You Know Nothing About Pain

At around nine o'clock in the morning, Jiraiya came to Hokage's office on time, and skillfully waved his hand to signal Anbu who was nearby to leave first.

Yuan Fei Ri Zhan looked at Ji Lai Ye, knowing what the other party was here for, he silently smoked a cigarette without saying a word.

"Old man, what are you talking about?" Jiraiya looked at Hiruza Sarutobi in a daze: "How are you thinking? What exactly are you thinking?"

"What do you think? Do you really want to know?" Hiruzaru Sarutobi asked back.

"Isn't this nonsense?" Jiraiya said speechlessly: "I care about your decision the most. If it wasn't for you, old man, I wouldn't care about that shit. I would have taken Naruto away long ago."

"Really? Then I'll tell you what I think."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi muttered to himself, the expression on his face under the smog could not be seen clearly:

"When I was young, I also wanted to cultivate carefully and protect my disciples to grow vigorously. When I am old, they have grown into towering trees, and they can take good care of this Konoha for me. At that time, I also did that."

"and then?"

Sarutobi Hirizhan took a puff of his pipe expressionlessly: "In the end, the three disciples I had the greatest expectations for, one spent the whole day using gambling and alcohol to escape reality, the other became rebellious and confronted me, the teacher, in the end. One is better, but I don’t see anyone all year round.”

"So why don't you let me worry?" Hiruzaru Sarutobi asked back: "How can you not be cruel?"

"It's completely unreasonable!" Jilai also retorted: "No matter which village it is, in the end it depends on the villagers' sense of belonging to survive.

"I know, I don't think I'm doing the right thing, and I know it's dirty."

Hiruza Sarutobi suddenly interrupted Jiraiya, looked at Jiraiya calmly and said, "I know what you said, don't forget who taught you how to be ninjas."

Jiraiya looked at Hiruzaru Sarutobi in astonishment: "Then why are you still--?"

"Jiraiya." Hiruzaru Sarutobi pointed to his heart expressionlessly, "I'm old, I won't live many years."

Ji Laiya was taken aback for a moment, looking at the gray-haired temples of his mentor, the loose muscles on his face, and the mottled age spots on his arms.

Jilai also suddenly discovered at this moment that the indomitable and seemingly omnipotent master in his memory was already old.

"If I were still the young Sarutobi Hiruzam back then, I would naturally be able to wait for the new generation to grow up and take over. I can afford to wait, and I can afford it."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi bent his body and said: "But I can't wait now. The successors I trained originally will die or die. The new generation is still too young to carry the entire village."

"I often have nightmares at night, dreaming that Konoha will be destroyed after I die.

Therefore, I want to ensure that when no one can stand up for a while after my death, Konoha can still have the same hole card, the same hole card that makes the enemy fearful.

And such a hole card must be stable and cannot be wrong, it is the last insurance.

Only by doing this can the new generation of Konoha have time to grow up. For this, I can sacrifice anything. "

"Konoha must never be destroyed in my hands."

As if to verify his persistence, Hiruzaru Sarutobi repeated it again and again: "Never!"

Jiraiya silently looked at the teacher in front of him, not knowing how to speak for a moment.

"Old man..." Jiraiya said in a shy voice, "Sacrificing a child to maintain stability, is Konoha like this still Konoha?"

"I know, it's just that I don't have a better choice now."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi leaned on the back of the chair, and said calmly: "No matter what the outcome will be in the future, I will bear it alone. This is my realization as Hokage."

————————————————— The school bell rang, Naruto went home after finishing his notes as usual, and Sasuke was also waiting beside him.

Maybe it was because Iruka's lecture in class today was relatively simple, so Naruto quickly sorted out his notes and walked out of the school gate with Sasuke.

Walking to the school gate, students came out of the teaching building one after another, and some parents who came to learn to pick up their children could be seen outside the gate.

A child saw his father waiting at the school gate, and smiled excitedly from a distance. The runner ran towards the father at the school gate, and accidentally bumped into Naruto's schoolbag because he didn't pay attention during the running process.

"father!"

The child jumped into his father's arms: "Why are you picking me up today, where is Mom?"

"Today is your birthday. Mom is preparing a big meal for you at home."

The child's father hugged the child with one hand with a smile on his face and said, "So today is the father who will pick you up."

"By the way, see what I brought you?"

The child's father stretched out his other hand that had been hidden behind him: "See what this is?"

"Wow! Popsicles!"

The child burst into laughter from ear to ear: "Daddy is the best!"

"You can't tell your mother when you get home, or she will punish me if she finds out."

The popsicle is the kind with two wooden roots. The child's father gently breaks it from the middle, divides it into two parts, and hands one part to the child: "Come on, let's have one for each of us."

"Ok!"

The child nodded vigorously, took his father's hand and left together.

Naruto looked at this scene a little blankly, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?"

Sasuke beside him noticed Naruto's abnormality, and couldn't help touching Naruto's shoulder and said, "Are you all right?"

"what?"

Naruto came back to his senses, scratched the back of his head and said with a smile: "It's nothing, just now I was thinking about what to eat for dinner, and I was fascinated, hahahahaha."

Although Sasuke felt that something was wrong, he didn't think too much about it. The two walked together for a while and parted ways at a fork in the road.

Naruto walked silently on the way home, counting the stones on the road with his head down, not knowing what he was thinking, when suddenly a shout came from ahead.

"Yo! Naruto!"

Naruto raised his head abruptly, and looked at Jiraiya leaning against the wall beside the road, looking at him with a smile on his face.

"Lustful fairy?"

Naruto was taken aback: "Didn't you say you have something to do today? Why are you here?"

"I'm not done with my work."

Ji Lai also waved with a smile: "Just passing by here, thinking that you are about to leave school soon, so I will wait for you by the way."

When Naruto walked up to Jiraiya, Jiraiya suddenly said with a mysterious face, "Guess what I just ran into?"

"What?" Naruto replied absently, "Could it be that you saw some beautiful young lady again."

"Hmph, you definitely can't think of it."

Ji Laiya suddenly took out something from behind him: "Dangdangdangdang! Didn't expect that! Popsicle!"

Naruto looked at the things in Jiraiya's hands, and suddenly didn't know what to say: "Lust, you..."

"Let me tell you, I used to love this food the most."

Jilai also skillfully divided the popsicle into two parts, and handed one of the popsicles to Naruto: "Come on, this is yours."

Naruto took it blankly, looking at the popsicle in his hand, wondering what he was thinking.

"What's the matter?" Zilai also stuffed his portion into his mouth, and said vaguely, "Eat? You don't like it?"

"No, who said that."

Naruto suddenly smiled, and imitated Jiraiya and stuffed the popsicle into his mouth: "I like eating popsicles the most!"

"Hahahahaha, look at me."

Zilai also laughed twice, deliberately bit off half of the popsicle in one bite, and kept chewing: "It's so refreshing to eat like this!"

"Cut, I will too!"

Not to be outdone, Naruto also bit off most of the popsicle in one bite.

After a while, the two of them covered their heads and wailed at the same time.

"Hiss—my head hurts..."

"Okay, let's go, I invite you to dinner."

Jilai also stuffed the remaining popsicles into his mouth, and led the way immediately: "Is there anything you want to eat?"

"Huh? Treat me to dinner?"

Naruto was stunned for a moment, catching up with Jiraiya and said, "Don't you have no money?"

"Hey hey hey."

Zilai also patted his pocket proudly: "It's not because of you, the new book was successfully published, so the publishing house gave me a manuscript fee."

"what--"

Naruto squinted his eyes and said to Jiraiya: "It's that strange novel of yours. By the way, will anyone really buy it?"

"Tch, you little brat, you know nothing."

Zirai flicked his hair disdainfully: "My book is famous far and wide. Many ninjas in the village are my loyal readers. You will know when you grow up."

"Really--?"

Naruto deliberately prolonged his voice to show his doubts: "I don't think that kind of book is very interesting, it is definitely not as interesting as Geography Travel Notes."

"Okay, I've already said that it doesn't make sense with you brat."

Ji Laiya waved his hand speechlessly: "Tell me, what do you want to eat?"

"Well, what to eat..."

Naruto thought for a while and said, "Then why not eat Ichiraku ramen."

"Have eyesight!"

Ji Lai also gave a big thumbs-up: "It's been a long time since I left the village, and I miss the taste of Yile Ramen very much, so here it is!"

The two came to the entrance of Yile Ramen together. At this time, the restaurant was in business, and the business of Yile Ramen was booming. The two waited outside for a while before they could sit down.

"welcome!"

The boss turned his head and greeted enthusiastically.

After Naruto sat down familiarly, he looked at the situation in the store and said, "Hey, is there only the boss? Where's Sister Changpu?"

"Ask calamus, oh..."

Slapped the boss with a tired sigh and said, "Recently, she didn't know why she went crazy. She wanted to go out and learn how to make Western-style breakfast, and said that she would turn the ramen shop into a breakfast shop in the future."