After resting for a night in the town, everyone set out on the journey back to Konoha. Unlike the rush when they came, they traveled at a normal speed.
"Finally home!" Minato sighed sincerely as the gate of Konoha finally appeared in the sight of the four. He had never missed the village so much after running around for so long on missions. He couldn't wait to see Kushina. Calculating the time, after tonight, there was still one day before the ten-day holiday of the Ninja School ended. This gave him a chance to rest.
But before that, he still had one thing to do.
"Okay, you all go home and rest first. Suzuka and I can take care of the report handover," Sakumo said to Minato and Uchiha Yoruki as they entered the village. Before that, he had taken back the Konoha forehead protectors of the two. They were just temporary Genin for this mission and didn't have a formal identity, so the handover and reporting of the mission were not their business.
"Tsk," Uchiha Yoruki snorted coldly.
Minato's expression changed, and he looked at Sakumo, saying, "Senior Sakumo, I want to see the Third Hokage. Can I go with you?" Before the Ninja Trial, he had met the Third Hokage once, and when he asked to become Kushina's bodyguard, the latter had given him an answer and a test. Minato regarded the events that followed as a way for the Third Hokage to test him. After returning from the mission in the Land of Hot Springs, he wanted to know if he had reached that qualification. As long as he succeeded, the depressed look on Kushina's face would lessen. When she was with him, she could be a little freer.
Sakumo heard this and said, "I can't take you to see the Third Hokage without permission, but I can ask the Third Hokage for you to see if he is willing to meet you." Minato could only wait for Sakumo's news.
"I will give you an answer tomorrow morning," Sakumo said, then turned his head to look at Suzuka, who nodded slightly, and the two disappeared almost instantly.
Uchiha Yoruki glanced at Minato, and the expression on his face had returned to the look he had in the ninja school in recent days.
"Then see you at school!" Minato said goodbye to him, but Uchiha Yoruki ignored him and left on his own, walking towards the edge of the village. Because of their security work, the Uchiha clan was established in a place very close to the Konoha Prison, in a remote area of Konoha. This situation seemed to have started from the time of the Second Hokage.
After Uchiha Yoruki left, Minato twitched his mouth awkwardly on the spot and left directly.
After the four of them parted ways, the ninja who was guarding Konoha sighed and said, "The kid who died two days ago should not be much older than them, right?" His sigh attracted the attention of another ninja who was in charge of guarding. He bumped his arm and said, "It's best not to comment on such things." The other person nodded slightly and stopped talking about it.
After returning home and looking at the empty room, Minato's emotions fluctuated differently than usual. In the past, he hated going home alone. But after seeing life and death situations with his own eyes, he realized that being able to come back alive was more important than anything else. When a person dies, there is nothing left, and it is even more impossible for him to have any emotions.
He first came to his parents' room and wished them peace in heaven. After that, Minato washed his body and changed into clean clothes. He put the hairpin in front of him and looked at it, a knowing smile appearing on his still young face. However, at this moment, it seemed that from the depths of his soul, there was an unprecedented sense of fatigue. Suddenly, Minato's whole body seemed to be drained of strength, and the fatigue gradually deprived him of consciousness, making him fall asleep on the spot.
"Roar!" At this time, it seemed that there was an extremely cold roar coming out of Minato's body, but it became weaker and weaker, and finally silent.
Konoha, Uchiha clan. Somewhere in this famous Konoha clan, a thin figure pushed open the door and stepped out. Through the gap in the door, one could see a serious-looking man in the room, and it seemed there would never be a smile on his face. Uchiha Yoruki stepped out of the room, closed the door tightly, and turned around to leave. He jumped onto the eaves. At the edge of Konoha, there were only Uchiha clans, so there were not many buildings that would affect the bright moonlight. His face was heavy. At the end of the mission, he seemed to have lost to Namikaze Minato again. His own irrationality led to the injury of Senior Suzuka, and what finally contained Shinzo Kuriyama was that guy's jutsu.
Now he gradually recalled that the gap between him and Minato was not the difference in strength. It was the judgment in battle. This ability could not be learned but accumulated through continuous battles. It was his first time carrying out a mission, and it was also the first time for that guy. However, the gap between the two was quite different.
The night was getting darker, and Uchiha Yoruki was still thinking. A figure that was thinner than himself appeared in front of him. She also looked towards him, and the two looked at each other. "Uchiha Mikoto?" Uchiha Yoruki was stunned for a moment. The motto of the family was very strict. At this time, the children should have gone to bed. He was still out because he was on a mission, and when he returned to the family, it was already past the time.
The direction that Mikoto came from was not where she lived, but the main gate of the Uchiha clan. In his impression, Uchiha Mikoto was a very clean girl, but although she was not dirty at this time, she was a little messy. Most importantly, her brows revealed a sense of being exhausted, just like him who had just returned to the family.
Similarly, Mikoto also had doubts about Uchiha Yoruki. But she did not delve into it. Deep in her eyes, there seemed to be some emotions that Uchiha Yoruki had never seen before. Mikoto looked away and then jumped towards the direction of her home. Uchiha Yoruki also felt that the expression was somewhat familiar and recalled it immediately. When he killed the first person during the mission, the expression in his eyes was exactly the same as Mikoto's.
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