In the evening, Keiko came home and saw her son has come back, there's no smile that can be seen on her face. She just asked Kanpū to accompany Hayate more.
During the meal, Kanpū couldn't eat much. On the contrary, Hayate had a good appetite and ate a lot, but after he finished eating, he went to the backyard to strike the wooden stake again.
Keiko cast a threatening look at Kanpū when she saw this.
Kanpū had no choice but to get up when he saw Keiko's threatening look, 'But, what to do next?'
'Chat awkwardly with Hayate?'
'This will only make the situation worse, right?'
'Or maybe…get someone to help?'
Suddenly, the figure of a little girl flashed in Kanpū's mind.
'Uzuki Yūgao!'
Kanpū's eyes lit up, and he went to Matsushita's house immediately.
The old man Matsushita also ate at home, but because his granddaughter, Tabako had a mission outside the village, he ate very lightly alone, just five pounds of garlic crayfish, three stacks of seasoned vegetables, and a bottle of sake. His life is full of fun and joy.
After Kanpū said his intentions, Matsushita immediately formed hand seal to create a shadow clone and went out. Not long after, the clone came back with a little girl with purple hair.
"Wow, two Grandpa Matsushita!"
Yūgao was surprised when he saw the old man Matsushita who was eating and drinking. She then looked at the old man of Matsushita who was holding him, her eyes widened in surprise, and her little head looked back and forth, completely unable to tell who's real and who's fake.
"Younger sister Yūgao."
Kanpū smiled and greeted.
Yūgao's eyes immediately went wide when she saw Kanpū: "It's you, the big bad guy!"
Kanpū smiled and said: "Big brother is a good guy, not a bad guy."
"You are a big bad guy, you bullied Hayate-nii and Tabako-nee, I saw it myself!" Yūgao said angrily with her cheeks puffed up, her eyes are covered with a layer of crystal clearness, like a fierce puppy attitude that if you refute me, I will bark at you.
Matsushita, who sat next to him, laughed when he saw this.
Kanpū glanced at him annoyedly: 'This old man really has a bad conscience.'
After that, he looked at Yūgao, and said with gentle tone: "Younger sister Yūgao, this big brother will take you to see Hayate, okay?"
Yūgao's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "Really~"
Kanpū nodded, and said: "Your Hayate-nii is in a bad mood, can younger sister Yūgao play with him?"
"Okay, okay!"
Yūgao nodded immediately.
Kanpū smiled and then asked: "Then, is big brother a good guy or a bad guy?"
"Big bad guy!"
Yūgao puffed out her cheeks in principle.
"Hahaha…" Matsushita was so amused that he couldn't eat anymore.
Kanpū just looked at him with annoyed expression.
Leaving Matsushita's house, Kanpū wanted to hold Yūgao home, but unfortunately, this girl didn't let her hold her, and she said that she didn't need his help and wanted to walk there herself arrogantly.
When they got home and changed their shoes at the entrance, Yūgao rushed towards the backyard with her two short legs, shouting 'Hayate-nii'.
Kanpū followed quietly, hid on the side, and paid attention to the situation at the backyard.
After Yūgao came, Hayate finally had a reaction. Although his expression was still dull, there was finally a hint of emotion in his eyes.
Seeing this scene, Kanpū was both relieved and… uncomfortable.
'…Smelly younger brother, you chose hoes before bros.'
Kanpū shook his head, and left the backyard for two people. He went to the bedroom and started refining Chakra.
...
In the backyard, Hayate and Yūgao whispered a childish fairy tale. The depressed and uncomfortable mood slowly eased, but as the sky gradually darkened, Yūgao's family came to pick her up at around 8 o'clock.
Soon, the only one left to accompany Hayate on the empty backyard is the wooden stake.
Hayate looked up at the cold moon and looked at the wooden stake next to him, feeling even more sad.
"Tou-san..."
Hayate went to the wooden corridor and sat down, bowing his head and weeping.
Hayate didn't know what he was doing these days. At first, he couldn't believe it and was heartbroken. After crying bitterly, even if he didn't want to, he had to accept the fact that his father had died.
Then he became reluctant to speak, and then he found that time flies so slowly, and every second is uncomfortable.
Moreover, his mind is very messy, full of all kinds of messy thoughts.
Angry? Fury? Sad? Hatred? Want his father to come back alive? To avenge his father? Work hard to train Kenjutsu and inherit Konoha-Style Kenjutsu as soon as possible, and fulfill his father's wish?
Hayate feels anything, and it feels like nothing.
Suddenly Hayate felt so bored, he was not interested in anything, and could not wait to stay on the ground until the end of the world.
So, Hayate lay upright on the grass, but after a while, he felt bored again, bored and sad.
Hayate climbed up from the grass again and sat on the wooden corridor again, staring blankly at the stars in the night sky, and suddenly muttered to himself: "If I graduated earlier like big brother, it would be good."
'That way, I can leave the village to do missions, so that I don't have to stay at home all the time, so I have the opportunity to take revenge, and I can do a lot of things…'
'But how can I catch up with big brother's footsteps?'
Hayate lowered his head.
Then, he saw the wooden corridor under his butt, and he suddenly remembered that half a year ago, his brother secretly hid a scroll under the corridor every day, and made him crawled in to take it out every day.
'It seems that big brother has become stronger since that time…'
At the time, Kanpū tricked Hayate by saying that the scroll was Great Fireball Technique, but now that Hayate has been studying for more than half a year, he naturally understood that Great Technique is just a Ninjutsu, and it is impossible to make his big brother suddenly stronger.
This matter… is very scary to think about.
Hayate jumped onto the grass, and then walked to under the corridor where his big brother had been hiding the scroll. He bent down and looked inside. However, it was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything.
'Big brother should have taken the scroll away…'
Hayate wanted to leave, but he then hesitated, 'What if big brother didn't take it away?'
Holding the lucky mentality of finding the treasure left by his big brother, he gritted his teeth and bent down to get inside.
The gap under the corridor is small and dirty, but Hayate has crawled in and out many times, so he is very experienced. He closed his eyes and felt the surrounding with his body. After knocking his head a few times, he found the feeling, then he reached out and touched it.
"…I found it?"
When Hayate's hand touched a dusty scroll, he was shocked, as if he couldn't believe he could really find it.
'Did big brother always hide this scroll here, in this place that only the two of us know?'
Suddenly Hayate felt so moved and wanted to cry.
Exiting from the corridor, Hayate had a gray-black scroll in his hand. He wiped the dust off the scroll with his clothes, and then opened it.
The scroll is made of special materials, it couldn't get wet, and there's no water there, so the writing in the scroll is still very clear.
"Body Revival Technique…"
Hayate's eyes lit up, "Yes, this is it…"
Back then, Hayate had also opened the scroll, but he has only enrolled at the Academy at that time, so he didn't know many words. After reading it intermittently, he couldn't understand what was written on it.
But at this time, Hayate has been studying at the Academy for more than half a year, and he has already recognized all the words he should know.
Therefore, when he read this scroll again, Hayate's heart is slowly surging.
'Stimulate cell activity and enhance physical fitness…'
Hayate looked at it for a while, but the moonlight was a little dark, so it was too difficult to read the words in the scroll. Therefore, Hayate closed the scroll and entered the living room.
'Aunt Keiko was very busy at work, so she is already asleep at this time, and big brother is training in the bedroom.'
'As soon as big brother enters the training state, he will not open his eyes for five hours…'
As soon as Hayate thought of this, he turned on the lights in the living room and stared at the scrolls hungrily.