The Shadow of Konoha

Hanyu stayed in the Wet Bone Forest, continuing to practice ninjutsu while studying the forbidden techniques for which he had already completed the design.

The power of forbidden techniques is self-evident, but how to reduce the harm of forbidden techniques to the body of the practitioner has always been a difficult question to answer, and Hanyu is also troubled by this.

Until one day, a tiny slug climbed onto his shoulder and whispered in his ear, "Master Hanyu, the time has come."

Hanyu was stunned for a moment, then put down the information in his hand... Nawaki's expected date of birth should be a month ago, so it is self-evident what Katsuyu meant by "the time has come".

"Well, it's time for me to return to Konoha."

In accordance with the agreement between him and Sansho, Hanyu has never visited her since the last time they met... Let the respectable people always appear the most respectable. Although it seems a bit self-deception for both parties, Hanyu is willing to accept this arrangement.

And now... this is something that he had already prepared himself mentally for, so Hanyu did not have any special emotional fluctuations at this moment. Life has to end, and this is the greatest helplessness in the world.

Then, Hanyu used the summoning technique to summon back the Katsuyu clone that stayed in Konoha... Previously, he left two Katsuyu clones in Konoha, and as long as one of them was summoned back to the Wet Bone Forest, the remaining one would take this as a signal and perform the reverse summoning technique to bring Hanyu back to Konoha.

The process seems a bit cumbersome, but there is nothing that can be done about it. Although the summoning technique is also a space-time ninjutsu, it is not Flying Thunder God after all.

In the blink of an eye, Hanyu returned to his room in Konoha from the Wet Bone Forest. He moved his hands and feet as usual, then looked out the window and found that the scene outside was not much different from when he went to the Wet Bone Forest before.

If there is any difference, it is that there are more pedestrians bustling on the streets, which gives people a more "prosperous" impression... The war is basically over, and the solemn atmosphere is gone, so the village has become more lively.

Hanyu just stood there looking outside. He didn't even know how much time had passed. Then he seemed to realize something, opened the door, and left home.

But when he walked out of the house, he found that compared to the view from above, the streets in the evening seemed even more lively when he was there in person.

However, such bustle had little to do with him. Hanyu walked along the street beside the hot spring river, and only stopped slightly when passing by a flower shop.

Outside the flower shop

The young shop owner quickly noticed being stared at by a stranger, and when she saw Hanyu and was about to go out to greet him, Hanyu just smiled at her, shook his head slowly, passed by the flower shop and continued walking forward.

The owner didn't care and didn't think she was wasting her feelings. She smiled back at Hanyu and continued to do her own thing.

After Hanyu walked around the crowded streets with people and buildings and arrived at the quietest area of Konoha, the sky was already very dark.

There is a large cemetery in the Hidden Leaf Village. Especially now that the war has just ended, even at this late hour, there are still many people coming to pay their respects.

But even though there were many figures here, everything still seemed unusually quiet. Hanyu walked in the cemetery, and after a while, he stopped .

He didn't need to look for anything here, because he soon saw a small, familiar figure standing in an inconspicuous corner.

Tsunade stood there in a daze, and Hanyu walked step by step behind her. Two steps ahead of Tsunade's figure was a plain tombstone...

"Misaki", there is neither extra explanation nor photos on the tombstone, there only one words.

After a long while, Tsunade turned around and found Hanyu standing quietly behind her.

"Hanyu…"

Apart from being dressed in black, Tsunade looked no different from before, but if you looked closely, you could see a hint of confusion in her eyes... At her age, she was able to understand what "death" was, but when it really happened around her and to her closest people, even if she understood it, it was not so easy to accept.

Ninjas have reaped lives on the battlefield and witnessed too many deaths. This is one situation, but now it is another.

The person who had always been by her side suddenly disappeared. Tsunade is just feeling lost now. However, the difference between a person and a handful of soil is so huge, so huge that one cannot perceive any sense of reality. So now Tsunade is just feeling lost.

"Yeah." Hanyu responded softly.

"Hanyu, what... should I do?" Tsunade asked again, with a sense of helplessness in her tone.

Tsunade should be extremely emotional right now, but she couldn't express it at all because she didn't know how to express it.

Hanyu was silent for a while, then he said to her, "Tsunade, a person's greatness, smallness, dignity, humbleness, strength, weakness, no matter whether you like or hate, respect or despise, close or distant, before exploring and distinguishing these, there is a potential premise that needs to be clarified - that is, whether he has it or not.

Only if you have it, some of the things you think about will make sense.

However, once a person is gone, he is gone, and everything is gone.

Teacher Sansho...is gone now.

Do you understand, girl?"

Life and death are two opposing concepts, but now Tsunade has separated them . She can understand that her mother is dead, but she cannot accept that her mother has lost her life - how could she realize that she has disappeared when her voice, appearance and smile are still there.

But there were things that Tsunade hadn't figured out yet, but now Hanyu told her clearly.

After hearing what Hanyu said, Tsunade turned around in shock. After a long pause, she seemed to be a little slow in reacting and whispered to herself, "So... is that the case?"

After she finished speaking, she no longer had any questions to ask Hanyu, so she took a step forward, walked around Hanyu, and walked out of the cemetery.

Slowly, she raised her hands to cover her eyes, sobbing softly at first, and then burst into tears while walking forward. Her sobbing, as if she was vomiting out her heart and lungs, echoed behind the cemetery.

Along with the crying, tears welled up in her eyes, which could not be wiped away no matter how hard she tried with her hands... It was a very simple thing, Tsunade didn't need to do anything, she just had to cry.

Amid the night, the chirping of insects and Tsunade's crying, Hanyu just quietly watched her leaving back.

Tsunade, who was able to cry, and Hanyu, who certainly would not shed tears, were both under the same night sky and seeing the same scenery - just a simple and dense night color, dotted with confusing and confusing stars.

The crying sound gradually faded away, and then in the background of the night, the sound of whispered conversations could be heard.

"Is Hanyu a bit cerebral palsy? Why did he make her cry?"

After being in contact with Hanyu for a long time, Jiraiya would feel assimilated from time to time when he spoke.

"If one among the three of us suffers from cerebral palsy, it will only be you, Jiraiya." Orochimaru said from the side. He rarely spoke from Hanyu's perspective.

Orochimaru thought, did Hanyu make her cry? Is Jiraiya blind? Even if Hanyu made Tsunade cry, Jiraiya couldn't even make her cry, what hope is there?

Orochimaru could understand everything that was happening in front of him, not because he was deep and meticulous in his thoughts, but... Speaking of which, the difference between Orochimaru and Jiraiya was a bit similar to that of Sasuke and Naruto later on.

Jiraiya was an orphan at a young age, and Orochimaru had experienced what Tsunade was going through not long ago, so he could empathize with it.

Hanyu had already noticed the presence of the two little ones, but what were they talking about? How could they fall behind when protecting someone?

So Hanyu raised his thumb and flicked his wrist, pointing in the direction Tsunade had just left, signaling them to follow immediately. After seeing his action, Jiraiya and Orochimaru thought they almost forgot about the important matter, so they hurriedly followed.

After these people left, Hanyu was still standing here. He looked at the word "Misaki" on the tombstone, and he found it hard to accept no matter how he looked at it - Sansho must have longed to become a real Senju, but she couldn't do it. Not only could she not do it, but she also "destroyed" the Senju.

So in the end, there were only word "Misaki" written on her tombstone.

This is hard to accept.

It was late at night. At this time, the Third Hokage appeared beside Hanyu unknowingly. After a long silence, he sighed and said, "Hanyu, do you want to stay in the village or go out... to perform some mission?"

He actually wanted to say that he wanted to go out and relax, but then he thought that such words coming from the Hokage were somewhat inappropriate, so he changed his words.

"Ah, it's really boring to stay at home all the time." Hanyu looked straight ahead and said to the Third Hokage without turning his head.

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The next morning, Tsunade with red and swollen eyes came to the cemetery again. Then, from a distance away from Sansho's tombstone, she noticed that the tombstone seemed to have been damaged, so she rushed over.

Then, she discovered that this place was indeed destroyed. However, after she saw everything clearly, she couldn't help but ask, can this be called destruction?

In front of the word "Misaki" on the tombstone, the word "Senju" was added to complete Misaki's name.

Tsunade recognized the handwriting, everything looked freshly chiseled, and every stroke showed the emotions of the person who carved the words at the time.

She stretched out one hand and placed it on the tombstone, then slowly closed her eyes.

When Tsunade opened her eyes again, she found a huge scroll appeared under her feet without any warning.

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