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

After Aburame Tone was unable to fight any more, the boy who looked like Sai probably realized that he couldn't win on his own, so he rode away on the ink bird with the information and never returned.

I used the Anbu cloak on Aburame Togen to wrap his hands tightly. Shiro picked up the Anbu mask he had dropped earlier and gently covered his face to hide the half of his face that was exposed.

After making sure that no skin was exposed on his body, Gaara coated the Aburame with a layer of gravel, and I put a layer of Susanoo on Gaara.

Under such heavy protection, Gaara carried Aburame Tone on his back, disguised as a puppet, and took him back to the Land of Waves.

Before I could even say that I had brought back a stranger, I saw Neji's new look and was surprised.

"Ningji? What are you doing?"

His eyes were covered with a bandage, and his long black hair, which originally fell down behind his back, was braided into a long pigtail that fell in front of his chest.

If someone didn't know him, it would be difficult to tell at first glance whether he was a handsome and heroic girl or a boy.

Zabuza said: "I'll ask him to cover his eyes for a while."

"But this will block the view, right?"

Neji raised his hand to take off the bandage, with a trace of fatigue on his face: "Well... If you don't open your Byakugan, you can't see through things normally. However, if you treat this as a kind of training, it's not impossible to get used to it."

"Training? Training to open your Byakugan for a long time?"

"Ah."

"Then your hairstyle..."

Zabuza said: "Try to differentiate yourself from before. Dress differently from before... sometimes that's a good idea."

Ningji raised his hand and touched the braid hanging in front of his chest, and asked me uncomfortably: "Will it look weird?"

"Hmm." I tilted my head, looked at him carefully again, and smiled, "Not weird, still very good looking!"

Neji pursed his lips. Although he tried hard to control himself, I could still see that the corners of his lips were clearly rising uncontrollably.

Sure enough, no matter who you are, you will always be happy to be praised.

At this moment, Gaara removed the sand from behind him, and Aburame's root was suddenly exposed and she fell to the ground.

Seeing the Anbu mask on his face, Zabuza and Neji's expressions changed.

Zabuza frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

Only then did Bai say, "We encountered Konoha's Anbu."

Zabuza said angrily, "You should have told me this as soon as you got back!"

"We have him under control." Bai paused, "Chao Lu... erased all his memories. He doesn't remember anything now."

Hearing this, Zabuza and Neji looked at Aburame Tone in surprise.

Neji hesitated and said, "What do you mean by not remembering anything?"

Gaara said, "Even though he has the body of a teenager, his brain is like that of a newborn baby."

I saw Zabuza approaching him and quickly said, "Be careful, he is a ninja from the Aburame clan of Konoha. He has special nano-poison insects on his body. Once touched, the cells will be destroyed."

Ningji turned his head and looked at me: "Are you okay?"

Me: “…Uh.”

Neji immediately asked, "Are you injured? Where?"

Gaara said solemnly, "Asaro's arm touched him."

"Arm?" Neji opened his Byakugan, frowned, and fixed his eyes on my arm. His face was ashen: "...The meridians are broken."

"It's nothing serious."

Neji disagreed, "How can it be nothing serious!"

"Although it's a bit troublesome to make a seal, can't Bai also make a seal with one hand?" I said, "And I still have one hand, so I can continue to fight with White Fang."

Neji asked, "Can it be cured?"

He looked at Haku and Zabuza: "Do you know any good doctors? The kind that can treat rebel ninjas?"

Zabuza crossed his arms and said after a while: "I know a few doctors, but I can't guarantee whether they can cure it."

Suddenly, the oil girl Qu Gen on the ground burst into tears.

We were all stunned.

I squatted down a bit at a loss, lifted the mask on his face, and saw tears on his cheeks. He was twisting and turning on the ground. I couldn't help but look at Gaara dumbfoundedly: "Did he fall somewhere when I put him down just now?"

Gaara hesitated and said, "Really?"

Neji was silent for a moment: "... Morning Dew..."

"Ok?"

He rolled his eyes and looked at me with a complicated expression: "If his brain is in the state of a baby and he has forgotten how to walk, have you ever considered the problem of him going to the toilet?"

I:"……"

I:"!?"

Zabuza took a step back from Aburame Tone, "Do you have to keep him? I think you might as well just kill him. It would be better for him and for us."

I objected subconsciously: "How could death be better?"

Bai looked at me, then at Zabuza: "If we want to keep him, maybe..."

He turned his head and looked at the sky outside. "The shops in the market should still be open now. I'll go buy some diapers..."

Zabuza suddenly said: "Remember to buy adult size!"

Bai smiled bitterly and left in a hurry.

Looking at the crying Aburame Tone, Neji suggested: "How about reminding him of basic common sense?"

I shook my head, "Then he'll remember about the Aburame clan."

Zabuza said: "Then what do you want to do? Be his mother and raise him again? Teach him to walk and eat, and teach him to go to the toilet and take a bath?"

I:"……"

He sighed deeply, "You'd better never give his memory back to him for the rest of your life... It's better to die with dignity than to live without dignity and be humiliated unconsciously."

"I let him live, not to humiliate him!"

"You can't even protect yourself now, and you're still prepared to take his life?" Zabuza disagreed, "A person's life is such a heavy burden, are you really prepared?"

I removed the blindfold of Aburame Torine through a layer of clothing and saw his face for the first time.

Maybe because he hadn’t seen the sun for many years, his skin was very white. It was a very unfamiliar face to me, but because of the complicated relationship at this moment, I seemed to be very familiar with him.

He stared at me straight, his eyes were dark, but without any extra emotions, only the simplest human instincts - crying and laughing.

Come to think of it…even though I’ve known Shino for a long time, I’ve never seen him without sunglasses.

“Isn’t it just taking care of a baby…” I wiped his tears with the fabric of my sleeve and made up my mind: “At worst, I will be his mother!”

Zabuza: "...Huh? Are you serious?"

……

Shiro soon returned, and Gaara used sand to help me carry the Aburame to the room.

"You really don't need our help?" Neji hesitated, "I, Gaara, and Zabuza... Even if Haku looks like a girl, he is also a man. Wouldn't it be better if we take care of him?"

"But, it was me who made Togen become like this, so I should take responsibility. A person who is almost an adult will become a baby's mindset and will definitely do many things that are ridiculous to outsiders... If it were you, Neji, would you want to be seen by a third person?"

"I'd rather die." Neji responded quickly, "Do you really want to keep him? Can't you just let him forget everything and let his companions take him back to Konoha?"

"His companion ran away..."

Neji had nothing to say, so he just walked out.

When I closed the door, I heard Zabuza say faintly in the living room: "Killing people is not enough..."

I looked at the roots and felt a little confused.

I have always felt that no matter what, being alive is better than being dead. As long as you are alive, there is still hope.

But Zabuza and his friends felt that it would be better to die directly and with dignity than to linger on.

Dignity...

I touched Qugen's hair and he looked at me confusedly.

"I'm sorry... I still don't want to kill you." I whispered, "I'll try my best to take care of you with dignity. Okay?"

He tilted his head.

The look of not understanding anything made me feel complicated.

……

By the time I came out after removing the roots from the oil girl and changing her clothes, it was already dark. He was close to adulthood and didn't know how to cooperate. I could only move one hand, and it took a lot of effort for me to turn him over and over.

I wanted to throw Tone's clothes into the washing machine, but Zabuza said that he was not sure whether Konoha's Anbu had left any tracking methods on the clothes, so it would be better to burn them just in case.

Shiro started a fire in the backyard, and Neji threw his clothes into the fire. I sat on the porch, leaning against the door frame and whispered, "Being a mother is so tiring..."

Zabuza was standing next to me and suddenly called me, "Hey."

"Ok?"

"That Aburame Togen, his abilities are pretty powerful right? Shiro just told me that he almost died before he even saw the enemy."

I looked up at him and vaguely knew what he wanted to say.

Zabuza looked down at me and said, "If you can get him to help me kill the Mizukage, my plan might actually have a chance of success."

"…He doesn't even remember how to fight now, how can you ask him to help?"

"You must have a way." Zabuza said, "Since you can make him forget everything, you must have a way to make him remember something."

I suddenly felt disgusted and annoyed.

"When I first came to the Land of Waves, I opened my Sharingan because I met you. At that time, I saw Bai's memory, so I understood each other and became friends with him. Because of this, Kakashi-sensei discovered that my life experience was suspicious. He also doubted my ability to control other people's thoughts."

I glared at Zabuza angrily, "At that time, I thought about modifying Kakashi-sensei's memory and making him forget about it. If I had done that at that time, I would probably still be in Konoha now!"

Zabuza asked, "Why didn't you do that?"

"Because I don't want to do that! Human memory is... a very precious thing. Modifying or manipulating it at will is a very, very bad thing."

"What about you now?"

"I didn't modify Qu Gen's memory. All his memories are well-preserved in his mind, but I hid them a little deeper. When the time is right, I will return his memories to him! So don't take it for granted... that I can control him and use him as a puppet and tool! Don't think so confidently... that I have changed!"

"What's the point of insisting like this?" Zabuza looked at me and said, "Will those people in Konoha believe you? If they see Aburame Toneko next to you like a baby, they will definitely think that you are controlling him and manipulating him like a puppet. In the eyes of others, you have long been the kind of person you don't want to be."

I gritted my teeth and said, "I know I'm not."

Zabuza stared at me, his eyes questioning me: Really? Do you believe it?

But he didn't ask in the end.

"Since you mentioned the first time you came to Wave Country and met us," Zabuza said, "then I also want to ask you something."

"what?"

"At that time, you questioned me and Shiro, saying that if our goal was to overthrow the cruel tyranny of the Hidden Mist Village, we shouldn't have killed Dazna who wanted to resist just like us. You said that true heroes are those who dare to face the strong without hesitation in order to protect those weaker than themselves. If someone only wields a knife against the weak, then that person is just a scum. Do you remember?"

"…I remember. I was so excited at that time…I'm sorry."

"Have you always disapproved of me?"

I was taken aback.

"Have you always thought that I am a scum who only wields a knife against the weak. And your Kakashi sensei is the real hero?"

I quickly explained: "I wasn't familiar with you at that time...but in the past few days, I have learned that you are not a bad person!"

"But you don't think we are on the same path, do you?" Zabuza said, "If you agree with me and think that I overthrew the regime of the Hidden Mist Village in order to protect those who are suffering and oppressed, why are you unwilling to help me? Because deep down in your heart, you feel that I overthrew the regime of the Hidden Mist Village only out of my personal ambition to become the Mizukage, and for my ambition, it is not worth sacrificing other people's lives and causing unnecessary sacrifices."

I turned and looked towards the yard.

Gaara, Neji, and Shiro were standing by the fire, and their backs made me feel at ease.

And if they were in danger and had to fight a life-and-death battle, I would be very worried.

"I think this is why you can't abandon your 'courtesy' towards Kakashi and can't naturally address me with honorifics." Zabuza said: "Because you always think he is a hero, even if he sees you as an enemy."

"..."

"I remember you said then that you wanted a better world. What about now?"

I whispered, "Of course it still is."

"If I become the Mizukage, wouldn't that be a step towards making the world a better place?" Zabuza said, "I will abolish the rules of the Blood Mist Village, and I will forbid fellow villagers from killing each other... Of course, I don't deny that this is something that happened in the Hidden Mist Village. Perhaps for you who was born in Konoha, such a change is not worth your effort. But in the better world you want, are only the people of Konoha important?"

"… Then they can survive and become ninjas, but what happens when there are more ninjas in the Hidden Mist Village? During the Chunin Exam, even though it was a joint exam between allied nations, Hokage-sama said it was a battlefield between nations. Ninjas won't die at the hands of their companions, but at some point, they will die at the hands of ninjas from other countries."

Zabuza said: "If a person dies at the hands of the enemy when he is in his twenties or thirties, do you think it is meaningless to save him from his companions when he was in his teens?"

"I just feel like the fate of ninjas is like a dead end, and there's no way out."

"Then start changing things around you. Take action first. This is more important than anything else. Chaolu, I really am seeking your help and I need your help."

I looked at Zabuza, and he looked at me firmly: "I also want a better world. On this point, our goals are the same."

"If I help you..." I said slowly, "Will you become the Mizukage and make me an S-rank wanted criminal?"

"It depends on what you want. If you want the title of S-rank wanted criminal, I can give it to you. If you want the protection of Kirigakure, I can also give you the identity of Kirigakure ninja and ask Konoha to stop hunting you. Or, I can also accept you as my apprentice, and after I abdicate, you will be the next Mizukage."