The consciousness is like slowly rising up after being addicted to the deep sea, breaking away from the shackles of darkness little by little. The black-haired girl lying on the hospital bed had her eyelashes trembling slightly and opened her eyes with difficulty.
What comes into view is the unfamiliar Tiancheng board, and the air is filled with the unique smell of disinfectant.
This is... where?
Uchiha Satsuki slowly stood up, his brain still a little dazed and confused. She subconsciously raised her hand to touch her cheek, and her fingertips touched two cold tear stains that had not completely dried up - the marks left by her unconscious tears.
Why... are you feeling so uncomfortable?
A deep and dark sadness weighed on her heart like a rock, so heavy that she could hardly breathe.
Right now!
"Ugh!"
A sudden, intense burning pain inside the eyeballs suddenly came from the depths of the eyes!
Satsuki screamed in pain and suddenly covered his eyes with his hands, his body curling up due to the sudden and severe pain.
She didn't notice that at the moment the pain struck, her dark pupils suddenly changed - the deep black was instantly replaced by ominous scarlet, and three pitch black Tomoe appeared out of thin air in the blood-colored base, and slowly rotated for a week!
At the same time, more tears burst out of his eyes uncontrollably and slid down his fingers.
And along with this violent physiological reaction, the veil that obscured the memory was also torn apart by the pain!
The last and most terrifying sight before she fell into coma rushed into her mind like a flood that broke a dam - the figure lying on the ground under the moonlight...Itachi Uchiha's cold face... and... and...
Naruto!
The short knife... penetrated the body! It was her... it was Itachi Uchiha... kill him!
Huge grief and despair that far exceeded the limit of psychological endurance instantly swallowed Satsuki completely. My heart hurts so much that I can't breathe. The hatred that had nowhere to vent and almost tore her soul apart burned crazily in her chest like poisonous flames.
"... is... happening...?"
Broken syllables, choked with sobs and excruciating pain, unconsciously escaped from between the lips.
What flashed through my mind repeatedly was the determined and cold look in the black-haired woman's eyes as she raised the butcher knife.
The sister she once admired and trusted the most... destroyed everything about her with her own hands.
Because of his uneasiness, he yearns even more urgently for some kind of real touch that can soothe his heart.
However, when her fingers tightened unconsciously, what came to her palm was the cold and rough texture of the quilt.
Not only did this cold feeling fail to bring any comfort, deeper sadness and despair "blown" into her chest.
Satsuki once again stood frozen on the edge of the cliff between sanity and complete madness. The dark desire in his chest that wanted to destroy everything and burn himself together rose crazily, almost breaking the last dam.
The name that carries all the hatred and pain - Itachi Uchiha - almost breaks through the teeth and roars out in a tearing scream...
At this moment, there was an extremely slight, but extremely unnatural sound coming from the side.
Is it... the sound of breathing?
It wasn't her own rapid and painful breathing, but another... steady breathing, with a little bit of a faint snore.
This sudden sense of existence belonging to the "other" seemed to pull her back a little from the edge of self-destruction Uzumaki.
Satsuki slowly turned his head and looked at the other side of the hospital bed with blurred eyes.
In an instant, the pain and hatred that was about to swallow her up, like a tide... began to slowly recede and fade.
She didn't even realize what she had done. She just called out another name with an extremely weak voice and incredible hope.
"Naruto...?"
The blond boy sitting on the chair next to the hospital bed is indeed Uzumaki Naruto. At this moment, he was tilting his head in an extremely awkward posture, falling into a deep sleep, and snoring very lightly.
After last night, Naruto sent the unconscious Satsuki to Konoha Hospital for resettlement. It was impossible for him to be in the mood to go home and rest alone.
So he chose to stay here and wait for Satsuki to wake up.
And when Shadow Clone of [Menma] finally completed its mission and disbanded, the huge fatigue accumulated all night and the heavy load brought by controlling Tailed Beast Chakra came back in an instant.
The extremely tired Naruto couldn't resist the invasion of sleep, so he leaned on the back of the chair and fell into a deep sleep.
Satsuki With bare feet, Earth Flow got out of the hospital bed silently, and all his senses were occupied by the imageless blond figure sleeping in front of him.
She was so close to his face. That face that was always noisy now looked extremely peaceful, even with a hint of heart-tightening exhaustion.
Somehow, she stretched out her hand and pinched Naruto's warm cheek.
It's true...
It wasn't a dream, nor was it the cold vision that made her liver split.
It's alive and warm...
The real, vigorous heat of life instantly melted the extremely tense heartstrings.
An irrepressible, violently choked gasp escaped from her throat, and she immediately bit her lower lip with her teeth, trying to use pain to block the overwhelming emotions.
However, after experiencing the huge shock from the abyss of despair to recovery, crying is no longer an instinct that can be restrained by willpower.
The first drop of hot tears fell without warning, followed by the second and third drops... like a flood that broke the dam and could no longer be suppressed.
She didn't even realize what she was doing, she just followed her instincts and held out her arms.
The fear, despair, and great joy that had been suppressed for too long turned into raging tears.
Naruto In his sleep, he vaguely felt a familiar weight with a faint fragrance pressing down, and then, there was the fragile sob in his ear that was suppressed but still broken. He had never heard it before.
This unprecedented situation made him wake up from his deep sleep in a few moments.
He opened his eyes suddenly, still with the confusion of just waking up, but his body had already sensed the abnormality first. He lowered his head subconsciously, and what he saw was the trembling black head buried in his chest.
"...Satsuki?"
His voice was still hoarse from just waking up, but it was full of shock and disbelief.
What he saw in front of him was no longer the arrogant Uchiha genius. She completely abandoned all pride and showed her most vulnerable heart without reservation.
She was crying so hard that her whole body was shaking, and her tears wanted to shed all the fear and sadness. The uncontrollable sobs were something he had never imagined hearing from her.
At this moment, Naruto was completely awake.
(One update this morning, three updates this afternoon)