Kurosaki Ichigo in Konoha

"Hey, Ichigo..." Nariko sat under a tree, leaning against the thick trunk and said feebly, "Do you really want to cooperate with that person named Kakuzu?"

"Well, why?" Ichigo Kurosaki walked over carrying the body of a man wearing brown linen clothes, and then slowly put it down. Next to this body, there were already hundreds of corpses of other villagers densely placed, " Why do you ask so suddenly?”

"Is this the last corpse?" Nariko looked at the neatly arranged corpses on the ground. This was the result of Kurosaki Ichigo's hard work all morning. Nariko originally wanted to help him, but she just After a while, I was too tired to move, and I didn't care about fear. I sat down to rest and watched Kurosaki Ichigo carrying the bodies of the villagers one by one.

Ichigo Kurosaki nodded, sat down next to Nariko and said, "Yes. Put the bodies of the villagers here first, I will get some food, and then bury them in the afternoon."

"You don't have to be like this," Naliko suddenly asked.

"What?" Kurosaki Ichigo was obviously a little surprised by Nariko's question. He turned his head and looked at Nariko's side face.

Naliko supported her chin with one hand while constantly stirring the hem of her clothes with her fingers, staring at the corpses. She was originally very scared of these corpses that died in miserable ways, but when she thought about these villagers being killed by bandits, They killed them innocently, and those fears dissipated a lot: "Now, I mean, you have already killed those bandits to avenge these villagers, why do you insist on burying them? Even You didn't even hesitate to have a conflict with that person named Kakuzu. You said Kakuzu is a very dangerous person, right?"

Kurosaki Ichigo was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "There are so many reasons. I just thought that way at the time, so I did this. If you have to ask, then this is the answer."

"What..." Nali pouted in dissatisfaction, "If there is something inconvenient to say, just say you don't know. What kind of answer is that?"

"If I have to say something deep-seated," Kurosaki Ichigo looked at the ground and sighed, and after a long time he said softly, "Um...how should I put it...I just...just don't want those innocent people to After death, people will be humiliated by being exposed in the wilderness... I don't have the ability to protect the whole world... But I am not a person who cares about my own strength..."

"So...I want to protect them..." Kurosaki Ichigo's voice became deeper and deeper.

Nariko looked sideways at Kurosaki Ichigo's lowered head, reached out and grabbed one of his hands: "But they are already dead, right? What's the point of your actions?"

Kurosaki Ichigo raised his head and smiled at Nariko. Then he pondered for a while, seeming to be thinking about something, and then slowly said: "Nariko, you... believe that people in this world will survive after death. Does a soul exist?”

"Are you talking about ghosts?" Nali asked in confusion.

Ichigo Kurosaki nodded: "Absolutely. Things like ghosts and spirits that still exist after death. Do you believe these things exist?"

Nali could see that Kurosaki Ichigo's attitude had become serious, so she thought about it seriously, and then said with some confusion: "I feel like there will be... I have been hoping since my parents died. There are such things as ghosts in this world, so I will feel that my parents have always been with me and never left me... By the way, why are you asking this suddenly?"

"Oh, you might not believe it when you say it. In fact, I wouldn't believe it if someone else said this to me," Kurosaki Ichigo laughed at himself, "Before I came to this world, I was a ...No, to be precise, I was once a..."

At the end of the sentence, Kurosaki Ichigo's voice stopped and he seemed hesitant to speak. Nali couldn't help but be curious: "Is there anything hard to say about a person? Is it possible that you are in your world?" He's a dead man"

"A little bit worse," Kurosaki Ichigo said calmly, "It's the God of Death."

"Ha, I knew you were just a god of death... Already... Already... Huh?" Naliko didn't react at first, but after repeating it again, she finally understood and pointed. Kurosaki Ichigo said loudly, "You... you... you... you... are... are... Death... Death"

"Absolutely." Kurosaki Ichigo nodded.

Naliko said without hesitation: "I don't believe it."

Kurosaki Ichigo looked into Nariko's blue eyes and knew that she was starting to panic, so he said in an unquestionable voice: "I didn't lie."

"This... this... this... how is this possible? You... how could you be..." Naliko shook her head like a rattle and said stutteringly, but her tone had changed. She was not so determined, although she still found it difficult to accept what Kurosaki Ichigo said, and it was difficult to accept that the dazzling boy in front of her was the legendary terrifying and gloomy god of death.

Not only that, if Kurosaki Ichigo was really the God of Death, is the other world he mentioned really another world? Or is it the world of the dead? What Kurosaki Ichigo originally said, Nariko always said When I heard the story, was it true that I wanted to return to my original world? If all that was true, wouldn't it mean... Kurosaki Ichigo would leave her one day and return to himself without any regrets? world, and then forgotten her in the corner of memory at some point in her life.

Thinking of this, Naliko shook her head a little faster, trying to kill this idea in her mind.

Kurosaki Ichigo shook his head: "How is this impossible? The reason why I insist on burying those innocent villagers is because I was once a Shinigami responsible for guiding the undead to the afterlife..."

"I have seen the spirits after death. They cherish the nostalgia for the world of the living and the fear of the world of the dead. I just want to try my best to prevent them from being too sad when they become Buddhas." Kurosaki Ichigo turned his head and his eyes were full. He looked at the corpses of the villagers who were about to be buried with emotion, as if he had returned to Karakura Town, the place where he lived, studied and fought, and seemed to think of those family members and companions that he missed day and night.

"But...but..." Naliko still couldn't accept what Kurosaki Ichigo said. She looked at him for a long time but couldn't say a complete sentence. She could only open and close her mouth in vain to make herself feel better. Some.

Kurosaki Ichigo looked back at Naliko and smiled at her. The smile made him look like a child showing off his toys. However, the smile only flashed by and was immediately withdrawn. It seemed that it had never existed. The same thing made Nali wonder if she had seen it wrong.

But Naliko immediately retracted her suspicions and said loudly as if she was grasping a life-saving straw: "You, what are you laughing at? Are you lying to me?"

"Did I laugh? I didn't laugh." Kurosaki Ichigo denied without blinking.

"It's impossible that I clearly saw you smiling. You are definitely lying to me, right?" Nari asked, grabbing Kurosaki Ichigo's clothes and shaking his body.

"Yes, yes..." Kurosaki Ichigo was startled by Nariko's reaction. In order to appease her, he had to raise his hands in a gesture of surrender and said helplessly, "Yes, yes, I was indeed lying to you. ..I am actually not a god of death at all...I just made up a reason..."

After getting a positive answer from Kurosaki Ichigo, Nariko realized that her reaction seemed a bit excessive, so she quickly stopped her movements and let go of Kurosaki Ichigo's collar, and moved her butt back a little. After putting a short distance away from Kurosaki Ichigo, his eyes started to roll, trying to find a reason to explain what just happened.

Kurosaki Ichigo tidied up his clothes that were messed up by Nariko. Nariko took advantage of this moment to calm down, but his face was still red and he said: "You... you are so disgusting... Don’t you know that I’m afraid of ghosts and the God of Death? If you dare to scare me like this again, I’ll..."

"Just do what you want." Kurosaki Ichigo also opened a little distance from Nariko, as if he was afraid that she would torment him again, "Take my collar and shake it around."

"That's right, hum." Nariko waved her white and tender little fist at Kurosaki Ichigo and hummed unceremoniously.

After saying this, Nari immediately jumped up and ran towards the village without waiting for Kurosaki Ichigo's answer. Kurosaki Ichigo was stunned for a moment, and then turned his gaze to the corpses of the villagers, with a look of loneliness in his eyes. Emotions.

"Hey, Kurosaki, come here quickly." At this moment, Naliko, who had run out for more than ten meters, turned around, put her hands to her mouth to form a loudspeaker and shouted at Kurosaki Ichigo.

Kurosaki Ichigo turned away, and Nariko continued to shout: "Hurry up and get some food, bury them after eating, and then go find Kakuzu. Don't forget, we have to go to the Iron Country. "

A smile appeared on Kurosaki Ichigo's lips.

"understood."