"Mother?"
The black pupils reflecting the red moon blinked, and Uchiha Izumi gradually returned to calm.
Oh, right.
She is at home now, and she is going to have dinner with her mother.
and……
Sniff~sniff~
Uchiha Izumi's nose wrinkled as if he smelled the fragrance.
Mom made her favorite three-color meatballs!
"Here it comes, Mom!"
A trace of joy flashed in her eyes, and her tone contained the characteristic coquettishness of a girl when facing her mother.
He immediately stood up and walked towards the house, his long black hair swaying.
Click~
The door slowly closed.
Looking into the house from the courtyard, I can only see two looming shadows intersecting.
"Quan, it's true! Why are you wearing so little clothes outside again? What if you get sick!"
"Mom~ I am a ninja, not a child anymore!"
Uchiha Izumi sounded a little helpless from inside the house, but you could still faintly hear the smile in his tone.
After a while, Quan and his mother sat face to face at the table filled with food.
"I'm starting."
The two of them closed their eyes together, lowered their heads, and clasped their hands together.
Quan opened his eyes and looked at the food on the table, with a hint of salivation on his face.
But when I raised my head, I accidentally met my mother's eyes.
"Eh?"
Quan's eyes couldn't help but tremble, and an inexplicable sense of disobedience suddenly arose in his heart.
The heat of the food slowly rose, seeming to cover everything in front of him, and the mother's face across from him looked a little distorted.
But when she blinked and looked carefully.
My mother's face is still kind and gentle, and there has been no change from beginning to end.
"What's wrong, Quan?"
The mother touched her face and asked with some confusion: "Why are you looking at me like this? Is there something on my face?"
Uchiha Izumi shook his head blankly.
After coming back to his senses, he held his forehead and reluctantly smiled.
"It's nothing, maybe I'm too tired during this period."
I always feel like I've forgotten something important, but I really can't remember it.
"I'm tired."
My mother habitually nagged: "I've told you many times that even if you become a ninja, you still have to take care of your body."
"Look at the eldest son of the patriarch's family. He may not be able to go home even once a week."
She sighed with emotion: "If I didn't have a little son with me, even the patriarch would definitely be lonely."
After all, if they lose their status as the patriarch and the patriarch's wife, they will be nothing more than the parents of two children.
"I know, I know."
Uchiha Izumi shook his head, forcing away the complicated emotions in his head, and said in a gentle tone: "Let's eat first."
After saying that, he picked up the bowls and chopsticks and started to eat happily.
Since the father who was a ninja and did not have Uchiha blood died in the Nine-Tails Rebellion.
She and her mother were already dependent on each other, and they were each other's only support.
This inexplicable look now only makes my mother more worried.
Even if you really forget something, you have to wait until tomorrow to recall it.
"Ugh! Good times!"
While Quan was eating, he kept saying: "Mom's cooking skills are still so good!"
"The thought of not being able to eat my mother's cooking for the next week makes me feel so sad."
And Quan looked the same as before.
The mother breathed a sigh of relief and gradually felt relieved, with a gentle smile on her face again.
She is just an ordinary person with Uchiha blood.
She couldn't understand what the ninjas in the clan were discussing.
But, I don't care at all.
As long as Quan can spend her life in peace, this is her biggest wish in this life.
It's a pity that now, as a ninja, Izumi has become the backbone of this small family.
It is inevitable to go out of the village to perform tasks in order to earn enough to support the two people's lives.
"Alas~"
When I thought about Izumi having to leave the village for a week to perform a mission, my mother couldn't help but sigh and said, "It would be better if you weren't a ninja."
No.
"It would be better if our family were all civilians."
That way, Quan's father wouldn't have died.
Quan can be an ordinary girl.
I have a happy family, a carefree childhood, and some friendly and kind friends.
There is no need to become a ninja to support a family, no need to be stained with blood to survive, and no need to bear human lives for missions.
Even, there is no need to bear the name of Uchiha...
"Well?"
Uchiha Izumi's mouth was filled to the brim with two balls.
Until I heard my mother's words.
Quan couldn't help but hesitate, and a complicated look flashed in his eyes.
However, this was only a moment.
She came back to her senses, swallowed the ball with a "gudong" sound, and asked with a dull expression: "What's the matter, Mom?"
Looking at Quan's face, her mother swallowed her words.
"Yeah~ It's okay."
She smiled lightly and shook her head, using her chopsticks to put a piece of eel in Quan's bowl: "Don't just eat the meatballs, try other dishes as well."
"Know it!"
Uchiha Izumi smiled at his mother and responded casually.
Then he lowered his head and fiddled with the food in the bowl with chopsticks.
The black hair on her forehead obscured her face, and the expression shrouded in shadow was complex.
As a daughter, how could she not know what her mother was thinking?
But isn't this the fate of being an Uchiha ninja and a Konoha ninja?
"Ah."
The corners of Uchiha Izumi's mouth curled up and he smiled silently.
Yes, the Konoha ninjas can say with patting their chests.
Whether it's killing ninjas or civilians from an enemy nation, or killing the target person for a hinted mission.
All to complete the village's mission, all to protect their village and family.
If you don't kill the enemy, you will be killed by the enemy.
Therefore, no one will be killed willingly.
But this way.
Ninjas are just tools to complete tasks and earn commissions.
Perhaps the target of the assassination was a wealthy man who was kind to the common people.
But he has already touched the interests of other wealthy people.
As long as other wealthy people use a high-sounding reason to issue an assassination mission in Konoha, the generous bounty will be enough to make the ninja tempted, and then take over the assassination mission.
So it doesn't really matter whether the goals of those missions are evil or good.
Compared with those wandering ninjas and gangsters, Konoha ninjas are no different.
Who is more noble than whom?
"It would be great if everything was as mother thought it would be."
Quan couldn't help but have this thought pop up in his mind.
Unfortunately, in the end it was just a fantasy.
She has no power to change the status quo, and naturally cannot be alone.
Even when facing someone she admires, she doesn't have the courage to express her feelings.
Just when Quan's thoughts were a little confused.
Boom! Boom!
A crisp knock on the door suddenly sounded, breaking the peace and tranquility of the night.
"Huh?"
Quan's mother was slightly startled and asked with a puzzled expression: "It's so late, why is there still someone knocking on the door?"
The sound of knocking on the door also interrupted Uchiha Izumi's thoughts.
But she didn't know why, but she couldn't help but feel a tremor in her heart, and her breath couldn't help but stagnate.
But he didn't wait for her to react.
"I'll go take a look. I don't know who came here so late."
Quan's mother stood up, muttering continuously, and walked towards the entrance door.
Click!
She opened the door without warning and looked out the door with some confusion.
"May I ask……"
Just when he opened the door, he saw only a pair of scarlet eyes.
After a moment of looking at each other.
The expression on her face froze for a moment.
thump! !
Hear this sound.
Uchiha Izumi, whose body was frozen, came to his senses, and his heart suddenly started beating rapidly.
Boom!
"Why?"
Boom!
"Why am I afraid?"
Boom! Boom! !
"Mother!!"
Quan's eyes widened instantly, and his bloodshot eyes turned scarlet, and the shape of three magatama emerged.
Then the figure disappeared from the spot and appeared directly at the entrance.
"伱! You are..."
It wasn't until he saw that cold and familiar face that Uchiha Izumi's ferocious expression suddenly froze.
I saw a figure with long hair tied up, a tear trough, and anbu costume standing there.
"...Itachi-kun?"
His face was extremely cold, the clothes on his body were soaked in blood, and he was holding a bloody short knife in his hand.
Quan's mother was lying at his feet, apparently in a coma.
"Itachi-kun, why? You..."
Looking at that familiar and cold face, Uchiha Izumi's body couldn't help but tremble slightly,
It's just that her words haven't been fully spoken yet.
The scarlet light in Uchiha Itachi's Sharingan eyes became even more intense, becoming hideous and terrifying in the darkness.
The three magatama suddenly began to rotate, seeming to gradually enlarge in front of Quan.
Finally, it completely transformed into the shape of three intersecting blades.
"Tsukuyomi!!"
Uchiha Izumi and Uchiha Itachi looked at each other.
As if he realized something, Quan's expression and eyes suddenly became ferocious.
"No reason!?"
"Why, Itachi-kun?!"
Quan's eyes trembled slightly, and he caught a glimpse of his mother underneath him.
Uchiha Itachi also looked at Izumi's mother who fell at his feet and fell into the illusion.
Then he took a deep breath and raised the ninja sword in his hand high.
No! No!
Mother! !
Seeing this scene, Uchiha Izumi's eyes were splitting as he tried his best to break free.
But her three magatama can't match the power of the Mangekyō Sharingan.
Uchiha Izumi watched as the butcher knife in Itachi's hand fell straight towards his mother's heart with the sound of breaking wind.
Poof!
The moment blood spattered out.
Uchiha Izumi's eyes and expression also fell into a dull state for an instant.
It looks like a puppet being controlled by someone.
………………
I don’t know how long it took.
In a daze, Uchiha Izumi's consciousness returned again.
Bang! !
Quan suddenly opened his eyes, and the three magatama in his eyes looked particularly charming under the candlelight.
"Mother!!"
She subconsciously stood up and shouted with a look of fear.
But when he saw the scene in front of him, his body couldn't help but freeze in place.
"……Mother?"
She saw that her mother, who had been killed by Itachi, was now sitting in front of her intact.
The dining table full of food had been overturned by her, and the sumptuous dishes were scattered on the floor and on her mother's body.
"spring?!"
The mother, who looked stunned and clasped her hands together, also came to her senses.
Looking at the mess, the word "well" popped up on his forehead.
She suppressed the anger in her heart and gritted her teeth: "Quan, what are you doing?!"
You were fine just now, why did you suddenly scream out of nowhere?
"I……"
Uchiha Izumi gradually regained his senses, and was a little confused for a while.
What's happening here?
Mother, wasn't it already killed by Uchiha Itachi?
So now this is...
"untie!!"
Quan blinked and formed seals with his hands, trying to break away from the illusion.
"..."
But after waiting for a while, everything in front of him still remained unchanged.
She formed the seal again in disbelief: "Unsolved! Unsolved!!"
But these actions have no effect.
It just made the originally angry mother worried and confused.
"spring?"
Mother frowned and said cautiously: "What's wrong with you?"
Uchiha Izumi shook his head subconsciously and said, "No, it's okay."
After all, he seemed to feel that his words were not convincing.
She gave her mother another forced smile.
"It's really okay. Maybe I was too tired during this period, so my nerves are a little sensitive."
The mother looked at the spring up and down doubtfully.
Seeing that there was nothing unusual about her body, I reluctantly believed her story.
"I'm tired."
The mother's frown relaxed slightly, and she started nagging again: "I've told you many times that even if you become a ninja, you still have to take care of your body."
Originally it was just a common sentence.
But when he heard it in Uchiha Izumi's ears, it was like a thunder exploding in his heart.
"Oh, it's really..."
The mother wiped the food on her body and sighed helplessly: "I'll make another meal."
After that, he got up and walked towards the kitchen.
But at this moment.
"Wait, wait a minute!"
Uchiha Izumi tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart, but his voice still couldn't stop trembling.
"Mother!"
She smiled palely at her mother, and then said calmly: "I suddenly remembered something, please wait a moment."
After he finished speaking, he didn't wait for his mother to say anything.
Quan's figure disappeared instantly and appeared directly in front of the entrance door.
She wanted to slide the door open, but suddenly paused.
The ordinary door, which she had long been tired of looking at, now seemed to her to be holding something terrifying.
"Is that an illusion, a genjutsu, or something else?"
Or is that actually the future?
"Quan? What are you doing?"
Her mother's voice came from behind, interrupting Izumi Uchiha's complicated thoughts, and a trace of determination flashed in her eyes.
Just listen to a "click" sound.
The door was opened directly by her.
It was just when Izumi subconsciously put on a defensive posture and looked outside with the three Magatama Sharingan.
"this……"
The full moon above the head still gave off a faint red light, and there was only tranquility and peace outside.
call!
Uchiha Izumi let out the breath that was held in his throat and glanced outside.
But still no abnormalities were found.
"Is it really because I'm too tired that I'm hallucinating?"
Although I can't believe it, there doesn't seem to be any other explanation.
"spring?"
Her mother behind her also walked up to her and asked with a worried look on her face: "What's wrong with you?"
The way Quan was startled now made her very worried about Quan's current mental state.
"It's nothing. Don't worry, mom. You can go cook first."
Uchiha Izumi breathed a sigh of relief and turned to his mother with a heartfelt smile.
"I'm going out for a walk and will be back soon."
(End of chapter)
