[Hokage] Sasuke-kun's Melancholy

Hitomi's body recovered quickly, and almost the next day he returned to that lively appearance. Sasuke calmly looked at Hitomi bouncing in front of him: "Is it not hurting?"

"En!" Hitomi nodded with a big smile, and turned around in front of Sasuke flexibly, "There's nothing wrong with it!"

...well so fast.

Sasuke stood up, picked up the Kusanagi sword on the table and walked out: "It's time to practice."

Glancing at Hitomi who hurriedly put on his shoes behind him and quickly followed him, a smile appeared in Sasuke's eyes, and then quickly disappeared.

After learning of the existence of the second fierce beast in the southern base, Orochimaru sent a large number of manpower to search the entire Tian Zhiguo, but there was no news at all. The original fierce beast is usually similar to human beings, even if they go out to look for it on the day of the full moon. Also nothing.

Sasuke seems to have entered the age of rapid height increase, and he has grown seven or eight centimeters in just one year. In contrast, although Hitomi's height has also increased, the growth rate is negligible compared with Sasuke. She and Sasuke The height difference between them is getting bigger and bigger.

Compared with the change in height, Hitomi has probably changed more—he has become more talkative.

After learning more and more unfamiliar words, Hitomi seems to be very happy to express these words, so Sasuke can always hear Hitomi beside him talking to him, but at first he felt a little noisy, Over time, after Sasuke gradually got used to Hitomi's nagging nature, he could take the time to respond with an "en" while reading a book and listening to her chatter.

In contrast, Sasuke, who didn't talk much before, became more silent, and his expression became less and less. Most of the time, Hitomi saw Sasuke with a blank expression.Only on the training ground, when facing those carefully selected experimental subjects or facing her attacks, Sasuke would slightly tighten his face, showing a vigilant expression.

In the past year, Sasuke has also been on missions with Orochimaru and various types of ninjas in the base, and Hitomi has completely become Sasuke's leg pendant, and Sasuke followed wherever he went, and he almost followed the toilet— — If Sasuke doesn't mind.

So today, she was shut out of the toilet door with a snap.

Hitomi tilted her head and looked at the closed door in front of her, but suddenly there was a knock on the door. After hesitating for a few seconds, she walked over and opened the door carefully, revealing the half of the pocket standing at the door. face.

"Long time no see, Hitomi," Dodo greeted with a smile, "Is Sasuke here?"

In fact, what he said was simply knowing the truth. Everyone in the base knew that where there was Sasuke, there was Hitomi.

Hitomi was still a little afraid subconsciously, and subconsciously hid behind the door, only showing one eye carefully looking at him: "Sasuke is..."

"Really, then he..." Just as Dou wanted to continue asking, the door was pulled open, and Sasuke stood at the door expressionlessly: "What's the matter?"

"Well, Master Orochimaru said, there is a task that needs you to do." Dou pushed the eyes on the bridge of his nose, smiling gently, "Go to the country of Taki to exchange information scrolls, Master Orochimaru will tell you the details of."

Sasuke didn't nod or shake his head, but silently crossed the pocket and walked out of the door, walking towards Orochimaru's room.

Dodo looked at Sasuke's leaving back with heavy eyes, and said again: "Speaking of which, Sasuke, do you know about that?"

Sasuke didn't turn his head and didn't respond to him, he could only hear Kado's voice echoing in the tunnel, but he seemed to be accustomed to Sasuke's indifferent attitude, he just raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Gara has become Kazekage."

Sasuke's footsteps stopped immediately, and Hitomi, who hadn't reacted, bumped into his back unexpectedly, then touched his head and took two steps back, looking up at Sasuke with his lips pursed in doubt.

His expression was a bit complicated and difficult to understand. There seemed to be many emotions in his eyes, but in the end they were all reduced to a dark silence: "Really."

In response to Sasuke's lukewarm response, Tobu just narrowed his eyes slightly, and then spread his hands helplessly: "It's really getting colder and colder, but it's only less than a year away, Master Orochimaru will soon can..."

Before he finished speaking, Sasuke turned a corner directly, and there was only one person left in the long corridor.

Seeing Sasuke who opened the door and came in, Orochimaru habitually looked behind him, and as expected, Hitomi was also there.

"Dou should have already mentioned some missions to you," Dashemaru said hoarsely, "I will give you the information of the contact person in Takinobu Village, but their leader doesn't seem very honest, remember to confirm the scroll Content."

"Ah." Sasuke responded with a syllable from his throat.

"You can go alone this time... No, you and Hitomi." Orochimaru narrowed his eyes, with a cold light in his long and narrow golden eyes, "After all, that child can't leave you even a single step."

Hitomi blinked, and immediately stretched out her hands to hug Sasuke's arm: "That's right, Hitomi should not leave Sasuke, Uncle Snake, you really understand Hitomi!"

Orochimaru:"……"

I don’t know if it’s because it took so long to find the second beast, Orochimaru’s eyes on Hitomi are always full of strange resentment, especially when she sees her in the pseudo-beast state on the night of the full moon , he always said to Sasuke with cynicism: "You really deserve to be Sharingan."

Although Sasuke doesn't respond most of the time.

This is the first time that only Sasuke and Hitomi have a mission.Generally speaking, Orochimaru will send one or two of his ninjas and Sasuke to go on missions together, which is part of monitoring and also means testing strength.

Sometimes it is a bounty task, and sometimes it involves civil strife between various countries. Sasuke generally doesn't care much about these political struggles, and just silently completes the tasks assigned by Orochimaru.

And this task obviously also involves the diplomatic struggle between the country of Tian and the country of Taki. Although the two countries are small countries attached to the country of fire, conflicts are inevitable if the borders are adjacent. Speaking of exchanging information, it should be more to test whether the other party has the idea of ​​peaceful coexistence, but Orochimaru reminded that the other party is dishonest, and the task this time may not be that simple.

Although the history of Taki Ninja Village is longer than that of Oto Ninja Village, it is far inferior to Oto Ninja Village in terms of strength. This is probably due to Orochimaru's careful training of ninjas.

In contrast, it is said that Taki Ninja Village is very hidden, and it is difficult to find its location without someone leading the way. It is precisely because of its unique geographical environment that it will not be easily invaded by the surrounding powers, and the ninjas in Ninja Village have also gradually relaxed. The most direct result is that there are fewer and fewer people looking for tasks from Taki Ninja Village, and the names of Taki Ninja have gradually reduced their capital investment. They all left the village, choosing to earn bounties or seek refuge in other ninja villages.

And this time, although the information scrolls were exchanged with each other, due to the gap in strength, they were forced to form a sequential relationship. First hand over their information for Sasuke to confirm, and then Sasuke will give the information here.

Although it sounds unequal, Taki Shinobi Village has no ability to change the status quo. Their weak strength makes their words worthless and they can only be forced to accept the reality.

Passing through the dense forest and crossing the slender and long river, because the distance is not very far, even if they don't have to go all out, they only took two days to reach the junction.

It doesn't look like anything special here, there are only cliffs and huge waterfalls with fast flowing water in sight. Sasuke took out the signal bomb from the ninja bag and ignited it. Huge red mushroom cloud.

After releasing the signal flare, Sasuke's body became tense, his eyes looked around vigilantly, Hitomi looked up at the mushroom cloud that had not completely dissipated in mid-air with his head up and opened his eyes, and stretched out his hand to pull Sasuke's sleeve: "Can I play it again?"

"..." Sasuke refused cleanly, "No."

Tong immediately puffed up her cheeks, squatted down and pulled out the grass on the ground, and soon the grass was almost bald by her.

Leaning sideways as if a mushroom cloud of pupils appeared on his head, Sasuke's eyes froze slightly, and he immediately put his right hand on the Kusanagi sword: "Come out."

"As expected of a member of the Uchiha clan, it seems that I have not misunderstood the clan emblem," a black figure jumped down from the tree, followed by a pile of fallen leaves, which slowly floated to the ground, "I didn't expect that Master Orochimaru sent It's really surprising that people are the famous Uchiha clan, but I heard that the Uchiha clan was slaughtered overnight..."

Before he finished speaking, the visitor immediately jumped back a step, nimbly dodging the sword swung by Sasuke, Sasuke stared at him with gloomy eyes: "I didn't come to listen to your nonsense."

"Aha, I'm sorry, I was rude," said the visitor with a gentle smile on his face, and said in a very polite tone, "Let me introduce myself, I'm Keito Sugimoto, our leader invites you to go in and talk in detail."

Sasuke frowned slightly: "Go in?"

"That's right," Qidou raised the corners of his mouth, "to the interior of our Taki Ninja Village."

Then, Qi Dou turned and walked towards the waterfall: "Come with me, please follow me closely, otherwise you may get lost."

Sasuke remained silent on the spot for a few seconds, but still raised his heels to follow Kaito's footsteps, and passed through the gap next to the waterfall, the splash of water soaked his clothes, and Hitomi, who was following behind, accidentally After being drenched, he sneezed loudly.