[Hokage] One tit for another

Naruto went to the hospital to see Sasuke every day. If it wasn't for the three generations of grandfathers asking him to go to school and go back to rest, Naruto would have liked to live in the hospital directly.But even so, he ran to the hospital as soon as the bell rang after school. The bench at the entrance of the intensive care unit became Naruto’s exclusive seat. Naruto sat on that bench every day, watching Sasuke through the glass. People came and went, and the bloody bandages were removed again and again.But Sasuke never opened his eyes.

Sasuke really slept for a long time.

Naruto waited and waited, and when he was tired, he patted his face to cheer himself up.Whenever Naruto looked at Sasuke lying there unconscious, he felt a little scared, but he would quickly shake his head and force himself not to think about it.

However, Naruto fell ill before Sasuke woke up.

Naruto didn't know how to take care of himself, he didn't eat well when he went to the hospital all day long, and he couldn't even sleep well at night.The illness came violently. Naruto had no experience of being sick. He didn't realize that he was sick at all. He just felt a sore throat and a dizzy head. He thought he was too sleepy, so he simply took a cold shower. Then managed to pass out in the toilet one morning.

Naruto had a high fever, and the grandfather of the third generation came to see him and brought him medicine to let him have a good rest.As soon as Naruto woke up, he jumped up and wanted to see Sasuke, but his body was limp and powerless, and the quilt wrapped around his hands and feet.Naruto rolled and fell under the bed, and was forced back into the bed by the three-generation grandfather and the masked ninja next to him.

The masked ninja didn't make sense at all, so Naruto had to stay in the house to recuperate from his illness. After many days in a daze, Naruto flew to him like a bird out of the cage when he recovered from his illness, but he flew to nothing. .

The ward was empty.

Naruto was taken aback, but luckily the head nurse stopped him in time.

"He has been discharged from the hospital. Maybe you can see him at school tomorrow." The head nurse patted Naruto on the shoulder. Compared with the beginning, her attitude was much more relaxed. It has been a long time since she used that cold expression. He turned his attention to Naruto.

Naruto let out a long sigh of relief, he thanked the head nurse nonchalantly, and then ran home in a hurry, looking forward to the arrival of the next day.

At least Sasuke has woken up.

At that time, Naruto was naive and optimistic. He could hold so little in his mind. When someone said that Sasuke would go to school tomorrow, he believed it.

But one "tomorrow" passed, two "tomorrows" passed, and Sasuke still disappeared.

Sasuke didn't come to school at all, nor was he in the hospital.

No one knows where Sasuke is.

Naruto can't always go to the third generation grandpa.

The flowers outside the window bloomed, and there was a new teacher in the class. A small assessment was organized as soon as they arrived. Naruto scored zero without any suspense. Those children wanted to laugh at Naruto again. They habitually checked whether Sasuke was nearby , and was surprised to find that Naruto was all alone.

"Yo, why did you lose your follower?" They became bolder and began to mock Naruto again.

Naruto didn't smile, he just stopped silently, raised his head, and gave them a cold look.

He didn't care about those people.

The feeling of that glance was so familiar that those children froze in place, watching Naruto leave foolishly, and then rubbed their eyes, wondering if they were hallucinating.

Naruto once again came to Uchiha's clan, but it has changed.

The gates of the clan grounds were removed, the hanging curtains disappeared, and even the long street that Naruto had seen countless times became different.Many houses in the original criss-cross block were demolished, leaving a large open space.Some workers are beating on those roofs, tearing down the small three-story attic to only a frame.

Naruto almost didn't recognize it, because even the outermost walls with the Uchiha clan emblem painted on it were gone.

Naruto couldn't understand why this happened.

Why did the lively and bustling Uchiha clan turn into an open and deserted space in just a few days? Why did so many ninjas with red and white clan emblems painted on their backs disappear, replaced by some workers carrying building materials? Come and go in a hurry, why did I feel the red and white patterns everywhere, but now I can't find it when I try to find it.

Those fragrant stalls, flower shops full of flowers, those children playing with toy kunai, the smiling big sisters, those brightly lit long streets at night, the streamers and flags swaying in the wind, are they just Does it exist in Naruto's memory?

There are so many things that obviously existed, why can't even a trace be found in the blink of an eye?

Inexplicably, Naruto felt fear.It was as if there was a terrifying beast chasing after him, and it would swallow him silently in the next second.

Naruto walked through the large open space. In fact, he had never stepped into Uchiha's clan, and he didn't know where to go, just wandering around in a daze.

Sasuke's house must be here.

Holding such belief, Naruto found the late night from dusk.In the end, Naruto found a dark mansion at the place closest to the mountain.

The sound of cicadas echoed high and low, and the night was very dark. With a little starlight, Naruto saw the figure sitting on the roof.

It was just a small black shadow, but Naruto recognized it as Sasuke at a glance.

"Sasuke!" Naruto shouted, his voice echoing repeatedly in the empty mountains.

But Sasuke didn't seem to hear it, he didn't turn his head, just sat on the high roof, not knowing what he was looking at.The deserted starlight sprinkled on his side face, Naruto could only see that Sasuke's face was so white and his eyes were so black, the night seemed to cover up all the colors, leaving only an extremely simple and elegant ink painting.

"Sasuke!" Naruto moved closer, looked up at Sasuke, and called out again.He didn't know why he called Sasuke's name, but so much uneasiness and sadness piled up in his heart that he couldn't say anything except Sasuke's name.

Sasuke didn't respond, Naruto was the only voice in this dark night.While shouting, he walked around the house, which was so big that it seemed to be shrouded in the shadow of the mountain.Naruto tried to climb up to the roof, but he couldn't find a ladder, so he clumsily grabbed the window, trying to climb up through the fence.

But the roof was not easy to get on. Naruto climbed up, fell down again, and fell down many times in succession.Naruto rolled down in the grass, and the grasshopper jumped on his head, and Naruto drove him away again.

I don't know how many times I tried, how long it took, Naruto finally touched the eaves, he moved up bit by bit like a stupid bear, turned over with difficulty, and finally reached the roof superior.

"Sasuke..." Naruto walked to Sasuke and said softly.His voice was a little hoarse, as if hidden in the night wind.

Sasuke finally turned his head to look at him.

At that moment, I don't know what happened.

The moon was covered by dark clouds, and only faint starlight sprinkled on Sasuke's hair, like the first snow in winter, melting a little bit, falling on his smooth forehead.Bits of broken light flickered in Sasuke's eyes.

Obviously Sasuke didn't make any expression, his eyes were as calm as water.

But Naruto's eyes were suddenly sore, and the tears that he had been trying to hold back welled up.Naruto's vision blurred, he gritted his teeth, trying to hold back.

He has always been so good.He didn't cry when Sasuke didn't come to school, he didn't cry when Sasuke was lying on the hospital bed covered in instruments, and he didn't cry after climbing the roof and falling so many times.But when Sasuke looked over, those tumbling things in his heart seemed to turn into turbulent waves in an instant, setting off layer after layer, breaking Naruto's strength.

Naruto burst into tears with a loud "Wow".

He cried so loudly that it even covered the noisy cicadas, and his tears flowed out like he didn't want money.

Later, Naruto thought about it countless times, and felt terrible.

How weird and funny that it was Naruto who cried loudly, not Sasuke.

"...why are you crying?" Sasuke asked.Obviously anyone would find it strange.

"I don't know..." Naruto cried, he couldn't describe his feelings in words, he just felt sad, very sad.

Naruto felt terrible.

Because the sadness in his heart seemed to be deeper than the sea, far more than what he cried out.Those sorrows were like an abyss, devouring him insatiably, eating away at his flesh and blood, and devouring his heart.Naruto couldn't feel anything, couldn't think about anything except sadness.

Those intense emotions filled him, as if this long night would never end.Naruto even forgot that there is tomorrow's sun and the temperature of the sun shining on his body.

It's like a mountain is coming down from the top of your head.

Naruto was still crying, he kept wiping his eyes, tears streaming everywhere.

Why didn't Sasuke cry?

Naruto just imagined it a little bit, as if he was suffocating, but how did Sasuke feel when he was really in it?

Will that kind of sadness be more than the ocean and abyss in Naruto's heart?

Naruto can no longer imagine how painful that must be.

This is the first time Naruto saw Sasuke's home, but it is completely different from what Naruto imagined, and it seems to be in two worlds as Sasuke once mentioned.

There is no patriarch who wears an ugly yukata, and there is no mother who can make delicious bento.

The house that appeared in front of Naruto had no lights at all, it was empty, and shadows were born, like ghosts.

Is this how Sasuke watched his living place disappear overnight?Watching the Uchiha's family emblem being torn down, the walls being smashed, the streets being dismantled into a vacant lot, watching the bustling crowd turn into piles of corpses, everything turned into a blank, and only I was left alone, alone stood in the dead silence.

Naruto has always thought that being sad to the point of death is the deepest and most terrifying pain.

But only now did he know that real pain is more terrifying than death.

"Sa, Sasuke...why don't you cry?" Naruto sobbed, and finally asked a stupid question.

So much pain, if you don't cry out, where should it go?

"I don't cry." Sasuke said, he looked at Naruto quietly, silent for a while, just said, "You cry, it's fine."

That night, Naruto cried for a long time, even though all the tears were drained, he was still sobbing.He sat beside Sasuke with red eyes, and Sasuke showed him the grass behind the house.

"I'm watching fireflies." Sasuke said softly.His voice was too soft, as if drowning in memories.

Those fireflies are really beautiful. Countless tiny light spots are attached to the long and narrow grass blades, and they are flying freely in the night sky, swaying layer by layer with the wind, like sparks all over the sky.

Naruto and Sasuke sat side by side, looking at the glowing fluorescent lights in the sky.The sound of insects was long and short, playing tirelessly.They watched the sky gradually dawn, the thick darkness was wiped away, and those spots of light went out one by one, and finally there were only a few sporadic fireflies flickering in the grass, which seemed a bit lonely compared to the initial hustle and bustle.

Naruto at that time didn't understand that these little fireflies had a very short lifespan, and they would die soon after burning out their only brilliance.

The sun has risen, and there are no more fireflies to be seen.Day and night are like two worlds. The black ghost shadows of the mountains and fields fade away, and smooth lines are drawn in the sunlight, and the crisp birdsong resounds through the mountains and forests.

At that time, as if driven by an unknown impulse, Naruto grabbed Sasuke's hand.

"You still have me, Sasuke!" Naruto yelled, his blond hair glistening in the morning light.Sasuke's fingertips were as cold as ice, and Naruto didn't know what was surging in his heart, he just instinctively clenched Sasuke's hand, not letting Sasuke pull it out.

Naruto repeated it seriously and firmly, as if making an unbreakable oath: "You still have me."

Naruto talked endlessly, he just spit out all his thoughts in one go.

"There is nothing that cannot be resolved. No matter what, I will be with you!" Naruto said this, and he really thought so.

In fact, Naruto didn't know what happened, he just simply thought so.He just felt that as long as he and Sasuke were together, he could do anything in the world.

Just as the sun always rises the next day, migratory birds always fly back again.Naruto couldn't make any big sense, he could only speak clumsily what only Sasuke could understand.Naruto really believes that no matter how much pain he suffers, he will be overcome one day, and he is a man who wipes away his tears and stands up after crying.

Now that Sasuke has become alone, I will always be with Sasuke!Sasuke's pain is his pain, Sasuke's difficulties are his difficulties, and they face it together.

Naruto thought so.

Naruto's world is so simple. The biggest difficulty is that he has no living expenses at the end of the month and can only starve, or when he throws a shuriken, he throws it on the target next door. He has never even seen a dead person.

How could Naruto understand at that time - Sasuke was completely different from him.

Even if Naruto tried his best to imagine, he couldn't understand Sasuke's true feelings at all.

Everything that Sasuke has experienced has gone far beyond Naruto's comprehension.It's like two sides of the world, Naruto can never reach the side where Sasuke is.

The disagreement has been there from the beginning.

It's just that Naruto is ignorant, holding such arrogant thoughts and unreasonable self-confidence, and talking big.

So later, whenever I recalled this night, Naruto couldn't forgive himself for saying such things.

Why would he say that to Sasuke?

Why does he think he can understand and bear Sasuke's pain?

Naruto questioned himself countless times.

Unfortunately no answer.

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The author has something to say:

This is the last Naruto episode, and the next update is Shikamaru's episode.

The perspective of Sasuke corresponding to this chapter is Chapter 106 [Friends]. You can go and see Sasuke's views on this matter. How to say, although Naruto blames himself, but here he has thoroughly captured the bastard.

And Erdan didn't know that Naruto had visited him in the hospital.