Chapter Fifty-two Summoning

  The night was as black as ink, so profound that it almost obscured the light of the stars.

  The cold wind shattered the whispers of the night, and the moonlight faintly filtered through the branches, weaving a delicate and intricate pattern with the silver threads that crisscrossed and intersected.

  I lazily soak in the gentle hues of light and shadow, exuding an inexplicable sense of serenity and tranquility, gazing faintly at the solitary moon radiating a soft, white aura.

  (Month... nine days, it's almost been three years, when will you wake up from your sleep?)

  I want to immerse myself in thoughts of Jiǔ Yuè and spend the long nights, unfortunately, what was originally a very ordinary thing has been disrupted by something recently.

  Those calls that automatically appear at night, all-night calls.

  "Alas, another evening, when did this start again?" I muttered to myself, but didn't expect a response.

  "From dusk till dawn."

  "Dusk."

  "It's getting earlier and earlier, does this also mean that our position is getting closer to "it"?!" As I said, I've been dazed for half the night already, it's really getting more and more severe. At first, it was just a few short sentences, but these past few days, it's been getting longer and longer, until tonight, even all night long.

  "…….No way!" I was almost derailed by you two, "Bai! Jun! I told you to go sleep earlier, I'll keep watch, after all that noise is disturbing me the most, why are you two 'awake' answering my question now?" I looked at Bai and Jun's firm eyes, unwillingly conceding defeat, "If it's always the three of us keeping watch together, then we might as well travel at night, anyway it should be almost there."

  Forget it, next time I'll just knock them out directly, how can the two of them be so stubborn, really don't know who they learned from? I completely exclude "my own influence".

  I gaze at the moon which is already tilted to the west, turn my head and look back, the morning glow appears at the intersection of the continuous mountains in the east and the night sky, a burning red line draws the boundary between the dark green and deep gray, bringing out a touch of pale blue.

  After Tsunade and Jiraiya took me away from Orochimaru's base, everything was fine, on the way back to Konoha.

  But as I passed through the fragmented small countries between the Land of Earth and the Land of Fire one night, I heard a voice!

  That voice appeared directly on the spiritual level, that call was so clear, so urgent, it felt like a completely objectless indiscriminate call, shaking my soul with ripples.

  Honestly, I'm not very happy because, apart from Jiuxi, only... brother and sister, as well as "Ming" can make such intimate moves towards me. Others... don't have the qualifications, they don't have the right to enter my inner circle. This is one of my reverse scales, offenders need to pay a price, even if they didn't do it on purpose.

  Although Bai and Jun also vaguely heard the cry similar to what I said, it was only after my reminder that they would realize the faint voice that was almost inaudible in their hearts. If they didn't focus on it carefully, they would ignore the weak sound.

  "Ah." I let out a sigh without realizing it, I don't know what conditions trigger this sound, and that voice doesn't appear every day, but that desperate cry for help with no one to turn to is extremely clear to me, so clear it's as if someone is having a conversation with me in my heart, too clear, too obvious...

  But originally, this wasn't what I wanted to care about. I just wanted to arrive at Konoha early and start training as soon as possible, striving to see Kurenai again as soon as possible. Under this premise, any other emotions in my heart could be ignored, temporarily ignored.

  It wasn't until I heard the cry on a certain night, which was completely different from other nights, that I decided to find the source of the sound, just for a nostalgia, the last nostalgia.

  Why is it me! Why did I come to this world, I want to leave! I don't want to stay in this fictional world anymore! Why am I trapped here! Who can save me! Save me and take me away! I'm so scared, don't kill me!

  A fictional... world, is it? I couldn't deny that this indeed stirred up the little curiosity I had left, after all in this world, a curiosity without sufficient power to support it would be fatal, regardless of whether it was someone else or myself who died.

  I followed the voice in my heart and moved forward in a certain direction.

  That desperate cry for help doesn't appear every day, the content of that cry sometimes is "wailing", sometimes is "roaring", sometimes is "venting", sometimes is "crying out loud", sometimes is "silence", sometimes is "fear", but only in one particular cry for help, I once heard a word that made me curious!

  Fictitious world!

  In the past few nights, the voice has become clearer and more distinct. I even hear actual words in my dreams, although as soon as I wake up with a clear mind, I forget them. But I am certain that the call is just an instinct, a physical self-generated fear.

  Just like humans have phototropism, habitually getting close to heat sources, pain will cry out, and sadness will weep.

  This cry is not really in need of redemption, or rather, does not even dare to hope for redemption.

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  I, Bai and Junmaru have been walking in the nearby mountains for a week now. The cries at night are still clear, but the terrain around here is very rugged, with dense forests, many stone caves and streams. The entire landscape is extremely complex, with no signs of human habitation, not even animal trails. We often move directly through the trees, after all, Bai and Junmaru's training has long allowed them to run on water, so walking between trees isn't a difficult task at all!

  But this way, it's not very good for us to act together, especially since I tend to charge forward on my own, and we end up crossing rivers and climbing walls one after another. It's really tough on Haku and Kaito who are following behind me, but they don't seem to have any complaints though.

  To sum it up, if it weren't for the guidance of our three necklaces, we would have gotten lost and dispersed while searching.

  As I saw Hakuto and Kuma Ryū calming their breathing while resting at night, a few threads of doubt rose in my heart.

  I began to question the voice that called me, whether it was human or another life form. In such a remote and desolate mountain wilderness, would there really be people here? Or is there a village nearby?

  Now, it's almost summer season, and all kinds of insects and animals are very numerous. Since we mostly move on trees, the beasts can be temporarily ignored, but those insects, either flying or crawling on trees, are really annoying.

  Fortunately, I have the Nine-Tails' violent chakra protecting me, so those mosquitoes and flies don't dare to get close to me. Occasionally, one or two of them accidentally touch my body, but under my triple-layered chakra shield, they are crushed into fine powder and scattered in the air.

  As for Hakuren and Kirima, one of them has a spinning chakra that makes their body temperature lower than normal living things, so they won't be detected by those insects, the other... has Willow Dance and hard bones to protect.

  So I find it hard to imagine what kind of insect could penetrate these defenses and successfully bite us.

  But even without the distraction of those insects, I was starting to get impatient with this search, this aimless searching, which was wasting my time, my training time. Even walking in the forest, we still kept up some exercises, but it couldn't compare to regular training.

  This search, in delaying the day I meet Jiu Ye again...

  That voice, the discontent in my heart is about to overwhelm my curiosity......

  It's as if in response to my wishes, since the night before last, there have been no more sounds coming from outside.

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  Afraid that many people haven't seen my explanation, I'll post it again here

  "If I came on too strong, I apologize, I didn't mean to threaten you."

  I only write fanfics, and there's no possibility of getting signed anyway. The comments are my only source of entertainment. If I were to upload on Starting Point, even the readers wouldn't know who I am, so what's the difference between that and writing alone at home? I hope you all leave comments, just because I want to know who's reading my story, it gives me motivation to write more. It's not meant to be threatening, if you're just reading BL stories and silently cheering me on in your heart, I think the distance between people's hearts isn't short enough for us to connect spiritually. I'm almost always thinking about writing and rushing to meet deadlines until dawn before sleeping. I'm only asking for a book review that lets me know the name of the reader, it shouldn't be that serious, right?!

  Is it too much to ask for just a couple of encouraging sentences, which wouldn't take more than five minutes, considering I spend at least four hours a day on writing-related work?

  To those who misunderstood me, I feel very sorry, I apologize, I really didn't mean it as a threat.

  It's roughly like that.

  Additionally, thank you to everyone who left comments.

  It's roughly like that, I'll upload the third volume, but it's unlikely to be updated daily. In fact, even updating every two days is a problem for me, after all, this section is stuck and revised repeatedly...

  So, I'll try to finish one chapter and then come online, but please don't rush me again, rushing me only makes me slower. Hope my upload goes smoothly, wish me a smooth writing flow. The meaning is the same, but the feeling is completely different from the result. Finally, I won't abandon this, unless something like a car accident or family disaster happens, I won't stop writing, it's just a matter of progress being fast or slow, that's all!

  This is the first chapter of the third volume, and I'm releasing it in advance for everyone to see. However, I'm not sure if I'll be able to upload next week.

  Also, my writing is quite slow and familiar, if you want to read something like yy, go find another text! In addition, roughly estimated, 50,000 words or so will not have any positive emotions beyond friendship and kinship, everyone should stop thinking about who the protagonist's partner is, I really haven't decided yet.

  Finally, the title of this book represents a wish for me and the protagonist of this book, which is also the goal of the protagonist. It's because it has never been achieved that the protagonist wants it. If nothing big happens, I won't change the title. I don't want to change it to something like "Naruto Rebirth" or anything similar, as there are already many books with such titles on Qidian. If I changed it to "Naruto: Rebirth of Naruhina", do you really think it would be fitting? After all, my protagonist isn't the real Naruto, even if he thinks he is.

  That's about it!

  Finally thank you all for your comments and votes.