Everyone Was In Too Deep

As the sun set, the sound of waves crashing against the beach continued. The Summoning Beast, having exhausted its Chakra, had returned.

At this moment, Uchiha Yoru leaned weakly against a rock on the beach. The two ninja swords in his chest had been pulled out, and the bleeding from his wounds had stopped, but he still looked like he was on the verge of death.

"You!"

The girl Tsunade, standing to the side, had a somber expression and was no longer the innocent girl she once was. Her hands, glowing with the luminous green Chakra of Medical Ninjutsu, were healing his injuries.

Mei Terumi gripped her ninja sword, warily surveying her surroundings. At this moment, it seemed that all three of them had revealed their presence.

"Feel sorry."

The dying Uchiha Yoru, leaning against a rock, weakly gazed at the two, his eyes darting away as if he dared not look them in the eye. But the two words he uttered sent a shiver down their spines.

"Irregular heartbeat, myocardial tremors, the muscles surrounding the heart have been severed. In Medical Ninjutsu terms, the cardiac meridian system has been severed; in layman's terms, the heart meridian is broken."

Her hands, stained with dried blood, weakly grasped those trembling jade hands. At that moment, Tsunade's pupils trembled; she knew the other person was right.

The weakened Uchiha Yoru held Tsunade, which had been continuously healing him, and gave a feeble smile. "I didn't expect you to know Medical Ninjutsu. It's just that your technique is still a bit lacking. Remember not to let your hands tremble when you're healing me."

With her hands trembling uncontrollably, the young Tsunade was mistakenly accused of lacking skill, but at this moment, the usually strong-willed girl did not refute it.

"Why!" Mei Terumi, who was on guard to the side, felt a tremor in her heart upon hearing this. Suppressing her complicated emotions, she walked over, half-squatted beside the other person, and said in a hoarse voice with her head down.

With a series of coughs, blood kept flowing from the corners of his mouth. Uchiha Yoru's eyes were filled with a ferocious and weak bloodshot look, but at this moment, looking at the two of them, there was only ease in his eyes, and a smile appeared on his face.

"I don't know either. Maybe it's fate. The path of a ninja is stained with blood. This day is bound to come, isn't it? I just didn't expect it to be you two."

As he said this, Uchiha Yoru looked weakly at the two of them and gave a self-deprecating smile. "Ninjas are all about deception. I never thought I would make such a big mistake."

It seemed as if he was saying that he would actually give his life for two ordinary people. At this moment Uchiha Yoru was clearly mocking himself, but there was no regret on his face, only a sense of relief.

"Let me formally introduce myself, Uchiha Yoru."

With a weak voice, Uchiha Yoruro forced a smile as he looked at the two of them. "I thought my disguise was flawless. When did you see through it? Or are you from Root, and this was all a setup from the beginning?"

At this moment, Uchiha Yoru's smile seemed to suggest that he wanted to find an answer before he died, but he also didn't want it all to be a setup.

At this moment Mei Terumi and Tsunade were filled with complex emotions.

As a ninja, although not Medical Ninja, he was well aware of the consequences of having his heart meridian severed. (In the anime, during the battle in Tanzaku City, Naruto nearly died after his heart meridian was severed.)

Even though the other party was the enemy who had brought her to this point, seeing the other party on the verge of death, and especially seeing the other party risking danger to save her, filled Mei Terumi's heart with complex emotions.

"The Mist Ninja, Mei Terumi! The current Rogue Ninja."

The hoarse voice came from Mei Terumi's mouth, and at this moment, an unyielding sadness appeared on her once elegant and gentle face.

Looking at the dying Uchiha Yoru, Mei Terumi couldn't help but give a self-deprecating smile and shake her head with a bitter laugh. "I don't know whether to laugh or cry. You've hurt me so badly, yet I still feel sad for you."

Upon hearing this name, Uchiha Yoru's eyes instantly dimmed, "Mei Terumi!"

Saying the name with difficulty, Mei Terumi gave a bitter smile and said, "It's that unlucky guy you almost caused to die at the hands of his own people. All he did was ambush you once. Why are you, a grown man, so petty?"

"You almost killed me twice on the battlefield, and you still won't let me go. You even teamed up with Suikazan Fuguki to frame me. Meeting you was the worst luck I've ever had. I was lucky I wasn't killed, but I've become Rogue Ninja."

When she spoke of herself, Mei Terumi gave a bittersweet smile, "I was even thinking of getting revenge on you, but you came to me without even seeing me. You're such an excellent ninja, why would you do something so foolish! Was it worth it?"

Uchiha Yoruro smiled at her words, "I'm sorry, but on the battlefield, we each serve our own masters. We're on different sides, and I'm sorry to you, but I'm not wrong either. Similarly, you're not wrong. The one who's wrong is this world where war is taking place."

"I said, what if! What if I were just an ordinary person, and you were too, and we met like this?"

As he said this, Uchiha Yoru seemed to remember something, suddenly gave a self-deprecating laugh, shook his head, and didn't say anything more. Mei Terumi, however, gave a disappointed smile.

Slowly, she took out the sachet that the other person had given her from her bosom. Then Mei Terumi burst into laughter through her tears, letting go of her lost tears.

"It's all scripted, it's fake! You knew that, yet you still got caught up in it."

It seems like they're blaming each other, and also blaming themselves. How wonderful it would be if both of them treated it all as fake, then there wouldn't be any heartbreak.

She slowly took out a ring from the sachet. Seeing this, Mei Terumi and gently placed the ring in the other person's hand. Under the other person's dim gaze, she revealed a gentle smile, which would have been even better if there were no tears in her eyes.

"I am Mei now, and you are Kōbe Yoru."

Upon hearing this, Uchiha Yoruro a weak smile, his trembling hand slowly placing the ring on Mei Terumi's ring finger. "I really hope to see you in a wedding dress, Mei. You'll look so beautiful."

The moment the ring was placed on her ring finger, two lines of tears streamed down Mei Terumi's emerald green eyes.

"It was all fake, but I actually believed it! Damn it!"

She didn't know when it started, but she had gone from being an outsider to being caught up in it all.

"Your hand has stopped shaking." At this moment, Uchiha Yoru weakly turned his head to look at the girl Tsunade. He felt that the jade hand that had been on his chest had stopped shaking with fear.

The innocent smile that Tsunade earlier vanished, replaced by a cold, icy demeanor as she stared indifferently at the other person.

"You're almost dead and you're still chasing girls. You're still a lecherous old man."

As Tsunade stopped shaking, the true color of blood gradually appeared in her vision. At that moment, she was no longer afraid or trembling.

Hemophobia seemed to have left him, but she felt no joy whatsoever. She was clearly an outsider, just watching the show; it all happened so fast!

That brat actually activated the Mangekyo for her, and instantly stood in front of them—damn it!

"She's cuter the way she was before."

Facing the icy-cold girl, Uchiha Yoru smiled weakly and reached out to stroke her cheek. Tsunade wanted to dodge, but when she saw the girl's dim gaze, she froze.

"I came here for profit, I never expected you to be so reckless."

At this moment, Tsunade revealed her true personality: stubborn and unwilling to admit defeat, she stared coldly at her opponent and uttered hurtful words.

Instead, Uchiha Yoru, his weak hand stroking the other's cheek. Slowly, his fingers touched the red lips, and he tried to pry them open, but the other's face remained cold, frosty, and gloomy.

Ultimately, weakened, he chose to give up. As if he had thought of something, Uchiha Yoru gave a bitter smile, "Root really shouldn't have done that. You're still just a child. We Uchiha and Senju founded Konoha so that children wouldn't have to go to the battlefield, but now the children who went to the battlefield have become the main force."

It was obvious that Uchiha Yoru's actions just now were to see the girl's tongue; he suspected she was Root and Spy planted from the very beginning.

The girl's silent, gloomy face disappointed him, but at the same time seemed to confirm her identity.

Misunderstand!

Because of this misunderstanding, Uchiha Yoru mistook her for Spy trained by Root. At this moment Tsunade showed a sad expression, but she felt extremely aggrieved inside.

Should she reveal her true identity? What child? She's forty years old, while the other person is just a child.

This absurd misunderstanding left Tsunade speechless for a moment. She was flustered and dared not reveal her identity, fearing that the other party would be even more desperate at the last moment.

Perhaps it's a misunderstanding.

Cough, cough, blood kept gushing out. Uchiha Yoru weakly gazed at the coastline under the setting sun. Mei Terumi and Tsunade beside him looked sad, their hearts filled with mixed emotions.

"Go to the Land of Rice Fields, take this Kusanagi Sword, and go find Orochimaru, my teacher."

Uchiha Yoru, weakly leaning against the stone and feeling his life slipping away, first spoke to the girl in a feeble state.

"My teacher will remove the 'Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal' from you. You cried because you've become attached to emotions, making your tools unsuitable; your Root are not right for you."

Tsunade gently wiped away the tears from the girl's eyes, but remained silent. The other party had regarded her as Spy sent by Tsunade Root the very beginning, yet now he was thinking of her in his final moments.

"Mei, I'm sorry for hurting you so much unintentionally. Take the Great Sword: Samehada, but listen to me, don't go back to Kirigakure. Perhaps becoming Rogue Ninja was the right thing to do. Go far away."

Looking at the two of them, it's clear that all three of them were outsiders from the beginning, but in the end, they all became insiders, and even Uchiha Yoru played himself into the role.

The highest level of acting is to immerse yourself in the role, to live as the character you are in.

Lies will eventually be exposed, and the final flaw was Uchiha Yoru himself. But when he completely lived out his role, the flaw disappeared.

"The sunset is beautiful."

Gazing at the setting sun Uchiha Yoruro, then, holding the two men's hands, he gradually weakened and murmured, "If only there were no war in the world. With my Uchiha identity, I would definitely bring you back to the clan, so we could watch the sunset every day..."

As his voice grew weaker, Uchiha Yoru slowly took a test tube from his Tool Pouch and weakly said to the girl, "After the Cursed Seal is lifted, if you want to return to the village, give this to the Third Hokage. He won't hold you accountable. This is First Generation Cells, and it was part of Human Experimentation."

At this moment, Uchiha Yoru seemed to be making his final arrangements, carefully planning their escape routes. Finally, he released his grip, his dreamy eyes gazing at the setting sun.

"You can go now. Leave my body to the people behind. They won't be tracking you. I've prepared a small boat there."

Her hand slowly and weakly lowered, her eyes gradually closed, and Uchiha Yoru was plunged into darkness. Tsunade's pupils shrank when she saw this. She opened her mouth to say something, but found that her throat seemed to be blocked, and she could not make a sound.

"Damn Uchiha, if only you weren't so petty, we wouldn't have met. I was perfectly fine in Kirigakure, but you had to keep chasing after me."

Mei Terumi felt incredibly stupid for almost killing an enemy twice, and even causing her to become Rogue Ninja and shed tears of sorrow.

"No! Don't die!"

The instant Uchiha Yoru closed his eyes, the young Tsunade completely broke down. Her feigned coldness melted away, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably. However, the boy did not respond at that moment.

Her heartbeat was gradually weakening and slowing down. She frantically began to use all the skills she had learned in her life, and kept begging the other person not to leave.

"Kid! Don't die! Why, why do you all have to die!"

She thought she wouldn't be sad, but she never expected that at the last moment she would realize that she had taken it seriously too.

Not only did this kid take it seriously, she did too!

"You protect Ye, I'll be right back."

At this moment Mei Terumi wiped away her tears, revealing naked killing intent as she gazed at the distant forest. Konoha's pursuers were closing in, and she was determined to leave them all behind.

In an instant, violent Chakra exploded beneath her feet, Mei Terumi charged madly towards the pursuers behind her.

Water Release: Hidden Mist Technique

Boil Release: Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique

In an instant, under Mei Terumi's powerful Chakra, especially in the dark and damp forest, a thick fog first appeared, confusing the enemy's vision, followed by Boil Release.

Boil Release combines water and Fire Release Chakra, spewing out a highly corrosive acid mist from the mouth. The user can control the acidity of the mist by adjusting the amount of Chakra, and the acidity can dissolve Susanoo.

Especially under the initial cover of the Hidden Mist Technique, the Root ninjas who were chasing after them thought it was just mist. When the same white mist suddenly appeared, it was too late when they realized what was happening.

A pitiful scream echoed through the forest. The unsuspecting Root ninjas were instantly corroded and screamed in agony, especially after breathing into their bodies without warning.

Instantly, his respiratory tract was corroded and burned, emitting a series of pitiful sounds.

Meanwhile, Tsunade, standing on the distant beach, shed tears of regret as she looked at the boy's handsome face. Although he no longer had the aloof silver hair he had when they first met, the blue crescent mark on his forehead and the red stripes on his cheeks had not yet faded.

Memories flooded her mind, Tsunade realized that the self-righteous outsider had unknowingly become a player in the game.

"Heh, I never expected that the Uchiha brat would awaken the Mangekyo for me. If Grandpa and Second Grandfather knew, they would probably laugh at the Uchiha for being so spineless."

Tsunade sadly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, looked at the test tube in her hand, and gave a self-deprecating smile, "Greed and desire are the root of war in this world."

The test tube containing the First Hokage's cells was crushed in Tsunade's hand, the liquid splattering onto Uchiha Yoru's body and wounds. Tsunade slowly stood up, turned her head and looked at the forest behind her, from which screams were coming, a hint of killing intent in her eyes.

"The village was founded by the Senju and Uchiha together; it's not for a pack of hyenas to bark at!"

With a roar, Tsunade unleashed the full power of the Sannin.

I'm leaving for Shanghai today! Haha, I've never been to the South before, let alone the legendary "Magic City" of Shanghai.

Keep it up! Study hard this time so you can focus on tomorrow.