December 8, 61 Konoha
9: 21 pm,
Country of Fire, Konoha Naruto Building
Naruto Office Lounge
Huo Xuanmen was looking at the restless Bo Fung Watergate.
He didn't know what to do.
"Sir,
Leader of Four Generations, don't go around in circles.
Go take a shower first.
Maybe you'll feel better after taking a hot shower. "
Watergate also felt that his current state of mind was wrong.
He could only nod.
He put down the communicator in his hand that couldn't be dialed.
He went into the bathroom. "Let me know as soon as there's any news."
"Hey, hey." Genma briskly closed the door for Naruto.
"Please call me if you need a back scrub."
But the only response he got was the sound of running water. Genma sighed and looked at the innocent-looking Yamato. He clapped his hands at Uchiha Shisui, who was writing furiously in front of the coffee table. "Are you really that busy?"
The red-eyed Uchiha Shisui nodded and then shook his head.
"What do you mean by nodding and shaking your head?" Genma was also a little annoyed.
"Metke too. Why hasn't he replied yet? He should be here by now."
"Maybe it's cold, and the messenger eagle can't fly fast."
"It can't fly fast? How can it not fly fast if it's a different eagle an hour away? " Genma chewed on the bitter in his mouth. He leaned closer to Shisui and whispered, "I wasn't in a hurry at all.
But if I continue to wait like this..,
I'll have to be anxious too. "
Shisui had no choice but to put down the document in his hand.
He tilted his head and listened to the sound of running water in the bathroom.
He opened his mouth. "I think that instead of worrying about that side, it's better to let Bai Lai check your electrocardiogram."
Genma finished decoding and raised his head. "Explain what you mean."
Shisui blinked as well. "Compared to the connection between father and son or some bad premonition, I think that if a person is always flustered, it's more likely that there's something wrong with his heart."
"…" Genma was really panicking this time. He walked to the bathroom and knocked on the door. "Sir, do you need me to scrub your back?"
Naruto's irritated voice came from inside. "No need, I'll be done soon."
"Oh." Genma took a few steps back. "He just had a physical examination last week. His eyesight is a little worse, and he has a decayed tooth. Don't scare me."
Shisui sighed again. "Even a useless ninja like you can control your heartbeat, what do you think an adult can do?"
"…" Genma gritted his teeth. "This isn't the past. There's no reason for him to resist when he's not feeling well."
"I'm afraid he didn't even think about it."
Genma scratched his head. Just as he was about to open his mouth, he saw a pair of bright eyes rushing towards him.
Yamato opened the window. Shisui reached out and the messenger eagle with the Konoha forehead protector landed.
Genma took off the iron hoop on the eagle's leg and frowned as he took out a small piece of paper from inside.
"How is it?" Shisui's ears twitched, but he didn't dare to make a sound.
"Nothing." Genma passed the paper over.
Shisui took a look. "This afternoon, the pigs in the outpost were stolen. Jiraiya led Naruto's team to catch the thief. Everything went well. As for the communication device, I don't know. The person in charge of the outpost at the Konoha border, Metke. "
"Does this mean something happened or nothing happened?"
"You should be asking what the hell is going on."
Shisui felt the corner of his mouth twitch. "I've always thought that letting someone like Metke become a leader is a disaster."
"But at least it means I don't have to call Dou anymore." Genma sighed and knocked on the toilet door. "Sir, the letter is here."
The sound of running water stopped.
"It's nothing. Don't worry."
"Okay." Watergate answered and opened the door a few seconds later.
Genma pulled Naruto, who was wearing a bathrobe, onto the small sofa and took the hairdryer from Shisui. "There's still foam on your head."
"Let's get down to business."
Genma organized his words. "Yes. Sir Jiraiya led Naruto and the others on a mission. They're not in the outpost."
Watergate frowned. "Give me the original report."
Genma handed over the piece of paper.
Watergate unfolded it and looked at it. The one-centimeter-wide piece of paper was densely filled with numbers and symbols. Watergate knew that it was the commonly used code, but he couldn't see it clearly.
Shisui handed him a small ruler with a magnifying glass.
Watergate looked at it for a long time before he sighed. "It seems like nothing happened?"
"Yes, sir." Genma agreed while drying his hair. "I think more specific information will be sent tomorrow morning."
"Tomorrow." Watergate was still frowning.
"You're not in the mood to work today anyway. Go to bed early."
"That's good too. I want to run two laps tomorrow morning."
Genma turned up the heat and Watergate's hair was soon dry.
Watergate yawned slightly and snuggled under the blanket. "See you tomorrow morning."
Genma and the other two left the lounge in silence. Shisui motioned for Yamato to go back to bed quickly. Then he sat at the door and flipped through the documents as usual. Genma sent Yamato out and sat down with Shisui.
"You're not going back to bed?" Shisui asked.
"It's only ten o 'clock. I'm not sleepy." Genma looked empty and sighed slightly. In his experience, the stupid Kai's report couldn't fool their wise and farsighted Naruto at all. No matter how relaxed the tone of the note was, it couldn't stop a father from discovering that his son was uncontactable.
Sure enough, in less than ten minutes, Naruto's voice came slowly. "I thought about it. Although you might think that I'm being a little unreasonable, I still want to go to the border."
Genma and Shisui looked at each other and didn't immediately stop him. After all, it was already a great improvement that he didn't suddenly disappear.
"Now when I close my eyes, I have a lot of bad thoughts," Watergate said.
"… …"
"It just so happens that I have something to tell Kai in person. I originally wanted to ask him to come back for the New Year, but now it seems that I can make a trip there." Watergate's voice was getting smaller and smaller.
"… …"
"If everything goes well."
Watergate opened the door. He was already dressed and had a thick sandstorm cloak in his hand. "I'll be back tomorrow morning."
Genma wanted to tell Watergate that they should accompany him, but he thought that his Chakra wasn't enough to support such a distance. Shisui's ability to calculate coordinates couldn't go beyond Konoha. Yamato was theoretically fine, but the kid had never had such a long distance experience. He didn't know if he would be a help or a hindrance.
"Hmm … Genma?" Watergate saw that his two subordinates were silent, and he seemed to be guilty. "I know that it's wrong of me to do this, and it will also cause a lot of unnecessary trouble for everyone. As for Naruto, it's more likely that nothing bad will happen, and he'll just go to catch a thief. Jiraiya -sama is also trustworthy. Maybe when I reach the border, they will already be back and sleeping. But when I think about how I can't contact him now, I feel uncomfortable. Naruto is a ninja, and this can't be changed. He will always go on a mission, I understand. " “
"… …"
"But you know, since Naruto was born, he was rarely separated from me. I used to think that I could overcome it. I endured it during the Chunin Exam, and I also endured it during the Wave Country mission. During that time, I really didn't look at the report about Naruto at all. But this time, probably because I'm not so busy recently, I really can't control it. When I think that I may lose Naruto one day, I tremble with fear. I … "
"Sama." Shisui couldn't stand it anymore, and he quickly stood up. "It's not like I didn't say that you can't go. It's just that you don't have to rush back, at least sleep in the station. Although Thor isn't a ninjutsu that consumes too much energy, it's enough to keep jumping all the way to the coordinates. "
Genma also stood up. "Did you bring chocolate and other things? Don't rush forward if you're tired."
"Hmm. I also brought the communicator with me. " Watergate saw that he had convinced his two subordinates, and patted his small backpack gently. "But I prepared it according to the mission. Then I'll leave Konoha to you, goodbye ~"
The golden light dissipated just like that.
Genma suddenly felt that something was wrong. "The two of us just let him run away like that?"
Shisui was also at a loss. "Didn't you see that he was about to cry?"
"Then why did his' bye 'sound so happy at the end?"
"Maybe we shouldn't have listened to Naruto's speech from the beginning." Shisui looked up and sighed. "But the problem is, what should we do now?"
Genma quickly tore off a small piece of paper, wrote a few words, and then opened the window and whistled. A majestic messenger eagle flew in.
"What's the point of releasing an eagle?" Shisui frowned. "Golden Flash will definitely arrive faster than the eagle."
"Then we should inform Guy." Genma rolled his eyes at Shisui. "This is polite."
Shisui ignored Genma and picked up his communicator. "Yamato, are you asleep?"
"No."
"Come to Naruto's office."
"Yes, Sama."
Genma released the eagle. "Yamato Thor runs slower than the eagle."
"Then he has to follow. It's his duty."
So, after a sleepless night, Yamato finally stopped his hand seals, panting. It wasn't that he hadn't used Thor before. After calculating the coordinates, he could catch up with others in a few leaps that would take hours of running. But the furthest Yamato had ever been was the border of the Land of the Wind. From Konoha through the forest, it would take one night to run fast. But to go to the Water Country, it would take an entire night of 15 days.
Not to mention, he wasn't very familiar with the coordinates left by Naruto.
Thor was actually very simple to use in battle. He could throw a kunai and run all over the battlefield. The only drawback was that he couldn't fly to places where the kunai couldn't fly to. But when it came to running mode … In short, Yamato turned on the flashlight against the morning star on the horizon and carefully observed a map filled with various numbers. From time to time, he would use a small wooden stick to draw on the map. Until he got a set of numbers, he would then use the map to find the coordinates he wanted to go to. Taking a breath, he made another hand seal and silently disappeared. He felt that he would definitely be able to reach the station before lunch.
At this time, Bo Fung Watergate was already sitting in Metke's office. After all, the coordinates in the Land of Fire were set up one by one during the war. So, he only needed to use his mind to find the Chakra that he sealed in various places and choose a distance that was neither too far nor too close to drag himself there. Although, jumping dozens of times in a row was really tiring.
But Metke, who was sitting opposite Watergate, didn't know that Naruto was just tired, so he was too lazy to talk to him. Instead, he felt more like facing an active volcano that was about to erupt, making him want to turn around and leave.
But Hinata Yasuji, who was standing guard outside the door, wasn't really afraid of his Uncle Naruto. How to put it, when your father and Naruto have a good personal relationship, when you were lucky enough to jump up and down in Naruto's house since you were young, you even peed on Naruto's body and were even held down and spanked. The only fear you had for this elder was that he shouldn't spank you anymore. "Lord Four Generations, Kai sensei, would you like some water?"
Kai was startled by Yasuji who suddenly knocked on the door and came in. He revealed his 16 teeth. "No need."
Yasuji silently rolled his eyes at Kai. He realized that the old bachelor who lived alone really didn't understand a lot of things. For example, Naruto's obviously dry lips. "Lord Four Generations?"
"Ah, Yasuji." Watergate suddenly woke up when he saw the Byakugan Genin holding the kettle. "Thank you for your hard work."
Yasuji took out a white porcelain cup made by Konoha and filled it with hot water for Naruto. Then he silently closed the door and left. He also remembered to give the Anbu around him a "safe" look. But he still had a faint worry in his heart. If something really happened to Naruto, the probability was actually not high. But he didn't know if Naruto didn't come back at dawn, or if he didn't come back for a few days …
As a child raised by a single father, Hinata Yasuji actually understood Uncle Naruto quite well. If, one day, he acted first and ran away, his father, Hinata Hizashi, probably wouldn't be any better than Uncle Naruto. But no matter how bad it was, Yasuji felt that at least he had to be seriously injured during a mission to see Hizashi in such a daze.
So, maybe those unspeakable rumors were very reasonable. For example, Bo Fung Watergate's mental state was not normal sometimes.
"Yasuji, Yasuji."
"Yes, Lord." Hinata Yasuji heard someone suddenly call him. He reflexively stood at attention, then he realized that someone in the office was calling him. He quickly opened the door. "What can I do for you?"
"Ah, don't be so serious, little Yasuji." Watergate looked at his son, who looked more and more like Hizashi, and suddenly felt a little better. "Give me a glass of water."
Yasuji poured water.
"Then arrange a room for me, I'm a little sleepy." Watergate patted Yasuji's shoulder and finally pulled the corner of his mouth.
"Yes, Lord Four Generations." Yasuji secretly glanced at Metke, who was still pretending to be a statue, and reached out to lead Naruto out of the office. "Lord, do you want to eat something before you go to bed?"
"Forget it, I'm not hungry." Watergate yawned and walked into a lounge. This was Metke's bedroom. Watergate sniffed his nose and smelled the "hot-blooded beast smell". But, it seemed a little inappropriate for him to pick this, Naruto?
"Uh." Yasuji actually also smelled Guy's stinky feet, but he felt that Naruto should not be interested in the dormitory 800 meters away. "Anyway, I'll call you when Naruto comes back."
"Okay." Watergate waved his hand and drove away Yasuji, then covered himself with Guy's stinky quilt and clothes to sleep. He counted over and over again, trying to fall asleep … He only hoped that his son, Naruto, would have a good time when he went out to play.
…
"Of course, I have to be happy, otherwise, I would have wasted my time."
A faint light appeared on the calm sea. Naruto knew that the sun was about to come out. He stood on the bow of the ship, enjoying the wind. The little bit of guilt and regret that he secretly sneaked out seemed to have been blown away. He suddenly remembered a famous quote that he didn't know. He wanted to shout at the top of his lungs, but in the end, he just silently said in his heart, "I will ride the wind and break the waves! I will become the king of the world. "
At the same time, another search ship was also riding the wind and breaking the waves. It was just opposite to Naruto. On the bow of the ship stood the female Mizukage, Terumi Mei.
Although the coastal area was the territory of the Land of Fire and the jurisdiction of Konoha, the real advantage was not in Konoha, which was closer to the inland. So, when Bo Fung Watergate stepped on the border station for 20 minutes, she vaguely received the news and boarded the ship 10 minutes later. Although she still didn't know why Naruto came to the border, she felt that this time, she still had a chance to meet the legendary Golden Flash.
Hope was like chocolate candy in a box.
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