If you asked people about ‘the hidden villages of shinobi’, then you’d find a large number of citizens –the kind with no love for shinobi or their homes– who imagined those hidden villages as small towns enclosed by mountains on all sides
Surely, those citizens would say, hidden villages are completely cut off from the outside world, isolated completely from everyone else. A sort of ‘floating island in the sea’, backwards and underdeveloped.
Definitely, they’d say, a hidden village
is a place that normal people would be idiots to want to visit, and on top of
that, somewhere you could only find with great difficulty. A ‘hidden shinobi
village’ absolutely had to be that kind of place.
That was what a lot of people thought.
However, the reality was very different.
Konoha had a very well-known monument at
its entrance, the *“AUN Gate”.
If any normal person entered Konoha for
the first time, they’d be dumbfounded by the sight that greeted them past the
gate: a giant, sprawling village that was overflowing with activity and
populous.
The village was constantly maintained
and developing, and it was in no way limited to just the residential areas of
the villagers. There were schools, hospitals, various shopping centres, and
even recreational areas. There was everything a person needed to live their
life to the fullest.
Absolutely every possible establishment
could be found in the village centre alone. Konoha’s sheer size was to the
point that if you called it a ‘city-state’, you wouldn’t be far off.
You could live your whole life never
taking one step outside Konoha’s borders, and never want for anything, never
lack any sort of comfort. And this very metropolis was nestled within the
depths of a forest.
That was what the village of
Konohagakure really was: a huge city that suddenly materialised within a
forest.
There wasn’t a single shinobi who felt
the slightest bit dissatisfied with a village like that.
Konoha had originally been a gathering
of several shinobi and their clans, but when a group of people lived somewhere,
they naturally end up wanting places that would make them food. And of course,
after that there was the demand for stores that would sell daily necessities
too. Following that logic, it was natural that another group of people would come
into the equation: merchants with an eye on the village full of customers.
So it came to pass that a group of
non-shinobi –of sellers and crafters who wanted to take the shinobi on as
customers– would end up moving to live close to the shinobi’s settlements.
And in the same way that shinobi had
clans and families, the sellers and workers didn’t just come to the village all
by themselves either. They brought along their clans and families too.
There were a lot of normal people who
moved to the village along with their family for the sake of trade, as well as
people who were originally shinobi but were now taking up different
professions. There were also those who thought to themselves, ‘I don’t come
from a clan of shinobi, but I want to send my child to the Ninja Academy’ and
moved to the village with that intent.
Shinobi households, merchant households,
crafters households…many, many different people from varying backgrounds and
professions all came to live together in the village.
And as the moon waned, and the months
and years passed, it was with those people that the settlement became the large
metropolis that it was today.
And that huge village, even now, was
still continuing to grow and advance.
Konoha’s great size made it so that
circling around the entire village even once would be a tremendous effort.
Going that kind of distance could even end up breaking your bones.
And yet, for a while now, someone had
been running round and round the village of Konoha.
That someone was Rock Lee.
Dawn hadn’t even broken yet, and he was
staggering as he ran around the village, with a face that looked like he could
die any moment.
Why, exactly, was he running around by
himself at this hour of night, when all the villagers and shinobi without
missions were soundly asleep?
It wasn’t for any particular secret
training. As a matter of fact, Lee wasn’t even running because he felt like he
wanted to run. If he could, then Lee would have dearly liked to go back home
and sleep. However, he had a certain circumstance that meant he couldn’t do
that.
Everything had started about half a day
earlier…
On that day, the Sixth Hokage Hatake
Kakashi proclaimed a certain, special mission to those within Konoha.
It was a secret operation that Uzumaki
Naruto and his fiancée Hyuuga Hinata absolutely could not find about. Cleary
stated:
“All those who will attend Naruto and
Hinata’s upcoming wedding must bring wedding gifts.”
A ridiculous mission, isn’t it? It was
something that everyone would likely have ended up doing anyway.
You’d rightly assume that among the
wedding guests there were people who had already bought wedding presents, or
made preparations for them.
However, most of Naruto and Hinata’s
friends were as young as they were. Most of them either hadn’t ever attended a
wedding before, or were attending a close friend’s wedding for the first time.
It was likely for the sake of that
majority of inexperienced wedding guests, that Kakashi had given this task a
mission status.
After all, while he looked quiet and
calm on the surface, Kakashi was a man with a sense of humour. This ‘top secret
mission’ of his was something that fit his style.
That being said, there was someone among
the wedding guests who had taken the words ‘top secret mission’ completely at
face value. Someone who had received the mission proclamation with far more passion
than anyone else.
That someone was, of course, Konoha’s
self-proclaimed Beautiful Green Wild Beast: Rock Lee.
“I will repay Naruto-kun’s friendship by
putting my whole body and mind into finding the best wedding gift!” Lee had
declared to Kakashi, and then taken off running into the distance.
Lee was someone who firmly believed that
you could come up with a lot of ideas during training. His personality wasn’t
that of someone who would think while sitting still. ‘Moving my body will help
me think better’ was what he had thought.
However…
Le had run and run around the huge
village countless times, but he hadn’t been able to think up any ideas.
Well, to be more accurate, he had
thought of one thing.
Somewhere around his second run around
the village, the word ‘dumbbell’ had popped into Lee’s mind
But, that was ridiculous. Even Lee knew
that nobody would ever bring dumbbells as a congratulatory gift to a wedding.
Thus, his only idea had been rejected immediately.
And although he’d kept running and
running, since then, Lee hadn’t thought of any other ideas, let alone a good
one.
It had to be a present that nobody else
would bring, something that spoke of his own character as well… a gift that
expressed his heart…a gift that would be received with pleasure, the best gift
ever…
But no matter how much he thought and
thought, the right answer just wouldn’t come.
“The bonds between myself and Naruto
should be better than this…!” Lee had muttered to himself as he ran.
He came to a resolution:
Until he thought of a gift, he wasn’t
going to stop running!
His heart was set on it. Lee’s “Personal
Rule” was in motion.
That ‘Personal Rule’ of Lee’s had been
brought into existence for the sake of bettering his mind and body through
training. The rule was this: once Lee decided he was going to do something,
then even if it looked like the world was going to crumble and disappear
tomorrow, he would still see it through to the end. It was a principle he stuck
to with overwhelming devotion.
Until he could think of a nice present
besides dumbbells, Lee would run endlessly if he had to.
By the way, Lee wasn’t counting just
running around the village border as ‘one run’.
The same way one goes back and forth
around a room when they’re wiping its floors- with such an example, it’s easy
to imagine the scene, isn’t it? For Lee, ‘one run’ around the village meant
running through the entire village, every nook and cranny and road that the village had. It was a very
simple-minded way of counting.
Of course, that meant that Lee’s path
also included jumping over fences, hopping from tree to tree, and running over
the roofs of closely packed houses. It wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, for
a shinobi to take unusual paths like this through the hidden village. In fact,
it was incredibly common, so much that the normal citizens no longer took
notice of it.
So there wouldn’t be any landlords
complaining about Lee running over the roofs. At most, one person would maybe
send one complaint in the morning: “Some man with thick eyebrows was yelling
‘KUUAAA’ as he ran across our roof at dawn, he was really very noisy.”
And so, under the watchful eyes of the
previous Hokage’s faces all carved into the mountain overlooking Konoha, Lee
jumped and ran and leaped all across the village.
He kept that up the whole night without
a single new idea occurring to him.
And that is how Lee found himself
greeting a new day’s dawn without a single wink of sleep.
At this time, the light of sunrise was
now reaching out to touch the carved stone faces on the Hokage Monument that
stood in the city centre of Konoha.
“Eight…hundred…and sixty…four…”
Lee’s breathing was coming out in hoarse
wheezes and puffs as he gasped out that number.
His running had deteriorated to a
delirious staggering, to the point where anyone walking would be faster than
him.
He had finally reached his limit.
Lee’s legs buckled from underneath him,
as he helplessly pitched forward and collapsed. He didn’t even have the
strength to try and soften his landing, falling straight onto the ground with a
sudden thud.
Lee lay unmoving on the ground, face
down in the dirt, and wondered where he had gone wrong.
First, there was the idea that his mind
would clear if he moved his body. Had he been wrong about that? No, that wasn’t
possible. It wasn’t wrong. Lee quickly rejected that thought.
Then, was it that idea to do a handstand
run in the middle of his run around? He had thought it would help give him a
different perspective to think from, but had that been a bad idea? No,
sometimes you needed to do audacious things to produce new ideas. Not to
mention doing one handstand run around the village was part of his normal
training schedule. That couldn’t have been where he went wrong either.
Could it have been that uncommon method
he’d tried of running backwards? No, that was a perfectly fine method of
exercise.
He had done absolutely nothing wrong.
But then, in that case, why had he been
unable to think of anything…?
Lee gazed numbly at the ground in front
of him. His body had been burning hot just a while ago, but it was now getting
cold in the chilly morning air. The sweat covering his body turned freezing
cold, and Lee’s body started shivering. But he’d exerted every single muscle in
his body past the point of caution, and no longer had the energy to get up.
Even though it’s for a dear friend, even
though I said I’d put my heart into getting a wedding present. To think that I
haven’t been able to come up with one good idea. Why am I so incompetent…?
Lee squeezed his eyes tightly shut,
angry with himself for being such a disappointment.
However, he couldn’t just let things end
by saying he was incompetent and useless. He had decided to find a worthy gift
even if he had to put his life at stake, so he couldn’t possibly just stop and
give up here.
The fatigued and exhausted Lee let his
eyes snap open again, flames of determination burning within them once more.
However, once he opened his eyes, Lee
came to realise something:
Someone was standing in front of him.
When had that happened? There was a pair
of legs in Lee’s vision, with a familiar looking uniform. Lee was surprised
that he hadn’t noticed the person until now. They seemed to be watching him.
Lee slowly raised himself off the
ground, and looked up. To see. That person.
“Neji…” Lee quietly murmured.
Maybe he was an illusion or maybe he was
a ghost, but there he stood: his deceased friend, Hyuuga Neji.
“Running without a break until you
collapse.” Neji said, watching him with his usual calm gaze. “You’re still the
same as ever, Lee.”
Lee had no words.
There were hundreds upon hundreds of
things Lee wanted to tell Neji the next time they met. But with Neji in front
of him, he found himself miserably unable to make a single sound.
But even if he didn’t say anything, Neji
understood it all.
For some reason or another, that was the
thought that entered Lee’s mind as he looked up at Neji’s always all-knowing
eyes.
Neji crouched down next to Lee.
“There’s something that I really have to
tell you…” Neji said, putting a kind hand on Lee’s shoulder.
Neji’s hand felt warm and encouraging.
Lee suddenly thought it was likely that Neji had appeared because he was
concerned over how much Lee had been pushing himself.
“Neji…I…”
“I know. No need to say it.” Neji
smiled, his long hair swaying slightly. “Lee, remember this well. More than
stamina… physical strength. And, the Hyuuga…”
Neji paused. It was unclear whether he
was finished with what he was saying or not. His figure got wrapped up in the
morning mist, and disappeared.
“….eh?”
The wind was blowing swiftly, rustling
the nearby trees and pulling away the morning mist.
“Eh– wait– Neji…? Neji?!”
Lee looked left and right, desperately
searching his surroundings, but the only thing that met Lee’s bewildered voice
was the morning silence.
“EEH?! We-weren’t you going to give me
some advice about the wedding presents I’ve been so frantic about…? Isn’t that
why you appeared? NEJIIIIIII?!”
“NEJIIIIIII?!” Lee got up with a start
as he shouted for his friend.
It was now morning. Pretty early on, but
late enough that the majority of people had already woken up and started
preparing to greet the new day.
Lee dazedly looked around, trying to
take stock of his current situation. Somehow, it looked like he’d fallen asleep
right in the middle of a road. It was a good thing that he hadn’t passed out on
the village boarder.
“So it was…a dream…” Lee murmured to himself,
his mouth dry and parched for water.
A short, fleeting dream.
Lee sat numbly on the road, and hung his
head.
Neji’s death had been a long time ago. A
handful of years had already passed.
But even now, Lee still occasionally saw
Neji in his dreams. They usually came in those hastily taken naps in the middle
of an extremely difficult mission, or when Lee was having a hard time thinking
over something.
But only occasionally. Most of the time,
no matter how much Lee wanted to see him, Neji wouldn’t appear.
When Neji did appear, Lee’s dreams were
usually about going through vigorous training with Neji, or heading out on a
dangerous mission with Neji, the two of them together against harsh odds.
There had been very few dreams were Lee
could actually face Neji and talk to him.
Most of his dreams were about things
that had already happened. Training, or fighting against an enemy, or
strategizing on a mission. It would be Neji calmly talking about ond strategy
or another, and Lee standing next to him, listening intently.
Whenever Lee woke up from those dreams,
phrases would spill out of his lips.
‘Let’s make a more dynamic frontal
assault!’ or ‘I’ll go out in the front, so please watch out for our
surroundings!’.
All things he couldn’t say to Neji
inside his dreams.
If I said this to Neji, what sort of a
face would he make? How would he reply?
Lately, it was getting harder and harder
to imagine how Neji would have reacted.
Lee was terribly, keenly aware of that
fact.
A strong voice suddenly rushed out at
Lee’s slumped back.
“Lee, that’s some nice youth you’ve got
this early in the morning!”
Lee looked over his shoulder to see a
man behind him, smiling widely so the white of his teeth showed, his hand
raised in a thumbs up.
It was his teacher of spirit, Might Guy.
However…
“Ga-Gai sensei…”
Lee found himself at a loss for words.
The reason was that Gai, who had been restricted to living his life in a
wheelchair, had somehow gotten himself and his wheelchair onto the roof of a
nearby toolshed.
During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Gai
had put his life at stake during his battle with Uchiha Madara, and opened the
Eight Gates. His life at least had been saved thanks to Naruto, however his
right leg had lost its ability to function.
From that day onwards, Gai had lived his
life in a wheelchair. However, he hadn’t changed his hot-blooded ways, carving
the word ‘youth’ onto the cast on his right leg, and still encouraging and
guiding Lee as he always did.
Lee had been stunned speechless because
he couldn’t fathom how his teacher had possibly managed to get onto the
toolshed’s roof with his wheelchair.
Suddenly-
“TOU!” Gai gave a great battle cry,
launching himself and the wheelchair off the shed’s roof.
He somehow managed to angle the wheelchair
for a smooth landing, if with a very loud BANG.
Lee rushed over to his sensei, flustered
and worried.
“Sensei, that was very dangerous! Why
would you want to do something like that…”
“There has to be a great number of
people in the world who think you can’t fly in a wheelchair! So I’ve decided to
prove them wrong with my own body.” Gai spoke of such a terrifying notion with
incredible ease and calm.
Such a feat would’ve been absolutely
impossible for anyone else, anyone who didn’t have Gai’s exceptional control
over his body and fit physical state.
“Everyone in the village, Kakashi and
Ebisu and Genma too, they still treat me like a shinobi. That makes me happy.
Even though I should’ve retired long ago… So, because of that, I’ve decided to
keep on proving the impossible to be possible, and show my usual self to you
guys!” Gai said, giving his Nice Guy Pose. “That’s my youth, after all!”
Gai’s words deeply touched Lee’s heart.
They had always been like that. When Lee was suffering, when he was in pain,
when his heart felt like it was going to break into pieces, every single one of
Gai’s words had saved him, time and time again.
Even now, Lee took courage from hearing
Gai’s words.
He wanted to someday become a
magnificent man like Gai. He wanted to become a man who would warmly encourage
another lost and confused soul like himself.
That was a dream Lee held onto even when
he was awake.
“By the way, Gai-sensei, what are you
doing here?” The question suddenly occurred to Lee, and Gai replied with light
chatter.
“My morning training of course. I
thought that I’d spend today travelling back and forth all around the village.
How about it Lee, would you like to join me?”
“Thank you, I’ve already done such
training.”
“Impressive. However, the matter that’s
bothering you still hasn’t been settled, has it?”
Lee’s eyes opened wide in surprise at
Gai’s sharp observation.
“Ho- How did you know?!”
“It only took one glance at you to
realise you’d spent all night training and worrying about something. How many
years do you think I’ve been spending youthful time with you? That’s why from
the very start I said to you ‘nice youth this early in the morning’.”
It was only after Gai said that that Lee
realised how awful he looked. He was covered in mud, and absolutely unsightly
in appearance. He had stumbled a few times in his fatigue, falling and rolling
on the ground. It was all the dirt left over from those runarounds.
“And it’s very likely that you’re
concerned over the matter of wedding gifts, isn’t that right?”
Lee got panicked by Gai’s even shrewder
question.
“Gai-sensei, can you read my mind?!”
“No, it’s because I’m invited to the
wedding as well…”
Gai was concerned over the wedding gifts
too.
All would be well as long as the wedding
present wasn’t ordinary.
However, the problem lay in making sure
the present wasn’t too strange, either.
Wasn’t there a wedding present that
combined the feelings he wanted to convey, something that radiated the feelings
of victory, friendship and hard work?
Lee and Gai were both racking their
brains for an answer.
What kind of a present would embody the
passion of youth?
Was there really any such present in
this world?
Well if anything represented youth, it
would be how they both wore their smart looking tight green jumpsuits.
When you said ‘burning youth’ the first
things to come to mind would be sweat and tears, right?
Could sweat and tears be turned into a
gift somehow? No?
To begin with, people were living off
nothing but will power, weren’t they?
What kind of curry was better, bland or
extra spicy?
Their conversation reached its climax.
“No, after all,” Lee heatedly said, “The
me of today definitely thinks that Curry Pilaf is better-“
“Wait, hold on Lee.” Gai held out a hand
and interrupted him. “We’ve gone off subject too much. In matters like this,
one must concentrate. We should retrace our steps back to the root of this
conversation.”
“So we should return, to the root…?”
“Yeah, originally, this problem of a
wedding presents is all about the wedding itself, right?”
Somehow their conversation had turned
too philosophical.
When Lee failed to contribute more to
the talk, Gai asked another question.
“Let’s think about it like this: what is
the one thing that you absolutely must bring to a wedding?”
Lee’s gaze focused as he thought
seriously about it.
What was a wedding? Something necessary
for a wedding…
A wedding was a ceremony where two
people who loved each other became husband and wife. In that case, something
absolutely essential to that ceremony would be-
“It’s…love…” Lee said, looking straight
at Gai despite being somewhat embarrassed at the subject. “That’s what’s
necessary isn’t it?”
“That’s very poetic. But Lee, wouldn’t
the answer be the bride and groom?”
Lee felt like lightning had hit him
along with Gai’s words. His entire body stiffened like he’d just been hit with
a lightning release jutsu. Unconsciously, a loud “AHH!” leaked out of his
mouth.
“Th- that’s right…!” Lee said, “If the
bride and groom aren’t there, there can be no wedding ceremony…!”
“Right? A wedding ceremony without the
bride and groom would just be a plain ceremony, not a wedding. A useless
ceremony without any meaning!”
Lee had been blind.
Gai may have seemed like an impulsive
and clumsy person, but he really was a thoughtful person. He had the ability to
see beyond the surface and into the root of the matter. For Lee, that had
always been something about Gai that he looked up to and aspired to also do.
“In that case, we need to think about
this from the perspective of the bride and groom, and bring gifts that they
would be happy to receive. That would be best, wouldn’t it?”
“Exactly.” Gai said. “Yosh, then I’ll
think up a present for the groom! Lee, you think up one for the bride!”
“Roger, Gai-sensei!”
“Let’s think about this not from our
perspective as the givers, but from their perspective as the receivers…!”
The two men faced each other with their
bowl cut hair and bushy eyebrows, and clasped each other’s hands, thinking
seriously about the matter. It was quite a spectacle in the early morning.
Lee was desperately trying to think from
the bride’s point of view.
If I was a bride, then…I’d be dressed up
in the bridal clothes and going to my wedding… And after that…
Wedding, childbirth, housework, nursing…
Words and images flashed across Lee’s
mind in successive order.
Going shipping with the baby in my arms.
Keeping an eye on the baby as I clean
its room.
Carrying the baby on my back as I open
the Seventh of the Eight Gates…the Gate of Shock!
Having a baby is a surprisingly serious
matter.
To raise and look after a child, then
undoubtedly, you need both physical and economical strength, right?
In that instance, an image entered Lee’s
mind. He could imagine Hinata tenderly holding a child, and Naruto gazing at
the both of them.
And suddenly Lee realised that this
whole time he had been thinking only of what to give Naruto as a wedding gift. It was only
deliberately trying to think of the bride’s feelings that let him realise that.
A wedding wasn’t something you did by yourself.
That said, the best gift for someone who
would eventually be a mother–
Lee, remember this
well. More than stamina… physical strength…
Neji’s words from that dream came to
mind.
I finally understand Neji. You were
worried about Hinata, weren’t you?
Lee nodded to himself, and then…
“I know what it is…!” Lee peacefully
said. “To protect one’s house and family, physical strength is needed…And on
top of that, the highest possible level!”
Gai nodded, answered as well. “Right
now, I thought all the work that goes into fixing up faults around the house.
Pest control and plumbing and carrying groceries. One must skilfully develop
their arm muscles for such tasks…In that case, the answer we both came up with
must be the same. The gifts that we should bestow are…” Gai grinned at Lee with
delight.
“…Dumbbells!”
Lee became aware of a tear leaking out
his eye.
“I too…” Lee sniffed. “Right from the
start…from my second round across the village…I thought of that as well…!”
Tears were rolling uncontrollably down
Lee’s face now.
“Gai sensei! Gai senseeeeeeeeiii!” Lee
sobbed, and threw himself to embrace his teacher.
Lee was ecstatic. His thoughts had not
been wrong. His sensei had approved his idea. His joy was pure and simple.
Gai was crying too. As tears leaked out
his cheeks, he tightened the hug. “Lee! You get the dumbbell for the right arm,
and I’ll get the dumbbell for the leeeeeeeeeeeft!”
Gai yelled the up towards the heavens.
“UOOOO! I’LL GET THE LEFT DUMBBEEEEEEEELLLLLLL!!”
For a long time, the two clung to each
other and cried.
Thanks to Gai, Lee had finally found a
wedding present that suited his feelings for the couple. His heart felt light
and clear.
Very soon after their revelation, the
two had gone to buy dumb bells straight away. The merchant was very surprised
to sell two dumb bells so early in the morning.
Please have a look at this, Neji. I’ll
show you the wedding present I got. These dumbbells…!
Gai grinned at the strong look in Lee’s
eyes.
“Lee, with this our preparations for the
wedding are fully complete!”
“Yes! These weights we carry…they will
definitely be the best wedding presents!”
“Yosh, let’s have a race while holding
onto them then! Here we goooooooooo!”
The minute those words left Gai’s mouth,
he started fervently turning the tyres on his wheelchair, zooming ahead of Lee
in a sudden gust of dirt and wind.
Lee was left staring at the slowly
disappearing sight of his Sensei’s back in the wheelchair.
“Wait for me please, sensei!!”
Today as well, Konohagakure
was full of a very youthful sort of weather
[Indonesia]
Hadiah Pernikahan, Kecepatan Penuh!
Jika kau bertanya pada orang-orang tentang 'desa-desa tersembunyi shinobi',maka kua akan menemukan sejumlah besar warga-semacam dengan tidak ada cinta untuk shinobi atau rumah mereka-yang membayangkan desa-desa tersembunyi sebagai kota-kota kecil tertutup oleh pegunungan di semua sisi.
Tentunya, warga yang akan mengatakan, desa-desa tersembunyi benar-benar terputus dari dunia luar, terisolasi sepenuhnya dari orang lain.'pulau terapung di laut', mundur dan terbelakang.
Jelas, mereka akan mengatakan, sebuah desa tersembunyi adalah tempat yang orang normal akan menjadi idiot ingin mengunjungi, dan Selain itu, di suatu tempat Anda hanya bisa menemukan dengan kesulitan besar. 'desa shinobi tersembunyi ' benar-benar harus tempat semacam itu.
Itulah yang orang banyak mengira.
Namun, kenyataannya sangat berbeda.
Jika orang normal memasuki Konoha untuk pertama kalinya, mereka akan tercengang oleh pemandangan yang menyambut mereka melewati gerbang: raksasa, luas desa yang dipenuhi dengan aktivitas dan padat penduduknya.
Desa itu terus dipertahankan dan berkembang, dan itu sama sekali tidak terbatas hanya wilayah pemukiman penduduk desa. Ada sekolah, rumah sakit, berbagai pusat perbelanjaan, dan bahkan tempat rekreasi. Ada segala sesuatu orang yang dibutuhkan untuk menjalani hidup mereka sepenuhnya.
Benar-benar setiap pembentukan yang mungkin bisa ditemukan di pusat desa saja. Ukurannya yang menakjubkan Konoha adalah untuk titik bahwa jika kau menyebutnya sebagai 'negara-kota', kau tidak akan menjadi jauh.
kau bisa hidup sepanjang hidup kau tidak pernah mengambil satu langkah di luar batas wilayah Konoha, dan tidak pernah ingin untuk apa pun, tidak pernah kekurangan fasilitas apapun . Dan kota sangat metropolis ini terletak di dalam kedalaman hutan.
Itu adalah desa Konohagakure benar-benar: sebuah kota besar yang tiba-tiba muncul dalam hutan.
Tidak ada shinobi lajang yang merasa sedikit pun tidak puas dengan desa semacam itu.
Konoha awalnya merupakan pertemuan beberapa shinobi dan kaum mereka, tapi ketika sekelompok orang hidup di suatu tempat, mereka secara alami berakhir ingin tempat yang akan membuat mereka makanan. Dan tentu saja, setelah itu ada permintaan untuk toko yang akan menjual kebutuhan sehari-hari juga. Mengikuti pola pikir itu, wajar bahwa kelompok orang lain akan datang dalam persamaan: pedagang dengan mata pada desa penuh pelanggan.
Jadi terjadilah bahwa sekelompok penjual -dari non-shinobi dan perajin yang ingin mengambil shinobi sebagai pelanggan-akan berakhir pindah untuk tinggal dekat dengan pemukiman shinobi itu.
Dan dalam cara yang sama bahwa shinobi punya marga dan keluarga, penjual dan pekerja tidak hanya datang ke desa sendiri . Mereka membawa serta klan dan keluarga mereka juga.
Ada banyak orang normal yang pindah ke desa bersama dengan keluarga mereka demi perdagangan, serta orang-orang yang awalnya shinobi tapi kini mengambil profesi yang berbeda. Ada juga orang-orang yang berpikir untuk diri mereka sendiri, "Aku tidak datang dari sebuah klan shinobi, tapi saya ingin mengirim anak saya ke Ninja Academy 'dan pindah ke desa dengan maksud itu.
Rumah tangga
dan beberapa bulan dan tahun-tahun berlalu, itu adalah bersama orang-orang yang pemukiman menjadi kota metropolitan yang besar itu saat ini.
Shinobi , rumah tangga pedagang,
rumah tangga
perajin ... banyak, banyak orang yang berbeda dari berbagai latar belakang dan profesi yang semua datang untuk hidup bersama di desa.
Dan bahwa desa besar, bahkan sekarang, masih terus tumbuh dan maju.
Ukuran yang besar Konoha membuatnya menjadi agar mengelilingi mengelilingi seluruh desa bahkan pernah akan menjadi usaha yang luar biasa. Akan semacam jarak bahkan bisa berakhir mematahkan tulang mu.
Namun, untuk sementara sekarang, seseorang telah berlari mengitari desa Konoha.
Seseorang Itu adalah Rock Lee.
Pagi bahkan belum tiba lagi, dan ia mengejutkan ketika ia berlari di sekitar desa, dengan wajah yang tampak seperti dia bisa mati setiap saat.
Kenapa, sebenarnya, dia berlarian sendiri pada jam malam ini , ketika semua penduduk desa dan shinobi tanpa misi itu nyenyak tertidur?
Itu bukan untuk latihan rahasia khususnya. Karena Sesungguhnya, Lee bahkan tidak berlari karena dia merasa ia ingin lari. Jika dia bisa, maka Lee akan dgn senang kembali ke rumah dan tidur. Namun, ia memiliki kondisi tertentu yang berarti dia tidak bisa melakukan itu.
Semuanya itu dimulai sekitar setengah hari sebelumnya ...
Pada hari itu, Hokage Keenam Hatake Kakashi menyatakan tertentu, misi khusus untuk orang-orang yang berada di Konoha.
Ini merupakan operasi rahasia bahwa Uzumaki Naruto dan tunangannya Hyuuga Hinata benar-benar tidak bisa menemukan tentang. Jelas menyatakan:"Semua orang yang akan menghadiri pernikahan Naruto dan Hinata mendatang harus membawa hadiah pernikahan."
Sebuah misi konyol, bukan? Itu adalah sesuatu yang setiap orang kemungkinan besar akan telah berakhir dengan kau kerjakan.
kauakan dengan tepat berasumsi bahwa di antara para tamu pernikahan ada orang-orang yang sudah membeli hadiah pernikahan, atau menyediakannya untuk mereka.
Namun, sebagian besar dar iteman-teman Naruto dan Hinata itu semuda mereka. Sebagian besar dari mereka juga tidak pernah menghadiri pernikahan sebelumnya, atau menghadiri pernikahan seorang teman dekat untuk pertama kalinya.
Itu kemungkinan besar untuk kepentingan yang sebagian besar tamu pernikahan belum berpengalaman, bahwa Kakashi telah memberikan tugas ini memiliki status misi.
Setelah semua, saat ia tampak diam dan tenang di permukaan, Kakashi adalah seorang pria dengan rasa humor. Ini 'top secret misi' nya adalah sesuatu yang sesuai dengan gayanya.
Yang sedang berkata, ada seseorang di antara tamu pernikahan yang telah mengambil 'atas misi rahasia' kata-kata yang sama sekali pada nilai nominal. Seseorang yang telah menerima proklamasi misi bersama lebih semangat dari orang lain.
Bahwa orang itu, tentu saja, memproklamirkan diri sebagai Monster Hijau Liar dan Tampan Konoha Konoha : Rock Lee.
"Saya akan membalas persahabatan Naruto-kun dengan menempatkan seluruh tubuh dan pikiran saya ke dalam mencari hadiah pernikahan terbaik!" Lee telah dinyatakan Kakashi, dan kemudian lepas landas berlari ke tempat yang jauh.
Lee adalah seseorang yang sangat yakin bahwa kau bisa datang dengan banyak ide saat latihan. Kepribadiannya bukan seseorang yang akan berpikir sambil duduk diam. 'mengerakan tubuhku akan membantu saya berpikir lebih baik' adalah apa yang dia pikirkan.
Lee telah lari dan berkeliling desa berkali-kali besar, tapi ia tidak bisa memikirkan ide.Nah, untuk lebih akurat, ia telah memikirkan satu hal.
Suatu tempat di sekitar lari keduanya di sekitar desa, kata 'dumbbell' telah muncul dalam pikiran Lee
Tapi, itu konyol. Bahkan Lee tahu bahwa tidak ada yang pernah akan membawa dumbbells sebagai hadiah ucapan selamat untuk pernikahan. Jadi, idenya hanya tersebut telah ditolak segera.
Dan meskipun ia terus berlari dan berlari, sejak saat itu, Lee tidak memikirkan ide lain, apalagi
Sampai dengan ia memikirkan hadiah, ia tidak akan berhenti berlari!
Hatinya ditetapkan pada itu. "Aturan Pribadi" Lee adalah dalam gerak.
Itu Peraturan Pribadi 'dari Lee telah dibawa menjadi ada demi memperbaiki pikiran dan tubuh melalui latihan. Aturannya adalah ini: setelah Lee memutuskan dia akan melakukan sesuatu, kemudian bahkan jika itu tampak seperti dunia akan runtuh dan menghilang besok, ia masih akan melihatnya sampai akhir. Itu adalah prinsip yang menempel dengan pengabdian yang luar biasa.
salah satu yang baik.
Ini harus menjadi hadiah yang tidak ada orang lain akan membawa, sesuatu yang berbicara tentang karakternya sendiri juga ...
hadiah yang menyatakan hatinya ...
hadiah yang akan diterima dengan senang hati, hadiah terbaik yang pernah ada...
Tapi tak peduli betapa dia berpikir dan berpikir, jawaban yang benar hanya akan tidak datang.
"Ikatan antara saya dan Naruto harus lebih baik dari ini ...!" Lee telah bergumam sendiri sambil berlari.
Dia datang ke suatu resolusi:
Sampai dengan ia dapat memikirkan untuk hadiah, ia tidak akan berhenti berlari!
Hatinya ditetapkan pada itu. "Aturan Pribadi" Lee adalah dalam gerak.
Itu Peraturan Pribadi 'dari Lee telah dibawa menjadi ada demi memperbaiki pikiran dan tubuh melalui latihan. Aturannya adalah ini: setelah Lee memutuskan dia akan melakukan sesuatu, kemudian bahkan jika itu tampak seperti dunia akan runtuh dan menghilang besok, ia masih akan melihatnya sampai akhir. Itu adalah prinsip yang menempel dengan pengabdian yang luar biasa.
Sampai dia bisa memikirkan hadiah yang bagus selain dumbbells, Lee akan lari tanpa henti jika ia harus.
ngomong-ngomong, Lee tidak menghitung hanya berlarian perbatasan desa sebagai 'satu berjalan'.
Dengan cara yang sama orang pergi bolak-balik di sekitar ruang ketika mereka menyeka lantai-dengan contoh seperti itu, mudah untuk membayangkan kejadian, bukan? Untuk Lee, 'satu berjalan' di sekitar desa berarti berlari melalui seluruh desa, setiap sudut dan celah dan jalan bahwa desa miliki. Ini adalah cara yang sangat hasil penghitungan berpikiran sederhana .
Tentu saja, itu berarti bahwa jalan Lee juga termasuk melompati pagar, melompat dari pohon ke pohon, dan berjalan di atas atap rumah penuh ketat. Itu bukan sesuatu yang luar biasa, untuk shinobi untuk mengambil jalur yang tidak biasa seperti ini melalui desa tersembunyi. Bahkan, itu sangat umum, sehingga warga yang normal tidak lagi memperhatikan itu.
Jadi tidak akan ada apapun pemilik tanah mengeluh tentang Lee berjalan di atas atap. Paling-paling, satu orang mungkin akan mengirim satu keluhan di pagi hari: "Kadang pria dengan alis tebal berteriak 'KUUAAA' saat ia berlari melintasi atap kami saat fajar, ia benar-benar sangat berisik."
Dan, di bawah pengawasan mata dari wajah Hokage sebelumnya semua yang diukir di gunung yang menghadap Konoha, Lee melompat dan berlari dan melompat di seluruh desa.
dia terus melakukannya sepanjang malam tampa ada ide yang datang kepadanya
Dan
itulah
bagaimana Lee menemukan dirinya menyapa hari yang baru fajar tanpa mengedipkan mata untuk tidur.
Dan
itulah
bagaimana Lee menemukan dirinya menyapa hari yang baru fajar tanpa mengedipkan mata untuk tidur.
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