[Naruto] Lord of a Nation

Chapter 9 Ceremony

Unexpectedly, Ichihara didn't have any dreams last night, and after a rare sleep, he went to Hyuga's house full of energy after having early lunch the next day.

The one who greeted him was Hyuga Hyuga, the head of the Hyuga branch family, Hyuga Hyuzu's twin brother Hyuga Hyusashi.Since the Hinata family likes to wear white, and the overall atmosphere of the family is relatively solemn, Ichihara didn't really look forward to this flower viewing party at first.He reckoned that it was similar to the noble banquets he attended every season, the kind where a few potted flowers were placed, a few haikus were made, flower arrangements were made, and mutual compliments were made.

Unexpectedly, the Hyuga family really gave him something different.

In the past, the banquet seats were U-shaped, with one or two rows of flowers in the middle, and the number was not many.However, the Hyuga family arranged the seats in the corridor this time, with green tea and some wagashi made of flowers, like having tea in their spare time.There were only a few people who actually participated in the banquet, and the courtyard directly opposite the corridor was filled with densely packed flower pots, and those colorful flowers were placed together, even if they were specially designed and arranged, there was still a sense of down-to-earth joy.

Ichihara raised his eyebrows, the Hyuga family probably studied his behavior in the past few days, and specially held a banquet that was different from the socializing of nobles.

"The two Patriarchs have a heart."

"Because tomorrow night is the festival, several flower shops in Konoha have some contacts with the Hinata family. Some of these flowers are sent by the flower shop to ask the Hinata family to choose a leader, and others are provided by the elders of the Hinata family. I My brother and I don't know much about flowers and plants, so I want to ask Mr. Ise to choose a pot of oiran with a shy face." Hinata Hyuzu said respectfully.

Yiyuan naturally responded, "I grew up in a deep palace, and this is the first time I have seen such a variety of flowers. I am afraid I will trouble the two patriarchs to introduce one or two for me."

Isn't this Hinata's plan?After going back and forth and talking a lot, they will naturally become familiar with each other, and friendship will gradually develop.

Drinking tea and admiring flowers is indeed a leisurely thing.

Yi Yuan was really dazzled when he looked around, this pot of peonies was good, and that pot of orchids was also good, but in the end he chose a pot of double-petalled hibiscus.

The petals are slightly curled, the color is intense vermilion, and the stamens are golden yellow, just like a flame burning, Kazuhara made a final decision immediately.Seeing that he liked it, Hinata gave him another pot of hibiscus that was not selected as a parting gift.

After a banquet, the guests and hosts had a great time, and the Hinata brothers knew that Ichihara did not mean to favor Uchiha, and the stone in their hearts fell to the ground.

In addition to the temporary flowers, the Hyuga brothers also thoughtfully prepared a set of yukatas for tomorrow's festival for Ichihara. It is quite different from the styles commonly found in clothing stores.

Ichihara, who got the yukata, remembered that he had promised Obito last night, so he smiled helplessly, asked the location of Hatake's house, and looked for it before dinner.

Luckily Ichihara came just in time for dinner, because Kakashi had just returned from training when he arrived.

"Master Ise?" Kakashi looked at him suspiciously.

"Don't disturb your meal, let me just say it straight. I heard that Konoha will have a festival tomorrow night. I want to trouble Hatake-kun to be my festival guide. It's a bit presumptuous, but Hatake-kun can be regarded as a C-level task. I Commission fees will be paid."

Kakashi was slightly stunned, and suddenly remembered that after finishing the task in the morning, Lin seemed to have mentioned the festival, but Obito forcibly interrupted him before he could say anything.There was a flash of surprise in his eyes, "It must be Obito who asked you to come."

Otherwise, Kakashi couldn't think of why Kazuhara, who had a better relationship with Obito, would come to him, probably Obito was planning to do something stupid again.

Kazuhara shrugged, revealing a knowing smile.

Kakashi frowned, "You shouldn't pamper him like this." However, Kakashi thought that Minato-sensei and Rin would definitely come to pull him along before the festival, so he simply nodded and accepted Ichihara's invitation , "Forget it, I took this task."

After agreeing on a specific time with Kakashi, Ichihara returned to Nara's house, and after dinner, he fell into the communication of the small palace again.

Time passed quietly, and by the time Ichihara cleared up his schedule, it was time for the festival to begin.He changed into a kimono and asked Nara Shikaku, who had made an appointment with his girlfriend to go to the festival, to take him there with him.

At the gate of the festival, there were quite a few small groups gathered around and waiting for someone, and Kazuhara walked towards the Minato class.

Minato was wearing a blue yukata that was the same color as his eyes, and next to him was a rose-red Kushina. Kushina was helping Rin in a light purple yukata to adjust her headgear. Kakashi, who was wearing a dull dark blue solid-color yukata, was standing Beside the water gate, wearing a mask with a serious face is a bit out of place.

Ichihara praised the beauty of the two ladies, and said: "I have an appointment with Mr. Hatake, please ask him to take me to the festival today."

Kushina patted Kakashi on the shoulder and said: "It's okay, Kakashi has already told us, you go first."

"Are you waiting for Obito? Then let me join you."

When the crowds of people in the vicinity were about to leave, they saw Obito, who had arrived late, walking over with a child, and handed the child to a couple with anxious looks not far away.

Obviously, Obito was late this time because he met the child who got lost with his parents.Even Kakashi, who was a little impatient, frowned after seeing his actions, and it was rare that he didn't quarrel with him.

"Okay, it's finally all set, let's go to the festival." Kushina rubbed Obito's hair and said in a low voice, "It looks nice."

"Hey." Obito, who specially picked out a black-bottom meteor-pattern bathrobe, scratched his head in embarrassment. This was what he had prepared for a long time yesterday, just to compare Kakashi today.

Although everyone said that they waited for everyone to gather before entering the ceremony, but in fact they acted separately.Kakashi agreed to go with Ichihara, but Lin couldn't bear to disturb the world of Minato and Kushina, so she naturally left with Obito in the end.

Obito: Plan to pass!

Obito turned his head, showed a smug smile at Ichihara, and stretched out his hands in a gesture of scissors hands.

Kakashi, who was beside Ichihara, obviously also saw this scene. I really don't know whether Obito is proud of his plan or is showing off to Kakashi.

"That idiot." Kakashi whispered.

Although it is said that they acted separately, they set off together after all, and the distance between everyone is not too far.

Kakashi is a very responsible tour guide. In this respect, he is better than Obito. He carefully introduced many interesting stalls to Ichihara, and he can easily tell the relationship between these shops and Konoha and Fire. origin of the country.

Because of this, the two fell behind, and it didn't take long for Obito and the others in front of them to be invisible.

Ichihara was eating a box of freshly baked takoyaki, his eyes sparkled. After so many years, due to his identity and physical factors, it was the first time he ate a snack that he loved in his previous life, and he was so moved that he couldn't help crying. Fast flow down.

Really, he is too difficult.

Takoyaki whetted Ichihara's appetite, and he wanted to try almost every festival snack he saw, which made Kakashi quite worried.Fortunately, Ichihara remembered the embarrassment in front of Obito when he ate ramen last time, but this time he restrained himself and didn't eat too much.

Eating, eating and playing all the way, they came to the shrine and happened to meet Obito and Rin who had already drawn lots and walked out.

"Ichihara, Kakashi!" Obito, who clearly made up his mind to be alone with Lin, greeted them.

Ichihara and Kakashi looked at each other and walked over and asked, "What's wrong?"

"You also go to draw a lottery, go quickly."

Ichihara and Kakashi didn't care about this, they went along with the flow and worshiped God to draw lots. As a result, Kakashi drew Sueji, and Ichihara was a little luck, which was considered a relatively ordinary lottery.

"What, is it actually Yuji?" Obito was shocked.

It is said that the lottery of the fire ceremony is very effective, so in order not to spoil the atmosphere, most of the lottery signs are good luck, and even if there are bad lottery, there are only a few.

"Could it be that both of you are bad luck?" Ichihara said incredulously.

Lin nodded distressedly, and showed her signature, "I am the big culprit, and Obito is the semi-culprit."

Ichihara and Kakashi were silent for a moment, and someone really had such bad luck.

Just at this time, Minato and Kushina also came. Seeing them gathered together, they went up to ask about the situation and asked for two lottery. The result was two red lucky ones.

"It's okay, with Minato and I here, we will definitely protect you!" Kushina embraced Obito and Rin, and his bright smile swept away Obito and Rin's worries.

"Ok!"

Minato has a gentle smile, like their most solid backing.Until there was a ringing bell not far away, Minato looked down the stairs, "It seems that the flower viewing party is about to start, do you want to watch it?"

Jiu Xinnai quickly raised her hand and said excitedly like a child, "Go."

Lin's eyes were also full of anticipation. Seeing this, Obito might have been stimulated by the lottery just now, tugged at Lin's sleeve, and whispered: "Lin, let's get ahead of Teacher and them!"

"Eh?" Lin blinked blankly, and ran back to look at Kushina, who was talking to Minato, thinking that Obito was creating a two-person world for the teacher and Kushina, she readily agreed, and followed Mr. Obito ran down.

Minato shook his head helplessly, turned to look at Kazuhara and Kakashi, "Do you want to go together?"

Regardless of whether Obito's intention is to create a two-person world for Minato, in short, Kakashi and Ichihara will definitely not destroy the atmosphere now, not to mention that they have no interest in flower festivals.

Saying goodbye to Water Gate, the two of them visited some popular stalls that had been queuing up before when there were few people.

Yiyuan almost played all the stalls that must be played in the festival. When he was squatting by the water basin with a fishing net in hand to fish for goldfish, Lin's voice came from the left.

"Meet you again, Kakashi-kun and Ichihara-kun!" Lin walked towards them, with Obito gnashing his teeth in the background, "Didn't you go to see the oiran? This year's oiran is very beautiful."

Hearing her praise, Yiyuan stopped what he was doing, raised his head and said with a smile: "It matches Hei Ye very well."

"That's right, it's like a flame in the dark night. Sister Kushina and Teacher Minato also like it very much." Lin nodded, with the joyful look on her face just now, "Hey, so you guys went to see it. ah."

Kakashi glanced at Ichihara, but didn't reply.

Obito standing behind Lin was a little annoyed at not being able to show off in front of Lin today, but when his eyes fell on the paper net in Kazuhara's hand, he suddenly became clever and energetic and said, "Lin, let's catch goldfish too. .”

"Okay." Lin looked at Kakashi at the side, and invited: "Kakashi-kun, don't stand still, let's come together."

Ichihara looked at Obito's suddenly swollen cheeks, and gave a low laugh, but accidentally, the paper net in his hand was directly broken by the fish.

"Oh..." Looking at the five broken nets at hand, Yiyuan reckoned that there was no need for him to continue playing.Just as he was about to stand up and leave, a paper net was handed to him.

"Here," it turned out to be Lin, "let's play together. Has Mr. Ichihara ever played fishing for goldfish before?"

"Today is the first attempt, and it is more difficult than imagined."

"It doesn't matter, as long as you master the skills, you can get it easily. Let me show you." As a medical ninja, Lin is the best in the team in terms of fine manipulation. Even without using Chakra, she can easily pick up a Goldfish, "Look, put your hand like mine, tilt it slightly, don't use the middle to fish, move quickly..."

Looking at the goldfish in Lin's bowl, and looking at the third net he broke in a row, Obito was stunned for a moment.

Yiyuan tried to use the trick taught by Lin. The first time he got up too fast and failed to catch it, but the second time he caught a small red fish very successfully.

"Thank you, Nohara-san."

"You're welcome, the festival is for everyone to have fun together." Lin lowered her head and caught another platinum fish. At this time, the first net in her hand hadn't been broken, but the Obito on the opposite side had already broken several times.

Lin walked over, "Obito, let me teach you."

All fools know that at this time, no matter whether they will or not, they should agree to it. This is normal development.

However, Obito's idea is definitely beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Facing Lin's proposal, he immediately rejected, "Lin, don't worry, I will definitely catch the biggest goldfish for you!"

No, I've fished several, and I don't need the biggest one.

Lin sighed secretly, but still squatted down, and quietly drove the fish to Obito.

Even Kakashi whispered "idiot" under the mask.

Of course Obito was unaware of Lin's behavior, he was so focused on fighting the fattest goldfish, and before he knew it, a lot of waste nets had been piled up around him.

When the last intact net in his hand was brutally broken, Obito opened his wallet to buy a new net, but found that there were only a few pitiful coins left in the purse.

"!!" Where's my money?Where did my money go?What about the money I plan to buy for Lin as a gift?

Obito stood up in horror and searched his whole body, only to find that he really only had these few steel coins left.

The stall owner looked at him with a smile all over his face, "It's enough to buy a net, do you want it?"

Obito looked at the coin in his palm and pondered for three seconds, and finally handed the money with his eyes closed, "Yes!"

He decided to make a last-ditch effort. Since he couldn't buy other gifts for Lin, he would pick up the goldfish and give it to Lin as a gift.

Ichihara, who had already caught three goldfish of different colors, saw his stupid behavior, took out his purse and walked over, raised a teasing smile and said, "Obito, do you want to make a bet?"

"What are you gambling?"

"Just bet on whether you can catch it this time, well, I bet you can't catch it, if you break the paper net, I'll give you all the money I have on me. How about it, it's a good deal, you can't catch a single fish to be rich.”

Lin looked at him in amazement. Generally speaking, if you lose a bet, you get paid. How can you get paid if you win a bet?And if you contact Ichihara, who is deliberately annoying, it is clearly an excuse to send money to Obito.

Obito was a little unconfident at first, but when he heard Ichihara's words, his fighting spirit immediately came up, "Hmph, I don't want to lose and take your money, I will definitely win!"

The desperate Obito stared at the water surface intently, and when the fat goldfish came, he shot suddenly.Maybe this fish was also exhausted by his tossing, and he really caught it without having time to struggle.

Even Obito was stunned for a while, and after realizing it, he jumped up excitedly.

Then he threw the fish out of the bowl.

— fell out! ! !

Obito, Ichihara, and Lin hurriedly transferred the fish that was flopping on the ground back to the bowl. Lin saw that the fish was already wilting, so she used Chakra to treat it.

After the shock, Obito's joy surged up again, and he showed a smug smile to Ichihara, "I just said that I will definitely get it. Look, I won."

Originally, he just found a clumsy excuse to help him, but now Obito doesn't need it, so he doesn't need to deliberately provoke Obito, "Well, Obito is the best, then you beat me, what do you want?" ?”

Obito probably didn't expect Ichihara to be subdued so quickly, and felt a little strange, and he replied after a while: "You win and give me money, then I win..." Obito touched his body, wearing a yukata and couldn't take it What, now all he has left is the empty wallet just now.

"—I'll give you the fish."

"Obito, did you forget that you said you would give the goldfish to Lin? Is it really good to say that you will give it to me now?" Ichihara winked at Lin after speaking.

Lin next to him received Ichihara's signal, and even teased Obito in cooperation, "That's right, Obito, didn't you say you want to give it to me?"

Obito was sweating profusely, "Yes, yes, it was for Lin..." He pitifully complained to Kazuhara who brought up the bet.

Kazuhara stopped making trouble with him, and ran to the boss to buy another paper net and handed it to Obito, "Since that fish was given to Lin, then fish another one for me."

Obito breathed a sigh of relief, "Leave it to me!"

Then, as expected, he failed again.

Obito: It doesn't make sense, it shouldn't be, can't I pick it up?meditation.jpg

Obito: "Please, give me another chance."

So Ichihara gave Obito another chance, and this time Obito really got it.

In order to avoid the previous oolong, this time Obito carefully held the bowl and said to Ichihara: "Here you are."

According to the regulations of the goldfish fishing booth, no matter how many goldfish are caught, only two can be taken away in the end, and if you want to bring more, you have to pay more to buy them.

Yiyuan didn't intend to take them all back, he only chose the little black fish he brought with soil and the little red fish he caught first, and bought a portable box for them.

Because they spent too long here, by the time they walked out of the booth, the mikoshi had already started to fly outside.There were too many people watching the show, and these small people couldn't see anything at all in the back row. They could only follow the example of the ninjas around them and climb up the trees to see.

Lin and Obito climbed a tree, and Kakashi was going to take Ichihara to jump to the next tree, but was pulled by Ichihara to a further place.

Ichihara didn't forget Obito's plan for today, although Obito and Lin's date didn't go well, but at the end he always had to leave room for that idiot to confess.

In the first mikoshi team, I don't know how Minato persuaded the priests to become a member of the mikoshi bearer.And Kushina stood in the audience closest to him, shouting slogans together.

"The relationship between Minato-sensei and sister Kushina is really good." Lin guessed that Minato-sensei would carry the sedan chair because of Kushina.

Obito's mind was not on the shrine at all, he sat on the same branch with Lin in a trance, and he didn't call out to Lin until the shrine was far away and the crowd gradually dispersed.

"Lin, I like you!"

Lin turned around in astonishment, and when she saw Obito's serious expression, she opened her mouth, unable to make a sound.

After a long time, Lin finally said, "I also like Obito very much, because we are family!"

Afraid of Obito's embarrassment, she didn't directly refuse Obito, but she also expressed her thoughts clearly.She and Obito have known each other since childhood, and have always taken care of Obito, who is always worrying. Over the years, she has regarded Obito as her family and her brother.She has pure family affection and friendship for Obito. On this point, she distinguishes it very clearly, because there is someone else she really admires.

Even if he was always called a fool and an idiot, Obito was not a real fool, so he understood what Lin meant.

"The one Lin likes... is Kakashi?" He clenched his fists in disbelief.

Lin's cheeks were slightly red, "...yes." In fact, Lin didn't think about it deeply, she felt that she was still young, and she wanted to practice her medical ninjutsu better than this kind of thing, so as to better understand Protect your companions instead of annoying Kakashi.

Obito wanted to say that he would not give up, but before he said it, he thought of Lin's words just now.

--family.

The warmth and encouragement he felt was what Lin gave to his family.From the very beginning, Lynn had never liked him, not at all.

Seeing Shanglin's calm gaze, Obito even doubted his own feelings.They grew up together, so is his affection for Lin a family member, or a relationship between a man and a woman?Did he get it wrong, or was Lin the right way?

All his relatives had passed away, and he who grew up alone suddenly felt very confused.

Obito fled.

Not knowing how to face Lin, he jumped off the tree branch and escaped into the night.

Lin looked worriedly at the direction he was leaving, but she also knew that this time she could no longer go forward to comfort and encourage him as usual.

At this time, Lin thought of Minato and Kushina, and she felt that if she was a teacher, she would be able to unravel Obito well.Lin, who jumped off the tree branch, looked for Minato and Kushina among the gradually dispersed festival crowd.

"Separated with Obito?"

Lin turned around hearing the sound, and saw Kakashi who was about to leave and Kazuhara looking at him suspiciously.

"Kakashi-kun, Ise-kun!" Lin called happily, since Minato-sensei couldn't be found, it would be the same if there was Kakashi-no, letting Kakashi go would definitely irritate Obito.

Lin's gaze shifted to Ichihara, "Ise-kun, can I ask you something? Obito..." Lin paused, but still didn't know how to describe it, "Can I ask you to comfort me? Bring soil."

Even if Lin faltered, Kazuhara still understood what she meant, and sighed softly in his heart.

"I see, where did Obito go?"

Lin pointed him in the direction, and Kakashi stopped him with a disapproving expression on his face, and said to Lin, "If you want to find Obito, I'll go."

Before Lin could shake her head, Ichihara said: "The mission of Hatake-kun is just to take me to visit the festival. Now that the festival is over, Hatake-kun's mission is also over. You can send Lin back, I am protected anyway. ,no need to worry."

Looking at Lin's expression, Kakashi guessed what had happened before, and after a moment of hesitation, he let Ichihara go, and even told Ichihara a few places Obito frequented.

Even so, Ichihara still hesitated to go that way. During getting along with Obito, he learned that Obito has two places he often goes to besides the training ground.

One is Nangachuan near the Uchiha clan, some Uchihas would like to practice fire escape here, and the other is Hokage Rock.Obito also took him to these two places.

After hesitating for a moment, Ichihara chose to go to Nangachuan first. Compared with seeing the lively Konoha from Hokage Rock, people who are broken in love should prefer the silence of being alone.

Sure enough, he found Obito.

The author has something to say: let Obito see clearly...

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