[Hokage] Flower Time

"Mr. Xie, do you have to stay inside that uncle's puppet?"

"...I want to hit you when I'm in a bad mood, brat."

"Mr. Scorpion, do you really not consider changing your coat? You have been wearing that coat for two weeks."

"...I want to hit you when I'm in a bad mood, brat."

"Mr. Scorpion, wait a minute, I need to take a shower and eat."

"...I want to hit you when I'm in a bad mood, brat."

Huashi sat on a rock, brushed the dust off her sleeves, and put the bamboo hat with the bell at her feet.After finishing straightening her skirt, she raised her head to look at the opposite Scorpion - he was trying to put a brand new dawn robe on her body with his tail.

The clothes he was wearing before had been dyed a strange color by the coagulated blood stains and dust, and he discarded them on the ground at will.He fastened the crooked buttons of Xiaopao with difficulty, and turned his ferocious face to the robe on the ground: "It seems that such things should not be thrown out casually..."

"Let me do it." Hua Shi said, stood up, picked up the dirty robe and threw it into the air, and then made a seal with both hands: "The art of fire escape and fireball!"

The dirty coat was quickly engulfed by the raging fire, turning into a mass of scorched black, which fell to the ground with the dancing flames.

"Let's go." Xie put on the newly acquired bamboo hat and moved forward slowly.After walking a few steps, he couldn't bear the desire to preach to the young man, and said, "As a traitor, you still maintain the habit of being pampered and pampered in peacetime. You are really naive."

"I just need to eat." Hua Shi followed behind him and said, "I'm different from Mr. Scorpion."

"I hope you don't make trouble for me." Scorpion said: "... Itachi's younger brother, that Uchiha Sasuke also seems to have defected from Konoha Ninja Village. The rest of your Uchiha clan have all become rebels, which is really quite An interesting thing."

"Really?" Her tone was very flat, and she didn't seem too surprised by the defection of her compatriots.

Her expression was as calm as her tone, and her footsteps were not chaotic at all. She didn't seem to mind her clansman that Xie suddenly mentioned.But some images flashed in her mind—in her impression, Sasuke was still that short boy who would only pester Itachi all day long.He would secretly practice the fireball technique by himself by the river, and he would jump at Itachi the moment he saw it.

Become a rebel, escape from Konoha... These words seem to have nothing to do with him.

After a long time, Huashi suddenly remembered that the current Sasuke is no longer the former Sasuke, he must have grown up and must have changed.

Xie didn't hear any more answers from her, so he said: "You always look like that, your expression is like a puppet, it never changes...whether it's about Itachi or your clansmen. What's going on in your heart?"

"It's nothing." She replied, raising her head to look at the sky: "...If I insist, I'm probably thinking about which town to take a bath in next time."

"Little devil, I remember that I said that you can't ask too much for the life of wandering rebelliously." Scorpion assumed the posture of a senior.

"..." Hua Shi stretched out his hand towards his bamboo hat.

"...I'll want to hit you when I'm in a bad mood! Brat!"

×

Scorpion was right, his information was always one step ahead of Payne.When she met the other members of the Akatsuki organization again, Payne mentioned this incident lightly.

"Oshemaru got Sharingan Sharingan."

"Those sharing eyes... belong to Itachi's younger brother, right?"

The sound of deep water droplets echoed in the cave, and several phantoms of different shapes appeared in the darkness.Payne turned his head in Itachi's direction, as if waiting for his answer, but Uchiha Itachi remained silent as always, without any words.

"There will be three years after that, right?" Jue said slowly, "Anyway, the time is not urgent, and we can always get rid of that unpleasant guy."

"Kyuubi is currently practicing with Jiraiya, one of the 'Three Ninjas'. With Jiraiya's protection, hunting Kyuubi will become quite troublesome." Payne said: "Make some preparations. Everyone, remember ...Our goal is to obtain all tailed beasts including the nine-tailed demon fox."

"I remember this kind of thing was emphasized when I joined the organization, right?" Guixie's tone was very relaxed: "There is still plenty of time, if there is nothing important, I will leave first. Always get wet Rain catches a cold, Mr. Itachi."

With a soft sound, Kisame lifted the Magic Lantern Body Technique, but Payne didn't say anything to stop it.Seeing this, the rest of the people also left one after another.Uchiha Itachi is always the last one to leave. He will watch Hanatoki's figure disappear on the stone statue with his own eyes, and then release his own spell.

While the spell was still in effect, Hua Shi said to him: "You miscalculated."

She could only see Uchiha Itachi's scarlet eyes and a blurry outline, she said to the illusory figure: "Sasuke's life seems to have deviated from the track you designed. Do you regret it?"

Uchiha Itachi stared at her in the dark. Although the phantoms of the two were close at hand, the real distance was very far away.He looked at her quietly for a long time without giving an answer.There is neither affirmation nor negation.

"...As expected." After she finished speaking, she lifted the Magic Lantern Body Technique.Her figure disappeared from the stone statue, but Uchiha Itachi still stood in the darkness. After a long time, she let out a sigh that no one heard.

×

When taking time to remove the spell, I felt a slight chill on the back of my hand.She slowly opened her eyes, and what caught her eyes was a faint raindrop.The fine rain fell sparsely, beating the leaves and the ground underfoot.She moved her fingers and got up from the rock she was sitting on.

Scorpion was standing naked in the rain, his only bamboo hat was gone, and the tiny rainwater fell on his almost bald head and in the turned-up collar.Hua Shi recalled Gui Sha's words, and said, "Mr. Xie, you'll catch a cold if you're always exposed to the rain."

After saying this, she suddenly thought of something, and added: "I forgot that Mr. Xie is different from me, he can use a puppet to block the rain."

"Are you reminiscing with Uchiha Itachi again?" Scorpion said, a gust of wind with raindrops blew up the gauze covering its face, revealing its well-articulated and clicking mouth.He looked at Huashi's face and said, "Although your expression doesn't change every time, after seeing Itachi, you will show a little bit of pain."

"You read it wrong." She replied, "I don't have any special relationship with Uchiha Itachi."

"Little ghost, I'm much older than you." Xie said in a hoarse voice, "I won't be mistaken."

"Mr. Scorpion." She interrupted him and said, "I'm curious, what position are you in the puppet? Are you kneeling? Or sitting cross-legged? Or lying flat? Or..."

scorpion:……

"Little ghost, when I'm in a bad mood..." Xie Yin said threatening words in a low voice.

"When you are in a bad mood, you will want to kill me." She has long been familiar with this sentence.

"It's good that you know." Scorpion said, "Say these words with that indifferent expression like a puppet, you really look like you want to die."

She straightened the slightly crooked bamboo hat to keep out the growing rain.She leaned against the tree, watching the rainwater leaking from the gaps in the branches and leaves, and folded her arms waiting for the moment when the rain stopped.The gray clouds in the sky lingered and piled up, without a ray of sunlight.With a slight movement of her fingers, the ring on the index finger was printed into the skin of the middle finger.

She stretched out her hand in front of her, and looked down at the dark ring.

"Why did Mr. Xie join 'Xiao'?" she asked.

"In order to pursue eternal art." He said: "Extreme art always requires some sacrifices, but it is a pity that others cannot understand."

Hua Shi's eyes swept across his crooked body, and she suddenly recalled the method of making "human puppets" that Xie said - killing people, snatching their bodies, cleaning their internal organs, and then making them into hidden puppets. The action figure of the agency.

"It's brutal art."

she said, putting down the hand that wore the ring.

×

For Huashi, Scorpion is a very mysterious person, he has too many stories and secrets of his own.As Xie's partner, she doesn't know more about Xie than the others, because she seldom asks about him.

In Xie's words, she always "maintains a dead person's expression", "like a puppet when she is silent, but when she speaks, people always want to beat her".

"That's because you are the only one who has the chance to talk to her." Guixie comforted Scorpion: "When other people see her eyes, they can't move anymore."

What Guixie said seemed to make sense, but Xie was speechless.

Those who accosted her casually to provoke her had no chance of hearing the rest of her words.

Except when facing him, Hua Shi never likes to talk.No matter in front of Payne or when Akatsuki rarely met, she was very silent, as if she had nothing to say to other people in this world.

—Maybe when she and Uchiha Itachi are alone together, they will say something else?For example, how thrilling and unforgettable is the memory of discussing the massacre of the tribe together?

Xie kept those guesses hidden in his heart, and he didn't dare to ask them blatantly.Moreover, even if he asked, Hua Shi might not answer.She, like him, is a person who has many secrets and pasts and doesn't want others to find out.

Huashi doesn't know about Scorpion's past, and doesn't intend to, just like Scorpion never knew the story of her past.Maybe until one day, both of them are dead, but they still maintain a hazy watershed between each other.They are more familiar than strangers, but they are not very familiar with each other. The tacit understanding between each other is only limited to the time of fighting.