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"Ah, this wine is really good!"

Putting down the empty wine glass, Jiraiya's face was rosy and the corners of his mouth were crooked in comfort.

"Then drink more!"

Hayabusa picked up the wine bottle and refilled the empty glass.

"You're a guy, should I say you don't have a sharp eye, or do you have a sharp eye?" Jiraiya smiled and picked up the wine glass and drank it down in one gulp. He picked up the chopsticks in his right hand and scanned the rich dishes on the table.

This is in the courtyard where Hayabusa lives.

The two sat opposite each other at the low table on the edge of the house near the courtyard, with a rich selection of dishes and wine ordered by Hayabusa Ye.

After being caught peeping, Jiraiya prepared to escape. But Hayabusa grabbed his belt and invited him to the courtyard for a banquet.

In order to avoid being chased by the hotel owner and the girls, Jiraiya did not refuse.

However, he didn't give Hayabusa a good look.

It wasn't until the rich dishes and wine were served that Jiraiya changed his previous displeasure and became relaxed and relaxed.

"I made this decision out of necessity, so please forgive me." Hayabusa apologized. There was just a faint smile on his face, showing no sincerity at all.

"So, what do you want from me?"

"Help."

"Help?"

Jiraiya thought he heard wrongly, and was stunned when he looked at Hayabusa.

"Actually, I am a villager in Konoha. I have my own home in the village. I only came here temporarily to save myself."

"Oh!"

Jiraiya rubbed his chin, becoming interested, "Then why don't you find the guards?"

Hayabusa sighed helplessly: "Even if you tell people about unfounded things, no one will believe them!"

"tell me the story."

"Aren't there cases of missing children happening one after another in the village recently?"

"Ah."

"My parents were ninjas in the village. They died preventing the Nine-Tails Rebellion half a year ago. So they currently live alone."

"So you're worried about being targeted?"

"My home is in the suburbs, and there are few people nearby."

"Well, it's true that most of the missing people in the case live in remote places and don't have many relatives..." Jiraiya nodded slightly: "But there are many people like this. How are you sure that you have become a target?"

"intuition."

"intuition?"

"Yes, it's intuition."

"Ah ha ha……"

Jiraiya slapped his legs and laughed, "No wonder you said no one believed it. If you use this reason to go to the police, you will definitely get scolded."

"That's why I hid here!" Hayabusa shrugged his shoulders and sighed: "I happened to bump into Lord Jiraiya, so I wanted to ask for your help."

"You know it's smart to ask me for help..."

Jiraiya laughed proudly. He picked up Falcon Leaf's refilled wine glass and drank it in one gulp. After a pleasant burp, he put it down with a 'pop'. He said bluntly: "But I don't believe it either."

"It's normal for people to be scared after something like this happened. But..." Jiraiya sat upright and looked at Hayabusa seriously, "You are a ninja student, right? It's understandable for ordinary people to be afraid, but You are a ninja student, and you will become a ninja in the future, protecting those who are afraid... Even if you are scared yourself, how can you protect the weak people, and how can you make them not afraid?"

Hayabusa pursed his lips in disdain, "That will be in the future. Now I am just a student, and I am still the object of protection."

"Uh...no, I'm..."

"I know you're teaching me."

Hayabusa interrupted Jiraiya, "I understand all this, but my fear is not unreasonable, but because I know that the danger is coming that I absolutely cannot resist."

"Ok?"

Hayabusa hesitated for a while and said, "Do you know what it feels like?"

……

The place where Itachi practices is a forest next to his house.

Wooden signs were hung on the fir trees everywhere he could reach them. The targets were all the size of a human head, each painted with two black dots.

Itachi stood alone in the quiet woods. He held a kunai between each of his fingers. There are 8 weapons in total. These are Itachi's weapons.

"call……"

He closed his eyes and slowly exhaled the breath from his dantian.

While bending his knees, he suddenly jumped up from the ground.

While in the air, he turned his body upside down.

The arms that had been folded in front of his chest quickly stretched left and right.

Eight flashes of light went straight in eight directions.

Click, click, click...

A crisp sound echoed around Itachi who landed on the ground.

All the tactical targets were pierced by sharp blades.

Seeing this, Itachi frowned.

In the past, he could hit the target every time, but now...

"You have something on your mind?"

A sudden voice came from behind, making Itachi immediately look back with bated breath.

A black-haired boy stood there. A Konoha forehead protector was tied to his forehead, shining with silver.

"Stop the water."

Itachi looked at the visitor with a smile on his face.

It turns out that this is Uchiha Shisui, who has recently become famous and is known as the 'Snapshot Shisui'. He is also Itachi's only friend.

"It seems that you gained a lot in school!" Shisui smiled and said while reaching out and patting Itachi on the shoulder.

"Why do you think so?" Itachi was confused.

"Although you were ignorant in the past, you were also pure. You were never confused during practice, but now you are absent-minded..."

As he said that, Shisui pretended to be surprised, "Did he meet a girl he likes at school?"

"..."

Itachi didn't answer.

"Did you hit the mark?"

Shishui widened his eyes.

Itachi still didn't answer, just looked at him quietly.

"Cough cough..."

Zhisui made a fist with his left hand, put it to his mouth and coughed lightly. He changed his expression and said seriously: "Okay, okay, no more fun. What happened to make you so absent-minded."

"Going to school this morning..."

Itachi told what happened today.

"I see."

Shisui suddenly realized, "People do care about their own shortcomings. If they know that they have any shortcomings, they will definitely take the trouble to know."

"Is that so?"

Itachi seemed to understand, "However, I am really confused about that sentence. What on earth do I not understand?"

"What he said before."

"Ok?"

"It's the sentence about people having complex emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and joy." Zhisui pointed out: "The reason why he was angry was not that your bowing when apologizing was not standard, but that it was too standard, so that it made people feel that it was just a formality. Not sincere."

"Is that right?"

Itachi didn't understand.

I obviously used the most standard etiquette to apologize, but why was it considered to be insincere?

"I guess you have always had a blank expression and a stiff tone when you apologized, just like your father." Shisui said with a smile.

"how do you know?"

"Guess."

Zhisui smiled, and then said seriously: "Listen, Itachi. The so-called etiquette is the mutual respect between people. But the so-called respect is not reflected in etiquette, but also in the heart. And the most difficult thing to reflect is the heart. It’s the expression and the tone.”

"..."

Itachi didn't answer.

He knows all this. But he felt that he was just a classmate he met, and he did sincerely apologize.

"You are still as domineering as ever!" Zhisui commented.