Chapter 269 Their Prayers
Sister...is back?
Uchiha Fugaku's brain seemed to be stuck and he couldn't recover. He blankly scanned the expressions of the people in front of him.
Hope, eagerness, emotion, and even tears.
All of them expressed their joy.
Suddenly, there was a sound of a door being pushed open not far away.
Caracalla
"Sasuke, is there a flower shop on your East Street?"
"I thought you were going to Ino's place."
"That's fine. Although the Ino family is a bit far away, it's good to take care of a friend's business!"
Feeling the strong gaze from the opposite side, Haruko stopped talking with Uchiha Sasuke in the morning and looked over.
Then his eyes were met with tears in the eyes of several people.
Haruko's smile turned into shock in the morning, and she leaned closer to Uchiha Sasuke's ear and whispered something.
"As expected of the clan leader's family, it is simply synonymous with the neighborhood committee."
Uchiha Sasuke was so sharp that he almost agreed with her words when he saw his father standing out from the crowd.
Staring at the handsome face beside his son, Uchiha Fugaku was a little dazed.
The crowd around him dispersed and ran away.
He still stood there, his deep and weathered black pupils reflecting his sister who was surrounded by her tribesmen.
Haruko, yes, it's Uchiha Haruko.
Uchiha Fugaku murmured silently. Even though he was shocked inside, his identities as the clan leader and the captain of the police force forced him to remain calm.
The excited Uchiha members could not maintain their unique pride, and all of them rushed to talk to Haruko Asano.
"It's Haruko! It's the real Haruko!"
"Haruko seems to have grown up a little and become more beautiful!"
"No, how come she is still so small after all these years?"
"Oh... I'm glad you're back, I'm glad you're back!"
The tribesmen were moved by their words, completely ignoring the confusion on the faces of Haruko Zao and Uchiha Sasuke who were trapped in the middle.
"What are they talking about?" Haruko Asama asked in a low voice, covering her mouth.
Uchiha Sasuke had never been surrounded by so many people before, and his body was a little stiff.
"……do not know."
The nearest woman pushed the child in her hand in front of Haruko Hayami. There was a gentle look between her brows, but there was also a mist in her dark pupils.
"I'm married and have a child, a daughter. Does she look like me when I was a child?"
Following her words, Haruko Asagi looked at the girl who was about four years old.
He had short black hair, grape-sized eyes that rolled around in his eye sockets a little awkwardly after meeting her gaze, and rosy cheeks, looking like a shy child.
Her expression did seem familiar to Haruko Zaoma, but she couldn't tell where she had seen her.
In the morning, Haruko raised her head and looked into the woman's eyes full of expectation, feeling a little at a loss.
She didn't know what answer to give so as not to disappoint those expectant eyes.
Seeing that she didn't reply for a long time, the tribesmen around her spontaneously quieted down, and the lively atmosphere gradually died down.
They realized a possibility at the same time.
The possibility that Haruko is not Haruko.
The woman felt a sour taste in her nose, and the originally thin layer of mist became thicker and thicker, until the light circulated in her eyes and then flowed down her cheeks.
"Don't cry, Mom!"
He looked at his daughter below through his rippling eyes, and then looked at the worried Hayami Haruko.
It was as if the scenes of history overlapped, and the words of Uchiha Haruko comforting her when she was a child rang in her ears -
"Chengzi, don't cry! I'll help you teach him a lesson!"
Instantly, the tears flowed even more violently.
Stimulated by intense sadness, her black pupils turned blood red, symbolizing the Uchiha's Sharingan, and she actually opened the third magatama in full view of everyone.
Seeing the crowd getting agitated, Uchiha Fugaku finally took a step forward.
Seeing the tribe leader coming, the tribesmen all moved to the sides obediently, leaving him room to walk towards Zaojian Qingzi.
"Father."
"uncle……"
The two children's names calmed the two intertwined and stirring memories in Uchiha Fugaku's mind.
He accepted reality quickly.
This speed compared to others is simply because he is the only one in Uchiha who knows that Haruko is from the future.
So he remained silent, just carefully describing her appearance with his eyes.
It is Haruko who doesn't have to stay at home for long, doesn't have to wear a veil, doesn't have to wear heavy clothes, and is healthy and full of vitality.
She looks older than before. According to Sasuke's age, she is sixteen now...
Uchiha Fugaku spoke in a low voice, "How are you... feeling?"
"Ah?" Haruko Zaoma was confused for a moment and replied hesitantly, "Not bad?"
"Yeah." As if he felt his tone was too serious, Uchiha Fugaku added in a lighter voice, "Very good."
While Haruko Zaoma was puzzled, Uchiha Sasuke, who was watching the conversation, was shocked.
Is this soft-spoken man really his strict father?!
"Then..." Morning Haruko looked around at the crowd waiting eagerly behind him and said tentatively, "Uncle, Sasuke and I will leave first?"
Upon hearing that she was leaving, one of the tribesmen became anxious.
"Haruko can't leave! What if she disappears again?"
One wave stirs up a thousand ripples. After this tribesman spoke up, the quiet crowd started chattering again.
The central point is that Haruko must not leave Uchiha.
It just so happened that the flower shop owner that Haruko and Uchiha Sasuke had talked about in the morning was in the crowd. He squeezed out, with an earnest expression on his old face to keep her.
"Haruko, come to my flower shop. I have all the flowers you want!"
The current situation was so strange that Haruko just wanted to leave as soon as possible, so she politely declined his offer with an apologetic look on her face.
"Don't bother. I'm going home after visiting Ino's flower shop."
Recalling that the proposal of this decision came from Uchiha Sasuke, the clan leader's son, the flower shop owner looked at the innocent Uchiha Sasuke with resentment.
Uchiha Sasuke, who had never been looked at like this by his clan members since he was born: ...
"Quiet."
Uchiha Fugaku's neither light nor heavy words made the surroundings quiet down instantly.
He looked deeply at Haruko Zaoma and was the first to give way.
"She wants to go back." Uchiha Fugaku repeated in a deep voice, "Morning Haruko, she wants to go back."
Not Uchiha Haruko, but Asahi Haruko.
The surname emphasized by the clan leader suppressed the excitement of the clan members.
They all understood something more or less from the clan leader's words, and stopped clamoring to keep Haruko Zaoma. Instead, they stood to both sides with sad faces.
"Wait, wait!" Uchiha Mikoto rushed out of the house.
She vaguely heard Haruko was about to leave in the morning, so she hurried out without even having time to put the lid on the bowl.
With trembling hands, she stuffed the lunch box into Zaoma Haruko's arms, with a hint of pleading in her quiet, tearful eyes.
"This, I want to take it back for you to eat!"
In the morning, Haruko held the lunch box, removed the loose lid, and was surprised to see several small rabbit-shaped apples piled in the bowl.
Time was too tight, and Uchiha Mikoto didn't have time to make the dessert that Uchiha Haruko used to like, so she had to hurriedly cut out the rabbit apple.
She couldn't be sure that Morning Haruko was Uchiha Haruko.
But such an action could at least relieve some of the thoughts in her mind.
***
Gratitude list as of July 2024, 7:
grateful--
Braised bunny Dazai Osamu sent a love letter x17, burst flowers x2, urging update talisman
A handsome cat. A reminder for updates
I'm thinking about you and I sent you a bottle of Bobo milk tea
Frog Frog. Send a razor blade
Luo Ke is a pigeon. I sent you a like and a love letter.
A love letter from Chen Jiangnanyu
Yingyou gave a thumbs up
Just for the sake of my thoughts, please eat strawberries~, flowers sent by Yan Yiyue
The writer Passerby A teacher updated Kick, Mu Xue Shu Yu, the Ampera star of Yancheng Mountain Island, Ying You, φmξ, Sanhao Squirrel, Please Eat Strawberries~, Yan Yi Yue, A Yu Zhen Di C, Silent Thoughts with You, MZYJ, Yuta Yuta Du Wei, Jin Xiula from Nanning, sent with love to generate electricity x3
?★★●?, True and False Yang Rubing, Yuanwei＾, Yu & Jiuci, Early Summer. Starry Sky, Sending Power with Love x2
Single tower, Wu Ziyun, dkdk., one word is Xia Yujie, piano lacquer worker, Qi is not seven, struggle Ajuan, Sliver_w, Shishi Shi, you win if you read novels without thinking, tsuki Jia, ????. . . , Xiao Xingxing who likes to eat ginger fried duck, Sakurai Xue., Lin Lingnuo, Xiya Ling, open the skylight and say dirty words, users, like big scales, Li Qingjiu, Huo Si who likes to eat radish braised beef brisket, sent with love
Thank you for the gift! The author is so touched! All Uchiha thank you with tears in their eyes (?w?)
