Chapter 173 Tombstone
After moving for a while, the ruins around them gradually disappeared, and Pakkun took Kakashi to a hillside.
"It's here."
Pakkun stopped and whispered.
Kakashi also stopped, and looked around, but he found nothing strange.
"Pakkun, there is nothing here."
"Kakashi, look at the boulder." Parker said and pointed towards a direction.
Kakashi looked at the direction Pakkun pointing at and saw that there was indeed a big boulder, and it looked very old, with so moss on it.
'That is…'
Kakashi narrowed his eyes and walked towards the boulder.
I saw a stele-like thing carved into the bottom of the boulder.
Near the boulder, weeds are overgrown, but the stele looks very clean. Unfortunately, the text on it has been eroded after a long ti, and it has beco a little unclear.
Kakashi squatted down and saw a small pit in front of the stele with so remaining ashes, which should be the remains of other parts of the piece of paper he got before.
"The piece of paper ca from here, so soone ca here to make so offering. Is this stele a tombstone?"
Kakashi was curious, and lightly brushed the stele with his right hand. In an instant, a familiar feeling filled his heart.
'This handwriting is…'
The mory of original Kakashi began to hit his brain. Kakashi patted his head and suddenly rembered.
'This is … Tou-san's writing!'
Kakashi suddenly beca sober, as he knows that the handwriting engraved on this boulder was clearly the handwriting of Hatake Sakumo!
'Did tou-san carve it?'
With a huge shock in his heart, chakra starts surging from Kakashi's right hand, and then he starts erasing the dust from the stele, and he also erases the traces of erosion over the years.
At this ti, Kakashi finally saw the vague words on the stele!
"The tomb of the beloved wife, Hatake Ayako!"
Hatake? Ayako?
'Could this be kaa-san's tombstone?'
For so reason, Kakashi suddenly felt very uncomfortable in his heart, as if there was another force driving him.
"This is… what's going on?"
"Kakashi? Are you okay?" Pakkun saw sothing was wrong with Kakashi, so he quickly asked.
"No…It's nothing."
Kakashi quickly suppressed the discomfort in his heart and dispelled the inexplicable sadness.
"Kakashi, what are you doing here? Where is this?"
Seeing Kakashi didn't want to say anything, Pakkun didn't force him and ask another question.
"Well, this place is Uzushiogakure. I ca here to investigate so things."
"So it's like that. If there is nothing else, I will leave first."
"Okay, sorry for troubling you, Pakkun."
With a bang, Pakkun disappeared again.
Kakashi didn't care, and continued to look at the stele.
In Kakashi's mory, Sakumo has never told him the na of his mother.
But Kakashi can be sure that in the Hatake Clan, there is no one nad Hatake Ayako.
So, who is the Hatake Ayako that was engraved on this stone tablet?
In this kind of place, it seems that there is only one possibility, and that is the mother he has never t before.
'Just, why would kaa-san die in such a place?'
'At that ti, tou-san was probably already reached the Kage level strength. So why didn't he return to the village?'
According to his father's mission report at that ti, it was said that he had encountered a powerful enemy and was seriously injured.
After the injury healed, he was able to return to the village.
During this period, he t a woman that gave birth to Kakashi.
Just what kind of person that is able to make the famous Konoha's White Fang seriously injured?
It's strange.
Kakashi gently stroked the tombstone, and he feels there was so kind of intimacy.
At this ti, Kakashi had a certain degree of certainty in his heart that this stele might be his mother's tombstone.
The intuition of the strong has always been inexplicably accurate.
Kakashi has also developed terrifying intuition over the years.
This kind of thing is so unreasonable, but it really exists.
Kakashi touched the ashes in the pit, placed it on the tip of his nose and sniffed gently at it.
Of course, Kakashi doesn't have the sense of sll as good as Pakkun, but in these ashes, Kakashi slls a strange sll.
"These ashes should have been left over from burning joss paper. It is strange that there is a faint scent in the ashes."
Kakashi took out the piece of paper he had found before, put it on his nose and sniffed it. There is such a sll, but the sll is much weaker.
Kakashi's brows wrinkled slightly. He doesn't know why, but he felt this sll has a familiar feeling. Unfortunately, he can't rember what it is.
There are people burning joss papers as offering in this place, which ans that the people who burn this paper must have so kind of close relationship with the person whose na is engraved on the tombstone. Otherwise, there is no need to do so.
'Is it kaa-san's relatives?'
This is the only explanation Kakashi can think of.
If they are only a friend, it would be strange for them to still co to burn so joss paper after more than 20 years. After all, they are living in a cruel world.
What's more, the location is such a place.
Uzushiogakure, even if it has beco a ruin. It is definitely not a good place.
If they can co to pay respect for the dead, they will not be too far from here.
Looking at the situation of the tombstone, there should be people coming over frequently. It is not the appearance of sothing that is being abandoned for 20 years.
Since there are such people, Kakashi will naturally not let go of this opportunity.
Perhaps what Kakashi wants to know can only be known from that person's mouth.
After all, investigating this kind of thing without any clues is extrely hard.
Kakashi scratches his head and began to think. 'Should I wait for the person to co here?'
Although the thod is a bit stupid, it seems to be the only way for now.
Apart from these ashes, there is nothing else here. And even if soone ca over before, so many days have passed since then, so the sll has long since disappeared.
It was already extrely difficult for Pakkun to find this place just now. If it weren't for the strong sll of the joss paper itself, they might not have found this place.
As to find the sll of the person who has co here many days ago, it is not realistic.
However, if he waits here for the person to co, the ti spent will not be short.
Generally speaking, it is enough to do this kind of thing once a year. So is it necessary for Kakashi to wait here for a year?
The ti is too long, and Kakashi can't afford to waste that much ti.
"Damn it, is there no better way?"
Kakashi lanted. The trip this ti was really not smooth from beginning to end.
Standing up, Kakashi touched his chin, no one knows what he was thinking.
Suddenly, Kakashi looked towards one direction.
"Soone is here?"
Kakashi was slightly surprised that soone actually ca to this place. After all, it is dangerous to co here.
He can co here because he is a Shinobi, and his strength is not weak.
'This presence…'
Kakashi's face changed slightly, and he whispered: "Why is it her? What is she doing here?"
Outside the Uzumaki Valley, a figure stood there.
"Is this the ruins of the Uzumaki Clan in the legend? This defense chanism is interesting."
A heart-warming smile evoked from the corner of the girl's mouth and then her hand starts forming hand seals!
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