Chapter 196 Their Unspeakable
After leaving the examination hall, Obito Uchiha kept chasing after Haruko, accusing her of her terrible behavior.
"You actually threatened me to cheat! That's too much!" Obito Uchiha said angrily.
Haruko raised her index finger and waved it in front of him. "Obito is wrong. This is not a threat, it is a precise assistance for promotion."
"Precise assistance for promotion... You really do say things that sound very reasonable every day."
Unexpectedly, her good deed was met with a bad response. Haruko stopped and put her hands on her hips, saying, "I helped Obito, you should be thanking me, but you treat me like this!"
Meeting her indignant gaze, Obito Uchiha retorted with a mixture of guilt and stubbornness: "I can advance through my own strength!"
"He was sitting there scratching his head for ages," Haruko bluntly exposed him.
He subconsciously looked at the two people following behind him and saw that Nohara Rin and Hatake Kakashi both turned their heads away and pretended not to have heard anything. Uchiha Obito's pride was shattered.
Just as he was about to explode, Haruko leaned closer and took his hand, saying with a smile, "Besides, Obito is going to take me home. There's no time to cry and whine about failing to advance!"
Dazzled by her smile, Obito Uchiha stopped worrying about the promotion, but still muttered defiantly, "Even if I fail, I won't cry..."
"I know, I know, Obito was born without tears."
"Hello!"
Seeing the two of them playing and joking intimately, Nohara Rin couldn't help but laugh.
"They have such a good relationship," Nohara Rin remarked.
Kakashi Hatake glanced at her, then, as if struck by a thought, suddenly asked, "Are you envious of them?"
Nohara Rin was taken aback. Looking into Hatake Kakashi's deep and clear eyes, her complex emotions seemed to have nowhere to hide from him.
Perhaps due to the prolonged silence, Kakashi Hatake repeated, "Do you envy them?"
Fearing he might misunderstand her, Nohara Rin quickly waved her hand and explained, "I'm not envious of Haruko. I just think that the two of them always bicker and joke around together, and that must be a bond that no one else can match!"
Seeing that Kakashi Hatake simply nodded to indicate that he understood after she finished speaking, Rin Nohara felt her face inexplicably flush. It was just a normal question, but she acted as if she was panicking and trying to distance herself, as if she really had something on her mind.
But perhaps it's not wrong; Nohara Rin did indeed harbor feelings of envy that were difficult to express.
However, the person she truly envied... was Obito Uchiha.
Nohara Rin turned her gaze back to Haruko's back in her white kimono, her lively and adorable figure hopping and skipping, captivating her attention.
Haruko is a very special girl; Nohara Rin thought so from the first time she met her.
When the Ninja Academy started, the first thing she saw when she entered the classroom was a beautiful girl silhouetted against the lush green leaves outside the window, her white veil fluttering gracefully, like a fairy.
Rin Nohara had originally wanted to muster up the courage to sit down near her, but was interrupted by the late Obito Uchiha. She watched as Obito sat down next to her, and the two exchanged intimate words.
Finding it difficult to muster the courage to approach two people she knew so well, Nohara Rin took a step away and moved to a seat on the other side of the classroom.
She thought she wouldn't have another chance to meet him, but on a very ordinary day, Haruko's friends appeared around her, saying strange things.
Then Haruko appeared, her bright smile shining as she asked, "Rin, can we be friends?"
Of course she could; it's been a secret wish of hers all along...
After finally getting his wish and having a legitimate reason to get close to her, at first he just felt that looking at her made life seem full of rosy fun. Later, he didn't want to just look at her anymore, and gradually began to envy Uchiha Obito, the only person she was closest to.
It's ridiculous that I'm actually envious of a guy, isn't it?
But that's exactly what Nohara Rin thought. She envied Uchiha Obito for being able to have endless topics to talk about with Haruko, for being able to see her anytime, and for being able to stay together in the future...
But she wasn't a jealous person; she could only marvel at how well they understood each other.
"They have such a good relationship..." Nohara Rin murmured again.
Kakashi Hatake didn't reply, but watched with her as the two walked away into the distance, like an invisible line clearly dividing them from Obito Uchiha.
Do you envy them?
Although he was asking Nohara Rin, in a way he was also trying to clarify his own questions.
Does he envy them?
Or to put it more directly, did he envy Obito Uchiha?
Kakashi Hatake's calm gaze scrutinized him at this moment. Perhaps he had been bewildered by her pleading eyes that day, for he had allowed himself to touch her, to respond to her, and to get closer to her.
So much so that when he heard her words of gratitude later, Kakashi Hatake felt a pang of regret.
As for what is regrettable... that is something he cannot say.
"Kakashi! Rin!"
Haruko, who was some distance away, pulled Obito Uchiha to a stop and waved to them.
"Hurry up and catch up! Obito said he's treating!"
"I didn't say that! You just want to eat!"
Setting aside their meaningless wild thoughts, Nohara Rin and Hatake Kakashi responded to them.
Keep moving forward and walk alongside them.
...
"You have to do missions before you become a Chunin, and you have to do missions after you become a Chunin. This is a terrible life, a life hijacked by education."
Haruko slumped on the lawn, muttering her despair listlessly.
Minato Namikaze overheard her complaint as he approached, chuckled, and patted her head. "A ninja should always strive to improve."
Even though he knew that the person in front of him was the Haruko who used to treat them gently, Minato Namikaze still couldn't help but treat this mischievous young Haruko as a child.
Haruko met his gaze calmly and confidently, "Then how much progress do we need to make before we can rest? When will we truly no longer need to work hard? Minato-sensei, you're just making empty promises!"
"Making empty promises?"
Minato Namikaze couldn't help but chuckle, only to be met with a sharp glare from Haruko, as if reminding him that this was a serious topic.
After clearing his throat, Minato Namikaze resumed his serious demeanor. "Why does Haruko always want to rest?"
“Because you can never finish trying, but you can rest right now by lying down,” Haruko said, quickly lying down on the lawn to demonstrate for him.
Minato Namikaze couldn't hold back any longer and burst into laughter, which attracted the attention of the other three.
"What's wrong with Minato-sensei?" Nohara Rin looked at the two of them, puzzled.
When Obito Uchiha saw Haruko lying leisurely on the ground, he immediately understood what was going on. "What strange thing did you say again?"
"I didn't!" Haruko defended herself. "This is a struggle to fight for my legal rights!"
"Legal rights? I didn't say you weren't allowed to rest, did I?" Minato Namikaze pointed out her unreasonable wording.
Haruko thought for a moment, then tentatively replied, though she herself wasn't entirely confident: "Then... are they illegal rights?"
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grateful--
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Give a thumbs up to Huang Song!
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Yun Cheyun from Gumo Island, Yuan Kun who loves potato pancakes, Banxia ss, Mo Wentian who loves red bean jelly, yyim, Yuzige, Yue..., Hongyi Xiangyi Saigao, Gu Gongzi who loves scallion pancakes, Jin Xiula from Nanning, Aigelita, Chuxia.Xingkong, Zishuzhou, Xuanchun, Gu Xiong who is smoky, Qiancha Jun, Sprite-flavored pig, and KM21 who is sending love-powered electricity.
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