Konoha Village.

Hokage's office.

In order to facilitate the study of his disciple Uzumaki Naruto, the current Hokage, the Sixth Hokage Hatake Kakashi, specially ordered an extra desk to be placed in the office for the use of this extremely popular Four War hero inside and outside the village.

From all angles, this is a rare trust, care and expectation.

Anyone with a discerning eye can also see that the next Hokage must be Uzumaki Naruto, and the Sixth Generation is now deliberately training him.

However……

Naruto Uzumaki sometimes feels that this kind of "teacher-student love" is somewhat heavy. Because...

"Ahhhhhh!!!" He threw away the pen, threw himself on the table in despair, and beat the table with the left hand that was given to him by Konoha, while the pile of documents "jumped".

The desperate cry, "How many more are there!!!" The files that can't be processed no matter how they are processed are really disappointing...

He is really not good at these things, and he feels that he will never be good at them in his life.

If being the Hokage means endless files to deal with, then he regretted it a little... Well, a little...

The rest of the people in the office looked at him at the same time.

Hatake Kakashi is sitting behind the Hokage's desk handling government affairs. The piles of documents on the desk are only much more than those of his disciples, almost obscuring his figure. However, he can be said to handle these things with ease, so in addition to

Apart from the large amount, there are no other problems.

Nara Shikamaru stood aside and thoughtfully helped sort all the unprocessed files into categories. Because of his wisdom and talent, he could be said to be doing it very well.

At the same time, Haruno Sakura happened to arrive to deliver documents related to the medical department.

"Naruto, stop complaining." Haruno Sakura put her hands on her hips, facing her blond teammate and speaking out as always, "The files Kakashi-sensei has here are at least several times as many as yours, and he hasn't complained yet." Maybe someone else has.

She can "deify" the guy in front of her, but she can't. Because she has watched it carefully for many years, she knows one thing very well——

The guy named Uzumaki Naruto is a strong, hard-working, stubborn, gentle, kind, soft-hearted fool and...

genius.

"But..." Uzumaki Naruto turned his head ninety degrees, looking at his "old classmate" eagerly, and said almost coquettishly, "Kakashi-sensei is smarter than me."

Then, he muttered in a low voice, "It would be great if Sasuke was here, he will definitely do better than me."

Haruno Sakura: "..." She sighed helplessly, "Naruto, there's no point in saying this now. You'd better take a break and continue to finish today's tasks." If possible, of course she would

She hoped that Sasuke could be here, but...compared to Naruto who had always wanted Sasuke to live in Konoha, she actually felt that Sasuke might be happier if he left Konoha.

Konoha is indeed a village that she loves deeply and will always protect, but it will not bring happiness to everyone.

Because she has family, friends and many happy memories here, but Sasuke...

Of course, this does not mean that Naruto does not care about Sasuke. In fact, she does not think that anyone in the world cares about Sasuke more than him, and this care also makes Naruto hope that he and Sasuke can start a new life in Konoha.

Create more and more happy memories.

Just as he has always done, he covers all sadness with happiness and strives to make himself and others happy.

Perhaps only Naruto can do this.

This emotion, which seemed to be a close friend, a brother, or something else, was something she could not intervene in but always envied and blessed.

"...Oh." Uzumaki Naruto also sighed, then raised his head and asked, "Speaking of which, Sakura, do you want to eat ramen together tonight? I have two 50% off coupons that are about to expire. I won't waste any more.

Already."

Haruno Sakura:==

——You guy, no one will think you are mute if you don’t add the second half of the sentence.

Nara Shikamaru rolled his eyes towards the sky speechlessly.

Hatake Kakashi put down the pen in his hand, propped his chin with both hands, and looked at this scene with a smile, seeming to find it very interesting.

At this moment...

Suddenly there was an eagle cry outside the window.

"It's Sasuke!!!" Uzumaki Naruto was like a dog whose butt was burned by fire (a comment from Teacher Haruno Sakura). He jumped up with a "pop-" and quickly ran to the window.

He opened the window and looked outside.

Soon, the ninja eagle with intertwined white and purple feathers landed on the window lattice and screamed at Uzumaki Naruto. The latter quickly reached out to pick up the letter on its leg, but was pecked by the eagle with its beak.

.

"Ah, sorry!" Uzumaki Naruto quickly turned around and ran to his desk, opened the drawer and took out a cloth bag containing meat strips, poured out high-end beef strips from the Land of Thunder, and ran to the window with it

By the way, I successfully got the letter from the ninja eagle's leg - I have to say that this eagle is indeed very Uchiha's double standard.

"Sakura! Kakashi-sensei! Shikamaru! Look!" The blond boy waved the letter in his hand happily, "It's Sasuke's letter! It arrived two days earlier than I expected. It seems that Sasuke's reply is very good this time.

positive!"

"Hi, hi, congratulations." Haruno Sakura said, telling herself in her heart - I'm not upset, really, I'm not upset. We are all old teammates, but Sasuke has only been willing to write letters to Naruto. There is no difference in treatment.

Not like this.

Fortunately, there is Kakashi-sensei who accompanies her to "miserable".

"But this guy's letter is still so thin." Uzumaki Naruto touched the envelope and showed a slightly disappointed and worried expression, "Is it because I only have one hand and it's inconvenient to write? Really, I told him clearly.

I put the handle on and started walking, but he didn't want to... It's really inconvenient to have one hand." Because I have experienced it, I know this very well.

Hatake Kakashi: "..."

Nara Shikamaru: "..."

There is no doubt that both of them knew the fishiness involved, but they both made a tacit agreement not to tell Uzumaki Naruto, and it was really hard to say anything.

Fortunately, Uzumaki Naruto, who was kept in the dark, did not dwell on this issue for too long. Instead, he opened the letter from his friend who was traveling far away, and read it to everyone seriously as he had done every time before.

listen--

"The letter has been received, I am still alive."

Hatake Kakashi: "..."

Nara Shikamaru: "..."

Haruno Sakura: "..."

It's just like always...

Whenever this happens, they always admire Uzumaki Naruto, because if it were them, they would only be able to exchange a thick stack of letter paper for one sentence at a time, and they would not be able to write letters like this consistently no matter what.

But for Uzumaki Naruto, this is not difficult, because he is already accustomed to sharing all the details of his life with his friends far away from the village by writing letters.

And to be honest, he was very satisfied knowing that Sasuke was still alive and could maintain contact with Sasuke in this way.

...Well, actually he is not that satisfied. He still hopes that Sasuke can come back.

But at least, he knew that Sasuke was fine.

This way you can stay in the village with peace of mind.

Immediately afterwards, he read out another sentence written on the letter——

"If you pick it up on the road, throw it away if you don't want it."

"Huh?" He tilted his head in confusion, and then showed an overjoyed expression. He raised his hand and poured the opening of the envelope into his palm again. A half-withered white wild chrysanthemum and a piece of white wild chrysanthemum remained the same.

The red maple leaves slowly fell into his palm.

"..."

Uzumaki Naruto silently stared at the thing in his hand, then suddenly raised his right arm across his eyes, and raised his head vigorously.

"...Hey, hey," Nara Shikamaru said a little unbearably, "No, Naruto, are you crying just after receiving these?"

Haruno Sakura pursed her lower lip. For some reason, she suddenly felt that she understood Naruto's current mentality.

"Okay, Naruto." Hatake Kakashi comforted him half-jokingly, "You are a little hero who saved the world. How can you shed tears just because of such a trivial matter."

"It's not a trivial matter!" Uzumaki Naruto put down his arms and said with tears in his blue eyes like the sky and the sea, "This is the first time Sasuke has mailed something to me, and it is such a beautiful thing.

Flowers and maple leaves. This means that Sasuke's eyes are no longer empty, right?" He confirmed to the others, "It means that he has started to see these beautiful things, right? Then,

You are also willing to mail it back and share it with us. In other words, after traveling away from the village, Sasuke's mood improved little by little, is that true? I can think so, right?"

The rest: "..."

"Very good……"

At this moment, the heroes on the battlefields of the Fourth World War, who had never shed tears due to pain no matter how many kinds of injuries they suffered, left tears of relief and emotion for their friends who were traveling far away.

Haruno Sakura was silent for a moment, then walked up to the other party, raised her hand and gently rubbed the brilliant blond hair: "Okay, Naruto, Sasuke didn't send you something just to make you cry.

If he knew about it, he might be laughed at."

"...Then you have to come back before you can laugh at me." Uzumaki Naruto sniffed and muttered. Then, he looked down at the items in his hands, then looked up at the person in front of him, and after hesitating for a moment, he

He made up his mind and said, "Xiao, Xiao Sakura, I think Sasuke must not have just mailed it to me. You see, he mailed two things. It must be mailed to both of us!" After that, he hesitated.

He held out his hand to the person in front of him hesitantly, "So, do you want to choose something as a souvenir? After all... this is the first time Sasuke has mailed something back."
To be continued...