detecting that the flanking forces in the sand were far more than predicted by orders of magnitude, and began to argue.

When the perception ninja who was hidden by the sand hidden, Seiichi immediately decided to use fire to cover everyone's retreat...

and then was chased by the other party and cut off the route to the north...

During that time, the direction in which they moved was completely an impression.

Perhaps only when Seiichi sees the exact terrain that matches his memory again can he have a glimmer of hope for recovery.

...

Run.

Running again.

He couldn't remember where he had been.

Only... A rock wall, he remembers vividly.

Run... Run again...

Until noon, running until dusk.

At this moment, Obito, who had just followed all the way, finally couldn't help but say: "Seiichi... We seem to be going around in circles in the realm of the Fire Nation? ”

“... Perhaps. ”

The boy who was looking for the lost item finally stopped his blind legs.

As if he had finally felt the fatigue in his legs, he apologized to another companion who had been walking around with him:

"I'm sorry, you should be tired too, let's take a break."

Obito shook his head: "I'm not too tired to be tired... I just think..."

"It's not like you..."

...

"Yes, somewhat."

In the end, even Seiichi himself thinks that what he is doing is not necessarily right.

Whenever I think about it in my head... That would be unethical, and it might also require sacrifice to achieve the goal.

Seiichi himself will refute himself.

His sanity had never approved of what he was doing.

He would only think that Seiichi was 'crazy'.

Obito, who is obviously a stupid guy, seems to be waking himself up...

It's just going around in circles...

It seems that he really reaffirmed his obsession.,Seiichi couldn't help but look at another guy who looked like himself next to him.。

"Obito, can I ask you a question?"

"Huh? Does Seiichi ask me questions? That's a rarity... You're not digging a hole for me again, are you? ”

Obito seemed to be a little surprised, but he pretended to be relaxed, and Seiichi knew that it was this idiot who wanted to make the atmosphere between them a little lighter.

"What if... I mean, if you knew a way to bring back a deceased friend, would you do it? ”

"And such a powerful technique?" Obito is dumb.

Then Geng Zhi said: "If you have such an opportunity, you must do it!" It is possible to bring back the dead... I'm afraid that it can't be done, and no one doesn't want to do it, right? ”

It's a lot like what Obito would say...

However, Seiichi asked again, "Then what if... The need to sacrifice someone else's life and make another friend a sacrifice... Will you still do it..."

Obito was slightly stunned.

This time he hesitated for a long time.

...

He scratched his head and scratched his grip again.

Finally, the voice was low and seemed to tremble slightly:

"That friend you were talking about..."

“... Is it me? ”

Even Chengyi was a little sluggish now.

Obito's expression was hidden under Bai Jue's mask, but the Flying Thunder God mark carved on his shoulder was constantly passing on to Seiichi...

He was depressed.

"Actually, I haven't thought about it... Seiichi, will you... There are other reasons why I'm so good..."

"Let me... Think about it, okay? ”

"Can you wait until I send grandma..."

"Stop, stop, stop!

！

”

Listening to the words in Obito's mouth, Cheng slapped himself on the head one by one.

"It's not you! Don't think about it! ”

"I never wanted to sacrifice you, and I don't want you to sacrifice either!"

"Don't think of me as such a brute."

Obito blinked the chakra under his mask, as if to peek through his best friend, who he had never been able to see.

If, not yourself...

Seiichi, why do you keep slapping your head? Why does the expression look so painful?

If it's really not yourself...

And who?

...

"Hah..."

Seiichi spit out bursts of white smoke from his mouth, as if he had burned the CPU a little.

"Let's put it aside... Just because I didn't ask these words..."

His mask was crooked, and his forehead was already slightly red and swollen.

"But what do you say... I've got something else to think of..."

...

"Whew..."

Seiichi Uchiha let out a deep breath again, and he finally seemed to have regained his senses.

"Don't worry, Obito... I don't think about that now. ”

"I just want to bring my own friends..."

"Go home."