Naruto's two-color pupils

Chapter 25 Those Lonely Children

At first, I believed that Ze Ren would have no problem, because I knew that he was strong and calm in situations.I even thought about going back first.But when I thought about it later, I began to suspect that he had gone to another place, and I felt that the most uneasy thing about him was that he was too playful.So, I decided to find him first.

The wind wasn't very strong, but there was still a lot of sand flying around, splashing me all over.I covered my eyes with my hands and walked hard in the sand. The sand kept making my feet sink downwards.I coughed and felt uncomfortable in my throat.

After about 5 minutes, I still didn't see him.So I had to open my eyes and look for him everywhere.Finally, luckily, I found him on the other side of the village, but unfortunately he was far away from me.He lay quietly on the ground, motionless.I slowed down for a moment, then concentrated my chakra, wrapped it around my feet, and then ran over quickly on the sand.This makes my body much lighter, my feet will no longer sink into the sand pit, and it also avoids the possibility of falling into quicksand.The Kingdom of Wind at night is very dangerous.

When I came to him, I had already opened my eyes.He lay there with his arms outstretched and his head upward.At first I thought he had his eyes open, but then I realized that what I was seeing were actually red marks under his eyes.He also had a red mark on each side of his eyebrows, which looked strange, but I never asked him about it.

I was a little nervous, so I knelt down next to him and patted his shoulder gently.

He exhaled immediately, then sighed, and finally yawned.

"Hinata...um..." He opened his eyes, and it didn't look like he was sleeping before.

"Ze Ren, what are you doing...?"

"I don't know, I'm so tired... I don't want to go home." He said, his eyes empty and dim, like dim green light bulbs, "I really don't want to."

I did not speak.

"Hinata, you should go back first. Leave me alone." He said stubbornly.

"What should I do if the wind gets strong?" I said.

"I'm not afraid of the wind."

"What if the giant scorpion comes?" I asked again.Giant scorpions are dangerous creatures that often appear in the Kingdom of Wind at night. They are almost as big as a building, have a very hard shell, and have three tails with poisonous needles.I saw it firsthand when I was a kid.

"I'm not afraid of low-level creatures either." He replied coldly.

I almost felt like I couldn't persuade him anymore, but I still persisted: "What about Pan Youlang? Pan Youlang."

He was silent, and I saw him slowly closing his eyes.

"We'll talk about it tomorrow." He finally answered my serious question lazily.

I paused and said, "What are you thinking about?"

"I was thinking... you wouldn't understand."

"What don't I understand?" I was a little unhappy, feeling that Zeren looked down on me too much.

"There are a lot of things you don't understand," he said.

"If your age can understand something, I can understand it," I said.

He still lay in the same position, blinking. "There is no one in my family. No one will ever wait for me at home, no one will ever blame me for doing something wrong, and no one will ever praise or encourage me for my progress." Then, He sighed, "I have nothing but this empty body. The meaning of my existence is just to help the country kill the people they want me to kill. There is no one else in my destiny."

"That's just for now," I said, disgusted by the idea of ​​him giving up on himself. "Don't you have a future?"

"My future is probably like this..."

"You said it, you said it...as if you were an unfortunate person." I got angry. "How empty is your spirit? Don't you have any friends? If not, why do you pretend to be happy? You look like that? Don’t you know how to express it? This is the first time I’ve seen someone like you..."

"It's also the first time for me," his tone was strangely calm and soothing, "to meet someone like you. Now that you've asked me, what are you like?"

"I'm different from you. I have parents, brothers, and friends. My father has lived in the Country of Fire for many years and never returned to the Country of Wind for several years. My mother has cancer and is in the hospital. My brother usually also We all live in the Country of Fire. Here," my voice trembled, the wind blew across our faces, "here, in my home, after all, there are only me and my brother..."

He suddenly laughed, "So you show a painful look, do you want others to know?"

I was stunned.

"In the end, we are similar. The only difference between us is that one of us smiles at the false, and the other is cold at the truth," he said.

"Why are you saying these things at this time?" I asked him.

"That's because you spoke first, but I don't want to go back."

"I thought you wanted to die here." I said bluntly with a sarcastic tone, but of course I didn't think so.

He didn't feel unhappy, but smiled: "We are considered close friends, right?"

"No," I replied flatly, "your ideas and mine are completely different."

"But we are facing similar problems."

"Yeah." I agreed.

"Then, I can share my happiness with you, on condition that you share the pain with me." He said.

My eyes are wet.

I never thought that there would be such a person in the world... Zeren, you are really the first person like this that I have ever seen...

"Hinata."

"Huh?" I reached out and wiped my eyes.

"Don't tell anyone about Pan Youlang, especially Hideki and the others."

"why?"

"That will cause panic, and other countries will try to get this talent from Kazekage. Because of this, wars between countries are easy to happen. Although the five major countries are in peaceful times, after all, there are other small countries Existence will involve a lot of troublesome things. Therefore, don’t tell this matter, especially ‘Pan Youlang is a man who can control time’.”

"But I think I should tell my superiors."

"I will report this matter specifically to Lord Kazekage as an assassin," he stretched out his hand to help his hair blocking his eyes, "and I have collected enough evidence and data."

"What evidence?" I didn't see what he did at all.

"Photos, and some real objects - lake water, soil, etc." His face once again showed that ferocious smile, which looked very strange.

I nodded.

"So," he returned to the previous topic, "you'd better go back first. If you don't want to see the giant scorpion

. "He imitated me.

I frowned, then smiled: "Okay, if I leave first, I really won't care about you."

"Ah," he said haughtily, "can you take care of me?"

"Then I'm leaving." I believe this is the last time I say it. I have said it twice.Although I felt very uncomfortable with what he said before, I also knew that he was not malicious. Zeren just had some problems in some aspects, and these problems could not be changed.

I left, the wind was blowing my clothes, and the sand was flying in the air, making a subtle "rustling" sound.After taking a few steps, I couldn't help but turn my head and look back, in the direction where Zeren was.It's too black. The sky in the real film has been shrouded in twilight, and almost nothing can be seen within 1 meter.It's still very dangerous when visibility is so low.Fortunately, there is a very bright light in Feng Ying's office, which can be seen clearly from a distance. It is like a lighthouse, pointing the way to those who are lost.

I walked along the hazy light, raising my arms to try to block the sand that was about to be blown into my eyes by the wind.The wounds on the legs and arms no longer hurt, and the blood clots had formed a dark red shell-like substance on the skin.They make my skin itchy all the time.

As I trudged to the door of my house, I immediately thought of the cold expression I would see when Shuichi saw me.I couldn't help but shiver, and when I was about to open the door, I found that the key on my body was missing.I looked through a few of my pockets and thought for a moment that they might have been dropped in the lake.Now it was late.The knock on the door was too soft, and Shuichi probably wouldn't be able to hear it in the room; the knock on the door was too hard, and Ryuuta must have gone to bed by then, and would probably wake him up.I sighed. There was no way to wake her up. I couldn't climb through the window like Sa Ren did, so I just knocked on the door.

As a result, the moment my hand touched the doorknob, I realized that the doorknob was a gift and was not locked.I was shocked. In the past, no matter who was at home, they would lock the door while sleeping.Ryuuta and I have always maintained this habit, and this habit was taught to me by Shuichi. How could he forget it.But then I thought about it, and there were two possibilities - one was that he was looking for me outside, so he didn't lock the door; the second was that he thought I would come back, so he didn't lock the door.Of course, there are many possibilities, but I simply can’t bear to think about them.Yes, that's it.

I opened the door anxiously.The house is dark, the lights are turned off, and the furniture is placed according to common sense, no different from usual.I closed the door quietly and locked it subconsciously.I knew Shuichi was home because I saw his shoes at the door.

I took off my shoes and quietly walked into Shuichi's bedroom.He was still leaning against the wall behind the head of the bed, falling asleep in a sitting position with his head lowered and a small red-covered book in his hand.I walked up to him, but he didn't react at all, except that-I could hear the imperceptible breathing.I turned over the cover of the book. It was a modern novel with the two characters "Loneliness" embroidered on the cover. The author was a famous novelist named Shinji that Shuichi liked very much. I remember that he used to read this person's novels a lot. Book.I guessed he would wake up by then, so I hugged him subconsciously, his short hair touching my cheek.Then, I quietly left.

The next morning, I left a note on the desk in my room, jumped out of the window.The main reason is that I don’t want to see Shuichi’s dead face. If he sees me as soon as I get home, I will definitely give him a beating; if I meet him in the morning, he will definitely ask me to explain the day before with a straight face. It happened late; but it has changed after so long, and Shuichi prefers to leave notes to apologize. This is what I discovered after observing him for many years.

I also looked at Long Tai before leaving, and he once again kicked all the quilts under the bed.And when I got closer to him, I saw he had a sock on his left foot.It's really interesting that some people still wear socks when sleeping, and only wear one sock.On a hot day, I don’t even wear socks in the morning.

I came all the way to the border area of ​​Sunagakure Village.A high platform with a row of marble railings reflecting the sunlight.Above is the blue sky without clouds, below is the sandy slope vertically downward for several meters, in the distance is the vast yellow sand field, and under the feet is the ground paved with stones.This platform is for those who are lonely, have nothing to do, or are thinking about life.They are here, but they abandon their worries and think about nothing. They just stare at their hometown - the desert, which is their hometown.

However, I don't belong to the above 3 people.Or maybe I am one of those lonely people, just because I have no friends to whom I can express my concerns.

There are seats for people next to them, but I don't want to sit down.I stood there, leaning on the marble railing, looking at the golden desert.When the warm wind blows, the desert seems to tremble together, like golden waves lapping and undulating, and like waves of wheat rolling in the fields, which is spectacular.I sighed and leaned on the railing.

I have never tasted real pain, because I live in a peaceful era, a peaceful empire, a peaceful village...Excluding the reasons caused by the family or myself, there is almost nothing that can give a 10-year-old The child brings so-called pain.For people of this age group, the only pain they can express is that they are under a lot of pressure, their teammates are too strong and they appear weak, and it is difficult to become stronger no matter how hard they try... That's probably it. It seems that there is no real pain in the world.All I tasted was loneliness.

A long time ago, I spent some time in the Land of Fire.At that time, I made a friend named Caspian.He is an open-minded and sincere boy who comes from an orphanage.At that time, I often played in the orphanage and sometimes helped the people there with some work, so they all knew me.I heard from an adult girl who was working that Caspian was abandoned by his parents.Caspian's parents were superstitious, she said.His father saw a python the day his mother gave birth to him, killed the snake and dug out a naked boy from its belly.His father thought this was a warning from God, so he "wisely" chose to hand him over to an orphanage.

At first, I felt sorry for Caspian, saying that his parents were too superstitious.But he laughed and said that his parents did not really want to abandon him, but some people instilled some negative energy ideas in them.He is a sunny and cheerful boy, he is 2 years older than me.We haven't seen each other for many years, because I returned to the Kingdom of Wind a month later.

On the way to the Kingdom of Wind, we happened to encounter a caravan that was about to pass through the Kingdom of Wind.I also met the son of the caravan administrator. He was a very smart boy and was as good at "business" as his father.But he was still very young at that time, and the so-called "business" was just selling chocolates to us kids who could get a little pocket money.I can no longer remember his name. I can only vaguely recall that his name contained the word "Wu", which was the last word of his name.

Later, the friends I met were Shirakawa and Hideki.It's been just these two partners for a while.At that time, we often got together, sometimes eating ice cream together, sometimes playing football.At that time, we could only meet once every 4 or 5 days because they had to go to school, and I was not in school at that time.The weird thing is, I vaguely remember that we didn't play very well at that time.It was only when I was in school that I learned Bai Chuan's name.

However, after meeting them for 2 or 3 weeks, I started to go to ninja school like others.After I went to school, I didn’t have many friends.Hideki is in Class A, and my only friend is Shirakawa.

The head teacher knew that I only knew Bai Chuan in the class, so he moved me next to Bai Chuan.It was because of this that Yu Mo held a grudge against me. It was because she was sitting next to Bai Chuan.All I can say is, it's not my fault.

Perhaps, I have some companions now - Sa Ren, Mu, Ji... But I still feel empty inside.My heart is still empty.

The wind picked up, and my hair was blowing on my face, as if dancing in the air currents.The yellow sand is still yellow sand, the hills are still hills, the village is still a village, and I am still me - the lonely me.I held my hair with my hands and was suddenly startled. I turned around - no one was there.

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