"Looking for me? What is it?" Kaoru put down the bowl and chopsticks in his hand hurriedly and said.
"Lord Hokage has something to find you for." Yūgao Uzuki spoke and said, and then added a sentence immediately, "It's a very important matter, and he wants you to go to the Hokage Building immediately!"
"Is that so?!" Kaoru stood up hurriedly, and it seemed that he could finally end this awkward luncheon, but Yūgao was truly quite clever, and had actually understood the meaning in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, Uncle and Aunt, and it seems that I have to leave early, and you know, and I can't disobey Lord Hokage's orders." Kaoru said towards Hina's parents.
"Alright, and Lord Hokage's matters are naturally more important!" Hazuki Hisashi nodded his head, and had a look of regret on his face, and he had originally wanted to take this opportunity to ask about Kaoru's specific situation well, and he was Hina's heart's desire after all, but it seemed that he could only give up for now.
Hina was also pouting her mouth, and her small face was full of a look of displeasure.
"Then I'm sorry, and goodbye, Hina." Kaoru nodded his head, and also said towards Hina, and then left Hina's home together with Yūgao Uzuki.
"That child, Kaoru, looks quite good, but this gathering was too short, and I don't know what his character is like?" Hazuki Hisashi spoke and said after Kaoru and Yūgao Uzuki had left.
"I saw it, and his character is definitely considerably good, or else how would he have saved our daughter this many times, and you're right, Hina?" Hina's mother said with a smile, and her pair of eyes swept towards Hina, who was beside her.
"Of course, of course!" Hina nodded her head like a chick pecking at rice, and had a face that was full of a look of joy.
Kaoru had come to the Leaf Village's main street together with Yūgao Uzuki while the Hazuki family was discussing Kaoru enthusiastically.
"How is it, and how did it feel to eat a meal with Hina's family? And they're regarding you as one of their own....." Yūgao was biting her lips lightly, and asked, and her tone had a trace of bitterness within it.
"Too awkward....." Kaoru smiled bitterly, and answered truthfully, "It was like being interrogated, and I couldn't bear that kind of gaze from Hina's parents."
The corners of Yūgao Uzuki's mouth had a trace of a smile after hearing Kaoru say it like that, and the worry in her heart was finally put down somewhat.
"Right, and thank you for making up a reason to rescue me from that kind of awkward situation just now, and I would have almost gone crazy if I had continued to be pressed for answers by Hina's parents." Kaoru thanked Yūgao Uzuki with a smile.
"Who wanted to rescue you?" Yūgao Uzuki said in a tsundere tone, "Lord Hokage really has something to find you for!"
"Then why didn't you say it earlier!" Kaoru complained at her, and accelerated and ran towards the Hokage Building.
"He's truly a wooden fellow!" Yūgao Uzuki said with a face that was full of anger after seeing Kaoru slip away, and then stomped her feet lightly.
The Hokage Building after a moment had passed.
"I wonder what you're finding me for, Lord Hokage?" Kaoru was standing in the Third Hokage's office, and spoke and said.
"I'm sorry ah, Kaoru, and there's indeed a mission to teach you after calling you back from your vacation." The Third Hokage placed the documents in his hand to the side, and straightened his back, and looked up at Kaoru.
"It's nothing, and I've already regained my state." Kaoru had a face that was as calm as an ancient well, and spoke indifferently.
"It's like this, and I want you to protect a person, and escort him safely from the Leaf Village to the capital of the Land of Fire." The Third Hokage spoke and said.
"From the Leaf Village to the capital of the Land of Fire?" Kaoru was somewhat confused, and it would probably only take more than half a day of time if he was walking this distance by himself, and the degree of danger wasn't very high logically speaking, and escorting this kind of mission was generally carried out by ordinary ninjas, and he, who was an Anbu squad leader, shouldn't only be carrying out this kind of small mission.
Kaoru spoke to the Third Hokage hurriedly after thinking up to this point: "Lord Hokage, and escorting this kind of mission isn't within the scope of our Anbu's responsibilities, and why do you want me to escort him?"
"Because it's what I requested!"
A voice, that was old and tough, came over from the entrance without waiting for the Third Hokage to speak.
Kaoru turned his head to look over, and an old man walked into the office.
This old man looked to be about the same age as the Third Hokage, and his head of gray-white hair was standing up, and he was wearing a pair of light green glasses, and he was precisely the Leaf Village's advisor, and one of the three high-ranking members, Homura Mitokado.
"I think that the journey to Kyoto will probably be even safer with you, who's a genius of the Uchiha clan, protecting me." Homura Mitokado's eyes were staring at Kaoru, and it seemed that he wanted to see through him.
"You're a genius of the Uchiha clan, and I can be much more at ease with you protecting me."
Homura Mitokado spoke indifferently.
Kaoru frowned his eyebrows after seeing the arrival of this old man, and this old man's first sentence had thorns within it secretly, and he was addressing him as a genius of the Uchiha clan, and he was clearly doing that in order to stir up his memories of the Uchiha clan since the Uchiha had already been exterminated.
And the high-ranking members of the Leaf Village all knew the truth of the Uchiha clan's extermination, and Homura Mitokado and another high-ranking member of the Leaf Village, who was called Koharu Utatane, were both the planners of the Uchiha's extermination, and this matter made Kaoru feel very strange immediately with him suddenly asking him to be his guard now.
"Could it be that he wants to take action against me?" Kaoru thought to himself inwardly, and he couldn't be without wariness in his heart, and Kaoru had to be vigilant at all times in his heart towards this kind of pedantic high-ranking member of the Leaf Village.
"Lord Homura Mitokado is the highest leader of the Leaf Village's administrative department, and he's the bridge between the Land of Fire and the Leaf Ninja Village, and the purpose of this trip of his to Kyoto is to transmit the country's information on one hand, and to receive the financial expenditure that the country has allocated to the village on the other hand, and he'll be reflecting some situations and circumstances of the village to the Daimyō on the third hand." The Third Hokage stated the purpose of this trip of Homura Mitokado.
"And I'm having you be his guard under his request, Kaoru, and this isn't an Anbu mission, and you don't need to wear a mask." The Third Hokage took a puff of his tobacco, and continued to say: "His mission to Kyoto is very important to the village and even the entire country, and therefore I'm asking you to protect him well."
"I understand." Kaoru nodded his head, and it seemed that this journey was short even though it was long, and protecting an old man didn't seem to be a big matter either, but Kaoru always felt that it was definitely not this simple.
"Very well then, and I'll have to trouble this genius of the Uchiha clan to accompany me on this journey." Homura Mitokado revealed a strange smile, and he patted the dust on his body, and then turned around.
"We'll set off immediately now, and I'll have to trouble you to keep up with me." Homura Mitokado turned his head and said to Kaoru, and then advanced towards the entrance slowly.
Kaoru nodded his head in response, and he had never expected that he would have to carry out a mission immediately, and he didn't even have a bit of time to prepare.
"Kaoru!" The Third Hokage suddenly spoke from behind just when Kaoru had just taken one step.
"Be careful!" The Third Hokage narrowed his eyes, and spat out these two words slowly, and there was a complex light within his eyes.
"Yes!" Kaoru bowed, and walked out of the Third Hokage's office.
He followed behind Homura Mitokado like that, and the two people advanced towards the Leaf Village's entrance one after another.
"Am I your only guard?" Kaoru asked after seeing that Homura Mitokado was walking forward silently all along.
"That's right, you're the only one." Homura Mitokado spoke and said, and his pace didn't slow down even slightly, "I believe that you alone is already enough, and you're an Uchiha genius after all."
This sentence, that was unknown if it was praise or sarcasm, made Kaoru very uncomfortable.
Not long after, the two people walked to the Leaf Village's entrance, and several people had been waiting in place early on at this place.
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