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

The morning dew is faint, the moon is about to fall

Fire Country Konoha Uchiha Station

This is the residential area in Konoha farthest from the Hokage Tower. Ever since Konoha decided to build a village, the Uchiha family has moved here.At the beginning, this place was far from being a complete piece. Only the innermost Uchiha main house was built, which was the home of the Uchiha clan leader and the gathering place for the clan.After that, other members of the Uchiha tribe also came to live here one after another. Depending on the distance of their blood relationship, three parents or several generations of grandparents, they built their own residences around the main house.After that, after another 60 years of reproduction, some houses were re-expanded due to the prosperity of their children and grandchildren, and some were bulldozed or confiscated together with the property in the house due to lack of inheritance or disrepair.This is really a bit sorry for the deceased, but this is the Uchiha family's survival law, dedication and sacrifice, regardless of personal interests, everything is for the continuation of the family.Even if there are indeed many conflicts between several generations in this family, the tribesmen and tribesmen are inevitably like other living creatures, stumbling and even breaking their heads over trivial matters.

But this is home.

Uchiha Itachi was standing at the door of his home, staring blankly at the large open space in front of the door that was occasionally used for gatherings. He was holding the thin folder given to him by the Hokage in his hand, waiting.Waiting for another Hokage guard captain holding the same folder, waiting for him to bring several ANBU with the same surname Uchiha to capture all the other Uchiha people in front of him, to ensure that he, the quasi-clan leader, can deal with them one by one. Those who may affect his smooth succession to the position of patriarch.After all, the previous clan leader had not had time to truly announce his successor, and in the history of Uchiha, not every clan leader was the son of the previous clan leader. Itachi himself had received such field assassination missions in recent years.

But why are there always disobedient members in every family? Just like Itachi has never understood why there are rebellious ninjas in every ninja village, no matter how big or small.But Itachi knew very well why the Hokage provided him with a must-kill list so soon after his father's death.One is that there are several people who have always been opposed to his father's family policies in recent years, that is to say, they are opposed to the fourth generation Hokage.Second, there are still a few people who simply oppose Uchiha Itachi becoming the clan leader.

Speaking of the name Uchiha Itachi, there are still many admirers, and distance brings beauty.But the real eldest son of the Uchiha family, who had been praised as a genius since childhood, was not very likable.He was strong and proud. Others went to school at the age of six, but he had already become a ninja at the age of six. Others might not be able to become genin after graduating at the age of twelve or thirteen, but he was already the acting squad leader of the ANBU under the Yondaime Hokage.Yes, Itachi is the legendary "other people's child".As "someone else's child", Itachi said that the two words he hated the most were trash and boring conversations. What he never bothered to do was talk to trash.But unfortunately, the Uchiha family actually has quite a lot of waste.

Therefore, Itachi sighed and looked at the clansmen in front of him who all had gray hair and were easily caught from their sleep by the red-eyed ANBU whenever they spoke in a dazzling way. He did not want to imagine the day when someone else became the clan leader.In this way, he was completely unable to refuse Lord Hokage's kindness.After all, it is more convenient to evaporate a few "traitors who want to use the death of the clan leader to plot a rebellion against Konoha" in the name of the Hokage than to exclude dissidents from the new clan leader and ascend to power.

"Lord Patriarch, please forgive me for overstepping." A young ANBU with red eyes beside Itachi slowly rolled the commas in his eyes. He thought Itachi couldn't do it, "You may not be sure what the old Lord Patriarch can suppress. The nights are long and the dreams are many. These Keeping the old guy will be a disaster."

Itachi wanted to say that he was just thinking about how to make it easier to kill people and collect their bodies.But in the end he just nodded.Then he matched the limp or angry people in front of him with the list in his hand one by one. He decided that it would be more convenient to set a fire, so as not to have his brothers move the corpses around.So soon, Itachi's pupils turned faster. He upgraded the commonly used one-magatama to the three-magatama that he rarely had the chance to use. He just swept the faces of the people in front of him, and in an instant, black flames It burst into flames, and in a short time, several living people were reduced to piles of black ashes.

"Hiss." The red-eyed Anbu who were watching saw the person who was alive and kicking just now turned into ashes. They took a breath and bowed on one knee to their new leader.

However, Itachi frowned. Of course, it was not a matter of etiquette, but because there were still a few unfinished ash left in the gaps between the stone bricks, "Let's clean it up."

"Yes, Lord Patriarch." The young Uchiha who had just spoken to persuade Itachi immediately stood up and greeted the others who were holding brooms to get brooms and those who were carrying water to carry water.

It was quiet and busy.

Uchiha Shisui, who finally watched the whole scene, breathed a sigh of relief. He stepped forward and handed Itachi a cigarette, "Do you want to smoke?"

Itachi shook his head in refusal.He looked at the dog-face mask who was also the captain of the Hokage Guards and had commas in his red eyes, and finally asked the question he had been wanting to ask for a long time, "I thought I was mistaken when I saw your eyes last time. You are also a member of our Uchiha clan. "?"

"What do you think?" Shisui lit his cigarette, "Uchiha is not the only one in Konoha who has the Sharingan."

Itachi wanted to ask, senior, do you have a good friend like Kakashi who is willing to give you his eyes? If so, maybe I know him.But in the end, all Itachi could say was "oh".

A moment of silence.

"Ah, that's right. By the way, the technique you just performed was really cool." Seeing that Itachi stopped talking, Shisui could only speak by himself. After all, he still had a task to complete, which was to help Naruto assess the mental state of "that kid" .Although Shisui felt that he had more confidence in Itachi's nerves than Naruto, "Is it a new technique?"

"No." Itachi regretted after saying these two words. What he actually wanted to say was that this technique is called Amaterasu. If you can't avoid it, everything can be burned. He learned it by himself after opening his eyes with three magatama, but with It seemed to bother the eyes, so his father asked him to use it less or not as much as possible.Then Itachi suddenly became a little irritable, and he couldn't help but rub his eyes.

"Will it be uncomfortable for your eyes to use?"

"Yeah." Itachi replied, and then fell silent again.Of course, Itachi really didn't want to chat with this senior who was not useless at all, but he really didn't know how to talk about anything other than being with his younger brother.

So it was Shisui who spoke. He looked at the cleaned ground and asked Itachi, "What are you going to do next? If you have any difficulties, you can tell me."

"My mother asked me to go find him after finishing my errands. She wanted to discuss my father's funeral arrangements with me." Itachi finally spoke a long sentence. As the new leader of the Uchiha clan, he seemed to have no need to let the well-intentioned Hokage The guard captain had some misunderstanding about him, "If it's difficult, how to tell Sasuke is a problem."

Shisui wanted to tell Itachi, just say no, but thinking about Naruto's abnormal behavior on this matter, he suddenly realized that the person who might be abnormal was himself, "Your mother may have had an idea. I just want to go back to my roots, together."

"hold head high."

Two black lights passed away quietly.

However, Kakashi, who was standing far away on the treetops, could still clearly see the sign language Shisui gave him - Itachi has me, you go and look after the Hokage.

There is nothing unusual about this, but Kakashi just feels subtly that he is being disliked.He took out his cigarette case and wanted to light a cigarette, but after thinking about it, he put it back in his trouser pocket.Things went smoothly today, without any accidents, so why did he feel like smoking? Kakashi sighed, waved his hand and lifted the order to surround the Uchiha station, leaving only a few ANBU named Uchiha. Each went home to rest and observe follow-up.Then he returned to his teacher in a flash of silver light.

Hokage Building Hokage Office

It was already a little brighter outside the window, but the Hokage's lounge was still dark.Kakashi exchanged a few words with the duty officer silently, and after learning that everything was normal, he carefully walked around the sofa and coffee table and approached the Hokage's bed.His teacher was in a deep sleep.Kakashi organized it for the teacher

After being cornered, he walked into the bathroom more lightly.He pressed the sound hole of the water heater, and then turned on the switch. The muffled startup music signaled to Kakashi that it was about to start working.Kakashi really wanted to replace this electric water heater that was almost scrapped, but every time he really wanted to replace it, it inexplicably started to work again.

But now, Kakashi gently patted the water storage bucket, "Konoha is far away from the edge of bankruptcy. If you don't want to be sold for scrap now, you'd better be honest and boil the water to prevent leakage."

"What are you talking to yourself in the toilet?"

"It's nothing." Kakashi poked his head out, but his teacher didn't get up. "I'll boil the bath water for you."

"Oh." Minato turned over, "It's over with the Uchiha family."

"Well, there was no trouble. Everything went as you wished. Everyone is dead." Kakashi stood back by the bed and whispered softly, "That stupid boy Itachi didn't find any signs that he shouldn't have."

"Well, then Naruto."

"It's okay." Kakashi frowned and yawned, "It's only around 4 o'clock. You continue to sleep. If anything happens, we'll talk about it when you wake up."

"Okay, then you should sleep for a while." Minato seemed to hear Kakashi's sleepiness. He moved into the bed and made room for his disciple, who was barely alone. "We will have a good talk when we wake up. your problem."

Kakashi shivered when the teacher said it, and he was no longer sleepy in an instant, but he had to rest when he needed to.He stretched out, looked at the small sofa beside him, then thought about the injury behind him, and decisively took off his coat and shoes and got on the bed.The bed was hard, and it wasn't that comfortable to be squeezed together with the teacher, but Kakashi fell asleep immediately.

"Gululu, Gululu."

"Kakashi, don't sleep on your stomach, your snoring is too noisy." Minato, who seemed to be half asleep, stretched out his foot and kicked Kakashi's calf.

But Kakashi was still snoring loudly, with no intention of stopping.

Minato had no choice but to cover his ears with both hands and turn away, pretending not to hear, but the truth was, the more he cared about it, the more he couldn't sleep. He kicked Kakashi again, "I'll hit you if you snore again."

"Hululu, Hululu."

Minato sighed, rubbed his forehead and got up, put on his shoes, stood by the bed and watched Kakashi pretending to be dead, "You're not so stupid that you didn't sleep the night before."

"Chi-lu-lu, chi-lu-lu."

"With your IQ, it's really possible." Minato said to himself and touched the temperature of Kakashi's forehead, then took off his pants and looked at the scum-filled wound, "Thank you for remembering It’s not too stupid to take medicine.”

"Lulu, lulu."

Minato sighed and covered Kakashi with the quilt. He turned off the alarm clock beside his pillow and looked at his watch. It was 10 minutes to 5 o'clock.It’s really the wrong time to do anything.Minato thought like this, and suddenly he became irritable again. He couldn't help but want to destroy something.But he still had control after all.But the irritability in my heart seemed to be getting stronger and stronger, as if it was burning out the oxygen in the whole room.Minato took a deep breath, endured the discomfort in his heart, hesitated, and changed into clean clothes.After hesitating again, he even put on the Hokage cloak. After all, there were already ninjas out for morning exercises. It would be easy for his subordinates to misunderstand him if he saw the Hokage walking around disheveled.

But where should I go if I can’t sleep so early in the morning?

Minato waved away the ANBU on duty who wanted to follow him, and slowly left the Hokage Tower.The old Hokage Tower was obscured in the morning mist, while the new Hokage Tower was completely invisible in the dark morning light.This made our Hokage even more uncomfortable.So he dug and dug, but he couldn't take out the small glass medicine bottle after rummaging through his pockets.Forget it, Tsunade's medicine is mostly for the comforting effect anyway.Minato soothed his increasingly irritable self, then opened his mouth and swallowed a mouthful of cold, wet mist.He felt the coolness flow down his trachea into his lungs and fill his entire chest.He thought, since it was all about comfort, swallowing air and swallowing pills were not much different.Indeed, he felt much better.So, our Hokage took this opportunity to form a hand seal, and he was not sure of the coordinates. He planned to let the Flying Thunder God take him to a certain place in Konoha. This was a dangerous new attempt, but he felt that he really Need a little stimulation.

But as soon as he opened his eyes, he became even more irritable.

Memorial Monument

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"Little Minato, why are you here so early in the morning?" The Sandaime Hokage, holding a small white chrysanthemum, stood next to the coordinates of Minato's Flying Thunder God. "You're in a bad mood."

Minato wanted to fly somewhere else.

"It's because little Fugaku is about to die, and you have a good relationship with him." Sarutobi Hiruzen was a little sensitive and realized that his successor was indeed in a very bad mood, "But aging, sickness and death are natural."

Minato was silent, he did not form the seal again, but simply found a curb and sat down, "Why do I see you, Third Generation, every time I come to the commemorative monument when I'm in a bad mood?"

"Because I come every day." Sarutobi Hiruzen walked towards Minato with his hands behind his back, "And you only come occasionally."

"Why do I have to come to a place like this every day." Minato stretched out and said, "I only have Kinai engraved on it, and there aren't that many people who need to visit."

"Who told me that most of my relatives, friends and people I know are here." The old Hokage was not very angry when he heard Minato's harsh words.

Minato pouted, regretting that the Sandaime didn't start an argument with him.

But the Sandaime had no regrets at all. He continued to observe Minato, "You forgot to bring your forehead protector today."

"It's not work time now."

"You look a little weird without a forehead protector." Sandai frowned and smiled, "Little Minato, you have to learn to relax."

"I'm relaxing." Minato really wanted to shoot a Rasengan at the verbose old man, "So can you let me clean the memorial monument?"

"Okay." Sandai said but did not leave. Instead, he came closer to Minato, "But you can't always talk to the commemorative monument."

Minato glanced at his senior. The old man smiled as seriously and kindly as ever, as worthy of respect and love as he did a long time ago, as if everything could be solved if he said something to him.This made Minato want to talk to the old man he needed his son Uzumaki Naruto and he didn't want to leave him for a moment.And Kakashi is becoming more and more disobedient. He really doesn't know what to do with the child now.And Itachi, and Mikoto, and there were many, many things and many, many people, and he really missed his wife, and he felt more and more that he didn't look like a good person at all.But in the end, Minato just thought about it.Because he knew very well that the third generation Hokage was not as reliable and trustworthy as he showed, just like his fourth generation Hokage.

"Okay, actually it's not bad to talk to the Memorial Monument." After hesitating for a long time, Sarutobi Hiruzen still walked around behind Minato under Minato's glare, helped him straighten the Hokage's cloak that was a little wrinkled, and then patted it. Minato's shoulder said nothing more.

Merits and demerits, right and wrong, are all medals

On the third day after Uchiha Fugaku's death, the first thing the Hokage did when he went to work was to reply to an obituary signed by Itachi, the new patriarch of the Uchiha family: The elder of Konoha, Uchiha Fugaku, the Uchiha patriarch, was unable to save his life due to illness. At 61:9 am on September 19, 7 in Konoha.The funeral will be held 21 days later at the main Uchiha residence.