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

7 days later

An autumn rain

a funeral

It began to rain quietly in the early morning, just like every autumn in Konoha, and the weather became cooler even faster after that.Uchiha Fugaku's funeral was no different from other people's funerals. Everyone came, handed in their share of the money, stood in line to listen to his life story, and then walked around the coffin to look at it. After the person was buried, those who had time could go. Have a few useless gossips with your family members, and those who are not free can go their separate ways.

At this time, the story of life has just begun.

The rain kept falling, but the fourth generation Hokage, who was not very free, had already left the main gate of Uchiha's house early.He walked down the steps with a straight face and stepped on the wet stone slab in the open space at the door. Kakashi and Naruto who followed him were much more relaxed. After all, it was not his father or his teacher who died.

"Summer in Konoha is really coming to an end." Our Hokage stood still, feeling the slightest hint of rain and mist, looking a little far away.

"Yeah, it's time to put on more clothes when the weather gets cold." Seeing that the teacher didn't seem to be planning to open the umbrella, Kakashi immediately raised the big black umbrella in his hand high and covered the Hokage.

The Hokage ignored Kakashi, still looking far away.

Kakashi sighed and made no further moves.

But Naruto stopped. He stared at Kakashi and passed the intelligence code, "My dad is in a daze again. Kakashi, go poke him."

"Come on, I can't." Kakashi glanced over after analyzing the password. His teacher had just dug the soil for Uchiha's grave with his own hands. As far as Kakashi knew, this was the first time in Konoha.This was enough to show that his teacher's face was really filled with dark clouds, and judging from Kakashi's many years of experience, usually at this time, there was a high chance that the Hokage would find trouble to vent his anger at any time, so he didn't want to get into trouble.

"Then what should we do? Don't poke him and let him be in a daze." Naruto continued to stare back, "He looks sad this time."

"It's better to be sad than to hurt someone." Kakashi glanced silently again, and at the same time clamped his thighs reflexively. Although the wound he had been slapped by the teacher had healed quickly, he still hurt just thinking about it.

"Kakashi, what's that expression on your face?" But Naruto clearly noticed Kakashi's perfunctory attitude, and he continued to look at him, "I don't like my dad's expression, please fix it for me."

"I can't solve it."

"Kakashi, I know Kakashi-nii is the best." Naruto changed his strategy.

"No, I'm the older one." Kakashi blinked, "Hey, it doesn't matter what you call me."

"Bah, you are heartless. Aren't you worried about your teacher and my father?" Naruto felt that he was angry, and he grinded his teeth, "Don't forget, you still owe me a debt."

"When did I owe you a debt?"

"I will help you hide illegal publications, and you will help me arrange tasks that I like." Naruto glared at Kakashi angrily, "But look, what kind of tasks did you arrange for me this time? Our team has not left. I was arrested when I reached the border. All my heroic words and ambitions were in vain, and my blood boiled and I was poured into volcanic ash."

"I'm really not a prophet. I really don't know how Sasuke's father really died of illness. And this mission is real. It just so happens that two genin are needed. Besides, you were only 5 years old when I agreed to your damn condition." You haven't gone to school yet, so I just made a joke to make you happy." Kakashi also grinded his teeth. He felt that the hand holding the umbrella for Hokage was cold, "Okay, you better think more about how to comfort you. Then dad, you just sent your friend to the West."

Naruto stopped talking and looked at Kakashi suspiciously, "Kakashi, you seem to be hiding something from me."

"Why are you so paranoid at a young age because you have been thinking all day long?" Kakashi picked his ears.

"You didn't arrange some prank at Sasuke's house just now, did you? Everyone knows that you and Uncle Fugaku don't like each other." Naruto rolled his eyes and pursed his lips, "This is too rough."

"You think I am you?" Kakashi held the umbrella steady, raised his lower lip and blew the tips of his hair, "Don't say bad words, your dad is in a bad mood, so he will be scolded if he hears it."

"Which of your ears heard me say dirty words? I used a good eye code. How could he know what I said without even looking at me? Besides, my father couldn't bear to scold me." Naruto bared his teeth, "I'll be scolded." I just said it was taught by Kakashi."

"Don't try to anger an adult who is more powerful than you." Kakashi was a little angry. "Don't make trouble unreasonably. This is at the door of someone's house, and the funeral hasn't ended yet. You don't care if you don't grow up."

"You are careless." Naruto stepped in, "Sasuke is your student, his brother is your colleague, and his father is your senior, but you. You came to attend the funeral of your senior and you didn't know how to prepare any money."

"Your dad prepared two copies."

"One of them belongs to me. It's the mission bonus I managed to save from doing genin missions." Naruto snorted coldly, turned around and walked into the Uchiha main house, "Forget it, I won't argue with you, I'll go find it. Sasuke."

"Ugh." Kakashi groaned, it turned out that he was waiting for him here.

"What's wrong Kakashi?" This sound startled the thinking Hokage.

Kakashi didn't dare to answer.

The Hokage moved his ears and heard faint sorrow coming from afar, "It's time to say goodbye to the body."

"Do you want to go back and watch?" Kakashi secretly looked at his teacher's face, as serious as when the funeral began, "I don't have any particularly urgent work today."

"Forget it." The Hokage looked back at his disciple, handed the umbrella in his hand to Kakashi, and grabbed the big black umbrella, "Naruto, go back and take a look."

"Ah." Kakashi scratched his face, "Strictly speaking, Sasuke is Naruto's only friend. Just let the two children stay together for a while."

"That's fine." The Hokage nodded his umbrella, "Then I'll go back to the office first. Since you said you're not busy at work today, just wait here. After Naruto and Sasuke finish talking, help me ask Naruto what he wants at noon. What to eat.”

"" Kakashi almost blurted out, "Hey teacher, it's a funeral now, why do you care about recipes."Moreover, the Hokage's office is not busy today, but your disciples and my ANBU are so busy every day that they can use wood to make fire, or they can just suppress the labor of the village.But looking at the teacher's still stern face, he finally acquiesced to the fate that he might have to work overtime for a long time tonight.

"you are not willing"

"No, sir." Kakashi replied quickly, hearing the impatience in the teacher's tone.

"Yes." The Hokage nodded his umbrella again, and the golden light flashed.

Kakashi could only wait, open Naruto's little black umbrella and shrink into the porch.It's not raining heavily today, but it can't stand the wind.Of course, as the ANBU, you don't have to take the Hokage's dispensable or teasing orders completely seriously, as long as the ANBU on duty is willing to give him a careless look when the Hokage asks.

Kakashi actually does this often, after all, his teacher himself rarely really cares about these things with them.But now, Kakashi is a little afraid to do this casually.Kakashi closed his eyes and felt his surroundings. The ANBU hidden in the dark had a lot of chakra.

Familiar, some completely unfamiliar.Kakashi knew very well that the strangers mixed into the duty team were all roots.The roots that once belonged to Danzo Shimura.

Kakashi gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, but couldn't help but think of seven days ago. That morning seven days ago, before preparing to go to the regular meeting, his teacher finally had a "serious talk" with him, but Kakashi never expected that they were not talking about Naruto's education and future. It is not the aftermath of the Uchiha family's problems, nor is it the division of ANBU's responsibilities in the death of Uchiha Fugaku.

Instead, "After all, Anbu is a special assassination force. According to the current division of powers, it is the field department. This is my fault. It is usually fine to let the field staff work part-time as internal security, but it is still reluctant when something unexpected happens. And As for Gen, you can't deny that their strength is no worse than ANBU, and their talent pool is very diverse. You can find any kind of ninja you want. The most important thing is that they are also the purest. Kakashi, don't deny it, in the eyes of the entire Konoha Danzo is the least likely to rub the sand. But since you and ANBU don’t want them to go out to grab business. Don’t deny it. Otherwise, they won’t go to the mission hall all day long. So I decided to reorganize the ANBU. Field missions should still be done by the original ANBU. Do it. The internal security of ANBU will be taken care of by the people and roots in ANBU who are not suitable for field service. As for the Hokage Guards, that is the internal service. I plan to let Shisui try to manage the internal service and the guards together. That's it, you understand. Is it over?"

Yes, the above is what Naruto said that day. It's not "What do you think?" It's "Did you understand?"

Kakashi remembered that the only feeling he felt was anger and humiliation.Of course, he also argued hard based on reason.But how could he say that to a teacher who was blessed by the Hokage's skills? Besides, he was indeed short of breath.It doesn't matter that the Hokage doesn't want to pursue the mistakes that the ANBU made during back-office missions. If he wants to pursue them, he couldn't stop Orochimaru from coming before, but now he doesn't stop Uchiha from dying.Kakashi didn't believe it, but Kakashi couldn't believe it if he replaced it with a root.What's more, Gen Ke was once a hostile party.

But unfortunately, the Hokage just asked him to choose the mask calmly - "The guards have already chosen the dog face. Does your field officer prefer foxes or cats?"

Every time Kakashi thinks about this, he can't help but use chakra. At least he needs a Raikiri to sweep over him to calm down his frustration a little bit.

But Kakashi, according to the latest ANBU internal security regulations updated by Lord Uchiha Shisui, if you use chakra in a residential area, you will be invited to torture the troops for tea, so you should just wait for our lovely Master Naruto. Let's have some lunch.After all, your only way to survive is my young master's pillow style.Friendly reminder, this copy has a chance to open side tasks to please the author, and the great prizes in life are waiting for you.

A long way to go.

And our Master Naruto on the other side is actually not in a good mood.The person who died was certainly a subordinate of the Hokage and a colleague of the AN Minister, but he was also the father of Genin Uzumaki Naruto's best friend.Just like his father often picked up Sasuke when he was a child, Naruto once climbed on the shoulders of the uncle named Fugaku, ate at his house, threw his bowl, and took the rich uncle's thick Red envelopes, pats on the back and compliments, random shuriken lessons, and so on.Therefore, when such a person dies, Naruto, who has become a genin due to emotions and reasons, should express his feelings.But Kakashi's name was already written on the money.Look at the third-generation grandfather, Grandpa Men Yan and Grandma Xiaochun on the side, and then look at the other father's friends.It seemed that none of his grandfathers and uncles had brought their descendants with them today. This made Naruto, who was left alone here, feel embarrassed and even more regretful. He probably should have gone back with his father just now, instead of rushing in when he heard the sad music.After all, when he came in, didn't he see Sasuke holding the coffin and crying bitterly?

Naruto sighed quietly, looking through the layers of tumbled fan backs, quietly looking at Aunt Mikoto, Brother Itachi, and the expressionless Sasuke beside the coffin.Sasuke lowered his head slightly. It was rare for him to wear a black traditional formal suit today. When we first met, he looked a little funny like a kid wearing a coat, but when he turned around, he really looked like a young master of a large Konoha family. .Naruto couldn't help but tug on his black suit, which was a little too short. Suddenly, he found that he no longer knew what kind of expression he should use to deal with Sasuke, who seemed to be completely new.Maybe he should pretend to be ignorant and whisper in Sasuke's ear - Hey, buddy, think of the best when things happen, at least your dad won't yell at you like a grandson over trivial things.Or you can pretend to be a mature and sensible adult, say "please forgive me" with a straight face, and then turn around and leave.Or perhaps, Naruto should choose to just stand quietly beside his parents like Sasuke and leave everything to those adults.In this case, even if you don't have the experience of familiar people passing away, you shouldn't make too big a mistake.

But even if he made a mistake, Naruto felt that he might not know where he went wrong.

"Please observe a moment of silence."

With the ups and downs of sorrow and joy, the stunned Naruto joined the crowd to say goodbye to the body for the last time. Now there were fans in front and behind him, but the third generation grandfather and the others could not see him. Naruto was a little uncomfortable, but he still persisted. Move slowly with the team without being rude.Finally, Naruto could clearly see Uncle Fugaku in the black coffin.The uncle curled the corners of his mouth downwards as always, and his facial paralysis did not change much at all.But Naruto really realized at this time that it was already a corpse.

Naruto didn't know if he liked or hated this uncle, but Naruto definitely didn't like this man turning into a corpse.Or in other words, Naruto believes that no one should turn into a corpse casually.Naruto once told his father this, but his father said that some people are happier when they die well.So did Uchiha Fugaku deserve his death?

Naruto continued to move slowly with the flow of people, and he remembered just 7 days ago.At noon that day, their team was taken to a roadside restaurant by Mr. Yamato to prosper the Fire Nation's economy. But before they had a few bites, Kakashi suddenly ran out of the kitchen of the restaurant.In fact, Yamato-sensei and the strange ANBU asked Kakashi calmly if they wanted to eat together.But he and Sasuke were almost scared to death, okay? Naruto remembered that his first reaction at the time was, no, it couldn't be that my dad was sick and was hospitalized and was assassinated. But luckily, Kakashi opened his mouth and said to Sasuke, Sasuke, you If something happens at home, I will take you back.Then, he and Sasuke were carried back to Konoha by Kakashi one by one.

To be honest, Naruto really felt that Kakashi was far worse than his father in using the Flying Thunder God. He fell to the ground and fainted for a while before he figured out what happened.Kakashi said that the reason why he and Sasuke received this urgent mission in the middle of the night was actually what Sasuke's father asked the Hokage to do. He simply didn't want his son to see his embarrassment, that's all.

To be specific, because that night the old man saw the moon was very big, round and beautiful, and he suddenly felt that life was heroic and he needed to have fun, so he wanted to drink.I really took advantage of the excitement and drank heavily by myself.Drinking alcohol is not a sin, but the problem is that Sasuke's father's old injury has damaged his nerves and he cannot drink at all. If he drinks too much, he will become paralyzed, his mouth will be slanted, his eyes will be slanted, and he will be incontinent.So after drinking, Sasuke's father really couldn't move except for his eyes.The hospital said that he could either lie in bed and wait for his last breath, or he could try new drugs and new medical ninjutsu to reshape his nerves.In the end, Uncle Fugaku chose to fight, so that he wouldn't have to wait on his sons. No, it wouldn't be too shameful for a ninja to be so heroic after drinking to death.

Is it really a worthy death?

"Please observe another moment of silence."

The long team finally gradually left the coffin.Naruto moved closer to Sasuke, and he heard someone say to Sasuke, "Come, take another look, the coffin is about to be closed." That seemed to be Brother Itachi's voice, and then Naruto vaguely heard another "Well .”

Can the conclusion really be drawn by covering the coffin?

Konoha 61

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