Chapter 65 Chess
"It's chess." Sarutobi Hiruzen said a little shyly and proudly, "I didn't expect Biwako to know that I like playing chess."
Then he realized that he didn't seem to get a response from Haruko Zaoma. He turned around and found her standing there in a daze.
"Haruko? Haruko!"
"...Hmm?" Haruko came back to her senses in the morning, but her eyes were still fixed on this familiar yet unfamiliar gift.
Sarutobi Hiruzen put his hand to her forehead, "What's wrong? Do you have a cold?"
"No..." Haruko Asako forced a smile at him.
What's going on? Why do I feel so sad when I see this chess?
In the morning, Haruko unconsciously touched her heart. It felt empty, as if she had lost something very important.
What is...
Afterwards, Sarutobi Hiruzen put away the gift carefully. When he found that Haruko still looked absent-minded after dinner in the morning, he finally couldn't help but talk to her.
"What's wrong, Haruko? You've been acting strange since you saw that chess piece." Sarutobi Hiruzen said slowly and nervously, "Do you...don't like Lake Biwa?"
"Huh? No, I like my sister-in-law very much." Haruko Zao didn't expect his guess to be so outrageous.
Sarutobi Hiruzen heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, and his voice softened a lot, "What happened?"
"Hiruzen, what kind of life did I lead before you picked me up?"
After hearing what Haruko said in the morning, Sarutobi Hiruzen was speechless for a moment. He recalled the thin body curled up in the corner and shivering, and his heart sank slightly.
He raised his hand and stroked Haruko's head, and asked softly, "Why did you suddenly think of this question?"
"I wonder...if I have met someone before..."
"who?"
"He's very important to me, someone I absolutely cannot lose... but it's so strange, I don't have any memories, I clearly don't remember anything from the past, so I shouldn't have met someone like him." Haruko Asako started to cry as she spoke, "But... but..."
"But I feel so uncomfortable here... It feels like a big hole has been dug in my body!"
In the morning, Haruko's voice became urgent. She clutched the clothes on her chest, as if she wanted to get into her body and grasp the inexplicable emotion that pierced her heart.
That day, Haruko cried very hard in the morning, and she was still sobbing unconsciously until she was comforted by Sarutobi Hiruzen and lay on the bed.
Sleep is the best way to numb reality.
I forgot who said this to me. When I entered the dream, Haruko Zao seemed to have fallen into a kaleidoscopic world.
She walked without thinking.
At some point, a voice rang out in the empty world.
"You are such a troublesome person..."
"My dream is simple. I just want to be a ninja and make some money..."
"I say, you are not an idiot..."
"Say something weird..."
"How can such a lively little flower resemble my temperament..."
In the morning, Haruko stopped where she was. She raised her head and looked around at the sounds coming from all directions, sometimes loud, sometimes soft, sometimes heroic, and sometimes lazy.
Who is speaking?
This voice is so familiar...
In the morning, Haruko was in a trance. Thick white smoke rose in front of her. The smoke swirled together and condensed into a human figure - a boy with high braids, about her age.
The smoke was still gathering and dispersing, and it seemed that it would completely dissipate in the next second.
"who are you?"
Haruko recited in the morning, but Yanmiao did not respond to her. He just scratched his head in annoyance.
However, when it scratched its head, its hand seemed to be melted into the hair, as if it was going to pull the brain out in the next second.
Looking at its slightly cute movements, Haruko Asako burst out laughing.
Seeing her smile, it was not annoyed, and even put its hands on its waist, as if it was relieved.
"do we know each other?"
In the morning, Haruko changed the question. She walked step by step to the smoke, and when she got closer, she found that the smoke was actually taller than her.
Smoke still didn't answer her, and kept looking deeply into her eyes from beginning to end.
Even though he had no facial features, Haruko Zaoma felt like he was looking at her.
what happened……
When I saw this "person", I felt unusually relieved...
In the morning, Haruko tentatively tried to hold his hand, but the moment they touched, all the smoke dissipated.
She stood there in a daze, trying helplessly to catch the last bit of smoke floating in the air, but she couldn't catch it no matter what she did.
do not leave Me!
……
Jingle Bell--!
Haruko was awakened by the alarm clock in the morning. She ignored the alarm clock and slowly stood up.
The next second, a round tear dropped from her left eye.
"Strange, what did I dream about yesterday? Why was I crying..."
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Because of the separation into different classes after graduation, Haruko seldom saw Hiruko in the morning. However, she heard from Tsunade that Hiruko was too incompetent and was always looked down upon by his teammates.
Haruko Hayama, who was full of sense of justice, chose to tell Jiraiya, and then urged Jiraiya, who was truly full of sense of justice, to stand up for Hiruzen.
"Bei Liuhu, you are too weak. Can you please stop holding us back?"
"The last one should have the consciousness of the last one. Can't you just stay at the back?"
When Haruko and her three companions arrived here in the morning, they witnessed an incident of school bullying. The victim, Hiruko, was sitting on the ground, his white robe with gray tints, and he looked at his teammates with fear.
"Hey! Is this how you treat your teammates who have been through thick and thin with you?"
Jiraiya appeared like a hero, pointing at them and scolding them.
Haruko and Tsunade followed behind to cheer him on in the morning, while Orochimaru was just forced to accompany him.
As expected, Jiraiya has to be the one to take the lead in this kind of middle school style!
Haruko and Tsunade thought at the same time in the morning.
Because they had more people and more power, Hiruhu's teammates left unwillingly, but when they saw Zaoma Haruko and the others coming, Hiruhu didn't seem very happy either.
Haruko went forward to help him up in the morning, but she felt that Beiruo was struggling with some resistance.
Jiraiya was still boasting, "They are so proud of themselves because they think they are superior to others. They don't have any comradeship at all!"
"That's right! We have never disliked Jiraiya, they are going too far!" Tsunade said indignantly.
"Huh?" Jiraiya couldn't believe it, "When have you ever not disliked me?!"
While they were bickering, Morning Haruko whispered to Beiliuhu, "Beiliuhu, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing... nothing, thank you."
After Beiliuhu finished speaking, he left in a hurry without caring about what they thought.
"What's wrong with that guy?" Jiraiya was confused.
Tsunade punched him, "You must be too blunt!"
……
Later one night, when Haruko was practicing in the forest in the morning, she unexpectedly saw Hiruko who was panting.
He seemed to have been practicing for a long time, and some strands of hair were wet and stuck to his face.
"Beiliuhu?"
In the morning, Haruko jumped down from the tree and landed in front of him. Her sudden appearance scared Hiruko.
"Why... are you here?" Beiliu asked after taking a few breaths.
"I was about to go back after training, but I didn't expect to see you on the road." Haruko Asako took out a handkerchief and handed it to him with some concern, "Are you okay? Did you try too hard?"
Hearing her words, Beiliuhu pursed his lips and slapped her hand away.
Seeing Haruko's surprised expression, he shouted, "Anyway, no matter how hard I train... or how hard I work... I can't compare to you geniuses! In fact... I can't even compare to ordinary people!"
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Gratitude list as of July 2024, 2:
grateful--
Steamed Shufen Spicy and Sour Jusang, with 3 urge to update, 2 Bobo milk tea
Flowers and a love letter x2 from a cat that doesn't like fish
Yin, who loves soda, sent 2 flowers and a love letter
Mumucheng sent a thumbs up and flowers
Luo & Sharon, Edogawa Ranpo sent flowers x2
Pure beauty and truth are not in conflict. A love letter
Aaa Xiaoze and Mufeng, a rich boy who loves steamed squid, Dongji, whose spiritual energy is exhausted, does not want to be the flower sent by Shuzuo
Yun Cheyun from Gumo Island, ▅▇?▇●Wuwuwu, WDYHL, Xingyuan who likes to eat home-cooked grilled Spanish mackerel, PinkTulip, Xiao Qi is not Qi, Henghengte, Kuisenjiang A, Jin Xiula from Nanning, Tianying Butler, G's Meow, Wei Shang (concave and convex pink), the rich boy who likes to eat steamed squid, Dong Ji whose spiritual energy is exhausted, Lu Guogong who likes red grapes, "The mountain is blue and the flowers are about to burn", Yan Yiyue, Uchiha Sasuke's wife, Yue..., Ain's little green leaf, Debei Xiaohui, Xingchen is very bored, Yanluo, the bitter scissors all flew on my face, Shi Lingyi, Aning who likes Yang leaves, Fengqin who likes spicy chicken noodles, Qifeng is cute, sunny Mio, the cat who doesn't covet fish, please call me Lord Meteorite, all the names I can think of are gone. Tu Tu Tu, Su He, Yin who likes to eat soda, sent to generate electricity for love
(There may be special symbols in the names of the little cuties, which the author cannot type out or the tomatoes cannot display. I hope the little cuties understand!)
Thank you for the gift! The author is so touched! Bei Liuhu shyly made a heart shape with both hands (,,?? . ??,,)
