Hokage: From Tsunade-san

Konoha, Hokage Office.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi, who was dealing with official documents, heard a knocking sound from outside the door, looked up, said "Come in" and after a while, pushed open the door and walked in a middle-aged man with a shuriken pattern tattooed on his clothes. young people.

He is the patriarch of the Uchiha clan and the captain of the Konoha Guard.

He will appear here, most likely because of that matter again.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi was silent for a while, then slowly said: "It's because of Aokiji..."

The Uchiha clan leader nodded in acknowledgment.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi expressed concern: "How is the search for the prisoner going?"

The head of the Uchiha clan held his breath and restrained his face, and replied: "After our family's hard work in searching, we finally found clues, and the criminal has been arrested and brought to justice."

"Found it?" Hiruzaru Sarutobi was briefly surprised. Out of curiosity, he wanted to ask how to find it, but he seemed to think of something, and then changed the question: "That's good, what is the motive?" ?”

The Uchiha patriarch narrowed his inner canthus, and he had a knowing heart: "The youngest son of the lord hired assassins to assassinate his father and elder brother in order to achieve the goal of being in power. Unexpectedly, he was killed by the killer."

This reason was written by him, and there is no proof anyway.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi seemed to think of something: "Speaking of which, the lord's castle was on fire a while ago, it seems that the time seems to coincide.

The Uchiha patriarch followed his words and echoed: "Exactly, this fire was set by the murderer."

"So that's the case, let me just say, how could there be a fire for no reason. It turns out that there is this logic in it."

"The thing about the green pheasant..."

The patriarch Uchiha questioned, expecting Hiruzaru Sarutobi to make a promise to find the murderer, and then fish out Aokiji from the prison. This is something that was agreed at the beginning.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi did not break the promise, and made a promise: "Don't worry, I will mediate with Daimyo about Aoji's matter, and then rescue him from Ghost Lamp City."

"please……"

Seeing his sincerity, Hiruzaru Sarutobi was even humbled, and smiled: "I think if Aokiji knows that you are running around for him, after he is released from prison, he will be very moved."

The Uchiha patriarch said seriously: "This is what I should do as the patriarch."

Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded, although it was a pity, but after this incident, Aokiji might not be able to be drawn to his side again.

Thinking of this, he stood up and prepared to leave Hokage's office.

The Uchiha patriarch asked: "Master Hokage, are you going to..."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi smiled and said: "Aren't you going to rescue Aokiji from the prison? If that's the case, what are you waiting for?"

The head of the Uchiha clan showed a happy face, and followed him silently. The two came to the interrogation room. The strange Sarutobi Hiruzen just took a look, and immediately decided to leave without even planning to ask.

"Master Hokage, don't you need to interrogate yourself?"

The Uchiha patriarch expressed his doubts.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi showed a kind smile: "Since you have used Sharingan to inquire, why should I interrogate? It is not necessary to do anything extra, and the main point will delay the trip to rescue Aokiji."

The Uchiha patriarch drooped his eyelids, thoughtful.

On the surface, this sentence is praising Sharingan, but in fact, it is side-by-side. Sharingan has many abilities. In addition to making people confess, one of the abilities is the ability to manipulate others. Of course, lying or something is not a problem.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi knew this ability very well, but he just didn't say it.

Both sides are tacit to each other.

The underlying meaning of Sarutobi Rizai is that I don’t know whether you are arresting a real prisoner or a fake prisoner, but I believe it on the surface. If something goes wrong in the future, it has nothing to do with me. The Uchiha clan has a big problem. It is a felony to deceive Hokage.

In this way, the Uchiha clan will be firmly grasped by Sarutobi Hiruzen, and I dare not make mistakes in the future.

This is also one of the reasons why Sarutobi Hiruza didn't ask how to catch the prisoner just now.

But the Uchiha patriarch is very simple and rude. When Aokiji fully grows up in the future, even if he deceives him, what's the point?

In the face of absolute strength, these are all useless.

So far, both of them have their own thoughts.

Halfway through the journey, Hiruzaru Sarutobi seemed to remember something, and said, "By the way, last time I dismissed the matter concerning the Konoha Guard's budget."

The Uchiha patriarch was startled.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi sighed and said: "You also know that daimyo's funds are limited, and the village has to spend in all aspects, so I hope you will understand."

The Uchiha patriarch suppressed his anger and showed a helpless smile: "I know, I will appease the clan..."

The man in front of him is taking Aokiji's business in exchange for the Uchiha clan's compromise.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Uchiha clan served as the Konoha Guard, and the scenery is infinite. In fact, only they themselves know the suffering.

Doing some miscellaneous and messy things every day is still secondary. The point is that the salary of the guard team is too low.

You know, in order to respond to the "trust" of the village, the Uchiha clan sent elite members of the family to serve as the guard.

These elites are basically ninjas with the three-pointed jade Sharingan. If they go to perform tasks, their income will be far more than that.

"Then please..."

"Um."

In a position that Hiruzaru Sarutobi couldn't see, the Uchiha patriarch looked unwilling and clenched his fists.

After arriving in the city where the daimyo lived, the weather was a bit late.

Daming is usually very "busy". If you want to meet, you have to make an appointment in advance, and then the people around the daimyo will arrange the time to make an appointment.

On the second day, Hiruzaru Sarutobi passed early and was afraid of being late. The appointed time was around ten o'clock in the morning. He was punctual on his side, but he missed the appointment on the other side, until he waited for more than half an hour. The other party came late with a little girl in his arms.

The other party didn't care much about it, and sat on the sofa.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi didn't care about his arrogant and rude attitude, and looked at the man in front of him with the calmness of Hokage.

He is in his twenties, with a handsome face, blue hair, and the twisted hair on his forehead is reminiscent of seaweed.

He held a little girl in his arms and looked young, about eleven or twelve years old, wearing gorgeous clothes that did not match her age.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi showed confusion on his face, remembering that he was dating Daimyo from the Fire Country, he didn't understand how it could be a young man.

The blue-haired youth guessed Hiruzaru Sarutobi's confusion, and introduced himself: "My name is Shinji, and I am the son of the fire country daimyo."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi raised his head slightly, with a sudden expression on his face.

He has seen daimyo's sons, but since daimyo has many wives and naturally has many heirs, it is normal that he has not seen some of them.

"Why didn't that one..."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi asked.

Shen Er replied and explained: "Father has recently started to retire, so he intends to let me take over the country. I am currently transitioning power from scratch bit by bit."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi understood, but he was still a little confused: "I remember that your father seems to be very young..."

"Give young people more opportunities, these are the original words of my father."

"Your father is really open-minded." Hiruzaru Sarutobi complimented: "It's really admirable."

"well enough."

That's right, in fact, Shen Er knew that his father felt that being a daimyo was boring, and he had to deal with a bunch of shitty things all day, so he stepped aside so that he could be happy.

"However, let me tell you that His Highness Shen Er is not easy. He shouldered the mission of developing the country of fire at a young age."

Wearing thousands of clothes, flattering but not wearing, the young Shen Er listened to a lot of flattery, but he still enjoyed it very much, with a proud expression on his face.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi saw that the foreshadowing was in place, and just about to get to the point, Shen Er suddenly said: "By the way, it's rare for Lord Hokage to come all the way here. I'll let you see my collection."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi glanced at the Uchiha's guard beside him without showing any emotion, showing helplessness, he could only agree, if you ask for help, you must have the attitude of asking for help.

Seeing that Hiruzaru Sarutobi was sensible, Shinji showed a happy expression, and led Hiruzaru Sarutobi and others to an empty horse farm.

Shen Er has always loved riding, which will make him have a desire to conquer.

During the day, he likes to ride around on the street on his favorite horse, grab the young girl who looks like a horse, and bring them back to the palace.

As for the evening, it was another ride.

For this, he needs the horse to run very fast, and if it is slow, it will not be able to catch the prey.

So he spent a lot of money to build a stable, and every year he would spend more to buy this year's championship-level racehorses, breed them, and produce excellent offspring for his own enjoyment.

With the increasing size of excellent horses, ordinary horses could no longer meet his satisfaction, so he handed over the horses to his subordinates for experiments.

Although countless good horses were sacrificed in the process, these sacrifices were worthwhile, because he accidentally created the unique unicorn in the world.

Whether it is skin color, endurance, strength, and speed, they are far beyond ordinary horses, and they are indisputably priceless.

He only has one horse of this level.

Shen Er loves this horse very much, named it Hermes, and has a special person to take care of it all day long. If the unicorn horse is not feeling well that day, he will get angry on the spot and seal the caretaker alive in the cement to death.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi looked at this uniquely shaped unicorn and expressed his heartfelt approval. He felt that this horse was enough to be a psychic beast in terms of rating.

Shen Er was pleased when he heard the words, he liked to see other people see his belongings, and showed envious and jealous expressions.

"Speaking of which, Hokage-dono seems to have something to ask me for, right?"

This time, Shinji seems to have finally remembered that Hiruzaru Sarutobi seemed to have something to do with him, but in fact he knew it all along, but he was just putting on airs on purpose.

This is a means to pinch each other.

Having the opportunity to speak, Hiruzaru Sarutobi wanted to obtain Daimyo's authorization to liberate Aokiji.

When Shen Er heard this, his cheeks that were still smiling just now became cold, and his attitude was arrogant: "Don't make a mistake, we didn't execute that brat right away, it's the greatest forgiveness, if you want to release him, don't even think about it." .”

The guard of the Uchiha clan beside Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't help but said: "But we have already found the murderer..."

"Isn't this a matter of course?" Shen Er snorted coldly, losing his temper as if he was full of anger: "What do you think we are paying you every year for such a large amount of money, but in the end, we can't even do the security work well, and even It’s really disgusting to dare to live with a shy face. If this kind of thing happened to the samurai in the past, let alone running away during the mission, even if the master lost a hair during the mission, he would be ashamed and commit seppuku.”

After finishing talking, Shen Er also gave a specific threat: "Maybe I should think about the budget allocated to you Konoha next year."

It was the first time for the guards of the Uchiha clan to be scolded so ugly that they dared not speak up.

Shen Er frowned, with a very dissatisfied expression on his face: "Speaking of which, who the hell are you? You actually interrupted my conversation with you Hokage? It's not big or small."

"His name is Uchiha Yanhuo, and he is my bodyguard. He is just worried about his companions. Please don't take offense, Your Highness Shinji."

Sarutobi Hiruzen seemed to be speaking for Uchiha Yanhuo, but in fact he directly pushed him to the pit of fire.

Shen Er seemed to understand something, squinted his eyes, let out an oh, and stretched his eyes: "I see, I said why you are so protective of that kid, it turns out that he is from the same clan. Since ancient times, ninjas of your clan have often had some dissatisfaction. Disciplinary ninja, no wonder there will be such a brat this time."

Aokiji's influence on things this time is too great, if there is a first time, there is no guarantee that there will be a second or third time.

Even if the status of the lord's relatives is ignored, for the sake of his own safety, it is absolutely impossible for the daimyo to let Aokiji go, saying that he will be imprisoned severely for the rest of his life, that is, for the rest of his life, without compromise.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi sighed helplessly, and glanced at the Uchiha guards with a helpless expression on his face, as if he said that it wasn't that he didn't want to fish out the green pheasant, but that the daimyo really refused to let go.

After returning to Konoha, Uchiha Yanhuo told the patriarch and Elder Itachi all about the daimyo's tough reply.

"I know, you go back first."

Knowing that Aokiji could not be released, Uchiha's patriarch waved back his subordinates, anxiously asking, "What should I do, Elder Itachi, the daimyo is steadfast in their refusal to let people go."

Elder Itachi narrowed his eyes and looked calm.

It doesn't matter, he will make a move.

Aokiji's suffering in prison is almost over, and it's time to release him.