[Hokage] Thank you for loving me

In Konoha Village, on the desk on the right side of Hokage's office, Shikamaru is writing at the desk, replacing the Sixth Hokage who went out to attend the meeting, answering urgent letters sent from various places one by one.Suddenly, an exclamation came from the sofa opposite him, which caused him to stop the pen in his hand. After a little hesitation, Shikamaru still couldn't help being driven by curiosity, raised his head and asked, "What did you see again this time?"

"This wood carving!" Sai stood up from the sofa, held up a palm-high wooden figure, and sighed, "The carving is so realistic! It perfectly restores Sasuke's appearance and demeanor." Walking to Shikamaru In front of his desk, he put the wooden figurine on the table. He pointed to the exquisite face and said, "Look at the eye on the left, even the six gouyu are specially drawn with a fine-tip brush."

Shikamaru looked at the woodcarving for a moment, and said, "Although I don't understand it, it does look like a very good work. It's hard to imagine that it was done by that young woman just now."

Sai said: "The art of woodcarving not only pays attention to the craftsmanship of the sculptor, but also pays attention to the degree of careful observation of the carved object. On the premise of mastering the basic knife skills and skills, if you can fully inject the carving work feelings, restore the details with the utmost patience, no matter men, women, young or old, it is possible to make high-quality goods."

"Sai, your insight into woodcarving is quite profound."

Sai smiled and said, "Because when I have nothing to do, I will carve something to pass the time."

"In other words, the woman who gave this wood carving just now had a crush on Sasuke for a long time. While observing him silently, she carved the image of Sasuke in her heart on this piece of wood bit by bit. It was hard to wait until this time when he returned to the village. Only then will I have the opportunity to send this gift to express my heart.”

"Observation? Sasuke hasn't been back to Konoha in the past few years, how can she observe him?"

"Of course it's a photo or a portrait." Shikamaru shook his head, "Sai, can you stop entangled in irrelevant things every time you chat, it's really troublesome to explain."

"How long are you two going to chat?" Sasuke asked suddenly by the bookcase. He was holding a stack of task scrolls recently completed by Konoha Village in his right hand, and was filing them one by one according to the task level with the pupil technique: "Let you I came to Hokage's office to help with chores, not to chat. If you want to chat, go to the teahouse opposite."

As if he didn't hear Sasuke's ridicule, Sai said with a smile, "Would you like to take a look at this wood carving too, it's very similar to yourself."

"No need." Sasuke turned his head, and a scroll flew up from his arms and stuffed into the bookcase.

"It's too cold." Sai said, "If you don't even look at it, the person who gave the gift will be sad."

"I didn't want to accept it. You two left all those things without authorization."

"Then let Hokage-sama come back and take a look." Sai placed the wooden carving on the Hokage desk in the middle, and continued: "Since you are back in the village, Sasuke, you must get along with everyone in the village. Accept the gift frankly, It’s also your way of being friendly and gracious.”

I don't need to do that.Sasuke wanted to answer like this, but he held back when the words came to his lips, and just shrugged noncommittally.

The three of them were busy for a while, and the door of Hokage's office was knocked open again.This time, two young girls about thirteen or fourteen years old dressed as ninja came in.

"We are here to deliver the task." After the two walked in, they took out the task scrolls from the ninja bag, and after whispering to each other, their fiery eyes fell on Sasuke in the corner.

"Oh, let's put it on the desk in the middle." Sai replied.

But the two girls walked up to Sasuke with the scroll as if they didn't hear it, and handed it to him.Sasuke didn't even look at it, and said coldly, "Put it on the table."

The two screamed "Yeah!", waved the scrolls in their hands excitedly, and repeated, "Even the sound is so good!"

well.Shikamaru leaned back in his chair wearily: it was the women who borrowed □ to pay for the task and came to Hokage's office to "visit" Sasuke.

"Master Sasuke, I have fallen in love with you since the end of the Ninja War four years ago." One of the girls with long black hair couldn't wait to confess: "Although you have been traveling all year round, I have always believed that you always have I will return to Konoha one day."

"Although Naruto-sensei has a lot of fans, you are the most handsome in my heart!" Another girl with a shoulder-high ponytail stretched out her left hand that was shaking with excitement, and asked, "Is it okay?" It's easy to see you in person in the village, can I shake your hand?"

However, the scroll was stuffed in the only right hand of the other party, and he silently refused.

"Let's take a photo together." Without any frustration, the black-haired girl approached Sasuke, and while beckoning her companion to help take a picture, she posed in a happy V, not minding Sasuke's uncooperative and indifferent face .

"Okay, okay." Muttering in his heart, "It's too troublesome, let's leave quickly", Shikamaru stood up heavily, stepped forward and pulled the two girls away from Sasuke: "Please don't make noise in Hokage's office, You two can leave after putting down the mission scroll."

"However, we still have a gift to celebrate Mr. Sasuke's return to the village..."

"For presents, put them over there." Shikamaru pointed to the corner of the wall, where all kinds of gifts with a girlish atmosphere lay there quietly, piled up into a hill.

With expressions of astonishment and unwillingness, the two girls still obediently stuffed the gifts they carefully prepared into the mountain of gifts. Before Shikamaru "invited" them out, they still turned around and shouted: "Master Sasuke, please!" Be sure to look at our presents."

Watching the two of them leave, Shikamaru finally heaved a sigh of relief. At this time, a new visitor appeared at the corner of the corridor where the girl disappeared.

"Yumen?" Looking intently at the tall and strong black figure, he found that the person who came was the Jonin who had performed the mission together before, Yumen Shingo.

Great, finally someone who didn't make a special trip to "visit" Sasuke!Shikamaru welcomed him into the office with the door open, and said with a smile, "Long time no see."

"Long time no see. Just now, two subordinates ran away screaming." Yumen said in a tone like reporting a mission, so calm that no emotion could be heard.

"Oh, don't worry about it." Shikamaru closed the door behind him, subconsciously glanced at Sasuke, the "culprit".

Turning his head following Shikamaru's gaze, Mito noticed the presence of Sasuke in the room, a trace of confusion flashed through his eyes, leaving more sullenness and resistance in his eyes.

Sasuke also squinted at Mimon who had just entered the room, and under the meeting of eyes, both of them felt the disgust from each other.Sasuke raised his eyebrows lightly, looked away, and continued to do what he was doing.

Not noticing the fleeting strangeness between the two, Shikamaru asked the visitor: "Yumen, are you here today? Hokage-sama is having a meeting in the city of fire during this time; if you have any urgent I can convey it to him on his behalf."

Yumen shook his head lightly, and said, "No, I just came to deliver the task." He handed Shikamaru a scroll of A-level task, with the word "End" sealed on it.

"Aren't you serving as the guard of the distinguished guest from the Rainbow Kingdom? You still have time to perform other tasks."

"He also went to the City of Fire for a meeting. I had nothing to do, so I found a simple task nearby to perform."

"As expected of Yumen-senpai." Sai smiled and approached the two of them, looked at Yumen respectfully, and said, "Always complete tasks efficiently and dutifully, and treat clients with respect and courtesy. Every time you take back your tasks The report is full of positive reviews.”

"As a Konoha ninja, this is what you should do." Yumen replied lightly.

Saii nodded cooperatively to show his approval, then suddenly thought of something, put on a curious smile on his face, and asked, "Senior, what happened to your date with Sakura last time?"

"what?"

"It was the time I ran into you two on the street."

"Oh, it's just shopping together, not a date."

"It doesn't count? That means, it's time for a date?"

"Hey, what are you talking about!?" Shikamaru leaned close to Sai's ear and whispered a warning, while secretly observing Sasuke's reaction.

Saii didn't seem to have heard his companion's question, and the smile on his face became even wider, and he asked, "The time I saw the two of you eating bento together in the park, was it a date?"

"boom--!"

There was a loud bang from the bookcase, and the door was slammed shut.

Sasuke walked quickly behind Sai, with a cold face, he threw the unfinished scrolls onto the desk.The green scrolls were scattered in a mess and rolled uncontrollably in all directions. Some of them rolled to the front of the table, hit the wooden figurines, and then stopped. The wooden sculpture wobbled on the edge of the table. After a few hits, it finally fell to the ground.

"This is troublesome!" Shikamaru tugged on Sai's sleeve, silently retreated from the central desk to the sofa, and evacuated the "battlefield" where the other two were about to explode.

Yumen looked at Sasuke, then lowered his head, and found that the wooden statue that fell at his feet was carved into the image of Sasuke when he drew his sword. Some of the presents were tied with pink ribbons, some had heart-shaped postcards on them, and some had red marker pens with the eye-catching "Received by Mr. Uchiha Sasuke".

His eyes finally fell back to Sasuke.

"This is Hokage's office." Yumen tried to suppress his emotions, his voice trembling, with a hint of gnashing of teeth, "It's not a place for you to mess around." Since entering the office, he has always wanted to ignore the existence of Sasuke, but this time But I couldn't bear it any longer.

"What do you mean?" Sasuke said with a straight face, without giving in.

"I don't know why you suddenly returned to Konoha, and I don't want to know why you can casually appear in Hokage's office, but this place is no better than the outside, it's not a warehouse where you randomly put gifts, and it's not a place where you throw things!"

"Yumen, you misunderstood." Shikamaru hurriedly stood up and explained for Sasuke: "These gifts were accepted by Sai and I on our own initiative, Sasuke actually..."

"Don't you like it?" Yumen sneered, "Then don't accept it at first. No one needs your hypocritical friendliness." After speaking, he bent down to pick up the fallen wood carving.However, when the hand was about to touch it, the wood carving suddenly flew up from the ground.

The treacherous samsara eyes turned silently, and the wooden carving flitted provocatively in front of the imperial gate.

But in the next moment, there was a "snap", and with a swift movement, Yumen grabbed the wooden carving firmly, blocking its flight to Sasuke.

On one side was the powerful control of Sasuke's pupil power, and on the other was the fierce force of Mimon's grip. The two were in a stalemate for a moment, which made the small statue tremble in Mimon's hands.

"When I was in the Rainbow Country, I thought you just wanted to make amends, so you used an ambiguous attitude to compensate Haruno. Now it seems that you are open to all women, or you have always been very Are you good at using this kind of ambiguous attitude to cheat other people's feelings?"

Recalling that rainy day, when Sakura squatted alone under the cherry tree and cried, the trembling back, helpless and desperate, Yumen's heart was suddenly filled with a complex emotion that had never been seen before, sadness, heartache and sourness , and, anger... Why, a strong and kind person like her would willingly give and wait without complaint or regret for a person who didn't know how to love, didn't know how to give, and even betrayed tolerance and loyalty.

When you are interested, you will show kindness to her and make her happy; when you are tired of getting along, you will push her away and let her cry and be sad.Such an ambiguous attitude!Such a selfish act!

Never forgive!

"You can go back to the village," the strength of the right hand gradually increased, the veins protruded clearly under the wheat-colored skin, and the jaws were gritted faintly: "But! Don't get close to Haruno Sakura!"

With a "click", Yumen crushed Sasuke's statue into pieces.

Swinging his right hand, Yumen turned around and stepped out of the room, curling up the drifting sawdust.

The office of Hokage was filled with a late-summer hot flash, like a steamer that had just been uncovered, making it difficult to breathe.But, even more unbearable than that, was the silence and the awkward atmosphere.

Shikamaru glanced at Sasuke standing behind the desk with a livid face, and asked the people beside him in a low voice: "Sai, why did you mention Sakura just now?"

"I just wanted to find something to chat with Senior Yumen." Sai replied innocently, "I didn't expect him and Sasuke to suddenly lose their temper."

Shikamaru raised his forehead: "You bastard, when will you completely learn to speak according to the situation!"

Sai asked, "Shouldn't we be talking about Sakura just now? But I heard that Sakura didn't like Zuo..."

Shikamaru covered Sai's mouth and said with a wry smile, "Please don't say any more."

At this time, Sasuke suddenly walked towards the door, passing the two people who were quarreling.

"Where are you going?" Shikamaru asked hurriedly.

"Konoha Hospital."

When Sai heard this, he smiled and said, "Then I'll go together too, I haven't seen Sakura for a long time."

"...Did I say I was going to see her?"

"Isn't it?" Saito asked with a smile.

I don't know if he was too lazy to talk anymore, or he acquiesced to Sai's question, Sasuke didn't answer any more, and left the office in a hurry.

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When rivals in love meet each other, they are extremely jealous.