Kurosaki Ichigo in Konoha

After what happened at noon, Koharu's attitude towards Kurosaki Ichigo finally softened a little, but the two still faced each other in silence. Kurosaki Ichigo followed leisurely a few meters behind Koharu.

Time passed like this bit by bit, the sun set in the west, and the sky gradually became dark.

"It looks like you're going to sleep out tonight?" Kurosaki Ichigo raised his head and looked up, breaking the calm between the two and uttering his first words since noon.

"Yeah." Koharu jumped and took out a scroll from the backpack on his back. After opening it, Kurosaki Ichigo saw from the corner of his eye that there was a map of the ninja world drawn on it. Koharu narrowed his eyes. Eyes, trying to see the tiny writing on the scroll in the dim light.

call,

Kurosaki Ichigo flicked his wrist, and a bright flame ignited on the tip of Zhenheng's knife in his hand. Kurosaki Ichigo stretched the flame to Koharu's side, so that she could see clearly. text above.

After turning to bed, Koharu looked back at Kurosaki Ichigo who was as if nothing had happened. An unusual emotion flashed in his eyes, and then he returned his gaze to the scroll in his hand.

"It will take at least fifteen hours to cross this forest at our current speed," Xiaochun's fingers crossed over the scroll, speculating on the next journey. "It is unwise to continue traveling in such a dense forest. s Choice..."

"Is that the mark left by Uncle Hashirama and the others?" Kurosaki Ichigo turned his head and found that the trunk of the big tree he had just passed was deeply engraved with several characters that he did not recognize, so he stopped and said .

"Where?" Koharu also stopped when he went to bed. She was looking at the map just now and didn't notice the characters, so she asked Kurosaki Ichigo.

Kurosaki Ichigo turned around and jumped to a big tree behind. He brought Zhenheng, with the flame still burning on the tip of the knife, close to the trunk of the tree. He pointed at the characters on the tree and said, "Look, this is it."

After turning to bed, Koharu came to Kurosaki Ichigo's side, leaned down slightly and glanced at the characters before saying: "Yes, this is the code message left by the Hokage-sama and others. Let us rest here until dawn tomorrow." On our way."

"Ha" Kurosaki Ichigo breathed a long sigh of relief, then jumped directly to the ground and sat down, leaning on the tree trunk behind him and said, "I have never tried such a high-intensity journey, I am really tired. Yes."

"Stay alert." After sleeping, Koharu also jumped down from the tree, but she did not sit on the ground defenselessly like Kurosaki Ichigo. Instead, she half-crouched and looked around cautiously, and found nothing unusual. Then he slowly stood up.

In the short period of time when Koharu went to bed and was on alert, Kurosaki Ichigo had actually taken out two rice balls and eaten half of them.Seeing this, a black line appeared on Xiaochun's head when he went to bed and said: "Hey, this is too casual for you."

"I'm a little hungry." Kurosaki Ichigo said nonchalantly, and threw his rice ball towards Koharu, "Do you want a rice ball?"

"Didn't you prepare military food pills?" Xiaochun said loudly when he went to bed, and took out two black pills from the ninja bag on his waist and threw them into his mouth.

"It tasted too bad, so I wasn't prepared." Kurosaki Ichigo said matter-of-factly. Military food pills have become a psychological shadow on him. Every time he thinks about the smell, Kurosaki Ichigo can't help but think about it. Going to vomit.

"It tastes bad" Koharu turned to bed and looked at Ichigo Kurosaki with twitching eyes. She didn't expect that he would not prepare and carry this item that was crucial for a ninja's survival in the wild just because of such a joke.

"By the way," Kurosaki Ichigo stretched out his hand, and casually scratched the tree next to him with the Zhenheng in his hand, and the blazing flames burned, illuminating the entire area, "A little light would be better. ah."

"What are you doing?" Xiaochun shouted angrily when he went to bed, and then waved his little hand, and the chakra-filled palm wind directly completely extinguished the flames on the tree next to him, "You want to light a fire in such a forest at night? Don’t you want to die?”

"Ah" Kurosaki Ichigo scratched his head, "There's no need to be so cautious, right? Uncle Hashirama's departure is so secretive this time, and there are so many investigators, no one will come and attack."

"Whether someone will come or not is one thing," Koharu said to Kurosaki Ichigo as he went to bed with his hands on his shoulders. "Whether or not to make a fire is another matter. We can't take it lightly just because this mission is safer. Otherwise, You won’t know how you died in the future.”

"Yes, yes." Kurosaki Ichigo stuffed the last half of the rice ball into his mouth, then put Zhenheng upside down and said vaguely, and raised his hands to show surrender.

"This attitude..." Koharu gritted his teeth before going to bed, stared at Ichigo Kurosaki for a few seconds, kicked away the fallen leaves around him, and turned away.

"Hey, where are you going?" The fallen leaves that Koharu kicked away fell on Kurosaki Ichigo. He quickly pounced on the leaves on his body and found that Koharu was turning around to leave, so he asked in a loud voice.

"I'm going to take some precautions around here," Xiaochun said without looking back when he went to bed, "Also, you'll be on guard in the first half of the night, and I'll be there in the second half of the night."

"Watch the night..." Kurosaki Ichigo said listlessly. Seeing Koharu's figure disappearing behind the tree, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

After the exchange at noon, although Xiaochun's attitude towards him seemed to have not changed much, he could clearly feel that the hatred and resentment in the eyes of Xiaochun when he looked at him no longer existed.

"Forget it, other people's attitude towards me doesn't matter anyway. The goal now is to find a way to go back."

After a while, Kurosaki Ichigo retracted his smile, shook his head to suppress his joy, and thought about how to return to his original world.

call out,

A kunai pierced the air and shot out like a bullet.

Kurosaki Ichigo had no intention of dodging, and then the kunai struck Kurosaki Ichigo's handsome face with a sharp sound and pierced into the tree trunk against which he was leaning.

"You seem to be very used to attacking other people's faces." Kurosaki Ichigo jumped up and shouted in the direction where the kunai shot, "This is very dangerous, what if you hurt someone?"

"Hey," Xiaochun's figure turned out from behind the tree and said with some disappointment, "What? It turns out I didn't have time to react. I thought you saw the trajectory of my kunai."

Kurosaki Ichigo looked at Koharu who was sleeping, and his eyes almost burst out with flames: "Ha, what's the matter with your disappointed tone? And you ejected kunai so suddenly without others being prepared, who can react? Come here"

"So you still have a long way to go, rookie." Xiaochun yawned when he went to bed, sat down and leaned gently against another tree, then shook his right hand, "I have already done a good job around it. If the device is turned off, if someone breaks in, chakra will flow through this wire."

At this time, Kurosaki Ichigo looked carefully and discovered that the end of the kunai that had been pierced into the trunk of the big tree behind him was actually connected to a steel wire that was so thin that it was almost invisible, and the other end of the steel wire was at this time. Hold it in the right hand of Xiaochun who is sleeping.

"Then, I'll start to rest." Xiaochun said with a proud smile when he went to bed, and then found a comfortable position and posture, allowing himself to lean on the tree trunk behind him more easily and close his eyes.

Kurosaki Ichigo put one hand on the steel wire at the end of the kunai, and with the other hand he pulled out the Zhenheng that he had inserted upside down into the ground. With a flick of his wrist, the flame dissipated, and everything around him disappeared. There was boundless darkness, and even the originally bright moonlight overhead was completely blocked by the sky-blocking trees overhead.

In this darkness, Kurosaki Ichigo also closed his eyes and integrated his entire mind into his own chakra, and his range of perception expanded with the spread of his chakra.

"By the way," Kurosaki Ichigo seemed to have remembered something, "You haven't told me when to call you."

After turning to bed, Xiaochun breathed slightly in the darkness, evenly and softly, as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.

"Damn this guy." Kurosaki Ichigo gritted his teeth angrily, but he just complained for a few words and stopped talking. He was afraid of disturbing Koharu, who was already asleep, and even his breathing slowed down a lot.

After sleeping, Koharu gently opened her eyes, her breathing unchanged. Although she couldn't see Kurosaki Ichigo at all in such an invisible environment, she could clearly feel Kurosaki Ichigo's presence in her heart. There was an inexplicable sense of security, and a gentle smile appeared on his face.

"I'll wake up on my own in a while. Just call you when the time comes." Xiaochun's voice came as she went to bed. There was no coldness or anger mixed in it, but it sounded a little soft.

This feels good too.Xiaochun thought with a smile as he went to bed, and even had the idea of ​​​​hoping that time would stop at this moment and not pass by.

"So you're still awake." But Kurosaki Ichigo's next words directly broke Koharu's fantasy of sleeping in bed, "I thought you were exhausted from the day's journey."

"Sister, you and I are different rookies," Xiaochun said loudly after sleeping, her tone returning to its previous tone.

Kurosaki Ichigo, on the other hand, fell silent after hearing Koharu's words. Koharu was stunned. Although he couldn't see Kurosaki Ichigo, Koharu still knew about Kurosaki Ichigo. There was something wrong with his expression at this time.

A face full of loneliness and sadness was made up in Zhuanzi Xiaochun's mind. For some reason, Zhuanzi Xiaochun felt a slight pain in her heart, driving her to ask softly: "What...what's wrong?"

"Uh..." Kurosaki Ichigo waited for a while before speaking, "You are almost three times older than me and you still have the nerve to say that you are your older sister..."

"Kurosaki"

After sleeping, Xiaochun's roar instantly spread far away.