Naruto: If I ask you to kill Sasuke, you will become a succubus?

I told Naruto about the agreement between Sasuke and me, and why Sasuke was angry. He looked at me incredulously: "Asakaro thinks it's your fault?"

"Is not it?"

"No matter how you think about it, it's not Chaolu's fault!" Naruto objected loudly, "Chaolu just made an appointment with Sasuke to go to the beach to watch the fireworks. Didn't she watch it with him? Chaolu didn't make an appointment with him to think of him every time she watches the sea!"

"But...um, Sasuke should feel that...the special memories that were supposed to be created with me were taken away by someone else?"

"Then Chaolu is not wrong." Naruto insisted: "Chaolu is free to watch the fireworks on the beach with whomever she wants. It is also her freedom to choose whose fireworks she likes more. Why should Sasuke be unhappy!"

"In this case, isn't Sasuke a bit pitiful? I first forgot about him and our agreement, and then I didn't really appreciate the fairy wand he carefully prepared. I felt that I really didn't treat his kindness well..."

Naruto frowned, "Then Chaolu is not pitiful? If it were me, I wouldn't blame Chaolu for not thinking of me. I would just prepare a more powerful fireworks display to defeat Bai and make Chaolu recognize me!"

"Eh..." I once again intuitively realized that Naruto and Sasuke have completely different personalities. "So... don't I have to apologize to Sasuke?"

Naruto said angrily, "If Chaolu goes to apologize to him, I will be angry too! Chaolu didn't hurt Sasuke, it was Sasuke who was a fool! He wanted to hurt himself so much! Chaolu doesn't want an apology, but to correct his idea! In short! We must not bow our heads first! If he doesn't talk to Chaolu, then Chaolu won't talk to him either!"

I was a little worried: "If Sasuke gets too obsessed...it might lead to serious consequences!"

"What serious consequences?"

...become Hokage?

I sighed, "The reason why I think Sasuke is right is that I can roughly understand Sasuke's thoughts. He regards me as his only family. I am the most special person to him, so he hopes that he is the most special one to me. He longs to be the one who is unique and irreplaceable to me, and has the most important position and the most absolute preference... If I firmly believe that someone will treat me like this, but suddenly find that the other person doesn't think so, the feeling of being abandoned and betrayed... I understand that kind of pain."

Naruto was silent for a while.

"I understand too." He whispered, "I understand too..."

"What should I do? Should I lie to him...?"

"Don't always think it's your fault, Chaolu, and don't put yourself in a difficult position! It's not Chaolu's fault that you can't respond to Sasuke's feelings in the same way! It's not your obligation!" Naruto said angrily, "I really don't understand Sasuke's thoughts! Someone cares about Chaolu so much, and wants Chaolu to be happy so hard... Isn't that a good thing? Seeing Chaolu happy, I'm happy too!"

"Won't Naruto be angry?"

"No way! Even though it's not me who makes Chaolu so happy, I still feel a little disappointed when I think about it sometimes, but I hope the whole world can be so gentle to Chaolu and never lose their temper with you. Even if Chaolu tells me that she thinks Sasuke is more important than me, I won't lose my temper with her and force her to lie and say that I am more important... I will work hard to surpass Sasuke!"

I suddenly realized: "... Isn't Naruto's thinking the same as what you just advised me? 'Always think it's your own fault, always wronging yourself'. Huh? Are our brain circuits the same? Why is this happening?"

"Because we don't have parents, we only have ourselves. No matter how hard we try, it's hard to change other people's minds. The only thing we can change is ourselves." Naruto lowered his eyes and muttered softly: "Although Sasuke is Chaolu's real relative, but... I always feel that Chaolu and I are more similar."

"Isn't this very strange? Naruto advised me not to do that, but he kept doing it..."

"Hmm." After I said this, Naruto was unable to answer.

His face wrinkled. "But Sasuke was really afraid that you would leave. When I saw you jumping into the water, I didn't think you would just leave and never come back. I thought you would definitely come back... Why would he think that?"

"Because he considers me a family member? He said that family is the most important thing, and that kind of thing happened in his family... so... maybe it's a little sensitive."

"Ah! I figured it out!" Naruto clapped his hands, "In that case, Chaolu can just tell him that since he's family, he's different from Bai, right?"

"what?"

"Sasuke, isn't he afraid that you'll abandon him? But he's your only relative, and this identity is the most special. As long as you tell him this clearly, he should be able to rest assured, right? Didn't Chaolu say this before? The feelings between family, friends, and lovers are all different. Tell Sasuke that you regard him as a brother and Bai as a friend. His fireworks are the fireworks between family members, and Bai's fireworks are the fireworks between friends. Will he not be angry anymore?"

"It seems to work!" I said in surprise: "I'll try it next time!"

"So, Chaolu, are you staying at my house today?" Naruto looked at me expectantly: "It's very late today."

"But Kakashi-sensei will pick me up from the orphanage tomorrow... I still have to go back tonight."

"In this case..." Naruto hung his head in frustration, "Then I'll send Chaolu back!"

"Won't it be troublesome?"

"No, I want to be with Chaolu."

We changed into going out clothes and walked towards the orphanage. When we passed the Hokage Rock, I looked at the face of the Fourth Hokage. His eyes were always looking into the distance, as if he was looking at an endless future, but he could not lower his eyes to look at his own children.

"Naruto……"

"Ok?"

"You just said that we don't have parents, so we can only wrong ourselves, right?"

"what……"

"But Naruto always wronged himself, but he would tell me not to wrong myself, so I was thinking... Although I don't have parents, doesn't Naruto love me in the same way as a parent? Then, I also love Naruto in the same way as a parent, and from now on, I will remind Naruto not to wrong himself all the time, how about that?"

Naruto blinked.

"Come to think of it, Naruto is already very proficient in transformation now! How about trying to transform into 'Dad'? I can also transform into 'Mom'!"

Naruto looked interested, "What do dad and mom look like?"

"Like this!" I made a seal and turned into an adult. I smiled at the child in front of me, bent down, hugged him, and stroked his hair. "Our Naruto is a very good child."

"!"

Naruto's whole body stiffened for a moment, and after a long while, he hugged me carefully.

"…Is this what it feels like to be in a mother's arms?"

"If Naruto likes it."

"I like it very much..." Naruto happily withdrew from my arms and began to make hand seals: "Okay, then I want to become like 'Dad' too!"

With a "bang" the white smoke dissipated, and the grown-up Naruto excitedly opened his arms towards me and hugged me.

"...Um, Naruto..."

He rubbed my cheek contentedly and said, "Hmm? What's the matter?"

"You've changed... don't you look a little too much like the Fourth Hokage...?"

"Huh? Really? But I admire the Fourth Hokage very much, so I borrowed his hairstyle!"

No, it's not just about the hairstyle...! You definitely can't imagine what you'll look like when you grow up, so you just refer to the appearance of the Fourth Hokage!

But, Naruto is the son of the Fourth Hokage. Since I look almost exactly like my mother Nohara Rin, it is not impossible that Naruto will look like the Fourth Hokage when he grows up, right?

Speaking of which, we have only seen the Fourth Hokage as an adult, and have not seen him when he was young. What if he looked exactly like Naruto when he was a child?

Thinking of this, I immediately convinced myself and happily hugged Naruto.