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

White clouds fluttered in the sky, and shadows swayed underground.

Last night's weather forecast said it would continue to be muggy throughout August.

Konoha August 60, 8

It’s only 7 a.m. and it’s already very hot

Fire Country Konoha, Sarutobi House, Guest Room

Sarutobi Hiruzen was standing outside the door now, and had been raising his hands to block the hot sun for a while, until he finally realized that his hands were still too small for the sunlight.He sighed, Sure enough, many things are beyond human control, such as climate. Since the world is divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter, we must respect this rule, instead of the old ninja silently taking a deep breath, holding the door handle, When the door was opened violently, a unique cool breeze greeted us.

"Breakfast has been prepared for a long time." The old ninja was aroused by the sudden cold air and had goosebumps all over his body.

But Mito Kabuto, who was sleeping on the tatami, spread out his arms and legs, looked extremely comfortable, and was still snoring slightly.

Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed and could only close the door again.The door made a "bang" sound immediately after leaving his hand that suppressed resentment.Sarutobi was startled by his rudeness, but he quickly scoffed because he knew that the old man inside the door would never be frightened.After all, he is a powerful ninja who is pretending to sleep but not really sleeping. Well, Mito Gate Flame is not very powerful, but how can any qualified ninja not wake up even if he hears such a loud noise and the movement directed at him? I drank until midnight last night, and it’s impossible to be so unsuspecting at the house of an old friend I’ve known for half a century.What's more, can they really trust each other now?

Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to sigh, but it turned into a yawn.He thought about it all night yesterday and felt frustrated all night, but he still couldn't figure it out.What does Minato Namikaze want to do these days? As the current Hokage, is the Hokage's office haunted or something? Hehe.Don't mention being sick. He was not the one who walked around Konoha in the afternoon yesterday. Those young Anbu couldn't see it, and he, an old man, couldn't see it. The silly kid's transformation skills were only up to standard with the image of a merchant. It was his fault. Now that I am almost 30, I still remember to use it to bluff people.

What nonsense.

But after so many years, what's there to care about when someone like him is almost buried up to his neck?That's right, it's already other people's time, he just cares about it, those who are dead can still live, so my old friend is willing to treat him as a real hangover even if he doesn't wake up.If Minato Namikaze doesn't feel well and wants to rest more, then just treat him as if he doesn't feel well.As for the place where the Hokage had to be present, people were waiting for Minato Namikaze, not him, the third generation who had clearly won a great victory but resigned in despair and took the blame.As for the consequences of making a mistake, there is no reason why an old consultant should bear the consequences.

So Sarutobi Hiruzen felt at ease and placed Mito Monobu's breakfast in the sun at the door of the guest room, waiting for it to deteriorate and stink. Then he gently arranged his appearance according to the shining black pillars, and slowly He slowly walked out of the door, he was going to the Hokage's office, because yesterday the president of the Presbyterian Church solemnly told him after recalling the glorious past that he, an old man, still needs to continue to help the Hokage lead the class until September 9st. Namikaze Minato is preparing to pass. Summer vacation?

Hokage Building, Hokage Office.

7:45

When the current Hokage finally let his poor good son go to participate in some strange D-level mission, the former Hokage had just finished friendly conversations with countless passers-by and walked to the door of the Hokage Building.

At this time, Uchiha Itachi, the person on duty at the Hokage's office, was continuing his work every morning. He had swept away the dust that fell on the windowsill last night, mopped the floor three times, twice wet and once dry, and even wiped all the dust that had been used. After rinsing the mop clean, I also went to the water room to replace the two old-fashioned thermos bottles with hot new hot water. I also washed the rag with warm water overnight.Itachi was going to wipe the Hokage's big desk again. After wiping it, he would wash the small watering can and water the pots of cacti, a specialty of the Land of Wind, in the corner.After that, he had to take advantage of the gap between the morning meeting of each department and the start of formal work to go to the logistics department to borrow a ladder. He wanted to clean the air conditioner, even though the logistics department had just installed the new shiny machine on the wall yesterday.

then

Maybe stand in a corner and wait for documents to come and go.When documents came, he would sort them and file them according to their numbers and put them in a large cabinet against the wall.Without documents, he continued to wipe the rag here and there to maintain hygiene.Or maybe, entertain those guys who come uninvited even though they know the Hokage is home.

When Itachi thought of this, he sighed heavily.He finally figured out recently that the Hokage Guard only had Kakashi as captain before, so why a night shift captain suddenly appeared as soon as he joined.This is basically to split Kakashi's once-lone job into two parts: security and administration.So considering how powerful Naruto is, he only needs security personnel when he is asleep, so the night shift is the real security force, and his day shift should be called administrative assistant. He was deceived, he was really deceived, he It was even suspected that his file was no longer in the combat unit at all, but in the civilian ranks. Although apart from the Hokage's request to work overtime, he had a lot of vacation time to accompany his brother to cut trees and was very happy, but he really wanted to go out to the village to cut down people.Even if you don't kill people, running errands and delivering information is fine.

Anyway, the poor Hokage Guard Captain no longer wanted to clean the table.So he couldn't help but violated the rules of the office and put the chakra on the rag in his hand. The soft cloth strips immediately unfolded like a sharp knife. Itachi played with it with half-closed eyes, imagining that he was playing with it. Amidst the hail of bullets, he was always ready to dodge the darts that suddenly flew out.

"Cluck!" This is another change in the sound of the door that was broken and repaired again.

"Good morning, sir." Itachi Uchiha immediately stood at attention and saluted.It's still very serious if you ignore the momentarily limp and dripping rag in your hand, and the slight shock after recognizing the wrong person.

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Itachi like a stupid boy, and also sighed harshly.From the beginning, he did not think that Uchiha Itachi was suitable to be the chief of staff of Namikaze Minato.This child is indeed a genius, and geniuses should go to the battlefield, get mission scrolls, and develop new ninjutsu.But he didn't express much opposition at that time. Firstly, it was useless for him to object. Secondly, the child's surname was Uchiha after all, so it would be better if he was abandoned as soon as possible.

"Third generation sir, drink tea." Itachi was now very glad that he didn't slack off and fetch hot water. Apart from the unfortunate interpersonal relationship, he was already accustomed to a job that essentially meant serving tea, delivering water, delivering letters, and running errands.As for why the third generation instead of the fourth generation came to work today, the red-eyed rabbit-senpai, the captain of the night shift who always couldn't see the sun and the moon, had already warned him seriously. The ANBU never asked questions or answered.

"If anything happens today, the General Staff will assign it here." Sarutobi Hiruzen picked up the tea cup, blew it, and sipped it lightly.

Itachi was able to report with a straight face, "The Security Department reported that Konoha elder Jiraiya sneaked into the xxoo female hot spring last night and escaped on the spot after being discovered. Please ask the Hokage's office for approval to dispatch the ANBU directly under the Hokage to participate in the arrest."

Sarutobi Hiruzen felt his masseter muscles twitching as he listened, "Please pass it on to the Fourth Hokage for instructions."

Itachi felt a little embarrassed and handed the report to the third generation.

Sarutobi looked at a few words scrawled in the corner of the report and hurriedly passed it on to the third generation.Namikaze.Suddenly he felt that his hand holding the pen was shaking, so he also wrote a few words and gave it back to Itachi.

Ferret

After taking a look at it, the corner of his mouth twitched. The final opinion on how to deal with it shall be subject to the opinion of the fourth generation Hokage.Sarutobi.

"anything else."

"The Logistics Department and Elder Koharu who transferred to the dormitory jointly reported, "Due to the collective busyness in the first half of the year, the weddings of many young ninjas have been postponed from January 8st to now. They are preparing to hold a collective wedding this month, and the time has been arranged. , on August 15, Summer Festival. "

"Isn't this already booked?"

"Ah, I'm stuck on whether to set off fireworks. The Security Department is strongly opposed. I hope the Hokage's office can come forward to coordinate as soon as possible."

"Does the fourth generation have any instructions?"

“It was approved at the beginning of last month and now we can spend enough money on cigarettes.”

"Then why are you calling me back?"

"Acting Director of the Ministry of Security Uchiha Mikoto strongly objects."

"Just setting off fireworks. You never asked your mother why."

"Anbu don't ask or answer."

Sarutobi Hiruzen snatched the thick document from Itachi's hand, some additional comments on the collective wedding of young ninjas in Konoha, and turned directly to the last page. What do you think? What kind of approval is this? The signature of Namifeng Shuimen is really getting better and better. Just let it go.

"You see, Elder Xiaochun has been in a hurry recently." Itachi has been working for more than half a year and can still speak a few common office terms.

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Itachi and finally signed it.

Then, he continued to listen to Itachi reporting to him other pending documents, and found that the General Staff still liked to push Konoha's trivial issues into the hands of his temporary replacement.This made the old ninja a little depressed.Looking back at Itachi who spoke more and more softly, he felt even more depressed that Namikaze Minato was really a sinner. A good child had become such a disaster after just over half a year.

Time flies and it’s noon

12:[-]

Namikaze House, restaurant

There were four people eating, Minato, Naruto, and Kakashi. There was one more fixed seat than before, and it was not Jiraiya, but Kabuto Yakushi.

Kabuto pushed up his glasses without saying a word, eating silently as usual.The rice was cooked by his Hokage himself. In fact, the difference from Konoha Cafeteria is that all the dishes in Konoha Cafeteria taste like fried noodles, while the dishes cooked by Hokage never taste the same every day.

"I'm full." Uzumaki Naruto didn't eat much. Instead, he drank some water and ran out. It seemed that he was too anxious to say goodbye to his father alone.

This was followed by Minato's father putting down the bowl and sighing silently.

Kakashi then put down the bowl, so Kabuto silently put down the chopsticks in his hand even though he was not full yet.

"You continue to eat your Kabuto." The Hokage frowned, put the chopsticks back into Yakushi Kabuto's hand, and turned to Kakashi, "What happened in the morning? You were still happy when you went out in the morning."

"Itachi's mother led someone to arrest Jiraiya-sama again." Kakashi didn't want to provide this news while eating.

"That's normal." Minato's father sighed again, "What I'm asking is why Naruto is unhappy again."

"People are just gossiping." Kakashi winked at Kabuto.

Kabuto pretended not to see

Kakashi had no choice but to explain, "Jiraiya-sama took Naruto and his team to do hidden training in the morning. The location was not chosen very well because the weather was too hot, and many people like to go swimming and so on. Then they accidentally bumped into each other. A few kunoichi just happened to change their clothes. It was originally a hidden training, so it was nothing, but Jiraiya-sama couldn't control it and just shouted a few times."

"continue."

"Sasuke and Sakura came out when they saw something was wrong, but Naruto was hiding in a very awkward place, and he was very close to Jiraiya-sama."

Minato's father sighed again, and glanced unnaturally at the photo on the cabinet next to him. He felt that his wife in the photo was furiously throwing chakra at him, and was about to grab his ears and yell at him. Namikaze Minato, You are a bad person. Look, I asked you to guard against fire and theft. Look at what you did. My son is finally regarded as a pervert.

"Let's eat first." Kakashi followed the teacher's gaze and looked at Qinai's photo. The cold light in the photo made Qinai feel the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.

Minato still looked at the photo without moving, "Kakashi, find out who among the jounin can be free to take charge of the class recently. It doesn't matter anything else, but at least he must look like a teacher."

Kakashi scratched his head and said, "You eat first. Now the manpower is not as tight as when Naruto graduated. Even if you can't find a suitable one, you can rotate one out."

Minato still didn't move, "Otherwise, I'll take Naruto and his class to class. What do you think?"

Kakashi sighed, "Are you sure you're not crazy?"

"I'm really not busy lately anyway."

"Also, Kakashi. Whose girl does Naruto date at noon every day?"

Kakashi was stunned, swallowing the words "not a little girl" in his mouth, and sweating in his heart. He was almost deceived by the teacher into telling the truth again, but how should he answer? He had to continue to eat the meal, silently The secret code to clean up the pot.

Kabuto continued to work silently with his head down.Although he has successfully participated in the Hokage's life, he doesn't care about things that are not his business.However, after following the Hokage for several months, he was now mentally prepared for the man to get up immediately, go upstairs, and cover his head to sleep 5, 4, 3, 2

1.

Minato Namikaze went upstairs and closed the door with a bang.

Kakashi stared at the smiling Kabuto, his eyes suggesting, "You are dead."

Kabuto smiled silently and replied with his eyes, "Sir, it seems that you separated into a shadow just now and went out."

Kakashi went upstairs and took a look. Sure enough, this kind of clone with only half the amount of everything can only deceive enemies and opponents. Anyone who knows it carefully can't tell it.So he quietly left and went to find his other teacher. Before leaving the house, he didn't forget to glare at Kabuto again.

Kabuto smiled, swept the Hokage's leftover healthy lunch from the cafeteria into the trash can, hummed a tune and continued working hard to clean the pot.

Once we start paying attention to the familiar things around us, we are not far away from discovering the truth

Flowing water at noon on August 60, 8 in Konoha