The Era of Peace

"The Fourth Generation nominated Naruto's father at the meeting, but he doesn't seem to have any intention of taking over."

Kakashi shrugged, somewhat helplessly.

"Why, Minato? Becoming Hokage was your dream back then."

Minato Namikaze Kushina family, also heard the news.

She didn't quite understand why Minato would refuse such a rare opportunity.

What attracted me most about Minato when he was young was his dazzling blue eyes and bright smile when he talked about his dreams.

"I'm not young anymore, Kushina. Let's leave this opportunity to the younger generation. Seeing young people realize their dreams makes me very happy."

Despite Kushina's lack of understanding, Minato maintained his gentle smile and softly explained to her.

He walked over to Kushina and casually placed his hand on her shoulder. "Besides, right now, I want to spend my precious time with my family."

Feeling the gentle touch on her shoulder, Kushina pouted, but didn't say anything more, closing her eyes to quietly enjoy Minato's massage.

After a while, she suddenly opened her eyes, tilted her head back, and tried to see Minato's face.

Minato also cooperated by leaning forward.

"Tell me, what is Naruto's dream? I've never heard him mention it before."

Their eyes met, Kushina asked the question that had been on her mind.

In terms of parent-child relationship, Minato and Naruto were clearly closer, and the boy would always confide in his father about his private matters.

Minato looked thoughtful.

"What, is there something between you and your son that you can't tell me, your mother?" Seeing Minato hesitate, Kushina narrowed her eyes and began to exude a dangerous aura.

"Well, I'm sorry, Kushina, I promised Naruto..."

"Oh? Is that so? Hmph, a little secret between father and son, huh? It's not like the Story of the Snow Woman we collected back then, is it...?"

Kushina's tone became increasingly dangerous.

Minato moved further away from Kushina, retreating towards the wall. "Kushina, didn't I tell you? That book really wasn't mine. By the way, you actually remember it..."

"I don't want to hear that!"

Blood Red Pepper Mode, activated.

While Kushina and Minato were having a little tiff as a couple, Naruto, who had just seen Sakura Haruno off, arrived at their doorstep.

Just as he placed his hand on the doorknob, he heard Kushina's roar and Minato's pleas for mercy coming from inside the house. Realizing something was wrong, he quickly turned around and prepared to leave the area.

Unexpectedly, Yellow Flash passed before his eyes, followed by the sound of his father's rapid breathing beside him.

"Naruto, you've come at the perfect time! Go in and talk to your mother!" Minato grabbed Naruto's shoulder.

"Why do you have to drag me into your arguments?!" Naruto was dumbfounded. This kind of thing had happened many times in his not-so-long life. Whenever Minato sensed the Flying Thunder God Kunai on him during a couple's argument, he would come to his side and use him as a shield.

"Dad, can't you go see Karin just this once?!"

"How can you let girls get involved in something like this?" Minato said righteously, but he just didn't want Karin to hear about the erotic novel.

"Don't you feel any remorse when you say that?"

"Alright, Naruto, go inside now, Mom's waiting for you."

"I've been waiting for you, haven't I!"

As the father and son were shoving each other, the front door of the house was suddenly flung open.

A powerful red aura swirled around Kushina, who was also holding a frying pan.

"Well, Minato, so you're starting to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to escape marital quarrels now, huh?"

"Xiao Jiu, let me explain—"

"Drink it!"

As the frying pan grazed his cheek, Minato lost all interest in explaining and grabbed Naruto, running away.

"So this has absolutely nothing to do with me, Mom!"

Naruto tried to make one last effort, but Minato didn't give him the chance and forced Naruto to become an "accomplice."

"Your parents' relationship is still as good as ever..."

Looking at the small theater that was staged every now and then, Ino forced a smile and said to Karin beside her.

"Minato is perfectly suited to succeed the Hokage, both in terms of strength and prestige."

Shino leaned against the wall, his tone as calm as ever.

"Huh? Shino, when did you get here?"

Only then did everyone realize Shino's presence, and they all tried to recall when he had appeared.

"From the Neji followed Hinata— "

"Sasuke, Karin, Ino, what are you doing here?" Kiba, who was walking by with his dog, spotted Sasuke and the others and greeted them warmly.

Everyone instantly forgot about Shino and started responding to Kiba.

"I hate being ignored..." Shino sighed.

Upon hearing that Minato had refused to succeed him as Hokage, Kiba started boasting, talking about his ambition for the Hokage Position, blah blah blah...

"So, if Minato doesn't take over the Hokage Position, who will become the next Hokage?"

The speaker's voice was soft, and they naturally joined the conversation.

"Chiyo? Kazashiro? You're back too."

After recognizing the speaker's face, Ino immediately moved closer with delight.

Karin was also very happy and walked up to Chiyo.

Chiyo is the daughter of Oyashiro En, and Kazashiro beside her is a child collected by Kazashiro in his Kekkei Genkai collection project.

"Weren't you supposed to be on a mission with Yakumo? Where did Yakumo go?"

Seeing that Yakumo Kurama wasn't with them, Karin was a little worried, since Yakumo's health had never been very good.

"Yakumo went to the Medical Unit to have Shizune- sama's medical check-up, so our team is currently incomplete. What do you say, Karin? Leave the Uchiha around you and join our team!"

Chiyo, holding Karin's arm, extended a team invitation to her.

"Hehehe, Chiyo, you're always like this, full of opinions about the Uchiha Clan."

Karin reached out and gently poked Chiyo's forehead with her finger.

"Hmm, well, it's because their clan imprisoned us before, humph."

Chiyo pretended to be in a lot of pain and covered her forehead, then secretly made a face at Sasuke.

"What does this have to do with me...?"

Sasuke didn't want to speak. This was all the sins of their ancestors. The Uchiha Clan, after Madara Uchiha appeared in history textbooks because of Black Zetsu's fraud, had their lifelong bent back completely broken. Now they were synonymous with "harmless" in the Shinobi World.