Naruto: Immortal Spirit

"How does it feel to lose a good friend?"

"It depends on what kind of good friend you are..."

"That's the kind of person who might accompany you for the rest of your life, might have two children with you, and then live in a small but cozy little house. The door of the house is full of little light yellow flowers that she planted by herself."

"The two little guys who called you daddy chased the kitten one after another. Occasionally they fell over and rolled on the ground, and then they were covered with the fragrance of flowers..."

"She is also so gentle that she lies beside you, making you feel how your life is full of beauty and sunshine..."

Listening to the voice of the strange man in front of him, Kato Ou couldn't help but simulate a warm scene in his mind. For some reason, the first male protagonist in his mind was not himself, but a specious golden figure.

"Yes, you also thought of him..."

The man whose facial features could not be seen clearly paced gently without making any more noise. The sky he looked up at was blue. It was one of the few good weather days in Kirigakure Village.

"Who are you?"

On the streets of Kirigakure, there was an endless stream of pedestrians coming and going. In such a rare good weather, even in the middle of a war, it seemed as if the gloom had been swept away, and there was a bit more smiles on their faces.

As the man walked slowly on the road, Kato Oo cheered up and frowned deeply because the man in front of him made him feel uncomfortable for no reason.

And the most important thing is that he didn't feel any emotional fluctuations, as if...

A dead man!

"I..., I'm probably just a passerby..."

The man turned around and looked at Kato Oo, who was looking at him warily. A strange light flashed across his face. Kato Oo couldn't see his face clearly, but he clearly felt this expression, a kind of creepy illusion. It immediately hit him.

This person... is the scariest and weirdest person he has ever seen!

Under the blue sky, the two of them were walking among the hurried crowds, and their bodies were like air. Everyone's eyes were on their bodies, and their bodies avoided the place where they landed every step without leaving a trace.

The sky is vast, and the field of vision is like a cone of time. When Kato Ou falls behind the man, it is as if he has fallen outside the cone of time, with nothing to add to him.

Time passed by inches, and thousands of distances seemed to have passed by in a matter of seconds. After calming down the fear in his heart, Kato Oo frowned tightly and watched every change in this small world.

He clearly understood that this was definitely not an illusion, but he still couldn't accept the reality.

As if sensing Kato Oo's gradually calming down emotions, the man suddenly turned around. This was also the first time Kato Oo saw the man's eyes clearly. His deep eyes were as quiet as the sea - perhaps dead...

"Understood?"

"I don't understand..., I don't understand at all..."

"If you don't understand, just don't understand, that's fine..."

The man waved his hand gently, and Kato Oo disappeared on the street of Kirigakure as if he had never appeared before. Only the last figure of the man was left on the street. The ripples in the space gradually bloomed, and the figure slowly blended into it.

"I think you should finish some unfinished business for me..."

The man's eyes fell on the center of Kirigakure, and his whole body was gradually swallowed up by the space. The last eyes also had a strange light and completely disappeared.

And in the attic of the Terumi family in his eyes, the small bed where Terumi Mei used to rest during lunch, there was a man lying upright at some point. Terumi Mei, who was wearing light pajamas, seemed not to notice at all.

As if falling into a deep dream, the man's slight snoring kept coming.

……

About 30 years ago, in the ordinary countryside of the Land of Fire, Xu with a childish smile cheered amidst the endless waves of wheat.

Sitting next to him on the field ridge is a girl with a charming smile - Ming. Ming's family has only moved here a few years, but they have already completely integrated into this simple village.

"thread……"

Xu cheered in the waves of wheat, and Ming looked at him tenderly on the field ridge and gently called his name. This scene appeared in Xu's mind countless times.

To this day, it seems to have come true.

If the villagers around the lake hadn't looked at him with a look of "making trouble again", he would never have admitted that he was just using this method to attract girls' attention.

"Xu, you're causing trouble again!"

The rough-looking man slapped Xu on the head, extinguishing all his enthusiasm under the scorching sun that made him unable to speak.

Xu lowered his head and picked up the hoe, but still secretly looked at the woman resting on the ridge from time to time.

But what he didn't know was that whenever his eyes fell, the woman would secretly turn her head, pretending to be nonchalant, but she would glance at him quickly.

"Dad has found a match for you. I'll go to the girl's house in a while and let her parents meet her..."

Xu suddenly raised his head, with a touch of disbelief and inexplicable resistance in his heart. He just looked at his father's old face and Ming who had never said a word to him, and opened his mouth.

He knew that Ming was already married. A woman who was several years older than him and already married made him feel a faint feeling in his heart but he couldn't express it.

It seemed that he didn't know how his father responded at that time, but the days had already passed slowly to that day in his daze.

Both families were very satisfied, but Xu didn't know what to say. Even when her mother asked, she just responded indifferently.

"Probably...that's how it should be..."

Looking at the woman who was neither ugly nor beautiful, Xu forcefully forced out a smile in the silence.

When getting along with a woman, she is silent, and so is he.

The days passed quickly, but Xu became a bit taciturn when he returned from the woman's house.He no longer cheered in the wheat fields, but just worked hard.

Hot sweat dripped onto the hot loess under the hot sunlight, but he didn't know why, but Xu always felt as if an eternal piece of ice was embedded in his body.

He didn't even dare to look up at the woman again, but he felt like a betrayer - even though the woman hadn't even spoken to him a few times.

Everyone said that he had grown up, and he seemed to have really grown up, smiling silently.

"Ming, I am Xu, and I invite you to my wedding..."

The woman standing quietly under the tree seemed to have an unbreakable sadness in her heart. She probably understood that it might be her failed relationship.

For the first time, he looked squarely into a woman's eyes. He had imagined his first official encounter with a woman countless times, but he had never imagined such a scene.

"thanks……"

Women are always sensitive. No man's thoughts can escape a woman's eyes. If so, they must have done it deliberately.

Her eyes were very bright, and the chuckle on her face seemed a little unnatural, but it was also calm, as if the boy in front of her was just a strange boy from the same village.

Turning around slightly, Xu's eyes seemed to be a little more relieved, but he still stared at the woman in front of him, as if he wanted to impress her face deeply into his mind for the last time.

The wedding is happy, the parents are happy, the villagers are happy, the women around them are happy, and maybe I should be happy too.

Xu didn't know why he just couldn't sleep, but his mind was full of thoughts. He stared blankly at the horizon, which gradually turned white, and then he fell into a deep sleep thoughtfully.

But outside Xu Xin's newly built hut, in a hidden dark corner, the fragrance of unknown flowers filled the air, but disappeared into the darkness with the night wind.

"Okay, maybe I'm not worthy..."

The days without incident are as calm as running water, but things always seem to happen suddenly - the person I once loved married to another woman.

Xu tasted the taste of tears for the first time. Looking at the woman crying at the wedding, he seemed to suddenly understand the name of this taste.

"It's so good..., so good..."

No one knows what tears are, but they seem to contain all the flavors of life.

Xu clapped his hands, savoring his youth.

Marriage seems to be the tomb of everything... After they got married, there was no news soon.

After having a child, Xu always felt that he had forgotten something. Only when he occasionally sat on the ridge in the fields would he sigh a little in a daze and look in the direction of the capital, not knowing what he was looking at.

Days like this lasted for a long time, until Ming's father passed away. Xu didn't know what happened to him. To outsiders, he seemed to be taking care of other people's affairs like his own son.

Only he could vaguely feel it, as if he was looking forward to someone's eyes just like the young man in the wheat waves.

When Xu saw her, he didn't know why he was just like before. He just glanced at her from a distance and then left quietly. What fell in the eyes of the woman who was already an old lady was only a loess-like back and a deep voice. sigh.

In the next 20 years or so, until people around Xu gradually passed away, Xu never saw her again.

The man lived silently with silence and loneliness, but woke up one night. He dreamed of a girl running towards him with a smile on the field and stretching out her hands to him, but before he could catch the girl's hand, A violent coughing sound came in the dark night.

Xu felt a little confused, he seemed to be dying...

His old face trembled for the first time, as if he had exhausted all his strength, and struggled to get up from the bed. He was silent for the whole night, gritted his teeth, took all his savings, and staggered towards Kyoto. .

It was a morning with stars all over the sky, and all the stars seemed to be guiding him, blooming with their final brilliance.

Just walking, his tears could no longer stop. He suddenly discovered that the address he had silently remembered in his heart on the day of her wedding, hiding in the crowd, was still clear to this day.

He met her and they arranged to meet in a teahouse.

They talked and laughed all afternoon. The two old men seemed to be neither hungry nor tired. In each other's last moments, they wanted to talk about the life that the other had not participated in. Listen to him and her.

It was getting late, and the two old men stopped talking and just stared into each other's eyes. They smiled for a long time, but their tears fell like jade beads to the ground.

"At that time I was twenty-five years old, but I still refused to get married. You were eight years older than me. Today, I am seventy-three years old, and you are still eight years older than me."

"Your life is too tiring, and I don't feel relaxed either..."

Without saying anything else, Xu staggered out of the teahouse with the last sunset on his back.

"Maybe we are all wrong..."

As if he had let go of his obsession, Ming's body seemed to become a little more stooped in an instant, and his rugged bones were almost about to burst out of his body.

The old lady Ming in Kyoto passed away, and not many people seemed to care about the news. At the funeral of the childless old man, there was only an old man who was also lonely and widowed.

"Yes, we were all wrong..."

Not much tragic, not much desolate, just a faint emotion that seems to always linger in Xu's heart. Times are changing dramatically, but it seems to have nothing to do with him. He just sits quietly, leaning on her side, slowly Closed his eyes.

(It probably has nothing to do with the main plot, but I haven’t written it for a long time and can’t remember where the plot is...)

(The book is not finished yet, but it may not be long. If the progress is made later, unimportant plots will probably be written in this outline flow...probably...)