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

Nothing might happen for two days.

On December 61, Konoha 12, there were still 28 hours left before Konoha 62, and Namikaze Minato, who still had no appetite, did not eat lunch.With 60 hours to count down, Minato Namikaze didn't eat dinner because his stomach seemed to hurt a little.With 54 hours to count down, the Yondaime Hokage, who vomited the stomach medicine and boiled water together, issued a Teleport Eagle.With 44 hours left on the countdown, Kenshiro Shiranui, who was about to turn into a mummy after staying up late and working continuously, received the Hokage's teleportation hawk.With 38 hours to go, Kakashi, who was still on a mission in the Land of Thunder, received a deadline to return to Konoha.With the countdown to 28 hours, the embarrassed Kakashi rushed back to Konoha in a dusty way.Counting down 24 hours and 23 minutes, Kakashi took a sealing scroll from Shiranui Genma.With 45 hours and 23 minutes remaining, Kakashi unveiled the seal of the scroll under the witness of several senior Konoha officials in a conference room.Five seconds later, the smoke dissipated and a rag fell into the palm of his hand.

""

A torn piece of cloth, one arm long, narrow at both ends and wide in the middle, stripped of threads, neither soft nor hard, pleated, not ventilated in summer, not warm in winter. The only advantage is that the price is reasonable, so cheap that one end will wear out every three days. Nothing hurts at all.

It's just that the color of this cloth is so special and so familiar that Kakashi, who is so conceited and fearless, even held his hands trembling, "Shiranui Genma, are you sure this is what my teacher gave me?"

Shiranui Genza nodded.

Kakashi looked at the left and right who were also stiff, and dragged Genma out of his seat, but his lips were trembling and he couldn't say anything.

Genma quickly crouched down and slipped away, "Hey, hey, hey, what are you all thinking about? The fourth generation asked Kakashi to attend this year's capital meeting for him. The third generation is still in the Kingdom of Wind and won't be back for a while. The Yondaime was able to come back in time, but the Kiri Ninja's affairs were not over yet. He had stomach trouble again and had a cold. He rushed back and was busy in the capital for three days, but he said he couldn't handle it."

"Oh, I am indeed sick again." Nara Shikaku breathed a sigh of relief first.

"Didn't I just catch a cold at the beginning of the month?" Aburame Zhi slightly patted her forehead.

"It wouldn't be surprising if he stayed in my previous room." Ding Zao was also very annoyed. "When the station was built, Konoha was short of money and there was no heating system installed in the entire building. The sea breeze was damp and cold in winter."

"And many of the ingredients stored at the border are forbidden foods for him." Logistics Minister Hinata Hizu is very clear about this.

"Really, it won't be a waste to deal with the Kingdom of Water after the New Year. We have to rush to the end of the year." Mito Kadoyan frowned and turned to look at Genma, "Genma, I heard that there are not many people in the Hokage Guards now."

"Well, since our group of people have been transferred to the Fourth Generation one after another, we don't like too many personal guards." Genma really regretted letting the Hokage go out for being soft-hearted. He originally thought it was a rare break, but in the end he still caused a lot of trouble.

"Let's increase the number of staff." The new Security Minister Aburame Shimi is very adaptable to her new position. "It doesn't matter in Konoha. I always feel uneasy if I don't take many people with me when I go out."

"It's not necessary to have more people, but the lack of strength will cause him trouble. The ANBU teams from various places are enough for peripheral security." The new ANBU director Akimichi Dingza is also more adaptable. "I think it is better to add more internal support. This It’s no longer necessary to be outstanding in strength, a more careful chuunin can do it. Kakashi is not around, Genma is not around either, and Yamato doesn’t seem to be able to take good care of his life.”

"Yamato can't control him. Forget it, I'll talk to him when he comes back." Shikaku said something fair, "Hinata"

"Boom Kacha"

The other six people looked at Kakashi, the broken conference table and the old floor in shock.

"What on earth are you people discussing? Isn't the point about the Hokage cloak, the hand-torn Hokage cloak?" Kakashi held the white and red flame-patterned cloth in his hand, even his voice trembled, "Don't tell me you don't know this. what does it mean"

"I chose you to be the heir." Genma felt that what he said was sour. Although he knew that with his reputation, ability and position, he could hardly be the chief of general staff, but he was also a great young man in Konoha. Who had never done this? Dream of being a Hokage

But Kakashi couldn't hear the sound of dreams shattering. He almost cried, "But this is the Hokage cloak."

"Calm down, calm down." Genjian was pinched by Kakashi again, and he slowly opened the fingers with surging thunder chakra, "Idiot, move your Think about it for a moment, is it possible for ordinary ninjas to meet the Lord of the Kingdom during the New Year? If you don’t have a suitable token with a suitable identity, how can people believe that you represent Konoha?"

"That's right, Kakashi, let go first." Seeing Genma's face turn green, Ding Zao hurried up to save him.Dante found that he couldn't suppress Kakashi so much.

Aburame Zhiwei also quickly stepped forward to help with the punch, and then pulled Kakashi away and pinned him down on the stool.

Genjian gasped, "Mad dog."

Kakashi raised his leg and kicked him again, "Trash"

Genma was enraged and didn't know where the courage came from, so he went up and punched Kakashi.

Kakashi was held tightly by Ding Zao and Zhi Wei and did not move away.

Shikaku and Hinata couldn't sit still anymore. One Lagenma and the other joined the team of pressing Kakashi. Everyone tacitly kept the two young men who were too angry away from each other.

Mito Kadoyan, who was a step slower to react, looked at the walls and floor of the conference room with several large cracks, then looked at the new Hokage Building, took a sip of tea, and sighed leisurely, "The fourth generation really can't have any trouble now, really something can happen." Whatever happened, I think Konoha will be finished."

""There was silence.

"Old men can't fight anymore, and they can't do anything. Why does Konoha still have an elders' council? Just in case something like this happens, someone can dare to make the decision just because of their age." Mito Kadoyan looked ashamed. Shiranui Genma, then nodded to the twisted Kakashi, and arranged without hesitation, "Hinata and Nara will take Genma to another room to calm down first. Akimichi and Aburame, please hold on for a while. Kakashi."

"Yes, Elder-sama." Shikaku and Hizu ignored what Genma wanted to say to Kakashi and just turned away.

"Calm down." Mito Monobu closed the door, pulled out the cloth strip of the flame totem from Kakashi's hand, took out a lighter and sealed it, "Your teacher is also very frizzy, how can you tear this kind of thing casually?" , it’s not like delivering your last words on the battlefield.”

"Maybe it's because he has a stomachache that he can't care about. His stomach is really painful." Ding Zao explained to Minato.

Zhiwei answered, "Since Minato has his own arrangements, there's no need to worry. Trust him. If you're afraid, just worry about him forcing himself on it."

"That's right." Mito Menyan had already packed the cloth in his hands neatly, "Kakashi, your father tied it on his right arm back then, where did you tie it?"

Kakashi looked at the cloth without saying anything.

"Then let's take the right arm." Men Yan tied it up properly, then patted Kakashi on the back and left.

Zhiwei and Dingzao also let go of their hands, then pulled a stool for Kakashi and asked him to wait for Genma.

Sure enough, within 2 minutes, Genma came back like the wind, "Kakashi, are you okay?"

Kakashi didn't speak.

"It should be fine." Genma was not embarrassed at all. He handed the new information to Kakashi, "I asked Shisui to go after receiving the letter. You see, Shisui has already arrived at the border."

Kakashi didn't answer, "Why don't you take the medic-nin with you."

"Kabuto Yakushi is not allowed to go to the border because of his sensitive research, and Shizune Kato is still in the loyalty inspection period and cannot go." Genma sighed, "There are only two high-level medical ninjas in Konoha."

Kakashi gritted his teeth and said, "Bring me the task list speech."

"what"

"Then the damn co-optation, division, attack, and the Hokage report for the first meeting of the new year is so difficult that I would write that kind of stuff."

 

"Oh, okay." Genma smiled, Kakashi has been an adult for a long time after all.

"You go with me." Kakashi couldn't laugh at all. Could he really do that?

In fact, the water gates on the border are also very worrying.

Border Station, Hokage Lounge

"If I had known that a few injections would solve the problem, I shouldn't have asked Kakashi to go to the capital for me."

"No matter how good the new analgesic I brought is, it's not a stomach medicine." Uchiha Shisui pushed up his sunglasses on the bridge of his nose and looked at his watch, "It's December 61, Konoha 12, 30:8 in the evening. Kakashi is already at the dinner party in the capital."

"Ah." Minato pushed away the vegetable rice cereal that Yamato poured for him, feeling a little irritated, "Do you think Kakashi will be able to kneel down when he faces the king?"

Shisui and Yamato twitched their lips at the same time.

Shisui coughed lightly, "Kakashi just won't kneel, so there shouldn't be any serious consequences."

Yamato, who had been to many dinners in the capital with the Hokage, was more tolerant, "Yondaime, if you ask me, you shouldn't kneel, why do you have to kneel to the king every time? It makes everyone feel uncomfortable."

"It's etiquette after all. Kneel down and you'll get a lot of meat." Minato sniffed, but still covered his stomach, "I really should have just let Genma go."

"You know very well that Genma can't hold his own, he is just an all-purpose errand boy." Shisui waved his hand and bounced it twice in the air to wake up Uchiha Itachi in the corner.

"Everything is perfect for running errands." Minato sniffed again, covered his mouth, and went straight to the bathroom.

Uchiha Shisui followed.

Itachi, Yamato and the others sighed at each other and continued to seal the window with the plastic tape seriously.Because the resident’s New Year’s Eve dinner included deep-sea yellowtail fish, big-faced geoducks, and bloody shark fins, mixed with the unique sulfur smell of honeycomb coal, drifting in through the cracks in the window.Naruto's stomach pain is gone, but he doesn't know why he has this problem again, making him vomit when he smells fishy smell.

"Why have to wait until midnight to leave? It's only a few hours away." Shisui patted Minato's back gently and handed him a hot towel.

Naruto rolled his eyes at Shisui, and finally couldn't help but roar, "It's just that Itachi and Yamato can't figure it out, why are you so stupid? Have you forgotten what happened when the Kingdom of Wind signed the contract? Do you think the two countries signed the contract with usury? Ah, what kind of treaty with immediate effect and instant interest payment didn't come into operation officially in the second year after it was negotiated. Otherwise, how would this account be calculated? Besides, the signing of the contract with the Kingdom of Water was very hasty this time, and Konoha was not prepared at all. I'm not here Watch, if something happens on the other side, wait for the border to report to Konoha, the day lily will be cold. Do you think that other countries are like the Land of Fire, and the Hokage can have the final say alone. If Terumi Mei does it alone You have to decide, why are you dragging me along?"

Terumi Mei really can't do it alone.

The waves in the capital of the land of water are still there

"whore"

The young female water figure reluctantly put down the exquisite gold-plated telescope on the king's desk, and looked back from the cheerful street.She felt that compared to welcoming the new year in a solemn and gorgeous manner in the palace of the king, she probably preferred the atmosphere of children in the market.I tried on new clothes in advance, ate fried rice cakes with one hand, and ran around with a fairy stick in the other hand without feeling sad.

"whore"

Terumi Mei reluctantly focused her eyes on the king again.His king was hiding in layers of curtains woven with gold threads, and his once high-spirited and handsome figure was wrapped in a white bandage covered with ointment.

"You shameful whore"

Terumi Mei picked up the blue and white porcelain ink pad box on the desk, approached the king, stretched out two fingers, pinched the king's only intact finger, then pressed a little cinnabar, and then put the finger on Pressed on a scroll.

"Whore, shameless whore"

Terumi Mei dried the ink pad, no longer paying attention to the hoarse king, but twisted her waist and flipped her hair.She found that the ends of her hair had split ends in a few days, so she raised her brows unhappily and walked out.

Outside the master bedroom, living room

Five men whose clothes matched those of the King's Palace stood up, "The Godaime, how was the communication between you and the King just now?"

"The king failed to put forward any opinions on our financial budget." Terumi Mei threw out the scroll signed by the king, causing a scramble. "I did what I promised you. Remember, don't miss it next year. We have to pay our share of the Mist Ninjas, otherwise the Mist Ninjas won’t be able to pay back Konoha’s money, huh.”

There was a silence, but it immediately turned into joy, "I can't forget, I can't forget, but I don't dare owe the ninja money. I have to rely on you to save my life every time I go out."

"Anyway, as long as you are satisfied." Terumi Mei also found a chair and sat down in the corner, took out the small scissors, and continued to play with her split hair.Then he looked at Qing who was holding the mirror for him and frowned, "Hey, help me hold the mirror. I'm so wronging you."

"Not wronged."

"Then your stinky face is just an eyesore for me."

"I just can't figure it out." Ao switched the conversation to the Mist Ninja code, "Konoha is too dark. When the capital coup happens, they need their people to support the formation and give them a share. What do you mean by what you just said? We can't get rid of it. Drop them."

"The question is, what's the benefit of getting rid of it?" Terumi Mei imitated the Konoha people and raised her lips, "Even if I'm stupid, the elders of the Mist Ninja are not stupid either. They all mature with age."

"But."

"Stupid." Terumi Mei knocked on the table, "Come on, let me help you count the achievements of the head of Konoha. When you just became a glorious cannon fodder genin, Namikaze Minato has already become a top existence. You I became a chuunin at the age of fourteen or fifteen, and was finally sent to the battlefield. The most powerful Iwa ninja was killed instantly by 1 vs 50 in the battle of "Kannakun". Do you think any ninja village can be lost in one fell swoop? I can afford 50 elites.”

""

"Don't look like that, Ao, otherwise you would think why Namikaze Minato is causing such trouble on the mainland and not saying a word to the Iwa Country side for many years."

"Think again about the Kingdom of Clouds and the Thunder Ninja." Terumi Mei danced the small scissors into flowers, "The leader of the Kingdom of Clouds is not a mediocre person. Think about it, since Namikaze Minato can use his own power to The guy who changed the situation, as long as he dies, everything will go back to normal. So they started assassinating Namikaze Minato before the end of the third war. They did not know how many times they did it, overtly or covertly. But look at what Namikaze Minato is doing all day long. What is Ying doing all day now?"

Qing looked at the way Terumi Mei's eyes lit up when she mentioned the golden sparkle, and wanted to ask, sister, are you really in love with that person?

Terumi Mei was getting excited, "Besides, Sunagakure of the Wind Country was a complete loser in the three wars. In fact, they originally wanted to grab the fertile land of the Fire Country, but in the end they even lost the little water source they had. Although the Yondaime Kazekage has been making small moves and constantly losing battles, he can't stand up to other people's country masters. Since the Fire Nation and Konoha can continue to enjoy the wealth and luxury, and I don't have to worry about it, why not? Moreover, they are now popular Kage has been replaced by the one with the best relationship with Konoha, just before we take action, you know what this means."

"what"

"It means that of the five major countries, only the Kingdom of Water is left."

When Qing heard this, he finally broke into a cold sweat.

"Namikaze Minato put us last because we are the strongest?"

"It's because we are the weakest." Qing swallowed.

"Even the tailed beasts are gone." Terumi Mei smiled and continued to trim her hair until the 12 o'clock bell rang, and huge fireworks went up at the same time in Konoha Station and Kokuto Port.

Formal is more than just formality

The world entered Konoha's 62nd year, and everything was safe and sound.