"Hana, why do you keep hugging me?" Nawaki asked helplessly.

After he saved her, and she told him everything that had happened to her over the last few years, Hana became very attached to him.

Although her eyes were a little lifeless at first, now she hugged him and looked a little more alive.

"I just like it, can't I?" She looked at him.

"..." Nawaki sighed: "Okay, but, this makes walking difficult."

"So what now?" Hana stopped wrapping his entire body to just wrap her arms around his left arm as she rested her head on his shoulder.

Hana was 169-170 cm, and she was slightly taller than him, in this position she looked like an older sister walking with her younger brother.

Only if they are doomed to walk this way, it will take forever until they reach Leaf village.

"Okay, how about this," Nawaki suggested, "Climb on my back and I'll carry you."

"Yes, yes, I really liked this suggestion!" Hana cheered until she clapped her hands as she let go of his arm. However, she doesn't show emotions when she does this, nor does her voice seem very happy.

Nawaki was in disbelief. Didn't she go through a lot of hard times? How can she be so full of energy right now? But, does she have trouble showing emotions? Why does she look so fake and real at the same time?

In some respects, he even thought of his granddaughter from his other life. She was quite lively and liked to stick close to him... However, it can't be, right? Well, his granddaughter was very expressive, while Hana Senju is nowhere near that.

Maybe he just thinks so because the name is similar, and because of that, he's seeing his granddaughter in this 15-16-year-old girl.

However, it was hard to stop thinking about it once he started.

When Hana climbed onto his back, she began rubbing her rosy cheek against his in a very intimate act.

"..." Nawaki was speechless again.

However, he thought: 'Maybe she feels the same sense of familiarity because of her genetics, which is why she likes to be affectionate with me so much?'

It was a little sad to think about, this girl had lived her entire life without love and only as a tool for an experiment... Thinking like that, Nawaki decided to let her do whatever she wanted, as long as she didn't cross the line.

Nawaki didn't even have time to care about the fact that Hana's breasts, which are almost as big as Tsunade's, was being squeezed against her back when he felt the presence of ninjas approaching.

"Hold on tight, I'll run faster, I think the Hidden Cloud Village ninjas are catching up with us," Nawaki said.

Hana replied simply, "Okay."

Sensing the faint lack of emotion in her voice, Nawaki sighs, but there were more important things to do.

Using the divine art of wind, he and Hana were enveloped in the green wind, and soon his speed while jumping through trees increased dramatically.

Hana on Nawaki's back saw the scenery constantly changing as Nawaki ran at superhuman speed.

Using the divine art of wind, consumption when running decreases greatly, not depending only on the chakra itself to run faster, but on the purest energy that spends more slowly if it is used only to run faster.

In moments, they already take a distance with great advantage in relation to the ninjas that followed them, only then Nawaki starts to slow down and run at medium speed.

"Incredible," Hana said, but still no emotion in her voice. She looked like she was teasing, but she was really surprised.

On the way back, the Nawaki shadow clone carrying Hana Senju sensed the presence of a ninja coming from the Leaf Village.

Nawaki hides and waits to see who it was, and as soon as he discovers that it was actually shadow clones of him, with Hana he appears before the shadow clones.

"We finally caught up with you two." One of the shadow clones said.

Hana was a little confused, she saw Nawaki use shadow clones before, but it was only one, and it was in the Hidden Cloud Village, so how could there be 10 other shadow clones before her?

"I don't have much time to explain, so drop Hana on the floor and dispose of yourself." Nawaki's shadow clone said.

"Okay." Leaving Hana on the ground, the shadow clone made a hand seal and then turned into a smokescreen, and then disappeared.

"You and you go back with Hana, we are going to complete the mission." The shadow clone that said before, pointed to two other shadow clones and made them stay with Hana.

"Oh, what's going on? Going back to that hellish place?" Hana asked. She didn't show emotion in her voice, but it was visible that she hated the Hidden Cloud Village.

"Yes, we will make them pay for what they did to you." Nawaki wasn't telling the whole truth, but it wasn't exactly a lie: "They will pay a heavy price for this."

"Oh, thank you~" Hana said with a flushed face, similar to Nawaki, but still not showing much emotion.

It wasn't nearly robotic, but it was similar to someone being a little sarcastic as if she wasn't really doing something she liked.

The other eight shadow clones are gone, while two shadow clones remain.

Hana asked: "Are we going to Leaf village?"

"Yes, do you know anything about it?" Nawaki asked.

"Nothing." Hana gave a dry reply: "I just know that I should be from there if it's like those bad men said."

"I see," Nawaki said, "If it is confirmed, you must be my relative, to be more precise you must be my cousin aunt."

"Okay." Hana gave another dry reply. She didn't know what to say, she just accepted it.

A few hours later, Nawaki who was carrying Hana on his back, went through the procedure to enter the village with her, and they headed towards the Senju Complex.

When they arrived, the first thing they did was Mito asked to be alone with Hana Senju and almost an hour later, she returned.

"She is Tobirama's daughter," Mito said simply. She added: "She will live with us from now on, are you in agreement?"

"Yes." The three responded in unison.

Even though she didn't quite understand, Kushina nodded, as she thought the question was being directed at her as well.

"Yay! Such happiness~" Hana said without the slightest hint of joy as if she was mocking them as she spoke.

Although her face now blushed similarly to Nawaki, perhaps wanting to imitate him?

"Well, as you can see, she's been through a lot and can't show much emotion," Nawaki explained so as not to have any misunderstandings.

"So you are the real one?" Hana approaches Nawaki, and seeing him nod, she hugs him: "Yay! I'm embracing the real! Thank you for saving me, I haven't had time to thank you yet~!"

Even when she said all that, it sounded fake, but the tears that streamed down her slightly flushed face were real...

Tsunade who saw this felt a lump in her throat, she couldn't even imagine what this little girl went through to be acting this way.

Kushina wasn't aware of what happened, but she felt a sadness well up in her heart, it was a suffocating feeling that wanted to make her cry.

'In every tear there is hope...' Mito muttered silently in her heart as she looked up at the sky.

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