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Chapter 344: A Dream! (Subscribe)

Twilight Village.

Yuhi family mansion.

The spring sunshine shines on the cherry tree in the center of the courtyard.

The spots of cherry blossoms, baked by the warm light, secrete a faint fragrance.

A breeze blew by, the branches of the cherry blossoms swayed slightly, and the fragrance of the flowers spread with the breeze.

It floated under the eaves of the house next to the courtyard, and onto the side corridor connecting the house and the courtyard.

The girl who was sleeping soundly on the side corridor had her upturned nose opening and closing, as if she could smell the fragrance of the flowers even in her dream.

A few eyebrow-shaped cherry blossom petals floated down on the girl's cheeks with the help of the breeze.

The girl's eyelids trembled a few times, and then she slowly opened her eyes.

"Hmm~~"

Xiurihong sat up from the edge of the bed, stretched lazily, and hummed with satisfaction.

Then he stared at the cherry tree in the middle of the courtyard in a daze, as if he had not yet come back to his senses from his sleep.

"I had this strange dream again."

Recently, Yuhi Kurenai always has a very strange dream. In the dream, she is a ninja from some village.

But they are different from the hired ninjas that Yuhi Kurenai knows, who only know how to use hidden weapons and poisons.

The ninjutsu used by the ninjas in the dream can summon fire and lightning, and the strong ones can even destroy a large forest with a single move.

"What! If they were really that powerful, ninjas would have ruled the entire continent long ago."

Yuhi Kurenai muttered and got up.

When she first had this strange dream, Kurenai Yuhi ran excitedly to learn ninjutsu.

Little did they know that the so-called escape techniques of the Koga ninjas were nothing more than sleight of hand tricks using gunpowder and poisonous smoke.

"The leader of the Koga Ninja couldn't even take three moves from Kanhara Sensei in a head-on fight."

Thinking of how she had been teased by Kanhara-sensei many times because of this matter, Yuhi Kurenai felt ashamed.

"Hmph! Can any ninja escape technique withstand my ten-year-old sword technique?"

Yuhi Kurenai snorted with her upturned little nose, picked up the katana placed aside, put on her shoes, went to the courtyard, and practiced her sword techniques.

"Kanahara-ryu: Ryusui Iwakiri!"

"Kamihara Style: Whirlwind Flash Slash!"

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Under the cherry tree, a girl in samurai attire was practicing swordsmanship with great concentration.

Before she knew it, beads of sweat had appeared on Xi Ri Hong's forehead.

However, she did not stop, and swung the long sword in her hand even more fiercely.

Once after that and again.

Only when sweat flowed down her cheeks, dripped along her chin to the ground, and wet the land under her feet did Xihihong put her sword back into its sheath.

Snapped! Bang bang!

There was a burst of crisp applause.

Xi Ri Hong quickly turned her head and saw a tall and strong black-haired man with sharp peaks and cold eyes leaning against the pillar with a knife in his hand.

He clapped his hands and looked at her with bright smile.

"Very nice, Red!"

"With your current attainments in the Kanhara style, you are now ready to enter actual combat training. It seems that you have not been slacking off during this period of time."

"Teacher Kanhara!"

Yuhi Kurenai ran to Kanhara Katsuya, looked up at her teacher, her face full of unconcealable joy.

"When did you come back? Why didn't you inform me in advance? Have you solved the bandit problem in Fenglan Mountain?"

Looking at the girl chattering and asking questions non-stop, the curve of Kamihara Katsu's mouth became more and more obvious.

"I just got back too, and seeing you were practicing so hard, I didn't interrupt you."

Katsu Kanhara picked off a few cherry blossom petals stuck on the girl's forehead.

"As for those low-ranking bandits, with your teacher Kanhara taking action, do we need to tell you about their fate?"

Kamihara Katsu's words were full of arrogance and self-confidence.

The girl didn't think there was anything wrong with this. As far as she could remember, nothing had ever been difficult for her teacher.

"I knew that those bandits would not be a match for the teacher!" The girl looked at Kamihara Katsu with admiration.

"Teacher Kanhara, please tell me what moves you used to defeat those bandits."

Xi Rihong was eager to know about her teacher's deeds of killing seven bandits and going in and out seven times.

"Hong! Didn't you notice that there's another person here?"

Xi Ri Zhen Hong's aggrieved voice came from the other side of the corridor.

The girl then noticed that her father had also returned.

"Eh? Father, why are you back too?"

"Why am I back?"

Xihi Shinku's eyes widened instantly. He thought his daughter would feel guilty for ignoring him, but he didn't expect to hear such words.

It's true that he forgot his father after he had a teacher!
You only cared about your teacher Kanhara, but your own father didn't even look at him.

"This is my home, why can't I come back?"

"Oh! Father, you misunderstood." Yuhi Kurenai hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed her father's arm.

"I mean, shouldn't you be dealing with the aftermath of the bandit incident?"

"Why did you come back early?"

"Is that so?" Yuhi Shinku felt much better.

"Of course it is like that. Father, you don't believe me?"

"You and Mr. Kanhara are out fighting bandits, and I'm praying for you every day!"

Yuhi Kurenai pouted, feeling aggrieved that Yuhi Shinku doubted her filial piety.

"Believe it, believe it. Of course I believe it!"

Seeing this, Xihi Zhenhong no longer cared about being angry, and hurriedly comforted her: "Our Hong cares about me the most. She dreamed that I died before and cried for several days!"

"Ah! Father, why are you bringing this up again?"

Xihihong stamped her feet in shame and anger, put her hands on her waist and said fiercely: "I told you not to mention this matter again!"

"That's right!" Kamihara Masaru chimed in, "Master Hong, didn't we promise Hong that we wouldn't bring up these embarrassing things?"

"Be careful not to anger her, or she'll use some kind of fire jutsu to summon a fireball to blow you up!"

As he said this, Kanhara Masaru couldn't help laughing.

Xi Ri Zhen Hong also laughed and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I am too old to withstand such a terrible escape technique!"

After saying that, the two of them looked at each other and burst into laughter.

The girl's face was already red at this time, and she raised the scabbard to teach these two bad guys who were making fun of her embarrassing things a lesson.

"Oh no! The ninja master is angry and is going to blow us up with a fireball."

"Master Ninja, please spare my life!"

Seeing that Xi Ri Hong was angry, the two men turned around and ran away.

"Stop! Don't run!"

"You have the guts to laugh at me, but you don't have the guts to stop coming?"

Yuhi Kurenai was chasing from behind, while Kanhara Masaru and Yuhi Shinku were running in front.

The courtyard was suddenly filled with laughter.

Warm spring sun, fresh breeze and sweet dreams!
Xiurihong thought that she would be happy like this in the days to come.

However, just a few months later, her peaceful life was disrupted.

On a hunting trip, Yuhi Kurenai met a group of powerful young men from Heijokyo.

The son of the general who was in the lead immediately fell in love with Xi Ri Hong, who was dressed elegantly in military uniform, and wanted to take her as his concubine.

After being rejected by the Xiri family, the general's son soon appeared outside the Twilight Village with an army of hundreds of soldiers, and threatened that if Xiri Hong was not married to their general's son, he would massacre the entire Twilight Village.

The fate of the entire village is shrouded by a pair of giant dark hands.

Fear and panic lingered in the hearts of every villager.

Sunset residence, under the cherry blossom tree.

After the autumn wind, the grass and trees in the courtyard withered.

Xi Ri Hong sat blankly under the cherry tree that had already withered. Her mood was just like the plants in the yard, lacking the vitality she once had.

Da da da!
The sound of wooden clogs came from far away.

"Teacher Kanhara, what should I do?" After seeing the person coming, Yuhi Kurenai could no longer suppress the grievance in her heart.

She threw herself into Kamihara Katsu's arms and burst into tears.

"Don't worry, Red!"

"Trust me, the teacher will help you solve everything!"

Xi Rihong also wanted to believe in her teacher like she did before, but there were hundreds of soldiers there, far from being comparable to the bandits who only had dozens of people at most and were armed with hoes and knives.

What's more, behind these hundreds of soldiers is the General's Mansion, which has even more terrifying power.

Sensei Kanhara is just a swordsman, how can he resist such a huge force?

Xiurihong has secretly made up her mind.

"I believe you, Mr. Kanhara!"

The girl looked up at her teacher and nodded vigorously, as she always did when she encountered difficulties.

Kanhara Katsu patted the girl's head lovingly: "Go back, the weather is getting colder, don't catch a cold again!"

"Um"

The girl got up obediently and returned to the house accompanied by Kamihara Katsu.

At night, a circle of fire lit up outside Twilight Village.

That was the bonfire set up outside the village by the soldiers surrounding the village.

If they do not receive a satisfactory answer tomorrow, these fires will be set in the village.

Under the moonlight, a figure sneaked into Kamihara Katsu's room.

".Red, what are you doing?"

"Teacher Kanhara, please take me!"

"Didn't the teacher say that he would solve all this? Don't you believe the teacher?"

"I believe!"

The girl said she believed it, but her hands did not stop moving.

Kamihara Katsu knew that a rejection at this time would only make the girl's already uneasy mood even more anxious.

With no other choice, I could only obey the other party!
The sword was out and blood soon appeared!

But the enemy did not retreat. Instead, they mustered up their courage and continued to fight.

Kanhara Katsu naturally would not retreat. His exquisite sword skills always managed to hit the enemy's wounds.

Soon the enemy was chopped down by the sword!
At the moment of collapse, Xihi Kurenai felt her consciousness leaving her body.

It floated out of the room and into the sky above the Yuhi Mansion.

Everything around Twilight Village came clearly into her sight.

What made her feel strange was that the scene before her eyes always had a dreamy and blurry feeling.

But before she could figure out the origin of this feeling, her consciousness fell back into her body.

The next day
Xihihong looked at the man sleeping beside her and carefully took out a paper bag from the pile of clothes.

Blow the powder inside into the man's nasal cavity.

The man soon fell into a deeper sleep.

However, when Yuhi Kurenai resigned herself to walking out of Twilight Village, she found that the man should still be sleeping in the room.

Appeared in front of her.

"Teacher Kanhara, you are not," Yuhi Kurenai's heart was full of doubt.

She clearly saw the teacher inhaling the drugs, so how could they be ineffective?

"I told you that the teacher would solve all the problems. Why don't you believe me?"

Kanhara Katsu knocked the girl on the head in frustration.

Then he raised his sword and strode towards the armored army outside the village.

"Watch out, Red!"

"Today, the teacher will let you see the true meaning of the Kanhara style swordsmanship!"

Under the worried gaze of Yuhi Kurenai and the teasing and mocking looks of the soldiers, Kanhara Katsu charged forward with a single sword.

"Kamihara-ryu Secret Technique: Step Forward! Infinite! Continuous Slash!"

Amid the incredulous gazes of all the onlookers, Kamihara Katsu crashed straight into the enemy forces.

The long sword in his hand kept waving, and every time he swung the sword, a soldier would lose his life.

His steps kept changing, and his figure appeared behind one soldier after another as if teleporting.

"What a familiar scene, I feel like I've seen it somewhere before"

Looking at his teacher, he chopped hundreds of soldiers, including their armor, into pieces like chopping melons and vegetables.

I always have a feeling that Xi Ri Hong is familiar, but I just can't remember where it is.

Soon, all the soldiers died under Kamihara Katsu's sword.

When Kamihara Katsu, covered in blood, walked towards her from a distance, Kurenai Yuhi had no time to look for that familiar memory.

Throw yourself into each other's arms!
"Teacher Kanhara"

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Half a month later, the general led thousands of soldiers to avenge his son, but was killed by Kanhara Katsu with a single sword.

Such shocking force frightened everyone.

From then on, Twilight Village became a forbidden area for all forces.

A few years later, Yuhi Kurenai gave birth to a child.

Ten years later, Xi Ri Hong's swordsmanship improved to the level where he could become a master.

Ten years later, Kanhara Masaru and Yuhi Kurenai's first grandson was born.

Twenty years later, Xi Ri Zhenhong passed away!
Another thirty years later, Yuhi Kurenai, who was nearly ninety years old, closed her eyes in the Yuhi family residence, accompanied by Kanhara Masaru and her children and grandchildren.

In the Konoha camp, in a ninja dormitory.

In a trance, a female ninja with black hair and red eyes suddenly opened her eyes.

"here it is"

Looking at the familiar face in front of her and the familiar furnishings in the room, Xihi Hong remembered something.

“It turns out that they are all fake.”

When she realized that she was caught in an illusion, the memory of the samurai girl in Yuhi Kurenai's mind quickly became blurred.

Or maybe these memories are just vague.

Except for the memories of the middle few months, in the memories before or after, the memories of the samurai girl Yuhi Kurenai are more like a background narration setting.

Xihi Kurenai knew roughly what happened, but couldn't remember any details.

Because there are no details!
After a few minutes of rest, Yuhi Kurenai finally recalled what had happened before.

He couldn't help but glare at Mu Sheng fiercely. It was really hard for him to come up with such a method to convince himself.

"What kind of illusion is this?" Compared to condemning Maki Sheng, Xihi Hong was more concerned about the illusion he performed.

"Huang Liang Yi Meng!"

"A dream of a yellow millet? What's the meaning of this?" Xi Rihong obviously had never heard of this term.

"This is not important. I'll explain it to you later. Let's do the important things first!"

Mu Sheng picked up Xi Ri Hong and started to get down to business.

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(End of this chapter)