Konoha’s 50 Years

Listening to Orochimaru's emotion, Uchiha Chen nodded.

"No one is immortal, is there?"

"Yeah. Nothing is eternal. Even the existence of Six Path Immortals has disappeared in the long river of history." Orochimaru sighed.

"Aging, and then death without leaving a trace, life is really an empty thing. I am only twenty years old now, and I have deeply felt this thing." Orochimaru said.

"Chen, what do you think of life?" Orochimaru asked suddenly, squinting his golden snake eyes.

"What's the matter, what happened?" Uchiha Chen didn't answer the question directly.

In his opinion, Orochimaru's enthusiasm for him is indeed a bit too much.

How could a twenty-year-old Junin ask a nine-year-old kid such a question.

"Haha... It seems that I asked abruptly." Orochimaru smiled rarely, with a hoarse but magnetic voice.

"I had a strange feeling the first time I saw you. I felt you were different."

"I've watched you for a long time, and I think you're out of tune with the world. You're just a child, but I feel like you have a mature soul. It's really interesting."

Uchiha Chen was vigilant, and Orochimaru was too keen.

"I feel like you're like a gust of wind that will eventually move the world. So, I think your answer should be interesting."

Orochimaru paused and continued, "From the day my parents died and I became an orphan, I was already prepared for death."

"However, even if I am like this, the moment I fight on the battlefield, I will unconsciously feel that I am very small. This is completely different from the killing during the ninja mission."

"Death, there is death everywhere. When you look at it, there are corpses all around. Some are enemies, some are ours. Even, some are your contemporaries and good friends."

"And what did those many sacrifices get in exchange? Only, the experience and knowledge in a lot of wars."

"Life is such a boring thing."

Orochimaru poured himself another glass of wine.

"Yes. We are all ordinary people. Everyone is pursuing happiness, but not everyone will be happy." Uchiha Chen nodded.

Orochimaru's eyes were calm and a little sad, repeating what Uchiha Chen said, as if remembering something that he had lost but could never find again.

After a moment of silence, Uchiha Chen picked up the dish in front of him with his chopsticks and asked.

"Is the war about to begin?"

"Yeah, some places have become a pot of porridge. The friction between the country of rain and the country of grass is getting more and more serious." Orochimaru said

"Both the Land of Wind and Land of Earth have already begun to station a large number of troops on the border. If they are allowed to continue to station a large number of troops on the border, once the war breaks out, Konoha will immediately be at a disadvantage."

"In this case, why are you coming back?" Uchiha Chen already had a guess, but still asked with squinted eyes.

Orochimaru smiled and said in a hoarse voice, "Three generations of Hokage called us back. The Jounin mission book has already come down."

He said with a smile as he picked up the peanuts in front of him with chopsticks and put them in his mouth.

"We are coming back as the leader of your group of students." Orochimaru said in a hoarse voice.

"Leading the Jounin team? But we're only in fifth grade and haven't graduated yet." Uchiha Chen wondered.

"Yeah. It's because you haven't graduated, so I'm taking you on a mission now."

"Once the war started, no one had time, like a babysitter, to take you. At that time,

You children, will go straight to the battlefield. "

"You guys are the future of Konoha. That's why the three generations of old men took a lot of effort to call us back. I just want you to experience the first war when there is no war."

"Once a war breaks out, the one who suffers the most casualties in the war is Jinnin."

"Because there is no psychological experience, there is no time to adapt. We create this experience just so that the first time you see blood is not in war. It is always good to have less deaths."

Uchiha Chen nodded.

"So, Orochimaru-sama, are you my team leader?"

"That's right. Tsunade originally made the order. But Uchiha's patriarch temporarily requested to be replaced by me." Orochimaru said pointing to something.

Uchiha didn't speak.

Uchiha-san... what a big trouble.

"What about Tsunade-sensei?"

"After she went to the teacher to judge, she smashed the door of Hokage's office."

"......"

"In the end, Tsunade extorted 2,000 taels from the teacher and went straight to the casino."

"........."

"Oh, so it is. It seems that in Tsunade-sensei's eyes, I'm worth two thousand taels." Uchiha Chen touched his hair and said helplessly.

At this time, the owner of the tavern came up with another roast chicken.

"This, I'm so sorry. It cost you money. You treat me better than Tsunade-sensei." Uchiha Chen smiled embarrassedly.

However, there was no embarrassment in his hand, and he wanted to eat chicken when he picked up the chopsticks.

"Don't worry. This chicken is not for you." Orochimaru said, "These are reserved for distinguished guests."

"VIP?"

Orochimaru didn't answer Uchiha Chen's question, but bit his finger silently, "Spirituality!"

When the seal was completed, Orochimaru pressed his blood-stained hand to the ground, and white smoke came out immediately, and when the smoke dissipated, a small white snake more than one meter long appeared.

It's just that there are two small purple horns on the snake's head.

"Here." Orochimaru picked up the chicken.

The little snake's mouth suddenly split open, then became bigger and bigger, and swallowed the whole chicken directly.

Cut, don't be afraid of choking!

After the white snake finished eating the chicken in its mouth, it showed a satisfied expression.

It first glanced at Orochimaru, and then it looked at Uchiha Chen noncommittally, who was regretting the roast chicken.

But with that look, it was as if Uchiha Chen was just a piece of garbage in the wrong place.

"......"

"Is this kid? It's too small." After glancing at Uchiha Chen, White Snake began to speak.

Its tongue licked its lips and stared straight at Uchiha Chen.

"It's okay, you will need this scroll sooner or later." Orochimaru shook his head and said, "Give it to me."

White Snake didn't speak, but still spit out a sealed scroll from his mouth.

"This is a psychic contract. Write your name here in blood."

After pulling the scroll away, Orochimaru pointed to a blank space above.

"I think you should have known about the seal of psychic arts from that stupid apprentice of Jiraiya.

"From tomorrow onwards, you will go out with me to perform tasks. This contract is a gift from my teacher."

After writing, the snake swallowed the contract again, and then went back against the psychic technique.

Then, Orochimaru also turned into smoke and dissipated.

The mother chicken is a shadow clone again.

Uchiha touched the corner of his eyes and smiled.

However, his smile immediately solidified.

Suddenly he thought of a terrible thing.

Orochimaru left without paying.....