Under the dim light, Naruto's face flickered.

"I've been waiting for you at home."

Naruto stood there, his blue eyes bright and moist. "Finally, you're back."

The boy in the white T-shirt smiled widely, the fox beard on his face scrunched up.

He didn't ask why Sako didn't come to find her as promised, nor did he tell her how scared and tormented he was while waiting for her.

He just smiled, happy to see Sako.

Infected by his smile, the dark clouds in Sako's heart seemed to disperse, and golden sunlight shone through.

Someone was waiting for her, that was great.

"Movie?"

"Yes …" Naruto rubbed his hair shyly and turned his head, the tips of his ears turning red.

It was Iruca's fault, they said they could take girls to the movies if they wanted to make them happy.

Naruto, who somehow knew where Shisui's house was, stood at the door with his hands on his knees, panting and looking at her expectantly.

Zuo Zi touched her chin with her finger. "What's that?"

"Ah, I forgot Sako isn't here …" Naruto said casually, then slapped his forehead in annoyance. Why did he have to mention it at this time?

"It was invented by the Uchiha family, they said it's like the program at the Summer Festival, so people can gather together to watch it. The principle seems to be based on a small TV …" Naruto carefully glanced at Sako's expression and explained.

"I see."

Sako tapped her fist on her palm. "That's our Uchiha family, it sounds amazing." Sako happily put her arm around Naruto's shoulder. "Then let's go."

Hey, hey, hey?

Naruto, who was shouting in his heart, blushed as Sako took him away.

Shisui, who was behind them with a complicated expression, finally understood how Itachi felt at that time.

Old father, Uchiha …

In the dark theater, the 3D illusion showed the protagonist's adventure. The immersive illusion almost made people feel like they were following the protagonist on an adventure all over the world.

Because the movie was so realistic, you could even feel the sticky feeling of blood splashing on your body. It was now a graduation education film at the Ninja Academy.

Sako looked at the movie in front of her, then looked at Naruto, who was blushing, with a subtle expression.

She heard that the movie was adapted from Jiraiya-Sama's "Legend of the Root Ninja", and the protagonist's name … was also Naruto.

Sako looked at Naruto suspiciously. was … on purpose?

Naruto waved his hands frantically in his heart. He really didn't choose this movie on purpose!

. He didn't know that this movie would be shown today. Since this movie was released, people's eyes changed!!!

Shikamaru, who was dragged by his mother to watch this movie that he had already watched 5 times, helplessly rubbed his chin and tried to get sleepy. Suddenly, he saw two familiar heads diagonally in front of him.

Why did he feel like … he had accidentally discovered something?

Embarrassed, he followed Sako out of the theater. Naruto felt that Iruca -sensei must be lying to him!

He didn't feel like he made Sako happy, but he was the one who was embarrassed.

"Thank you."

“？”

Sako turned around and gently hugged Naruto, resting her chin on his shoulder, her blonde hair floating around her ears. "Thank you, I'm very happy."

She clearly didn't remember how much she liked Naruto at that time, but he always wanted to warm her and make her happy.

Sako knew that everyone was worried about her and was afraid that she would be sad.

Sako was indeed sad.

In front of her parents' memorial in the cemetery, Sako had broken down and cried. She had been scared and lost.

Why did this have to happen to her?

Why wasn't she able to see her parents for the last time when they were so good?

But Sako knew that if it were her parents, they would definitely want her to be strong. They definitely wouldn't want her to be immersed in hopeless sadness.

Shisui stood at the door, looking at the path in loneliness. It was already so late, why wasn't Sako back yet? Didn't she remember that her old father was starving at home?

After sending Sako to the door, Naruto stole a glance at Shisui's expression like a little rabbit. His beastly instincts made him say hello in fear and immediately bid farewell to Sako before running away.

"Sigh, as expected, Sako forgot about her brother when she had a friend." Shisui sighed.

"Don't be too jealous, Shisui. Lord Satoko loves you too ~" Sako pushed Shisui into the house, so that Shisui could stop pretending to be sad.

Shisui's mouth secretly curved into a small arc. It was really good that Zuo Zi could get along with people of the same age so quickly.

"Are you inviting me?" Kakashi pointed at himself in a daze.

"Yes, that's right. Come to our house tonight. We have your favorite saury."

Kakashi looked at the bright Uchiha Shisui with a complicated expression.

Was Senpai like this in the past?

Wasn't the Uchiha family supposed to be more united and xenophobic?

Unknowingly, these people seemed to have slowly changed.

Shisui awkwardly put his arm around Kakashi's shoulder. For some reason, Kakashi was reminded of the fear of being dominated by Guy. He shook his body and removed the image from his mind. "Ah, okay." Although he didn't know why he agreed, but … he didn't have a reason to refuse.

Sako stepped on a stool with a spatula and pinched Shisui's ear. "So you invited Kakashi without my permission, and said you were going to make saury for him?

Do you know how to make saury?

Did you forget the bloody scene where my organs exploded last time?!! "

"I was wrong, Lord Satoko. It hurts ~" Shisui covered his ear with one hand and bent over, begging for mercy.

Shisui obediently squatted on the side and carefully scraped the scales with his shuriken.

Sako held the recipe in one hand and flipped the fish with the spatula in the other. "Put more sugar, I like it sweet. Do you want salt?"

Shisui looked at Sako with confused and pitiful eyes. He put down the innocent fish and walked behind Sako. After thinking seriously for a while, he poured some unknown liquid into the bowl. "Is this enough?"

"Really?" Sako suddenly sympathized with Kakashi.

— —

"I'm going to dig in."

Kakashi, who was warmly welcomed by Sako, tried his best to ignore the two pairs of sparkling eyes in front of him. He clasped his hands together and said.

The wooden chopsticks slowly picked up a piece of fish.

…

Later, through the memories of an unknown person, on that day, he seemed to have tasted the taste of heaven.

Sako carefully looked at Kakashi's expression, and a subtle little expectation rose in her heart unknowingly.

Kakashi is worthy of being a Tokubetsu Jonin. He didn't even frown as he swallowed the whole piece of fish, his expression was flawless.

Kakashi stopped Sako's hand from eating and looked at Shisui. "Someone will die. Senpai, please let me do it."

Thus, the two Uchiha kitchen experts obediently knelt in front of the table and watched the person who was supposed to be a guest slowly bring out a few delicious-looking dishes from the kitchen.

"Please …" The two admiring puppies' eyes lit up.