Hokage: The little fox picked up by the Hatake family

"Zaoji, eat this."

"Zaoji, do you like this?"

"and this."

Seeing Kakashi buying things for himself from time to time, and seeing more and more things on his hands, Saaki finally couldn't help but said: "Kakashi, no need."

Kakashi, who was just about to enter the meatball shop to buy meatballs, turned to look at her.

"No need to buy any more, these are enough."

"Ah? Okay..." Kakashi was stunned for a moment, then nodded and backed away from the door of the meatball shop.

Kakashi followed Saki quietly, not forcing himself to find a topic like before.

Zaoji held a bunch of things but didn't speak, so the relationship between the two suddenly became cold.

Until he reached Konoha's commemorative monument.

Kakashi stared at the commemorative monument for a few seconds, then turned to look elsewhere.

Zaoji, on the other hand, raised his head and stared at the memorial tablet with many names engraved on it.

"You still can't accept that Uncle Hatake died of suicide, right?"

Although it was a question, Zaoji's tone was affirmative.

Kakashi stiffened, then looked at Saki, smiled awkwardly and touched his head: "Saki, what is he doing? I'm taking you out to play today, let's go, or let's go to another place Let's see."

Kakashi said reaching out and grabbing Saki's wrist.

"You avoid Uncle Hatake's death more than I do."

Zaoki turned his head and stared into Kakashi's eyes and said: "You cannot accept that the father you once admired committed suicide, and you cannot accept that he failed the mission that is extremely important to Konoha because of saving people."

Kakashi slowly let go of Saki's hand.

"I……"

Zaoji looked back at the commemorative monument again.

"Let's go."

Saaki turned around and left with the things in his hands, while Kakashi silently followed Saaki.

……

At night, Kakashi sat on the roof and stared at the bright moon in a daze.

At this time, there was movement behind him, and Kakashi immediately looked behind him warily.

But it was discovered that it was Zao Ji, who was stepping up on the ladder at this time.

Kakashi watched blankly as Saki climbed up to the roof on the ladder, then patted the ashes on his body and sat down next to Kakashi numbly.

"Saki...you haven't slept yet..." Kakashi asked stiffly, changing the subject.

Zaoji rolled his eyes angrily: "I don't know who slammed the door so loudly in the middle of the night. I was about to fall asleep, but the sound woke me up."

Kakashi touched his nose in embarrassment, mainly because he had been thinking for a day and still couldn't figure out anything from what Zaoki said when he went out during the day, so he didn't pay much attention to how loud his voice was when he went out.

Zao Ji just complained. She looked up at the bright moon in the sky and said, "You don't understand, right?"

"Um……"

Kakashi was not surprised how he knew about Zaoki. After getting along with him these days, he knew very well that Zaoki actually had different thoughts from normal children in some aspects, although he did so sometimes.

"Then let it be."

"what?"

Kakashi was puzzled.

"Let nature take its course, and in the future, experience why your father did what he did in the first place."

Zaoji stared at Ming Yue and moved his eyes to the stars beside Ming Yue that gave off a little light.

Kakashi looked at the girl looking up at the moon, followed her gaze and said, "...well, okay."

The two people sitting on the roof were shrouded in moonlight, and the countless stars beside the moonlight quietly emitted their faint light.

Kakashi, who had been staring at the moon for a long time, trying to understand what Saki was looking at, suddenly felt his shoulders sink.

Looking sideways, I saw that Saaki was asleep.

"..."

Kakashi was silent, how could he use his five-year-old body to carry four-year-old Saaki off the roof?

In the end, Kakashi chose and called the ANBU who were watching to help them bring up a quilt.

As for why there are ANBU around, it is mainly because of the early period.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was not confident that a Kisaragi clan would be in Konoha, even if this was what Hatake Sakumo had promised, even if he knew from the information he learned that Soaki was a member of the Kisaragi clan, and even if Soaki had only been three years old when he joined Konoha age.

Under various circumstances, Hiruzen Sarutobi chose to send an ANBU to monitor Hayaki.

And Kakashi also discovered it by chance.

He didn't know why there were ANBU around, but he felt that it was probably because of Saaki, but he would definitely protect Saaki.

Kakashi is only five years old. He has just experienced the death of his father. His thoughts are still very immature and he has not yet been completely affected by Konoha's will.

He only knows that Zaoji is his sister and his last relative. Although Zaoji's personality does not match her appearance and her occasional behavior is not consistent with that of a child, she is his sister.

He felt that as an older brother, he would definitely protect Zaoji, his last relative.

The Anbu who monitored Saki didn't know what was going on in the mind of the former White Fang son of Konoha.

I just wonder from time to time why the Hokage asked him to monitor a little girl with no chakra. That little girl needs the help of a ladder to get to the roof. What is there to monitor?

The ANBU didn't understand, and neither did Kakashi.

But in fact, this is a secret competition between two foxes, one big and one small.