[Naruto] Survival Records of the Warring States Period

People can still live behind the bookstore.

But the boss doesn't usually live in the store, so the occupied room is used to pile up sundries.

You quickly cleaned the room while it was still dark. You didn't know if it was because there was too much dust. After cleaning, you still felt your nose was itchy. When you came out, you saw Nyanosuke lying quietly in the corner of the counter with fluffy body. With long hair, he couldn't help turning his head and sneezed.

Damn it, you won’t catch a cold tomorrow after just one night, right?

You don’t want to think too deeply about the costs and cure rates of getting sick with a cold in this day and age.

Today, my mother came much later than in the past few days, and her face had a look of worry that had disappeared for a long time.

"I bought some food today and stored it at home... Then I will come to deliver food to Xiaoxue tomorrow morning," your mother touched your head and talked to you for a while about the soaring food prices in less than a day. I remind you, "Close the doors and windows, be careful of lights, and don't go out."

You responded one by one, sent away your mother who turned around every time, prepared to close the store, and took the keys to lock the cabinets one by one.

I don’t know if the news of the frontline’s defeat has spread. You feel that the pedestrians on the streets that used to seem a bit bustling are in a hurry.

Nyanosuke follows you in circles too nimbly, with a leisurely expression, and cannot understand the worries and fears that humans face when facing war.

After almost falling down again to avoid stepping on the cat, you had no choice but to pick it up, but your anger subsided again after looking into its innocent eyes, and you were dejected: "I wish I was a cat too. What do you think?" Woolen cloth?"

Nyanosuke can't speak human words, it tilts its head and looks at you as if it's pretending to be stupid.

You completely compromised: "Forget it, what did I tell you, silly cat!"

The silly cat hit you in the face with its cat fist.

You squealed and loosened your grip. Nyanosuke jumped out of your arms and stood proudly on the counter, narrowing his eyes.

You didn't know for a moment whether the cat did it on purpose. You frowned and stared at the cat for a while, then went back to business.

Before he had even taken two steps, Nyonosuke stepped forward to cause trouble again.

you:"……"

You can tell, based on Nyanosuke's past behavior, Nyanosuke is just walking you.

You stared at it angrily and threatened: "If you make trouble again, I will give you a nice shave."

Nyanosuke's cat face showed a look of disdain, as if he had decided that you wouldn't dare do bad things to your boss's cat - your bread and butter - and he was so angry that you could do nothing.

Damn it, the boss is the only one who can suppress Nyanosuke!

Just as you were performing the farce of early cats domesticating humans, there were several noises at the store door.

When you heard the sound and looked over, you saw a man in white clothes wearing a training suit, with a black gauze hat on his head, and you couldn't see his face clearly.

Standing sideways outside the door was a girl who also wore a city girl's hat to hide her face. The dress she wore was exquisite and gorgeous, not something ordinary people could afford. She stopped there silently, as if waiting for the man at the door.

You stopped playing with Nyonosuke and looked at the guests at the door.

"The store is closed. Customers can come back tomorrow if they need anything." You said to the man with a business smile.

The man said nothing, looking at you through the black gauze under his hat, or rather looking at Nyanosuke at your feet.

You felt a little nervous under his silent gaze for no reason, or maybe you were afraid, and for a moment you had the urge to turn around and run away.

But you suppressed this impulse and pinched yourself hard. If there was really a danger, you would definitely not be able to outrun the opponent based on your age and physical ability.

"Guest?" you asked again.

The man in black veil seemed to have come back to his senses. His head moved slightly, and his voice was unexpectedly clear and young: "Is this cat yours?"

"Ah?" You seemed stunned for a moment by his question, and then said, "This is the owner's cat. How can I raise a small one?"

"White cats are very rare." He added.

You thought for a moment, moved your position slightly, blocked Nyanosuke, and said decisively: "It's very precious, but I won't sell it!"

"..."

He was silent for a moment, raised his hand to hold the hat, and nodded to you subtly: "I'm sorry, you misunderstood."

After the man in black veil finished speaking, he turned and left.

He left for a while and you didn't dare to move. It was Nyanosuke next to you who moved first and scratched your ankle with his tail.

You stare at it, deeply aware of its bullying and fear of the strong, and have a new understanding of the reason why it is usually so well-behaved in the hands of the boss.

After so many times, you are really tired, and at the same time you feel a deep sense of powerlessness.

From the moment the Fire Nation declared war, you have been passively accepting it all. Because this world is fought by ninjas, except for the economic impact you feel at the beginning, everything else seems far away from you.

Until now when the information from the front line comes, you suddenly have a real feeling that you are indeed in a war, and at the same time you feel more deeply the impact of this defeat on the people around you and your own life.

And you can only be helplessly trapped in the whirlpool of this war, praying that bad luck will not happen to you.

When will this war end?

Akira Shuichi wore a city girl's hat and walked slowly on the sparsely populated street. His eyes hidden under the gauze stared at the city that had begun to fill with an ominous atmosphere.

He knew the news about the Kingdom of Kawa earlier than others, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he still felt a bit sad about the place where he had lived for more than ten years.

"Have you finished asking?" Hearing the footsteps of the ninja who was protecting him, he raised his eyes and asked without looking back.

Hinata was half a step behind him, as taciturn as ever: "Yeah."

Akira Shuichi did not let go of this topic easily: "That reaction just now really scared me. Is it related to the injury on Shiba-kun's face?"

"Just an ordinary person." Hinata replied.

"Well, well, you don't need to be so nervous, She-kun. As long as you don't involve me in the grievances of the ninjas, I won't care about it." Even across the city girl's hat, he still smiled, even though the smile was not expressive. fundus.

As a hostage who had been living in a foreign country since childhood, he certainly did not have the money to hire ninjas to protect him. The money was provided by his aunt.

In fact, long before the Kingdom of Fire declared war on the Kingdom of Wind, he had already received several assassinations from other countries.

His mother was from the Country of Fire, and her mother's sister was married to the cousin of the Daimyo of the Country of Fire, Izumi Yoshimi. Since he was sent to the Country of Fire, he has been living in Izumi Yoshimi's mansion.

After receiving the news from the Kingdom of Sichuan, he had been planning to leave the Kingdom of Fire.

The Daimyo of the Land of Fire is getting older, and as he gets older, the monarch of the great country becomes more violent and eager for quick success.

Over the years, he has seen the king relegating his son who had a dispute with him to the border to serve as a national guard, and then regretting his actions after his son's death. I have also seen him change his orders day and night, putting important ministers in prison and executing them, and then personally going to prison to pardon them.

This attack on the Kingdom of Wind was made on a whim. He suddenly proposed it at the birthday banquet and executed it as quickly as the wind.

Even if he knew that this time the daimyo's mansion in the Kingdom of Kawa was occupied by ninjas from the Kingdom of Wind, and that the daimyo did not communicate with the ninjas hired by the Kingdom of Fire because of the other party's coercion, he was still worried that the daimyo of the Kingdom of Fire would suddenly behead him directly. Got him.

The Daimyo of the Fire Country could regret it afterwards and cry out that he was wrongly killed like his beloved son who died of an illness on the border, but he has not lived enough yet.

This time, under the cover of Hinata, he disguised himself as a maid in the city to say goodbye to his fiancée, Princess Shizuko, and happened to bump into her on the way out. Fortunately, the other party was probably still thinking about the battle report from the front line and did not find him, but he also doubted whether he had been marked as certain to die in the other party's heart.

When he returned to the mansion, he noticed the overt or covert surveillance near the mansion, and sighed in his heart that it was indeed the case.

"Where have you been?" As soon as he changed his clothes, the uncle who had watched him grow up came to him with an extremely ugly look on his face.

Akira Shuichi was quiet for a moment, then leaned over to apologize very wisely: "I went to the market for a while."

In fact, the fact that he came back in women's clothing could not be hidden from the other party's eyes and ears, and there was no need to wear women's clothing when going to the market.

The sharp and scrutinizing eyes fell on the top of his head, as if they wanted to see into his heart. Finally, he heard Izumi Yoshimi ignore the question and asked: "Do you want to leave the Country of Fire or stay."

"I have been away from home for several years, so I naturally miss my mother." He replied tactfully.

"That's fine... come in." Izumi Yoshimi suddenly raised his voice. As he finished speaking, a man dressed as an ordinary businessman walked in and saluted him respectfully.

"I, Shimizu Satoshi, am just a bookseller. I am willing to do my best for His Highness when he returns home."

Izumi Yoshimi: "..."

"This is a ninja from the Snow Clan. He was favored by me back then and he will protect you when you return home." Izumi Yoshimi explained.

"This is really... hard to see," Akira Shuichi stared blankly at Shimizu Satoshi, who was ordinary and had no ninja appearance at all. He suddenly felt the sudden murderous aura on Hinata Wataru on the other side and realized something.

The corners of his lips curled up, he looked at the two of them, and said with interest, "Huh? So we are old acquaintances? It seems I don't need an introduction?"

After closing the store, you finally started reading the Fire Nation history book you planned to read at the beginning.

Fire Nation history began hundreds of years ago.

Nearly a thousand years ago, with the help of the goddess Uno, the country that unified the ninja world gradually became turbulent with the emergence of the ninja profession, and finally split into large and small countries. These countries annexed and merged with each other, and then in about five hundred years Around 20 years ago, the original Fire Nation appeared.

You discovered something strange.

From a certain point in time, in the war on the Ninja Continent, the concept of "destroying the country" seemed to disappear.

During the Warring States Period, which lasted for hundreds of years, no matter whether it was a big country or a small country, it was always the same. They were at war and peace, and their borders were always changing, but the phenomenon of one country annexing another country no longer occurred.

There have been several times in the history of the Fire Nation that had the opportunity to carve up a certain country's territory with other countries, but in the end they ended up collecting some compensation in a small way.

Similarly, the Fire Nation also faced the danger of national subjugation several times, but in the end it still retained the name of a country at the cost of paying compensation.

This is very strange. How can you not eat the meat that reaches your mouth?

Unless this piece of meat is still being stared at by a more dangerous enemy.

——Something flashed through your mind quickly, but you didn’t catch anything.