"Sasuke, aren't you going to school? You're going to be late!"
"It's Saturday today!"
"Oh dear, Mom forgot."
Sasuke, dressed neatly, came out of his room. In the living room, his father was sitting there reading a magazine, and his mother was tidying up the dishes.
Sasuke greeted him and then asked, "Where's my brother?"
"I've already left home; I have a mission today too," Mikoto said with a smile.
"Honestly, you promised to train with me." Sasuke's face fell, and he muttered in dissatisfaction.
"If you want to practice shuriken, Mom can accompany you," Mikoto said with a smile.
"It's not practice, it's training," Sasuke corrected his mother's wording.
After quickly finishing his breakfast, Sasuke hurriedly went out the door.
I'm going out.
"That kid is really hardworking," Mikoto remarked, watching Sasuke's hurried departure.
"What kind of effort is this?" Fugaku, who was looking at a magazine, suddenly said.
Mikoto just rolled her eyes and ignored him.
Sasuke crossed the courtyard and was about to step out the gate when he suddenly noticed a black cat standing on his wall, and he stopped in his tracks.
Whose cat is this?
The cat's fur was jet black and glossy, exceptionally beautiful. Its jewel-like eyes seemed to understand human nature, filled with tranquility. It stood on the wall, looking down at Sasuke.
The entire Uchiha clan is cat-loving; it's not uncommon for them to keep cats at home, and they also have many ninja cats.
But Sasuke felt that the one in front of him was the most beautiful he had ever seen.
He couldn't suppress the urge to hold it in his arms and ravage it.
"Little kitty, come here." Sasuke opened his arms and beckoned to it.
The black cat, however, gave him a look that said, "Idiot!"
Sasuke: "..."
This trick usually works quite well on other cats...
Sasuke, unwilling to give up, leaped onto the edge of the wall, intending to grab it directly.
But the black cat wouldn't let him have his way. Just as Sasuke came up behind him, it quickly leaped up and jumped onto the opposite house.
Sasuke was stunned for a moment when he saw this, then got up and jumped after it. But as soon as he landed on the roof, the black cat jumped back to the wall where it had been before.
"Damn it!" Sasuke was slightly annoyed and continued to chase after it, but the black cat also leaped away from its original spot at the same moment he moved.
After going back and forth a few times, Sasuke felt a little tired, so he simply stood still. The black cat also stopped moving and stood opposite him, looking up at him with disdain.
"Ah!" Sasuke was starting to panic.
"Hey, Sasuke, what are you doing?"
Just then, a voice suddenly rang out from the street below. Sasuke looked in the direction of the voice and saw a familiar face.
"Shisui-kun, help me catch that cat!" Sasuke shouted, pointing at the black cat.
cat?
Upon hearing this, Shisui looked in the direction of the black cat, and the black cat also looked over. The two looked at each other, their eyes conveying a sense of surprise.
"Why did you catch it?" Zhishui asked with a strange expression.
"It's too fast, I can't catch it," Sasuke said.
You'd be lucky to catch it...
"That's what Shisui was thinking."
"You can't force a cat; it responds to gentleness, not force," Shisui said, opening his arms to the black cat just like Sasuke had done at the beginning.
"Kitty, come here."
"..."
The black cat couldn't help but give him a look of disbelief, standing still without moving.
Zhi Shui was losing face and frantically winked at the black cat.
The black cat was somewhat helpless, but it still leaped into Shisui's arms.
Shisui immediately beamed with joy and reached out to stroke the black cat's fur, only to be swatted away by its claws.
Sasuke jumped down from the wall and came to Shisui's side, looking at the cat in Shisui's arms with some surprise: "Why? I just treated it the same way."
"Perhaps… you didn't let it sense your sincerity," Shisui said seriously.
Sasuke nodded as if he understood, but the black cat nestled in Shisui's arms rolled its eyes.
"Can I hug you?" Sasuke looked at Shisui expectantly again.
"Uh…" Shisui hesitated for a moment, then looked down and met the black cat's "you dare" look.
"Of course." Shisui said, handing the cat in his arms to Sasuke, and using one hand to restrain the black cat's paws to prevent it from moving around.
"Hold on tight, don't let it run away."
Sasuke carefully took the beautiful cat and held it in his arms.
You're dead.
Shisui sensed a malicious gaze emanating from the black cat, but pretended not to notice.
"Is your brother home?" he asked.
"I've gone out on a mission," Sasuke said, reaching out to stroke the cat's fur, only to be swatted by a claw in return.
Shisui slapped the cat hard. "Behave yourself!"
"What are you doing?!" Sasuke immediately objected, questioning Shisui.
"It scratches you," Zhi Shui said, feeling wronged.
"You can't hit it!" Sasuke glared, while constantly soothing the cat in his arms. He was also surprised that the cat didn't bristle after being slapped.
"...Where is your father?"
"At home," Sasuke said irritably.
"Come on, kitty, I'll take you on a training journey."
Sasuke was about to leave with the black cat in his arms when the black cat poked its head out and looked at Shisui.
Shisui, who was feeling a bit caught in the middle, couldn't help but chuckle. He gestured to the black cat with a "Don't worry, I'm here" sign before turning and entering Sasuke's house.
On her first day of surveillance, Mizuki, who used a transformation technique to conceal her identity, was taken away by Sasuke as an ordinary cat.
"Kitty, do you have an owner?"
"Why aren't you meowing, kitty?"
"I'll count to three. If you don't call out, I'll be your master from now on."
"3…"
Meow~
"Then I'll ask again. I'll count to three. If you don't speak, you'll belong to me from now on."
"..."
"3...2!1!"
"..."
"Let me give you a name."
Sasuke picked up the black cat with both hands, placed it in front of him, and began to ponder deeply.
"You're so pretty, how about we call you... Xiao Hei?"
"..."
"By the way, let me see if you're a male or female cat."
Unable to bear it any longer, Mizuki struggled wildly, scratching Sasuke's back hard with her cat claws. In pain, Sasuke involuntarily let go, allowing the black cat to escape from his hands.
That idiot brat.
Mizuki leaped onto the rooftop and looked down at Sasuke, cursing inwardly.
This is really delaying my own task.
With that thought in mind, Mizuki headed toward Sasuke's house.
"Little Black, where are you going?"
You're the one called Xiao Hei, your whole family is called Xiao Hei!
"Don't you like this name? I'll change it to another one."
"Kitty, wait a minute."
Sasuke followed Mizuki below, afraid that she might get lost.
However, Mizuki was quite annoyed by this, and immediately disappeared from Sasuke's sight with a few leaps across the rooftop.
Sasuke paused for a moment, then jumped onto the roof and, finding no trace of the black cat, turned away in disappointment.
After a while, Mizuki's figure leaped back, and she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Sasuke had left.
They've finally left.
At that moment, Shisui also came out of Sasuke's house and was stunned when he saw Mizuki still standing on the wall.
He flew to the black cat's side, intending to reach out and pick it up.
"roll."
A cold voice came from the black cat's mouth.
Shisui's outstretched hands suddenly froze, and he awkwardly withdrew them.
"I thought you and Sasuke went to train," Shisui said.
"Don't you know I'm on a mission?" the black cat said with a cold snort.
"What's the big deal? Our clan leader's whereabouts are practically no secret. I can tell you anything. Besides, didn't I tell you I'm here?" Zhi Shui said.
"Sasuke is still a child, what's wrong with spending time with him?"
"Why don't you go and keep them company?" the black cat said, glancing at him sideways.
"Well, I have things to do too," Shisui chuckled dryly.
"What did you want to talk to your clan chief about?" the black cat asked again.
"This is not within the scope of your mission," Zhishui raised an eyebrow. "Your surveillance mission includes eavesdropping on our clan leader's conversations with others."
The black cat ignored him.
Shisui shrugged again and said, "Last night, a large number of secret agents and guards were suddenly mobilized. Are you aware of this?"
Guan Yue was taken aback.
"I just learned from Lord Fugaku that the four guys made a mistake while experimenting with illusion magic, which alerted the guards and caused such a big commotion," Shisui continued.
"Four guys?" Mizuki asked, somewhat suspiciously.
"Ah, it's on the edge of the forest north of the village."
Mizuki: "..."
"Do you know what's going on?" Shisui noticed that Kanzuki seemed a little off and immediately asked again.
"Those four guys came looking for trouble, but I taught them a lesson with my illusion magic," Guan Yue said calmly.
Shisui paused for a moment, then chuckled: "That's really a rare thing. This kind of thing only happened frequently right after the war ended. There are very few people who would actively cause you trouble now. You probably did something to offend someone, right?"
Guan Yue rolled her eyes at him, then fell silent. Judging from what Xuan Jian had said at the time, he could roughly guess what had happened.
"I say, A-Long, you still haven't figured it out?" Shisui said again at this moment.
"What."
"As for what happened back then, even the Hokage promised you he would help you clear things up," Shisui said slowly.
"What good will clarifying things do? Will it make everyone in the village think that the deaths of Sen and Haruka were meaningless?" Mizuki's voice suddenly turned somber.
Zhi Shui remained silent; he was one of the few who knew the inside story of what happened back then.
Back then, Mizuki was a rising star among the younger generation of ninjas, and her squad went on a scout mission.
During that mission, their three-person team was ambushed by the enemy, and at the last moment, Mizuki's two companions chose to let Mizuki break through the encirclement alone.
Shisui found it hard to imagine how much courage Mizuki had used to choose to abandon her companions and escape alone with the information.
However, the intelligence brought back by Mizuki revealed that it was an enemy trap. They misjudged the enemy's numbers, and when Tsunade led the Konoha ninjas to attack, they fell into an even bigger trap. That operation resulted in heavy casualties for Tsunade's troops.
Enraged, Tsunade publicly berated Mizuki.
"You bastard, didn't you say the enemy only had a few squads? Are you blind to a camp with hundreds of enemy soldiers?! Or did you not even find the enemy camp, and after being ambushed, you abandoned your comrades and fled back alone, fabricating false intelligence to deceive me?!"
These were Tsunade's exact words at the time, and everyone heard them clearly. They may have been said in anger, but the rumors that followed were unstoppable.
At that time, Mizuki Oboro became a scumbag despised by everyone.
The intelligence brought back was indeed false, and the fact that so many people died in that operation is undeniable. How can we possibly defend ourselves?
Mizuki offered no explanation. After the Third Hokage learned the truth, he wanted to come forward and clarify things for Mizuki, but Mizuki refused.
"I don't want the fact that Ogi and Haruka risked their lives to bring me back information to be worthless. Rather than that, I'd rather they become heroes who were killed by me. At least that way, someone will feel sorry for their deaths. I can bear the infamy myself."
That's what Mizuki said back then.
Although Shisui felt that he was too extreme, she didn't know how to persuade him. She could only hope that the villagers would gradually forget about the matter as time went by.
However, after that incident, Mizuki seemed like a completely different person.
Reclusive, taciturn, and cold.
He exuded an aura that kept strangers at bay, and at that time, apart from Shisui, no one was willing to come into contact with him.
Shisui wasn't sure if he was truly devastated or if he was simply trying his best to play the role of a "scumbag."
That's also possible.
"Stop the water!" A female voice suddenly rang out from below.
What are you doing on the wall?
It was Mikoto. When she came out and saw Shisui, she couldn't help but ask him a question.
"Ah, there's a cat. I'll tease it." Shisui quickly responded and reached out to stroke Kanzuki's body.
I got another claw strike.
"You're really ruthless," Shisui couldn't help but mutter under his breath.
"I'm leaving now, Aunt Mikoto." He waved to Mikoto again, then jumped off the wall and landed on the street outside.
Shisui looked at Kanzuki and suddenly smiled.
"No matter what, I will always stand by your side."
"Do your mission well, bye-bye."
"..."
The black cat silently watched Shisui's figure disappear into the distance.
Why is this guy suddenly getting so sentimental...?
Guan Yue thought to herself.
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