Chapter 38: The Father Who Never Said The Words

A birthday gift.

This was something Sasuke had not expected.

He received a gift from his mother on his birthday.

He felt that the system's evaluation was not objective enough. This gift was obviously very precious and needed to be treasured.

After rereading the letter on the gift box, he carefully opened the box and took out his mother's gift. There were also two letters attached.

One was written in elegant handwriting, and the other was written in rough handwriting.

The signature on the letter made his heart beat faster immediately.

The system projection next to him did not disturb him again.

Just because the name and handwriting on the signature were Sasuke's father's.

"A letter to our Sasuke:

"Speaking of writing letters, it really feels a bit of a headache. I don't like to waste time on documents. I also prefer to communicate directly with the clan members face to face during family gatherings. But there is no way. When a father has some things that are hard to say, maybe writing them down will be much better. This is also your mother's suggestion."

"First of all, I still want to praise your grades. You are excellent in every subject. You are worthy of being my son!"

"To celebrate your first grade, I specially prepared a special gift for you on this birthday. I hope you like it."

"Then we talked about your idea of ​​keeping up with your brother. This time I will try to make it clearer. Your brother lives in a different environment from you. The world of ninjas is very cruel. It is actually different from the peaceful and tranquil ninja situation you see in your family. This is a world where wars may reappear at any time. The village only ended large-scale wars in a practical sense a few years ago."

"Protecting the honor of the family and the peace of the village is very cruel to individuals. Sometimes individuals really seem very small in front of the grand collective..."

"When I am free, looking at some of the clan members who have changed their careers, I am also thinking whether I should slow down my pace of progress appropriately and put more energy on my family and daily companionship, but the number of ninjas in the family is relatively small."

"I may not be a very good clan leader, but fortunately, I have a good wife and two good children. To understand your brother... He is not only a genius of Uchiha, but also the last ninja of this generation of Uchiha who has been on the battlefield. He has important tasks to do and will be a little busy on weekdays."

"You are a very kind child, and you are not very suitable for the rules of ninjas, but there is nothing wrong with that. There is already a hope in the family. You are excellent, but you don't have to force yourself to get involved in the world of ninjas in advance. This is good. In the future..."

"After the family affairs are settled, Dad will accompany you."

"No matter what, Dad will always love you—"

Sasuke read the handwritten words word by word, and then flipped through another letter, which was written by his mother.

"Happy Birthday! Do you like this mysterious gift? Sasuke, in fact, Dad has often told me about you, and there are far more than what is written in the letter. It's just that he is thin-skinned and a bit too serious, so he can't be thick-skinned and write more blessings..."

"This birthday, Mom and Dad have prepared a gift for you, I hope you like it. As a normal student in the ninja school, you will meet many good friends in school. Some of them may be annoying, but you should get to know them well, make good friends, live well in school, eat and sleep peacefully at home, and in the future, the days are long, and our family will be together forever."

"Love, your mother—"

"Mom..."

Sasuke's eyes stayed on the letter, and the tears that had been controlled for a long time could not help but flow out again, and the clear tears fell like rain.

However, he did not make a sound, but read the words again and again, and then carefully put them away again.

Ten minutes later, he took out the gift from the box and saw that it was a delicate crystal. Looking at the gift from his father, it was a shuriken, very ninja-like.

In addition, there was a photo with the figures of their family of four.

In the end, two of the people in the photo died. The one who survived became a murderer, and the other became an orphan.

He looked at the photo for a long time, rubbing his palms on the photo, wanting to do something, but gave up.

Finally, he put these things back into the box and put them back in their original safe place.

The road to becoming stronger is lonely and dangerous.

He didn't want these things to encounter unexpected things outside.

Even if there is an inappropriate person in the photo.

After taking measures to preserve the precious items, Sasuke returned to his own room.

After cleaning for a while, he took out his own bedding and sheets and decided to sleep in the family home tonight.

Even for ninjas, the "dead city" where hundreds of people died is also a dead place, but Sasuke felt much less lonely here.

When he calmed down and thought again, the system projection appeared beside him and asked: "Host, how do you feel? Are you feeling good?"

"I'm fine."

Sasuke nodded, he looked in the direction of the white kitten and said, "Actually, I feel very happy. Today is July 23rd. As my birthday, I received a very precious gift."

"And you, system, thank you."

Sasuke communicated with his only companion through the system. Although this companion was only a projection and did not seem to be a human, it did not matter as long as it was an intelligent life.

And he was looking forward to the system having a physical body in the future.

The white kitten raised its head and rolled over on the bed twice. It was still difficult to hide its joy in its tone: "No need to thank me, I am your best assistant! With me here, you will definitely be able to reach the top of this world."

That was not what Sasuke wanted to say, but after listening to his companion's words, he nodded and said, "Yes, I will."

"I will become the strongest and make up for all the regrets..."

After his emotions returned to normal.

In his familiar room, Sasuke took advantage of the dim starlight, recalled his father's instructions to him, and had a more practical understanding of the cruelty of the ninja world itself.

It was indeed cruel.

From the appearance of harmony and happiness to the appearance of a dead city—

It only takes a dark night in between.

...

The next day.

After Sasuke felt that his emotions had returned to normal, he started to do some serious work, taking out the family history, the official history recorded in the village, etc., and reading them to understand the past of the village.

This information will not be tested at the end of the semester or graduation.

But you can still see some official information.

Based on some of the things his parents and clansmen talked about before they died, Sasuke felt that he could not piece together a complete ninja environment, and even those things were not as good as what he learned in the month of enlightenment at the ninja school.

No way, he was not interested in these things in the past.

And if the living environment is peaceful and tranquil enough, Sasuke also thought that the whole day would be like this. He wanted to live like this, but the reality was obviously not peaceful.

His ninja teacher in the ninja school was also an orphan.

The whole real and cruel world did not cease to exist because of his indifference.

Everything seemed to come abruptly, but in fact, it might have already been like the prelude to a storm.

There were traces before the incident, but he was unaware of it.

Now this state of ignorance should end.

He has laid a certain foundation and made up for the missing cultural foundation.

I think that if he looks back on history now, or even looks at this period of history belonging to the Land of Fire, he may be able to really get started.

The ancient times are far from the present. The generation gap is too big, so it doesn't matter whether they understand or not.

However, the events in modern times, even those that are only a few decades away from modern times, have influenced each other and are in the same social system.

Sasuke himself has a personal experience of the relationship between people in this social system.

The influence of the interaction is much greater than the ancient legends.

The existence of the Mangekyō has only been confirmed now that someone can open it. However, in the world of ninjas, even if he didn't know how cruel it was, reality was like an unstoppable wheel that almost eliminated all the people in his clan, including him.

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