Acceptance...

"Thank you for visiting. Hope to see you again" said Sora with a smile to the customer who just finished paying the bill.

"Ha... It's finally over" said Sora looking at the back of the customer leaving the store.

" Good job Sora! Your new idea of making diet ramen has made our business boom these days," said Teuchi with a face that could not stop grinning.

" I don't deserve the praise after all you are the one who made even the diet ramen this delicious. Moreover, You have been taking care of me and treating me well so, I have to make the shop successful," said Sora with a serious face.

"Well, you are embarrassing me with such praise. I opened this ramen shop for customers to unload their worries and have a hearty meal to cheer them up. We all are like a family so don't say such things like an outsider" said Teuchi looking at the white-haired boy who has been working in the shop for a year.

" Well let's close the store. You have ninja school tomorrow," said Teuchi while packing the things.

"Ok" replied Sora and the two closed the ramen shop and parted ways.

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After finishing training, Sora came to the top of the Hokage rock. Looking at the bustling crowd and the brightly lit streets and the vibrant life from the mountain, Sora's shadow seemed to elongate. The lone figure of Sora seemed incompatible under the starry sky.

Sora sometimes feels that in this new world he is like an outsider who may fade away anytime. He is a stranger in this new world.

He lost everything in the past for no reason and come to this strange world. Even now he has his friends, caretakers, his own goal but his reluctant memory always reminds him that this is not his hometown, and that deep-rooted way of thinking always makes him feel that he doesn't fit in this world.

Even if he tries to integrate into the identity of Murasaki Sora, he always understands who he is. He couldn't completely abandon the memory of the past 20 years, deceiving himself and pretending that those years were just a dream.

So, he trained and trained until these feelings become numb. Every lonely night he remembers the face of his parents, his friends and could not help but cry.

Every day in the mirror, Sora looks at the mirror and repeats that he is Sora Murasaki. But this self-deception could not last forever.

So, Looking at this beautiful starry night, Sora seemed to see the figures of his parents again but they were fading in the starry sky.

Taking a deep breath, looking at the figure of his parents, Sora shouted," Forgive me."

Sora was always agitated by the fact that he could not see them again and can't take care of them even though they were always there for him.

Somehow, seeming to listen to Sora, his parents showed a relieved and encouraging smile and faded away.

Looking at the fading back of his parents, Sora could not help let out a single drop of a tear falling on his cheek.

Sora looked at the encouraging smile of his parents and knew that they wanted him to live well and not waste his life wailing on them. Cleaning the drop of the tear, Sora decided to accept himself and the fact of the transversal.

He is no longer confused. Coming to this strange world alone, life is indeed a bit depressing but that doesn't matter strangers will live their traces and story in a foreign land.

So, regardless if he was lonely in the past or now, the current him will eventually change. Even if the memory of the past reminds him, the current fetters are also true. So, he has the courage to accept his fate instead of lamenting and wasting time to live a melancholy life.

The time he spent in the warm store and the orphanage also made him happy. In this world, the ramen guy, friends, and caretakers are all his bonds in this world and remind that he is not living a false life.

So, the death of the previous young man of the 21st century has led to the end of the previous tory but it is after all a prelude to a new beginning and story, with a more prosperous life.

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A/N: I am very sorry for not uploading yesterday * bow* (T T), hope for forgiveness. So please stay tuned.

In this chapter the character of Sora is given a bit of shape though it might be a bit of cringe please bear with me.