Just this simple greeting made Nagato almost cry.

Nagato was very surprised to see Yayoi again.

In the past two years, too many things have happened, and he has too many words to tell this childhood companion.

Nagato wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes hard. He had not met for a long time. There was a gap called "time" between his former friends.

Nagato said nervously: "Yayoi... Are you doing well during this period? Are you uncle and aunt okay too?"

"Well, my mother entrusted me to Konoha's ninja. I was doing well and learned some useful ninjutsu from them. As for my father and mother..."

Yayoi paused for a moment and said calmly: "They are no longer here."

"That's how it is." Hearing this, Nagato's eyes dimmed a little again.

"Do you know? The war broke out shortly after you left. Originally, my mother wanted to follow Uncle Mingsha's advice and move out of her hometown. However, my father said that she was a doctor and could not escape so quickly. Then, to protect me..."

Speaking of this, Nagato secretly glanced at Jiraiya and the other two, "They were all killed by ninjas who were searching for supplies."

The topic suddenly became heavier, and Yayoi didn't know how to continue.

"Will you follow these people to Konoha in the future?" Nagato asked again.

"Yeah." Yayoi nodded.

Looking at Nagato who was a little disappointed, Yayoi felt unbearable, and suddenly there was a strong desire to change his destiny in his heart.

He wanted to take the initiative to interfere in the "plot" he knew to help Nagato change his tragic future.

For this reason, he didn't even think about whether he would be exposed to Madara.

So he spoke to Nagato: "Do you want to go to Konoha with me?"

Nagato was a little surprised by Yayoi's invitation.

However, he quickly shook his head and refused, "No, I still want to stay here. I want to be with Yahiko and the others."

"That's how it is." Yayoi was a little disappointed.

Nagato's rejection means that Yayoi failed this time to challenge his destiny.

Nagato will eventually stay on this land and start his established destiny.

Yayoi didn't say anything like "You can take Yahiko and Konan away together." First, it's still a bit of a different opinion on whether Yahiko's personality agrees with each other. Second, during the war, several children of unknown origins were not much better in Konoha's living environment.

On the other hand, while Nagato and Yayoi were talking to Sannin, Yahiko also made his request:

"Please teach us ninjutsu!"

Teaching ninjutsu almost means that the master-apprentice relationship is established for ninjas, especially ninjas like Sannin who already have a certain status.

This is also because Tsunade became very popular when Orochimaru intervened in Yayoi's practice.

Orochimaru's behavior is almost equivalent to robbing her apprentice. Compared with Orochimaru, he has become more tactful, but he has popularized some common sense of cracking illusions to Yayoi.

The three Ninjas have different attitudes towards Yahiko's sudden and unreasonable requests.

Jiraiya and Tsunade were fine, but they just frowned. Orochimaru was about to drive people away!

For Yayoi's sake, Orochimaru did not want to kill Yahiko and the other two like in the plot, but he was unambiguous when he started.

In the end, Jiraiya stopped Orochimaru's actions.

"Orochimaru, you and Tsunade will take Yayoi back to the village first. I want to stay and take care of these little guys for the time being."

"ha?"

"At least let them be independent, after all..."

Jiraiya looked between Yayoi and Nagato, "After all, there is the only relative of Yayoi among them."

"and……"

Jiraiya murmured to himself in a voice that he could only hear, "This is also my insignificant atonement."

Although they did not agree with Jiraiya's idea, Tsunade and Orochimaru respected his decision.

Now, the signs of the end of the Second Ninja World War have become increasingly obvious, and the village’s demand for Jiraiya’s combat effectiveness is not as tight as before.

Before leaving, Yayoi stared at Nagato for a long time.

When he thought of the fate this friend would encounter in the future, Yayoi suddenly had the urge to tell the truth.

He wanted to remind Nagato and told him: 'You must be careful of a bastard who calls himself "Uchiha Madara", and the controller of Yu Hidden Village "Yanji Yu Hanzo", and don't be deceived by them!'.

However, Yayoi was unable to speak in the end.

Because, he is still too weak at this time!

So weak that he didn't even dare to try to change Nagato's fate.

...

After saying goodbye to Jiraiya and Nagato, Orochimaru and Tsunade took Yayoi and began to rush towards Konoha.

In fact, the few people had received the village's retreat order a few days ago. The entanglement with Hanzo these days was not only Hanzo's pursuit of the three people, but also the task of cutting off the rear to cover the retreat of the large army.

Along the way, the three of them passed through several battlefield ruins and saw countless houses destroyed by detonation talismans and ninjutsu, as well as many war orphans who were displaced like Nagato and others.

Seeing all this, Tsunade became more and more disgusted with this war.

On the one hand, her younger brother died on the eve of the Second Ninja World War.

On the other hand, in this war, in order to achieve strategic defense purposes, Konoha took the initiative to invade the neutral Rain Kingdom and transferred the cost of the war to Yuyin.

In the early stage of the war, the three gangsters of Fire, Earth and Wind tacitly placed the battlefield in the Kingdom of Rain. However, with the development of the war, especially after Konoha had a comprehensive advantage, the Kingdom of Rain became a battlefield with only Konoha and Yuyin.

In a sense, the war between Konoha and Yui is a complete unjust war, a war between half-politician Sarutobi Hinako and the madman Yamao Kaoru Hanzo.

Orochimaru had no such sentimental ideas at all. As far as Yayoi knew, with the help of this war, this guy had even saved up a large part of his unknown possessions.

It includes unowned assets from unknown origins in war, secret art materials that use missions to steal or rob, a large amount of ninja corpse materials, and these potential living materials that are displaced.

Orochimaru didn't know what he wanted to hide from Yayoi, and even took the initiative to expose his means to him.

It was also witnessing Orochimaru's actions that Yayoi also had some ideas.

In the subsequent plot, Orochimaru lived a very comfortable life after defecting to Konoha, and even quietly established a "Yinnin Village"!

It is conceivable how rich the original accumulation Orochimaru had obtained while taking advantage of World War II and World War III.

If you want to build a real ninja village, internal affairs, military, diplomacy, business, production, education, medical care and other systems, you must establish them.

Establishing these systems requires a large number of talents who are loyal to oneself, but loyalty and bonding cannot be cultivated overnight, and it requires long-term layout and accumulation.

Since he wanted to rebuild Uchimaru, he had to follow Orochimaru and accumulate a group of teams for himself in advance.

If there are not enough followers, even if he can finally achieve the goal of becoming a blood-resistance network and rampant in the ninja world, he can only build an empty shell of a ninja village.
Chapter completed!