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

The Aburame clan is good at patiently lying dormant and observing carefully.

Their family-inherited ninjutsu requires them to spend a great deal of time and energy observing insects until they understand everything about them, and then communicate with them and become one with them, as if they were using them with their fingers or arms.

Aburame Shino is considered to be a person with outstanding talent.

Insects are often more sensitive than humans, so he knows how to keep quiet and disguise himself as a tree, a stone, or a blade of grass.

Therefore, even if his memory was restored, he looked no different from before the memory was restored.

The person he was observing this time was his own cousin, Aburame Togen.

For some unknown reason, this cousin suddenly rushed into his house in the middle of the night and stood in front of him like a dazed ghost. The few exposed parts of his masked face turned blue, white, purple and red.

He was shaking.

Out of anger? Or fear?

It is precisely because the ninjas of the Aburame clan have always been introverted that the abnormality of Aburame taking the root has attracted people's attention.

Shino turned on the light and gave him a questioning look: "Taken? What's wrong?"

"...Shino, do you...do you know anything?"

"what?"

His lips trembled, as if he wanted to say something to him, but in the end he said nothing and said in a hoarse voice, "It's okay."

He turned and left.

His back looked haggard and desolate, as if he had overdrawn his soul for someone.

He once tried to assassinate Chaolu, but was captured instead.

Shino knew her, she wasn't the type to treat a prisoner harshly, and among her companions, Neji and Gaara wouldn't mistreat him either.

But looking at his current appearance, Shino wanted to know why he became like this?

Is it related to morning dew?

What exactly happened between him and Chaolu?

...Is this fair?

Shino thought.

He wanted so much to be with Chaolu, but it turned out that Qugen, who went to kill her, could be more with her than him?

They must have gotten along well...

Because Chaolu never makes people around her feel pain...

Shino pursed his lips.

Perhaps the more he learned about Qu Gen and Chao Lu, the happier he would be, but... he wanted to know everything about Chao Lu.

Even if...it would be painful.

……

But it is not easy to figure out what exactly happened to Qu Gen.

Shino went to Torine's house the next day.

The first step in observation is to get close.

I don’t know if it’s because of something to do with Chaolu, but Togen has left the “Root” a long time ago and is no longer bound by Danzo.

As soon as he reached the door, Shino heard Qu Gen's cold voice coming from inside the house: "I won't go."

Although the person talking to him used very respectful words, his tone was very stiff: "Please reconsider."

Qu Gen rarely spoke in such a rude manner: "Get lost."

Shino hid in the shadows, and after a while, he saw a girl in a white robe who looked like a priest leaving.

——She has a pair of white eyes and is dressed like this. It is obvious that she was freed from the caged bird, followed the Goddess of Tatsuno to the moon, and became a member of the branch family of the Hyuga clan who became a shrine maiden dedicated to the God of Tatsuno.

In other words, the moon is... in contact with the roots?

Shino followed him, and the girl calmly walked to a deserted place nearby, then turned and looked at his hiding place.

"Why do such useless work in front of such white eyes?"

indeed so.

Shino appeared silently, looked at her and asked, "What do you want to find the root for?"

"who are you?"

"Aburame Shino. His clan brother."

"I see." The girl said, "Lord Neji took into consideration his special physique and thought it might be difficult for him to live alone, so he invited him to live on the moon."

"Ningji..."

Hyuga Neji is now a priest of the God of Tatsuno.

But he probably wouldn't be so concerned about taking the roots.

Was this what he meant or what Chaolu meant?

Chaolu...cares a lot about taking roots?

"Token rarely gets that angry." Shino asked, "What did you say?"

"'Mom is worried about you on the moon.'" The girl said, "Lord Neji asked me to tell him so."

Mother?

Shino frowned.

Qu Gen's mother... must have died a long time ago.

"Lord Neji said that if it were you, I could tell you that it's okay." The girl said, "Please help me persuade him."

"Why is it my word, telling me it doesn't matter?"

"I don't know." The girl shook her head with a pious look: "But the priest can communicate directly with the god, and he said this is an oracle."

oracle……

So, this is what the morning dew means.

……

Shino returned to Torine's house and knocked on the door.

Qu Gen's voice was still full of anger: "Do you really think that I won't do anything to the people on the moon?!"

He threw the door open, his face flushed with the purple energy that would appear when nano-poison insects were dispatched.

But when he saw it was Shino, Qu Gen was stunned, and his surging anger disappeared in an instant.

"Shi-Shino?"

His expression and tone suddenly became inexplicably guilty.

"You didn't look right yesterday. I was a little concerned, so I came to find you."

"I...nothing, nothing...I might have been sleepwalking."

"Just now on the road, I met a moon priestess."

"Is that so? Yes, in recent years, there has been frequent exchanges between the village and the moon. In addition, the Hyuga branch family moved many people to the moon before. Recently, we can often see guests from the moon in the village!"

"She's here to see you."

"……Why do you say that?"

"Because she asked me to help persuade you. She seemed to know me."

"What did she say!?"

"Nothing. Just said there was an oracle. 'Mother is worried about you on the moon.' What does that mean?"

"..."

Qu Gen's face suddenly turned blue and purple, just like last night.

He spoke slowly and clenched his teeth, "I don't know either. Who would believe such nonsense oracle?"

Suddenly, he looked at Shino and his tone dropped: "Shino."

"what?"

"After your birthday...did you remember anything?"

"what?"

"Chaolu..." It seemed very difficult for Qugen to say this name, "Do you remember it?"

“Is this person important to you?”

important?

Thinking of the memory that suddenly emerged in his mind not long ago, Qu Gen's face turned pale.

He didn't know why his memory was restored, and he hadn't found the pattern yet.

Will everyone regain their memory at a certain point in time?

Or...or is it because he is special to Chaolu?

Thinking about the reasons why he felt special towards her, Qugen couldn't figure out what his feelings were towards her.

mom.

He remembered her watching over him, patting his back patiently, and coaxing him to sleep beside her.

He could even remember the names of the books she read at that time!!

"When You Give Birth to a Boy", "One Hundred Questions You Must Know About Raising a Child", "Raising a Healthy and Optimistic Child Easily!"...

He is quite healthy.

But optimistic?

Not necessarily!

He didn't want to see her again and just wanted to escape, but... he knew that she had no ill will towards him, and even all her concern was sincere.

He couldn't hate her, but he couldn't let it go either.

That woman—that woman! She is a born evil person!!

Didn't Shino remember?

Togen stared at him intently - if Shino didn't remember it, did that mean he was the only one who remembered it?

Shino didn't answer his question, he asked instead: "What's wrong with you? Takegen? Is there anything I should know about Chaolu?"

If Aburame Tone could stay calm, based on his experience in the Root, he would actually be able to tell that Shino did not answer any of his questions, but was instead trying to find the information he wanted.

But he was so exhausted that he couldn't think any more: "...No, not at all. But if you meet a woman named Zhaolu in the future...you must stay away from her."

"Did she do anything to you?"

"..."

"What did she do to you?" Shino's tone dropped. "What did she do?"

But I closed my lips tightly and said nothing.

"I'm worried about you, Takegen."

His relentless pressure made Qu Gen sternly say, "This has nothing to do with you, Shino!"

Nothing to do with him.

Aburame Shino thought, so in the end, he was the one who had nothing to do with Asaro and Aburame Toune?