[Hokage] Terukawa

The next day.

"Report to the third generation of adults, this is what was found from the three attackers yesterday."

I gave a slight nod to Minato, who had come here a few minutes earlier than me, as a substitute for greeting, and after placing the things on the table of the Third Hokage, I took a step back and stood still with my head bowed.

Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted the red and white corner of something on the table, and I realized it was a quest scroll.If I'm thinking right, it should be the volume we finished writing on it last night and finally handed it back to Minato.

I lowered my head again.

Wherever Minato has carried the conversation, it's not time for me to speak yet.

"Thank you." After a long silence, Sandai raised his hand and picked up the three masks—I couldn't see the rest of his movements and expressions clearly. The movement of lowering his head and the restriction of sight by the masks made me almost stare at the floor Speechless, but there is no doubt about one thing.

... The emotions of the third generation are definitely not high.

That's right, the black hands behind this matter are nothing more than two kinds of backgrounds, one is outside and the other is inside.However, whether there are people in the village who are not doing good things, or ninjas (or spies) from other villages quietly inserting nails into Anbu, it always symbolizes that chaos is not far away from Konoha.

But having said that, is there really a group of spies who are stupid enough to change the pattern of Anbu's mask in order to report to colleagues to keep warm?Those modified patterns are not so much for concealment, but rather for the purpose of distinguishing them from our genuine Anbu.

On the other hand, although Konoha has the upper hand in the battle between the Hidden Cloud Line and the Hidden Fog Line, it is not over yet, and the situation is unpredictable. No matter what kind of reversal occurs on the battlefield, it will not be surprising.At this juncture, there were no problems on the battlefield, but there were problems in the village. It's... no wonder he was in a good mood.

And it also pushed Kakashi to the forefront.

I rolled my eyes silently under the mask.

Even a child is attacked, does this person know what it means to respect the old and love the young?

Let's track it down, let's track it down, it's better to pull out the whole carrot and bring out the mud, let me see who is so stupid.

Of course, this kind of thing mostly only exists in my delusions.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but rolled my eyes again.

The Third Hokage sighed deeply, sounding like he was about to express his exhaustion and sleepiness: "Captain of the Ankara, Coyote?"

I straightened my posture and replied in a solemn voice: "Yes!"

"Minato once mentioned you. This time in the Battle of Kikyo Mountain, you also succeeded in winning the city with a thunderbolt, directly cutting off the retreat of the sand ninja, and sending out the battle report in time. The series of counterattacks are wonderful," said the third generation There was some pure appreciation in Hokage's old and hoarse guttural voice, "Look up, kid, I prefer to communicate with people face to face, and then tell me the things in detail... You took this task, right?"

"child".

I was moved.

Is this a...hint?He recognized me?

I scanned the room subconsciously, hesitating.The situation in front of me obviously does not allow me to continue to think about it, but if it is the third generation... I simply overturned most of the plans I made before, and opened my mouth to answer: "Master Three Generations, this task is to be done by me and a few other people." The low-level Anbu members were responsible for the whole process, and we killed those three people. They were divided into two groups, two stepped forward to attack, and the remaining one watched from a distance."

I didn't have the time to pay attention to Minato's demeanor, but I paused and continued to add: "None of us have seen a mask of this shape, but I am the captain after all, and I have a certain authority to view the compiled files, so I put the mask on." They were all received in my hands. Afterwards, I did check all the files that I had sufficient permission to view, but... as you can see," I spread my hands, "If I do find something, I will now hand it over to Yours will not be just these three masks, but a list of all suspicious persons."

Seeing that the third generation hadn't spoken for a while, I couldn't help going through the things that Minato told me last night, "Normally I shouldn't have let me know, but in order to prevent me from getting into trouble, so I told me in advance", my heart No matter how arrogant you are at the root of Shimura Danzo, you won't dare to plant eyes and ears in Hokage's office, right?After all, this Nima has seriously violated his authority. If he insists on pursuing it, it is not a bad idea to label him as a wiretapping secret.Even if the three generations seem to be benevolent, how can the leader be soft to the end?From the overall command style on the battlefield, it can be seen that the third generation is by no means an easy persimmon, let alone a minefield of this level.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that I wasted all the brain cells spent last night - it was all for Danzo who would show up at Hokage's office from time to time - and our luck today exploded, Shimura Danzo's ugly wrinkled face didn't get a chance to visit my retinas, so most of the coping plans I had made before were useless.

...Looking at it this way, it seems that there was no need to be half-truthy when I spoke just now.San Dai is a good man—I still understand this, or in other words, few people agree that he is a good man more than I do.

But the half-truths and half-false words have already been spoken, so let's just go along.I think.Anyway, the focus is not on our little Anbes, the focus is on trying to make Shimura Danzo less suspicious.

After all, it is debatable whether the Sharingan that wanders out of the village will threaten Konoha, but it is not a behavior worth advocating to want to secretly poke into your arms whenever you see something good.

What, this is just an occasional failure, and he won't let it go?

It doesn't matter, I'll help him fail a few more times, just get used to it.

Fortunately, Haruhi's blue wound healed really quickly, and I took the time to discharge him from the hospital, otherwise I might have to let him come here for a walk, just his brain circuit that ventilates back and forth... That scene is not very good. Good imagination.

After the question and answer session, Minato and I sang together, and everything that should be explained has been explained.The third generation bit his lips and bit his cigarette, his unhappy mood gathered into a small but raised pimple between his brows—"I see," said the middle-aged man who changed his steady body into a dignified one, "I I'll keep an eye on this, don't worry."

So this matter has a good beginning, whether it can have a good end or not is no longer up to me to decide.I know that the third generation may not be able to talk to the person himself, Kakashi, but right now Kakashi is about to go to the Uchiha tribe, and the meeting with the third generation seems to be out of the question right now. As for the schedule, it is very convenient for me to talk to Kakashi.

"Huh?" After listening to me, Kakashi's exposed eyes hung up as I expected, "You want me to lie to Hokage?"

Fuck, what a big hat?

I hurriedly stepped forward to cover his mouth that seemed a little too direct at this time, turned my face straight, imitating Chun Riqing's daily expression, and said solemnly: "Hatake Kakashi, what are you talking about? How can I do this?" Is it called deception? I call it strategic...strategic contingency measures! I call it a curve to save the country!"

The way he looked at me changed immediately—the specific change was probably from looking at children smoking, drinking, burning their heads and fighting, to "I didn't expect Yasaka Terukawa, you thick eyebrows and big eyes, to do this to me." ".

I responded head-on to his gaze without changing my face, until he couldn't hold back this strange and affectionate gaze at first, and turned his face away sleepily.

I couldn't help feeling: "It turns out that relying on the thickness of the skin to succeed is so disgusting that others will also feel the thrill of victory."

Decided, I will try more in the future, especially for a thin-skinned and serious person like Kakashi.

Kakashi: "..."

Kakashi: "Yasaka Terukawa, I advise you to be a human being."

After a while, Kakashi suddenly asked, "Yasaka Terukawa, did you plan it long ago?"

"Huh? How do you say it?" I looked away from the medical notes in my hand and turned to look at him.

"You discharged Chun Riqing from the hospital yesterday."

"Isn't it a matter of course to leave the hospital after the injury is recovered? Otherwise, he will occupy a bed after he recovers. What a waste of medical resources?"

"...You clearly know that I don't mean it." Kakashi waved his hand, and his tone began to be cold - I could hear a bit of patience from it, "Once Chun Riqing, who is on the same level as you, leaves the hospital , you are the person with the highest position in the Anbu in the hospital. In this way, according to your statement, it is completely reasonable for the so-called 'three low-level Anbu members' who participated in the mission to hand over the collected suspicious tokens to you... and the only reasonable approach."

"After all, you are the closest to them and the superior with the highest authority."

"Did you think everything through yesterday...or even yesterday? I'm not surprised, after all, you always take one step to see ten steps, but..." He stared straight at me, "I don't understand you What exactly do you want to do this time, is there anything you can’t just say? Only by submitting the exact information can it be easier for people from other departments to investigate this matter thoroughly, isn’t it?”

"And...and! And it's more than that..." He took a few steps back and forth, his steps were short and hurried, and finally he came straight towards me, "And it's much more than that. I didn't tell me before Forget it, after all, you have helped me a lot, and I can't get involved in Anbu's affairs, but what about now?"

"Now we find that this is probably far more than Anbu's matter, and now you need my help to make a statement together... In the end, you still didn't tell me anything! What do you think of me?"

"I'm the one involved!"

When the last sentence came out between his teeth, the tip of Kakashi's nose almost collided with mine.I sat on the chair in a daze, while he stood there and stared at me condescendingly, with one black and one red eyes of different colors almost bursting with flames.

"..."

I blinked, and couldn't help rubbing my chin with the back of my hand.

It's really... a deafening question.

More importantly, I really can't refute him at all. After all, everything he said is the truth - when people need to contribute, they still refuse to tell them why they are contributing. It seems really inappropriate.

Nothing is more powerful than the truth.

But... can telling all we know can urge other departments to investigate this matter thoroughly?I wish it could have been resolved so easily.

I couldn't help but sigh.

"Kakashi," I rubbed my chin again, and turned my gaze to the high sky outside the window, "It is precisely because we already know who is behind the scenes that we cannot directly tell all the information we know. Of course, the method we need is not reckless scaring, let alone frantic killing, but... but..." I secretly felt that my language skills were declining, and I tilted my head and tried my best to search my own words. , Trying to find a word that can accurately express my thoughts, "To guide. Let the three generations check it out and see it by themselves. At the same time, we must be cautious."

Protection against retaliation.I filled in the last few words coldly in my heart.It's all about self-preservation.

Having been in Anbu for a long time, it has gradually become my daily routine to meet several high-level members of Konoha Village. In the past, when I handed in tasks, I could often see those members of the elders in the office.It can be described as the overall style of painting is converging, and among them, there is Shimura Danzo who stands out with his own strange painting style and his dark temperament, which is impressive and never forgets.

Minato is an upright person, my cautious and suspicious approach should have been inconsistent with his style of painting-of course I thought so myself, but when I tried to ventilate to him with the mentality of confessing, he Without further ado, he agreed directly.

"Zhaohe, you are right." Minato's smile faded a bit.

"Some things may be more meaningful for you to do than for me to do them. This matter can be big or small. As the backbone of Konoha, I hope that at such an urgent moment of war, this matter can be resolved as much as possible." It will be a lot easier to solve it after the war." His voice paused slightly, "But my identity is more than that...Because besides that, I am still Kakashi's teacher."

"I'm Kakashi's teacher."

He stroked my hair and smiled lightly.

"Your teacher is Minakame Minato." I said, but couldn't help frowning in my heart.

...even if your teacher is Minato Namakaze.