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

"Okay." I said, "I will stay until the end. If one day you leave, I will carefully pack up everything you left behind."

Obito turned around and made a face: "Eh! That sounds so unlucky!"

Although I am still not 100% sure whether the boy in front of me is Kakashi Sensei, but when facing him, I gradually can no longer regard him as "Obito": "You know it too."

"Hey," Obito grinned at me, "By the way, Chaolu, let's go shopping on the way back!"

I wanted to know what he wanted to do, so I nodded: "Okay, but where to go?"

"Let's go to the bookstore."

"Does Obito like reading?"

“Novels…I will still read them!”

"For example?" I tried, "Intimate Paradise?"

"Hey, that's a 18+ book!"

But when Obito and Kakashi were still in ninja school, the first part of that book had not yet been published.

"But Obito actually knew that it was 18+. How could he know that if he hadn't learned about it?"

He tried to defend himself: "Because I saw it in the bookstore!"

And I tried hard to distinguish which of his behaviors were part of Obito's character and which were part of Kakashi's will.

Which are the reactions that Kakashi thinks Obito will have, and which are the things that Kakashi desires in his heart but suppresses, and can only do when it is not his turn?

We walked towards the commercial street, and Obito said cheerfully, "Let's pass by the fruit shop later and buy some strawberries. It's the strawberry season now, and they are big and sweet... Chaolu likes strawberries the most, right? Speaking of which, why don't we have dinner in the commercial street? Chaolu, do you want tempura or barbecue?"

"What would you like to eat?"

"I don't have anything special I want to eat. I can eat whatever Chaolu wants."

"But..." Kakashi-sensei doesn't like tempura. "Won't Obito hate tempura?"

"I don't really like it, but..." Obito tilted his head, "How should I put it...Since Chaolu hasn't been back for a long time, I want to let Chaolu eat whatever she wants."

He looked at the tempura shop not far away. It was the shop I visited most often and my favorite when I was in Konoha.

"…Would the tempura restaurant in Kirigakure be more to your taste than the one in Konoha? I sometimes think so when I pass by here."

"Don't tell you."

"Eh?"

"I will answer you when you come and ask me face to face."

Obito looked at me strangely: "What do you mean face to face?"

"What Mist Village are you talking about?"

"Huh? Did I mention the Hidden Mist Village?"

"I didn't say anything face to face."

"Hmm - somehow, it feels like Chaolu has become very cunning."

"Because we haven't seen each other or spoken to each other for a long time... People change."

"It's like this," Obito said with a bit of loss, "All I know is about your childhood. Looking at you now, I don't know how to start or what to say. It would be weird to treat you as a stranger I met for the first time, but... it would also be weird to act like an acquaintance when I'm not familiar with you at all..."

“Let’s go,” I didn’t respond. “Let’s go to the bookstore, eat tempura, and buy some strawberries. Let’s go home together.”

"Chaolu, you are very comfortable with it."

I smiled and said, "Because I can see into people's hearts."

Although human hearts are complicated, I am an expert when it comes to memory.

According to my experience, when this sentence appears in a conversation, the other party will generally ask back, "Really?", and there is a high possibility that they will ask, "What am I thinking about now?"

Obito did not ask any further questions, as he did not look like someone without curiosity.

We went to the bookstore. Konoha's bookstore was still the same as I remembered, but there were a lot more books on the shelves, as if all the books Kakashi had seen since he was a child were stuffed in there.

We went to a tempura restaurant for dinner, and then went to a fruit store to buy strawberries. Obito finally took me on the journey back to the Uchiha base.

I am very familiar with the deserted appearance of the Uchiha base, but I am somewhat unfamiliar with the prosperous and lively scene today.

When I stepped in, I attracted almost everyone's attention.

Obito explained to me: "It's rare for outsiders to set foot here, so everyone is more sensitive."

“…There are so many people…”

"Hahahaha, of course. After all, the whole family is here."

...So Sasuke, when you returned home that day, did you see so many dead bodies?

Obito took me back to his home.

Sensei Kakashi must have really been to his house, so the details in the house are very real and clear, except for a photo on the table.

It was placed in a photo frame. Although the photo was very blurry and all mosaics, I could still see the outline of a young girl even through the rough blocks of color.

Brown hair, black clothes, purple paint on the face...

Just based on these colors, I can guess that it should be a photo of Lin.

But Obito said at first that he didn't know who Rin was.

Maybe Kakashi thinks that this photo is very important to Obito, so important that if it is missing, an important part of Obito will also be missing, so it must exist.

But on the other hand……

At first, Kakashi-sensei tried to deny my existence, and now, he blocked Rin.

In his world, only one of me and Lin can exist.

Maybe what he wanted to deny wasn't me or Lin, but the connection between us.

Lin and I couldn't exist at the same time because he couldn't explain our relationship.

What he probably wanted to deny was the fact that "I was created by Lin's genes."

Obito poured me some water and went to the kitchen to wash strawberries. I looked around his house curiously, imagining that there was such a place in reality - and there should indeed be such a place in reality.

More than a decade ago, the real Obito lived "here".

He welcomes the sun every morning and sees off the dusk and the moon here.

The cherry blossoms are in full bloom in spring. Can we also see pink haze filling the sky in the Uchiha base?

In the summer, he would also turn on the electric fan, sit on the tatami, eat watermelon, and let the cool breeze blow over his sweaty skin;

In autumn, the trees would turn golden, and the leaves would be scattered in the forest. He would walk through the leaf-covered streets, running towards his companions and teachers with joy.

In the winter he would curl up by the stove, wrapped in a warm blanket, surprised by the first snow, eat oranges, and think about going to the shrine to pray on New Year's Day;

He would see clear skies and hear violent downpours.

He lives through spring, summer, autumn and winter, growing up year after year.

Until one day, he packed his bags and left home like he did every time before, and never came back.

The vacant house gradually became covered with dust, cobwebs formed in the corners, and it became a nook that no one visited. Finally, on the night when the Uchiha clan was annihilated, it became a complete ruin along with other places.

The book says that it is always difficult for children to imagine that their parents were once young and vigorous people.

In their eyes, parents seem to be born boring adults.

But it is easiest for me to imagine what my “parents” looked like when they were young because I can see their photos.

I just can't imagine what they will look like when they grow up.

There seems to be a big difference between Kakashi's personality when he was young and when he was an adult. So it is hard to say whether Obito and Rin's personalities will be the same when they grow up.

"Chaolu, the strawberries are ready."

I heard the voice and turned my head subconsciously. Obito looked at me in surprise: "Asaro? Are you crying?"

"No." I felt that my eyes were just a little moist, "I just feel that... Obito's home is so warm."

"You're the first person to say that."

"Eh? Why?"

“Because I have always lived here alone.”

"Because you have no family?"

"You're really direct."

"But I think that it's already very warm to have traces of Obito living alone... A person's home is also a home."

Maybe Obito often felt lonely when living here alone, but his presence was as warm to me as seeing the traces left by my family.

Everyone who has ever felt that they are insignificant may one day become a precious existence to another person.

That is why life is so precious, because people will meet each other.

Obito placed the strawberries on the low table in front of me.

I looked at him and suddenly asked, "What about Kakashi?"

Obito was stunned: "Huh?"

"Kakashi used to live with his father, right?"

"……Correct."

I thought of Sasuke.

After having family members and then losing them tragically, all traces of the family members who once lived here in the whole house will become some kind of cruel torture and punishment.

Sasuke made me realize how painful it was, and I felt that I couldn't just leave Kakashi alone.

"I want to go find Kakashi."

But Obito grabbed my wrist.

He frowned and dissuaded me: "He doesn't want to see you."

"Let's go together."

"Leave him alone. Don't bother him."

"But……"

"He's fine on his own."

"But...if he didn't want to be seen, why would you come and talk to me, Kakashi-sensei? You kept telling me 'come to me', 'see me', 'save me'."

Obito was stunned.

"I can go find you and I can see you, but I can't save you, Kakashi-sensei." I whispered, "No one can save you except yourself. I can only stand here and extend my hand to you. It's up to you whether you want to hold mine or not."

He looked at my hands.

"If you give up, I won't keep holding out my hand to you. I will take it back."

"You do not understand……"

"Don't you understand?"

"You don't understand how despicable I am." Obito looked at me sadly, "I'm not worthy of your help."

The world became nothingness again.

When it lit up the second time, I was standing on a plain, and Kakashi-sensei... no, young Kakashi was standing on the other side.

Between us was a handsome blond man whom I had seen in a photo - that was Naruto's father, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze.

Where's Obito?

As soon as I thought of this, he fell out from the forest not far away, tumbling and crawling.

“Woooaaaaaaa – I’m here!”

Kakashi said impatiently: "You are late! Obito! As a ninja, those who can't follow the rules are useless, right, teacher?"

The Fourth Hokage laughed dryly, "Hahahahaha... Never mind, Obito probably didn't mean it."

"This guy's excuses are always so lame that they are not worthy of trust at all - some old lady carrying a heavy object asking for directions, some sand stuck in his eyes - he was obviously wearing goggles!"

"Really? Why are you always so aggressive?" Obito got up from the ground in dissatisfaction, "You keep talking about rules... Rules should also take human feelings into consideration!"