Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

"Uzumaki...Naruto?"

After leaving the desert where the Loulan ruins were located and rushing to Konoha Village in the Land of Fire, Uchiha Shisui couldn't help but frowned when he heard Nagato mention the search mission entrusted to him by Queen Sara of Roland. He had an expression as if he had thought of something.

"What, do you know this person, Shisui?" Seeing Uchiha Shisui's expression, Nagato, who originally thought that this would be a task that would take a lot of time to investigate to find the target, was quite surprised. asked.

"No, I don't know the specific person this name corresponds to, but the surname Uzumaki..." Uchiha Shisui thought for a while, and said with an incomprehensible and uncertain tone: "No matter how you think about it, it is the same as the fourth generation. The Hokage's wife, Kushina Uzumaki, the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails, has something to do with it."

"But the surname of the Fourth Hokage is Namikaze, right? If that Naruto is really the child of Uzumaki Kushina and the Fourth Hokage, he should also be called Namikaze Naruto, right?" Nagato questioned this. , "And after the Uzumaki clan was destroyed in Uzushio Village, they were forced to scatter to various places in the ninja world. Maybe there are Uzumaki clan members other than Uzumaki Kushina who were taken in by Konoha?"

"Maybe, after all, I haven't been back to Konoha for more than two years, and according to Queen Sara's description, the sixteen-year-old boy named Uzumaki Naruto fought in the Third Ninja War five or six years ago. Before it even started, he came to Loulan about twenty years later. Counting this way, he was indeed born after I left Konoha. Maybe he was a member of the wandering Uzumaki clan who settled in Konoha. The offspring you gave birth to, right?"

Uchiha Shisui thought for a moment and realized that this was indeed the case, so he stopped worrying about the possible meaning behind the name. Instead, he looked at the location of Konoha Village from a distance with some nostalgia and worry. direction.

"Konoha... I wonder how much you have changed compared to when I left? That cliff with the heads of past Hokages carved on it should have the fourth person's face now, right?"

"Are you scared of being close to home?" Nagato stepped lightly on the back of an eagle that happened to be swooping down to hunt rabbits, and continued to keep up with Uchiha Zhiha without causing any interference to its speed and direction. Shui followed his footsteps and asked curiously: "But then again, do you prefer that Konoha has no changes, or do you hope that Konoha will change more?"

"...I can't tell."

Uchiha Shisui shook his head, his expression also full of confusion and confusion, "If there are no changes, it may be good for me, but for Konoha, it means they have made no progress at all, right? That's not okay. Yes, a new era has arrived, and the self-proclaimed village will be left far behind. I don’t want Konoha to become the kind of abandoned by the times.

But if the changes are too big, I'm afraid that I won't be able to recognize my former hometown at all, and I'm also worried that the people in the tribe won't have time to adapt to such drastic changes, and will be forced to become an obstacle on the road to reform... It's ridiculous to say that, obviously When Kirigakure watched the Yondaime reprimanding Fang Qiu and dragging Kirigakure towards a new system in a way that was close to dragging, I still felt that those die-hard guys were really annoying..."

"Maybe it's because besides Rei Kaguya, Kirigakure has no connections with anyone worth caring about?" As a bystander and outsider, Nagato could easily hear the reason for Uchiha Shisui's entanglement. , "But as for Konoha, you can't ignore the Uchiha clan, old and young."

"That's why I feel that the Yondaime's mental strength is beyond the imagination of ordinary people."

Uchiha Shisui sighed and sighed sincerely:

"In the process of his reforming Kirigakure, the Kaguya clan rarely received special preferential treatment from him. Sometimes they were even pulled out and criticized unceremoniously by him for making mistakes... If not Because he lives in the Kaguya clan’s territory, and from time to time he would drag his sister and nephew out to eat together, I might really think that he has broken with the Kaguya clan.”

"Then I think you are closer to breaking up with the family, Shisui." Nagato smiled, pointed at the Kirigakure forehead protector on Uchiha Shisui's forehead and shook his head: "If this thing is familiar to you, When the Uchiha clan saw it, they might be so angry that they would directly activate the three magatama's sharingan."

"After entering the Land of Fire, we will definitely hide this thing...and we only sneaked into Konoha in advance this time to prevent the 'Root' organization from suddenly launching a surprise attack on Konoha. We will not wait until the necessary moment. , we don’t even have to take off our disguises to show up and fight.”

Uchiha Shisui said as he covered his forehead protector in embarrassment.

"I hope so."

Looking at a touch of green gradually appearing on the horizon ahead, Nagato sighed.

…

Two days later, Konoha.

Nagato and Uchiha Shisui, who had made disguises in advance and pretended to be merchants coming from the Land of Wind to the Land of Fire to purchase goods, walked into the Leaf Village from the main entrance.

Konoha at this time was not much different from what Uchiha Shisui remembered, and because it was no longer a war period, the overall social atmosphere was more active than at the end of the Third Ninja War. , much more enthusiastic, he raised his head, looked up at the fourth Yan Yan that was newly carved on the mountain wall, and whispered to himself with some emotion:

"Is that Yan Yan of the Fourth Hokage? He looks really young."

"Isn't the one in Kirigakure younger? It is said that he is not old enough to drink yet, right?" Nagato also lowered his voice and said with a bit of teasing.

"Well... if you think about it this way, Sunagakure's fourth Kazekage is only in his twenties. What about Kumogakure's fourth Raikage? They should be about the same age, right? Except for Iwagakure, the third Tsuchikage is still in charge. Besides, the other Fourth Kage in the Ninja Village are all very young."

"Oh? Do you two guys actually know something about other countries in the ninja world?" The boss of Ichiraku Ramen placed the ramen they ordered in front of them, and at the same time looked at the Wind Country on them with some surprise. The distinctive clothes and the two faces that were still very young even after being disguised made him very surprised and asked: "Are you already a traveling businessman at such a young age?"

"It's just a matter of following the family and doing business here and there, and gaining experience by the way." Nagato, the older "brother" in the setting, smiled at Uncle Ichiraku, "This time I came to the Land of Fire as well, and I wanted to help Let’s see if there are any products worth bringing to other countries to sell... Boss, do you have any recommendations?”

"Hahahaha, this topic is not suitable for me to talk about," Uncle Ichiraku smiled and patted his head, "There are so many recommended products in Konoha and the Land of Fire. I have never seen such a topic in my life. How can a small businessman who has been out of Konoha Village say it clearly? If my immature and incomplete recommendations cause you to miss something valuable, wouldn’t it be my fault? "

"It's better to have some recommendations than to look around aimlessly on our own," Nagato maintained his persona familiarly, ignoring the eyes rolled at him by Uchiha Shisui, who was eating ramen next to him, "Boss Just tell us what you like more and let us use it as a reference?"

"this……"

When Uncle Ichiraku was thinking about how to answer the call, there was a sudden commotion on the side of the street. Uchiha Shisui and Nagato, who were sitting in the Ichiraku Ramen shop, subconsciously turned their heads and planned to go towards Looking at the source of the sound, he saw a figure flying sideways and upside down from that direction, and fell with a bang not far from the entrance of the ramen shop.

It was a young ninja wearing a Konoha forehead protector.

'what's the situation? Is this the usual level of security in Konoha? ’ Nagato reached out and patted Uchiha Shisui on the shoulder, casting a doubtful look at him.

‘No, don’t act rashly, something is wrong. ’

Uchiha Shisui waved his hand towards Nagato with a movement that was difficult for ordinary people to detect, and looked solemnly at the two figures walking towards the Konoha ninja who was knocked away.

"Have you learned not to spread rumors you heard from nowhere? You are just a brat who only knows how to cause trouble to the village!?"

The younger of the two figures squatted down, grabbed the collar of the one who was knocked away, and looked fiercely at the bruised eyes of the other person, trying to make the other person recognize him in this way. He was dissatisfied at this time, but what he didn't expect was that the person who was beaten just spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva to the side, and loudly contradicted him without any hesitation:

"Causing chaos to...the village? Don't make people laugh. I'm just revealing to everyone the true face of your Uchiha clan. Let everyone know that you have been unreasonably demanding that the village be replaced at all costs over the years. It’s just a fact that Uchiha Shisui has become Kirigakure’s dog a long time ago.”

"What are you going to do next? Continue to beat me until I can't speak anymore? Or are you going to use your Uchiha clan's privileges to put me in the prison of the Konoha Police Force? Oh, no, It shouldn’t be called the Konoha Police Force, I think it should be called the Uchiha Police Force, right?”

"you!"

The young Uchiha wearing the uniform of the Uchiha Police Force blushed with anger and raised his fist to punch the opponent in the face, but before he could exert any force, another older Uchiha She took his arm and shook her head at him.

"Yushu, you can't solve the problem like this."

"But, Uncle Xuanhuo, he, he is insulting the reputation of all of us in the Uchiha clan!"

"If your punch continues, the negative impact will only be worse than his."

Uchiha Xuanhuo forcefully pulled Uchiha Yuki up from the knocked down young ninja. He said a hastily sorry to the young ninja who had a black eye, and then dragged Uchiha with a gloomy expression. Yushu left the scene.

"Huh...huh...you guys, the end of you Uchiha is coming soon, you wait, you wait."

The beaten young ninja stood up unsteadily, cursed and left.

Uchiha Shisui's face, who was watching on the side, also became less beautiful as he left.

Why do I enter the coding state later and later every day...

This, this is not right...