Naruto: Start by eating the golden fruit.

Chapter 573 Kakashi and Karin
Of course, the news that Kakashi brought back a girl would not cause any earth-shattering shock in the inner city of Konoha Village.

To the people in the inner city of Konoha Village, Kakashi was more of a strange ninja.

But for those who are familiar with Kakashi, the fact that Kakashi actually brought a girl back to the village is enough to make people imagine something strange.

When Kakashi was walking with the girl on the streets of the inner city of Konoha Village, the first person to jump out was Naruto.

"Teacher Kakashi! It's really like that... I never thought that an old bachelor like you would bring a girl back to the village?"

It’s not surprising that children speak without restraint.

Besides, the news that Kakashi brought a woman back to the village was indeed explosive.

Kakashi looked at Naruto with a twitch in his mouth and then said calmly: "Naruto, I heard about your training with Jiraiya-sama.

But you really don't need to learn the ways of Jiraiya-sama, you deserve a beating, you know?"

Kakashi approached Naruto with a dangerous look on his face.

Although the Second and Third Ninja World Wars did not take place in this world because of the existence of Yuya, and therefore Kakashi's left eye was not blind, and Obito did not give his eyes to Kakashi, but this did not prevent Kakashi, the sultry pervert, from going out wearing a mask as in the original work.

Seeing Kakashi approaching dangerously with a mask on, Naruto immediately gave in.

Although he felt that he was not wrong, in the minds of Team 7, Teacher Kakashi had always been an eternal bachelor.

The woman following behind Kakashi saw this scene and gently raised her hand to cover the corners of her raised mouth.

At first glance, I felt that this woman was very intellectual.

Of course, Kakashi, who was already quite familiar with the other party, naturally would not be fooled by the other party's superficial efforts.

The woman's name is Hana Ling, and she is a female ninja from the Key Village in the Land of Locks.

When I was a child, I came to Konoha Village with my fellow villagers to do business several times.

When she was a child, Karin ran away to play and encountered a runaway wild boar. In the critical moment, she was rescued by Kakashi.

So, the hero saves the beauty, and secret love develops naturally.

Unfortunately, the two were not from the same world. The girl and young Kakashi did not get to stay together for long. After a short period of time, the girl returned to her village.

Although he would occasionally follow the village team to Konoha Village to do business or take on missions, he basically had no more interactions with Kakashi.

After all, Kakashi is a genius among geniuses.

A genius ninja who entered the Anbu directly after graduating at the age of 12.

Originally, the life trajectories of the two people should have been two lines that did not intersect, or in other words, they were two straight lines that once met at one point and then gradually moved further and further apart.

However, nothing is absolute in this world. The ninja world has been undergoing many changes recently, and the development of events has gradually exceeded everyone's expectations. Karin also has the opportunity to contact Kakashi again.

Here's the thing.

There are two related ninja factions within the Key Village. The ninjas from the two factions are fighting hard for the right to speak in the Key Village. Karin belongs to one of them.

Last year, the ninja faction that Karin belonged to successfully defeated the ninjas of another faction and drove them out of the Key Village. However, this group of people were resentful inside, in simple terms, they were unwilling to accept the defeat and wanted to get their place back.

So they simply came to Konoha and lied that they needed a Konoha Jonin to carry out a protection mission.

The person who took this mission was the one who was being pressured to get married and could no longer bear it. It happened that Naruto was being taught by Jiraiya, Hinata was training at home, and Sasuke was being taught by his brother. Kakashi no longer had the responsibilities of a teacher, so he decided to take a mission to relax.

Then the unlucky Kakashi received this task.

When Kakashi was about to reach the Key Village, he learned the full picture of the situation.

He didn't want to continue the mission at that time. After all, Youya had emphasized countless times that the life of the ninja was the most important. If there was any concealment in the mission, the Konoha ninja had the right to directly refuse to continue the mission, leave directly, and the deposit would not be refunded.

Kakashi originally didn't want to continue.

However, the person who issued the task said: We are indeed in chaos internally, but your task is to protect the target person. We don’t need you to join the internal fighting in our village. You only need to protect that person according to the original requirements of the task. The rest is our business. Is this different from the task requirements?
Kakashi thought about it and felt that this was the truth.

So he stayed and didn't get involved in the internal fighting between the people. He just watched the show from the side. You know what, he enjoyed it very much.

Some people may ask, Key Village, a place no one has ever heard of, is it possible that such a small force has internal strife?

I can only say that people who have such thoughts are superficial.

As the saying goes, a small temple attracts powerful evil spirits, and a shallow water attracts many turtles.

There is no definite correlation between the size of a force and whether or not there is internal strife.

There are all kinds of struggles within a small company, not to mention a ninja village that is a small country. Kakashi enjoyed the melon, and at this time, Karin also knew about Kakashi's existence.

Of course Karin admires Kakashi, the man who saved her when she was a child.

However, the gap between their identities and status is too big now, Hua Ling doesn't dare to ask for too much, not to mention...

Kakashi didn't seem to remember her at all.

So at this time, Karin didn't recognize Kakashi at all and continued to fulfill her duties.

So how did things turn out like this?

Well...it's related to Youya.

Oh, this doesn’t mean that Youya is intentionally targeting this small country.

It was just that at the end of last year, Yuya chose to throw away these troubles in order to expel the Konoha Ninja Clan and prevent power collusion within Konoha Village.

Then the Sarutobi clan was killed, and the Sarutobi clan went to war with the Bear Country and conquered the Bear Country...

Although the impact of this incident was just a topic of conversation after dinner for Youya.

But the impact on the entire ninja world is very huge.

A family sends a few people to the five major ninja villages to work for the shadows of the five major ninja villages, and then the other members of the family go out to stir up trouble. If they succeed, they can directly control a small country. If they fail, the five major ninja villages will back them up. What is this?
Isn’t this a profitable business for a family?
What? Attacking the small ninja village might result in death?

Do you think I would be afraid of such a big family of mine?
In short, the families of the other five major ninja villages saw it and they also wanted to learn.

As a result, the Lock Country was targeted.

The Key Village, which was originally in the midst of internal strife, suddenly collapsed.

We never thought that such a small temple like ours could be targeted.

As a result, the ninjas of the Key Village, who were already extremely weak due to internal strife, had to accept the threat and control of a ninja clan from the Hidden Cloud Village.

Well, there’s no need to fight now, because all the territory and interests have been taken away by others.

Hua Ling naturally no longer had to continue to carry out that kind of internal fighting mission.

Karin originally didn't want to recognize Kakashi.

She was ready to leave the village and wander around.

She no longer wanted to stay in Key Village.

She had never had much affection for her village before, and now she has even less.

Anyway, she is a ninja and she won’t starve to death.

However, when she was about to leave, Kakashi spoke her name and gave her a blessing.

Karin was surprised, she didn't tell Kakashi her name.

At least……

Not after growing up.

Kakashi said that he had not forgotten everything about Karin when he was a child.

Karin was extremely touched, so she started to pester Kakashi.

As for Kakashi's mission...

Now the Lock Kingdom is under the control of the Hidden Cloud Village.

There is no point in continuing the mission except to give money.

So, Kakashi finished his mission early and returned to the village.

As for Hua Ling...

Naturally, I followed him shamelessly.

She is not as gentle and intellectual as she appears.

(End of this chapter)