[Hokage] Snow Time

1.

Ishida Taki forgot where he heard this sentence: Don't chat with those smart people, or you will look stupid; similarly, don't stay with a group of geniuses, or you will always be a waste.

2.

He shuffled home.

Being arranged to team up with the new graduates meant that he would only be able to take on D-level missions for the next year.

The teammates are all seven-year-old radish heads.

The two together were only about his age.

He pushed open the door, and my father sat in the living room next to a pile of empty wine bottles.

Even when he was drunk, he did not forget to ask him: "Did you receive any tasks above D-level today?"

"...No." He couldn't hide it. For the next year, he would take on the D-level mission that he could go home every day. Sooner or later, his father would know that he was teaming up with newcomers.

"You are 13 years old," my father hiccupped, "I was already a Chunin when I was 14."

Here we go again, Ishida Taki thought.

He looked at the half-empty sleeve of the man's right hand, and the man tossed and turned only to say that he was promoted to Chunin at the age of 14 and that he performed the A-level mission at the age of 15.

over and over again.

"If it wasn't for... I would have been a jonin long ago."

People always like to make assumptions, as if all the unsatisfactory things are just caused by a little deviation at the beginning, and then they can live in that assumption and deceive themselves and others with peace of mind.

Ishida Taki once was so annoyed that he couldn't help but yell back: "That's because it was a wartime, and someone needed to die, otherwise you think how you became a chunin at the age of 14."

That was the first time my father was furious in memory.

He smashed everything that could be smashed with his remaining left hand, and then sat silent all night in the mess.

Only then did Ishida Taki understand that maybe it's not that men don't know, but that he needs to ruminate on the false brilliance of the past in order to survive.

How sad, he thought.

He doesn't want to be like his father.

3.

D-level tasks are trivial and boring, with little technicality to speak of.

The physical advantage brought by age occasionally gives Ishida the illusion that his strength is still higher than Itachi and Yuki.

After a long time, he sometimes almost forgot that the other two teammates were called geniuses.

Inoue belonged to the sealing class before becoming a Jonin. After two months of hard training, he finally mastered a basic sealing technique that he secretly taught Inoue.When I went to the teacher for acceptance, I saw Uchiha Itachi and Kiyozawa Yuki performing intermediate sealing techniques.

He was hiding behind a tree at that time, and heard Inoue boast in surprise: Has he learned this level in just one month?

There was pride that couldn't be concealed in his tone.

Inoue was very careful not to express himself too obviously so as not to be conceited by the child, Ishida Taki knew.

It's just that he has heard too many people's surprised and envious tone when they know that he is in the same class as those two people, and he knows it too well.

He didn't even notice that his palms were so painful from being clenched.

He trains from dawn to dusk every day, gritting his teeth and enduring the pain, which is something that a genius can learn at a glance.

You see, things in this world are never fair.

4.

The person Ishida admires the most is the Fourth Hokage.

Both the first generation and the second generation are from the famous Senshou clan, the third generation is a disciple of the second generation, and the patriarch of the Sarutobi clan, only the fourth generation is different. He grew up in an orphanage since he was a child. But still became the greatest ninja.

He thought he could be like the fourth generation.

he thought.

Until he met Uchiha Itachi and Kiyozawa Yuki.

He suddenly realized that there was one difference between the fourth generation and him when he was born from grassroots, a difference that he had ignored before—he was a genius.

What a fatal difference.

5.

He envies them.

But Ishida also understands that jealousy is because of envy.

He was filled with despair, almost madly envious.

6.

Then they started taking C-level missions, and even had a B-level mission or two.

Those two people could guess each other's next move without even exchanging glances, the tacit understanding was terrifying.

Ishida Taki sometimes thinks that if it wasn't for him, they wouldn't even need to learn the team's code words.

The Uchiha who speaks little and has no expression is always fresh in front of the girl, he will smile, his ears will turn red, and he will inadvertently move the sauced beef to the nearest place to the girl at every dinner party.

When resting in the field, the girl will habitually lean on the boy's shoulder, and the boy's head is slightly raised against the tree trunk behind him. The person concerned may not be aware of it - at that time, they were surrounded by a sense of exclusion from a world of their own. That was a world beyond his reach.

He always knew that Qing Ze Xueshi hoped that the three of them could become a real team, and he had always shown his kindness to him.

It's just that she didn't notice it herself, whether it's a group gathering or a chance encounter in the crowd, the first person she sees is always Uchiha Itachi.

The longer Ishida stayed with them, the more clearly he saw the gap between them and himself, and the more he was jealous of that unreserved trust and tacit understanding, the more he wanted to escape.

7.

In the past, medical ninjas were not taken seriously. Since Tsunade, one of the three ninjas, proposed that the three ninja teams must be equipped with a medical ninja, Konoha's senior management has not adopted it, but they have gradually paid attention to this aspect—the teacher who leads the team cannot treat In the case of medical ninjutsu, there must be one person in each team who has mastered the most basic medical ninjutsu.

But even so, it is still an indisputable fact that the average strength of Yiren is weak.

In addition to medical talents and personal wishes, it has become a tacit matter for the weakest player in the team to participate in training.

The classmate he has a good relationship with in the same class is the one who loses the duel in the group.

Ishida didn't want to go.

Qing Ze Xueshi took the initiative to recommend herself to Inoue Fuki, and she said that her mother used to be a medical ninja and there were scrolls for learning at home.

Wu Ze, who was in the same class as him, saw her in the medical training class, turned around and came to him to understand the situation.

He remembered that Wu Ze said, it's amazing.

See, ordinary people will be labeled as the weakest in the group, but these worldly impressions on them will only turn into praise and amazement-because they are geniuses.

8.

He should hate them, Ishida Taki thought.

He has every reason to hate them.

Although Inoue Fuki tried his best to be impartial, people's hearts are biased after all, so he can naturally have students he likes more.

His father, everyone around him likes to compare him to the two of them and conclude that you've been such a disappointment.

Obviously, when he graduated from the ninja school with almost full marks, those people had told him with a smile that Ah Taki would definitely be an excellent ninja in the future.

But those two people never looked at him with disappointment or contempt in their eyes.

Girls would even stuff him with candy with a smile.

The beast in Ishida's heart was clamoring crazily: Why don't you laugh at me?Why don't you look down on me?I'm nothing more than a piece of shit compared to you guys, why?

Then he can hate them with peace of mind.

He thought sadly, why not give him such a chance.

9.

He could feel his body slowly getting colder, and Itachi and Yuki were still fighting with the three sand ninjas in his increasingly blurred vision.

He thought he would be very scared, but in fact he was unexpectedly calm.

What he was thinking when he was dying, he can't remember clearly.

Oh, yes, he was thinking, when the girl gave him the candy, if only he had said thank you to her properly.

10.

The old people say that after death, people will go to the Santu River, and the opposite side of the river is reincarnation.

The two of them shouldn't come along too early, Ishida Taki prayed so, at least let him experience the pride of being number one before he met them.

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