Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 647 Similarities of the World

But no matter how I looked at it, there didn't seem to be anyone there. The corner of the alley was deserted, snowflakes swirling in the cold air before falling back to the ground. Was it just my imagination?

Sasuke frowned slightly, looked away, put the matter to himself for the time being, and turned away.

"Hey, how are you?"

He walked up to Xiaomingzi, his gaze quickly sweeping over her. "Are you able to go back by yourself?"

"Of course!" Xiaomingzi immediately straightened her back, her voice filled with a defiant stubbornness again. "You always underestimate me like this. If the snow on the ground wasn't so slippery, I could definitely have dodged it. I—hiss…"

But before she could finish her boastful words, she aggravated the wound on her palm when she raised her hand, wincing in pain and gasping for breath.

Sasuke's gaze immediately fell on her palm. The skin on the edge of her palm was broken; the wound wasn't deep, but it covered a considerable area, and tiny beads of blood were seeping from the broken skin, exposed to the cold winter air.

It was from when I was pushed to the ground and braced myself against the rough frozen soil and gravel.

Sasuke's expression darkened slightly. He reached into his waist pouch, a small ninja tool bag that a child his age would never carry, and pulled out a few clean tissues. He then took her hand and gently pressed the edges of the tissues against the wound, wiping away the oozing blood and dirt bit by bit.

"Let's wipe it down first. Come on, let's go together."

"Together?" Xiaomingzi blinked, her bravado replaced by sudden confusion. "Where...where to?"

"Of course, we'll go to the pharmacy. You probably spent all your allowance on limited-edition cup noodles or other useless things, right? Let's go buy some bandages."

"But..." Xiaomingzi's feet were rooted to the spot, and her voice was much softer than before.

"You're out of money?" Sasuke turned around and looked at her, who seemed to want to say something but didn't dare. "I just can't do anything with you. I can pay for the medicine; you don't need to pay me back."

"No...not this."

Xiaomingzi lowered her head, her golden twin tails falling down from her ears and obscuring most of her face. "I...I've never been to a pharmacy before. What if...what if the owner kicks me out? Last time I went to that newly opened dessert shop, the owner saw me and said it was closed, but there were clearly many people queuing up to buy things. I'm scared..."

She stopped before she could finish speaking. Sasuke suddenly took half a step forward and stood very close to her.

"I won't give him that chance. If he dares to kick you out, I'll give him a good talk about the consequences of offending the Uchiha clan."

"……oh."

Xiaomingzi lowered her head, her hands hanging quietly at her sides. The fingers of the hand that had been wiped clean curled slightly, and for some reason, she suddenly felt that the palm of that hand was a little hot.

Sasuke turned around and led the way. After taking two steps, he stopped and turned his head to the side, as if afraid that the people behind him would not be able to keep up, and to make sure that she had caught up.

Xiaomingzi followed behind him, about half a body length away, stepping on the snow he had trodden on. Their footprints overlapped, some shallow and some deep.

The snow continued to fall slowly, landing on Sasuke's black hair where he wasn't wearing a hat, in the folds of his clothes, and on Naruto's crooked red scarf, melting the snowflakes on the scarf into fine water droplets.

There weren't many people on the street, with only one or two adults occasionally passing by, all bundled up in thick coats. Xiaomingzi quietly raised her head to glance at the back of the boy walking ahead. He had not broad shoulders, and his back was very straight as he walked. His short black hair was blown up a little by the wind.

"Um..." she suddenly said.

"Um?"

"Were you serious about what you just said?"

Do I look like someone who would lie?

"...It doesn't look like it." Xiaomingzi lowered her head and looked at her toes again. After a while, a very faint smile appeared on her lips, a smile that she herself was unaware of. The snow was still falling, and the pharmacy was just a short distance away on the street corner. Warm yellow light shone through the windows and onto the snow in front of the door.

Not far away, at the other end of the street corner, two figures appeared silently under the snow-covered eaves.

One had blond hair, and the other had black hair; their hair colors matched perfectly with the two small figures walking side by side in the snow in the distance.

Naruto looked at his soft, cuddly self and Sasuke in this world, raised his hand to scratch his cheek, his ears burning slightly. To be honest, he felt a little embarrassed.

Although Satsuki had told him before coming that she wanted to see this, this feeling is really hard to describe.

"Satsuki, how's it going? It seems like the world is getting a little more normal." Naruto turned his gaze away from the two small figures and looked at Satsuki beside him.

"Hmm." Satsuki nodded, but her gaze remained fixed on the direction the two children had left in. "That child was really cute. Just like I imagined if Naruto had been a girl when he was little. Even cuter than I expected."

Naruto couldn't help but smile at her rare display of tenderness. Indeed, after leaving the world of Mai Uzumaki, the world of the dark, gender-swapped Naruto, he and Sasuke embarked on their journey again. This time, they arrived in a much earlier timeline, where young Naruto and young Sasuke were still just children a few years old.

Despite her young age, Zuo Yue did see what she had always wanted to see: a boy from the Uchiha clan and a girl from the Uzumaki clan meeting in the snow. One was stubborn and the other was argumentative, neither willing to show weakness first, and neither willing to leave the other behind.

"...But," the slight smile on Zuo Yue's lips slowly faded, "why does this phenomenon occur in every world?"

"Phenomenon?" Naruto turned to look at her.

Why do all Narutos grow up in an environment of malice?

"You in our world, Naruto in this world, and Mai from the previous world. Three worlds, three Narutos, each of them grew up in an environment where they were ostracized, isolated, and treated like monsters."

"The person everyone talks about behind their back, the one all adults point at, the one all children avoid—that's always Naruto Uzumaki. Why?"

"...Back then, I didn't have the power to change anything." Naruto paused for a moment, then spoke softly. "Besides, the human heart is a very complex thing to think about. Fear won't disappear just because you reason with it. But why are you suddenly asking about this?"

"It's all because you're too kind, Naruto."

Satsuki didn't answer his question. Instead, she suddenly looked up at him, her eyes fixed intently. "Are you really okay? If you nod, we can go back now. I remember every single one of those villagers who said hurtful things to you when you were little. I can find them all and make them pay!"

"...Satsuki." Naruto looked down into her eyes. "Something seems off about you. You've been thinking about these things since earlier. What happened? What did you see in that fragment?"

"...I think I understand Mai Uzumaki a little better now."

Naruto waited quietly for her to continue.

"She's different from Naruto in more ways than I imagined. For example, her father was just an ordinary ninja, not the Fourth Hokage. But because of that, Minato Namikaze from that world also survived."

Satsuki spoke slowly and deliberately, "Because my father was just an ordinary ninja, without the authority, position, or even the right to participate in high-level meetings of the Hokage. So after his wife died, he was powerless to resist any orders from the village. He could only watch helplessly as his newborn daughter was pushed onto the altar to become the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. He could only watch helplessly as his daughter was treated like a monster by the entire village, and reminded again and again, 'You are the murderer who killed the Fourth Hokage…'"