Chapter 87 Do You Want to Understand the Meaning of Life? (3k)

Plop~Plop~

A figure with gray hair squatted by the stream, washing his hands in the water.

The originally clear stream gradually turned red.

"Why, why..."

Kabuto Yakushi's face was reflected on the water, and the ripples made his ordinary features look a little distorted.

"Why did the dean forget me... Then what have I been all along?"

The dean died, died in his hands.

Moreover, before he died, he asked him: "Who are you?"

At that moment, everything about him was wiped out.

"Obviously, she adopted me, gave me a name, and even these glasses..." Kabuto Yakushi took off his round-frame glasses.

But the next moment he lowered his head, his body suddenly stiffened.

Looking at the blurred and broken face on the water.

Kabuto Yakushi's eyes were blank, and he murmured: "Who am I?"

He used to be Kabuto, a Konoha ninja.

Later, he was a ninja from Iwagakure, a ninja from Kumogakure, and a ninja from Mist...

But from the beginning to the end, the identity of "Kabuto" was the self he always adhered to.

The glasses were originally the bond between him and the dean, and the name was the meaning given to him by the dean.

He had nothing, but he had a self that he adhered to and found his own destination.

But now...

It all seemed to have become a joke.

Just when Kabuto Yakushi's heart was filled with confusion.

Hu~Hu~

A whistling sound came from the sky.

When Kabuto Yakushi came to his senses and looked up.

But he only saw a snake-shaped summoning beast hovering in the air, and a figure jumped down from its body.

Under Kabuto Yakushi's shocked gaze.

With a loud "bang", the figure fell directly to the ground, and a cloud of dust rose.

"Kabuto Yakushi? In this look, have you lost yourself?"

The voice with a smile also reached Kabuto Yakushi's ears.

When the smoke and dust dissipated, a man wearing a three-eyed cat-faced mask appeared in front of Kabuto Yakushi.

The huge snake-shaped summoning beast floated behind him.

"Who are you..."

Kabuto Yakushi reacted immediately, and pulled back with a serious look.

Chakra appeared in both hands, condensing into sharp chakra scalpels.

"As an excellent intelligence officer, you should be able to recognize me, right?"

Kabuto Yakushi frowned upon hearing this, and various intelligence information flashed through his mind.

After just three seconds, Kabuto Yakushi's body stiffened.

"You, are the masked man who killed Shisui and repeatedly sneaked into Konoha?"

After reacting, Kabuto Yakushi realized the difference in their strength and turned around to escape.

"Heh, you actually left your back to me."

A sneer suddenly came from behind.

And the next words made Kabuto Yakushi's breathing stagnate.

"Has Nono's death made you forget the calmness you should have as an intelligence officer?"

Kabuto suddenly stopped and turned to look at the masked man.

"You, how do you know?"

He tried his best to keep his expression calm, but he still couldn't suppress the panic in his heart.

But Menma just shook his head and didn't answer his question directly.

"If you want to know the truth, follow me."

He turned and walked towards Qinglong, saying: "I will tell you everything you want to know."

Yakushi Kabuto was stunned: "What do I want to know?"

"Why does Nono want to kill you, why doesn't she remember you, and..."

Menma paused, turned sideways and glanced at him: "Who are you?"

Who am I?

Looking at the deep blue eyes of the masked man.

A gust of cold wind blew, and Yakushi Kabuto suddenly shuddered.

For some reason, in front of this man, Kabuto felt like he was stripped naked.

No matter what the secret is, it can't be hidden in front of this man.

"Why does the dean want to kill me, why doesn't he remember me, and who am I..."

Can this person answer my questions?

Huh~

Yakushi Kabuto let out a long breath, and his expression gradually returned to calm.

The confused look of the dean, forgotten by the person he cares about most, makes him like a ship without sails in the sea.

Having lost his identity as "Kabuto", he has nowhere to go and no meaning to survive.

So, he wants to know who he is.

"Interesting, has he calmed down so quickly?"

Seeing Kabuto calm down quickly, Menma, who was walking in front, slightly raised the corners of his mouth.

Wait for Kabuto to come to the side of Qinglong.

Seeing Uchiha Shin bitten in its mouth, he couldn't help but frown.

"This summoned beast eats people? Does it bring its own food?"

But he glanced at it from the corner of his eye, and suddenly widened his eyes.

"Dean!?"

Looking at Nono on Qinglong's tail, Kabuto slowly approached with an unbelievable look on his face.

As a medical ninja, he also analyzed the state of the dean in front of him.

Ruddy face, steady breathing, healed wounds...

If you ignore the blood on your body, Nono is like entering a sweet dream.

But Kabuto remembers clearly that the dean is obviously dead.

Because the murderer of the dean was himself!

"You! This?!"

Yakushi Kabuto looked at Nono, then turned to Menma, and asked helplessly: "Why is the dean here? Isn't she..."

"Hasn't she been killed by you?"

Menma said playfully: "You have more and more questions."

Yakushi Kabuto also reacted after hearing this.

He gritted his teeth and wanted to stand behind Qinglong directly.

But before he could get on.

Bang!

Qinglong turned around and slapped him away with his tail.

Seeing the dusty and confused Yaoshi Kabuto.

Menma also shook his head and laughed: "This guy has a bit of a proud temper, please forgive me."

After that, he used the Nine-faced Supo Ke again and summoned the nine-faced beast White Tiger.

"Roar!!"

Yakushi Kabuto stood up, covering his chest.

Looking at the domineering white tiger and the nine spells behind the masked man.

A trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

"This summoning technique, is there another seven summoned beasts?"

The strength of the snake-shaped summoned beast, based on physical strength alone, is estimated to be at the level of a jonin.

Yakushi Kabuto shook his head and moved forward.

This time he sat behind the white tiger smoothly.

"Hold on tight."

Menma's voice fell.

Without waiting for Kabuto Yakushi to react, Baihu directly spread his limbs and ran away.

Five minutes later.

Several people returned to Orochimaru's base again.

Kabuto Yakushi looked around the gloomy environment.

Looking at those strange-looking "people" soaked in unknown liquids, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

"Don't get me wrong, this is just my trophy."

Menma seemed to know what Kabuto was thinking.

Without turning his head, he explained with some disgust: "I don't have the bad taste of transforming people into half-human and half-beast."

Although Orochimaru has the core technology.

But in order to save his life, he really dared to transplant anything into himself, making himself neither human nor ghost.

However...

In the original work, Kabuto Yakushi seems to have inherited Orochimaru's bad habits.

"Why did you bring me to this place?"

Hearing Kabuto Yakushi's question, Menma put Nono in his arms on the operating table.

Then he turned around and looked Kabuto in the eye.

"If I hadn't appeared, the one standing in front of you now would be Orochimaru."

Menma said, "From the beginning, you were destined to have such an ending. Even your mutual destruction had long been written in the script."

Kabuto Yakushi was stunned when he heard this, frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

Menma didn't explain, but took out a scroll from his arms and handed it to him.

"Take a look, it was a deal between Orochimaru and Danzo from the beginning to the end, and you two are just abandoned pawns and trading objects."

Abandoned pawns...

Trading objects...

Kabuto Yakushi's heart trembled, and he took the scroll in his hand.

And seeing the content inside, his pupils suddenly dilated.

It turned out that Danzo had told the dean about the matter five years ago after he left the orphanage.

And in order to restore his freedom, the dean made a deal with Danzo.

- Kill a spy who betrayed Konoha.

And there is no doubt that the so-called spy who betrayed Konoha is him, Kabuto Yakushi.

"I, I ignored my own safety and collected intelligence for Konoha for several years, but they..."

Crack!

Kabuto Yakushi squeezed the two sides of the scroll tightly, and a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes.

He suppressed his resentment and looked up at Menma: "Then why didn't the dean find out that it was me?"

If, if the dean didn't mean to kill him, then...

Just when hope rose in Kabuto Yakushi's heart.

Clatter~

Menma threw a stack of photos in front of him.

The photos scattered on the ground made Kabuto Yakushi stunned.

"Who is this person?"

The face in the photo is 50% similar to him, and there are photos from childhood to adulthood.

"This is another Kabuto."

Menma added: "Nono can only know your safety and growth through the photos, but she doesn't know that the photos have been replaced by someone else's by the roots, so Nono didn't recognize you when she took action."

Another, Kabuto...

Plop!

Upon hearing this, Kabuto Yakushi couldn't help but feel weak in his legs and feet, and fell directly to the ground.

His eyes were blank, and his expression was incredulous. He said, "I was replaced?"

The name "Kabuto" should have belonged to him only!

Glasses should have been the bond between him and the dean!

No matter what happens, he will never forget his relatives, and it should be the dean!

But now... everything has changed.

"Who am I?"

He has always wanted to know who he is and wanted to give himself an explanation.

But when he finally found it, he lost it again because of those guys.

"Tsk, Danzo."

Looking at Kabuto Yakushi who lost his spiritual support, Menma's eyes were more compassionate.

To some extent, Kabuto Yakushi is the most pitiful person in the world of Naruto.

Lonely and helpless since childhood, he finally met Nono, who was like his mother, friend, and lighthouse...

In order to keep the orphanage that the dean cared about, he even ran away to be a spy.

And in these five years of endless spy career, he changed countless identities.

But the identity of "Kabuto" has always been his only anchor in this world.

It is also the strength and belief that supports him to keep going and not lose himself.

During these five years, he always longed to return to the orphanage one day to meet the director and everyone in the orphanage.

But now...

His only identity has been replaced by others.

"Yakushi Kabuto."

Hearing the voice of the man in front of him, Kabuto instinctively looked up.

"Do you want to understand the meaning of life?"

Menma's tone was meaningful: "Do you want to really...live?"

Cavin. . .

This plot was written in the same way as the defense. The more I watched it, the more uncomfortable it became. No matter how I tried to fix it, I was still not satisfied. It frustrated me to death.

I'll do this for today. I'll review the plot, check the status, and then update it.

Sorry, sorry.