"Mom?"

The black eyes reflecting Zhu Yue blinked, and Izumi Uchiha gradually regained his composure.

Oh yes.

She is now in her own home, and she is now going to have dinner with her mother.

And......

Sniff ~ sniff sniff ~

As if smelling the fragrance, Izumi Uchiha's nose couldn't help but wrinkle.

Mother made her favorite three-color balls!

"Here we are, Mom!"

A flash of joy flashed in her eyes, and there was a coquettish taste in her tone that was characteristic of a girl facing her mother.

He immediately got up and walked into the house, his long black hair fluttering along with it.

Click~

The door closed slowly.

Looking into the courtyard into the house, you can only see two looming shadows.

"Izumi, really! Why do you wear so little outside? What to do if you get sick! ”

"Mom~ I'm a ninja, I'm not a child anymore!"

Izumi Uchiha came from inside the room with a slightly helpless voice, but he could faintly hear the smile in his tone.

After a few moments, Izumi and his mother sat face to face at a table full of food.

"I'm moving."

The two of them closed their eyes together, lowered their heads, and folded their hands.

Izumi opened his eyes and looked at the food on the table, with a hint of salivation on his face.

But when he raised his head, he inadvertently met his mother's eyes.

"Huh?"

Izumi's eyes couldn't help but tremble, and an inexplicable sense of disobedience suddenly rose in his heart.

The heat of the meal slowly rose, seemingly obscuring everything in front of him, and the face of the mother opposite looked a little distorted.

But when she blinked, she looked closely.

The mother's face remained kind and gentle, and there was no change from beginning to end.

"What's wrong, Izumi?"

The mother touched her face and asked with some confusion: "How can you look at me with such eyes, is there something on my face?" ”

Izumi Uchiha shook his head dumbfounded.

After coming back to his senses, he held his forehead and smiled reluctantly.

"It's nothing, maybe it's too tiring this time."

I always feel like I've forgotten something important, but I can't remember it.

"I'm tired."

My mother habitually nagged, "I've said it many times, even if you become a ninja, you have to pay attention to your body." ”

"If you look at the eldest son of the patriarch's family, he may not be able to return home once a week."

She sighed with emotion: "If it weren't for a young son with me, even the patriarch would definitely be lonely." ”

In the final analysis, if they lose the status of the patriarch and the patriarch's wife, they will only be parents of two children.

"Got it, got it."

Izumi Uchiha shook his head, forcibly shook off the complicated emotions in his head, and said in a gentle tone, "Let's eat first." ”

With that, he picked up the dishes and chopsticks and feasted on them.

Ever since the father who didn't have Uchiha blood and was a ninja died in the Nine-Tails Rebellion.

She and her mother have been dependent on each other, and both of them are each other's only support.

Now this inexplicable appearance will only make the mother more worried.

Even if you do forget something, you have to wait until tomorrow to remember it.

"Hmm! Good times! ”

While eating, Quan did not forget to say poorly: "Mom's cooking skills are still so good!" ”

"I feel so sad at the thought that I won't be able to eat my mother's food for the next week."

And look at the spring that is no different from the past.

The mother breathed a sigh of relief, gradually relieved, and put a gentle smile on her face again.

She's just an ordinary person with Uchiha blood.

She didn't understand what the ninjas in the clan were discussing.

However, I don't care at all.

As long as Izumi can spend her life in peace, this is her greatest wish in this life.

It's a pity that Izumi, who is now a ninja, has become the pillar of this small family.

It is inevitable that they have to go out of the village to carry out tasks in order to earn enough to support the living expenses of the two people.

"Alas~"

At the thought of Izumi going out of the village for a week to carry out his mission, his mother couldn't help but sigh, "If only you weren't a ninja." ”

No.

"It would be better if our family were civilians."

In that case, Izumi's father would not have died.

Izumi can be an ordinary girl.

Have a happy family, have a carefree childhood, and have some friendly and kind friends.

You don't need to be a ninja to support your family, you don't need to get blood to survive, and you don't need to take human lives for the sake of a mission.

Even, there is no need to carry the name of Uchiha......

"Huh?"

Izumi Uchiha's mouth was stuffed with two balls.

Until I heard my mother's words.

Izumi's movements couldn't help but pause, and a complicated look flashed in his eyes.

However, it was only for a moment.

She came back to her senses, swallowed the pill with a "coo-dong", and asked with a blank expression, "What's the matter, Mom?" ”

Looking at Izumi's face, the mother swallowed the words from her mouth.

"Uh-huh~ It's okay."

She shook her head with a faint smile and used her chopsticks to put a piece of eel in Izumi's bowl: "Don't just eat meatballs, try other dishes as well." ”

"Got it!"

Izumi Uchiha smiled at his mother and replied casually.

Then he lowered his head and used his chopsticks to flick the food in the bowl.

The black hair on her forehead obscured her face, and the expression shrouded in shadow was complicated.

How could she, as a daughter, not know what a mother thinks?

But isn't that the fate of being an Uchiha ninja and a Konoha ninja?

"Huh."

The corners of Izumi Uchiha's mouth curled up and he smiled silently.

Yes, Konoha ninja can pat his chest and say.

Whether it's killing ninjas or civilians in enemy countries, or killing target characters that hint at a mission.

It's all about completing the village's mission, and it's all about protecting your village and your family.

If you don't kill the enemy, you will be killed by the enemy.

So, no one will be killed willingly.

But this way.

Ninjas are just tools to complete tasks and earn commissions.

Perhaps the target of the assassination was a small rich man who was kind to the common people.

But he has already touched the interests of other rich people.

As long as the other rich people use a high-sounding reason to issue an assassination mission in Konoha, a generous bounty is enough to tempt the ninja to take on the assassination mission.

So it doesn't really matter whether the goal of those missions is evil or good.

Compared to those wandering ninjas and bandits, Konoha ninjas are no different.

Who is more noble than whom?

"It would be great if everything was as my mother thought."

Izumi couldn't help but think about it.

Unfortunately, in the end, it was just a fantasy.

She doesn't have the power to change the status quo, and naturally she can't be left alone.

Even in the face of the person she loves, she does not have the courage to express her heart.

Just when Izumi's thoughts were a little confused.

Boom! Knock knock!

A crisp knock on the door suddenly sounded, breaking the peace and tranquility of the night.

"Huh?"

Quan's mother was slightly stunned, and said with a puzzled expression: "It's so late, why is there still someone knocking on the door?" ”

And the sound of the knock on the door also interrupted Izumi Uchiha's thoughts.

But I don't know why, it also made her heart tremble, and her breath couldn't help but stagnate.

Just before she could react.

"I'll take a look, I don't know who came so late."

Izumi's mother stood up, muttering incessantly, and walked to the entrance door.

Click!

She opened the door defenselessly, looking out of the door with some confusion.

"Excuse me, ...... you"

I just opened the door, but I only saw a pair of scarlet eyes.

After a split second of eye contact.

The expression on her face froze instantly.

Thump!!

The voice is heard.

Izumi Uchiha, whose body froze, came back to his senses, and his heart suddenly began to beat rapidly.

Boom!

"Why?"

Knock knock!

"Why am I afraid?"

Boom! Knock knock!!

"Mom!!"

Izumi's eyes widened instantly, and his bloodshot eyes turned scarlet, revealing the shape of a three-hooked jade.

Then the figure disappeared in place and appeared directly in the hallway.

"You! You are ......"

It wasn't until he saw that cold and familiar face that Izumi Uchiha's hideous expression suddenly froze.

I saw a figure with long hair tied up, a tear trough, and a dark costume standing there.

“…… Itachi-kun? ”

His face was extremely cold, his clothes were soaked in blood, and he held a short knife dripping blood in his hand.

Izumi's mother was lying at his feet, apparently in a coma.

"Itachi-kun, why? You ......"

Looking at that familiar and cold face, Izumi Uchiha's body couldn't help but tremble slightly,

It's just that her words haven't been fully spoken yet.

The scarlet light in the eyes of the Uchiha Itachi Watahara was even worse, and it became hideous and terrifying in the darkness.

The three magatama suddenly began to rotate and seemed to gradually enlarge in front of Izumi.

Finally, it is completely transformed into a shape where three blades are intersected.

"Monthly reading!!"

Izumi Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha look at each other.

As if realizing something, Izumi's expression and eyes suddenly became hideous.

"Nope! Why!? ”

"Why, Itachi-kun?!"

Izumi's eyes twitched slightly, and he glanced at his mother below.

Uchiha Itachi also looked at Izumi's mother, who had fallen at her feet and was caught in an illusion.

Then he took a deep breath and raised the ninja knife in his hand high.

No! No!

Mom!!

Looking at this scene, Izumi Uchiha's eyes were split, and he tried his best to break free.

But with her three-hook jade, she can't match the power of the pupil technique of the kaleidoscope writing wheel eye.

Izumi Uchiha watched as the butcher knife in Itachi's hand fell straight towards his mother's heart with the sound of breaking wind.

Poof!

The moment blood splattered out.

Izumi Uchiha's eyes and expression also instantly fell into a daze.

It looks like a puppet that has been manipulated.

………………

I don't know how long it took.

In a trance, Izumi Uchiha's consciousness returned again.

Boom!!

Izumi opened his eyes suddenly, and the three-hooked jade in his eyes looked particularly bewitching in the light of the candlelight.

"Mom!!"

She subconsciously stood up and cried out in horror.

It's just that when he saw the scene in front of him, his body couldn't help but freeze in place.

“…… Mom? ”

I saw that the mother, who had been killed by Itachi, was now sitting in front of her intact.

And the table full of meals has been overturned by her, and the sumptuous dishes are scattered all over the ground and scattered on the mother's body.

"Izumi?!"

The mother, who looked stunned and folded her hands, also came back to her senses.

Looking at the mess, a "well" word popped out of his forehead in an instant.

She forcibly suppressed the anger in her heart, gritted her teeth and said, "Quan, what are you doing?!" ”

It was fine just now, why did you suddenly scream out for some reason?

"I ......"

Izumi Uchiha gradually came back to his senses, and he was a little confused for a while.

What's going on?

Mother, hasn't you already been killed by Itachi Uchiha?

So now this is ......

"Solution!!"

Izumi blinked, and directly sealed his hands, trying to break away from the illusion.

“……”

But after waiting for a while, everything in front of me still hasn't changed.

She sealed again without believing in evil: "Solution! Untie!! ”

But these actions have no effect.

It just made the originally angry mother worry and confused.

"Izumi?"

The mother frowned, and said cautiously, "You are, what's wrong?" ”

Izumi Uchiha subconsciously shook his head and said, "No, it's okay." ”

After all, it seems that I feel that my words are not convincing.

She smiled reluctantly at her mother.

"It's really fine, maybe I'm too tired during this time, so my nerves are a little sensitive."

Mother looked up and down the spring suspiciously.

Seeing that there was nothing abnormal on her body, she reluctantly believed her words.

"I'm tired."

The mother's frowning brows loosened slightly, and she nagged again: "I've said it many times, even if you become a ninja, you have to pay attention to your body." ”

Originally, it was just a common phrase.

But listening to the ears of Izumi Uchiha, it was like a thunderclap that exploded in his heart.

"Oh, that's ......"

The mother wiped the food on her body and sighed helplessly, "I'll go and remake another meal." ”

With that, I got up and walked towards the kitchen.

But at this moment.

"Wait, wait!"

Izumi Uchiha tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart, but his voice still trembled.

"Mom!"

She smiled at her mother with a pale face, and then said pretending to be calm, "I suddenly remembered something, please wait a moment." ”

The voice fell, and he didn't wait for his mother to say anything.

Izumi's figure disappeared in an instant, appearing directly in front of the entrance door.

She tried to slide the door open, but suddenly stopped.

The door of the room, which was ordinary and tired of seeing, now seemed to her to be imprisoned as if something terrible was being held.

"Is that an illusion, an illusion, or something else?"

Or is that the future?

"Izumi? What are you doing? ”

Her mother's voice behind her interrupted Izumi Uchiha's complicated thoughts and made a flash of determination flash in her eyes.

Just listen to the "click".

The door was opened by her.

It's just that when Izumi subconsciously put on a defensive posture and looked outside with the three-hooked jade writing wheel eye.

"This ......"

The full moon overhead still glowed a faint red, and there was only peace and tranquility outside.

Call!

Izumi Uchiha exhaled the breath he had held in his throat and glanced outside.

No anomalies were found.

"Is it true that I'm so tired that I'm hallucinating?"

I can't believe it, but there doesn't seem to be any other explanation.

"Izumi?"

The mother behind her also walked up to her and asked worriedly, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Izumi's startled appearance now made her very worried about Izumi's current mental state.

"It's nothing, don't worry, Mom, you can go cook first."

Izumi Uchiha breathed a sigh of relief as he turned to his mother and smiled heartily.

"I'll go out for a walk and I'll be back soon."

(End of chapter)