"Thump!"
Before even reaching the office door, a loud bang was heard.
Sounds like a table being slammed?
Lin Ke stopped, thinking that nothing should be happening in the Ninja Alliance building. He decided against sending Shadow to investigate and walked to the door, his hand just raising.
"Thump!"
"Crack!"
"You have to give me an explanation today!" A little girl's sharp voice pierced his eardrums and squeezed into his head.
Aunt Kushina?
Lin Ke recognized the source of the voice in the next second. Thinking about how Jiraiya had tricked Naruto into transforming into a bikini beauty and posing provocatively, only to be caught by his own mother yesterday, he paused for a moment and took half a step back.
"Creak~" The door opened. Inside, a four-year-old Namikaze Minato was standing on his tiptoes, holding the doorknob. Seeing Lin Ke's wide eyes, he gave an embarrassed smile.
There was nothing he could do. If someone who could mediate didn't join in, it would probably be hard to resolve the situation.
Discovering Jiraiya's harmful influence on his son yesterday was just the beginning. After Naruto returned home, he carelessly recounted everything about his training.
Things like participating in the creation of the Make-Out Series, frequenting various red-light districts and custom shops together, secretly sneaking into bathhouses and hot springs to peep with Jiraiya, and so on.
All these things precisely hit Kushina's sore spots. He had spent a lot of effort persuading her last night, and then this morning she had rushed over to question the Third Hokage.
Jiraiya-sensei, you really are... He sighed silently and mouthed, "Sorry."
Lin Ke met the furious gaze of the Main World Kushina inside and walked in, saying, "Um, Third Hokage, I came to see you, yes."
The Main World Sarutobi Hiruzen was squatting on the windowsill like a monkey.
Seeing the scattered debris of the office desk and the precarious chair on the floor, it was no wonder.
The Main World Kushina's face still showed lingering anger, but she still managed to force a smile, speaking as gently as possible, "Little Lin Ke, we have some private matters to resolve for now, you..."
"Ahem, Kushina." The Main World Minato interrupted his wife, bracing himself and trying his best to ignore his wife's man-eating gaze, disregarding what he might face after returning home, and said, "Since Little Lin Ke is here, he must have something to discuss with the Third Hokage."
The implication was, let's not cause more trouble and let them talk properly.
So everyone's eyes focused on him.
"..." Lin Ke's mind short-circuited for a moment, about a second. His mind raced, and looking at the pleading eyes of the Third and Fourth Hokages, he said, "Yes, right, I have something to discuss with the Third Hokage."
The Main World Kushina narrowed her eyes suspiciously. That one-second pause had made her realize the truth.
But since her family's benefactor had spoken, she would definitely give him face.
"Then we'll excuse ourselves first." She smiled brightly, her red hair shining in the sunlight. She took small steps to the door and said in an unquestionable tone, "Minato, let's go."
The Main World Minato showed a smile that was no better than Jiraiya's yesterday and led the way out the door.
The Main World Kushina turned back, her eyes curved in a smile, and said gently, "Little Lin Ke, come visit us more often when you have time. Naruto really wants to play with you."
"Okay, Aunt Kushina."
Lin Ke agreed and watched the little girl whose expression instantly changed from a gentle smile to a terrifying black face as she turned away. He felt as if the atmospheric pressure had suddenly returned to normal from being too low.
"Saved." The Main World Sarutobi Hiruzen breathed a sigh of relief and jumped down from the windowsill like a monkey, complaining, "That Jiraiya, he really knows how to cause me trouble, and Kushina, she's really..."
"Third Hokage, you should say less."
Lin Ke knew how strong the Uzumaki Clan's sensory abilities were. Shadow dragged a spare chair from the corner and began tidying up the room. The three of them sat down.
The Main World Sarutobi Hiruzen sat cross-legged on the chair, seemingly unaffected by someone coming to cause trouble. He asked curiously, "Oh, right, did you really need to see me about something?"
"Nothing." Lin Ke estimated that the Fourth Hokage and his wife had gone far away and said, "I've been relatively free lately, so I thought I'd come and visit you."
"Me?" The Main World Sarutobi Hiruzen pointed to his nose and said, "I've been doing quite well lately. If it weren't for what just happened, it would be even better."
"Oh, right, be careful with that document. I need to take it to Lord Tobirama for his seal later..." He directed Shadow to tidy up the room, then patted the dusty and wrinkled document, jumped off the chair, and smiled, "Alright, if there's nothing else, I need to get busy."
"Huh? Oh." Lin Ke also jumped off the chair.
The Main World Sarutobi Hiruzen looked around the room and said, "Next time you want to see me, go to World Number Three. I'll apply to be transferred to World Number Three to participate in the reconstruction mission later."
He thought for a moment and added, "Forget it, you'd better not come see me there."
World Number Three was an entire world. The variety of missions was incredibly numerous. The Advent of a World of Flowering Trees affected the entire planet, and some rescue missions alone took over a year to complete.
As for who issued them...
A boundary-breaking Rashomon had been released in World Number Three before. With a large number of dead people emerging, there was no shortage of missions.
As for rewards, they could be obtained in World Number Three. Most of the people were dead, and it was not only a post-apocalyptic ruin but also a huge treasure trove waiting to be excavated.
Many ninja organizations and small Naruto Villages in the Ninja Alliance often had a dozen or so elite ninjas gather to take a small mission and go there, secretly digging for treasures, collecting Ninjutsu, and searching for valuable items.
He needed to temporarily escape. Taking any mission would do, and he could hide for as long as needed. The problem was how to tell his wife and children.
Thinking about it, he sighed. There was no way to avoid running away. Kushina already had a fiery temper. In the village back then, she would have been restrained by the ninja system and rules. Now that she had shed her identity as a ninja and Jinchuriki and become a child, her willfulness had increased by several levels.
Yet, she was in the right. Everyone knew what kind of person Jiraiya was. A beating would calm her down, but to get an explanation, it had to come from the root.
Like him, who had agreed to let Naruto go out and train with Jiraiya in the first place.
Forget it, if it doesn't work, I won't go home. I'll just run. The Main World Sarutobi Hiruzen thought about the pressure he would face from his wife after returning home and immediately let himself go, patting his butt and leaving.
Is this how busy he is?
God Gold.
Lin Ke saw off the Third Hokage, speechless, and looked up to meet Utakata's eyes.
"Hahaha~"
Utakata couldn't help but laugh out loud. "Thanks to you, I wouldn't have seen something so... interesting otherwise."
"Anyway, it seems like the Third Hokage and the Fourth Hokage are doing well," Lin Ke said after a moment of silence.
"Probably."
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