Chapter 11

Xia Qingyue still couldn't believe that her mother had abandoned her, her brother and her father. She didn't understand why this had happened. All she wanted was for her mother to come back. But she knew that if she wanted things to go back to the way they were before, she would have to be stronger.

But even though she told herself that she had to be stronger, she still couldn't stop herself from crying with sadness. The loss of her mother was a hard blow for a little four-year-old girl like her.

She didn't want to show weakness to her younger brother, so she chose to find a place she could call a refuge, and in this refuge she would no longer have to hide her sadness. Xia Qingyue always came to this place to cry and think about her mother.

Ever since she started visiting this place, she had never come across a Profound Beast. But it seems that today was not her lucky day. While thinking about her mother, she eventually forgot about the passing of time, and when it was already evening she decided to go home. But what she didn't expect was that a Profound Beast had moved into this isolated area.

Xia Qingyue knew that she couldn't defeat a Profound Beast, but even knowing this, she didn't choose to run. She knew that it was impossible to run, so she chose to at least face death head on.

But even though she said this to herself, she was still afraid. She was afraid that she would no longer be able to see her brother, her father, and her beloved mother. So every time the Profound Beast took a step forward, she took one back.

She even began to pray to the heavens, asking them to help her at this fatal moment. But her prayers seemed not to have been answered, because the Profound Beast leaped over her direction.

Knowing that she could not defeat the Profound Beast, she chose to close her eyes to await death. But after keeping her eyes closed for a few seconds, she realized that death did not come, but rather a deafening silence in the forest.

Curiosity welled up in her head, and slowly she began to open her eyes, in front of her was the body of the Profound Beast lying under the grass. Blood was dripping from the neck of the Profound Beast. But that was not the most shocking thing for her.

On top of the Profound Beast's body, a boy with black hair and onyx eyes was sitting calmly with a sword in his hands. The boy was watching her calmly.

Their gazes crossed.

Xia Qingyue was surprised by the red eyes of the boy in front of her.

"Those eyes... They are so cold..." Xia Qingyue thought.

Slowly she saw the boy's red eyes turn black. Surprise was evident on her beautiful face as she saw the boy's eyes in front of her return to normal.

"That must be a cultivation technique..."

She refrained from asking about it, her father had taught her that one should never ask about a person's cultivation techniques, especially a person you don't even know.

"It looks like you're doing well... that's good." Itachi said calmly as he got off the top of the Profound Beast.

He tried to speak as calmly as possible to avoid scaring this little four-year-old girl. After all, he didn't want to cause a greater trauma than being attacked by a Profound Beast.

"Hn... Thank you for saving me." Xia Qingyue said in a polite manner as she bowed to Itachi.

Even though the boy in front of her seems to be her age, she still feels that she should properly thank him, after all, he saved her life. And even though she was only four years old, she knew when to say thank you.

Itachi waved his hand signaling that she didn't have to bow to him.

Inspecting the girl in front of him, he realized that she seemed to belong to one of the two clans of this city. And he came to this conclusion when he saw the quality of the clothes worn by the girl that although they were worn out were still expensive for an ordinary family to buy.

After Xia Qingyue thanked Itachi the silence settled again.

Noticing the strange atmosphere, she decided to introduce herself since it would be rude of her after the person in front of her saved her.

"M- My name is Xia Qingyue, if you need help in the city, you can come to my Xia clan, we will have no problem helping you."

With those words, she again bowed to Itachi who just shook his head.

"Xia Qingyue? My name is... Uchiha Itachi." At the end of his speech, Itachi hesitated which name he should say, but in the end he chose to say his real name. It wasn't that he disliked the name given to him by his mother, but he felt that he would still like to keep his name used in the shinobi world.

That name would remind him of who he actually was.

"Uchiha Itachi? Pft!" Xia Qingyue questioned, at the end of her speech a smile appeared on her dirty face.

She had never heard anyone with a name as strange as the boy in front of her, but after reciting that name a few more times in her mind, she felt it was a nice name.

Itachi didn't mind Xia Qingyue's laughter, he mentally too old to care about that sort of thing, besides, he knew his name was strange to this world, but he really didn't care about that.

Xia Qingyue realized that she had laughed at the name of the person who saved her, and for that reason she began to apologize.

"I'm sorry! I had no intention of laughing at your name..."

"It's okay, I really don't care about that." Itachi said calmly.

She seemed to be more relieved to see that Itachi was not angry with her. Soon she began to talk in a more casual manner with Itachi.

"So, you're really not from this town?" Xia Qingyue asked in a curious manner. She doesn't know much about the world, she never even left this small town.

"Hn! I'm from a place a little far away." Itachi replied.

He noticed that some of the sadness that was present on the girl's countenance seemed to have disappeared. But he knew that this was not true, in fact, she was hiding her sadness and pain under a mask. And how did he know this? He had been through it.

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