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

I swam over curiously: "What are you talking about?"

Maybe because I was born in culture medium not long ago, I am very familiar with water. Once I enter the water, I naturally feel familiar and safe.

Shikamaru's expression remained unchanged as he said, "Nothing."

Shino's expression didn't change at all.

I frowned, "It feels like you've been hiding a lot from me today, Shikamaru."

Shikamaru knocked me on the head. "You may not be very smart, but your intuition is very accurate."

Shino said, "We were discussing Ino's matter."

"About Ino?"

Shikamaru frowned and looked at Shino with some dissatisfaction: "Don't mention Ino."

But Shino told me without wavering: "Just now Ino tried to pull Sasuke over, but Sasuke didn't move. This felt like a rejection. Shikamaru and I are discussing whether to tell her and ask her to give up Sasuke. However, she may have realized it herself. After all, we are just outsiders, so it's hard to say much."

His eyes were perfectly hidden behind his goggles and I couldn't see anything.

"...So that's it."

I'm not even familiar with my own feelings, let alone other people's feelings. Considering that Ino understands how to like someone better than I do, I don't think I'm qualified to participate in a discussion of her feelings.

And for Ino, this shouldn't be something she can tell everyone, I shouldn't have known, nor did I need to know. But Shino and I were close, and she told me because I asked.

This makes me feel a little regretful, maybe I shouldn't have gotten to the bottom of it.

"Loving someone is such a complicated thing... Even Shikamaru can't give Ino a solution?"

Shikamaru said unhappily, "I'm looking for it myself."

I remembered that Shino and I were romantic partners, so I looked at him and asked, "So as lovers, should we do something at a time like this?"

Shino said, "We can practice holding our breath together."

Shikamaru said, "But everyone will be coming down to practice holding their breath later, and there won't be that many places in the pool for you to be alone together, so why not just do it with your friends?"

I looked around and saw Sasuke standing in a corner of the swimming pool, his slender white fingers pressed on the edge of the pool, his head lowered and his face buried in the water.

His hair was soaked and fluttering softly in the water. When I looked over, he just raised his face to breathe.

The wet black hair was like black silk, staining his fair and beautiful face. Crystal clear water drops fell from his eyelashes. He casually brushed his hair back. He looked like a merman prince who appeared in fairy tales, who could use his beauty to bewitch humans and make them jump into the water and drown to become his food.

Not far from him, there was a blurry golden shadow under the water - that was Naruto's hair.

He was squatting at the bottom of the pool, competing unilaterally with Sasuke, trying to surpass Sasuke's breath-holding time. I was worried that he would suffocate underwater because of his momentary impatience.

Naruto had already come out of the water to breathe once before, and this time he had just come down not long ago. In other words, Sasuke had temporarily won their breath-holding competition.

When my gaze turned to Naruto, Sasuke seemed to notice my gaze looking at me. When I confirmed whether he was looking at me, he had already turned his head away, looked down at the water, and buried his face in the water again.

Ino and the others were in another direction.

She was waiting for her good friend Sakura, who was assigned to the second group to go into the water and had just come over.

Inuzuka Kiba stayed beside Hinata, while Akamaru swam around the two of them in the water in a doggy style position without any instruction.

Chouji...

Choji is gone.

"Don't worry about it." Shikamaru followed my line of sight and saw my eyes suddenly widened. He immediately guessed what I was surprised about. "Chouji was so hungry that his lips turned white. He rushed to the locker room to eat snacks."

I was a little worried: "If he encounters a water battle during a mission in the future, will he be able to handle it?"

"Don't worry," Shino said, "Ino-Shika-cho also trains in swimming at home, which is more targeted than in school. It doesn't matter if Choji doesn't have swimming lessons."

Shikamaru smiled a little fakely, "I remember the Aburame family's heirloom was also quite powerful."

"No way. The Nara family's presence is much greater than the Aburame family's."

"No, no, no, as a ninja, having a high presence is not a good thing. The Aburame family is still a better ninja."

"The Nara family's shadow imitation technique is very powerful."

"The bugs in the Aburame family are hard to guard against."

I don't understand what the two of them are doing, why they suddenly start praising each other's families, but I found that there is really no more space between us for Shino and I to be alone, so let's just go together, after all, Shino seems to get along well with Shikamaru.

I smiled and turned back to look for Naruto - he hadn't come up yet, so I had to go and watch over him to see if anything happened to him.

I swam over. The teacher told us that as a ninja, we must be able to open our eyes underwater. This was not difficult for me. I stared at the golden ball not far away and approached him directly.

As soon as I swam to Naruto's side, he stood up suddenly, gasped for breath with a "Woooooooo". "I almost suffocated to death... Damn it!"

He swayed weakly in the pool and leaned against the wall, looking very weak.

"Are you okay, Naruto?"

“No, I’m fine.” As soon as he saw me, he smiled brightly. “I just broke my previous record for holding my breath the longest! Isn’t that amazing!”

I clapped my hands for him with great enthusiasm: "Naruto is awesome!"

The noises made by the students splashing around in the water masked the sound of someone approaching.

It was only when Sasuke suddenly spoke that I realized he had actually walked over to me.

He stood next to me and Naruto and glanced at us, "…Are you this guy's babysitter?"

It took me a beat to realize he was talking to me.

Naruto immediately exploded: "What did you say!?"

He didn't say anything, but seemed to hum, and looked at me: "You..."

I?

I felt his gaze on me. I looked into those dark eyes, but couldn't see anything. So I couldn't help but wonder, what kind of emotion was revealed in his eyes?

What goes through his mind when he looks at everything in front of him?

The Uchiha Sasuke that I saw in the memories of my predecessors through Ino, his eyes were not always black.

The red Sharingan, the lavender Rinnegan, and the Magatama Rinnegan represent a power that makes people despair.

In the memories of the predecessors, he was always standing on a high place, or simply floating in the air wrapped in Susanoo.

He looked at the people on the ground as if God was ignoring ants.

What was he thinking about at that time?

Under his feet, there will always be mountains of corpses and seas of blood, desolate and ruined.

Looking at these, does he feel satisfied, happy, and content, or does he feel bored, tired, and bored?

The expressionless face and indifferent eyes of Uchiha Sasuke must be different from the expressionless face and indifferent eyes of the young man in front of me, but I can't understand the difference.

I know why, because I don't know him very well.

All my contacts with the future Uchiha Sasuke came from watching other people's memories. Their subjective emotions greatly influenced me - in the scenes where he appeared, I could feel strong anger, disgust, fear, panic, despair, hatred...

I had the opportunity to get close to the present Uchiha Sasuke, to observe him, to understand him, to explore his weaknesses, and to understand where his pain came from, but I instinctively resisted this.

I have always known that although Naruto and Sasuke don't get along, and although Naruto seems to hate Sasuke, the one who really hates him is me.

But do I really hate him? I don't really know. I just know that I shouldn't get along with someone who pushed Shikamaru and the others into a desperate situation.

That day at the Uchiha base, I ran away from him. Besides realizing that I was too outspoken, I later wondered if it was my instinctive feeling that I shouldn't have gotten along with him so peacefully.

Although I know that I will be on the same team with him in the future, it is not wise to express my hostility towards him directly, but... I know that I should not make my relationship with him worse, but I also do not allow myself to have a better relationship with him.

Sasuke seemed to be sensitive to my resistance: "...Forget it, it's nothing."

Naruto was unhappy and said, "What? You're already here, why are you stopping talking halfway?"

Sasuke was silent for a while, then reluctantly said: "I just want to ask you, why can you hold your breath for so long."

Naruto asked in surprise: "Who, me?"

Sasuke: "..."

Naruto looked at me and said, "Eh, Chaolu? What, were you competing with Chaolu while I was competing with you?!"