Naruto: Immortal Spirit

Light is only a brief moment, darkness is the ultimate eternity.

But it is this short and fleeting light that gives birth to hope in the heart. All those who awaken from the darkness are destined to spend their lives looking for light.

There didn't seem to be much change in the laboratory in Ryūchi Cave. Kato Ou couldn't remember the last time he came here.

But the familiar darkness and coldness gave him an inexplicable and contradictory sense of comfort, as if he was safe only here.

"Writing wheel eye..."

Orochimaru slowly took out a scroll from the corner of the research table. Kato O took it and unsealed it. The sealed scroll disappeared in a cloud of smoke, leaving only several scrolls soaked in green on the research table. Eyeball in liquid.

The scarlet eyes are as magnificent as rubies, suspended in the nutrient solution, constantly rising and falling.The eyes, which were slightly bloodshot and covered with optic nerve veins, reflected Kato Oo's figure, which seemed a bit inexplicable and strange in the dim Ryūchi Cave.

A cold feeling emerged in Kato Oo's perception, making him frown.

"One triple magatama, two double magatama, five single magatama..."

"I think it should be enough for Xujun to study..."

Kato Ou didn't know where Orochimaru got so many Sharingan eyes. As far as he knew, the Uchiha family's Sharingan eyes had never been spread to outsiders, and it was almost never heard of other people transplanting the Uchiha family's Sharingan eyes. The Sharingan.

"If I remember correctly, there seems to be a member of the Uchiha family in Xu-kun's team..."

"It seems to be called... Uchiha Obito?"

Raising his eyes slightly, Kato Ou didn't know why Orochimaru mentioned him at this time.

"Xujun probably hasn't left the laboratory these days... maybe you will have a big 'surprise'..."

"If it's Danzo's mission, even I have to praise Xujun for doing a great job. This little guy is digging deep in the ground to find you..."

"idiot……"

A trace of complexity flashed in Kato O's eyes. He looked at the Sharingan in his hand. He didn't know what he thought of, but he just put the material in his hand aside in silence.

"Teacher Orochimaru, I need to go back to Konoha..."

"Interesting, it's so interesting. I haven't seen such an interesting thing for a long time... Don't worry, Xujun, let me guess first..."

Orochimaru chuckled, quite interested.

"Ou-kun seems to have become the person in the Minato team who is similar to Kakashi and needs to be saved..."

"It seems that Xujun is very smart, and even knows the hot-blooded idiots of Konoha very well... Playing a person who needs to be saved will make these idiots swarm in, shouting about salvation..."

“If you can’t do anything in the end, you can pretend to be moved by friendship or some other bond, and let the past sins be wiped out in a heart-shaking moment.

Even if you are defeated, they will even feel some pity for you and spare your life. "

"I have to say, Xujun is the smartest child I have ever seen..."

Orochimaru's words seemed to touch the deepest secret hidden in Kato Oo's heart.

He did think so, even if it was only for a moment.

Looking at Orochimaru's cold eyes with a hint of joking, Kato Oo first felt that the most terrifying thing in the entire Konoha Village was not the roots, not Shimura Danzo, or even Sarutobi Hiruzen's Will of Fire, but It was Orochimaru in front of him who seemed to understand all his thoughts...

Orochimaru's eyes were as cold as ever, but when he saw Kato Oo, who seemed to have heard what he was talking about, his eyes widened with disbelief, and there was a hint of inexplicable ridicule.

"Is it possible that Kato-kun, who is in the dark, is really tempted by such a bond..."

"I have no idea……"

"But I don't want to kill them, if there are other options..."

"Hmph, ridiculous..."

"Only those who cut off all ties are qualified to obtain eternal life. Mr. Xu, do you understand this truth..."

As if he was persuading Kato Oo, and as if he was convincing himself, Orochimaru, who saw Kato Oo struggling with most of his body immersed in the shadow, slightly pursed his lips, but remained silent, with a faint light in his eyes. Waiting for his answer.

The research room of Longdi Cave seemed to have entered the endless netherworld. Deathly silence filled the entire space. Only the turbid water in an unknown place echoed along with the sound of dripping stone milk.

The night brings darkness and spreads over this land fairly, but it only crushes the weak and helpless ones.

Kato Oo's low voice seemed to be just whispering to himself, but it gradually drowned out the sound of Shui Luo.

"Teacher Orochimaru...do you know..."

"I have always longed for someone who could hold on to me through the years of sinking, not allowing me to fall, not allowing me to sink, not allowing me to drift with the crowd, not allowing me to just sleep..."

"But...I can't find..."

"Uncle Yuan, the only one who was really good to me, was getting thinner and older while waiting for me to come home. I didn't even see him for the last time until my death...

He just grew old, quietly and with regret, on an unknown winter day and throughout the season..."

"Sometimes, I don't know what the meaning of my life is, it seems like I'm just living..."

"So, in my spare time, I began to think more deeply about the meaning of life..."

"Gradually, I understood a truth..."

Kato O's eyes suddenly became sharp, as if they were about to pierce the deep underground and overturn the entire world.

"In this ninja world, people are born every day, and people die every day. But from ancient times to the present, and until the world is reunited in the future, there is only one Kato Ou!"

"I want to live, I have to live forever!"

"But I can't just live... I want to live and then change this world into what I want!"

"And a true king doesn't need anyone else's rescue!"

His voice paused, and he looked at Orochimaru, who was staring at him with strange eyes. His eyes seemed to be through the Ryūchi Cave hidden in an unknown place, and he was flying towards an unknown distance...

"It's just that the world I want always needs some bright flowers. If they are there, it might be more beautiful..."

What echoed in Ryūchi Cave was Kato O's voice, which seemed to penetrate the entire underground and resound throughout the entire space.

"What an amazing speech..."

Orochimaru looked at Kato Oo deeply, as if he had never been serious before, and there was an indescribable complexity in his eyes. It seemed that he no longer regarded Kato Oo as a child, but began to look at him seriously.

"Teacher Orochimaru, are you ready to completely cut off your bonds?"

"However, compared to me, Orochimaru-sensei is probably more bound..."

Kato Ou tightened his hood, as if he could only speak freely in front of Orochimaru. In front of this man who had almost completely figured out his thoughts, he was not prepared to hide anything, and had nothing to hide.

However, he also roughly understood what Orochimaru's complex emotions contained.

"As expected of you, Mr. Xu... This is what I appreciate most about you - you are smart enough. Compared with you, even my best subordinates are much inferior."

"It's a pity that Kato-kun, who considers himself a king, now... seems not strong enough..."

I don't know what he thought of, but a strange expression appeared on Orochimaru's face, with a bit of joking. He looked at Kato Oo who had returned to indifference, and just smiled softly, as if he didn't care about Kato Oo's words at all.

"Xu-kun, if you want to use such words to get my help, you are really naive. If Danzo's curse seal can be broken so easily, the roots will no longer exist..."

"I can help you complete the reincarnation... However, my time may be running out..."

Kato Oo looked at Orochimaru seriously.

"Minato is not such a simple person, and Flying Thunder God is not a simple ninjutsu that can be restrained. Danzo's subordinates alone cannot develop it that easily."

"Compared to you, that guy Beiliuhu... is so far behind..."

"However, if that's the case, I don't mind providing a little help after the operation is completed..."

Orochimaru chuckled and stopped talking, and the entire Ryūchi Cave seemed to have fallen into silence again. Only the faint footsteps of the two people busy in front of the experimental table could be heard.

The night gradually deepened, and the two returned to Konoha Village quietly.

After taking a deep look at Orochimaru, Kato Oo walked into the jungle in silence.

In the thick night, Kato Oo walked slowly, like a black tulip. In the silent darkness, he showed his brilliance for the first time - shining, continuous with the night, reaching the sky.

But Orochimaru was the only one who was lucky enough to witness Konoha under the stars.

Seeing Kato Ou's back slowly moving away into the darkness, he suddenly came back to his senses. His lowered eyebrows could not be clearly seen, but there was an inexplicable sound in the silent jungle.

"Flowers that decorate the world...it's really a wonderful description...but, Xujun, you're a little too immature..."

Shaking his head slightly, Orochimaru seemed to have thought of something funny, and the corner of Orochimaru's mouth slightly raised a smile.

"Shimura Danzo...haha, it's so ridiculous..."

Light is sometimes vulnerable to the evil of the world, but the truly strong, walking out of the darkness, still return light to the world - just in their own way...