In the darkness, Kimimaro sat on the ground alone, holding his knees.
It is the same as his childhood when he was in the dark prison.
"What is the meaning of my existence?" Kimimaro buried his head in his knees and whispered softly.
Suddenly, Kimimaro raised his head and showed a confused look.
"Why did I come back here? Orochimaru-sama!"
Kimimaro panicked, looking at the darkness, he seemed to remember the frailest part of his heart.
The kind of bottomless loneliness, the kind of endless waiting as he doesn't know the meaning of life.
There was a sharp pain in his body, but compared to the pain in his heart, it was not worth mentioning.
"Why! Why am I here!"
Kimimaro kept roaring, but it didn't make any difference.
The darkness didn't change even with Kimimaro's anger.
No one know how long it took, Kimimaro seemed tired, and couldn't roar anymore, he is standing still, feeling powerless.
But at this moment, the darkness in front of him suddenly disappeared.
Kimimaro was taken aback, and quickly stood up.
Surrounded by the smell of birds and flowers, a faint mist shrouded him, making people feel a little lazy.
A small river was flowing quietly not far away, and next to the river, there was a man lying on the ground.
Kimimaro was curious and walked over.
The man was strange. He had silver-white hair and a black mask. His clothes are crumpled, and there were still wet stains on the ground.
"Who is this?" Kimimaro whispered softly, feeling that this person was familiar, but he couldn't remember it.
He stretched out his hand, trying to remove the black mask.
At that moment, the man woke up, his eyes are not the same in colors, one of them is black and the other red, looking a little strange.
Kimimaro suddenly remembered, 'This person is Kakashi!'
'Hatake Kakashi!'
'But wasn't this scene the first time I saw Kakashi and Orochimaru-sama?'
Kimimaro was surprised and wondered why this scene would appear again.
Not far away, Orochimaru's figure quietly emerged, and Kakashi seemed to faint again, with a black three tomoe mark on his neck.
Orochimaru walked over to Kimimaro and gently stroked Kimimaro's face.
"Haha, child, have you found the meaning of living?"
The familiar words sounded again, making Kimimaro unable to react.
"Maybe, just maybe, there is no purpose in life. But if you linger a while longer in this world, you might discover something of value in it, like how you discovered me and I discovered you."
Upon hearing this, Kimimaro suddenly looked at Kakashi who was on the ground.
'Didn't I meet you here?'
'What do you mean to me?'
'Is it like what Orochimaru-sama mean to me?'
'Or is it something else?'
Just when Kimimaro was immersed in his thought, everything around him suddenly shattered like a mirror, and piece by piece starts to disappear.
Kimimaro wanted to catch something, but he couldn't catch anything.
His body was plunged into darkness again.
He only heard someone whispering in his ear: "The treatment is almost done, Kimimaro should wake up soon."
'This voice is somewhat familiar, but it is somewhat strange.'
'Who is it!'
Kimimaro used all his strength to open his eyes.
The person who enters his eye has silver-white hair, one of his eyes is black and the other is red, and there is a scar on his left eye, which didn't reduce his handsomeness.
The black mask concealed most of his face, which make him looked quite mysterious.
"Hatake...Kakashi?" Kimimaro said with difficulty.
Kakashi smiled and said: "It seems that this guy is already awake."
At this moment, Kabuto once again checked Kimimaro's body, and Kimimaro's gazes were fixed at Kakashi.
'It's this man again, why is he here?'
'Recalling his words, did he heal me?'
'How can it be? Even Orochimaru-sama and Kabuto can't do anything about it, so how could he treat it?'
At this time, another surprise sound arrived in Kimimaro's ear.
"The virus has all disappeared, Kimimaro's Kekkei Genkai disease has completely healed! He only needs to recuperated for a period of time."
"Hehe, Kakashi, it seems that you really didn't lie to me, that's good."
'That hoarse and charming voice… It's Orochimaru-sama.'
Kimimaro turned his head with difficulty, and finally saw the person whom he believed in.
"Orochimaru...sama." Kimimaro yelled softly, seeming to spend all his energy.
"Kimimaro, you need to lie down and rest. You have just recovered from a serious illness. It will take a while for you get your strength back. You shouldn't move for a few days."
In Orochimaru's hoarse tone, there was a rare touch of warmth.
"Yes! Orochimaru-sama."
After hearing this, Kimimaro closed his eyes again and took a rest.
Orochimaru's emotions are very complicated as he looked at Kimimaro.
After years of getting along, Kimimaro's role in Orochimaru's life is not only as his subordinate.
Instead, there is a kind of love that the teacher has for his student.
Although Orochimaru never showed it, this different emotion has always been buried in his heart.
Otherwise, Orochimaru would not go and ask Tsunade to heal Kimimaro.
In the original work, when Kimimaro died, Orochimaru's mood also became a little irritable.
Although he has always been cold-blooded, he still got affected by Kimimaro's death.
Seeing Kimimaro recovering at this time, Orochimaru felt joy in his heart.
"Orochimaru, the transaction has been completed, I will not stay here for long."
"Hehe, Kakashi, happy cooperation."
Kakashi nodded, and his figure disappeared instantly.
"Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Technique) is really convenient."
Orochimaru sighed and then he told Kabuto to take care of Kimimaro and left Kimimaro's room.
Under dim light, there is only Kabuto and Kimimaro left in the room.
Back at Konoha, Kakashi looked at the scroll in his hand with a rare excitement in his heart.
He finally got the Ryūchi Cave's Senjutsu he has been coveting for a long time.
The training method described on the scroll is very different from Mount Myōboku's Senjutsu.
Ryūchi Cave's Senjutsu is also to absorb the natural energy from the heaven and the earth.
But after absorbing it, the effect produced in the body will be completely different.
In addition to the training method of Ryūchi Cave's Senjutsu, there are two Sage Art written on the scroll.
They are Senpō: Hakugeki no Jutsu (Sage Art: White Rage Technique) and Senpō: Muki Tensei (Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation).
After Kakashi looked at the scroll content in detail again, his hands formed a hand seal, and a shadow clone appeared beside him.
Although he won't become a stone statue if he failed to learn Ryūchi Cave's Senjutsu, he still may lose his mind.
Playing safe, Kakashi let the shadow clone try it out first. If there is a problem, there will be enough time to deal with it.
Kakashi looks at the shadow clone who is sitting cross-legged on the bed, with red eyeshadow emerging from the corners of his eyes.
At this time, Kakashi had already activated the Mount Myōboku's Sage Mode to carefully observe the changes in the shadow clone.
Time passed by.
A snake-like eyeshadow gradually appeared next to the eyes of the shadow clone, which looked quite strange.
"Is this Ryūchi Cave's Sage Mode? It feels full of cold aura, completely different from that of the Mount Myōboku's Sage Mode. Is this the difference between them?"
Kakashi whispered softly as he also had a general understanding of Ryūchi Cave's Senjutsu.
At this moment, a painful expression suddenly appeared on the shadow clone's face. After a while, with a bang, the shadow clone disappeared.
The gloomy and cold Senjutsu Chakra instantly poured into Kakashi's body.
"This is!"