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

It's just that dad went back when his son needed him most.

Uzumaki Naruto sniffed and kicked pebbles as he walked. There was a strong sense of abandonment around him, and he was incompatible with the sailor, merchant and ninja who stayed in the port to celebrate the New Year.

Yes, he and his father didn't spend much time celebrating the New Year together, and Ninja didn't care about celebrating the New Year.But does his father want to leave as soon as the countdown is over on New Year’s Eve? Moreover, he leaves as soon as he wants. Before leaving, he gives this and that instruction, that is, without saying a word to his lovely son in person.

You can't forget it.Naruto couldn't believe that the child Naruto Uzumaki, who had always been put first by his father, would be accidentally forgotten.So what does his father mean?

Although thinking this way is a bit sorry for his father, and a bit unfilial and rebellious, as Naruto grew older, his father's constant attention to him became like a shackle.Naruto also admitted that he had indeed imagined how to break the shackles, but this time his father really looked like he wanted to let go, and he felt aggrieved.

"Naruto, don't pout and make a bad face. Look at the beautiful girls all over the street. You don't want to accompany Grandpa Jiraiya to get some food." Jiraiya gnawed the grilled squid feet on the bamboo stick. He wanted to have sex with Naruto. He said, your father not only ignored you, but I, his dear teacher, also ignored you.

"You just finished lunch and you still eat it. I'm going to kill you." Naruto kicked Jiraiya, and couldn't help but roar in his heart. When all these years of Kakashi's intimacy with him were in vain, the young man was so interested in soliciting guests. The wandering warbler is not interested.

Of course the kick didn't hurt Jiraiya. He tried to pull the collar of Naruto's neck to lift him up like before, but found that this kid was growing up really fast, so he gave him a headbutt and said, "What on earth is your father doing?" How did I teach you to respect your elders? Don’t you understand? Forget it, your father didn’t understand it in the first place.”

"Then the elders must act like elders." Naruto turned around and accidentally saw Sasuke and Sakura picking things up in front of them. It was irritating to his eyes. He shouldn't have listened to Jiraiya's temptation and followed him. " Shopping is so boring.”

"Is it possible that you still want to train after the Chinese New Year?" Jiraiya has never been in a serious relationship, but it can be seen from the many materials. Sakura and Sasuke got together, and his family Naruto seemed to be in tragedy, "You Look at the ninjas wandering around the port and the snack street with stalls in the snow. If you don’t have fun, can you afford not going home to celebrate the New Year but spending time with your hard-working shopkeepers?”

Naruto stopped and bought a bunch of marshmallows. He took a pink marshmallow in his hand and took a lick. The snowflakes falling from the sky melted a little. Naruto felt even more bored, "Actually, compared to shopping, It’s also nice to play games and express your youth on the training ground.”

Jiraiya was also eating marshmallows. The marshmallow stall owner was his lovely reader. After asking for an autograph, he was very kind and made him a human-colored, two-point pair of steamed buns.

Naruto looked at Jiraiya's marshmallows with disgust, "It's true, you only have one life. You shouldn't regret wasting your years, nor should you be ashamed of doing nothing, youth."

Jiraiya listened to Naruto's low roar and felt that there was indeed a generation gap between him and the young man. Minato didn't understand it, and neither did Naruto.

"Let's go, lecherous Jiraiya Daisen." Naruto did as he was told, grabbed Jiraiya's sleeve and started to drag him.

"Wait, why are you going?"

"You suggested training." Naruto smiled, bared a row of small white teeth, and stretched out his thumb, "Come on, let's face the sunrise and sunset and run around the station 20 times. Sweat will make you live up to the expectations. Youth"

These words sound familiar.

Naruto became even more excited, "Young Master, I am the son of Golden Flash. What if one day I see an injustice and draw my sword but the hero cannot save Mei? How can I explain to my father's admirers?"

"But I still want to play." Jiraiya was dragged along like a kite, feeling that Naruto did lack education.Well, the order left by the Hokage was "Do it yourself". He failed to teach Minato well and made him become the willful person he is now. He will definitely teach Naruto well this time. Okay, that's the happy decision.

"I really thank you."

Border 12:45:21 PM

Uchiha Shisui didn't think he heard his Hokage's sarcastic "thank you".Instead, he quickly knocked out the hibernating bear and threw it aside, quickly swept out a clean area to lay out a marching blanket, and then together with Yamato, dragged the Hokage, whose face was blue from the cold, into a tree hole.

That's right, the coordinate point where they are now is a tree hole.The tree hole is very high, as big as two beds, and the tree is so big that ten people can hug it.Moreover, this place is far away from the road and deep into the forest. It was the result of a strategic move by the Hokage to lure the enemy in the Golden Flash Era. If he came here without coordinates, he might not be able to find it.All in all, it's a good, safe place.

Well, the only problem is, the direction.The station at the border of the Kingdom of Water is due east of Konoha, and their current location is the northeast corner of Konoha. Just a few steps away, you can go to the hot springs in the Kingdom of Yu.As for why the Hokage and his party are here, of course it's not that Hokage wanted to soak in a hot spring on a whim, but that Uchiha Shisui once again miscalculated the coordinate coefficients when he flew to Raijin.

"Shisui, Shisui, what do you want me to say about you? Are you right for once? Last time about the Kingdom of Wind, Kakashi asked you to pick up the Demon Zaizhan. You led them all over the desert. Running, I can still think that there are not many reference coordinates in the desert and it is difficult to calculate, but we are taking the main road this time, so we will follow the main road from the border to Konoha in a straight line."

Uchiha Shisui's face turned slightly red, and he lowered his head to chop wood and start a fire.

Yamato quickly rescued Shisui who was scolded, shook out another marching blanket and wrapped the Hokage completely, "Yondaime, are you feeling uncomfortable? Where are you feeling uncomfortable again? If you need painkillers or antipyretics, why don't you give me some? sugar."

"Give me an injection of glucose first." Minato lost his temper, but he was still panicking and his eyes were turning black.Indeed, using the Flying Thunder God to move does not consume much chakra. Shisui and Yamato take turns taking him. They can jump from one space to another or something like that, digging a hemisphere at one end of the space and a hemisphere at the other end. , the technique is an air pump, which removes all the air between the straight lines of the two hemispheres, and then the two hemispheres are sucked together tightly, and the person passes from the ball side to the ball side.

It sounds a lot like a pressure or vacuum experiment, but Minato said that it actually feels similar.A person is hit by a hurricane of Category 12 or above at the speed of light. Although it only lasts for a moment, it still puts a lot of pressure on the body, especially on the lungs that store air. "Then give me an oxygen bag."

Yamato, who was still preparing glucose powder, shook his hand and almost crushed the medicine bottle, "Are you not breathing smoothly?"

Shisui didn't pretend to be dead. He quickly took the compressed oxygen from the medical bag, but his hand couldn't hook the tab on the thin oxygen bag.

"Intravenous injection." Yamato stuffed the glucose injection into Shizuo, picked up the oxygen bag and pulled up the tab, and put the mask on Minato's face before the bag was fully inflated, "Do you feel better?"

"If I die here in the wilderness." Minato felt much better as he felt the injection of oxygen and glucose, "Yamato, let Kakashi kill Uchiha Shisui and Shiranui Genma and bury them with me."

Yamato and Shisui breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, knowing that the situation was not that bad.

"But why do you want to kill Genma?" Shisui finished pushing the glucose and continued to serve the fire, "Killing me is enough."

"Because it's Genma's fault. As the chief of staff of Konoha and the chief steward of Konoha, he should consider the consequences of equipping the Hokage with a road-chi bodyguard when he goes out." Minato was indeed much better, "Let you I stayed behind to take care of things and take care of Kakashi. If he had come to find me on his own, I would have been sleeping on a warm wire bed by now."

But who would have thought that you are so weak?Zhishui's expression froze and he didn't dare to say, "Cough."

"What, you caught a cold from me?" Minato leaned against the tree wall with his eyes closed, and shrank his feet into the blanket.Konoha-style ninja shoes are really practical, especially the fish-mouth opening on the front. It is best to stuff two kunai senbon or something under the feet just in case.It was when people were weak in energy and blood, and it was so cold to step on the snow, "Yamato, give Shisui an injection."

Yamato ignored Minato and took out a small pot and started boiling water. The Hokage couldn't eat, so he still needed to drink the water.

Shisui warmed his hands on the flames and then put his hands under the blanket.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Minato was really shocked by Shisui.

"Help you cover your feet." Shisui knew that he had gone too far. Although he had been a personal guard by the Fourth Generation for many years, he was still not Kakashi Genma Naruto, and he was not that close to the Hokage.

"It doesn't have to be like this, Shisui." Minato was annoyed, "I just scolded you a few words to vent my anger and stepped on a lot of mud along the way."

Shisui suddenly became stubborn, "Yondaime."

"Um"

"Wear casual clothes from now on."

"No." Minato kicked Shisui away, turned sideways and tightened the blanket, "Yamato, help this idiot calculate the coordinates. I'll slow down a bit and call me in half an hour. We'd better not be late for too long. .”

However, the time has far exceeded the normal time from the border station to Konoha.

January 62, Konoha [-]

The capital of the Kingdom of Fire

hall

4:[-]pm

The routine first meeting of the new year was really lively. Kakashi sat on the rostrum from eight o'clock in the morning until the sun set. He felt that his ears were going to die. In the past, when the teacher presided over the meeting, everyone from the king to the nobles to the ministers Groups of depressed and unattractive chickens, why did they start chirping like 500 ducks when he was in charge?

Because golden glitter is bigger than your face.The ANBU who followed Kakashi as a guard silently showed sympathetic eyes.

Kakashi finally realized that he had been underestimated.It doesn't matter if he was underestimated. When he was promoted to jounin and became an ANBU, he was never underestimated. He would kick someone if he disagreed with him, and he would naturally become convinced after he knocked someone down.

But in this situation, he couldn't start a fight. Moreover, he had to find a way to calm down the situation, at least not to embarrass Konoha. "Kakashi, politics is actually very simple. It means to have more friends and let your If you can't do it if you have a few enemies, then first make sure there are a lot of people who listen to you and a few people who don't."

The teacher's words really lingered in my mind.

"Everyone be quiet. Please speak one by one. If you have different opinions, please wait until others have finished speaking, otherwise you will bear the consequences." Kakashi spoke into the microphone, imitating the tone of the ANBU torture team. The entire hall could only hear the words on his left hand. The "cracking" sound of getting ready to go.Kakashi nodded with satisfaction, although he really didn't mind killing a few with Raikiri or something.

It's just that the meeting was still too boring and uninteresting, and Kakashi admitted that he actually didn't understand a lot of things.

For example, he knew that in disaster prevention and relief, the mission of the Anbu was not only to hunt down traitors and ninjas, but also to block dams and save wildfires, and to water crops wherever there was a drought.But the resettlement process for ordinary people after the disaster is budgeted. Why is there a process for relocating people? Why is there a budget? Well, there must be rules for everything, but why should we pay for who pays for it? They are all the subjects of the king. Why is the king’s treasury Just can't move

There are also amendments and approval of various laws and regulations.Laws and regulations are just like Konoha's various regulations. What is said and written by the people above, and the people below just abide by it. Why do all kinds of people put forward all kinds of opinions.

There is also the issue of demolition.After so many years of development in the capital and other Fire Nation towns, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of demolition and construction.Konoha has been carrying out a lot of construction in recent years, so it has allowed old buildings to collapse.But what kind of devil is the nail house? It’s not like he demolished his old house without giving him a new one.The country built him a new house for free, and he asked the country for money. The officials in charge of the construction were stupid enough to go directly to Konoha's mission hall to register and ask Konoha ninjas to help demolish it. It was just dealing with civilians, which was very cheap.Well wait a minute, why doesn't Konoha accept the demolition job?

Kakashi's mind was in a mess until the secret guard next to him poked him, "It's your turn to explain why Konoha doesn't accept the demolition job."

"How do I know?" Kakashi asked hurriedly while he was sorting out the manuscript.

"Speech No. 233."

"I don't have it in my hand, it's on the ground."

"what."

Kakashi watched with a dull expression as the ANBU crouched down to help him find his speech notes.The file as thick as calf height on the floor was the result of the temporary Hokage not memorizing the real-time information before the meeting. Kakashi finally understood the meaning of his teacher's willingness not to eat or sleep to read the information. As the representative of Konoha, sitting On the high rostrum, with so many people watching and looking for manuscripts, it’s really ugly. Damn, Shiranui Genma, since these are all things you have reviewed and numbered, can’t you speak for yourself?

It's a pity that Shiranui Genma's teacher died long ago. He was a guard, and he was not the Hokage's apprentice. Sitting here was not justified and he said, "Kakashi, the Hokage's disciples are never ordinary ninjas."

Yes, yes, Kakashi took the no.233 and arranged the microphone.The Hokage cloak was tied to his arm. What else could he say? The General Staff's speech was completely incomprehensible and he had to read it word for word.

"Kakashi, don't underestimate any small thing. Even if you just go to have a meal with someone, you should find a good reason. Even if you are actually doing bad things, you should find a good reason that will not harm your reputation. . Otherwise the enemy will help you find reasons. If your friends believe the enemy's reasons, you will have fewer friends. If the enemy believes your good reputation, you will have more friends."

What bad politics.

Kakashi turned over a page of manuscript, changed his sitting position and continued to read. Even though he read over and over again, he couldn't suppress what the teacher said.This made Kakashi increasingly panicked.

He really doesn't like politics. He has witnessed all the messy things inside and outside Konoha for as long as he can remember. He loves it so much that he can't even hide from it.

And as the only remaining disciple of the Hokage, it's not like he hasn't had high hopes, and he tried his best.But if it doesn't work, it won't work. He doesn't like to deal with strangers. He doesn't understand the convoluted meanings of those words. He doesn't compromise his noble moral character and simply become a jounin to clear the mission for the sake of the overall situation. If the record is not good, what if I can’t refresh it and stand next to the teacher for the rest of my life?

"But Kakashi, sensei can't protect you forever."

Who wants your protection?Kakashi read the speech a little louder, and the teacher's words in his head were also louder, "Politics is like this, either a friend or an enemy, a potential friend, or a potential enemy. Even if you have the same goals and interests as him Don’t take it lightly, he has the same goals and interests as you, but who knows what will happen next or what other things you don’t know, people will be eager to eat your flesh and drink your blood."

This damn politics.

Kakashi read the manuscript faster again, and finally managed to concentrate.He felt that instead of dragging his feet here unwillingly, it would be better to finish what should be done quickly and help Xuanjian find his troubled teacher. His teacher was really late for too long this time. .

As time goes by, you will gradually get used to it.

It is still the first day of Konoha's 62nd year. On this day, it seems to be snowing all over the Land of Fire.