Naruto: Son of the Fourth Hokage

"Mabui, don't overthink it. I never intended to agree in the first place." The Raikage tried to stop Mabui from thinking too much, as he was genuinely worried his secretary might break down.

"But Raikage-sama, your refusal of the Five Kage Summit might be part of Ōnoki's plan, giving him an excuse to attack you."

"Mabui!" The Raikage's temper was barely contained. Why is this still going on? "Then what do you suggest?"

Mabui said, "How about replying that the village is busy and you can't leave for the time being, requesting the Kage to postpone the meeting?

This way, we'll have time to continue investigating Yugito and Akatsuki's trail. If we still can't find them by then, we can at least gather some information during the Five Kage Summit."

"Hmph." The Raikage snorted lightly. "Let's do that then! Fu's matter regarding Yugito, hurry up and investigate."

"Yes."

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"Busy? Bullshit!" Ōnoki threw the Raikage's reply on the table, even using the Added-Weight Rock Technique on the letter to emphasize his emotions.

The originally light paper landed on the table with a heavy thud.

The bulky Akatsuchi said unhurriedly, "Don't be angry, Earth Shadow-sama. As the Cloud Village's Kage, it's normal to be busy."

Ōnoki huffed, "Idiot Akatsuchi! If another Kage said that, I might believe it, but the Raikage, that muscle-brained idiot, busy?

He probably leaves everything to others, and that kid only handles the stamping, right? Maybe he'd even smash the table while clumsily stamping!"

Akatsuchi scratched the back of his head, grinning foolishly. "Is that so?"

"It must be! He's just making things difficult for me!" Ōnoki angrily slammed the table, crack, and cold sweat instantly appeared on his forehead. "Ah, my back!"

Akatsuchi was used to his antics and asked, "Then what should Earth Shadow-sama do?"

Ōnoki put his hand behind his back, supporting his waist, and hissed in pain, "Hiss~ What... what else can we do? Wait for him for a month. It'll give us time to prepare more."

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"Another month of waiting?" Naruto was a little disappointed. After learning about the Five Kage Summit, he immediately requested a spot as a guard, wanting to broaden his horizons.

Naruto had almost packed his bags, but he didn't expect the Raikage to be so uncooperative and delay it. Sure enough, his family was always at odds with the Cloud Village.

"Yes." Minato nodded. "But it's also good this way. I'll have more time to arrange things in the village, preventing it from becoming a mess."

"What's there to arrange in the village?" Naruto lay on Minato's desk, flipping through some intelligence reports, treating them like Shinobi World news:

"Anyway, we brothers can come back anytime, and we can ask Little Orange and Little Red to help communicate with the village. This remote work efficiency leaves other villages eight streets behind, okay?"

Minato was too lazy to correct Naruto's 'brothers' address, reached out and ruffled Naruto's hair, and said in his dissatisfied gaze:

"Even so, we can't be careless. This is related to your and Kushina's safety, and even a little negligence can lead to different results."

"I guess."

"Sometimes I think, if I had been faster that day, perhaps Kushina wouldn't have had to endure the pain of having the Tailed Beast extracted, and our family wouldn't have had to go through that life-and-death crisis.

But I didn't, even with the Flying Thunder God Technique.

So, Naruto, don't think the Flying Thunder God Technique is omnipotent. Over the years, there have been many comrades I couldn't save in time."

Minato's tone became heavy. He was the Hokage but not an omnipotent god. Once the war started, he couldn't protect everyone.

So Minato worked hard to make Konoha stronger and wanted to pursue peace, because only in this way could he best protect his comrades and family.

"Yes, I understand." Naruto could sense that Minato was a little down, an emotion rarely revealed on his face.

Perhaps this was the sense of responsibility as a husband and father. Minato always left his family with a reassuring smile, bearing all other negative emotions himself.

It was only now that Naruto was older that Minato didn't want him to experience the pain of losing comrades or loved ones due to carelessness, which was why he mentioned these things to him.

Naruto didn't want to continue this heavy topic and asked, "Then what should I do this month?"

Minato thought for a moment and said, "Help look for traces of the Akatsuki, along with Kakashi and the others. After all, your sensory abilities are second to none."

"Okay." Naruto agreed, since he had nothing else to do anyway.

Minato asked, "If you really encounter the Akatsuki, do you know what to do?"

"Run, report, call for backup, gang up." Naruto rattled off a few words crisply.

Minato nodded in satisfaction. It wasn't that he didn't trust Naruto's strength, but he was mainly worried that the Akatsuki might have some special means to restrain a Jinchuriki, like the monk Fa Yi from Sand Hidden.

A moment of carelessness could lead to big trouble, so it was better to be cautious. Anyway, Konoha had a lot of experts, and they were ninjas, not samurai. Why duel when you can gang up?

"How about I take on a mission while I'm at it?" Naruto pulled out a piece of information from the pile on the desk.

Minato took it and looked at it: "The corpse theft incident at the Fire Temple? There is indeed such a request, but because it involves the Guardian Ninja Twelve, we originally wanted to give it to Asuma's Team."

"It hasn't been given yet, so it's ours now!" Naruto chose to intercept it. What a joke, 'Fire Temple' plus 'Asuma' is roughly equal to 'widow' plus 'orphan', okay?

Although he wasn't particularly familiar with him, Naruto thought Asuma was a pretty good guy, and he would help if he could.

"Alright, alright, then it's assigned to your team." Minato explained the mission details to Naruto in detail and also gave him some background information about the Guardian Ninja Twelve.

A few minutes later, knock, knock!

A knock sounded on the door. Minato signaled Naruto to put away the documents and then said, "Come in."

"Excuse me." Shizune pushed the door open, her breathing still a little rapid, as if she had jogged all the way over.

Minato asked in confusion, "Shizune? What's the matter?"

Shizune replied, "Hokage-sama, I'm actually here to find Naruto."

"Looking for me?" Naruto saw that she didn't bring Tonton and quickly cleared himself, "Is Tonton lost? I didn't eat it!"

"Huh?" Shizune was stunned, obviously not understanding Naruto's thought process, "No, Tonton isn't lost, it's about Tsunade-sama."

Naruto felt even more innocent: "Tsunade Nee-san? Did she get arrested by the Military Police Force again? I haven't reported her recently..."

Minato facepalmed, truly helpless with his son's erratic thinking: "Naruto, listen to Shizune finish speaking."

"Oh." Naruto looked at Shizune expectantly.

Shizune then continued, "Actually, Tsunade-sama and Jiraiya-sama were just playing poker..."

It's working hours now, right? Has these two people's rampant behavior reached a point where even you can't stand it anymore? You even came to the Hokage to complain.

Naruto's mouth could be closed, but his mind definitely couldn't stop, and then he began to suspect that he had been infected with Tenten's habit of complaining after becoming familiar with her.

"Originally, it was just a casual game, a way to relieve her gambling addiction, but a few minutes ago, Tsunade-sama suddenly won. You know her luck, so..."

Minato:!

Naruto:!

A few minutes ago, it seemed to be exactly when Naruto accepted the mission—this thing is equivalent to the wind blowing down the flag before the expedition in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms!

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