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

Today is Hatake Kakashi's seventh day as the Fifth Hokage. The weather is sunny and there is a magnificent sunrise on the sea.

"The master of the house jumped down just now, or Itachi jumped with a plop."

"It is indeed a jump, not a fall."

"pick up something"

"Wandered away."

"Let's go, wait a minute, Master, what are you doing? Please don't act alone." The sleepy middle-aged Uchiha saw Itachi swimming faster and farther, and jumped into the sea after him, until he was exhausted. The caught cable was put back on the deck, "Communicator, give me the Thunder God communicator."

"Master, turn off the phone."

"Then give me the communicator. I want to talk to Master Shisui."

"beep"

Fire Country Konoha

Hokage Building Hokage Office

08:30 am

"Beep beep beep."

Anbu, who was reporting to the Hokage, waved his hand and walked away, "What? Hmm, okay, I understand, don't worry, I'll take care of everything. I'll get back to you later."

"Something happened." Kakashi stood up.

"There is a little trouble at the border station. You know, the ANBU over there is not actually under Kai's control." Shisui said calmly.

"Really." Kakashi pushed the chair away and walked out of the desk, "I remind you, your mask is not on your face now, and my ears have not deteriorated like the teacher. How did I just hear that Uchiha was chasing the lost man on the sea? The old woman is gone, and the owner of the house can’t be contacted.”

"You heard wrong."

Kakashi held out his hand.

Shisui spoke very fast, "Kakashi, don't panic. The Hokage cannot be afraid of his subordinates messing up things. The Hokage himself has messed up a lot of things. We should work hard to learn from the Yondaime-sama. Bad things can be turned into good things, and disadvantages can be changed from another angle. It's beneficial. The greatest compliment to Naruto's ability is that he can clean up things he messed up in minutes."

"So you are telling me." Kakashi grabbed Shisui's collar, "On the seventh day I took office, the two of us made a big mess."

"It's just not in the plan. Besides." Shisui put on his mask and spread Kakashi apart finger by finger. "Those who fight for Konoha are trustworthy from head to toe, but taking the initiative in troublesome tasks It’s a good habit to wear the Flying Thunder God symbol, as the three-pronged kunai can save lives at critical moments.”

"Thunder"

"Calm down." Shisui almost avoided Kakashi's miniature Raikiri, "I'm just making an analogy, how can it be possible to labor Yondaime. I gave Itachi the white layout, and Yondaime gave you the copy."

"Thunder"

"I'll lend it to Itachi for the time being. You said before that there are spells written all over the bookshelves, so you can take them as you please." Shisui rolled his eyes, "Besides, let Itachi make love to heaven. Do you think he will really carry it with him and take good care of it?"

"Otherwise, I'll also make a batch of kunai." Kakashi scratched his hair, "It's just that I'm still far from the teacher."

"Don't worry, Itachi is carrying a communicator. If he needs help, he will report the coordinates to the Flying Thunder God team. You are just a precaution."

"But he turned off his phone."

"Because he is wasting electricity on standby." Shisui slapped his forehead and opened a bottle of universal supplement for Kakashi. He sincerely thanked Orochimaru for his invention and Yakushi Kabuto's high efficiency, "Godaime, we agreed, this I am solely responsible for the matter. I let Itachi handle it on his own. This is a problem between their mother and son. I will handle it. No matter what the result is, it is still an internal Uchiha matter. But your excessive attention will escalate the nature of Konoha and The height of the Uchiha family.”

"I know that it has nothing to do with the teacher's reputation or the truth of the matter. It's just to prevent enemies from alienating him." Kakashi squeezed the bottle loudly, "It's still too passive to let Itachi out."

\"It's not like fighting against others, just being quick with your sword will do. Think about why Yondaime didn't give you the shogi records."

Kakashi felt that Shisui was messing around, but he had no way to refute, "Yes, the weak will go first with black, and the Hokage will go with white."

"Yes, you are white." Shisui nodded. He actually wanted to tell Kakashi that when someone in the Uchiha made it clear that he was going to cause trouble, he deliberately left Itachi out.Itachi is the head of the family, and Itachi is in Konoha, and Uchiha will only obey the orders of the head of the family.And Itachi is not in Konoha Kakashi. Do you think the Uchiha clan members listen to Sasuke, a minor genin, or do they obey a high-ranking middle-aged AN minister?

So even if something went wrong with Itachi and Uchiha, it would just be a change of clan leader, or Konoha would have one less Jonin and one more traitorous Ninja.

Konoha has no shortage of S-level rebellious ninjas.

It's just that Anbu Buchou can be ruthless and do all kinds of evil, but the new Hokage really can't do that.When starting a business, everyone needs a boss who is fair-skinned, black-minded, and unscrupulous. A suspicious boss will rush forward to overcome obstacles. Being kind and honest when running a business is more popular. "Okay, Konoha's new spiritual leader, be more energetic. On the last day of the new year, I will meet the king." Don't delay. Besides, what I just said is that Iwa Ninja has replaced the intelligence director who has been in Yuno Country for many years, and the new director's letter of protest to Konoha is already on the way. Compared to the mere Uchiha, the Fire Country should take the Earth What to do about the country is a big headache for you. Do you have any ideas?"

"" Kakashi has a headache. "The teacher said that when bargaining, whoever bids first will suffer the loss."

"The premise is that without knowing the base price." Shisui added hesitantly, "The fourth generation emphasized that he doesn't care about anything else, Iwa Ninja still has to ask, and he should be prepared for a backup plan."

"Okay, before Orochimaru returned to the village and killed the king, the teacher knew the bottom price, but I didn't know. Now Uchiha Mikoto and Earth Country, you know the bottom price, the teacher knows the bottom price, but I still don't know."

Shisui pretended not to hear Kakashi's complaint, "You go and I go."

"I'll go." Kakashi was unhappy. It had only been seven days since the teacher's mind had completely stopped pretending to be anything.

"Beep beep beep."

Shisui sighed, opened the door and walked upstairs while answering the communication, "Asuma, lift the alert, Godai and I are done."

Asuma walked in, lowered his head and frowned, "New Hokage Building, new office, new decoration."

Kakashi looked distressedly at the two charred floors split by Raikiri, rolled up the information, and formed the seal, "The location of the fourth generation."

Asuma had a big head, "Godai, besides me, you also have a whole team of guards."

Kakashi shut up and disappeared.

Hatake's old house, Xinbofeng's house, and then the commemorative monument.

The forest of comforting monuments is peaceful and lonely.

Sai led Shishimaru and held the water cup, slowly falling behind Namikaze Minato, and suddenly drew his sword and struck it down.

Kakashi dodged the cold light and nodded with satisfaction to his junior, "Teacher, why are you here so early in the morning? It's cold."

"I originally wanted to go to my new home, so I came here on foot." Namikaze Minato was wrapped in a thick coat, scarf, hat and gloves as usual, and he had already turned around in a circle and a half.Muscle memory told him that he should visit the commemorative monument today, but he couldn't remember which anniversary it was. Why did he insist on folding a small white flower? "It's you who skipped work to see if Lin was busy. I was just thinking about how to reconcile with Shizune, but Shizune really can’t do it. How about hand-beating the daughter of the owner of a ramen shop? The son-in-law of a ramen shop can eat ramen all his life without paying. Look at Akimichi Choza, marrying the eldest daughter of a chef’s family, and eating three meals a day. How comfortable it is to serve.”

Kakashi didn't answer, although he felt that talking about Miss Ramen would put the teacher in a good mood, "There's something going on with the Iwa-nin."

"Oh" Minato quickly took the document. He thought his heart would beat faster when he heard the long-awaited message, but both Kinai and Naruto muttered, "It's just a spy nin who sent a letter to protest Konoha's accidental killing of them." your thoughts."

Kakashi was sure that the teacher was in a really good mood today, "Konoha was cleaning up the rebellious ninjas. Other ninja villages responded that they hoped to deal with the rebellious ninjas by themselves, but the Iwa ninja ignored them. As a result, after a few months, Wait for Konoha to bear with their true betrayal

The traitorous ninja almost finished the pot before he knew he was in a hurry.In the novel, a bandit who drags his feet like this can't survive more than three episodes. "

"Iwa-nin is not a bandit." Minato wanted to be serious, but when he thought that both Kinai and Naruto were muttering, he couldn't be serious, "Kannabiqiao, I killed fifty of them in one go. Ninja, if it were the Land of Fire, the Hokage would definitely step down. But the leader of the Earth Kingdom understood it very well and allowed the Tsuchikage to give the ridiculous instruction of giving up the mission and escaping for his life when encountering a golden flash. What will be the consequences of other ninja villages giving up their missions and escaping for their lives?"

"Become a traitor, or abandon your young only son and commit suicide."

"What about treating disabled or dead ninjas? You are also someone who has stood guard for the king. During the luxurious banquet and joy after the war, the king introduced other kings to Konoha to compensate and protect the country. Loyalty is the honor of a ninja. Just make some medals and give them away, and those ninjas will feel that they are particularly great, heroic, and very satisfied, ha."

""

"Other kings think so, but the Earth Kingdom agrees but doesn't do anything." Minato sighed, "Konoha's current high-welfare Iwa-nin will definitely not be able to keep up. But the minimum guarantees and fairness and justice have been provided since the day the village was founded. have."

""

"Iwagakure is indeed a little behind the times, but that's not their fault." Minato found the steps and sat down.

Kakashi followed and sat down.

Minato said slowly, "Before the establishment of the Ninja Village, thousands of years of wars, ninja ninjutsu gradually developed and expanded. On the contrary, after the establishment of the Ninja Village, the First World War, the Second World War and the Third World War, and the national war in just a few decades, countless families disappeared and countless people were exterminated. Blood successor, except for the Kingdom of Earth. Kakashi, why do you think they have it?"

They are worthy of being the masters of the country for generations.Kakashi almost blurted out, "No, other countries use ninjas as swords and weapons, but Earth Country does not."

"Um"

"Isn't it?" Kakashi whispered.

"It can't be wrong." Minato continued to guide, "Kakashi, the reason why Kage is called Kage and not the village chief is that in addition to the nice name, it also means the Lord of the Dark. The five first generations are nominally loyal to the king, but in reality they are the leader. The ninjas went on a collective strike and threatened the customers. The so-called mutual benefit between the village and the country means that the kings resist and cannot settle for the next best thing. So have you ever thought about why the weak kings let those five perverts who play with tailed beasts compromise with them? "

"The purpose of establishing a ninja village is to end the war. Fighting for the king is putting the cart before the horse. Moreover, collective loyalty to the country is the reason for the truce between ninja families. Isn't it the same now? Konoha, Sunagakure, Kirigakure, and Kumogakure can kill the country. Lord of the whole family, he can evacuate the king, make the king bedridden, and put the king under house arrest, but no one wants to be without the king." Kakashi really thought about this, "Teacher, don't rush me, I will Those who go to kneel to the new king, I will go today and I will go in a little while."

Minato looked at Kakashi who was still unwilling. He actually wanted to say, for example, the Land of Fire.How should the country's leader ensure that his own interests will be represented in Konoha after the establishment of the Ninja Village?Shimura was almost there, but Sarutobi was an ancient and famous sect no less powerful than the Senju or Uchiha, and had served the Fire Country for at least hundreds of years. The Fire Country's ancestral temple, the Fire Temple, was guarded by others, so not only did the Shinobu Village If it affects the capital, it will definitely damage Sarutobi's interests.Facing Sarutobi Shimura's defection, Senju Hashirama would only be happy, because that meant that other small families and lone ninjas had no other force to follow except Konoha.The only disadvantage is that Konoha can no longer only consider the feelings of one or two Senju or Uchiha families, otherwise Madara Uchiha, who named the Ninja Village Konoha, will turn against others just because of his position as Hokage.

Minato also wanted to say that of course Konoha is not afraid of the country's leader being mixed with sand. Senju Hashirama can intimidate everyone. After two or three generations in 30 years, who will have time to care about who the country's leader is.However, not only Konoha, but also the five perverts who crushed the country did not survive for a few more years.

All the second generation came to their posts in a hurry.Compared with the first generation, the second generation's strength and prestige are much inferior. If you want to take over the Ninja Village that has only been in power for a few years, you have to take the banner of the king appropriately.But misfortunes came one after another. If you pull the flag, you have to work for others. In the first ninja world war, first the second generation Mizukage and Tsuchikage died together, and then the Raikage was killed in a sneak attack by his subordinates when they formed an alliance with Konoha. The Senju were implicated. Tobirama didn't even last a few days after he came back.Only the second Kazekage was left. He didn't duel with anyone, wasn't plotted against, didn't suffer from illness or disaster. He had just figured out how to make a Jinchūriki and passed on the Magnetic Release Puppet Technique to his disciples. He died inexplicably.also.

Then, starting from the third generation, the five great ninja villages' discussions with the king on state affairs have all turned into an audience. The five great shadows also treated the king respectfully and even knelt down to salute like real subordinates.

"Teacher" Kakashi was a little worried when he saw Minato's expression change.

There was a lot more that Minato wanted to say, but he didn't know where to tell Kakashi about history. Should there be any truth?Should the truth be remembered?But should the historical truth really be carried on everyone’s shoulders and kept in their hearts?

"teacher"

Minato winked at Kakashi, "In other ninja villages, the Kage couldn't marry the princess, but the first Tsuchikage did."

"What a rumor."

"The second-generation Tsuchikage was short-lived and had no descendants. The third-generation Tsuchikage Onoki is the grandson of the first generation. His father is the child of the princess, and his mother must also be a relative of the emperor. When the Ninja Village becomes stronger, the king will definitely not end well. But once the king The Kazekage became a family, and the one who married the princess became the main family and the branch family. Look at Hinata's Hizashi and Hizashi. In the eyes of the big family, the family's inheritance is the first priority. Specifically It doesn’t matter who is the clan and who is the branch.”

"Teacher." Kakashi's tail bone froze inexplicably, "Are you suggesting that I should marry a princess?"

"Where is the princess from the Land of Fire?" Minato felt that he should knock Kakashi angrily, but Kinai and Naruto both muttered, "I just remind you that the other four countries, families and families, The village and the country have been fighting among themselves for 60 years, but the Iwa Ninja, the country of the earth, only experienced a brief period of chaos in the early days, and there has never been any internal strife since the two-scale Onoki. Everyone is united, the politics is stable and clear, and the economy is running A country that is good, strong enough to protect itself and has natural dangers to defend, if there are no external enemies, is destined to be great."

Kakashi is still worried, "If there is a fake king, there will be a fake princess."

Minato swallowed what he said before he could speak, but it was a pity that the Earth Country encountered me and my Konoha.I silently recited a hundred times in my heart, I chose this Hokage, I chose him, he is half smart and half stupid, sometimes his brain is bright and sometimes he is a mess, he was also raised by me with his own hands, "Forget it, I can't decide on internal affairs. If you ask Shisui Asuma more, Genma may also come up with some bad ideas."

“Foreign affairs are still pending.”

"" Minato didn't give up, "What do you think?"

"" Kakashi thought seriously, hesitated to speak, and went back and forth several times, "First ask myself, if you can beat someone else but can't beat it, it's all in vain. Strength is the most important thing."

"Very good" Minato clapped his hands.

Kakashi was encouraged, "Whether Konoha versus Iwa Ninja or Fire Country versus Earth Country, as long as we are not besieged by the whole world, there is no reason for us to lose against anyone alone. So Earth Country, my job Yes, beware of our friends defecting on the battlefield."

"Very good, let me know if you have any news." Minato pressed Kakashi's shoulder decisively and stood up, "Genma always wants to help me hold a grand birthday party. This year, I can satisfy him, and we just have a housewarming party together to save trouble. "

"Okay." Kakashi watched the teacher run away with Sai and Shishimaru, confused.But my thinking became clearer.He picked up a small branch and made signs on the ground. He didn't know how long it had been.

"Kakashi, come visit the grave too."

"Yeah." The young Hokage, whose thoughts were interrupted, raised his head and saw another retired Hokage being stopped by ANBU outside the commemorative monument from a distance.

"I'm here to visit the grave, too."

Kakashi waved the ANBU to retreat and scratched his head, wondering what kind of day it was today. The teacher held up a small white flower, and the third generation also held up a handful of incense candles.

"Thank you for remembering him." Sarutobi Hiruzen staggered closer and handed Kakashi three sticks of incense.

Kakashi silently looked at Qingyan Miaomiao in his hand, his head full of questions, but since he was paying homage to the people in the memorial monument, he couldn't help but feel a lot more sincerity in his heart.

Sincere, hazy yet firm

Tomorrow is January 63th, Konoha Year [-]