【From the Snake】Go back and come

When Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto returned to Konoha, each of them broke an arm.

But they supported each other with their intact arms.

The cherry-haired girl and the silver-haired Jōnin followed them, and the four talked and laughed.

"You two, you're so messed up!" Sakura educated the two seriously wounded, "If I hadn't arrived in time, would you two still be alive and kicking like you are now?"

"I'm sorry Sakura, we are all like this, please be gentle~" Naruto hurriedly smiled and pretended to be pitiful.

"Come on, I don't like this." The girl with cherry hair sighed and turned to Sasuke, "Sasuke, you and Naruto, you two... are you serious?"

"Yes." Sasuke replied, looking directly at the other party.

When Sakura rushed to the two for treatment, Sasuke told her all this.

She thought she would be sad, but for some reason in her heart, she was relaxed and relieved, and she was sincerely happy.

These two people have always been very important in her heart, so as long as they are happy, she will also feel happy.

She has survived the difficulties of life and death, and she has nothing to worry about.

No matter what obstacles come in the future, I will guard you, just like you guard the world.

I really can't do anything about you two idiots.

"Treat that idiot Naruto well," Sakura said after a moment of silence, "If you let him get hurt like today, I will be the first to let you go, Sasuke."

"Hey? It's the first time for you, Sakura, to speak by my side, so happy~" Naruto spoke from the side.

"Don't be complacent, you will give me a little bit in the future, don't always mess around." Sakura continued to educate Naruto.

"Well, Sakura, don't be so serious, it's rare that our seventh class is finally reunited." Kakashi smiled with eyebrows twisted, "When you two are well, the teacher invites you to dinner."

"Ms. Kakashi is the best!" Naruto cheered.

Orochimaru watched the interaction of the four people, and suddenly found that he and Jilai were also different from Sasuke and Naruto.

Because even if he defected and declared that he would kill Naruto, Sasuke always regarded him as the most important person.

Because of the most important, he was angry at the other party's incomprehension; because of the most important, he tried to cut off their fetters in order to be free; because of the most important, he finally returned to where he was, and gently guarded his dream.

Uzumaki Naruto is the home of Uchiha Sasuke.

Because there is a place to return, no matter how willful and reckless you are, you can find your way home.

Because there is a place to return to, no matter how things change and change, that person will not change, and it is the last shelter.

But when Ji Lai Ye chased after him, he laughed at his sincerity, called it a fool's ignorance, and said he was just a stumbling block.

Injured him badly and abandoned him in the dark forest.

Even if they meet again, they will only face each other with swords and swords, and sneer at each other.

Jiraiya, after you die, no one in this world misses me like you do.

There is no one else who likes me tenderly and powerfully like you, likes someone like me.

It's like I never, ever cherished you as the most important person in my life until you were gone.

I used to always say to myself that I don't regret it, I don't care, so now it's my own fault to regret it.

Should people have two lives?

One extra time is used to let the squanderers who don't know how to cherish understand and learn to cherish.

Give me one more chance to cherish you again, at least I can tell you personally that I like you too.

Orochimaru rarely feels alive since he acquired the technique of immortality.

There is no life, no death, so there is no living.

A scarred soul who keeps reincarnating, but for some reason, he keeps replacing that physical body with his own.

All his memories of being alive are related to Jiraiya.

He suddenly discovered that the joy of life does not lie in whether it is infinitely long or whether he can get all the ninjutsu, but to use his limited life to do what he wants to do and love the person he wants to love.

Live in the sense of fulfillment of living seriously every day, and experience different life in different stages of life.

Only cherishing and being cherished can make people feel alive.

On the first day back to the village, Orochimaru didn't go anywhere, but went straight to Jiraiya's grave. There was no him in the grave, because he had fallen into the bottom of the sea, but this was the only thought he left behind.

He stood in front of Jiraiya's tombstone looking at Jiraiya's name for a day, until the sun went down, he moved his stiff legs belatedly, and left aimlessly.

Tsunade found Orochimaru the day after he returned to the village and handed him a box.

Inside are the pair of eight-foot Qiong Gouyu earrings.

"Jiraiya entrusted this to me before he left. He said that it was a treasure he got from the gate of the shrine. He intended to give it to me, but when he opened it, he thought it looked good on you, and it turned into you." A birthday present. Ah, now that I think about it, that guy seemed to have given me a bouquet of boring flowers that year."

"At that time, we all thought you were dead, and Zilai also said that although you are gone, this is something that has accompanied you for decades, and he can't take it to take risks."

"He...he didn't give up on you until he died. I think he was just tired and couldn't chase you anymore, but he still tried his best to move his tired body to chase you."

"Orochimaru, you..."

Orochimaru, who was silent for a long time, raised his hand and picked up the Gouyu earrings to put on, "Thank you, Tsunade."

"You two..." Tsunade sighed and did not continue.

During the Fourth War, Tsunade said that if I had changed earlier, you might not have died.

I replied back then that if I had changed earlier, that guy would have changed too.

I know, my answer is just to cover up my cowardice.

A coward who lost but didn't have the guts to admit it.

She said that you didn't give up on me until you died, because if you really gave up on me, you wouldn't know that the action was close to suicide, and you would go there without hesitation.

People who really give up will not risk their lives, because after giving up, they will imagine the future, make future plans, and consider the safest way to complete the task.

She also said that you trusted me to the end.

Tsunade had seen the battle in the cave besieged by Iwanin, but what she didn't see was that the reason why I couldn't kill you was not because of your trust, it was just that Because that's you, that's Zilaiya.

So my explanation is nothing, it's a big joke.

How can you change, you won't change.

What will change is me, and only me.

Jiraiya, I know that you have never been stupid. You used to like to pretend to be a fool, but later you also took the lead. I admit that our strengths are comparable, but you still have nothing to do with me.Am I bothering you?Has it haunted you till death?

Still think you are a fool, why don't you just give up on me?

Thank you, Ziraiya, for never giving up on me until death.

Thinking about it, I'm really arrogant. I used to think that you were the tail of the crane that dragged us down, stupid and emotional, but now I realize that you are the one who has been guarding us all the time.

Everything in this world has a price.

I paid the price before, I thought I didn't, I thought I was gaining and not losing, taking the lead.

I chased my goal at the cost of hurting you, but I didn't know that I was hurting myself in the end.

Only now do I realize that I have made myself a cocoon and a prison, and I still don’t know it.

I understand now that what I got wasn't worth what I lost, I didn't win, I didn't even count as an equivalent exchange.

I want to return everything I got now, as long as I can get back what I lost, but I can't anymore.

If only I knew earlier that I liked you.

Forget it, what's the use of saying this now?