Hello Shixie here, I'll have to apologize in advance if I make comments in some parts of the story especially the ones I find funny. I'm reading the story while also translating and I like dropping comments. I'd do it in the normal comment section if I can but it just takes so much time to do it.
Again I'm sorry, and enjoy my shit translation ^^
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Naruto was completely oblivious to the gazes around him, still grumbling to Hatake Kuroshi.
"It can't be helped, that's what frogs do."
Hatake Kuroshi smiled and flicked Naruto's forehead.
Naruto clearly enjoyed this intimate gesture, covering his head and giggling.
Two steaming bowls of ramen were placed in front of them.
The seaweed just put in was leaning against the side of the bowl, and a thin layer of oil floated on the broth.
The meat chunks, along with the steam, gave off an enticing aroma.
"Two bowls of ramen, enjoy."
Naruto's emotions came and went quickly. As soon as he smelled the ramen, he perked up.
In an instant, he forgot his previous complaints and happily leaned his head towards the bowl.
"It smells so good! It looks so delicious!"
What a good-natured kid.
Compared to the Uchiha and his own brother, Naruto was ridiculously easy to please.
Hatake Kuroshi broke a pair of chopsticks and handed them to Naruto, who was about to bury his head in the bowl, pulling his collar up with his other hand.
"Chopsticks, lift your head up, you're going to fall into the bowl."
"Oh… oh, my face is bigger than this bowl!"
Naruto sat up straight, took the chopsticks Kuroshi handed him, clapped his hands together with a "clap," and said loudly.
"Itadakimasu!"
Naruto's eyes narrowed, and the cat whiskers on both sides of his cheeks also moved rhythmically as he ate.
Looking at it this way, comparing him to a big cat is quite fitting.
"But at your age, shouldn't you be going to school? Why are you wandering around alone?"
Hatake Kuroshi stirred the remaining ramen in his bowl and put down his chopsticks.
Salty food always felt a bit strange, sweet is still the best.
Naruto put down his bowl and turned to look at Kuroshi with shining eyes.
"Ah, yes! In two or three days, I'll go too!"
"So, do you want to be a ninja?"
Hatake Kuroshi asked with interest, propping his cheek.
"Of course! And I'm not only going to be a ninja, I'm going to be Hokage!"
Naruto confidently pointed at his chest with his thumb.
"That's not bad either."
Kuroshi looked at Naruto, took out a napkin, and wiped the soup off his face.
After breakfast, Naruto, although a little reluctant, still waved goodbye to Kuroshi obediently.
"I have to go back and prepare for school, see you next time, Kuroshi-nii!"
"Oh~ See you later."
Hatake Kuroshi waved to Naruto with a smile, then retracted his smile and looked meaningfully at Naruto's back.
Just as he was about to leave with his hands in his pockets, he suddenly remembered something and glanced at his watch.
"Ah, there's also that idiot little brother's matter."
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The secret base left by Orochimaru.
The door in front of Kakashi had been blown to smithereens, and the ground was still faintly trembling.
Orochimaru had already left this place, and only some of the previous mechanisms remained.
The dust settled, revealing the dilapidated base inside, accompanied by the smell of decaying animals.
Kakashi was about to step inside when he heard a clear and familiar voice behind him.
"Kakashi-san."
Kakashi turned his head.
"Huh? It's you, Yamato."
He remembered this voice, the Root member who used Wood Style jutsu, the young man who would later be called Yamato.
Most Root members were good at hiding their presence, but being able to silently follow him here was quite a skill.
"How did you get here? Is it Lord Danzo's order?"
The two of them walked into the base while talking.
Yamato followed behind Kakashi, raising his hand and making a gesture to the person behind him.
The masked man, Iwa, hiding behind the rubble, tilted his head and watched the two of them gradually enter the base.
After making sure that Yamato and Kakashi had both entered the base, there was no need to stay here anymore.
Go out and wait.
But when Iwa looked up, he happened to meet a pair of black eye patches.
The person was stuck in the rock wall above his head in a very strange posture, hanging upside down like a bat.
The person was smiling brightly, raised his hand, and greeted Iwa.
"Ah, so you're hiding here."
"Good afternoon~"
An attack?!
He wasn't wearing a forehead protector, and his black clothes didn't look like a ninja, yet he appeared in front of him in such a bizarre posture.
Before Iwa could shout, Hatake Kuroshi lifted his mask to the side and tightly covered his mouth.
A black shadow flashed, and a few pieces of rubble rolled down from the rock wall.
There was no one left in the cave below.
"Who are you?!"
Almost in the blink of an eye, the scenery around Iwa instantly turned into a forest.
Iwa's heart sank rapidly, and he swung a kunai backhanded at the person behind him.
But there was no one behind him. He, who had been in mid-air, had already landed on the ground.
Except for the faint sweet fragrance in the air, the person's presence had almost completely disappeared.
"Ah, your first words are this?"
"I brought you out, shouldn't you thank me?"
Almost instantly, a shadow flashed behind Iwa.
Damn it!
But his reaction could only flash through his mind, he couldn't react in time.
Hatake Kuroshi kicked Iwa's knee from behind, knocking him to his knees and pressing him to the ground.
"So you sent two small fry, in Danzo's eyes, is Kakashi's eye so worthless?"
"What?!"
"How do you know about this?!"
Root missions were highly confidential, and no one but themselves knew the mission content.
But this person casually mentioned their confidential information.
Iwa widened his eyes in disbelief, looking up and down at Kuroshi.
From his tone, he should be someone from Konoha.
But he had never seen such a person before.
"Hmm—?"
Hatake Kuroshi dragged out a sound from his nose, pulled a rope from his pocket, and tightly tied Iwa to the tree.
Ignoring Iwa's shocked expression, Kuroshi put his mask back on.
With a bright smile, Kuroshi leaned down slightly and replied.
"Well, I just said it casually!"
As soon as Kuroshi finished speaking, the ground beneath them suddenly trembled.
Although it wasn't violent, it was clearly noticeable.
Iwa, tied to the tree like a dumpling by Kuroshi, couldn't move or speak.
This guy's rope-tying skills are too amateur!
Hatake Kuroshi obviously didn't mind his failed rope-tying skills.
He was more concerned about the continuous tremors coming from beneath the ground.
There was only one possibility that could cause such a commotion in this place—
In the secret base deep in the cave, two glass jars taller than humans were particularly eye-catching.
And from these two glass jars, a golden-eyed snake with vertical pupils twisted out, hissing continuously at the two of them.
Under the pale green light, they saw that the snake was made up of thousands of smaller snakes.
Countless snake heads and tails twisted together, looking extremely disgusting.
Yamato, having failed to assassinate Kakashi, had his hands tied behind his back, and he couldn't make hand seals for a while.
Kakashi held a kunai in one hand, lowered his body slightly, and assumed an attacking posture.
In his other hand, bright blue lightning gathered, illuminating his face.
And the lightning constantly resonating and rubbing in the air emitted a shrill sound, like thousands of birds chirping.
"Chidori!"
Kakashi bent his knees slightly and leaped up, the bright blue lightning instantly hitting the big snake that was rushing towards them.
As soon as the lightning touched the snake, the whole snake instantly turned into a thousand smaller snakes, scattering around.
Kakashi's Chidori had missed its target!
In the moment Kakashi was stunned, the big snake's head had already approached them, instantly swallowing Yamato.
"Yamato!!"
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