After taking a shower, Haru just came out of the bathroom and heard someone calling him from outside the door.
Haru opened the door and saw a familiar figure standing in front of him. She had blonde hair and was wearing a beige dress. She exuded a faint soap scent.
Haru was surprised and said, "Why are you at my house?"
Tsunade retorted in a questioning tone "Didn't you say you wanted to thank me for helping you catch the fish, so you were going to treat me to a meal?"
Haru almost forgot.
After the two caught the fish, Haru planned to cook a dish to reward Tsunade, and this scene happened.
"You did you find my house?" Haru asked curiously. He remembered that he should not have told Tsunade about his family.
"Just ask anyone and you'll know." Tsunade said calmly, "I've been standing outside for so long, why don't you invite me in to sit down?"
Speaking of which, it was her first time to enter the home of a boy of the same age. She was quite interested in everything, but when Aokiji invited her in, she was disappointed.
Looking at the messy room, she frowned slightly: "Your room is really messy, Wouldn't your parents scold you?"
Tsunade remembered that every time she threw things around, she would be scolded by her mother, and it was her grandfather who spoke up for her at that time.
Haru was silent for a moment "It's okay, I live alone."
Although he awakened memories of past life,he still lived and experienced every emotion in this life. He experienced love of his grandmother and sorrow of her death.
So even though he was mentally mature he still can't help but feel a little pain in his heart.
Live alone?
Tsunade noticed the photo frame placed by the bedside. The photo showed a middle-aged woman and a boy with a hearty smile.
And when she turned around and saw Haru's face she suddenly realised. She quickly apologised "Sorry i didn't knew about that."
Haru smiled and said lightly" Its okay, you can sit on the sofa i will cook for you"
Tsunade looked at his smile but this time she didn't blush,t she just felt a little pain coming from her chest. She opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out. So she just sat down on sofa.
After saying that Haru went in the kitchen he prepared ingredients and then found that he needed to buy vegetables.
Haru went to the vegetable market to buy some seasonings. Tsunade had made her mind to accompany him so he will not feel lonely at least not untill she was there, so she followed him.
After all she also felt the pain of losing Grandpa Hashirama, at that time she had Grandma to accompany her.But Haru didn't had anybody with him.
At this moment she seemed to have discovered something and thought 'Haru must have indulged in those porn books just because pf his loneliness'
She made up her mind to help Haru come out of the shadow of his family's death.
The two walked side by side on the road.
"Huh? Isn't this Haru and Tsunade?"
A surprised voice came from behind, and Haru and Tsunade turned around at the same time.
It was a boy with white hair, and there was another boy with black hair beside him.
The white one looked frivolous, and the black one looked very steady. It was hard to imagine the two of them together.
Seeing the two, Tsunade was surprised and said, "Jiraiya, Orochimaru, I didn't expect to see you together."
"I should say this to you guys ,Haru, Tsunade." Jiraiya looked at the people alternately, as if he had discovered something, but he didn't think much about it, and said with a sly smile, "Could it be...you two are dating?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a big oil root was thrown directly at him, and Jiraiya's smile froze instantly, and he knelt directly, holding his stomach in pain.
"If you can't speak nicely,you shouldn't speak at all,no one will think that you are dumb." Tsunade said coldly.
"You are such a party pooper ." Jiraiya was stubborn.
"What did you say?"
Tsunade frowned, grabbed Jiraiya's collar, and raised one hand.
Jiraiya's pupils shrank, and he said in fear: "Haru, take care of your girlfriend."
Haru ignored Jiraiya's request for help, turned his head to look at Orochimaru, and asked curiously: "Why are you two together?"
Orochimaru said helplessly: "We just met on the road, and then this guy pestered me and wanted to compete with me in shuriken."
Haru nodded, indicating that he could understand.
"What about you?"Orochimaru looked at Tsunade who was beating Jiraiya.
"Tsunade helped me catch a big fish. In order to thank her, I prepared to cook a meal for her. Now we are preparing to buy some auxiliary ingredients for cooking."
Orochimaru nodded and understood.
But the question arises again, how could Haru and Tsunade fish together, and when did the two have a good relationship?
It won't be like Jiraiya just said, the two of them are getting along...
Although they have doubts, Orochimaru has no interest in gossip in this regard.
Orochimaru looked at Haru with interest and said" You were right as long as I can master my chakra control i can perform same ninjustu with different hand signs in between, it's just a little more difficult and rough"
Haru nooded" Hand signs just help us mobilise our chakra easily and in controlled manner as long as you can further control your chakra you can decrease the number of hand signs used."
Seeing the two of them talking, Tsunade was surprised and loosened her hands that were grabbing Jiraiya's collar.
Orochimaru, who was always alone, would actually have close contact with Haru.
"Are you familiar with Orochimaru?"
"Yes." Haru said lightly: "We often meet in library."
Tsunade was confused and asked "What are you doing in library."
She can believe that Orochimaru goes to library because he is a civilian but there is no need for Haru to go to library when he can just ask Uchiha clan for any book he want and they will have more detailed version in thier hands.
Haru spoke some seriously "I want to know about ninja world from different views. Uchiha clan have information about things according to how Uchiha sees things, and konoha library has things which provide me with new insights ,then one day I met Orochimaru."
Actually Haru just wanted to have contact with Orochimaru and try to befriend him, so when he later want to have relationship with Tsunade, Orochimaru can act as wingman.
He thought it would be difficult to befriend Orochimaru but who would have thought that his small insights in ninjutsu would make him and Orochimaru good friends.
Tsunade nodded slightly.But compared to discussing these things, she is more concerned about eating cough.... accompanying Haru.
Orochimaru also said " Yes, Haru had many different insights on ninjustu and...."
Orochimaru kept talking but Tsunade didn't pay much attention.
Seeing that Tsunade was not interested, Haru simply stopped talking.
People with different ideologies cannot work together.
As expected, Haru was the only one who could understand him.
Haru asked, "Orochimaru, have you eaten?"
"No."
"In that case, come to my house for dinner. The fish is so big that Tsunade and I can't finish it. If it's left for too long, the fish will become stale. "
Orochimaru was not pretentious when he was invited. He nodded and agreed.
Since his parents passed away, he had been in extreme pain for a while. Because he was afraid of feeling this pain again, he took the initiative to close his heart and became unwilling to communicate with others.
He can communicate with others normally now because of Haru's appearance.
In the early days of communicating with Haru, he found that the other could understand him better than anyone else. With continuous communication, the closed door gradually began to open, allowing him to walk out of the shadow in his heart.
At this point, Orochimaru showed a smile that he himself could hardly notice.
But Haru saw Orochimaru's expression and nodded silently. It seemed that under his influence Orochimaru had slowly begun to come out of the darkness. The smile that Orochimaru showed was not creepy smile that uncle snake will have it was a smile that comes from one's beart.
In the original work, Orochimaru became so cold and indifferent to human life in the later period, which was largely due to external influences.
While Orochimaru was still showing signs of becoming indifferent to everything, Haru nipped those signs in time, which was also a good thing.
Haru wanted to use Jiraya, Orochimaru and Tsunade at first, but now looking at Orochimaru's genuine smile he felt little warm in his heart.
He secretly swore that he will try to change fate of all three of them.
Jiraiya,who was beaten into a pig-head by Tsunade, looked at the backs of the three people who left him and shouted: "Hey, hey, have you forgotten me?"
(End of this chapter)