Those days in Honmaru

I really didn't expect to meet such interesting human beings after such long and boring days.

Sure enough, the outside world is much more interesting.

I want to leave here to go out and play soon, this time should not be far away.

- Tsurumaru's diary

Natsume stared at the figure sitting on the ground carefully. His body was always glowing, and he looked a bit illusory, and he could vaguely see things behind him through his body.

Seeing that Natsume was staring at him, the man smiled, stood up and pointed at himself, saying, "I've never seen a fusangshen like me. I can't help it. I just accumulated enough strength to transform into a human form and be able to do This is the limit."

Natsume just nodded in a daze, and the other party didn't care, he casually pointed at the sword placed aside, "This is my body, how about it, isn't it great?"

Natsume uncontrollably shifted his gaze to the Taidao. The word "Kuninaga" engraved on the stem of the knife was very clear. Natsume asked softly, "What's your name?"

This person leaned on the table to block the sword, and also occupied Natsume's sight. He propped his hands back on the table, tilted his head to look at Natsume, "I am Tsurumaru Kuninaga, originally born in the Heian era, I have been through several masters, now..."

In fact, after the other party said his name, Natsume didn't listen carefully to the words that continued, his mind was very confused now, and he looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar Fu Sangshen in front of him with complicated eyes.

Natsume never expected to meet Tsurumaru in this era, and the opponent hadn't even fully formed a human form yet.

So Tsurumaru and him have known each other for a long time?The forging of Tsurumaru in Honmaru was not the first time they met, so this is why Tsurumaru sometimes acts like he is very familiar with him?

Tsurumaru seemed to have not seen someone who could communicate with him for a long time, and he was still saying: "...in a short time, it will be almost 100 years since I was sent to this shrine, so this is worthy of the name The 99 is amazing."

"100 years..."

Tsurumaru said it lightly, but Natsume felt very blocked in his heart. After getting along for a long time, he understood better than anyone else how much Fu Sangshen doesn't like to be alone. Of course, Tsurumaru would never say that on the surface , in his words, at most it is "too boring".

Natsume was still distracted, the light and shadow in front of his eyes flashed for a moment, Tsurumaru leaned in front of him, and asked him with a smile: "I have said so many things about me, how about you share it too?"

"me?"

"Yeah, who are you, why are you here, why can you see me, etc."

Tsurumaru was very interested in this rare person, but for some reason, Natsume replied in a strange way: "...I am a god judge, and my name is..."

"Stop! You can't say your name!" Tsurumaru immediately interrupted Natsume, he seemed a little surprised, "You can't tell Fu Sangshen the name of the God-inspector, you don't even know this, do you?"

"Wait a minute, you should be a human child, right? Speaking of which, I thought this kind of thing would only be done by older people, and you are so young."

He reached out and tapped Natsume's mask, "Can you take it off? I can't see you clearly when you look like this."

"I told you that I'm not a child anymore..." Natsume evaded a little bit, not knowing whether Tsurumaru was too familiar or what, he told the other party helplessly: "This won't work, if I don't have this mask, I probably It's dead."

"Huh? Is that so..." Tsurumaru backed away regretfully.

Natsume suddenly yawned, and the accumulated tiredness began to urge Natsume to go to rest quickly. It happened that the meeting with Tsurumaru was a little bit beyond his expectation. He also needed some time to sort out his thoughts, so he said to Tsurumaru: "I It's in the side hall next to it, you can come to me anytime."

But Tsurumaru suddenly fell silent, Natsume couldn't see his eyes clearly, but he could feel Tsurumaru's gaze stayed on him all the time, he couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

Tsurumaru shook his head, "Nothing."

Natsume walked out after hearing the words, and when he was about to walk out the door, he looked back.

He saw that Tsurumaru had been standing at the position just now without moving, and then sat cross-legged against the table, lowered his head and rested his chin on his hands, wondering what he was thinking.

Natsume suddenly didn't want to leave.

Tsurumaru sat blankly for a while, then felt the boy sit next to him, Tsurumaru turned his head to look at him and said, "Didn't you say you want to find a place to rest, why are you back?"

"I don't even have the strength to walk back." Natsume covered himself with the cloak like a quilt, closed his eyes and said, "Lend me here for a while."

After saying this, Natsume immediately fell asleep.

Tsurumaru stared at him for a long time, and found that Natsume didn't sleep very well, his head was nodding, his body was still tilted to the side, and he was about to fall over, so Tsurumaru quickly stretched out his hand and pulled him .

Natsume followed this strength and fell over to Tsurumaru, leaning his head on Tsurumaru's shoulder impartially.

"...It's too unguarded." Tsurumaru glanced at the other party, and regretfully found that the obstructive mask completely blocked the boy's appearance, and he couldn't even see the boy's eyes from his angle.

"Forget it, let's take care of him for now." He was still sitting with his chin resting, but his mood became much better.

-

"Gee..." Natsume woke up clutching his stomach, opened his eyes only to find that the surroundings were completely dark, and the only light source came from his side.

Natsume was still a little confused, and the person who had been staying by his side said, "Oh, oh, you finally woke up, I'm going to be bored to death."

Natsume woke up all of a sudden, he sat up straight and turned his head to look at Tsurumaru, this person said almost the same words as at that time, so maybe he said that on purpose at that time?

"You... have been here with me..." Natsume said softly.

Tsurumaru stood up, turned around and moved his body, and said, "You are accompanying me."

Natsume didn't answer, but glanced at the Taidao placed on the table, Tsurumaru smiled, he stretched out his hand to grab his own sword, and a tiny barrier appeared on the Taidao to stop Tsurumaru's movements.

Then Tsurumaru spread his hands, and his attitude seemed a little relaxed, "You see, I can't move the body knife, and I can't leave it too far, so I haven't left this place yet."

He shook his head helplessly, "The divine master who once stayed here set it up to prevent someone from stealing me, but it turned out to be a monster, and it would be very troublesome if he couldn't even touch me..."

While he was talking, Natsume also stood up and stretched out his hand, easily passed through the barrier and touched the blade of Taidao.

Natsume turned his head, saw the shocked expression on Tsurumaru's somewhat vacant look, blinked and laughed, "It seems that I can hold it for you..."

Before finishing speaking, Tsurumaru clenched Natsume's other hand and said seriously: "Please, take me with you wherever you go!"

"Well, yes." Natsume agreed without hesitation, that's what he planned to do.

Of course, if you want to carry a knife with you, you can't just have a bare blade, and you have to put his knife on it.

but……

"Gu..."

Natsume rubbed her stomach in embarrassment and looked at Tsurumaru, Fu Sangshen smiled understandingly, waved his hand and said, "Go, I have waited for so many years and I don't care about waiting for you for a while."

"...I'll be back soon."

-

It was already late at night, the full moon hung high in the sky, and the moonlight cast a silvery light on the ground. The lanterns on both sides of the path lit up at some point, adding a bit of life to this silent shrine.

Natsume walked quickly towards the side hall, wondering while walking: "Miss Kikyo said, I don't have to worry about food, what exactly does that mean?"

Before entering the side hall, Natsume smelled the fragrance of food. He followed the smell curiously to the kitchen, and was surprised to see a table of dinners that had already been prepared.

"Eh?!" Natsume looked around in a daze, not to mention the kitchen, he didn't even see half a figure on the way here, but there is only one way from the entrance of the side hall to the kitchen...

Natsume temporarily put aside the doubts, approached the table and saw that the dishes were still steaming, apparently not long before Natsume arrived here, the mysterious person had just prepared these dinners, and then this person did not know how to get out of this place. The place disappeared.

"Well...don't worry about it, let's eat first." Natsume rubbed his stomach and decided not to embarrass himself.

-

When Natsume was savoring his dinner with relish, he didn't find a hole the size of a fist in a small corner of the kitchen. A little white rabbit was blocking the hole and staring at him. The hole was drilled out.

The white rabbit ran fast all the way on its short legs, moving nimbly among the buildings, and finally it was packed into a bunch of bushes, and when it came out of the bushes again, it had already turned into a standing A child with short white hair and a pair of long rabbit ears on his head.

The child bounced and ran towards his target, calling softly, "Magic Frog~Magic Frog~"

Following his voice, a shadow swayed in the darkness, and a huge frog several heads taller than the child jumped out.

This strange frog only has one big eye between its foreheads. In order not to make too much movement, its huge body moves with extra care. It sticks its body tightly to the ground so that children can climb on it.

The child climbed onto the frog's head effortlessly, and then pointed out with a smile, "Okay, today's task is complete ~ who will come tomorrow?"

The magic frog shook its head and groaned a few times, and led the child step by step into the darkness. The child nodded as if he understood what it was saying, "Yes, yes, firefly grass, can you do it, hee hee~"

-

Tsurumaru stood beside Natsume and watched the movement of the opponent's hand intently. Natsume was helping him put the knife on.

"Don't worry, be careful not to touch the blade again." Tsurumaru reminded, his eyes turned on Natsume's finger, there was a thin wound on the index finger, and now it no longer oozes blood, it was Natsume pretending I accidentally rubbed against the edge of the knife when I was holding the knife.

"Well, I will..." Natsume has never done this before, and he did it under the guidance of Tsurumaru. He is a little bit useless with his fingers now, but fortunately, the whole process has reached the last step.

Natsume took the handle of the knife and put it back into the sheath, but he always felt that his movements were a little weak... He thought to himself: Sure enough, he can't compare to them Fusangshen.

He turned his head and handed the knife to Tsurumaru, and said with a smile, "That's all right!"

Tsurumaru didn't answer, and didn't make any other movements. Natsume tilted his head and looked at him for a while, then reached out to grab him and walked out, "I'll take you out."

Tsurumaru looked at the place where he was caught, and he stared at Natsume's back. Even though he was wearing thick clothes, the cloak was almost dragging to the ground, the boy still looked very thin, and the rope that tied the mask was coming from his hair. Passing through the room, the light brown hair hangs down obediently, and the rope is tied into a bow and is dangling outside.

Tsurumaru felt that such a back view would probably be preserved forever in his memory.

-

Natsume pulled Tsurumaru all the way back from the main hall to the access road, looked at the sky, there was hardly a single cloud in the night sky, the full moon hung high in the sky, bright and clear, it was supposed to look like a moon with few stars, but now The stars of time are competing to shine brightly, and the starry sky is thousands of miles away.

Natsume had never seen such a scene before, he stared at it for a long time before turning around to look at Tsurumaru, and said, "It's lucky, today is the full moon."

"This is the full moon..."

Tsurumaru only looked up, and quickly turned his gaze back to Natsume. He looked directly into Natsume's eyes, and sighed as if he felt bewitched: "It's so beautiful..."

The author has something to say:

The stupid author hasn't shown up for several days, doesn't he seem to be living a decadent life?

Actually ready to dig a new hole!

After writing two chapters, I feel... I'd better fill in this hole before posting the next one~