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

September 61th, Konoha Year 9

It’s 5 a.m., and I still don’t see any difference from other days.

Fire Country Konoha

Hatake old house

Kakashi finally finished working for 17 consecutive hours and returned home facing the dew.He is standing at the door of his house now.The tired street lamp next to the door was burning hard, but it was still very dim at dawn when the full moon set and the morning light fell.This made Kakashi look at the door of his house even more annoying.

But the door of Hatake's old house has never been replaced. They are two large wooden boards painted darker than black, and like some special assassination tools, they are magically non-reflective.So much so, whether it is day or night, looking from a distance, it looks like a man-made rectangular cave. It is deep and quiet, and it seems that it is filled with smelly wild beasts, maybe bats, black bears, tigers and leopards, and more likely... A group of jackals with white fur, blood-red gums, and big white canine teeth with bloody grooves in their mouths.

"Don't pretend to be a ghost to scare the guards, okay?" Two red lights suddenly flashed above the dark door.

"I'll finish it soon." Kakashi took a few puffs, reluctantly stubbed out the cigarette butt in his hand, stuffed it into a nearby drainage pipe as usual, and entered the yard.

Uchiha Shisui, who had jumped off the roof, stood as straight as a telegraph pole at the door, "Next time you come back, could you please take the initiative to exchange the code with the staff on duty, Mr. Anbu, although this is your home."

"Sorry, I'm used to it." Kakashi yawned, "Any abnormal situations to report?"

"No." Hei Ganzi also stretched and moved, "It's just why you came back so late today. Nothing happened."

"All kinds of trivial things." Kakashi walked around the black pole, while his belly made a "gurgling" sound.

"I'll send someone to the cafeteria to get you something to eat."

"No, Naruto will be up in a moment." Kakashi walked into the small dining room and opened the refrigerator, "I'll just put some down first."

"But Hokage-sama didn't buy any food yesterday." Shisui looked at the empty refrigerator, and then looked at Kakashi, who suddenly bent his waist like a bean sprout, with some sympathy, "I still have two cafeteria brand soldier food pills on me. ."

Obviously, Kakashi didn't like his colleague's suggestion at all. He started rummaging through the box, "I remember there are some soda crackers."

"If you are talking about the ones with yellow packaging, Hokage-sama took Naruto out for dinner yesterday, so Gaara ate the cookies." Shisui stretched out his hand. He felt that he should stop Kakashi's useless work. There really aren't many snacks that can escape a hungry red panda's nose.

However, Kakashi still dug out half a pack of rice dumplings in the cabinet, put it in his mouth and tasted it.

Shisui took a look at the soft and wrinkled things in Kakashi's hands and couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure you can still eat it?"

"It's okay." Kakashi stopped chewing, picked up another piece and looked at it carefully. Finally, he crushed the rice cake and the bag into a ball and threw it into the trash can.

"Are you okay?" Shisui looked at Kakashi who couldn't swallow or vomit, and felt even more sympathetic.

"It's okay." Kakashi finally gritted his teeth and swallowed the strange-tasting rice cake, "You just said that the teacher and Naruto went out to eat again last night, Ichiraku."

"What else can it be?"

"Then they shouldn't have brought nothing back." Kakashi felt unwilling.

"Ahem, it turns out that the takoyaki and roasted sweet potatoes were indeed brought back for you as a midnight snack by the adults, but." Shisui wanted to laugh a little, "Master Naruto was hungry again after taking a bath yesterday, so you didn't come back."

"I'm not talking about late-night snacks." Kakashi was a little embarrassed when his thoughts were exposed. "I mean, if you don't bring breakfast back, do the two of them really want to eat in the cafeteria today?"

"I don't know about that." Shisui looked innocent, "But Gaara said when he got up in the middle of the night to find food, he thought it would be good to go to the cafeteria early in the morning, so you don't have to worry about him for breakfast in the future."

"He's getting better and better." Kakashi turned around and left the small restaurant, looked at his watch, and waved to Shisui, "Then let's all eat in the cafeteria this morning and ask for a nutritious meal for Hokage-sama. Naruto's is for him. Decide for yourself, it’s almost 5 o’clock, so the kid should be up by now.”

Of course, it was exactly 5 o'clock when Uzumaki Naruto opened his eyes, exactly one second.

But waking up doesn't mean you have to get out of bed.Anyway, Naruto rubbed his face on his father's arm, which had been pressed against his head all night, and closed his eyes again.In fact, he didn't sleep enough, probably because he chatted with his father too late yesterday.As for that, he just wanted to sleep in his father's arms today.After working hard for so long, it doesn’t matter if I’m a little lazy every once in a while and don’t go to morning exercises, right dad?

Minato's father answered his son with practical actions. The Hokage, who originally slept like a "big", turned sideways and folded into a "div" and made dumplings for his son.

So Naruto felt more at ease and crawled into his father's arms again.It was already a bit cool in the morning in mid-September in Konoha, which made Naruto feel even more warm in his father's arms, as comfortable as sleeping on a newly dried quilt in winter.Dad also smells very good. The white sweatshirt exudes a faint smell of washing powder, jasmine type.Of course, Naruto also liked the smell of his father who was too lazy to wash his feet before going to bed without taking off his clothes. It was a bit sour in the beginning, but it would become a bit smelly in the morning. Such a charming man, he even smelled like stinky socks. The same father and son are father and son.

Although it feels weird.

Naruto thought that Uzumaki Naruto might really be a little monster, even if he didn't have the guy named Kyuubi in his body.Because as far as he knows, other people's children will not be so shameless as to walk hand in hand with their father at the age of 14, nor will they sleep with their father every chance they get, nor will they smell the smell of their father's and their own socks like a puppy. .

But, so what if he just likes to smell it? At least based on Naruto's 14 years of life experience, when the fourth-generation Hokage, who always pays attention to image, can ignore his personal image, it means that his father, poor Namikaze Minato, My husband can finally have a good sleep at home. If he is lucky, he can play with his son for a long time after waking up.

Thinking of this, Naruto couldn't help but rub his father's arm again.His father, in recent years, has rarely accompanied him to run and roll on the lawn.It even seemed like I hadn’t seen him doing morning exercises for a year or two.Naruto still remembers that in those years before he was asked to get up early, it was really refreshing to rub his eyes and climb out of bed in the morning to watch his father kick Kakashi in the backyard.

"Since you are awake, why don't you stay in the teacher's arms all the time?"

Naruto opened his eyes, and sure enough he saw Kakashi squatting on the ground like a shit, staring at him with a gray mouse eye, "What are you looking at?"

"You look ugly." Kakashi sighed softly, "You are already 14 years old, and you are still sleeping with your father in your arms. I am so ashamed of you."

"What's wrong with my son sleeping with me in his arms? Isn't he sleeping like this since he was a child?"

Kakashi looked at Naruto's angry and unconvinced look, and really wanted to pull this dead child out of the teacher's arms, "I told you, your dad's sleep quality is not good recently, don't disturb him."

"But my dad sleeps soundly even though he sleeps with me. If you don't believe it, look at it." Naruto reached out and poked his dad's soft belly, "He's in [-]% deep sleep. He won't wake up without an alarm clock."

"Okay." Seeing this, Kakashi could only admit again that his biological son was different. "Let me inform you that this morning the whole family ate in the cafeteria and ordered a nutritious meal for your father. What do you want to eat?"

"Ichiraku."

"Do you understand human language? Canteen."

"Ah, whatever." Naruto suddenly became impatient, "You are very annoying. You told dad to sleep well, and you still go to the cafeteria. Just know that in the cafeteria, if dad and I don't cook, Kakashi can't help. Can everyone make breakfast?"

Kakashi just wanted to look up to the sky and sigh, "I dare to do it, how dare you eat it. More importantly, there is nothing in the refrigerator."

A moment of silence.

"Haha, it seems that it was indeed my turn to buy groceries yesterday. Haha, I was going to buy some after Ichiraku." Naruto smiled dryly.

Kakashi sighed again, "Let me know before you forget next time. You can't order the market to open early just for a few vegetables."

"But the food in the cafeteria is really terrible." Naruto glanced at his father who was still sleeping soundly, "Especially the nutritious meals."

"You grew up as a child, and now you are in good health."

"Look, you also think it tastes bad." Naruto sighed, let go of his father's arm, sat up and jumped out of bed lightly, "Forget it, I'll go to the Konoha cafeteria to find an acquaintance to get some food."

"You've really become familiar with those old guys recently." Under Naruto's disdainful gaze, Kakashi watched him put on clothes and wash his face, watched him cover the teacher with a quilt, and watched him walk out the door. .Then Kakashi yawned, looked at the still bright sky outside, and decided to catch up on some sleep before breakfast.So he took off his coat and looked at the place where Naruto had just slept and the small sofa next to it.

Finally, he sat on the sofa and raised his head.

The second hand ticks, and the horse's hooves are just a little bit past 8 o'clock.

"Kakashi, why didn't you wake me up on time?" Hokage, who had finished a wonderful breakfast with his son and disciple in a daze, finally realized that he was late for work again.

"Because I fell asleep too." Kakashi soothed, "Don't worry, teacher, you don't have any meetings scheduled for the whole morning."

"There is no meeting, but I have a meeting."

"It's not normal for a busy Hokage to have a meeting or something, drink tea, etc." Kakashi helped the teacher arrange his hair and forehead protector, and glanced at Naruto who was clearing away the dishes with some complaints.

"Look what my son is doing." The Hokage waved away the hand of his disciple who wanted to help him adjust his collar. "Naruto did not wake us up on time, but there is no such thing as asking the Hokage to get up in the little genin's duty list. And it's stuck. Cassie, it’s obviously your job to clean up the kitchen and wash the pots and dishes.”

"Yes, yes, mine." Kakashi turned back and gritted his teeth at the toothy golden hedgehog, "Naruto, quickly wipe your hands and change clothes. Your father will take you directly to the Hokage Tower. Leave the rest alone. I come"

"Then please." Naruto was still polite in front of his father.He wiped his hands on the rag, picked up his ninja bag and put on his shoes when his father held his hand.Then there was a familiar golden light, and he was surrounded by the respectful greetings of Sasuke and Yamato-sensei.

Naruto

Mission Hall

"Okay, Master Naruto, your father has left. Can you quietly turn back into a cute little genin?" Sasuke geared up.

"Why, the second son of the Uchiha family is so envious and jealous?" Naruto also moved his neck and made a creaking sound.

However, Mr. Yamato, who has always been steady, would not let his team become the focus of the crowd again. He held his head with one hand and said, "You two, I will go to another place to gather for missions later. You guys hurry up and choose missions. It doesn't matter if I'm a little late." , the good tasks have been snatched up by other teams, so you can only continue to clean up the sewer sludge."

"Okay, okay, Konoha's logistics department lacks strong labor." Sasuke muttered and stretched out his fist.

"And Konoha Hospital, which lacks female medic-nin." Naruto complained and extended his fist, "Actually, it's useless to rush to pick one. The team of kunoichi and medic-nin was borrowed, so there won't be any good ones anyway. Work."

"Stop talking nonsense." Yamato felt that tree leaves were almost coming out of his fingertips.

But the two genin remained calm, slowly fighting fist against fist, paper against paper, and scissors against scissors.Finally, today's winner is Uchiha Sasuke.Sasuke walked towards the genin mission area and picked up the mission list calmly. It wasn't until a few seconds before Yamato was about to kick his ass that he copied the mission number and came back.

Well, the boring daily life of Konoha genin is about to begin again.

And the boring daily life of Konoha Hokage over there is also continuing.

Naruto

Naruto Office

lounge

Uchiha Fugaku sat on the Hokage's small sofa and rubbed his shoulders.

"Ah, something happened this morning. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long." The Hokage personally served tea to the former security minister who had to stand at the door of the office for at least 20 minutes.

"You didn't fall asleep again, did you?" Fugaku narrowed his eyes, suspicious of the Hokage's unusual enthusiasm, "You have always been known to be considerate in everything."

"Ahem, something really happened. I originally thought Itachi would ask you to wait for me in the lounge first." The Hokage advised him to drink tea, "But I forgot that Itachi worked overtime last night and will catch up on his sleep at home this morning."

"Then you might as well admit that you fell asleep." Fugaku sighed and took a sip of the Hokage's tea, "Hey, it really has ginseng added, good stuff. I heard what you just said, Kakashi got a lot for you."

"Yeah, do you want to take some back?" The Hokage, who had forgotten his son and let his father go, became even more enthusiastic.Firstly, he is indeed a little sorry; secondly, he no longer wants to drink this bitter and sour stuff every day.

"That would be disrespectful." Of course Fugaku would not be polite at all.There should be some compensation for letting him, a disabled person, stand until his body was stiff. Moreover, even if he was the leader of the Uchiha clan, the largest clan in Konoha, he would not be able to get something good from the Lord's Palace as conveniently as the Hokage.

Seeing that Fu really wanted it, Minato quickly pulled out a large piece of official paper, poured out the whole jar, wrapped it and handed it over.

Fugaku twitched his lips and took the big paper bag, looking at the empty can.

"You go home and find a jar to put it in." Minato quickly placed the jars as they were, "The tea leaves are gone, so I can say that I drank them all. If the jar is gone, Kakashi and the others will have to miss it again."

"You look like you hate ginseng tea."

"The more I drink, the more it tastes weird."

"Don't worry about the taste of tea with health-preserving functions." Fugaku smacked his lips. He looked at Minato's recently "radiant" face and gently stuffed the tea paper bag into his sleeve, "You are as difficult as ever. Serve.”

"No, it's just that people with good hands and feet won't drink this kind of stuff every day." Minato looked at Fugaku's careful sleeves and wanted to laugh, "You can come to me to get it after you finish drinking it. There are still several cans at home."

"Haha, Kakashi couldn't have emptied the King's Palace, right?" Fugaku sipped his tea, "That's really generous."

"Although I don't like it, it's really wasteful to let it rot in the warehouse." The Hokage also took a water glass and sat on the bed beside him. "Okay, after chatting, come and report to me. You were so anxious to make an appointment last night. What conspiracy do I have?"

"Oh, I thought you knew." Fugaku put down the cup.

"I'm not a roundworm in your belly." Naruto smiled.

"Stop being stupid."

"Hey, you were obviously the one who pretended first." The Hokage stretched out his arms and lay down on the small bed in the lounge, "If you were really stupid, you wouldn't have come to me so nervously early in the morning, and you wouldn't have waited until I arrived. Don’t leave.”

Fugaku also relaxed his body, "Who told you to offend a menopausal old kunoichi? She scolded you from head to toe at the door of your office yesterday. I don't think I have ever heard of it."

"Just scold me. She can't do anything except scold me for any trivial matter."

"A thousand-mile dike breaks in an ant nest. Don't be arrogant and think that if the Elders cooperate with you now, they will always cooperate with you Minato Namikaze. You have to understand how many people are watching your every move, word and deed."

Minato stretched his legs, "Speaking of Fugaku, now that you have finally retired safely and can have some time for yourself, why don't you spend more time with your family and do something meaningful? Look at Yamanaka Haiichi, he can plant flowers and grass at home and then help The Nara family is feeding deer, and the Hokage Tower has not even passed by since he retired."

"There are only a few people in their Yamanaka family. If a person with a big business like us Uchiha has a lot of talk, you can see how dare he be lazy."

"People talk too much." Hokage smacked his lips and turned over to sit up. He looked at the two increasingly long lines under Fugaku's eyes. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that Fugaku was the elder. "It seems that you have been under a lot of pressure recently. Today You’re not coming to me for support, are you?”

"I'm here to confirm whether the stupid Hokage's ability to govern Konoha has declined." Fugaku continued to rub his numb right shoulder.

"It's hard to be an official who retired due to illness and has no power. His family status has plummeted." Minato smiled.

"Don't compare me to you." Fugaku continued rubbing, "I'm not that useless as a potential Alzheimer's risk person."

"Someone who would become paralyzed and incontinent before seeing me unlucky has no right to say that."

Fugaku grimaced.

Minato was amused by the cold air around Fugaku, and then sighed, "Don't worry, Itachi has grown up, although he is not mature enough. As for now, the powerful golden flash just gave you beautiful tea that represents strong friendship, I’ll make out with you at the door when I leave later.”

Fugaku sighed and stood up, looking at Namikaze Minato's sunny smile, he finally endured the goosebumps and angry fists all over the place.

Commitment is another kind of longing

Konoha 61

This day is the 004086th day that Konoha jounin Uchiha Fugaku, numbered 386, officially retired.As usual, he was heating food for his son, delivering food to his wife, washing dishes at home, and wandering around in Konoha boredly.

This day is the 009720th year since Kakashi Hatake, the Jounin of Konoha, numbered 30, came to this world.As usual, when he couldn't go home to eat, he would occasionally receive bento boxes from the Hokage Guards.But today, the bento he received was a bit strange. There were two tea eggs buried under the bowl of handmade noodles that were obviously Hokage style. Also, the noodles were only one long one.But unfortunately, Kakashi only discovered it after he had already bitten it off.