Ever since he gave that task to Kakashi, although Satoru has been staying in Konohagakure village, he has never gone home. Today he is crashing at the Uchiha's house, tomorrow at the Hyuga's, or else at the Nara's, Akimichi's, Yamanaka's. Almost every household has traces of Hatake Satoru.
If he were a demon, he would be the most slippery one.
The purpose of doing this is naturally to avoid his own father. He can't even imagine what his father will face him when he returns home. His heart can only mourn for Kakashi for three seconds.
Who made him the older brother and Kakashi the younger brother? It's the younger brother's job to share some fatherly love for the older brother.
These days, Satoru has almost seen all the twelve strong ones in Konohagakure, which is not much different from the original strength.
Even Uchiha Sasuke's strength is similar to the original. Although the master he followed in the original is different, now Kakashi's strength is not weaker than Orochimaru's, even stronger under the sage mode.
Now Hatake Satoru's life is quite leisurely, either going to other people's homes to crash a meal, or going to the Hokage office to crash a tea, after all, the tea that Hokage drinks is not on the same level as the tea they drink.
But just when he was crashing tea today, Hatake Satoru hadn't stayed for long, and the door of the Hokage office was directly opened. The person who came in was a figure that Hatake Satoru felt extremely familiar with.
That figure saw Hatake Satoru appear in the Hokage office, and at first, his face also showed a surprised expression, but after a turn, it became a resentful expression.
And Satoru could only pick up the teacup, lower his head and take a sip of tea to ease the embarrassment.
"Teacher, what do you want me for?"
The person asked Namikaze Minato, yes, now in Konohagakure village, the only person who can call Namikaze Minato a teacher is Hatake Kakashi.
Since he tricked his younger brother last time, Satoru felt that he had no face to see him, so he has been avoiding him recently. Unexpectedly, he was caught in the Hokage office.
"Wait a minute, not everyone is here yet."
Namikaze Minato waved his hand, indicating Kakashi to sit next to Satoru.
But Kakashi just looked at Satoru and sat in a position farthest from Satoru.
Minato looked at Satoru and Kakashi with a puzzled face, completely unable to figure out what was going on with the awkward atmosphere between the two brothers. But he didn't interfere on his own, after all, this can be said to be their family affair, and at this moment, Namikaze Minato is an outsider.
Just when Hatake Satoru wanted to leave here, the door of the Hokage office was opened again, but this time it just eased Satoru's embarrassment.
The ones who came in were Kakashi's students from Team 7, Namikaze Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura.
"Hokage-sama."
When the three of them saw Namikaze Minato, they respectfully said a sentence, even Naruto in this formal occasion, also called Minato Hokage-sama.
Only in private will they call him father.
"Kakashi-sensei."
Then the people called Kakashi again, as for Satoru, they just nodded their heads to indicate.
Upon seeing Hatake Satoru, Uchiha Sasuke frowned. From the look on his face, it seemed as if he had some sort of issue with Satoru.
Since they didn't take the initiative to greet him, Hatake Satoru naturally didn't feel the need to start a conversation either.
"Hokage-sama, may I ask why you called us here?"
Haruno Sakura spoke up. Although Sakura was arguably the weakest of the three, her mind was quite calm and she could always make the most correct judgments. So even though she was the weakest, she was the team leader of the entire squad.
"You guys from Team 7 should have had some time without working together, right?"
Minato asked.
"Yes."
Sakura glanced at Naruto and answered. After all, during these two years, Naruto from Team 7 had not been in the village all the time. Although she and Sasuke would also go out of the village to carry out missions normally, they would definitely not stay out of the village for as long as Naruto did.
"So I gave you a small test to let you re-experience the feeling of teamwork."
Namikaze Minato said with a smile. This test was also a decision he had thought about for a long time, and he also wanted to see how much progress his child had made under Jiraiya-sensei's teaching in these two years.
"Great, who is our opponent?"
Naruto asked excitedly, his gaze sweeping back and forth over Minato, Satoru, and Kakashi. If there were no surprises, the opponent should be one of these three people.
However, Naruto still hoped that his opponent would be Kakashi-sensei, after all, Kakashi could be said to be the weakest of these three people.
"Your opponent is Kakashi. As your teacher and you as his students, you can say that you are the people who know each other best, so it is most appropriate to choose you to be each other's opponents."
Upon hearing Namikaze Minato's words, Kakashi's expression froze. He didn't know before he came that he was going to fight against his three former students.
He wasn't sure about Sakura and Naruto's current strength, but he was very clear about Sasuke's strength. Although it hadn't reached the Kage-level, it had already reached the level of an elite Jonin.
Combined with the Three Tomoe Sharingan, even if he fights against a general Kage-level ninja, he can still hold his own.
And Sakura training with Tsunade-sama, Naruto training with Jiraiya-sama, the strength of the two must have also developed rapidly. So now if he is to fight one against three, although Kakashi is confident that he will not lose, he feels that this battle is completely unnecessary.
"Kakashi, do you have any problems?"
Seeing the expression on Kakashi's face, Minato turned his head and asked.
"No problem, no problem."
Kakashi answered twice in a row.
"Kakashi-sensei, my progress over the past two years will definitely surprise you."
Naruto pointed at Kakashi and said excitedly.
Sakura also tightened her gloves and showed an eager expression. Recalling their first battle with Kakashi in Team 7, Sakura felt that her performance was so embarrassing. This time, she must regain her dignity.
As for Sasuke, he just snorted coldly. Although he didn't say anything, the expression on his face told everyone that the winner would definitely be him.
(End of the chapter)
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