Shikaru Nara no longer cared about her ice cream. She took three steps at a time and stood in front of Sarutobi Kou's desk. She stretched out her hand, pinched her minister's face, and pulled it hard.
"How can you say such words and show such an expression with this face?" she shouted.
"Why, I have this expression, do you still want to compete with me, the captain?" Sarutobi Kou also put down his pen, stretched out his hand, and grabbed Shikaru Nara's face, and the two of them fell into a stalemate.
But the stalemate did not last long. Shikaru Nara took the lead and activated his chakra, allowing his black shadow to quietly connect with the shadow of Sarutobi Kou.
During this period of time, she began to practice seriously, and her strength was naturally much improved than before. Hand Seals was not needed, Shadow Imitation Technique was able to be released, and Sarutobi Kou was easily controlled.
But before she could take the next step, the door was pushed open at some point, and the smell of smoke drifted in before anyone came in. Third Hokage stood with his body hunched over, his head almost hidden under the bamboo hat.
Seeing two young and beautiful girls pinching each other's faces, he didn't want to say anything at first, but he was so fascinated by the sight that he couldn't even spit out the cigarette evenly. It suddenly hit his throat and started coughing.
"Um, Lord Hokage, didn't you come here once this morning?" Shikaru Nara quickly withdrew his shadow, took a few steps back, stood aside, and asked softly.
"I have something to ask your Minister Huang."
Third Hokage took a heavy drag on the cigarette, then coughed twice before stepping into the room. He looked at Shikaru Nara, the underlying meaning of his words was to let her out.
Lord Hokage spoke, and naturally no one could disobey. Shikaru Nara nodded and quickly left the room, but she did not go far, but walked into the next room.
"Old man, why are you here with me? Don't you know I'm very busy recently?"
Facing Third Hokage, Sarutobi Kou was not as polite as Shikaru Nara. She neither entertained nor even said a kind word.
"I heard that the third Elder came to see you -" Third Hokage was not angry either. He sat on the sofa and took another long puff of cigarette before asking.
"Oh, yes, he came to see me." Sarutobi Kou pinched his red face from being pinched by Lu Yu and replied calmly.
Third Hokage suddenly raised his head, his eyes looked directly at Sarutobi Kou who took out a document to read again, frowned, and asked, "What did he say to you?"
"Won't you ask him yourself? I remember you just had a meeting this morning." Sarutobi Kou said without raising his head.
It was hard to tell whether Third Hokage was sighing or blowing out smoke. If he really wanted to ask San Elder, he would have asked him long ago, but he didn't want to.
It is said that it is difficult for an upright official to deal with household chores. As Third Hokage, it seems to be even more difficult for him.
Not only his son, but also other people in the family, his peers, his descendants, and even his deceased elders, all are more or less alienated or rebellious because of his Hokage status.
He is not a heartless person and cannot let go of his family. At the same time, he also wants to be a shadow of the village and a good shadow.
Wanting to strike a balance between the family and the village is difficult or not simple, not to mention that he usually thinks more and has more worries.
He wanted to ask San Elder directly, but he was also worried that his family would think that he had to take care of everything and ask questions about everything. But he was also worried that if he didn't ask clearly, the family would cause a big mess for him if he was not careful.
I cared too much about Asuma back then, which led him to leave Konoha, choose to be Daimyo's Guardian Ninja, and choose to make his own way.
And when he learned his lesson and no longer cared so much about his children or even his family, he didn't expect that those Elders united and tried to bring Sarutobi Kou and a Uchiha Clan person together, and they almost succeeded.
And what was he preparing for at that time? He was preparing to deal with the possible rebellion of the Uchiha Clan. He made the decision to let Uchiha Itachi exterminate Uchiha Clan, leaving only Sasuke Uchiha alive.
Of course, the person that Elder matched could not be Sasuke Uchiha, but the member of Sarutobi Kou at that time, Uchiha Jie who had a gentle and handsome smile. The ashes of Uchiha, who loved to laugh, were handed over to him by Uchiha Itachi himself.
At that time, he just disbanded his team to prevent Uchiha Jie from leaving the village during the genocide, but he didn't pay attention to what happened between them at all.
He only knew that Uchiha Jie was very knowledgeable about Genjutsu, and also studied mental diseases. He even wrote to himself, denounced Will of Fire's shortcomings.
It wasn't until that night that three Elder found him earlier than Sarutobi Kou, who had been arranged to be Anbu by him, that he knew all this and that the family actually wanted to marry Uchiha.
When he faced Sarutobi Kou, he could only lower his head and use poor Will of Fire to defend himself, but his defense was so feeble. Then he could only take out Uchiha Jie's ashes and the Special Jonin that is still on Uchiha Jie's grave to prove that he could use these things to calm the angry girl.
He sometimes wonders whether he should have exterminated the clan later, let Uchiha Jie really marry Sarutobi Clan, give up the identity of Uchiha, and live in the clan land that belongs to the Sarutobi Clan, so that he can survive the genocide, and he doesn't have to blame himself so much every time he sees Xiao Huang.
But he would also think, can he really have both? If it were later, Uchiha Clan would really start an uprising, Konoha would fall into the flames of war, and he or Xiao Huang, what would be the outcome?
He could only force himself not to think about it, but he felt that he owed a lot in his heart.
Originally, with Sarutobi Kou's qualifications, there was no problem for her to become the captain of Anbu, because after all, it was Hokage's own team, and he could have the final say alone.
But the chief of Security Force is not an insignificant position. Its previous minister was Clan Head Fugaku Uchiha of the Uchiha Clan. Even if Uchiha Clan is exterminated now, this position should still fall to Clan Head Hyuga Hiashi of the Hyuga Clan.
On the one hand, Hyuga Clan originally had no position in the village. After the Uchiha Clan clan was exterminated, they were the family that needed to be appeased the most. On the other hand, Hyuga Clan did have the strength to succeed Security Force.
But out of inner guilt, he somehow agreed to the family's request and let Sarutobi Kou take over the position.