Konoha: Prepare to defect, the system is coming.

Chapter 603 Is this still the Konoha of today?
Squeak!

The crimson wooden door creaked with a teeth-grinding sound.

It was a hot summer day and the scorching sun outside was stinging people's skin, but the moment the door was opened, a cool breeze blew out from inside, blowing up Mikoto's black hair.

It’s not that there are any cooling items in the house, nor that the house is well insulated, it’s just that it’s simply deserted and unpopular.

When a home is said to be sterile, it usually means that the home lacks life and warmth. It may have beautiful furniture and decorations, but it lacks human warmth and traces of life.

This is the case with Uchiha Mikoto's family.

The beautiful furniture was selected by her personally, and the placement of the furniture was determined after a long period of research. In order to prevent the scenery in the house from being too monotonous, Mikoto also sewed a lot of handicrafts herself and hung them on the furniture.

The house that should have been filled with the aroma of food, men and women, now only has the wood smell of furniture.
But Mikoto seemed to have long been accustomed to such a home.
She calmly put the basket on the ground, took a look at the remaining vegetables in it, and knowing that she couldn't cook today, she untied the straps around Sasuke and gently placed him in the cradle.

"Hmm~Hmm~Hmm~" Mikoto hummed a ballad softly. While coaxing Sasuke to sleep, she couldn't help but look at the other's delicate face with a bitter smile at the corner of her mouth.

Sasuke used to be not used to the lonely home. Every time she brought the little one back from outside, he would cry for a long time.

but now.
"Sasuke, are you used to it too?!"

After saying that, Uchiha Mikoto raised her head and looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar room in front of her, and was silent for a moment.

There was clearly no dust on the furniture, various tea sets were neatly placed on the coffee table, and kitchen utensils were hung on the wall according to their types. It was obvious that someone cleaned up the place regularly, but why did she feel deserted?
The TV was playing color images and the volume was loud enough to be heard even outside the door, but why did she still feel the house was quiet?
Gululu~
Suddenly, a rumbling sound was heard, and Mikoto's thoughts were brought back to reality.

Feeling hungry in her stomach, she stood up numbly, slowly walked to the vegetable basket, looked down at the few remaining leaves in it, and thought about what to cook for lunch.

After working hard for half a day only to have the food and plates disappear, and not being able to catch the thief, she didn't want to cook overly complicated meals for a long time and only made some simple home-cooked meals.

It was also from that time on that, because the food was too light, Fugaku would eat out every night under the pretext of a dinner party, and Itachi would also use the excuse of training with Danzo to come back after eating out every time.

As fewer people ate at home, Mikoto was less willing to cook overly sumptuous meals; the less willing Mikoto was to cook overly sumptuous meals, the fewer people ate at home.

later
She also discovered the problem and cooked several sumptuous meals. But when the father and son returned, they looked at the table full of food and said they had eaten out and had no appetite, or they just took a few bites and said they were full.

In order to let the father and son eat more, she would even choose to notify them half a day in advance. However, instead of getting the reply of "go home for dinner", she got an extremely perfunctory excuse.

After repeating this several times, Mikoto was no longer willing to torture herself like this, and she was even more unwilling to experience the feeling of going from expectation to disappointment.
"Do you really think I don't have a temper?" Uchiha Mikoto suddenly raised her head and glanced across their father and son's room, her tone also mixed with a bit of dissatisfaction, "Eat it if you want, do you really think I'm willing to put up with this?

Damn Uchiha Asuka!! "

After scolding Fei Niao, she reached into the vegetable basket and prepared to take out the remaining vegetable leaves to make herself some vegetable porridge.

Originally, Mikoto bought a lot of vegetables, but she met Uchiha Asuka on the way. After hearing those outrageous remarks, she got so angry that she used the vegetables as weapons and threw them all at the other party.

"You wicked guy, huh?" Uchiha Mikoto was stunned for a moment, then took out the camera from the basket, a look of doubt on her face.

If I remember correctly, when Uchiha Asuka threw this thing over, he seemed to say that it was given by her son?

"Why would Itachi give something to Asuka?"

"Are the two of them so close? Or is the relationship between Itachi and me so bad? Are they unwilling to hand this thing over to me personally?"

After thinking for a long time without any clue, Mikoto simply stopped worrying about it. She simply pressed the power button, and a line of white text suddenly appeared on the camera's originally black screen.

"A counterattack camera that never runs out of power?"

Looking at the content described in the text, Mikoto's cheeks twitched slightly, and she couldn't help but murmur in her heart.

She didn't remember that there was this brand of camera in the ninja world, and wasn't the promotion of this thing a bit exaggerated? Never running out of power?

next moment.

The white text on the camera disappeared instantly, and then the Ninja World calendar appeared. Some dates had black text, and some had red text.

After some simple operations, she figured out what was going on.

"The dates marked in black have images. The dates marked in red have nothing." After playing with it for a while, Mikoto suddenly nodded, and there was a hint of pride in her gentle voice.

"Although I haven't come into contact with anything new for many years, I'm still not out of touch with this world, so the operation is quite simple."

As she spoke, she operated the buttons on the camera, randomly found a black date, and then pressed the OK button.

Swish!
The moment the confirmation button was pressed, all the images on the screen disappeared instantly, and then a hearty laugh came from the camera. "Hahaha, my eternal rival Kakashi, let's have a fair fight!!"

Mikoto:.
This rather cheerful voice immediately caused Mikoto to fall into silence.

Although no images were displayed on the camera yet, she could probably guess who this person was just by the familiar tone of voice.

"Might Guy?!"

“It’s just that the voice seems to have matured a lot.”

She couldn't understand why Might Guy appeared in the camera, but when she thought that it was a gift from Itachi to her, Mikoto calmed down and continued to look at the dark screen.

"No, I'm too tired today!" At this moment, a lazy voice sounded.

The originally dark screen suddenly lit up, and two tall figures appeared in the center of the screen, but judging from the shooting angle, it seemed that the shot was not taken in a fair and open manner.

After seeing the two tall figures, Mikoto was stunned for a moment, then blinked in confusion and said in a daze.

"What are these two eating? Why have they suddenly grown so big?"

If Mikoto remembered correctly, when she went out to buy groceries this morning, she saw Might Guy, who had grown into a teenager, shouting slogans and running 500 laps around the village in a handstand position.

but now.
Looking at the two men's tall backs and the maturity that clearly emanated from them that did not belong to teenagers, she couldn't help but look up at the ceiling and began to doubt her life.

Then, the conversation between the two was heard again in the camera.

"Kakashi, cheer up. Staying in bed ruins the morning. Get up early and practice for the whole day."

"Kai, I was on duty all night last night."

"Kakashi, you've worked hard. Let's have a ramen eating competition."

"Kay, I want to sleep."

"Than sleeping??"

"."

Hearing the conversation coming from the camera, Uchiha Mikoto, who was staring at the ceiling in a daze, suddenly blinked and said to herself, "Am I dazzled?

That should be the case. After all, I have been a little anxious recently and often have hallucinations, plus I was stimulated by Uchiha Asuka just now."

Thinking of this, she took a deep breath and stared at the camera in her hand.

at this time.

The image in the camera also changed.

The figure who looked like Kakashi sighed helplessly, then put his right hand behind his back and shouted weakly, "Rock, Scissors, Paper!"

"rock-paper-scissors"

As the two men stretched out their hands, the figure who looked like Might Guy suddenly stiffened, then he turned around and faced the direction of the camera, with a raging fighting spirit burning in his eyes, and said.

"You are worthy of being my lifelong rival, Kakashi. I will come back to find you after I run around the village 500 times."

After saying that, he ignored Kakashi's attempts to stop him, and directly stood upside down, shouting inspiring slogans, and disappeared from the screen, leaving Kakashi alone in the wind.

Looking at the helpless look on Kakashi's face, Mikoto was silent for a long time and suddenly cursed.

"Fuck, why do these two look older than me?"

She didn't expect to see such a shocking scene just after watching a video. The two people seemed to have aged by ten years in an instant, and there were even wrinkles on their faces.

He was still a child in the morning.
"My son?"

While quietly repeating the words Asuka said before she disappeared, she thought of the two people in the video who had suddenly aged by more than ten years. After a moment of hesitation, Mikoto suddenly had an extremely ridiculous guess in her mind.

"Is this still the Konoha of today?"

(End of this chapter)