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The night sky in the desert is cleaner than other places, but it is deathly silent without the chirping of cicadas.

A red-haired child with baby fat on his face had not yet faded away. His knees were covered with a thin blanket that was a little thin compared to this season. He hugged his knees, curled up in a corner, gently raised his chin, and asked in a childish voice,

"When will father and mother come back?" The child's round eyes were blinking, full of expectation.

Chiyo smiled lovingly, making the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes that had been eroded by time also become kind, "They may have to live a while longer."

"That's it..." Sure enough, this was the answer. Disappointment quickly replaced the expectation in his eyes. The young Scorpion lay down on his side and pulled the thin blanket over him. Like a little beast that was very insecure, he put

He curled up into a small ball and closed his eyes tightly. Even when he fell asleep, his little fists were clenched tightly and refused to let go.

Xie fell asleep, and Chiyo sat beside the bed for a long time in a daze.

As people get older, it is inevitable that they will lose energy. After a long time, Chiyo realized that the light was still on in the room, which could not affect Scorpio's rest, so it was time to leave.

Sighing tiredly, Chiyo stood up and gently tucked Scorpion into bed.

In front of Xie's bed, under the intertwined orange lights and shadows, there were several statuettes.

Those are the newborn Scorpion, the Scorpion when it can talk, the Scorpion when it can just run, and the parents holding him.

Seeing this, Chiyo's heart was stung again. It seemed that the pain in her heart could no longer be hidden calmly. Her eyes and lips were trembling.

Another long sigh. Snap, the switch was turned off.

When the room became dark, the closed eyes of the little figure on the bed opened again. Scorpion looked at the light spilling in from the crack in the door. Gradually, the light became more and more blurred, and even the pillow cover gradually became moist.

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At night in Sand Hidden Village, another light went out.

Chiyo, whose steps were already staggering, had to rush to work after Xia fell asleep. In the rows and rows of aisles, the wall lamps stretched her shadow very long.

On the way to the office, Chiyo's disappointed eyes always made Chiyo feel uneasy. Chiyo was struggling with the decision whether to tell the child the truth or not.

"I can't tell him the truth. Xia is still too young. How should he face the fact that his parents are dead." Chiyo tells himself this every time, but how long can he deceive Xie?

As one of the true pillars of Sunagakure Village, Chiyo took a break even later than the Third Kazekage.

After finishing the work of the medical department, the clock has passed the midnight mark.

Scorpios may not know that the pain of parents losing their children is a hundred times more painful than that of children losing their parents.

However, Chiyo kept everything completely in her heart.

Chiyo turned her hatred for Konoha White Fang and Konoha Ninja Village into unimaginable motivation.

When thousands of corpses of the puppet army were returned to the village, Chiyo never slept at night again.

In order to keep herself energetic, Chiyo began to take toxin-laced energizing drugs. People in the village whispered that she was crazy. The Third Kazekage had issued an order not to form a puppet army, but Chiyo strongly opposed it.

She even said that Sunagakure Village needs a larger puppet army.

The puppet army was completely destroyed by Konoha White Fang, which was enough to prove the flaws of the puppet army.

Many ninjas believe that Chiyo-sama's emotions interfere with her judgment, and perhaps a more suitable ninja should take over her job.

However, this argument only appeared for a short time, and then disappeared together with the ninja who created it.

The Third Kazekage personally solved the problem. There is not a single ninja in Sunagakure Village who is more qualified and capable than Chiyo.

After everything was done, Chiyo unfolded a long file, which was full of complicated techniques. Judging from the modification marks and completeness of the technique, this technique was far from being fully developed.

If you can exchange your own life for the lives of your Scorpio parents, then you must try it.

Chiyo came up with a brilliant idea, and finally there was a smile on her always gloomy and rigid face.

The difference between a dead body and a living life is not whether the blood is flowing or whether the heartbeat is still there. The difference may be just the life energy itself.

Uehara should recognize this technique. In the original work, Gaara was drained of his jinchūriki and died, but was given new life again by Granny Chiyo using the forbidden ninjutsu that transferred his life force.

This technique, which costs one's own life, turned out to be originally prepared to resurrect the scorpion's parents.

The night was coming to an end, and Chiyo closed the file.

It seems that we need to find more ninjutsu related to vitality as a reference. It is too difficult to develop ninjutsu that breaks the boundary between life and death.

In the ninja world, the only flawless ninjutsu that can bring the dead back to life is the reincarnation technique that Chiyo's mother-in-law later developed and completed.

As for the second-generation Hokage Senju Tobirama, who is considered to be the most genius developer of forbidden arts, the filth reincarnation he developed is more of a blasphemy to the dead than a resurrection of life.

And Orochimaru, who is said to have mastered the technology of the ninja world, can be resurrected again and again after suffering serious injuries, but at the cost of causing irreparable flaws in his soul.

The destiny ninjas of Konoha always lost to the supporting cast once.

Scorpio is still young, but he is very smart.

Grandma is very busy and will not disturb him during the day. This is a pattern he has observed for a long time.

So, after he stepped on the stool and tiptoed to lock the door from the inside.

He happily took out "Dad", and then "Mom".

The two puppets resemble the young ninja couple on the photo clip in the room.

A father with red hair and a solid figure, and a very beautiful mother with long black hair.

Xie carefully placed the puppets left and right, combed their hair and arranged their clothes. The emotion in his eyes was completely different from what he showed in front of his grandma and everyone.

The two puppets, who are immersed in Scorpio's emotions, embrace each other. The puppets are very vivid, and even the smiles depicted are exactly the same as the smiles on the photo clips.

Xie carefully knelt between the two puppets, crossed his hands, and the light blue puppet chakra lines flowed out of his small hands and connected to the puppets.

With a soft click, the puppet moved its arms flexibly, and the two puppets hugged Xie even tighter. Xie pressed his little face against it with a face full of intoxication, he wanted to feel the temperature of the cold puppet.

A ray of early morning sunlight came in through the window, shining on Xie's face full of happiness and intoxication, and he felt the long-lost warmth.

It was the warmth from father and mother. Scorpion leaned into the puppet's arms, and for a while he gently rubbed "mom"'s cheek, and for a while he gently bumped his little head against "father's" chest, just like what he saw in the village.

All children act like spoiled children.

"...Scorpion?!" Her heart was beating for a while. Granny Chiyo, who had quietly opened the door a crack at some point, was trembling as she looked at Scorpion and his puppet in horror.

The strange noise disturbed Xie, and he opened his mouth in fear. With a crash, the chakra lines dispersed, and the two puppets fell to the ground like lifeless logs without any support.

Xie lowered his hands and knelt motionless, looking at the puppet lying on the ground. In his eyes, there was a sadness deeper than that of an adult.

"It turned out that Xie was aware of the death of his parents a long time ago..." Her lips were trembling slightly, and Granny Chiyo's heart was raging. She restrained her impulse to enter the room, turned back at the last step, and left uneasily.

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It’s a small room with small windows. From the room at the highest point of the movie building, even Sand Hidden Village looks small.

Xie hugged her knees and leaned against the window. Outside, was there another sandstorm? The whole sky was gray.

Also, is that flying thing a kite?

Uehara was experimenting with so-called flying puppets. The kite was big enough, so when a sandstorm came, Uehara was torn away and screamed like a ghost.

Fortunately, the kite flew towards the village and was not swept away by the sandstorm.

The kite was fluttering, and there was an extra corner of color in the sky of Sand Ninja Village. (To be continued)