"So you ran back to Konoha in despair?"
Sarutobi Kou had a sarcastic smile on her lips. She arched her eyebrows, looked sideways at her cousin, and continued, "Looking at your appearance now, it seems that you didn't even return home, so you came here to find me?"
"Now many people from my tribe have seen you. Although they don't have direct connections to your family, they will still approach the old man to inform you."
"I remember San Elder said that when you were a child, you liked to climb through windows and sneak out to play. Why don't you do it now?"
Asuma Sarutobi sighed and sat on the sofa, his head drooped and his arms drooped. The only thing that stood straight was the cigarette hanging from his mouth.
"That's what I thought." He said, "After entering the village, I asked the guard not to tell anyone that I was back, and then ran to the uninhabited Uchiha Clan Compound, intending to come back to find you quietly after dark."
"But something happened on the way--"
He took another puff of cigarette, told what happened just now, and then leaned back on the cushion of the sofa.
"Looking at that little girl's expression, I knew she was innocent. I wanted to give Liang a good scolding at that time, but then I realized that he is now your subordinate."
"Why?"
"Why why?" Sarutobi Kou stopped looking at the documents in front of her and leaned back on the chair. Her posture was almost exactly the same as Asuma's except that there was no cigarette butt in her mouth.
"You want to ask why that little girl is still hanging out so late at night?"
"I still want to ask why Sarutobi Ryo is in that place? What kind of attitude does he have towards that little girl?"
"You should ask the old man about this kind of thing, not come to me." With a smile on her lips, she picked up a pen from the table and put it in her mouth imitating Asuma's smoking style. She had not smoked for a long time.
"You should ask him carefully about what happened during this period, and then you will know the reason."
"Huangmei--" Asuma said softly, "I don't want to go back and ask the old man these questions--"
"Just tell me, I didn't go home, but came to you, didn't I just want you to tell me what happened during this time?
"Then are you considering whether to continue to go out and make a living, or to come back and be your eldest young master?"
Sarutobi Kou tilted her head and her voice became louder. She suddenly felt that even though her cousin had been Guardian Ninja for so long, when he returned to the village and faced Hiruzen Sarutobi, he was still the same as before.
Escape, rebel.
But his willingness to return to the village may be a good start, and he can finally save himself from having to deal with all the bad things in the family all day long.
"I have resigned Guardian Ninja. Even if I want to leave the village, there is nothing suitable to do. I can't be a wandering ninja." Asuma snorted twice and took two puffs of cigarette again. He shrank and wanted to hide himself completely on the sofa.
"Asuma, you look like a child who ran away from home. After experiencing the ups and downs of society, he remembered the good things at home, so he ran home again and stood at the door, not daring to knock on the door."
Sarutobi Kou chuckled twice, then suddenly frowned. The door of the office was pushed open again, and an old man walked into the house with an old voice.
"Asuma is not a child who ran away from home, Xiaohuang, he is much more independent-minded than you."
The old man supported his crutches, tapping the floor with a bang, and walked step by step in front of Asuma. His body was hunched, but his head was as level as the sitting Asuma.
"Elder, what did you do today? Why are you all running to my office?"
Sarutobi Kou called out the identity of the person who came. This was the second Elder of the Sarutobi Clan. He was older and older than the other Elder. Moreover, when he was young, he fought desperately for his family and the village and suffered from old injuries.
He almost never goes out on weekdays, and Sarutobi Kou rarely encounters him a few times throughout the year. Unexpectedly, today he came to her Security Force on crutches.
"I heard from the children that Hiruzen's son was back, so I came over to take a look. I didn't expect that you were really back."
2 Elder was leaning on a cane, turned his head and glanced at Sarutobi Kou, then turned his head to Asuma, and continued talking. His voice became much softer.
"Hiruzen often talks about your name at home. Every few days, he asks us old guys about you, and he always urges us to write to you. He also wants us to send people from the tribe to Daimyo to check on you."
"Some of the letters were dictated by him while we wrote them word for word..."
The second Elder rambled on about how Third Hokage missed his children and cared about the life and work of his son Land of Fire Capital who was far away.
But after Asuma heard this, instead of feeling the warm affection, he became angry.
"Is this how he made Daimyo treat me differently? Write a letter?" he shouted, and then he seemed to remember that Elder's health had not been good, and lowered his voice again.
"The preferential treatment I received from Daimyo was all agreed upon with Daimyo in advance?"
"You are the child of Third Hokage and a member of our Sarutobi Clan clan. No matter where you go, you can't change this fact, just like Uchiha and Hyuga."
"After you were born, you have been completely marked as belonging to the family and Hiruzen. This is something you can't get rid of no matter what."
The second Elder said word for word, "No matter whether Hiruzen writes to Daimyo or not, you will receive preferential treatment."
"You are his child, no matter what. Once you come back this time, don't go out again."
Asuma opened his mouth to say something more, but Elder sighed heavily and continued.
"Asuma, some time ago, something happened to Konoha."
"Not many people know about these things, so you probably haven't heard of them yet."
"One night, Hiruzen had not gotten off work yet, and while he was still working in the office, Hokage Building suffered a violent explosion, and the entire building collapsed.
"The current Hokage Building is newly built."
Asuma I suddenly felt that my heart was being grasped by something.
"Is he, is he okay?" he asked.
2 Elder did not answer his question, but continued talking on his own.
"A few days ago, Hiruzen was once again subjected to an extremely dangerous assassination. Fortunately, this time Anbu discovered in time that the assassin committed suicide.
,"
"But no one can guarantee that the next time he encounters this kind of situation, he will still be safe and sound.
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