Approaching the End

The moon shone bright beneath sparse stars. Tomorrow would be another fine day.

Mm, which made today perfect for beating up kids.

Not long after Yuya and Tsunade left Naruto's house, they heard Boruto crying from inside.

"I'm really jealous~ I wonder if I'll get to see Sound Dream grow to Boruto's age," Yuya said casually, his hands clasped behind his head.

"If you smoked less, played more games, and used your brain more, you could definitely fight off that illness," Tsunade said softly as she looked at Yuya.

Yuya immediately pulled out a cigarette after hearing that, ready to calm his nerves.

The veins on Tsunade's forehead throbbed furiously.

"You're doing this just to piss me off, aren't you?"

Yuya took a drag and chuckled, holding Tsunade's hand as he pointed at the bright moon in the sky. "At a time like this, don't say such foolish things.

It's like the moon up there~

When you don't know what it is, you think it's sacred and beautiful. But once you truly understand its existence, you realize...

It's really just something that broke away from Earth.

I know my own body. My lifespan definitely won't be short, but dementia is something I refuse to endure, even if it kills me."

As he spoke, Yuya turned and narrowed his eyes at Tsunade. "Say, you wouldn't be planning to tie me up when the time comes and stop me from ending things myself, would you?"

Tsunade fell silent, her eyes reddening slightly.

Yuya scratched his head, then helplessly wrapped an arm around Tsunade's shoulders. "No one can say for sure when a person truly dies... Look at that idiot Orochimaru. In pursuit of immortality, he turned himself into neither man nor ghost. Now all those younger kids are terrified of him, and