The weather continued to be sunny.
Metke finished lunch with his disciple, Lee Luo Ke,
Walked out of the Konoha cafeteria entrance. As usual, he enjoyed squatting at the entrance of the cafeteria to pick his teeth and bask in the sun after eating. But today, he couldn't bask in the sun. Because the entrance of the cafeteria was covered by a huge shadow. This shadow came from the Naruto Building,
The one under construction,
The new one, no matter where in Konoha,
Could even be seen clearly outside of Konoha.
Kai used to look forward to this towering reinforced concrete building,
Just as the leader of the Four Generations said,
That represented Konoha's strength and determination,
Even if it was as ugly as a thin enoki mushroom. Of course, as the project progressed,
The logistics team had already covered the golden enoki mushroom with layers of short chimneys from the bottom to the top, until it looked like a thin conical tower. There was a golden enoki mushroom in the chimney.
In short,
The diameter of this tall chimney was more than twice the size of the enoki mushroom, so of course, the shadow it cast was more than twice the size.
This made Kai even more inexplicably afraid, more than when he heard Lee recite the motto of "The Legend of Perseverance Ninja" and heard Lee say that every graduate of Konoha Ninja School,
Could recite that famous saying, but he was still afraid.
"Kai sensei."
"Lee! We're going to change places to bask in the sun today. " Kai suddenly felt that he couldn't smile, but he still smiled. "Go to the training ground. As long as you can still sweat, your youth will never end!"
"Kai sensei, what you said makes sense!" Lee Luo Ke raised his thick eyebrows and took out a small notebook and pencil.
"It's the famous saying of that sage!"
"Konoha's number one hot-blooded ninja,
The crazy Adai. "
"Huh? Isn't Konoha's number one hot-blooded teacher you! "Lee licked the tip of the pen.
"He's dead,
The number one is me. "Kai pulled the pencil out of Lee's mouth,
"How many times have I told you, nibbling on pencils will lead to lead poisoning. You're already very stupid, brat."
"Oh." Xiao Li felt that his teacher was in low spirits today, so he didn't say anything more.
However, Guy still used violence against his disciple. He grabbed the back of Lee's neck and dragged him to run again. He thought as he ran, thinking of Maito Dai, his dead father. As he thought about it, he threw Xiao Li away with all his might. "Go, my disciple. For your youth, for your dreams, go around Konoha a hundred times and digest your food!"
"OK ~ OK ~ OK ~"
Guy watched as his disciple nimbly adjusted his body mid-air, landed on the ground and ran away like a cannonball, and suddenly felt very satisfied.
"Maybe Maito Dai felt good when he dumped me." Looking at his rough and broad palms, Guy pulled the long, black and curly hairs on his arms. Stroking his wide chin, he recalled his dad's face and felt that it was time for him to try growing a beard. "Yoshi, it seems that I haven't greeted him for a long time. If you want to go, just go. Action is the key to youth!"
But when Metke really came to greet his father, the sun was already setting in the west. After helping Lee with the devil's special training in the afternoon. At this time, there were tens of thousands of chimneys, and there were even fewer people at the memorial monument than at noon and midnight. This was also the time when Kakashi, who was habitually late, liked to be late.
"Why are you so noisy even when you're sweeping a grave?" Hatake Kaka had just been quiet for a while when she saw Guy running towards her with a yellow wild chrysanthemum in his hand. The branches were broken, and the petals were broken. She really wanted to fight with him.
"Because youth is about vitality!" Guy put the small chrysanthemum that had been destroyed by the wind in his hand in front of Konoha's Year 46 monument, side by side with Kakashi's lily. "My old man doesn't want to see me crying. You seem to be very troubled, Kakashi."
"Noisy. You should think about how to meet my sensei first. Tsk tsk, the whole of Konoha is waiting to see you make a fool of yourself." Kakashi moved a step to the left, where the monument of the year 45 of Konoha was, but this time there was no flower. "Isn't that right? The future Konoha Field Captain. "
"I'm really just here to report. Four Generations -sama can see me when he wants to. As a ninja, following orders is the number one virtue." Guy wiped the words "Matt Dai" on the monument of the year 46, then compared it with the words "Nobara Rin" on it, and carefully wiped it twice.
Kakashi didn't say anything.
But Guy never knew what it meant to "ask for a snub". He used his elbow to poke Kakashi, who was wiping "Uchiha Belt Soil". "Hey."
"What?"
"Tell me the truth. Why did Four Generations -sama give me the cold shoulder this time? Did he tell you anything?"
"Didn't you say that following orders is a virtue?" Kakashi rolled his eyes.
"I was just saying." Guy was actually quite frightened. "Don't be so stingy. Good brothers are loyal. A while ago, ahem, I never told everyone why you were spanked."
"I was never spanked." Kakashi gritted his teeth and stopped himself from forming the hand seals for the Thousand Years of Pain.
"Okay, okay, okay. You weren't." Guy waved his hand. "But I'm serious this time."
But Kakashi didn't know that weight training took up a lot of his time and energy every day. "You should ask Naruto. That kid has always liked to play with you since he was little."
"That's because you're always so lifeless. Kids are the most sensitive." Guy almost rolled his eyes. He wasn't Kakashi. He wasn't stupid enough to scheme against someone else's son right under his father's nose.
"Anyway, if you're in a hurry, just ask Naruto." Kakashi sighed. "He's the only one in all of Konoha who can control his father."
"Ugh, just ask him for me. I'm not in a hurry." Of course he was! Although Maito Gai's heart (chest) was publicly acknowledged to be big, and his chest (chest hair) was also publicly acknowledged to be enthusiastic, but he still couldn't withstand the cold face of his superior, who had the power to kill him! Of course, it wasn't a big deal to be ignored by his superior. But Konoha was still a village, and a village was a collective. Even if a collective went on an excursion, it was impossible to satisfy everyone. If there was dissatisfaction, there would be conflict. If there was a conflict, but they couldn't fall out with each other, there would be rumors. If there were too many rumors, even a fake could become the truth!
"Why are you so quiet all of a sudden?" Kakashi wiped off the names of all the people he knew on the tombstones. He saw that Metke was already squatting down and drawing circles on the tombstones. "Childish."
"Youth will never grow old!" Guy shook his glossy black watermelon head and moved his glossy black eyebrows, but he didn't grin or give a thumbs up. "Kakashi, do you think I should go to Yondaime-sama and admit my mistake?"
"…" Kakashi looked at Guy's rare crying face and wanted to laugh. "You deserve it. I told you to come over for dinner earlier, but you didn't come more often. Let's see if the guards dare to stop you if you come too often. I don't understand. Why do you have such a strong opinion of my sensei? "
Guy pouted. He wanted to tell Kakashi that it was ridiculous to talk about fairness and justice with someone like him who always stood on the "satisfied" side of the group. Anyway, he said, "You won't understand even if I tell you."
Kakashi gave Guy a sideways glance. "You're crazy."
Guy also gave Kakashi a sideways glance and continued to squat down and draw circles. Guy really intended to apologize, because what Kakashi didn't understand didn't necessarily mean that Naruto -sama didn't understand. It should be said that the leader of the Four Generations knew that Metke was different from others from the very beginning. As a ninja, he absolutely didn't think that his life was more important than the mission. He was willing to die to protect Konoha. His family's "Hachimon Tonkou" technique was something that traded lives for lives. But was the mission really more important than friendship, love, and even family?
Guy believed that he would choose between the mission and Kakashi, or the mission and his disciple. Just like Konoha's White Fang, Kakashi's father, the tall elite ninja who always had a cold expression on his face, even though he was forced to commit suicide in the end.
"Okay, okay. Who are you showing that expression to? You look like you've been wronged." The more Kakashi looked at Guy's posture, the more disgusted he felt. "I'll ask for you after dinner. Let me tell you in advance, sensei's temper has been a bit bad with everyone except Naruto. No, it's very bad."
"Hehehehe." Guy immediately stood up and gave him a thumbs up. "Good brother!"
"Idiot."
"Hehehehe, Kakashi, let's go. Let's run 100 laps around Konoha before dinner! I'll definitely win this time! Hahahaha, youth is all about sweat and passion! " Metke laughed exaggeratedly. As long as Kakashi was willing to ask, everything would be fine. Kakashi knew that the Four Generations' leader was asking for the pitiful little Kakashi. If Kakashi could bring him a reply, it would prove that Naruto had received his message to "apologize", and he could go. Guy thought for a few days and finally understood. An ordinary ninja wouldn't care if they thought the mission was more important or the person was more important. But a high-level ninja of Konoha?
The Memorial Monument Forest
"A general's success is built on thousands of bones! Don't be soft-hearted. "
Fire Country, Konoha Naruto Rock
The wind was blowing, and the night was filled with lights.
"I'm not soft-hearted. You're being ridiculous." Bo Fung Watergate walked in circles with his hands behind his back, his coat fluttering in the wind. "It's just evidence, Zhiwei. I want evidence, not your reasoning. You were just afraid that I would expand my surveillance range and accuse innocent people!"
"At that time, I was afraid that you were just looking for an excuse to get rid of the dissidents." Zhiwei simply told the truth. Only a small part of his coat fluttered in the wind.
"Am I that kind of person?!"
"Don't be in such a hurry." Zhiwei stood up. He wanted to say that although Bo Fung Watergate wasn't that kind of person, Naruto was obviously on the decline and hadn't even chosen a successor. Naturally, he would want to pave the way for his successor while he was at the peak of his prestige. But how could Zhiwei really say something like that? "Watergate, I apologize for my previous doubts about you. But the situation is different now. After eliminating the impossible, I really can't guarantee that the rest of them are the same. "
"But please, Zhiwei, those are my Black Ops and Naruto's guards! Every one of them is a Konoha elite who has undergone strict screening! " Watergate continued to walk in circles. He really wanted to slap Youjiwei's report in his face. "You investigated for more than half a month, and then you told me that other than Kakashi and Naruto, everyone around me is possible. Zhiwei, if I needed this kind of answer, would I need to suppress the transfer of so many people and let Konoha spread rumors for half a month just to not alert the enemy and keep you by my side? Don't you think it's funny? "
"It's not funny, but it's the truth. Your current situation is more dangerous than you think." Youjiwei looked at the moon and sighed. "Watergate, I looked at your schedule. In a few days, Water Country will send someone to discuss economic plans. Don't let National Capital slowly come to Konoha, you should go directly to National Capital. You haven't been to the capital for a while, right? "
"What do you mean?" Watergate frowned and stopped walking.
"I'm afraid you've already alerted the enemy." Zhiwei looked at the goosebumps on Watergate's arms and frowned. "You're wearing too little."
"Why do you care what I wear!" Watergate pushed Zhiwei away and began to walk in circles on Sandaime's stone head.
Zhiwei once again took the upper hand. "I really don't know if I don't investigate, but when I do, I'm really impressed. There are so many traitors in the Black Ops. Even Zabuza was sent to Konoha as an Anbu patrol every day. "
"Those are Kakashi's people. Besides, most of the traitors are in the field. Their Ninjutsu characteristics are too obvious. Without them, it would be difficult to shift the blame. Zabuza is an exception. He's only responsible for patrolling the periphery."
"What about the dead people under Shisui? Shisui, I know this is the case, but I really don't know when you took in dead people. "
"One of them was acquitted after I sentenced him to death. I can't let him die for the sake of Konoha's system and my dignity. There are two more. One is a spy from Shinobu Iwa, and the other is a spy from Kumo. They are kept around to pass on false information. "
"Fine, you're brave," Zhiwei said helplessly. "Then what's with the Medicine Master's Pocket? Good God, three spies are too few. "
"The experimental data left by Orochimaru is too precious. Someone has to be responsible for continuing it. Don't worry, I engraved an explosive curse on his heart. If he doesn't listen, he will turn into ashes at any time."
"Okay, that's reasonable. Then why did you mix Gen and the Anbu together?" Zhiwei was really helpless. "Danzō senpai's people are trained according to the death soldiers. They are indeed loyal to Konoha. But Danzō was never convinced by you. Being loyal to Konoha is not being loyal to you. Aren't you afraid that he will bury a mine for you?"
"…"
"And, there is indeed a mine." Zhiwei sighed. "When you let Genma and the others fill the high and middle positions in the administrative system, you actually used Gen as a guard? Well, you chose a personal Shadow Guard. A few days after you gave him a code name, he dared to stab you in the heart with a poisoned weapon while you were sleepy after taking medicine. Do you really think that your charm is invincible? "
"Anyway, it's better than you being alone all the time." Watergate whispered, "Oh, he didn't really stab the fly in the end. He even carried me all the way back."
"He was going to stab you!"
"Die." Watergate spread his hands. "I don't want to, but Konoha is short of people. What can I do? Tsunade-senpai and Jiraiya senpai are outside and don't listen to orders. Hiroyuki, Shikaku, Fugaku, and even Kakashi have old injuries. The rest are either too low in status or too young. If I don't transfer Genma and the rest of the guards to various departments to help, what do you think I should do? "
"…" This time, it was Zhiwei who didn't know what to say, because he was also a member of Konoha who often ran around and couldn't go home. "In short, I didn't know that the composition of your guards and Anbu was so complicated."
"…"
"I know. I can only say that you are lucky."
"Nothing can be done without taking some risks." After Watergate calmed down, he finally felt how strong the wind on Naruto Rock was. He crossed his arms to protect his stomach and began to regret not wearing his Jonin vest. "By the way, you just suggested going to National Capital? Tell me about your plan. "
"Yes." Youjiwei pulled down his sunglasses. "You took Kakashi and Naruto's team to National Capital. Yamato is still trustworthy. The rest of the guards have a reason to stay in Konoha. I'll start with the Shisui. I can't prove that Shisui is innocent, but he can go to Sennai Ibixi to prove himself. If the torture team says he's innocent, I'll check the others one by one with him. The more credible ones will continue with Ibixi. "
"What a stupid idea." Watergate didn't like Aburame's plan. "How can you guarantee that those who are loyal to me won't resent you? In the end, there will be no traitors in the guards. "
"So you have to go to National Capital." Shiki smiled. "You'll be the scapegoat, and I'll take the blame. Before Hokage went to the capital, he hoped that Shiki, the Aburame, would be able to help discipline his guards. Because there have been a lot of rumors flying around recently. For example, Kakashi was beaten in his own yard. How did others know? But that reclusive old guy was eager to be promoted to Captain of the Guards and did a lot of bad things. But in the end, Naruto, who returned from a business trip, set things right. "
Watergate knocked his head and calculated the pros and cons. "So, the personnel change still has to be delayed?"
"There's no need to delay the field work and the guards, but your new Captain of the Guards will have to wait until I'm fired."
"Then Dingzhuo's wife will skin you alive."
"Wait, Dingzhuo is really going to be your Captain of the Guards?" Zhiwei suddenly had an idea. "Hey, Watergate, who will take over Fugaku's position?"
"Ah, I'll leave for National Capital tomorrow morning."
"Bo Fung Watergate!"
"Don't be anxious."
Anxiety is the most useless emotion.
… … …
Konoha 61, mid-to-late October
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