Although Uchiha Izuna deeply suspects that some people have been harming his fish in order to eat them naturally, but...

Well, not a big problem.

As long as what she wanted to eat wasn't creatures like tailed beasts that were hard to find and catch, everything else was no problem to Uchiha.

"The water looks very cool..." Uchiha leaned on the railing and murmured.

"The water in summer is indeed..." Uchiha Izuna recalled, "In the past, when I was still young, my brother and I swam and cooled off in the large pond shared by the men in the clan." It is no exaggeration.

It is said that every summer, it becomes a forbidden place for women. After all, from a distance, it is a field of white flowers...cough!

But since he got older, he and his brother rarely went there. This... a group of naked men bowed and shouted "Madara-sama" and "Izuna-sama" together. I always felt that the scene was a bit subtle...

"Huh?" Ochiha asked curiously, "Is this pond still there?"

"Of course." Uchiha Izuna nodded and said, "Now it is also one of the favorite places for the men in the clan in summer. Of course, women stop here." It has nothing to do with gender discrimination. He mainly doesn't want his little wife to get needle eyes.

And the pale body flesh.

According to their custom of eating fish, they are divided into white fish and naked fish. Of course, he was just joking.

"Tch~" Uchiha curled his lips, "What's so great~ By the way, isn't there such a place for women?"

Uchiha Izuna shook his head, "After all, there are very few women who dare to take off their clothes to swim and play in public. Besides... no one would peep at a group of stinky men swimming and bathing, but if it were a group of women...

emmm, although he is relatively assured of the overall moral level of the family, there is no guarantee that a few "scum" will emerge, right?

Uchiha women look as beautiful as flowers, but once they get angry but are very tough, it might turn into a "bloody murder", so...

"The clan also has public bathhouses and hot springs for women. Women often bathe together. If you are interested, you can join in the fun."

"It's summer, I'm not interested..." Uchiha Daizi held his chin with one hand and continued to look at the fish swimming freely in the cold water, "Let's wait until the weather gets cold~"

Uchiha Izuna: "..." Are you a cat who wants to play in water when the weather is hot?

Even so, I kept this in mind.

In the evening.

After dinner, the two returned to their courtyard. Instead of wandering around, they sat on the promenade to pass the time.

After playing chess and cards for a while, the two sat back to back, one of them read a scroll, and the other read a novel, which was quite enjoyable.

Summer night falls relatively late.

After watching it for a while...

Only then did the Uchiha realize that the light was no longer very good, and quickly turned around and said: "Izuna-kun, you can't look at it, it will hurt your eyes." She knew that eyes were very important to Uchiha, and they should be well protected.

That's okay, otherwise...she would definitely put a "civet eye" on him last night!

"Yeah." Uchiha Izuna didn't say any embarrassing words like "according to my eyesight, I can see clearly at night". I just need to accept my wife's concern calmly and happily~

He rolled up the scroll, put it away, stood up and said, "Let's go."

"...Huh?" Uchiha asked in confusion, "Where are you going?" Then, her face glowed with joy, "Do you mean, Izuna-kun, you want to take me out to play?"

Uchiha Izuna stretched out his hand and scratched someone's nose, and replied with a chuckle: "What a beautiful thought~"

Uchiha: "..." Hey! She puffed up her face and asked, "Where are we going?"

"Come with me and you will know." Uchiha Izuna said as he stretched out his hand to his little wife who was still sitting cross-legged on the floor.

The latter tilted her head and looked at him carefully for a moment, then finally reached out and grabbed his hand, letting the latter pull her up and hug her straight into his arms.

"Do you want to go by yourself, or do you want me to hold you?"

"...It's not like I don't have legs!"

"But the fact that you asked me to carry you to the kitchen last night has already spread throughout the whole clan~"

"...Whose fault do you think that is?"

Uchiha Izuna looked at his little wife's grinning face, and suddenly felt very good. She thought to herself: I haven't told you yet, what other people's comments about us "tearing the quilt apart", otherwise, in the following days, you will

I guess it’s because I’m embarrassed to be around the clan~

But then again...

Ninjas are inherently violent beings, so when the love is strong, what does it matter if you tear up some quilts and clothes? At least the house is still fine, so it's not a big problem~

after……

He just held his wife's hand and walked out of his courtyard, leading her towards the west side of the clan.

Along the way, many people greeted the two of them.

Gradually, I met fewer and fewer people.

The Uchiha boy was confused at first, but then gradually calmed down. He just thought that her husband wanted to take him around the clan on a whim, and that was fine~ until...

She saw a large pond full of lotus flowers.

It is mid-June, the season when lotus blooms. Although it has not yet reached full bloom, there are already many blooming flowers dotted among the dark green or light green lotus leaves, with many colors and rough shapes.

It looks white, pink, dark red and dark purple.

"Wow……"

Uchiha stood still by the pond and exclaimed: "So beautiful..." Then two words came to her mind inexplicably, and she murmured subconsciously, "The lotus leaves in the sky are infinitely green, reflecting the sun.

The lotus is so red." But after she said it, she always felt that some of the words did not convey her meaning, or that her language could not express the precise charm.

"A very beautiful sentence." Uchiha Izuna praised greatly, "It sounds like a famous work, why haven't I heard it? Who wrote it? Where did you see it?"

"...don't remember."

"..." Come again?

However, he only thought that she saw it in a certain book in the Shirakawa clan's collection, so he didn't pursue it too closely. He just smiled and said, "It would be great if you don't have taboos."

Yes, in their culture, the lotus is an "unlucky" flower. It is a flower that blooms in the blissful world of the afterlife. It is a flower that can only be seen after death and is harmful to living people. Therefore, generally speaking, no one

I would give this to others, and this kind of flower is usually only used together with chrysanthemums and other flowers at funerals.

"Why is there such a taboo?" Uchiha replied with a sideways smile, "There are wars or battles happening all the time in this land. There may have been bloodshed and death on every land we live in. Since

If you are always with death, then there is no need to be taboo about anything, right?"

"That makes sense." Uchiha Izuna nodded in agreement.

Ninjas themselves are existences that are associated with death, so they never taboo about this matter. He is very happy that his wife can have such an open mind.

"But..." Ochiha asked curiously, "Why is there such a large lotus pond here?"

"Because that's the cemetery of the clan." Uchiha Izuna raised his finger and pointed to a walled place not far away, where the ninjas of the clan guarded it. After all, the remains of the Uchiha clan are "precious", especially just now

Death is easily coveted. "The ponds here are meant to lead to a blissful life as soon as possible. In summer, people occasionally pick lotus flowers to worship at the cemetery."

"...Ah," Uchiha was stunned for a moment, and then immediately apologized, "I'm sorry, Izuna-kun, I didn't know..." After knowing this, he felt that what he just said seemed inappropriate.

"It's okay." Uchiha Izuna smiled, then raised his hand and rubbed the furry little head of the girl beside him, "Didn't you say? There is no need to be taboo about death. Moreover, what is buried there is only their bodies.

They...are not there."

"...Hmm." Uchiha nodded slightly.

"Don't you ask where they are?"

Uchiha Izuna thought: If the answer is in the Pure Land, it is a standard answer; if the answer is in the heart, it is a comforting answer; if it is in the eyes, it is a tricky answer... Well, there are other ways to answer.

?

He was a little curious about how she would answer him.

"...Here." Uchiha opened his arms from the side and hugged his husband. He stood on tiptoes and touched his head with his hands. He raised his head and said with a smile, "As long as Uchiha is still here, then Uchiha will be here."

It’s still there, so all Uchiha are still here, right?”

This was a bit awkward to say, but Uchiha Izuna understood what it meant.

He took a deep breath of the air full of lotus fragrance, and exhaled slowly. He didn't care about the trivial matter of her "daring to touch her husband's head". He also opened his arms and hugged his wife beside him, thinking: Okay, give in...

...This time it is still your victory. It is an unexpected answer that fits his mood very well...

Although she has just married into an Uchiha, she seems to know Uchiha very well.

A natural fit.

Well, it seems that she is destined to be the woman of the Uchiha family.

Thinking of this, he let go of his wife's body, held her hand again, and said, "Let's go."

"...Huh? Where are you going?" Uchiha asked, "Could it be that...you are going to visit your father, mother and...?"

"I'm not going today." Uchiha Izuna replied, "And didn't I say that? They are not there." As he spoke, he pulled his wife to the side of the lotus pond, pointed at the things floating in it and said, "Go up.

.”

Only then did Ochiha Ochiha see a small boat hidden in the pond under the cover of green leaves and red flowers.

"Wow..." She opened her mouth again and let out a small exclamation, "Izuna-kun, are you going to take me..."

"Yes, don't you like playing in water?" Uchiha Izuna replied with a chuckle, "I plan to take you to the center of the pond, then push you down and let you swim as long as you can. How about that?"
To be continued...