[Naruto] Angelica

This mission Yayoi is expected to end within ten days. Originally, as she expected, this area was cleaned up, leaving no useful information behind.The opponent is Orochimaru, one of the Sannin. It has been more than a few years since he defected to Konoha, and he is still at large. It is not so easy to be caught.

The long reconnaissance of the last night was over, and she went through all the areas drawn by the team leader.The sky turned pale, and Yayoi quickly evacuated from the vast area, preparing to go to the valley not far away to find a hidden place suitable for resting.This place is not like the land of fire where the vegetation is luxuriant. It is full of dry land and stone mountains as far as the eye can see, and there are very few shrubs.

She walked for a long time, and finally found a suitable place before dawn. There was no trace of human activities, and the air was so clean that even the smell of wild animals could not be smelled.

Yayoi unfolded her sleeping bag and was about to lie down when she suddenly felt something was wrong.Ten paces away from her, the soil was different from the surroundings, as if it had been specially processed.The difference was so subtle that she didn't notice it right away.

The veins of Yayoi's white eyes are much weaker than before. After being injured in the siege of Yayoi, he forcibly opened his eyes, leaving irreversible sequelae.At this time, after several days of continuous eye-opening and exploration, the veins around her eyes were burning like fire, and there was no way to open her eyes to check the situation here immediately.

She travels lightly and doesn't have many tools. The only thing she can use is the tachi that Anbu uniformly equips.Yayoi didn't practice sword skills, and hadn't sharpened the blade since she got it the day she joined the club, but it was good enough for digging.

Yayoi put on gloves and carefully cleaned up the scene.After digging away the hard, cracked surface, the soil took on a strangely dark color.

The smell of the deep soil made Yayoi make a preset in his mind about what he was about to see.The last time she smelled this smell was after a large-scale conflict.

With the clearing of the soil, the corpse was exposed little by little. Seeing the whole picture, I still couldn't hold back a nausea.One after another, the bones were dug out from the pit, and in such a dry area, they rotted until only the bones remained. The roughly estimated time of death was very close to the time when the last message from the lost contact Anbu was sent.

Being buried here in this way is not so much the carelessness of the enemy when they were eager to transfer, but a kind of arrogant mockery.She could even imagine the snake-like man curling his lips and smiling sullenly: Look, what can you do to me?

Yayoi squatted halfway in the nearly three-meter-deep pit, stopping what she was doing.The sun had risen a long time ago, and the sky was bright, illuminating everything clearly.

She could see very clearly.All the corpses presented a distorted dead appearance, and what was even weirder was that some of the corpses she dug up, like spiders, had more limbs than ordinary people.

The long-healed wounds lingering around the corners of her eyes seemed to start to hurt again, and she could see the scene in the concentration camp when she closed her eyes.Live experiment.The situation here made her only think of these four words.

In mid-February, when the weather gradually warmed up, Yayoi suddenly felt a little cold.

She didn't continue digging, and it was obviously not a workload that she could handle alone.

This area is outside the Fire Nation, which belongs to the gray area at the junction of several countries. With such a large number of bones, if we want to continue the investigation of the whole incident, we still need to go through a lot of procedures.

She quickly buried it again, set up an illusion barrier around it, took out a map to mark the coordinates, and returned to Konoha day and night.

After reporting the situation, the rest of the work will not be under her control for the time being.After the procedures are approved, other colleagues who are better at dealing with corpse information will investigate the situation of the mass grave.All she needs to do is wait.

Yayoi closed the door with the words "Field Service Unit of the Intelligence Department" and prepared to go home.She is still thinking about the situation of the mission, if there is really one of Dashemaru's bases, and no Anbu's body is found, is it possible for her predecessor in this position to survive.

If so, how would she find the other party.And how to find Orochimaru.

The whole area has been treated too clean, except for a mass grave of unknown depth, there is no useful information at all.

The huge pressure hit, she couldn't help breathing heavily, and pulled the mask to the right to get some air.

"came back?"

A slightly childish voice interrupted her thoughts.The other party was wearing a mask, a black cloak and a hood wrapped from head to toe, Yayoi stopped, and immediately recognized that the voice belonged to Tenzo.

"Hmm." She noticed Tianzang coming from the direction of the gate, "You also just came back from the mission?"

Tianzang: "No, I came back from the hospital and got some information."

"injured?"

Yayoi sized him up, his walking posture was normal, and his breathing was steady when speaking, he didn't look like he was injured enough to need to go to the hospital.

"It's the captain. You know, he always rushes to the most dangerous places alone."

Tianzang shrugged and sighed old-fashionedly.

Yayoi's mind went blank for a moment, and she grabbed Tianzang's shoulder who was about to open the door and go back to the department room after exchanging greetings.

"Which ward is he in?"

Due to the confidential nature of Anbu's work, after Kakashi was transferred from the intensive care unit, he was placed in a single ward on a special floor.

Yayoi's uniform has not been changed yet, and she rushed to the hospital all the way up, the people at the nurse's station at the entrance of the floor saw her Anbu attire, and did not stop her, she silently recited the number Tianzang said, found the ward, pressed the handle and opened the door to enter .

The lights in the ward were not turned on, and the heavy curtains were closed tightly. Even in the daytime, the room was as dark as at night.

Kakashi was lying on the bed wearing the striped hospital uniform of the Konoha Hospital, and the changed uniform was placed on the bedside table next to it. The top one was a fox mask with mottled red bloodstains, and the broken sword was also placed next to the mask. know where to go.

Standing in front of the door, Yayoi breathed heavily, calming down the rapid heartbeat caused by running, and then slowly walked towards him.

Yayoi moved lightly and sat down on the wooden chair beside the bed.He didn't wake up, his brows were wrinkled together, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and he slept extremely unsteadily. After a while, he even started talking nonsense. They were all tense, and their silver hair was wet with cold sweat.

Accustomed to seeing Kakashi's usual calmness and calmness, his sudden nervous and panicked sleep talk made her also flustered, calling his name over and over again, trying to wake him up.

Kakashi finally opened his eyes, and his tense muscles relaxed. He was just about to ask Tenzo to pour a glass of water, but his blank eyes gradually focused, and he saw her anxious face beside him, and Tenzo was no where to be seen.

"Are you okay? How do you feel?" Yayoi hurriedly said, only then did she remember what to do, "Wait a minute, I'll call the doctor—"

She stood up to go, Kakashi reached out from under the quilt to grab her wrist, and the cuff of the hospital gown fell with the movement, revealing the bandaged forearm.Yayoi didn't know the condition of his hand injury, so she didn't dare to use force, and followed him to pull herself to sit down again.

"I'm fine. I just had a nightmare." His voice was hoarse, with deep helplessness, "Did Tianzang tell you? I told him not to tell..."

Yayoi carefully observed his state, his forehead was still soaked in cold sweat, and his breathing had gradually calmed down.

She was relieved and sighed again.There was still some warm water in the kettle, she poured a glass and handed it over, and said slowly: "If he doesn't tell, I don't know where you are, and I will only worry more."

Kakashi looked at her with a glass of water in his hand.The heat of the warm water is transmitted from the wall of the cup to the palm, and flows along the blood to the bottom of the heart.

"Sorry. Not next time."

The air trapped in my heart was emptied together with the water in the glass.Yayoi took the water glass and put it on the table.

"What dream did you just have?"

"I can't figure it out... Probably Obito died in the battle of Shenbi Bridge, the cave collapsed, he pushed me out, and told me to protect Lin... But the camp in the back was breached, and Lin was captured , They sealed the three tails on her body, and cast a spell to make her attack Konoha. When I was going to rescue, Lin suddenly turned around and bumped into Rachel...I killed her...The teacher couldn't do it in Jiuye either. Survived the night of Tail Attack, Yun Ninja fought faster, Konoha..."

He didn't go any further.

The vague dreams become clearer with the memories, and the real ones seem to have happened.He was so depressed that he could hardly breathe.

And in this dream, Yayoi only existed on the confirmed death list announced after the end of World War III.

"Obito is still alive and well. Lin protected the wounded in the entire camp, and the fourth generation led Konoha to a decisive victory in the war...everything is not so bad...Konoha is already at peace, and their sacrifice is not meaningless."

Yayoi said softly.

Yet the struggle is far from over. The word "peace" made Kakashi feel so far away.

"The stability of the outside world will make the internal forces temporarily reconcile and unite with the outside world because of the war, and they will be ready to move again..." Kakashi held her hand and looked into her eyes.Her eyes always reminded him of the river in Konoha, bright and clear, but at this moment she was covered with a layer of confusion because of his words.

She still doesn't know that the high-level Konoha has already started to storm.Even before long, everyone will be forced to choose sides... which side will win?Where will Konoha go in the end?

Kakashi didn't know either.

The sun shines through the gaps in the curtains and draws a long line on the white floor tiles.

Yayoi was about to ask if something happened during her absence, Kakashi changed the subject and said, "What are you going to do this afternoon?"

"Organize the information. The things left by the predecessor are too fragmented and chaotic, and I only glanced at a part of them before."

"...?"

"I'm talking about the post's predecessor, Anbu."

"Hmm." Kakashi smiled triumphantly, "What about after that?"

"Check Neji's homework." Yayoi curled up her fingers and counted, "He is five years old this year, according to the non-war ninja school admission age regulations, he will enroll in March next year, it is about time to teach him some basics of chakra use."

"What's so good about this? You can just find a book in the library and read it."

Yayoi said angrily and amusedly: "Don't use your situation to ask others, most of the children at this age can't recognize a few characters. Besides, I have to teach him how to open his eyes, right?"

"……Oh."

"what's wrong?"

Kakashi said dissatisfied: "Yayoi Hinata, we haven't seen each other for many days. Besides, I'm still a patient now."

"Didn't you have Tianzang to take care of you... He said that he was going back to the Ministry to get some documents, and he should be back soon. Besides, who didn't tell me who he was in the hospital? If I hadn't met Tianzang, I would I don't even know where you are."

Makes sense and can't argue with that.Kakashi lay back under the blanket and said nothing.

It seems that she is really angry... Yayoi smiled, leaned over and hugged him gently, buried her face in the crook of her neck, and said softly: "Okay... I miss you very much. Get well soon."

So Tianzang, who had just opened the door to come in, petrified in place for three seconds, took two steps back and went out, closing the door again with a bang.

He seemed to finally understand why he told Kakashi about Yayoi's mission, and finally understood why Kakashi was seriously injured so that he must keep it secret if he met Yayoi back to the ministry.