[Naruto] Angelica

Kakashi fulfilled the promise of "it won't be like this next time". After he was discharged from the hospital, he bought a stack of post-it notes. on the interval.

In the evening, when Yayoi came back from the ministry, he saw this message as soon as he entered the door. It was written in eloquent and unruly handwriting, just like his own.

So before she left, she also made a special trip back home and wrote down "I need to leave the country for work, and I expect to return in two weeks."

"Rotation duty, continuous week".

"I've returned, and I'm spending the weekend with Ningci in the clan's land."

"Task, trouble, return date is uncertain".

"The last survey has results. I will work overtime with my colleagues in the ministry to sort out the information in the past three days, and I will not reply. It may rain today, and your clothes are in the dryer."

"I've returned. I'm sorting out the mission report in the office. The mission passes through the country of the wind. The food sold in Fujikawa town is delicious. Next time you pass by, you can go and have a look."

"I don't know when you will come back. The breakfast is in the insulated lunch box. It will be ten o'clock soon. I have to go. I hope this trip can find useful clues."

"The meeting was delayed for two hours. The breakfast was delicious. The next-door team leader's child is about to be born. He switched shifts with me. He will be on duty in the ministry until the beginning of next month. You can find me in the office when you come back."

……

The time of the two of them was filled with their respective tasks. During this year, the number of times they met was less than during the war, and the wooden partitions were full of post-it notes.Yayoi teased Kakashi, if this continues, maybe she won't even be able to remember what he looks like.

Before the new year, Yayoi handed in Konoha's last mission report for 52 years, took all the accumulated vacation time at once, planned a route to take Neji for a walk, and arrived in the capital on December 12.

She led Ning Ci and stood among the bustling crowd. The plain dark national uniforms of the two of them were a bit incompatible with the colorful surroundings.

The stone road up the mountain has been around for a long time, and it is a bit difficult for ordinary people to walk. Yayoi led him all the way up, and countless huge vermilion torii gates retreated from them, and a little bit of moonlight was cast between the gaps between the tall trees that covered the sky. The faint but warm reddish light of the paper lanterns illuminates the way forward.

They reached the top of the mountain before midnight.

There were too many people, and Neji couldn't see anything between the gaps. Yayoi picked him up, lined up in front of the shrine, and dropped a few copper coins.

"And then?" Ning Ci raised his head and asked.

"Then shake this rope, put your palms together, and make a wish." Yayoi said.

Ning Ci was in Yayoi's arms, raised his hands and tried to reach the end of the rope, shook his hands tightly, and the copper bell made a long chime.

Ning Ci clasped his hands together and said reverently: "I hope I can become very strong, so strong that no one can control my will and control my destiny."

He turned to look at Yayoi: "What about you?"

Yayoi leaned over to put him down, tossed a copper coin, shook the knot, clasped his hands together and closed his eyes: "I hope..."

Her voice was drowned in the sudden loud noise, Neji grabbed the corner of her clothes: "Look, Yayoi! Fireworks!"

Yayoi put down her hand, turned her head, clusters of gorgeous colors bloomed in the sky, the crowd shouted, and the noisy conversations shouted the same numbers in order: 5... 4... 3... 2...

At the moment when the countdown reached 1, the fireworks placed around the shrine were ignited at the same time, and the night sky was almost illuminated in an instant, and people around were filled with smiles and wished each other a happy new year.

Yayoi bowed her head, and the reflection of fireworks was in Neji's eyes.She couldn't remember how long she hadn't seen his smile.

Ning Ci also noticed that she was looking at him, pulled her sleeves to make her bend down, put his hands around his mouth, and stood on tiptoe and shouted in her ear: "Happy New Year!"

Yayoi pursed her lips and rubbed Neji's soft hair: "Happy New Year, Neji."

The fireworks are over, the smoke is still lingering in the air, and the night sky has returned to darkness.

Yayoi looked up at the night sky, wondering if Kakashi, who was running around somewhere in the world at this moment, was also staring at the night sky, and whether he could also see such brilliant fireworks.

"Yayoi! Let's go buy omamori, shall we, one for me, one for you, one for Tetsuya, and one for Tenten..."

Ning Ci counted on his fingers, dragged her to the Yushou booth, picked left and right and bought a lot.

Yayoi picked up a peace guard and tied it to the small travel bag on Ning Ci's back.Ask him if he wants to draw another lottery.Ning Ci raised his chin and said, "Strength is the best luck."

Yayoi laughed dumbfounded: "Tetsu also told you?"

"Tetsuya said what Kakashi said." Neji took her hand and walked down the mountain with the crowd, "Is he really as powerful as Tetsuya said? I will defeat him when I grow up."

"Then you have to work hard."

"Of course I will!"

The New Year's holiday is over, and it's back to busy.

There is still no clue about the tracking of Orochimaru.

Yayoi can only use the destroyed base discovered last time as a point, spread out in a blanket search, and the workload increases in vain, and the time of each field trip is getting longer and longer.

In March, the cherry blossoms climbed up the branches, and the leeward plants downstairs in the apartment opened in advance. Looking down from the window, there is a sea of ​​pink in the field of vision.

Yayoi stayed up all night, with dark circles under her eyes, sorting out and filing the intelligence information of the last quarter, and finally squeezed out time to attend Neji and Tiantian's entrance ceremony.

The children stood upright on the training ground, and Yayoi stood on both sides with the other parents, yawning in the back of the team.

The third generation's lengthy opening speech was still the same old routine, and after many years, she could still remember every word.The wind caressed, and the petals of cherry blossoms rolled up from nowhere were flying in the air.Yayoi was distracted, wondering whether the fourth generation's opening speech and the third generation's speech were the same.

She just wandered until the end of the ceremony, until Tian Tian immediately pulled Ning Ci and ran towards her.

Tian Tian raised his hand and raised his head towards the sky: "I am finally! Free!"

After becoming a preparatory ninja, you can apply to live in a single dormitory and move out of the orphanage.

Yayoi couldn't help smiling, patted the top of her head, and said, "Moving out to live alone, you must remember to check whether the electrical circuit and the stove are turned off, and remember to lock the door when you go out—"

"Garbage should be taken out every day, sanitation should be done regularly, and the food in the refrigerator should be marked with expiration dates..." Tiantian took her words and continued, "Don't worry, sister Yayoi, the aunts have told me several times."

Ning Ci reminded: "Did you buy the alarm clock I told you about last time? No one wakes you up. Don't be late for class tomorrow."

"I know, I know, it sounds like someone called you."

"I wake up at six o'clock every day without an alarm clock."

"What are you doing up so early? We only get up at 07:30 in the courtyard."

"Of course it's morning training."

"...Student Ning Ci, you really put me under a lot of pressure. Okay, I've decided, and I'll get up for training at six o'clock in the future!"

Yayoi followed slowly out of the school gate, listening to the two little guys chattering about the morning training.

She looked at their backs, as if she saw the infinite possibilities of life.The warm sunshine of March of Konoha 53 fell on them, shining brightly.

At the fork in the road, Yayoi stopped.

"Okay, I'm going back to work. Remember to eat your lunch, both of you."

After saying goodbye, Yayoi walked a few steps, and Tiantian's voice came from behind him: "Sister Yayoi!" The girl's bright voice concealed anxiety.

"In the future... can I still see you and sister Xiyan?"

Yayoi was puzzled for a moment, and then realized that Tiantian seemed to have misunderstood something.She walked back with a helpless smile: "Whatever you think, of course we can meet. I am still your guarantor, don't try to get rid of me until you graduate and become a ninja." She raised her fist and shook it in front of Tian Tian.

Tian Tian shrank his neck: "I, I, I... I will study hard!"

"She frightened you." Ning Ci reached out and pressed her fist, revealing, "Hungry. Go eat."

"Oh..." Tiantian nodded, followed him for a while, then turned around and waved goodbye to Yayoi pretendingly.

Yayoi stood where she was, waiting for the two children to disappear before leaving, returning to the ministry a little later than expected.

Pushing open the door, colleagues were beaming and gossiping, and the scrolls of information were scattered on the conference table in a mess, and everyone seemed to be concerned about the task.

"What are you so excited about?"

After closing the door, Yayoi untied her cloak and mask, and hung them in her locker.

"You came back late, just now the newcomer Anbu from the sixth class went to report, we ran into each other!"

"Sixth class... Kakashi's secret technique team?"

"exactly."

Yayoi smiled: "So excited, did you see your face?"

"How is it possible, but the figure is really good..."

"The hair is also very long. Purple hair, is it rare? I went to the sixth class and asked quietly, and they said it was a natural purple hair."

"You people are enough. Others will see you as a little girl, so restrain yourself."

"Hey, I heard that she was in the reconnaissance unit during the war. Why don't you go to the sixth squad? How good it is to come to our team."

"That's right, I said vice-captain, why don't we recruit some newcomers?"

"Why don't we just go and grab people from Class Six?"

"Be sober."

The teammates who had been squeezed by work to be single for many years started chatting again, and fragments of information entered Yayoi's ears. Occupational diseases made her quickly filter out the useful information from these information and put them together.

little girl.purple hair.scout troops.class six...

She stood up quickly, opened the locker, took out the mask and fastened it on her backhand.

"Where did you go when you came back, Yayoi?"

"Go to class six. Look at the little girl with a good figure."

She waved her hand and left a sentence, and the person had already closed the door and left.Leave a group of people looking at each other in blank dismay.

"Hiss... she won't go to Chaka Kashi's post, will she?"

"Oh, woman."

However, the picture they imagined did not appear.

At the door of the secret technique department room, the purple-haired girl wearing a mask gave her a firm hug, and the Anbu of the fox mask was leaning on the door frame with his hands in his pockets, and said, "It's almost enough for you."

"not enough."

The two replied at the same time.

Kakashi: "..."

Yayoi smiled and said, "The location of your favorite eel noodle restaurant has moved. I'll take you there after lunch break."

"Wow... I haven't eaten eel rice for almost a year. You don't know, senior, the food at the border is really--unpalatable."

Xi Yan stretched out her arms and made an exaggerated range.

"?" Kakashi looked at Yayoi incredulously, "Didn't you say that grilled saury is delicious?"

"It's the same for eating at night, saury won't run away." Yayoi said.

"No, I have a task to go out this afternoon."

"Then wait until you come back to eat."

What else could Kakashi say, he gave Xiyan a meaningful look, but his new subordinates were too busy chatting with Yayoi, and had no time to pay attention to his eyes.

Ah.

Kakashi decided not to leave a note for Yayoi before leaving in the afternoon.

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