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

Shikamaru and I met on the way to school.

Most of the time Naruto would wait for me at the entrance of the orphanage to go to school together, but occasionally he would oversleep and be late.

So if I didn't see Naruto when I went out in the morning, I would go to school by myself.

I didn't want to upset Shikamaru, but I didn't want to lie to him either. "It might be... a little difficult."

There's no way I wouldn't care about Uchiha Sasuke... that's Uchiha Sasuke.

He is the mission target second only to Naruto.

Or will he be a dangerous person who will plunge my carefree friends who are still around me into the abyss of pain in the future?

It's like living in an environment where detonating talismans may appear around you at any time. How can people not care about that detonating talisman?

However, I didn't expect Shikamaru to say that I didn't hate him.

"Don't I hate him?" I was a little embarrassed: "But I usually don't talk to him, I won't go to play with him, and I won't want to share anything interesting with him. Isn't this annoying enough?"

Does he have to learn from those kids who used to bully Naruto, mocking and insulting Sasuke, saying that he has no parents, calling him ugly nicknames, hiding his things, and throwing things at him?

But I don’t want to be that annoying.

And when I thought about throwing things, I suddenly remembered: "Ah! Sasuke threw something at me yesterday. It seems that he must hate me!"

"What did he throw at you?"

"He hid in the tree and threw tree seeds at me while I was talking to Kakashi-sensei."

Shikamaru sighed, "So you admit that you care about him?"

Seeing the disappointed look on that face that was so similar to Shikamaru-sama, I suddenly panicked: "But - I have tried very hard to hate him! I will never like him! I will never show mercy to him!"

"Why are you trying so hard to hate him? Isn't this weird? If you don't try so hard to hate him, will you like him?"

"No..." I didn't know what to say. I felt like Shikamaru was a little sad. I just felt very anxious: "There is absolutely no way I can like Uchiha Sasuke! I really, really hate him!"

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt an inexplicable chill on my back.

I turned my head and saw Uchiha Sasuke standing not far behind me, looking at me indifferently with his pair of black eyes.

what……

At this moment, I suddenly remembered that in a book I had read before, it said, "Don't say bad things about people behind their backs," and also said, "The worst case scenario of an event will always happen with a high probability."

But suddenly, I felt relieved.

If my relationship with Sasuke is not good, Shikamaru and Orochimaru will definitely be relieved and happy if they know about it, right? Because he is an enemy.

But when I looked at Shikamaru's expression, he looked at me, then at Sasuke, and didn't look happy. He just walked into the school alone.

I realized that Shikamaru was angry.

Shikamaru rarely gets angry. Even if he is occasionally annoyed, he will quickly and helplessly get rid of it.

But this time, he stayed angry longer than ever before.

Although he wouldn't ignore me when I went to see him, his attitude was completely different from before.

He would no longer look at me and smile at me like he used to. Instead, he would just ignore me with an expressionless face and answer me with a brief one or two words: "Yeah," "Really?", "I don't know."

Naruto was late for most of the day that day, and then was caught by Teacher Iruka and taken to the office for a lesson. When he arrived, I had already been hitting a wall with Shikamaru for the whole morning.

At lunch, Shikamaru was with Ino and Choji, and I was with Naruto and Shino.

We had never been apart before, and I thought that soon all our friends would know that we had a fight.

"But I didn't quarrel with Shikamaru!" I looked at the bread in my hand with a sad face, feeling that I had no appetite at all, "It was Shikamaru who was angry. What should I do?"

Naruto was very angry: "What is Shikamaru doing? It's so weird! How is he related to Sasuke again? Why does Chaolu have to hate Sasuke? And Chaolu has already said that she hates him!"

Shino hummed.

He was silent for a moment, looked at me, and then said, "I roughly understand his thoughts."

I quickly asked, "What?"

"Shikamaru probably thinks..." Shino paused, "that he is no longer your best friend."

Naruto said: "He is not, I am the best friend of Chaolu!"

Shino said, "You are not in the comparison range."

Naruto was unconvinced and asked, "Why?"

"Shikamaru and I both consider you to be Asaro's family."

Naruto's expression immediately turned from anger to joy, "Hehe, hehehe."

"But," I tried to understand what Shino meant, "Does Shikamaru think Sasuke will become my best friend?"

"Maybe he felt that your attitude towards Sasuke was different from your attitude towards others, so he felt uneasy."

I looked up at the sky and murmured, "Does Shikamaru think that I'm too good to Sasuke?"

"...No, it's not like that." Shino said, "Just like you said, Uchiha Sasuke threw grass seeds at you...it seems like he hates you, but it's not necessarily what a person thinks in his heart. For example, even if you call Naruto an idiot, Naruto won't get angry, and others won't think you have bad intentions, they will just think you are joking. People's behavior and their inner thoughts are sometimes not consistent."

Naruto and I looked at each other and both showed an embarrassment: "Uh... what, what do you mean?"

Shino: “…”

He said patiently: "That is to say...even if you tell Shikamaru that you hate Uchiha Sasuke the most, it doesn't mean that you really think so in your heart. Shikamaru doesn't think so, so he is angry."

I humbly asked, “Then what should I do?”

Shino: "Or just ignore him."

I felt as if I were hit on the head with a blow and tears were about to flow.

Shino immediately changed his words: "I was joking."

Naruto said angrily, "Asaro is about to cry, so stop joking around, Shino!"

Shino: "...Or, let's end our relationship, Asaro."

I was puzzled and asked, “Why?”

"If Asaka goes and asks Shikamaru to be her love partner, maybe he'll calm down. Of course, there's also a good chance he'll refuse and get even angrier."

"No, Shino and I have been practicing for so long, and we are only halfway through many things. Besides, this is too unfair to Shino."

Although Shino's expression didn't change, I felt that he was very happy.

Naruto said, "So, in the final analysis, Shikamaru just thinks that Asaka wants to be friends with Sasuke more than with him? Then if he knows that Asaka values ​​him, he won't be angry, right?"

Shino said rationally: "You can try."

I hugged my knees and was in a daze for a while, then suddenly said, "Or... forget it."

Naruto didn't respond, "Forget what?"

"If Shikamaru can't accept my attitude towards Sasuke, I may not be able to change it. Even if I pretend to change, Shikamaru will definitely be able to see it. I don't want to lie to him... In this case, no matter what I say or do, Shikamaru will not calm down. This is like someone asking me to change my attitude towards Naruto. It's impossible."

Shino frowned slightly: "Are Uchiha Sasuke and Naruto equally important?"

"Of course not." I said without hesitation: "Naruto is the most important."

Naruto smiled sheepishly and scratched his hair.

"But... Sasuke... Even if it's Shikamaru... Even if it's Shikamaru..."

Let Naruto survive to the end.

Let Sasuke live until his death.

That's my mission.

It's the whole meaning of my existence.

Maybe I shouldn't have felt close to Shikamaru because of him from the beginning.

Maybe I don’t need to understand so much about feelings and have so many friends.

I just need to watch over Naruto.

Otherwise, where there is a beginning there will be an end, and the end will be accompanied by additional pain.

I whispered, "Now I understand what Kakashi-sensei meant..."

Shino asked, "What?"

"He said at the time that only in daily interactions can people see their own moods clearly, and then calmly think and judge whether they are comfortable with each other, whether it can last long, and whether they are happy. Then, everyone will change, and perhaps gradually disagree on a matter, and then naturally become alienated and separate. These are all unpredictable things. If you want to be together for a lifetime, even if both parties are determined, sometimes it depends on fate and destiny."

Naruto said, "But doesn't Asaka hate words like fate and destiny the most?"

"Yeah," I stared blankly at an empty space, "but..."

What separates Shikamaru and I is my responsibility and mission, not fate or destiny.

Thinking of the breakup between Ino and Sakura, I once again confirmed that the feelings between humans are sometimes indeed very fragile things.

But just when I was thinking this, Naruto said, "No matter what happens, I will stand on Chaolu's side!"

Shino also said: "I will always be with you... until you no longer need me."