[Naruto] To the underworld

"Ah, how far is it yet... I don't want to leave..."

The girl raised her bamboo hat slightly. No matter whether she looked forward or backward, left or right, she saw an endless sea of ​​sand. After getting off the clay bird, the three of them had been walking for most of the day. The girl was not used to the desert environment. The air was too dry. Even though she was wearing a hat, the sun still burned her face and made her throat smoke. The wind blew sand all over her body, and the fine sand got into her hair and clothes. In my bag, in my bag...it's almost everywhere. The girl asked Xie for a towel to wrap her mouth and nose, but she still felt that sand would seep into it.

"Be patient, in the desert, we just need to follow Uncle Scorpion and listen to him, okay." Deidara seemed to have followed Scorpion to the Kingdom of Wind several times and was already familiar with this environment, so he comforted the girl.

"I'm not a ninja. I can't bear it anymore...Uncle Scorpion, where are we going?" the girl asked weakly.

"An oasis." Xie glanced at the little girl with a droopy head, stretched out his puppet arm from under Fei Liuhu's coat and handed her a water bag, "Replenish some water, and we'll be gone in about an hour's walk. We can see a rocky mountain, where we can rest for the night.”

"We still have to walk for an hour..." The girl wailed, and if the ground wasn't covered with hot sand, she would have just lay down on the spot. Considering that Deidara was a boy only four years older than her, it was very hard to walk for such a long time. After drinking the water, she bent down and looked at the figure who was hidden among the hunched-backed puppets and was not walking on his own. You looked pitiful and said, "Uncle Scorpion, can you carry me on your back?"

Xie felt that the little girl kidnapped from the undead duo was challenging his little patience every day, and no matter in terms of her companion status or utilization value, he had nothing to do with her. In comparison, Deidara was so good. It's impossible to carry her back. Once she gets her way, this guy will take advantage of her. But he was also afraid that she would continue to make noise, so he stretched out Fei Liuhu's long tail, tied her up and held her up behind him. Before the girl could protest, he blocked her and said, "If you make any more noise, I'll throw you on the sand and drag you away."

The girl silenced in frustration, and Deidara chuckled secretly.

The stone mountain Xie mentioned is a huge monolithic rock, about 2 kilometers long and more than 300 meters high. It stands very majestic and majestic in the desolate desert. A small part of it has been chipped away by the harsh sun and wind and sand. Turned into dust.

Xie found a cave and put the girl down. Deidara found a lot of hay and built a fire. He and the girl ate dry food that night, but fortunately the girl had special abilities and brought fruit seeds. It was rare for him to nibble on sweet and juicy food here and now. watermelon. However, the girl was a little frustrated. The pack of chocolate candy balls she brought deformed and melted due to the high temperature, losing its original taste.

The night in the desert was quite cold. Xie took two blankets from the storage scroll and gave one to each of the boys and girls. Deidara sat down to rest, but the girl accidentally discovered a scorpion and teased it with a piece of hay.

This auburn scorpion was not happy with the stranger coming to his territory, and was bullied by the girl. He angrily raised his pincers and raised his scorpion tail to threaten and even attack, but he was unable to hurt her at all. He was so angry that he shut up. Stop talking to her at every turn.

The girl clapped her hands with satisfaction, "I can't beat the big one, but the small one is not bad either."

Regarding her childish behavior, Xia could only sneer silently.

The girl also asked Deidara to go out and watch the stars. Although Deidara had already admired the beauty of the desert starry sky, seeing that she was in high spirits, he still wrapped a blanket and watched with her for a while.

Looking up in the empty desert, the entire sky looks like a sea of ​​stars. The bright stars are as dense as diamonds in the night, flowing to the distant horizon.

"Brother Deidara, does he know what Uncle Scorpion is going to do in that oasis?" The girl asked, sitting on a raised rock on the hill, dangling her legs.

Deidara shook his head, "He didn't tell me in detail. I only know that after receiving information from his subordinates lurking in Sunagakure Village, he suddenly wanted to go and said that he would take you with him. .Since it requires your ability, maybe it has something to do with plants, hmm."

Recalling the question that Xie asked in the valley before, the girl guessed: "Could it be that he wants me to resurrect some kind of dead plant? No, I told him that it can't be done... Could it be that he is about to die?"

"Why don't you just ask him?" Deidara held his chin and said, "Uncle Scorpion is kind to you, okay."

"Brother Deidara, do you have any misunderstanding about the word "kindness"? Uncle Scorpion is very cruel to me. I don't dare to ask. I always feel that he has become a bit strange after entering the desert. Look, he is now nesting in a cave. I don't know what I'm thinking..." As the girl was talking, she suddenly saw a light flashing away from the horizon. She couldn't help but pulled Deidara and shouted, "Look, the beauty of the moment!"

"An explosion is the beauty of an instant. It disappears quietly like this. It's not much of an art, huh." Deidara responded disapprovingly.

"I think it's wonderful to be able to break the silence and bring about a change and leave a shadow in people's minds." The girl said softly, with a little nostalgia in her eyes.

Meteor...Meteor Street...Grandma...

Although staying in this world can isolate people she doesn't want to see and have relationships with, she still wants to go back.

In the middle of the night, while she was sleeping soundly, the girl vaguely felt someone walking beside her. She opened her eyes hazily and looked around in the faint light of the fire. She saw Deidara and the short figure near him, thinking that she was there. He was probably dreaming and fell asleep again.

In the early morning of the next day, when the blood-red morning glow filled the sky, the three of them left the stone mountain and continued their trek in the desert.

There was still a clear blue sky and blazing sunshine. The girl gave birth to an oversized leaf and used it as a parasol on her head. The feeling of being dragged along by Fei Liuhu's tail yesterday was not pleasant, so she followed them on foot this time.

"It would be great if Uncle Kisame was here."

The girl drank several times of water, but she still felt it was too dry. She missed the great water escape master in the organization.

"Why, you want to use his water escape ninjutsu to create a lake to swim in, huh?"

Deidara was invited by Junan Group and Scorpion to join Akatsuki. On the way to the organization, Deidara encountered a team of bounty ninjas, and thus saw Kisame's water escape ninjutsu, the "exploding water wave" move. He was impressed that it could spit out a large amount of water at once, enough to form a lake.

"No, I just want to stay soaked in the water ball formed by the Water Prison Technique and let him move with it." The girl fantasized about the scene and sighed lightly. This is just a fantasy.

It was obviously a confinement technique that made the enemy unable to breathe, but the little girl thought of using it to cool down and moisturize. However, given that she could sleep at the bottom of the lake for several days, Deidara didn't find it strange.

"Little girl, if you persist a little longer, we will reach the oasis tonight. There are at least three outposts set up by Sunagakure near the route we take. That's why I didn't let Deidara use the clay bird and waited until the right one. We'll take the empty road." Xie suddenly said.

Scorpion kept his word. After bypassing a pink salt lake in the afternoon, he asked Deidara to release the giant clay bird again and fly all the way northwest.

Seeing the girl lying on the bird's back and rubbing contentedly, Deidara smiled and said, "You really look like a kitten like this, huh."

The silver-haired kitten was refreshed and interested in overlooking the desert from the air. The golden color is like wrinkled velvet cloth, layered one on top of another, occasionally decorated with a clear spring and scattered green plants. For desert plants she has never seen before, she will ask the scorpions around her for advice.

Scorpion informed them one by one, occasionally reminding Deidara to change his flight direction.

As the night slowly fell and the number of stars gradually increased, the three finally arrived at the desert oasis that Xion was looking for.

There is a natural blue lake at the center, with green trees on the lakeside and winding sand hills around it.

Scorpion observed it, walked towards the tallest tree, and then dug out a sealed box from the bottom of the root of the tree next to it. After the box was opened, what appeared in front of the three people was a scroll and two seeds.

The girl got Scorpion's permission and picked up the seeds and looked at them carefully.

Small and light, with a smooth surface and a rare dark golden color.

"This should be... lotus seeds, right?" She confirmed to Xie.

"Well, it's the seed of the Red Flame Golden Lotus." Xie opened the scroll and glanced at it. After a moment of silence, he told the girl why he brought her here.

"This red flame golden lotus was first discovered by my parents. It only grows in the lakes of this oasis. It is crimson when it blooms, and its seeds are golden. It has a special purpose. Sand Hidden Village has been carefully guarding it. I wanted to transplant this kind of lotus to other places, but it never succeeded... What's worse, the lotus in the lake grew fewer and fewer, and finally disappeared completely. Three months ago, the people of Sunagakure Village discovered the black market Someone was selling lotus seeds from the Red Flame Golden Lotus, bought them back at a high price, and conducted germination experiments in the village. Later, they even came to this oasis to cultivate them, but they all failed." Xie paused and looked at the girl, "These two seeds , my subordinates kept it secretly, little girl, you can try and see if you can make it sprout and bloom."

"Uncle Scorpion has asked me, so I will go all out to do it." The girl held the lotus seeds in the palm of her hand, "But as I said before, my ability can only inject vitality into living plants and promote their growth. Dead plants cannot work... I just felt it, and unfortunately, the internal structure of these two seeds was broken and damaged, and they are already dead. There is really nothing I can do."

Of course, she still injected her mind power into the lotus seeds. As time passed by, there was indeed no change in the two seeds.

Xie stared at Lianzi for a long time.

Scorpio's emotions could not be seen from Fei Liuhu's righteous eyes, but both the girl and Deidara felt that he seemed a little disappointed.

"Forget it, that's it... sleep here for one night, and we'll go back tomorrow morning." Xie said hoarsely, turned around and walked away slowly.