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

January 63, Konoha [-]

It was still gray in the morning, but it became clearer at noon, unlike winter.

Fire Country Konoha, New Hokage Studio

Today is the New Year, but there is no festive atmosphere.The inauguration ceremony of the new Hokage sounds like it should be lively, but in fact, in Konoha, except for weddings, all ceremonies are solemn.

Kakashi Hatake stood under the bright light, took the Hokage hat handed to him by the Third Hokage, put it on the podium aside, then took the Hokage cloak given to him by the teacher, and put it on carefully.The white cloak was fluttering in the breeze, and Kakashi could imagine how the red flames beating under the clothes were like his heartbeat.

Bang bang, bang bang.

This is not the first time Kakashi has worn the Hokage cloak. He had stolen it from his teacher before, so he asked a tailor to change the size a few days ago. During several rehearsals yesterday, the General Staff specially designed which way the wind would blow this morning.Theoretically, he had long lost the novelty of the Hokage's cloak, and he shouldn't be nervous if he had become accustomed to something.

But when it came to the matter, Kakashi was still nervous.He felt like his breathing was short of breath, his brain was congested, the capillaries on his fingertips were about to burst, and he could imagine that his ears were red.

"Kakashi, do a good job."

Fortunately, his ears still worked. He could hear the whole Konoha cheering for him, and he could hear the teacher encouraging him.He originally thought that the teacher would pat him on the shoulder as he had rehearsed, but the teacher suddenly took his right hand and raised it high above his head. Maybe it took a few minutes, maybe only a few seconds. Kakashi didn't know if the teacher noticed it. Seeing his stiffness, had he ever worried about what would happen if his unlucky disciple failed in his performance? He didn't even know how he opened his legs, how he stood in front of the microphone, how he faced the camera, and for the first time he acted as the fifth generation of Konoha. The identity of Hokage speaks to the world.

Or, not the whole world.

A newspaper costs half a yuan, a radio costs nearly a thousand, and a television costs thousands to tens of thousands.For a ninja, the most expensive TV isn't too expensive.In addition to the old men and women in Konoha who do not accept new things, the big family who stick to the old principles, and the busy Hokage, the family has long started to live a life of watching TV and playing games on the sofa after dinner every day.But real life is not only in Konoha.

The destruction of land and population caused by war is difficult for children born in peacetime, especially children who have never left the walls of Konoha, to understand.It is not until they have been on the field many times that they can occasionally get a glimpse of the real world.After all, most places that require ninjas to perform tasks can afford ninjas' high task fees.

In short, the Third Ninja War has ended for 15 years.In the past 15 years, there have been only small-scale local conflicts and the suppression of banditry.However, according to statistics from capital officials, it was not until the end of last year that no one in the entire Fire Country died of cold or starvation due to lack of food and clothing.

This is still in the Land of Fire, which has fertile land and a suitable climate. This is true after the teacher led Konoha to take over the entire Fire Country and worked diligently for eight years. It is probably even harder for Naruto and the others to imagine that the majestic golden flash and His friends once had to fight to the death with ninjas from other villages just to bring a few carts of food and medicine to Konoha.

The fourth generation Hokage of Konoha may have become the most annoying person in life. In a place where the ANBU of Konoha cannot supervise him, he is cursed as dirty, despicable, cunning, insidious, cruel, cold-blooded, and hypocritical. But Kakashi feels that Well, the teacher probably doesn't care about such trivial matters.

As the teacher said, the Hokage is no longer the village chief responsible for receiving task assignments and leading the whole village to fight in groups.Rather, he is the military and political leader of the Country of Fire.

If we say that Konoha still had to be cautious when he was a young king, but now that Konoha's own child is the king, the fifth generation Hokage Hatake Kakashi, no matter how unreliable you are, no matter how much you like to watch making out, heaven will erupt. Plug your ears, in fact, what you have to do is also the work of the leader of a country.

stressed.

The teacher emphasized to him whenever he had free time these days that Golden Flash was just a charger before he became Hokage, and he didn't do a very good job in the end.It took the Anbu Archdemon a full year to adapt from being a candidate for Hokage to actually becoming Hokage.

Kakashi said that he would not be as stupid as his teacher back then, and he was so stunned that he only knew it hurt.But it's not abnormal for a new Hokage to make some mistakes, right? For example, during the inaugural speech, he forgot the words because of his random thoughts, and he couldn't pronounce the words clearly because he forgot the words, and he couldn't follow the background music because of the unclear words.

But if he really made a mistake, Kakashi was no longer nervous.Thanks to his chief of staff, Genma, after the last rehearsal went wrong yesterday, he finally thought that if it really didn't work, he could have him wearing a mask and lip-syncing to the recording, which is not much more difficult than lip-syncing with a concert star.Thanks to his father who gave him a mask when he had his teeth changed when he was a child, so that he could go to school obediently.

"Thank you for your hard work, Godaime-sama."

"Everyone, try your best." Kakashi jumped off the platform amidst the cheers of everyone's attention, leaving the audience with the handsome back of the "Fifth Generation Hokage", and ended his performance.

"Very handsome, Godaime-sama."

"Thank you." The ninjas and representatives from various parties in the square on the first floor of the Hokage Building began to leave one after another. The ordinary residents of Konoha who gathered outside the Hokage Building could also celebrate the New Year in peace.

"Konoha is safe and sound, Lord Godaime."

"Well, sensei, if you take advantage of the fact that almost everyone in Konoha is here to cause trouble, that person is either going to commit suicide or going crazy." Then came the Konoha high-level meeting, and Kakashi decided to take a breather in the backstage of the auditorium before the meeting.But when he saw the soft high-back sofa chair and the fat sea in Asuma's hand, he still didn't dare to relax for a second, because in addition to hearing the teacher use honorifics to him, he also saw Konoha's former Hokage. Stand at attention and salute him

Minato approached Kakashi, stood at attention and saluted again, "All stations in Konoha are also safe, Lord Godaime."

"Teacher, what are you trying to do?" Kakashi trembled suddenly, but stood still, "Don't be like this, don't make such a joke. You know, I"

"Anyway, you won't be obedient." Genma opened the door and came in, followed by Shisui and Momochi Zaizhan, "Yondaime, we are here, you are lip-synching, you are getting scolded."

Minato ignored Genma with a playful smile, Shisui and Momochi looked suspicious, and motioned to the expressionless Asuma to close the door, "Kakashi, you performed well just now, and you will stand up for the meeting later." Be generous and generous, don’t show timidity.”

"Okay, okay, I won't show any timidity." Kakashi was a little embarrassed when he saw Genma still snickering.He really wanted to squat on the ground like usual, raise his face to show an innocent little look to the teacher, and then make a wisecrack to get things over.For example, can I not show my cowardice that I have a leak?

But it happened that he was still acting like a Hokage a few minutes ago, so it would be too awkward to change his expression immediately.

Minato was quite satisfied with Kakashi's serious look.He pushed away the iron-clad folder that Genma quietly handed over, and also rejected the chair that Shisui silently moved, and just continued to look at Kakashi with his arms folded.

Kakashi persisted for a long time this time before he said, "Why should I let you say honorifics to me? Why should I let you stand at attention and salute me?"

"Why are you the current Hokage of Konoha?" Minato understood what Kakashi meant, as if the child couldn't bear to see him kneel to the leader of the country.

"In all these years, I haven't heard the third generation pay you an honorific." The room was full of people, and Kakashi had nothing to show off. "How can a senior salute a junior? There is no such rule in Konoha."

"It starts today." Minato glanced at Genma and Shisui, who understood what was going on and became embarrassed, "Shikaku, Haiichi, Fugaku, Hinata and I are not as close as Zhiwei and Dingzao, and we have been since we were young. We are familiar with each other and fought side by side. I was the Hokage and they were promoted together almost at the same time. They are both young people. They have also discussed that Konoha needs some changes. They should be my supporters. But later, they tended to be conservative. Third generation. Why do you think?”

"" Kakashi didn't know how to answer. Could he just say, "Sensei, you are weak?"

Minato didn't expect Kakashi to answer, "At the high-level meeting after the inauguration ceremony, everyone collectively

He declared his allegiance to the new Hokage, but the Third did not get up from his seat.I didn't think anything was wrong. I was probably more embarrassed than you were just now when Sandai stood up.But later on, when I had a falling out with Sandai in the capital, I gradually realized there was a problem.I was just tough on the third generation once, but Fugaku and the others turned to support me again, why?"

"" Kakashi wanted to answer "winner or loser", but he was afraid of getting the answer wrong.

"The third generation never said that I was a puppet he put on the front desk, and even gave me all kinds of encouragement and education, but he actually did it." Minato sighed, "In the first meeting of the fourth generation Hokage, At the high-level meeting, without me being aware of it, I announced to everyone in Konoha that Namikaze Minato is not ready to truly become Hokage."

""

"A naive fourth generation and a third generation who, although he has made some mistakes, is dedicated to serving the public and has rich experience. I would also choose the third generation."

""

"Modility is a virtue, respecting the elderly and caring for the young is also a virtue, but Hokage doesn't need it." Minato glanced at Asuma, Genma, Shisui and Zabuza again, "Some people will say that I can't blame anyone, it's me who was not prepared. Okay. But being prepared really means being familiar with all kinds of little tricks, being excellent at personnel struggles, and being able to scheme against people in your heart while still smiling on the face."

""

"If I gain support and everyone is united as soon as I take office, the result can only be better than now."

""

"Do you understand?"

Genma, Asuma, Zaizan and Shisui looked at each other, shook their heads, then lined up in a row to face Kakashi who was also shaking his head, clicked their heels, stood at attention and bowed their heads 45 Du, said in unison, "Hello, Lord Fifthai, are you late today?"

"Ah, I accidentally got lost on the road of life again." Kakashi finally squatted down and held his head, laughing.

""

"You guys." Minato wanted to lose his temper, but he couldn't get angry anymore, "It's just the three of them, why bother joining in the fun by killing you."

"Because he has no eyebrows." Sarutobi Asuma still didn't like the work in the Hokage's office, but the work also depended on who he was with.

"By the way, Zaizhan, I never asked you, are you born without eyebrows or are you shaved." Genma glanced at Minato and asked anyway, he was really curious.

"Shaved." Shisui didn't dare to look at the former Hokage and answered directly, "I saw him shaving his eyebrows in the ANBU locker room."

"But why do you need to shave your eyebrows?" The bearded Asuma touched his beard, "Gaara, no, it seems that the Kazekage-sama doesn't have eyebrows either."

"It's not necessarily because of Gaara's one tail." Kakashi didn't even dare to look at his teacher, but it was really exciting to do bad things under the teacher's nose. "I'll ask Gaara later, eh, Zaizhan, you haven’t said why you want to shave your eyebrows.”

"My eyebrows don't look good."

"Isn't it to become stronger?"

""

"Okay, let's go to the meeting." Namikaze Minato took a deep breath, and he felt that he should take out the quick-acting heart-saving pill and hold it in his mouth first. There is really no doubt who is more difficult to deal with between the naughty boys and Tsunade, "Anyway, my family is worried. Now, you two, take care of each other for the rest of your lives."

"Of course." Kakashi patted Minato's shoulder carefully.

"Relax." Genma pulled Minato's sleeve, "Don't be so sad when you retire. I haven't heard your bad jokes for a long time."

"It's a joke. I just think about having Metkai sitting in the conference room." Minato rubbed his forehead.

"Yamato is actually not an honest boy." Shisui added.

"Itachi Uchiha is the big problem," Zabuza complained silently.

"It's okay, it's okay, they are all on the field." Asuma quickly comforted the Yondaime who gasped. This guy has a heart disease. Don't get angry again.But smiling more is definitely better for your health than frowning all the time.At least it's good for everyone's health.

Asuma observed all the way and saw a group of them coming out of the backstage laughing and joking, and the atmosphere in the entire Hokage Studio seemed to lighten up.

Except for that old man.

Sarutobi Hiruzen did look at his youngest son from a distance with a straight face. It wasn't until Asuma walked into the conference room with everyone, and the conference room was tightly blocked by the metal door that he smiled.

"You're not going to the meeting." Mito Monobu was leaning on the stair railing, chewing oden, "Where's Koharu?"

"I'm going home for lunch." Hiruzen Sarutobi carried a flower pot as big as his head downstairs, "I'm going home for lunch too, if you don't come back."

"Waiting for my son, he still has 20 minutes to change his shift." Mito Kadoyan nodded, "Hey, are you going to the ninja school after the Chinese New Year?"

"No, Minato-chan has been thinking about the position of honorary principal of the Ninja School for a long time." Sarutobi Hiruzen also nodded, "When he was the current one, he was prevented from working part-time. Now that he has resigned, we cannot have two principals."

"That's right." Mito Kadoyan watched the old Hokage go away, and then continued to enjoy the wonderful replay on the big screen in the square.As the absolute protagonist, Kakashi has never shown his sharp edge, while Minato Namikaze is much duller, and Hiruzen Sarutobi is even less colorful. The camera either flashes by or half of his old face is blocked by a flowerpot as big as a human head.

"Times are different after all." When the first and second generations took them to learn martial arts and fight, who would have imagined that in a few decades, washing clothes would no longer be done with soap but in a washing machine, and if you can't walk upstairs, you can take the elevator. , the weather is so hot that you can turn on the air conditioner, and you don’t even need to put nails in to control public opinion and spread the word of mouth.Also, medical scrolls, pills, and everything else can be produced by machines instead of people.

This is technology, right? Orochimaru would rather be a traitor than to study something. Orochimaru was not only studying the art of immortality back then, "Jiraiya, why are you alone, Orochimaru?"

"We're in a meeting." In the leisure floor, Jiraiya was eating lunch. The classic fried noodles in the cafeteria were added with two thick pieces of roast beef and a small pot of sake.

"It's so rich." Mito Menyan threw away the oden skewers, "Why don't you follow in?"

"Without my position, I'm not a high-level person." Jiraiya munched on the barbecue, "Besides, I don't know what to discuss with everyone while I'm sitting there. I might as well eat and wait for Naruto. Let me tell you, we Naruto Started dating a little girl from the Hinata family.”

"Haha, it's nothing new." Mito Kadoyan pushed up his glasses, "When did you date Tsunade?"

Jiraiya put down his chopsticks, put his chin on the table, raised his hand and pointed, "Look, it's a shift change."

Konoha, January 63, 1, at one o'clock sharp

Special handover times on special days

"Sasuke, do you want to eat together?"

"I'll go home and tell my mother first, otherwise she'll keep waiting."

"Okay." Naruto waved to Sasuke simply, and Jiraiya jumped out of the building with Xianglan and Oniden Suigetsu without passing by.Today is the New Year, and thanks to the blessing of twelve o'clock at noon in Tokakasi, there may be very few people actually making lunch, so whether it's a cafeteria or Ichiraku, if you don't hurry up and get a seat, you'll have to wait.

Sasuke returned home unambiguously.He and Naruto had been on diplomatic missions together for the past few days. He felt that he was not suitable for these greetings, but having a fixed team was better than nothing. "Mom, mom, brother is still in a meeting and won't be back for lunch at noon. Naruto and I have a party. Mom, mother, aren't you at home?"

Doubts and questions, familiarity and unfamiliarity

Kakashi's first day as the Fifth Hokage