"Boom."
The sound of Kunai hitting the target came and went. Naruto, who was standing upside down on the branch, looked like a wilted cucumber leaf, looking absent-minded.
The wilted Naruto-kun (no)
"Naruto-kun..." Hinata, who was training with him, looked worriedly at Naruto, who was swaying left and right like leaves blown by the wind, and forcibly cheered up, "When we went to the hospital to see Sasuke-kun yesterday, the doctor said he should be fine, and he will definitely be back soon."
"Boom."
Another Kunai was thrown, and Naruto, whose mind was not here at all, finally jumped down from the tree, looked at Hinata and sighed, "It's not just Sasuke That guy, and you said that I took Sister Quan to your house before, but she disappeared. This is also very incomprehensible to me, I don't even have any impression, but it is true that I showed up at your house, it can't be me sleepwalking, right?"
[Also, I don't know why, I have stopped dreaming when I sleep these past few days, and I don't feel satisfied when I wake up every day. Instead, I feel extremely empty.]
But mentioning this seems very pretentious. Naruto did not say this in front of Hinata.
"... still can't find her with your moves?" Hinata stopped practicing and said a little sadly.
Although Hinata does not know Quan, and even Naruto may be a little envious because she is lost for a girl, but Hinata, who is kind-hearted, is also very worried about the missing Uchiha Izumi.
"Yeah, it's really weird. That mark obviously can't be erased, but now I really can't feel the Mark that was left on the back of Older Sister Izumi's hand last time." Naruto frowned as if his brain was overused, and then looked at Hinata, "Obviously I can easily feel the Mark like you."
Naruto This strange wording made Hinata blush, but she still subconsciously looked at the small Spiral Mark in the palm of her hand.
[That was the first time Naruto-kun shook hands with me... Well, I'd better not think about it, I'm too shy.]
"Is it too far away?" Hinata asked again.
"It only costs Chakra more to be farther away, and it doesn't affect perception..." As if he thought of something, Naruto's mood suddenly became a little low, "Isn't it possible that even Older Sister Izumi had an accident? After all, the people of Sasuke are..."
It can be seen that Naruto was so worried at this time that he couldn't bring up Training's interest at all. The considerate Hinata quickly changed the topic. "Naruto-kun How about we go to the hospital to see Sasuke-kun now."
"Huh?"
"Look, although Brother Neji said he would visit at school today, maybe Sasuke-kun has already woken up? After all, after such a big thing happened, he must be at a loss when he wakes up." Hinata said seriously, "As friends, I think it would be better for us to stay with him."
Naruto heard the words and thought for a while, "Hinata What you said is right, it makes perfect sense. Sasuke That guy's temperament is what he would do if he woke up and found out that such a big thing had happened. Let's go quickly!"
After saying that, he hurriedly took Hinata's hand and ran towards the hospital. Hinata also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
In fact, she was not the only one to see Naruto's confusion at this moment. In Hinata's impression, his own father could also see it.
Ever since that day, her father had visited her and told her very sternly and gently not to leave Naruto-kun alone after school as much as possible in the recent period. If she really wanted to go home after school, she should take Naruto-kun with her.
The general idea is to stay with Naruto-kun as much as possible. My father must hope that I can help Naruto-kun more.
The innocent Hinata thought this in her heart, completely unaware that if her father's words were understood from another perspective, it would require her to be within the protection of Naruto in all occasions except home and school, and she must not be alone during this period!
At this time, Sasuke was sitting alone on Riverside, looking at the lake in a daze.
"Dad... Mom..."
He murmured to himself, his lips moved a few times, but no sound came out, as if his throat was blocked. Finally, tears couldn't help flowing down, and fell on the grass.
"... I've been discharged from the hospital. I'll leave you a message anyway."
A familiar voice sounded behind him. Sasuke quickly wiped his face with his hands to wipe away the tears, and turned to look at the boy Byakugan who was holding a fruit basket in both hands and whose chest was still heaving from running.
Afterwards, Sasuke said nothing, looked back, stood up and prepared to leave.
Neji, who had been looking for him for a long time, looked at his back as he left and followed him without saying a word.
Sasuke started running, and Neji picked up the fruit basket and started running faster.
The one in front felt pain all over his body while running, and the one chasing after him almost ran out of energy.
But the two people remained silent, and the speed became faster and faster, until both of them were exhausted and panting, they slowly stopped.
"You... you... huh... have you run enough?" After discovering that Sasuke was missing from the hospital, Neji, who drove Byakugan everywhere, almost couldn't breathe. Finally, he took a deep breath and finally couldn't help but speak.
Sasuke was holding his stomach, the area where Weasel had hit him was still aching, but he looked up at the sky and remained silent without answering.
"... We all know what happened."
"I can understand how you feel now."
"If you don't run away, I'll have a chat with you."
Neji looked at Sasuke, as if talking to himself.
"You know, I am from the Hyuga Branch Family. My father was the head of the Branch Family, but he died. When I was four years old, he was forced to death by the Main Family. After my father died, my mother went on a hunger strike and died in depression a few days later. I have tasted the pain of loss earlier than you!"
Neji's words made Sasuke startled in his heart, and finally his eyes stopped on him.
[He is the same as me?]
"This feeling is very uncomfortable. I also know what you want to do now, and I can tell by the look in your eyes that you know who your enemy is and you want revenge. So, I think you are luckier than me."
"Lucky... are you mocking me?!"
Sasuke suddenly became violent. His anger and hatred made him lose his mind. He rushed forward and grabbed Neji's collar.
"Yeah, lucky, do you know what this is!"
The caught Neji smiled miserably, stretched out his hand to remove the bandage on his forehead, pointed at the strange green lines on his forehead and said word by word -
"Sasuke, have you heard of 'Fate'?"
"I am Hyuga Branch Family. When I was very young, I was engraved with the word 'Caged Bird Seal' that I can never betray Main Family. I will never be able to get rid of the shackles of the Main Family in my life. I can only live forever to protect Main Family who killed my parents!"