Youjiwei shook off Shikaku Nara's hand.
"Ever since I sent the psychic away that day,
I don't see anything wrong with Watergate.
But you're getting more and more crazy. You have a wife, a son, and a good friend. Life is short.
Why don't you spend more time on them? Why do you keep pestering me? "
"Who's pestering you?"
"You can't pester Watergate either. You want to know what he's thinking.
Open your mouth and ask him yourself.
He's living in the office now! "
"I know.
I just happened to come to the hospital. "Shikaku grabbed Zhiwei's windbreaker again. "I have to ask when I see him."
"When you see him? The day before yesterday, you blocked me at the entrance of the cafeteria.
The day before yesterday, you blocked me at the entrance of the cafeteria? "Zhiwei felt his neck tighten. He realized that he couldn't get rid of Shikaku other than taking off his clothes.
"I'm so unlucky to have scheduled the physical examination on the same day as you!"
December 1, 61 Konoha
Konoha, the Land of Fire
Konoha Hospital Research Institute
11: 30 a.m.
It only took a few repetitions to make Little Naruto develop the habit of peeing in the toilet. It was no different to make the important senior cadres of Konoha develop the habit of regular physical examinations.
After the examination, Naruto, the leader of the Four Generations, was still sitting in Yaoshi Dou's office. He was looking at a small mirror with interest.
He looked at the mirror. In a secluded corner of the stairwell, Youjiwei and Shikaku Nara were pulling and pulling each other.
"It's indeed better than Sandaime's Crystal Ball. The Crystal Ball can only see the same place at the same time, and only Sandaime can see it. If you prepare a few more of these mirrors, you'll be able to monitor the blind spots of Konoha's surveillance cameras. I'll ask Shisui to come to you later, and leave this matter to him. Of course, as compensation for taking away the new ninjutsu, I'll do as you say.
I'll increase the budget of your research institute by 25% next year. "
He smiled slightly.
He was noncommittal.
He continued to use the calculator to check Naruto's medical report.
"It's just that there's still some room for improvement.
It's the same as the surveillance cameras. I can't see any details. Shikaku and Zhiwei have been at odds since they were young, but they've been so close recently … It would be great if I could read their lips like the crystal ball. "
Yaoshi Dou pulled down the corners of his mouth and didn't say anything.
Watergate rolled his eyes. "By the way, you're a grown man now. Have you taken a fancy to any girl recently? I'll help you propose marriage. As long as it's from Konoha, there's nothing I can't handle."
Yaoshi Dou stopped.
"Don't be shy."
Yaoshi Dou continued to calculate.
"Aiya." Watergate was still talking to himself. "In the past, the General Staff Department would always ask me to write a few words for a certain place, but every time I couldn't think of what to write. It was so awkward. But now, he suddenly felt that inscribing words everywhere was quite interesting. After living for a few more years, the words that come out of people's mouths do indeed have some sense. "
"…"
"By the way, I've inscribed words for the canteen, the orphanage, and Konoha School." Watergate rubbed his chin and thought. "What do you think of the saying — 'Man is born to die'? The purpose of life is to die, so there's no need to be afraid of death. Since you're born, you have to cherish life. Just write it on the projector wall at the entrance of Konoha Hospital. "
Yaoshi Dou smiled again. He silently took off his gloves and walked in front of Naruto. He opened the drawer and slammed a small telescope on the table.
"What an awkward child." Watergate tried the telescope. He indeed narrowed the distance. The person who was the size of a fingernail became the size of a finger. "But Dou, I still can't see clearly."
Dou frowned and finally said, "Focus."
"I've done it." Watergate rubbed his eyes.
Yaoshi Dou sighed. "Isn't it blurry and there are some double images? With your eye frequency, it should've been added to your medical report. It's your fault for not checking it every time. "
"It's your fault for only advising me to wear glasses." Watergate put down the mirror. He was not afraid that the two of them would get together to "plot a rebellion." Without the cooperation of the Intelligence Department, the Security Department could not protect anything. Without the cooperation of the Security Department, the Intelligence Department could not do anything, at least in Konoha. Therefore, Zhiwei and Shikaku must be close, just like Fugaku and Shikaku. In the end, they were still a pair of "bad friends." That made him very happy. He just felt a little regretful. Uchiha Fugaku had only been dead for less than 100 days. It was only three months, but it was as if he had been dead for three years. He was even more annoying than when he was alive. "What's the big deal about a ninja wearing glasses all day long?"
"…" Yaoshi Dou raised the corner of his mouth, stretched out his left middle finger, and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose.
"You're basically a civilian."
"So are you."
"…" Our Naruto was silent for two seconds, then rolled up his sleeves and tapped the back of Dou's head. "In short, what I do is my business. It's your business to keep me healthy. Yamato, Yamato, it's done. Bring my clothes over."
"Yes, sir." The captain of Naruto's guard, Yamato, who had been officially in office for ten days, was wearing a black shirt, black pants, and a fox mask. He did not look like a newcomer at all.
First, he put Naruto's casual clothes on the examination bed one by one, pulled out the screen, and stuffed Naruto into it. Then, he folded the hospital gown that Naruto had changed out of, pulled back the screen, and put the boots that he had wiped beside Naruto's feet. Then, he put the slippers that he had changed out of neatly together with the hospital gown. Finally, he unfolded Naruto's snow-white trench coat with both hands …
Watergate stuffed his hands into the sleeves of his trench coat under the reflection of Yaoshi Dou's small glasses. He felt more and more that he was actually a villain. "Yamato, how many times have I told you? You don't have to do this."
"… Kakashi senpai did this."
"That's because you haven't seen me wash Kakashi's smelly socks and dirty underwear."
"Captain Genma used to do this too." The new guard captain with a straight face squatted down to help Naruto tidy up the creases of his trench coat.
Watergate sighed under Yaoshi Dou's mocking smile. "Genma is a problem left over from history. At that time, the guards had just been established. He was the youngest and the weakest in the guards. He could do nothing but tidy up documents and pour tea. Later, he was finally able to do a lot of things. Who knew that his reputation as a bootlicker was already known to everyone. "
"…"
"Yamato, you grew up with me since you were a child. Don't tell me you're like that silly child Itachi, who simply thinks that the guard captain is really there to protect Naruto."
"…"
"In the end, don't be like Genma, who is not welcomed by any department and can only stay by my side to continue pouring tea." Watergate reached out and gently patted the back of Yamato's head. He realized that as the children grew taller, it was a little strange to rub their hair. "Next time, no one will happen to be sick to make room for you."
"…"
"That's not necessarily true."
Watergate pursed his lips and looked over.
Yaoshi Dou smiled and winked at Yamato, who had his head lowered. "Since we have both been taken care of by Danzō, if you have any high-level positions in the future, please tell me directly."
"Yaoshi Dou!"
..
A series of "Hahaha" sounds rang out in the pharmacist's office, which was filled with formalin and internal organ specimens. Although it was reinforced and reflected by the layers of sound waves in the corridor, it vaguely reached the front yard and turned into a slightly terrifying "Jie Jie" sound. Especially..,
Konoha Hospital
Inpatient Department
"The people at the research institute are indeed abnormal." Zhiwei listened.
"Could it be that Watergate is telling a lame joke again?" Shikaku also listened.
"It shouldn't be." Youjiwei saw that Shikaku was in a daze and quickly jumped down the stairwell and disappeared. He decided to change his windbreaker now and reschedule his physical examination today and in the future.
Otherwise..
It was disgusting to be blocked by an old man all day long, but it was wrong for that old man to always want to know something about Naruto from him. The matter with the psychic medium last time was a private matter after all. They were just helping Watergate privately. Therefore, even if Watergate knew that someone was messing with him, it was a harmless joke no matter how angry he was. But just like what Shikaku asked just now. "You're not in Konoha, so you don't know. Watergate has been sick for the past few years. Didn't he catch a bad cold a few days ago? But look, he always avoids the important points in his physical examination reports. Wouldn't you be worried if it were you? "
Youjiwei and Bo Fung Watergate had been friends for 30 years. It would be a lie to say that he didn't care as he watched Watergate become thinner and thinner year by year. But if he had to see the "full version of the physical examination report" because of this, he really had to think about it.
Although the earth would spin without anyone, the health condition of Konoha's highest leader would indeed affect many people, including the attitude of Konoha's own people towards Konoha. Therefore, as "one of Konoha's own people," whether it was "concerned about Naruto's health" or "it wasn't an S-class secret," in short, it was best not to ask about things that Naruto didn't want to see.
Of course, Youjiwei didn't think that Shikaku Nara, who was ranked second on Watergate's trustworthy list, was disloyal. Otherwise, he wouldn't be stupid enough to ask Youjiwei, who had the worst relationship with him and was closest to Watergate. But even so, Youjiwei still deeply suspected that Shikaku Nara was up to something.
And Shikaku Nara naturally knew that as long as this question was asked to someone other than Watergate, it was only natural that he would be suspected. But Naruto wasn't here. Kakashi wasn't here. Itachi wasn't here either. Genma and Shisui were too tight-lipped. Dingzhuo had just returned and hadn't figured out the situation yet. He couldn't even see Kabuto … Youjiwei didn't even have a chance to get information out of him. If he didn't drag Zhiwei down with him, who else would he drag down?
Even though he would have to take the risk of Zhiwei directly exposing him to the Water Gate. But there was a crisis of "trust" between him and Naruto. At most, he would be directly rejected and forced to retire early. Retirement wasn't a bad thing! But if he couldn't grasp Watergate's physical and mental condition in time … the consequences of violating the "gag order" sounded serious, but for ninjas at their level, as long as they were determined to be a traitor, they had to rely on self-awareness and professional ethics. They had to rely on "don't ask what you don't know, and don't tell what you know."
But would Watergate ask?
If Bo Fung Watergate was healthy and mentally stable, his son Naruto would have a promising future. Of course, he wouldn't ask. The earth spun around without anyone. Even if Watergate was so desperate for Kina, in fact, he was still alive now, and his life was no worse than anyone else's. But once Watergate knew that he didn't have many days left, or if he had a psychological breakdown and thought of things to the extreme — people could often fearlessly die with secrets, but few people didn't want to know the truth before they died!
And at that time … would they really commit suicide for a dying person or a madman who had lost his mind?
No one was irreplaceable. Naruto could replace Kina, Genma could replace Hiroyuki, and Zhiwei could replace Fugaku. Even if he didn't have a suitable candidate for the position of Minister of Intelligence, just like when he dismantled Uchiha's security forces back then, he could always solve it by dismantling a few more people. So, Naruto …
"Maybe what Fugaku said makes sense — Bo Fung Watergate did deserve to die. If Bo Fung Watergate really died in the hands of Nine Tails back then, there wouldn't be so much trouble now. "Shikaku waved his sleeve to wipe away his cold sweat and increasingly dangerous thoughts and went into the toilet. He shut himself in the cubicle and lit a cigarette with trembling hands. He knew that he needed to calm down, but that was the way things were. The more you wanted to forget something, the more memories came back.
It was October 10, the year 64 of Konoha. Konoha's Nine Tails Force Of Human Column was about to give birth. As the head of Anbu intelligence, he and Third Generation Naruto were waiting in Naruto's building. In the cave where the production took place, there were three squads of elite Jonins surrounding the cave, making it impenetrable. There was also the child's father in the cave, the powerful Fourth Generation Naruto's Golden Flash. Although they thought of a lot of countermeasures, such as what to do when Nine Tails ran out, no one thought that anything could happen except for the difficulties that a woman must go through to give birth.
And the fact was indeed so. From afternoon to night, until Naruto's first cry, everything went smoothly. The mother and child were safe, and Nine Tails was not out of the seal. But before the cheers of the Dark Unit could even begin, everything was over.
Naruto's building, who had been staring at the camera, found that the entire Konoha and all the nearby screens went black. Then there was a violent explosion, not in the cave, but in Konoha. He looked at Sandaime, who had drawn a seal and was trying to order Nine Tails to stop destroying. Unfortunately, Nine Tails didn't have any sense of reason that day. They could only bite the bullet and fight.
Nine Tails is really terrible, who knows how many people have died, and who knows how long it took before Bo Fung Watergate arrived. He didn't say anything, he just used Thor to take away the crazy Nine Tails. Sandaime hurriedly said a few words and immediately ran there. And he followed closely. But when he arrived, Kyuubi was already gone. He only saw Kina Maelstrom with a bloody hole in her chest, lying in front of Watergate with her eyes closed, and Watergate was half-kneeling in a pool of blood, holding Naruto's corpse.
Shikaku remembered that there were two people who arrived earlier than him. He first looked at Sandaime. Sandaime stood on the side without saying a word, and the other person was Uchiha Fugaku, who shouldn't have been here. He had already taken Naruto out of Watergate's arms and was trying to put the trembling Watergate on his shoulder. It was also at this time that the three of them saw the hole in Watergate's chest and abdomen that was the same as Kina's.
Fragments of internal organs and white bones, it was impossible to imagine what Watergate had gone through. They could only be sure that the couple wouldn't survive.
Sandaime asked Watergate, who was still alive, if he had any last words. Minato was only gasping for breath intermittently. He had already lost consciousness.
After that, it was Shimura Danzo, Xiaochun, and Mito Pyloritis. They looked at Watergate, and then at Sandaime, who was still smoking his pipe without saying a word. Following closely behind were the guards of the Water Gate — Mountain Town's Green Leaf. They were identical in appearance, not knowing the difference between fire and mystery. There were also several Anbu members who were panting. They couldn't stop the three children who were supposed to be in the fallout shelter.
"Med … medical class! Why didn't you call the medical ninja! "
Shikaku felt that he would never forget Huo Xuanmen's mournful cries. At that time, Kuroto really wanted to tell Genma that he couldn't be saved, and now that Konoha has suffered heavy losses, every medical ninja should play their greatest role. But before he could say it, the child already said it for them. It was the kind of tearing that only teenagers could do. "I know, I know what you're all thinking! Saving a troublesome Naruto who has always been disobedient, and even if he is saved, he may be bedridden and unable to fight for the rest of his life. This is not in Konoha's interest, it's in your interest. But he's not dead yet! He's still alive! "
But who were those people at the scene? It was Watergate's second year as Naruto. Except for a few advisors, Naruto's Anbu were still Sandaime's Anbu. So, no one paid attention to Genma. Instead, they asked Fugaku to hurry up and give Naruto to Sandaime.
Fugaku obeyed. But Genma grabbed Naruto in his arms. Shimizu Lei Tong and Yamashiro Qingye also took out their weapons and stood in front of Xuan Jian.
"Call the medical team!"
Teenagers were the most annoying. One second they were still thinking about becoming Naruto in the future, and the next second they had to jump off the Naruto Rock. Because of this, teenagers always did things that adults couldn't do. Sandaime carried Naruto away, and Bo Fung Watergate and his wife were saved.
Yes, husband and wife, you have to admire the vitality of the Uzumaki women. Tsunade left two life-saving scrolls in Senju's house, and they'll be able to open their eyes in a few days. And Bo Fung Watergate, a normal person, was judged by the medical ninja to need at least two more months to wake up. Even if he woke up, he might not be able to stand up.
But, father, mother, and son, the family of three, no one was missing. It was a warm reunion.
"Unfortunately, the story doesn't end here." Zhiwei stuffed the cigarette butt into the toilet, threw the urine cup in his pocket into the trash can, and jumped out of the toilet window. "Physical examination, physical examination, in all of Konoha, Watergate is the only one who needs a monthly physical examination! Everyone knew that it was just to make the Water Gate less conspicuous. Why were they investigating it so seriously?! It's as if all of Konoha's top officials are afraid of death. "
What's there to be afraid of when people die?
…
December 1, 1961 Konoha
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