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

Late March of Konoha 60

Fire Country Konoha, Memorial Monument

4 a.m.

Finally it started to rain lightly.

The Hokage, who had recently been traveling back and forth between Konoha and the Land of Wind every day, finally completed his last journey.He shook out his cloak and sniffed. He had to admit that the sand in the Kingdom of Wind was more annoying than he thought.

"Teacher, it's raining, why don't you take the coordinates of the office." Kakashi received the report and quickly took an umbrella and came out to greet him.

"It's not raining in the Kingdom of Wind." The Hokage pushed away the obstructive umbrella above his head, took out a scroll and handed it to Kakashi, "No, just throw the new secret agreement from the Kingdom of Wind on the office cabinet."

"Yes." Kakashi nodded in agreement, holding an umbrella and approaching the teacher, "The bath water has been boiled for you. Do you want to have breakfast first or take a nap?"

"Hey, although the new finance minister of the Kingdom of Wind is much easier to deal with than the old guy at the beginning, he is really long-winded. You see, it has been delayed until this point. Okay, leave me alone. I have been talking to them for several nights. , My mind is in a mess right now, I'll take a walk here first." The Hokage tapped his forehead, "Is there anything important?"

"It's nothing serious."

"Then what are you doing here?"

"I'll stay with you." Kakashi yawned.

Minato rolled his eyes at his disciple.

"Ah, I really want to accompany you." Kakashi rubbed his face, "I'm hiding from Kabuto by the way."

"Kabuto is still writing a request for Orochimaru's experimental report."

"Well, he blocked me everywhere, and then stared at people like a lunatic without saying a word. I actually went to the hospital to see him, and Kabuto's subordinates said he had compulsive research-type obsessive-compulsive disorder."

"Hey." The Hokage sighed, "Then let him down, since he is interested."

"If you're crazy and interested, just give it to him." Kakashi's hand holding the umbrella suddenly shook and he lowered his voice, "That's Orochimaru's live experiment data, a forbidden technique.

"Well, give him the rare success data. So many people have died anyway, it's not good to waste it."

"Teacher," Kakashi said anxiously, "He wants to continue human experiments."

"You must continue testing once you get the information." The Hokage raised his eyebrows.

"He'll be damned if he doesn't continue the experiment." Kakashi pouted.

"But will Konoha allow this kind of thing to happen? Minister An" the Hokage smiled, "Professional matters should be left to professionals. We cannot deny that Kabuto is a rare and very talented medical ninja. He has the ability to inherit Orochimaru-senpai’s valuable experience. And that kid is much smarter than Orochimaru-senpai. While he knows what he wants, he also knows what he can ask for.”

"can."

"No need, I know what you want to say." Minato patted his disciple on the shoulder, "Don't be nervous, don't worry about anything, just let it grow within a controllable range. I'm not afraid to tell you now, Orochimaru back then What he does in his laboratory is not as mysterious as you think."

Kakashi's eyes widened.

"They are just some corpses that were meant to be destroyed. By the way, we can also eliminate spies from other countries and eradicate dissidents." The corner of the Hokage's mouth curled up even more, "Kakashi, can you understand?"

""

"Konoha's medical technology has advanced by leaps and bounds during that time. I, you, and everyone in Konoha are now the beneficiaries. If it weren't for Orochimaru's new technology, how many more people do you think would have died?"

The new AN Minister opened his mouth, but no sound came out. He felt that he needed time to digest the previous content, but his teacher's next words made him unable to react.

"Later. Orochimaru actually ran it on his own. Use your brain. Where did the funds come from for such a huge and detailed experiment? And the staff who helped him work? My ANBU, Konoha only has such a small place. .”

Kakashi felt a little dizzy.

"As for why he ran away, it was because Senju Tsunade ran away." Naruto smiled and nodded Kakashi's forehead. "Otherwise Orochimaru would have been the first candidate for the Fourth Hokage at that time."

"Didn't he run away after fighting with you for four generations?" Kakashi actually still didn't quite understand what the teacher meant, but it was not good to always refuse to answer.

"I am indeed one of the successors to the Hokage, but I am clearly a candidate for the fifth generation."

"What's the meaning"

"Ah, how do you put it? That's what happened and then I became Hokage."

Hearing this, Kakashi was sure that his teacher was just chatting with him casually, but now that the words had come to this, "Then if it was according to what the teacher said, why would Orochimaru-senpai run away even if he was reported?" Some not-so-good things can't be done as Hokage, so it's easy to clear them up."

"Listen to the important point." When Minato heard Kakashi say that "it's easy to clear his name," he suddenly regretted mentioning these stupid things to his disciple, "The important point is Tsunade-sama."

Kakashi swallowed and glanced at his teacher. The current Yondaime Hokage looked into the distance and kept smiling slightly, but he still felt a trembling feeling.

"Okay, I know you don't understand." The Hokage looked at his disciple who still had confused eyes and sighed, "Let me put it another way, why were you so anxious to choose the fourth generation when the third generation was doing so well?"

“Isn’t it because I’m older and have less energy?”

"He's older now, but you've seen him lose energy."

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"Kakashi." The Hokage continued to sigh, "You weren't a child at that time."

"I"

"What is war, what is victory, and what is defeat? Who should be responsible for the war?"

"Teacher, I don't understand."

"You don't understand that it's best, but you don't need to figure everything out Kakashi." Minato

Smile, "Remember, a war is not something you just win and forget about it. The loser has the loser's responsibility, the winner also has the winner's responsibility, and those who died, whether voluntarily or not, there should always be someone to help them." These dead souls are responsible."

""

"Okay, let me be alone for a while." Namikaze Minato finally waved his hand impatiently.

Kakashi had no choice but to hand over the umbrella in his hand to the teacher, turned around and left. As the Hokage, if he didn't want to be disturbed, he really needed to make arrangements.

"It's just a little rain." Minato took the umbrella and closed it with a complaint as he watched Kakashi leave.Then he continued to walk along the forest of memorial monuments in the dark morning light.

He started from the monument to the 29th year of Konoha, and looked at it piece by piece, using the faint reflection of the rain to guess the writing on the stone slab, but he found nothing except familiar names.However, as the tombstones became denser and denser, the names he could guess became more and more, and the owners of those names seemed to be summoned, spinning in strange circles from his eyes until he stood. In front of the monument commemorating Konoha's 47th year.

There weren't many memorials to Konoha's 47th year, and the stone that stopped him was no different from the others. It was a simple black basalt with nothing but densely packed small characters on it.

He leaned closer in the darkness and carefully identified the outlines of the strokes, reading each one silently, and did not stop until he read "Uzumaki Kina".

Because there were no words after the name, just a flat, slightly reflecting blank. The blank was not big, and it was only enough to carve the four words "Namikaze Minato." That was the place he left for himself.

Minato Namikaze finally smiled. He leaned down and got closer. Although he had always firmly believed that a name could represent a person or his life was ridiculous, but he still couldn't help but want to touch him. Finally gave up again.He was afraid that just once, he would form a habit, and this habit would not do any good to the shallow carvings on the stone.He didn't want to wait until he left his name here. Even if his "Uzumaki Kinai" became shallower and couldn't be buried together, it would be better to put the names together, so that at least it would be more convenient for Naruto when he came to worship in the future.

For example, Obito and Rin, although they did not die in the first year, there is no rule that they cannot be carved together. Wouldn't it be better if they had listened to his words and carved them together to save Kakashi from having to find them every time he came here to worship? Twice, what a waste of time.Anyway, I don’t know if it’s fate or luck that has helped the three of them fall into different categories.

Minato sighed and straightened up. He suddenly felt that dying early might actually be considered a lucky thing. If you die, you don't have to do anything, you don't have to think about anything, and you don't have to walk until you feel tired. , you can float and float.But it's a pity that he is still alive and well, so he can only continue to walk forward with his feet, walking through a year, looking at the stone tablets of the year, and remembering the names of people.Fortunately, the forest of commemorative memorial tablets has fewer and fewer names as it goes on, especially the last tablet, this year's, is empty.

but

Namikaze Minato shook his ears to make sure there was no one around, and squatted down behind the wordless monument.

At this time, the drizzle of rain has already moistened the dry and thirsty soil in spring.Minato hesitated for a moment, but still had no desire to dig into the soil with his hands.So he took out his three-pointed kunai, hesitated for a moment, and then started to pull along the bottom of the monument. After a while, the base of the memorial monument leaked out.

Minato sighed, but still had to touch the mud on it with his hands, and then a twig pattern that seemed to have been engraved not long ago became clearer.Minato smiled as he looked at it. He quickly waved his sharp kunai and carved a curved shape deeply on the side. Well, it didn't quite look like it.

Minato rubbed his head with the back of his hand. Although he could write well, drawing was only at this level.

But it seems that he should have drawn this kind of pattern before.When did it seem like his pretty red-haired girlfriend was playing a prank on a serious senior genius with low EQ?No, maybe it was when the two of them were writing a love letter for a kunoichi who admired this talented senior. Anyway, when Qinai saw it, she kept grabbing his ears and yelling, "What are you drawing? What are you talking about?" It's a snake. Your snake looks like an earthworm. Why don't you draw a letter quickly? Snakes have letters, but earthworms don't.

Okay, let's just draw Nobuko, but how to draw Nobuko? Minato frowned and thought about it until he became dizzy and couldn't think of it.Forget it, just put an x.So, as soon as the kunai went up, there was a big x on the curved lines on the stone tablet, which was ugly.

Minato blushed a little, but he soon stopped caring. It didn't matter whether he looked like him or not. He was the only one who could come to the monument to graffiti.However, if one day after the changes in the world, this place becomes some kind of "ancient Konoha ruins", and the archaeologists dig and dig, they will find the commemorative monument that has been broken or weathered out of sight, and then They found that there was still a small section buried underground, and then they discovered that there was a section underground that seemed to have a code. What a fun thing. It didn't match up with the history books at all. Let's see how their exam papers turned out.

However, if there was an accidental earthquake, flood, or war before the sea changed, these things would have been dug out in advance.Zizzi, it would be more fun if all the witnesses were not dead. I hope he is dead by then.

Minato looked at the group of shapes next to him again. It was still tangled, but no one would misunderstand that it was a bird's nest.Anyway, he himself couldn't tell that it was actually a tree root.

Roots and snakes, do snakes hibernate in tree roots?

Namikaze Minato admired it for a while before reluctantly filling it back in with soil and patting it firmly with his hands.Soon, the dense raindrops assimilated the soil with the surrounding nature. Maybe in a few days, green weeds will grow here again, and then as the warm wind blows, a gust of wind blows over, and the water gate opens. He shivered and sneezed again, and then he realized that the wetness on his body was really uncomfortable.

But there was no point in opening the umbrella now.

Namikaze Minato took one last look at the position of the dirt and stood up. Just when he was about to activate the Flying Thunder God, the world suddenly started to spin. He couldn't do it at all. He suddenly realized that he was so hungry that he felt panicked. He needed to go back quickly to eat something and take a dip. hot shower.

Konoha 60

The spring rain began to fall continuously.

In the morning, the sky gradually becomes brighter.After the Hokage's secret guard on duty warmed the bath water twice and the food three times, he finally got anxious before anyone came back.He hurriedly reported to the ANBU, but by the time his ANBU hurriedly ran to the commemorative monument, Naruto was already soaked and had been lying on the ground for who knows how long.