Gua returned home and told his mom and dad that he would be going to the battlefield.
After hearing this,
Uchiha Nai was furious, just as expected.
"Gua is only seven!!"
"Clan Leader Fugaku wants Gua to go to the battlefield??"
"I'm going to see Clan Leader Fugaku!!"
Uchiha Nai stood up to leave, but Gua stopped her.
"The clan leader said it was the Third Generation's decision."
Uchiha Nai froze briefly, then quickly recovered, her emotions still running high.
"Even if it's the Third Generation! Even the Third Generation can't send a child like Gua to the battlefield!"
"Maybe it's a kind of training."
Gua explained calmly.
Uchiha Nai shook her head.
"I won't let you take that kind of risk, Gua."
"If someone has to go, let me go in your place!"
"I'll go see the Third Generation."
Gua stood up.
"Mom, let me go."
Uchiha Nai stopped. She looked at Gua's childish face, a trace of sadness showing in her eyes.
She still remembered how tiny Gua had been, how she had held him in her arms and walked all around the house.
The first time he cried, his mouth had opened so wide. Although she had been the one to smack him, she would never forget that moment.
Gua wasn't as rambunctious as other children.
Gua had spared her a great deal of worry.
But she didn't need a son who spared her so much worry. That wasn't why she had given birth to him.
She wanted to watch Gua grow up happy.
So she had given Gua everything she could.
But this time, she seemed to realize something.
The cruelty of the Shinobi World.
One day, Gua would grow into an adult too.
Willingly or unwillingly, he would leave his mother's embrace.
Nai pulled Gua