[Hokage] Secrets of the Fathers [Fourth Generation Center]

Konoha 61

Hokage Building, Mission Hall

Genin reception area

8 o'clock sharp

"Can we pick a cleaner mission?" Uzumaki Naruto stood on the back of the chair and pointed at the scrolling large screen.

"There can't be any tasks on the screen that don't get dirty clothes." Sasuke sat on the chair, crossed his legs, and looked at the new clothes that Naruto had not changed into for the third day. They were nothing like what he usually wore. A very different orange jacket.

"Look again, it's not dirty from yesterday's mission." Naruto scratched his head, "These are new clothes that my father bought for me when he rarely goes shopping with me. You have to keep them fresh for two days."

Sasuke was worried about how Naruto showed off from time to time. He wanted to blurt out several times that my father never went shopping with me and never bought me anything, but all the clothes I wore were sewn by my mother. She was very capable. You should also ask your mother to sew it for you.But Sasuke felt that after all, he was not a poor child who couldn't speak but had a brain. These words were so hurtful that he couldn't say them out.

But our young master Naruto, who always has a big heart, will never notice the small kindness. He is still there, "moving bricks, weeding, leveling the land, planting trees, digging sewers, leaving it to the genin's internal public affairs." The tasks are always like this, dirty, tiring and cumbersome.”

"No one will pay for ninja services for tasks that are not dirty, tiring, and labor-intensive. It has been made clear in the school for a long time that because all the able-bodied laborers have gone to work as ninjas to defend their homeland, a large number of genin are needed. Help everyone deal with the trouble." Sakura on the side was not in the mood to pay attention to Naruto today, but she really couldn't bear to chatter, "Anyway, pick one quickly, otherwise only Konoha canteen will be left again, I don't want to spend the whole day Peel potatoes.”

"It's better to peel potatoes than to clear the sewer." Naruto sighed, and finally clicked on a task, "How about cleaning the swimming pool? It's almost summer. There are many tasks like this. You see, the income from this job is really considerable."

"Hundreds of D-level missions haven't taught you the right lesson. Income is usually directly proportional to the level of trouble. But I guess no one will watch this mission. You can take off your new clothes and do it shirtless." Xiao Sakura quickly made a decision, turned her head, and waved her hand, "Teacher Yamato, wake up, we have chosen a mission.

But Yamato still leaned far away from the corner and slept with his head down.

"It seems that he has been tortured to a certain extent during this period." Sasuke suddenly thought of his elder brother who also dozed off every day.

"It's normal to be tortured to nothing under Kakashi." Naruto took out a piece of paper and copied the mission number, walked across the empty seat, and poked Yamato's soft belly, "You can't go back until you accept the mission for us. You can sleep well in the dormitory without any worries."

"Oh." Yamato was startled. He picked up the mission number and went to the business window. He didn't forget to apologize when he passed by Sakura Sasuke, "I've been really busy recently."

"You are obviously busy all the time." The two genin could only understand. After all, this poor good-tempered jounin was already very pitiful when he was sent to be their teacher.

"Okay." Yamato held back a yawn and handed the mission scroll, which was still warm with ink, to Naruto, who had been following him. Then he waved his hand and disappeared in a flash of green light.

It turns out that if you watch Flying Thunder God too much, you will feel that it is just that.Sasuke secretly complained, reaching for the mission book, "As expected, the mission location is really Konoha Sanatorium. If I remember correctly, this outdoor swimming pool should be called"

"That small lake at the back of the hospital," Naruto covered his head and screamed, "so our task changed from painting tiles to cleaning algae and silt."

"Maybe I have to dig lotus roots." Sakura ignored the noise and was as calm as Sasuke, "Naruto, congratulations, you were deceived by the seniors in the mission hall again."

"Those damn thousand-year-old chuunin uncles." Naruto tore the mission book that had been sealed and reinforced, and was pulled out of the genin hut by Sakura and Sasuke. He was dragged past the bustling crowd of people who came to issue missions, until he was dragged to Konoha Hospital. Naruto was still angry on the lonely road.

"We are dragged down by you every day and we haven't said anything yet." Sasuke looked at Sakura.

"So be quiet." Sakura punched a tree trunk on the side of the road, startling a nest of magpies and flying away with their mouths.

"I'm sorry I was wrong. I will be more careful when selecting tasks next time." Our young master Naruto apologized as he was still naked, and then immediately stepped on the tall tree trunk, turned his back to the earth, stretched out his arms, and faced the sky. Taiyang, "Ah, it's so, so, so fun to compete with the uncles in the mission hall."

"Then don't complain. You have to complete the mission you chose while crawling." Sasuke threw a shuriken and knocked Naruto down. "Hurry up. The mission has a time limit. We only have 5 days."

"That's right. It doesn't take as long as five days to clean an ordinary swimming pool." Naruto knocked his head, "I should have thought of it then."

"So let me choose next time." Sasuke suggested timely.

"No, I'm willing to admit defeat." Naruto was unhappy, "Last time you all lost to me in guessing games."

"That's you being a scumbag."

"That's my strategy."

"You are really thick-skinned."

"Thank you, Cheng." Master Naruto from the Hokage family didn't mind Sasuke's comments at all.

"You." Master Sasuke of the Uchiha family was once again at a loss for words. He turned around and looked for his comrade, "Sakura."

Sakura, who has always had explosive fighting prowess, is suspected of being in a fight.

Naruto saw Sakura and Ino standing face to face on a big branch from a distance, nudging Sasuke in the waist with his elbow, "It seems like we didn't quarrel over you today."

"Don't move your hands or feet." Sasuke dodged. "And don't talk nonsense. Every time they faced each other, it wasn't because of me."

"What's the reason for that?"

"How stupid can a man be to think he can guess a woman's thoughts?"

"Your dad is still telling you this"

"I overheard my dad chatting with Hinata's dad."

"Ah, wait, is Hinata's father in love and preparing to find a stepmother for Hinata?"

"Do you have a sense of crisis?" Sasuke sighed while sighing at the jumping ability of Naruto's brain cells. "I heard my mother chatting with elder Koharu who was transferred to the dormitory and said that although the competitiveness of the fourth generation adults in Konoha's marriage market continues to decline, , but still strong.”

"What is a marriage market? It's not like looking for a laundry aunt. It's too ugly." Naruto suddenly felt sour in his heart, "I think Hinata and his father may not be talking about love when they talk about women's thoughts, maybe they are in love. Your father wants to please your mother, or Uncle Hinata wants to please his daughter. His family has two daughters and no mother is around, so it will definitely be more troublesome than a family raising a son."

"Uh-huh." Sasuke saw that Naruto was always at a loss for words when the truth was always revealed at critical moments. He quickly brought the topic back on track, "Then what do you think those two women over there are doing."

"I'm not stupid, I don't guess." Naruto looked again. He saw the flower basket and lunch box in Ino's hands, and also saw Sakura's hand that patted her rival's shoulder but was not patted down. He had some vague understanding. , "I think, happy young master Sasuke, let's go to work first, since women are not willing to clean up the mud anyway."

"Same." Sasuke shrugged and ran away with Naruto.

The two girls who stayed there also breathed a sigh of relief. They could finally talk quietly.

"Well, this is how it is now. It's very contradictory. Even my father decided to let me choose. But how did I decide which medical ninja to entrust my father to?" Yamanaka Ino gently plucked the flowers in the flower basket with her fingers, "Someone said After all, Tsunade Hime is a famous medical master for a long time. Some people say that Yakushi Kabuto is the real genius, and the people healed by Yakushi Jonin are all visible to us, but Tsunade-sama has been cured a long time ago. No longer in Konoha, there have been no medical cases to talk about in recent years. On the contrary, the fighting ability is more praiseworthy. Some people said that the fourth generation personally invited Tsunade-sama back. But someone said again that Kabuto is still the fourth generation. Your lord’s exclusive medical ninja.”

"It's really troublesome." After listening to Ino's complaint, Sakura finally realized that she was arrogant. Even if she was a promising medical ninja, she couldn't help Ino make effective judgments in this situation. Fortunately, she could still He told a joke to relax his friend, "If doctors are a profession that can judge faces, then based on the judgment of both of us, there will definitely be no problem."

"I hate it." Ino was very understanding. I'm having a serious discussion with you, "Don't make me laugh."

"Why can't you laugh?" Sakura said optimistically, "Yamanaka-sama is not seriously ill. In the worst case, he will stay in the hospital and wait for retirement. And there are advantages to not deciding. Anyway, no matter how the Yakushi Jonin and Tsunade-sama quarrel, There are two top medical ninjas in Konoha now."

"Hey, when you say that, it's true." Ino's heart suddenly dropped, "Then why do they insist on picking one to help my father treat the disease? Two female doctors insist on competing for me. Understood, but they are one male and one female, one old and one young.”

"Maybe the Medicine Master feels that Tsunade-sama's return threatens his status. Now there are rumors in the medical system that when the time comes, maybe in the next two or three years, the Fourth Generation will take care of the sanatorium that belongs to the logistics, and The medical teams belonging to the field are all assigned to Konoha Hospital and become a unified department, and Kabuto Yakushi may be the first Konoha Medical Minister."

"He's only in his early 20s." Ino rolled her eyes, "Does this prove that Hokage-sama is more optimistic about Kabuto."

"Then Hokage-sama shouldn't let Tsunade-sama come back at such a critical time." Sakura suddenly realized that the so-called politics is actually just that. "Hokage-sama called Tsunade, which proves that Hokage-sama has no respect for the Yakushi Jounin." You may not necessarily have that much confidence. After all, it is your father who is sick. When I was studying administrative planning in school, I remember the teacher said that the position of Chief of General Staff can, to a certain extent, replace the Hokage in guarding Konoha or going to Konoha during wartime. Those who command the troops from the front line.”

"So my dad is really important, but it's not war time now. He can be more important than Naruto's dad last year." Ino looked around, then whispered in Sakura's ear, "You know, I've known him since childhood. They are all high-level officials, so they know something. Last year, there were rumors all over the world that Hokage-sama was pretending to be ill and was deliberately released. Well, the fact is that the Yondaime-sama was indeed in very poor health during that time. We almost died. I have to choose the 5th generation. Of course it’s better now, otherwise I wouldn’t dare tell you. I mean, Tsunade didn’t even come back at that time.”

"Maybe Tsunade-sama's goal is too big." Sakura was so shocked by Ino's news that she didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore. The Haruno family is just an ordinary family, and she is just the daughter of an ordinary family. Thanks to the Yondaime-sama, her parents and her They are all satisfied with their current life. She does not want to, and cannot, cause unnecessary trouble to her family.

But it's rare for Ino to have a peer with whom she can communicate without any barriers. Now she needs to talk and relieve stress. "In short, I'm not worried about my dad's condition anymore. Just like you said, I'll just retire in the worst case. But, my woman My gut always told me that my dad would still be in trouble even if he retired now, and you know politics is always nasty."

"Hey, don't say such scary things." Sakura felt like her head was going to explode. She was wrong. Politics and all that was really just the same thing. "Anyway, nothing should happen. Besides, It was last year that something really happened. Don’t books always say that trouble only happens when you need to choose a new leader?”

"What you said is even more scary." Ino was also startled by Sakura's words, "How about you read less miscellaneous books at ordinary times. But you are right, he is my father, not Naruto's father, our Hokage You are now in good health, safe and happy."

"Really? In fact, last year was probably not as serious as you said." When Sakura thought about what happened to Konoha, she felt a chill running down her spine. She couldn't help hugging Ino, "Otherwise, Naruto would have I just cried. You know that Ma Daha can never hide things in his heart. Let’s stop thinking about it. If the sky falls, there will still be adults to hold it up."

"Yes." Ino also hugged Sakura. She could no longer tell whether Sakura was shaking or herself. "Let's just pretend that we didn't say anything today, okay? World peace, let's all live a good life." .”

"Well, living a good life is the most important thing."

So the two little girls who scared themselves by thinking too much were still just little girls.

The adult world is still far away from them.

Konoha 61

3:30pm

Hokage Building, Hokage Office

"It's tea time. Sir, please take a short rest."

The speaker was Shiranui Genma, who was holding a plate and a small teapot.

"Are you very free today Genma?" Namikaze Minato put down his pen. He felt that besides Kakashi, Konoha had another ninja who made him feel a strong sense of powerlessness.

"After all, there are more people at the General Staff's place than the strength." Genma put down the plate and poured tea for the Hokage, "Today I have prepared for you freshly baked cookies and special oolong ginseng tea from the Green Lake Fairy's house. Yakushi Kabuto asks you to try your best every day Have a drink to help keep your energy levels up."

The Hokage took a sip of tea, "It tastes weird."

"But to promote body fluids and nourish the stomach, you know that the annual output of this thing is not high, but the amount we received this year is enough for you to drink until next year. Kakashi has spent a lot of effort to find this, so please drink it all. Light, don’t waste it.”

The Hokage picked up a biscuit and ate it. He really wanted to eat it, but for tea, "I still prefer plain water to quench my thirst."

"Sir." Xuanjian became serious, "We can't help you if you want to get into trouble with your disciples. But if the medical nin wants you to drink, please follow the doctor's orders."

"But the taste is really weird." The Hokage glanced sideways at Genma, "Of course, I can't care if Kakashi comes to you to plead for him."

"How could he come to me to plead for mercy?" Genma cursed Kakashi in his mind and continued to persuade the Hokage to drink the medicine. "As for the taste, sir, you don't think this is really just tea."

"The taste makes me really think you are planning to poison me." The Hokage finally drank the contents of the cup, "Okay, tea time is over, you can go back to work."

"I'm just here to work." Xuanjian picked up his Qianben and opened the notebook. "Although the Chief of Staff is in the hospital, the door to the General Staff is still blocked. We think, Sir, you should take the time to go to the hospital. Qian Tsunade-sama does threaten the operation of Konoha's medical system to a certain extent."

"It's normal, what has she done?"

"He's almost driving Kabuto crazy without doing anything."

"Then I'll wait until Kabuto really plans to kill her before I go there." The Hokage said incredulously, "There's more."

The rest are all here. Genma took out a stack of folders from his arms like magic and slapped them on the Hokage's desk, "These need to be signed."

"Ok."

"There is one more." Genma poured the Hokage some more ginseng tea, then took out the folder stuck on his waist and opened it, "The canteen budget upgrade plan for the next quarter has been approved by the logistics department and verified by the General Staff. It is recommended. Hokage's office approves."

"Of course I approve, although I don't think you need to come up with this matter separately." However, the Hokage still happily signed and signed, "I have been waiting for this day for a long time. I thought I would never be able to improve the food in the cafeteria in this life."

"Me too." Xuanjian knew that there was something wrong with this idea, but he just saw his boss in a good mood, and he was also in a good mood, "Actually, this is all thanks to your economic recovery plan, otherwise"

"Hey, Genma, why did you start again." The Hokage knocked on the table, "I beg you, I will be very happy to receive praise and encouragement, but the two of us are already so familiar, some words are too much. It just feels fake.”

"I'm sorry, sir." Genma was a little disappointed. He knew what the Hokage meant, but he just couldn't restrain himself from saying good things about his boss.

"Be more confident, be more confident, you have already proven your ability." Naruto couldn't help but stand up and patted Genma's shoulders with his hands, "Not only to me, but to everyone. Do you really believe that you can be trusted by teenagers? The degree of welcome is directly proportional to ability.”

"Of course not, my lord."

"So, Shiranui Genma, I am 38 years old, okay, I am 39 years old, maybe 40 years old," the Hokage sighed, "and you are 32 years old, you are at most 7 or 8 years younger than me. Kakashi, he You've been following me since you were 6 years old, so it's normal to always act like an idiot in front of me. But you were already 17 when you became my guard captain. Listen to me, it just so happens that you and Shikaku have more frequent business contacts now, you go Tell him that you need a psychological intervention group, and he will help you arrange it, and he will absolutely guarantee not to leak any of your privacy."

Privacy means not wanting others to know, just not wanting

Shiranui Genma finally accepted the Hokage's suggestion.Even though he knew it was useless.How could he pretend that he could forget October 48th in the 10th year of Konoha? Thirteen years ago, when that huge monster was rampant in Konoha, he, as the captain of the Hokage's guard, could not do anything. He didn't do anything, he just watched the Hokage whom he swore to defend with his life to die for everyone.