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

The 19th hour after Uchiha Fugaku's death

This calendar is still sticking to its post on the 17th, just like paying tribute to all those who can't get off work when they get off work.

But Nara Shikaku is not among them today.He rarely changed out of his jounin uniform, put on casual clothes, and walked onto the streets of Konoha.The streets of Konoha were as noisy as ever during off-duty hours, and the further away from the Hokage Tower, the more noisy they became.There is no way, even if a teenager is alone, he still has to make a lot of noise and run around, not to mention looking up, there are groups of hairy-headed people everywhere. What the most energetic young ninjas who have no idea of ​​saving at all are like After getting the task fee, I started shopping, buying, eating, eating, loving, loving.

Of course, this is never a bad thing. No matter how it is disguised, ninjas are still humanoid weapons that work for their lives. Carpe diem can at least avoid the embarrassment of not spending all the money after death.Likewise, this is also a bad thing. Lu Jiu sighed and put away his wallet, picked up two cans of beer from the freezer, smelled the smell of barbecue and walked out of his favorite restaurant with indignation. There was no space, no space, no space, but he just wanted to drink. Let's take a drink to relax. You jounin, chuunin and genin who don't know how to respect your elders, don't any of you have the eyesight to offer a small private room to the Minister of Intelligence? Is it because I don't speak up because I don't need it? Assholes, you think you have it now? How did you come to live a happy life with food, drink, medicine, and burial?Just relying on your daily tasks and fearless hacking and killing is not enough for us old guys to work hard for you from morning to night.

"Ka." Lujiu tore open a can of beer, took two sips, and walked forward while thinking about who to find next to take a few sips with him.After ruling out the option of blowing air at the commemorative monument, Akimichi Dingza is far away at the border, and Yamanaka Haiichi is currently recuperating and giving up drinking.Namikaze Minato and his Yondaime-sama were probably busy. Although Shikaku felt that rather than being busy, the first thing Minato should do was to find a friend to drink and chat to relieve stress.It's a pity that Shikaku doesn't think that friend should be him.Nara Shikaku can use his body to shield him the knife without hesitation, and he can also hand over his back to Namikaze Minato without hesitation in the battle, but it cannot be done in the drinking hall. A boss talking nonsense in front of his subordinates is trust, but the subordinates are Talking drunkenly in front of your boss is asking for death.After all, ninja is a class society through and through. In a class society, loyalty has always been the most important criterion for superiors to select subordinates, but of course it is not the only criterion.It's just that the standard loyalty that a superior considers is always just the kind of loyalty he wants his subordinates to show.So, "Shikaku called Shikamaru."

"Dad" Shikamaru's doubts came from the Flying Thunder God's communicator.

"Are you off work? I don't have any tasks tonight."

"No, I'm heading home. Is there no soy sauce at home?"

"I'm on the billboard of the second building on the south side of the fifth intersection at two o'clock in the Hokage Building. Dad will take you out to eat today."

"My birthday is on the 22nd."

"You were born a few days late." Shikaku smacked his head, feeling that he was so lucky. Fugaku messed him up and he almost forgot his son's birthday, "Yes, that's it. According to the expected date of delivery, today is your birthday."

"Dad, are you angry or stimulated outside?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? I will celebrate you at home on the 22nd. I am free today to celebrate you alone. You celebrate your birthday twice. What are you dissatisfied with?" Lu Jiu drank the beer in his hand in one gulp. "Waiting for you, come here quickly."

"But dad, have you and mom reported it?"

"A manly man, what's the matter with eating out once in a while?"

"Dad, you didn't drink it, did you?"

"" Lu Jiu flattened the empty can, looked at the full can in his hand, and thought about whether he should waste a handful and destroy the corpse, or drink it without wasting it.

"Okay, I understand. I'll be there right away. It's really troublesome."

Shikaku listened as Shikamaru hung up the communication, then immediately kicked away the empty iron sheet and opened another can of beer.Now that his son is here, he no longer has to worry about his wife discovering him drinking secretly, so why should he waste food.

"In the most difficult times, even having enough food is my wish."

Hokage Building Hokage Office

lounge

"Teacher, it's time for dinner." Kakashi opened the lunch box and put the bowls and chopsticks on the small coffee table one by one. "If you eat Ichiraku all day long, you cannot guarantee your energy consumption and nutritional intake. I ordered the canteen, assorted eggs Rice, fried vegetables and radish, tofu and kelp soup.”

Minato nodded and continued to sit at his desk and read documents, "You eat first."

"I ate when you asked me to eat first an hour ago." Kakashi frowned, walked over, put the rice bowl directly on the desk, and then went straight back to the lounge.

The Hokage instantly smelled the familiar smell of the cafeteria. He sighed and felt the chakra around him.The nearest Anbu on duty was several steps outside the corridor, so he had no choice but to carry the obstructing bowl back to the lounge. "I'm not too hungry yet."

"Then take a rest first and stop trying to get rid of all the documents in one go." Kakashi handed over a hot towel.

Minato looked at the small sofa with soft pillows at his feet, and then at Kakashi who looked attentive, but he still couldn't withstand the temptation.He sat down and covered his face with a hot towel. A faint voice came out from under the towel, "Instead of thinking about how to please me more diligently, why not do more serious things? Well, maybe I will do it because of this." Feeling better."

"For example," Kakashi breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward to help the teacher massage his forehead.

"Work."

"I've already processed all the Anbu's files today. I've also sorted the files on your desk into categories for you. I've even written down the outlines. Unless something unexpected happens again, I"

"Then go to the mission hall to pick up a mission." The Hokage interrupted the disciple, "Looking for a cat and walking a dog is also work."

"Of course it's also work." Kakashi confirmed, "But that's not what Anbu should do. You just finished scolding Genma in the afternoon."

So Minato stopped talking and continued to enjoy his disciple's service with his eyes narrowed.

And Kakashi also massaged carefully, from his forehead to his scalp to his shoulders and neck. Until Kakashi felt that the teacher had completely relaxed, he said softly, "I want to talk to you. We have been together for a long time." There is no longer a good, frank, rational and peaceful discussion.”

"Are you sure?" Minato's voice was still muffled, "Although there is no belt from your father in the office, the stool still has four legs."

Kakashi felt his hair stand on end and his thighs tightened. The wound that was pulled out by the belt at noon also became hot again. He bit the bullet and whispered softly, "Teacher, I am serious."

"Me too." Minato lifted the towel from his face and threw it to Kakashi, and began to pick up the rice with chopsticks.

"Chew slowly".

Minato slowed down.

Kakashi washed the towel and started cracking walnuts.

Minato licked his chopsticks.

Kakashi put down the four intact walnut kernels and gently cleaned the table, "Fortunately Itachi isn't here today, otherwise I wouldn't have enough walnuts for him to eat."

Minato glanced sideways at Kakashi and continued to eat.When the steak is almost done, pour the soup into the bowl and the walnuts into the bowl.

Seeing this, Kakashi quickly put the bowl aside, "How many times have the medical ninjas told you that if you want to avoid stomachaches in the future, you have to change all these bad habits."

"Rice and vegetables, soup and walnuts all have almost the same taste. How can we eat them if they don't come together."

"The cafeteria has put a lot of effort into cooking recently. You are just doing this purely psychologically." Kakashi put the bowl in the lunch box, took out the cafeteria brand fruit and vegetable juice, and swallowed his complaint that Naruto didn't say he didn't like eating in the cafeteria before. , you haven’t eaten it every day for so many years without saying anything.

"what did you say"

"I didn't speak."

& nb

sp;silence.

Minato took the colorful hot juice and went back to his desk to continue approving documents.

Kakashi acted like he was still the captain of the Hokage's guard. He cleaned the table, washed the dishes, swept the floor and took out the trash. Occasionally, he helped the Hokage deliver urgent documents, but most of the time he spent silently witnessing the changes in the sky, the rising and setting of the moon, and standing guard. .Standing guard sounds boring as hell.You need to have ears and ears to isolate all unauthorized intruders, or you need to look in all directions to treat everyone who comes to see the Hokage as a potential danger and carefully look for trouble.Yes, Kakashi liked the innocent feeling brought by the game of find fault.More importantly, protecting important people is much better than squatting in a dark basement and having a headache how to reasonably allocate bloody and insidious little tasks that are not on the table.

"clatter."

Kakashi suddenly appeared and approached the window, "I feel a trace of strange chakra that is deliberately hidden approaching, Yondaime-sama, please be alert."

But the Hokage looked at his disciple like he was crazy, "I remember I didn't hit you on the head at noon. Stop playing and open the window."

"Oh." Kakashi slowly opened the window alertly, and a black cat-face mask jumped in and saluted the Hokage on one knee, with his hands raised, "Sir, new information summary."

The Hokage nodded and waved.

Kakashi handed the scroll to the teacher, frowned and closed the window, "Why did something happen over there?"

"Kakashi, roots belong to ANBU. Roots and ANBU have never been in a competitive relationship. I hope you can not only say this to your subordinates, but also do this and do it." The Hokage rolled the scroll and read it. Looking at the watch, it was more than 8 o'clock but not yet 9 o'clock. "Go and see if my little red-eyed rabbit is up."

Kakashi didn't go, he took out the Flying Thunder God Communication and communicated instantly, "Coordinates of the Hokage's office."

As soon as they arrived, Uchiha Shisui was already standing outside the door.

Kakashi opened and closed the door.

Shisui stood at attention and saluted.

"Because some idiot didn't anticipate the extraordinary mobility of a genius Jonin, we need to temporarily go out on the field." The Hokage nodded towards Shisui, opened the equipment cabinet and started to equip it, "The target location is on the edge of the wind and fire border desert, and the target person , Uchiha Itachi."

"Yes, sir." Shisui checked the equipment on his body, thought for a while, and took out two sand cloaks from the cabinet.

"It only took a day for Itachi to reach the border. I thought it was rare for him to go out for fun. It takes three to five days to reach the border, hahaha." The idiot Kakashi scratched his face, feeling a little embarrassed, "He is really fast. .”

"And he has already solved the S-class assassination mission you selected for him to try to keep him away from Konoha temporarily." The Hokage said calmly, "Of course, this is not a big problem. The big problem is that he deliberately avoided it. He killed the ANBU of Konoha, yes, he was the person you sent to pick him up. Kakashi, why do you think Itachi was so anxious to complete a task that lasted at least half a month in one day and didn't follow the rules to report it?"

"I'm sorry, teacher, my mistake." Kakashi lowered his head.

"Fortunately, I was worried and asked the intelligence department and Gen to follow me separately. Otherwise, Itachi would have discovered something was wrong and came back secretly. Who knows what would have happened." Minato rubbed his forehead, feeling that the nerves there were jumping again. It hurts.

"Sorry." Kakashi didn't look up.

"No, my fault." Minato sighed and reached out to rub Kakashi's hair. The hair was still stiff and felt good to the touch. "Kakashi, my only disciple, we should really find a chance to have a good talk. Raise your head. Come on, I don’t like seeing the back of your head.”

Kakashi raised his head and stopped talking. He silently picked up a cloak, but was held down by the Hokage, "Konoha has a general staff, Mikoto has roots, and the security system and the Uchiha family intelligence department are also keeping an eye on it. Itachi is here, Shisui and I. We will try our best to solve the problem as soon as possible and get back before dawn. Don’t worry, Itachi is only an adult no matter how powerful he is. Talk to him properly. Even if you tell him everything truthfully, I don’t think he will take it easy. He misunderstood the village and me. Promising his mother to keep him away from Konoha is no different from me rushing over to find him now. It's just that someone is talking nonsense in front of him. This time the enemy is very cunning. He doesn't even know who he is. .As for you, stay behind, keep an eye on Gen and the Intelligence Department, and then keep an eye on Naruto and Sasuke for me wholeheartedly. I don’t want any more accidents to happen, do you understand?"

"Yes."

"Answer me loudly, 009720."

"Yes, sir." Kakashi watched the teacher leave with Shisui, listening to his own voice echoing in the empty office, and countless fragments of images flashed through his mind.The happy and unhappy ones, the gains and losses, the warm and painful ones, those pasts that could not be forgotten no matter how hard he tried, finally got into his body again, until they were distorted and condensed into a body with gloomy eyes. An annoying, unsociable little silver-haired genin.Kakashi didn't like this silver-haired little genin. He was just a little loser who could only watch everything happen but couldn't do anything to help. That was definitely not Kakashi.Hatake Kakashi should obviously be a trustworthy silver-haired young man who has always followed that golden light, never left behind.

The wind is cool at night and the leaves are rustling.

Starting from Konoha of the Country of Fire, the continuous tall ancient trees become sparser and sparse, until they turn into dwarf trees, shrubs, weeds, desert, and until you see the endless yellow sand, the border of the Country of Wind has arrived. .The place is sparsely populated, but goods are exchanged very frequently. Naturally, there are many thieves, horse bandits, and dangerous rebellious ninjas who do not want to live or want to live for various reasons.

Although the rebel ninjas were a little stupid.

Uchiha Itachi really didn't want to think this way, because such a mentality would make him unconsciously underestimate the enemy, which was a taboo, but since he received Kakashi's temporary transfer order at midnight yesterday, he had been running at high speed for half the night and the entire day. , I was so thirsty that I remembered that there was an oasis here. Who would have thought that he had not been out in the field for more than a year, and the oasis had changed. Nomura was not on any map of the Country of Fire or the Country of Wind.In fact, if you become Nomura, just become Nomura. But rebel ninjas, you are all being hunted. Is it necessary to be stupid enough to gather in the same place to eat and drink? In the past, when no one opened hotels or restaurants, no one really starved to death. How about dying of thirst?

Anyway, it was now a full hour since Itachi Uchiha arrived at the border.He lurked at the entrance of the village and saw at least 8 heads of some value in this hour. However, he only hunted the fifth one today, which was his mission target, the A-level Iwa Ninja in the bag in his hand. The traitorous ninja is not bad in strength, but he is stubborn as hell and will not accept my recruitment from Konoha. So please don't be careless and become Konoha's debt of gratitude to Iwa ninja.

Yes, don’t blame society if you don’t remember the idea.

Itachi shrugged, jumped onto a new roof full of solar water vats, drank water, ate dry food, tightened his cloak, put away his furoshiki, calculated the direction of the moonlight, and hid in the shadows for about an hour. Then I chose a good posture and closed my eyes.Although he had decided to return to Konoha as soon as possible, he had not yet learned how to fly the Thunder God. In other words, the return trip could only take another day and half a night.It is the duty of the ace elite ninja to maintain perfect combat effectiveness at all times even when tired.

But soon, Itachi opened his eyes again. He couldn't sleep at all, he wasn't sleepy at all, and as soon as he calmed down, the feeling of panic reappeared in his heart. Although the task given by the AN Minister was sudden, it was still reasonable. There are not enough manpower for civilians, and the time is tight for departure. He is probably the only internal civilian who can leave Konoha at any time to do S-level tasks. Moreover, it is indeed him who keeps yelling at Kakashi to find an opportunity. It's for fun in the field.However, Itachi thought again of the ANBU who seemed to be following him since he left the village. Maybe Itachi grabbed his furoshiki, arranged his shoes, leggings and weapons, and finally flew out of Nomura under the moonlight.The sixth sense that had saved his life countless times was trying to tell him that he should go back now. If it was too late, it might be too late.As for what was too late?

Itachi really didn't know.

Know or not, what happened has happened

September 61th, Konoha Year 9, mid-month

The 23th hour after Uchiha Fugaku's death