As night fell, there were only five people in the Raksha Mansion, but the lively Temari and the slightly older Kankuro made the atmosphere at the table very cheerful.

"Happy New Year~"

Raksha raised his glass and spoke.

"Happy New Year!"

Temari held the juice in his hand high, and Kankuro also held the cup with two chubby little hands, and the family clinked glasses happily to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.

Luo Sha felt the spiciness, squinted his eyes, and sighed comfortably.

Spending the New Year with family is a luxury in the eyes of many people.

Especially the ninjas, the Chinese New Year means that they have survived another year in this world of licking blood at the tip of the knife.

In previous years, the New Year was often a mixture of joy and sorrow.

Some people celebrate their luck, and some people are sad on this reunion day.

This year is no exception, even if the war against Iwain Village is a big victory that cannot be replicated, there are still people who unfortunately die.

Fortunately, the year has been developing rapidly, and everyone's life has become better, so the festive atmosphere still appears on most people's faces.

"Dad, why didn't Uncle Hoshino celebrate the New Year with us? I miss him. ”

Temari put down the sweet juice in his hand and asked in a milky voice.

"Do you want Uncle Hoshino? You're thinking of a new toy. ”

Karuro didn't wait for Luo Sha to answer, and complained first.

"Today is the day of the family reunion, and the wind shadow will naturally not come, if you think about him, let's wait for two days."

Luo Sha said with some taste.

He is now extremely envious of Hoshino Mu's puppet technique, he can open more than one number, he runs around for the affairs of the village, and he does not spend a long time with his daughter on the road of growth, so that his daughter is very close to Hoshino Mu's smiling tiger.

Fortunately, his last hope did not attract the attention of Hoshino Makaki.

He had already passed the test and knew that I Airo had an extraordinary talent for Magnetic Escape, which neither Kankuro nor Temari possessed, which strengthened Raksha's determination to cultivate my Airo.

Thinking of this, Luo Sha asked Ka Ru Luo next to him with the strength of wine: "Do you think Wu'er has the appearance of a wind shadow?" ”

On the other side, after the uninvited guests left, the Wind Shadow Mansion also became lively.

The influence of Obito dissipated a lot with the calmness of Hoshino Maki's words and deeds.

Coupled with the arrival of the ferret, the tumbleweed was busy arranging accommodation and preparing New Year's meals, and there was no time to think about these for a while.

"Happy New Year"

Tumbleweed opened the door, and when she saw Hakura, Roll, and Sunset Red and Nohara Rin standing outside the door, she had a kind smile on her face, turned sideways to get out of the way, and said casually:

"The meal is ready, is it fun outside?"

"It's very interesting, it's the first time I've seen Shayin Village so lively when I'm so big."

Ye Cang said unsatisfactorily.

Obviously, if it weren't for the New Year's Eve together, she would still be out shopping.

"Konoha has never been so lively. Listening to the old man, it seems that only the daimyo of the rich countries of the Moon Country and the Land of Yuno will have such a big battle when they succeed to the throne, but I have never seen it. ”

Sunset Hong shook her head and sighed.

Even in those few wealthy countries, only once-in-a-lifetime things like the succession of daimyo would dare to be so extravagant, but Hoshino Maki is once a year.

And as far as Sunset Red is concerned, this time the arrangement is still relatively hasty, and Hoshino Mu will do it on a larger scale next year.

He said what this is called soft power, Sunset Red doesn't understand, and thinks that this is the great joy of Lord Kazekage, and he just wants everyone to praise him more.

Among the few people, only Nohara Lin did not have much joy on his face.

Not only because of the melancholy of being alone in a foreign land, but also because of an inexplicable upset.

She couldn't tell how it felt, but she always felt as if something had happened during the time she was away.

Everyone walked in the direction of the restaurant, and Ye Cang was left behind, silently walking to the side of the tumbleweed.

"What's wrong?"

Ye Cang's lips trembled slightly, and he asked the tumbleweed in the way of sound transmission.

"Everything is normal, Lord Hakura."

Tumbleweed smiled and whispered.

"It's okay, those shadows will come over at this time? Tumbleweed, you dare to lie to me now? ”

Hakura narrowed his eyes and stared at the tumbleweed.

Tumbleweed's throat surged, and she lowered her head and walked silently.

Seeing this, Ye Cang also understood that it must be Hoshino Mu's special advice, and the full round rose and fell violently, and he also knew that it was useless to ask the tumbleweed, pursed his lips, and walked quickly into the restaurant.

In the restaurant, Hoshino Maki was already sitting in the first seat, shaking the goblet in his hand boredly, and the purple wine in the cup flowed down the wall of the glass.

Sitting next to him was Shouzuru, staring at the delicious food on the table, swallowing hard.

"Here, sit down."

After beckoning everyone to take their seats, Hoshino raised his glass and said with a smile, "Happy New Year." ”

"Happy New Year."

Everyone raised their glasses, marking the official start of the family feast at the Wind Shadow Mansion.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Hoshino Mu glanced at the tumbleweed, the tumbleweed nodded, stood up and left the restaurant, and walked in after a while, holding a few maps of the snow country in his hand and distributing them to everyone.

"You've worked hard this year, and I've decided to give you a vacation and go to the snow country to have fun together."

Hoshino Mu put down the wine glass in his hand and said with a smile.

Ye Cang's eyes looked at the map, raised his head and stared at Hoshino Mu: "Are you going too?" ”

"As much as I would love to go, Kazekage can't leave Sand Hidden City."

Hoshino Maki shrugged his shoulders a little helplessly and said.

"Then I won't go either, I'm quite idle this year, Lin and Hong are more tired, let them take the rolls with them."

Hakura decisively refused, looking at Hoshino Mu with burning eyes.

Sunset Red was still in high spirits, but seeing Ye Cang's abnormal expression, he also realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly nodded: "We are not tired, we don't need to rest." And the snowy mountains aren't interesting, not as fun as the desert, right, Lynn? ”

Nohara Lin blinked, she was actually interested, and a change of environment away from here might make her feel better.

But her opinion didn't matter, and since Hong said so, she had to nod her head in agreement.

Hoshino Mu sighed, looked at Ye Cang's stubborn eyes, and said softly: "If you don't want to go, then I can only let Luo Sha send you there." ”

Ye Cang frowned, stopped playing dumb riddles with Hoshino Mu, and asked, "What happened?" ”

"A little thing. The reactionary elements of Iwa Shinobi have been active lately, and I am afraid that if they are unable to assassinate me, I will do something to you. Among those people are elite shinobi, the shadows can't guarantee your safety, and only if you leave me can I do my best to clean up that group of rats. ”

Hoshino Mu said, looking at Hakura: "This is an order, Hakura Kaminobi." ”

Ye Cang bit his lip, but he couldn't refute it.

If an elite shinobi hides in the shadows and carries out a suicide assassination, she really can't guarantee that she will be safe.

Seeing this, Hoshino Mu knew that even if Ye Cang was aggrieved in his heart, he still accepted this result, and he was secretly relieved in his heart.

Before victory, defeat is the first thing to lose.

In front of the eye of reincarnation, he and Obito may not be able to win each other if they work together, not to mention that the two of them still have their own ghosts.

Naturally, he had to be prepared to retaliate against Nagato if he failed.

It is very likely that a bag of rice will be staged in the sky above Sand Hidden City, and he can't guarantee the safety of everyone, so he can only let the people around him evacuate first.

Hoshino Maki knew that teaming up with Obito was a risky move, but the current situation forced him to take a risk.

Although it seems that Sand Hidden Castle has annexed Iwakuin Village and become the largest ninja village in terms of territory, the economy and technology are also developing rapidly, and everything is moving in a good direction.

But Hoshino saw the undercurrent surging under the giant ship.

Yun Shinobi's initiative to make peace, Akatsuki and Konoha joining forces, and the fog ninja hidden under the thick fog, these forces are ready to move because Hoshino Mu's broke the balance of the five ninja villages.

He had to plan for his best, how would he deal with it if Akatsuki, Konoha and Yunnin united?

He racked his brains and couldn't think of an optimistic answer, Sand Shinobi had no chance of winning in front of these three forces.

In this case, I had to find a way to break the game.

Originally, he wanted to start from the relationship between Ape Fei Ri Slash and Tuan Zang, provoke Konoha internal friction, and then win over Yun Shinobi, so that there is only one Xiao left, and Nagato will most likely not choose to be his enemy.

In this way, he will be able to gain time for development, allowing him to improve his strength and integrate the Rock Hidden Village.

Taking a step back, even if Nagato chooses to start a war with himself and face a Xiao alone, as long as he can hold Nagato back, he will not use all his strength with Obito and the character behind him, and the battle situation can also enter a tug-of-war, and Sand Ninja City can completely drag down the other party with powerful resources and logistics.

It's just that if it really comes to this point, both sides will lose both, and Hoshino Maki is not inclined to do this.

Just when he was struggling to find a way to play with the highest winning rate, Obito's active contact helped him open up new ideas.

The Wind Shadow Family Banquet came to an end in a strange atmosphere, although everyone didn't say anything, but with the sound of the New Year's cannonballs, most of the wishes made in their hearts were related to peace.

At midnight, in the temple in the distance, the little novice stood in the temple and rang the ancient bell with mottled rust.

Knock ——!

Knock ——!

Knock ——!

Three times in succession, the bell fluttered, and it could be faintly heard standing on the sandy city wall.

Accompanied by the sound of the bell, countless bright fireworks rose up in the Sand Hidden City at night, rendering the entire sky.

The people in the city looked up at the grand fireworks display and realized that the new year had arrived.

In an ordinary residential building, Miho looked at the sumptuous meals on the table, all of which Hoshino Mu loved to eat, and couldn't help but be stunned, until the laughter of the children downstairs and the sound of firecrackers waking her up.

Miho sighed, obviously he asked him not to come, but when he was really alone for the New Year, his mood was still a little inexplicably sad.

"Do you want to eat together?"

Miho said suddenly.

A response came from outside the window, "No need, sir. ”

"I'm so sorry, I still want you to protect me."

"It's okay Miho-sama, we're orphans, and there's nothing wrong even if we go home."

Outside the window, another dark voice came from the window, his tone was flat, obviously used to this kind of life.

Miho bit her lip and swallowed back as she wanted to say something.

For a moment, the air was filled with the smell of silence.

After I don't know how long, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Miho seemed to realize something, stood up and walked quickly to the door, and opened the door without looking through the crack in the door, and sure enough, Hoshino Maki was already standing outside the door with a smile on his face.

"Happy New Year, Aunt Miho."

"Why did you come over, didn't you accompany Ye Cang?"

Miho said, her body already turning sideways to make a way.

"Ye Cang, they went to see the fireworks show, I came to accompany you, I starved to death."

Hoshino Maki walked into the room as he spoke, picked up the chopsticks on the table, and ate unceremoniously.

"I live a good life on my own, so I need someone to accompany me. Eat slowly, no one will rob you. ”

Miho said, but the smile on her face couldn't be suppressed.

She sat next to her and kept giving Hoshino Maki vegetables.

Soon, a table full of dishes was swept into his stomach by Hoshino Maki.

"Hiccup~"

Hoshino Makki sat down on the sofa very unimpressively, burped, took the tea handed by Aunt Miho and poured it over.

Orange peel and mint are still a familiar taste.

Hoshino Maki pressed Miho to his side, looked at the corners of her eyes with a few crow's feet, and said, "Aunt Miho, tell you something." ”

Miho looked at the still somewhat childish face in front of her, if she didn't say it, who would have thought that this child was already the shadow of a huge ninja village?

Others will only sigh at his ability and talent, while they will care about how much hard work and sweat he has put in behind the scenes.

She reached out and stroked the corners of Hoshino Mu's somewhat wrinkled clothes, and said softly, "What's the matter?" ”

"April is Hakura's birthday, and the wedding is also scheduled for that day. I hope you will be here as my elder, and my mother will not have the opportunity to see the day I get married, and she will be glad that you will replace her. ”

Miho's hand stiffened when she straightened the corner of her clothes, and hurriedly excused herself: "It's not appropriate, I'm just one."

"You don't have to care about that, it's my wedding, as long as I approve of it, everything is not a problem. If you don't go, the dignified wind shadow doesn't even have an elder to make people laugh. ”

Hoshino Mu knew that she was still struggling with the issue of identity, so he directly interrupted Miho's excuse and spoke.

Miho and Hakura have the same concern, that is, as a person from a civilian background, they are worried that they will have a bad influence on Hoshino Maki.

In this case, he simply expressed his strength, but saved a lot of unfounded worries.

Perhaps it was Hoshino Makki's last words that moved Miho, her eyes struggled, but after half the salary, she still nodded, showed a relieved smile, touched Hoshino Maki's face, and nodded gently.

"Well, I'll go. If your parents knew that you were so good now, they would be proud of you. ”

"Of course, I'm the pride of Sand Hidden City now."

Outside the window, the fire trees and silver flowers never sleep, the brothers and sisters dance, in this cold ninja world, at least tonight, the sand hidden city is warm.

(End of chapter)