Chapter 352 Kakashi

On the street, Aokiji, accompanied by Itachi, looked around at the surrounding buildings and pedestrians as he walked: "The village is really lively."

Itachi looked around and nodded in agreement. The beauty and peace of the village was what he wanted to protect.

"It's just a pity..."

The green pheasant drawled a long note meaningfully.

Itachi asked: "What's the pity..."

Qing Pheasant said casually: "Nothing has changed."

Even after decades, the village remains unchanged.

Itachi lowered his eyes slightly, chewing on the meaning of these words, wondering if Aokiji was sending a message of dissatisfaction with the village.

If one sentence is understood in two ways, there will be no two different meanings.

There is no change. At best it is called stability, at worst it is called decay.

Itachi looked at Aoki's face without revealing anything, and regardless of the other person's fake mask of smile, he felt that the other person might be expressing more of a secondary meaning.

Aokiji had no intention of expanding on the topic, so he changed the subject: "But having said that, do you know where Orochimaru is now?"

Itachi was silent...

"How come you don't know him?" Qingzhi smiled and said, "Don't tell me that he is dead. Otherwise, he should be very famous in the village for his talent. It is impossible that you don't know him."

"That's not true, it's just..." Itachi didn't know what to say next.

"It's just...what..." Qingzhi followed these words and asked.

Itachi swept around silently. The streets were full of pedestrians. The matter about Orochimaru's defection was really inappropriate to start here.

He planned to take Qing Pheasant to a quiet place to have a detailed conversation, but a familiar lazy voice came from in front of him, interrupting his actions.

"Hey, isn't this Itachi? It's really rare that you can walk on the street with such a big show, and you're with other people..."

Itachi looked forward. Standing in front of him was a thin young man with white hair, a mask covering his face, and a forehead protector hanging diagonally to cover his left eye.

In addition to him, there was a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes standing next to him. He was already dressed in green and had a watermelon hair style, which could not help but give people the impression of a watermelon.

Kakashi...

Itachi looked at the young man with his face covered, a trace of solemnity flashed in his eyes.

Kakashi is both a prestigious elite Jonin in the village and a member of the Hokage ANBU.

If he appears here, does it mean that the top management has taken action and started testing?

He was overly concerned about this, Kakashi and Gai were just passing by.

Itachi had already organized the words in his mind to respond, but unexpectedly, the uncle Aoki Pheasant next to him took action one step ahead of him.

I saw him walking forward and patting Kakashi on the shoulder familiarly: "Huh? This is not Shamo. It's been a long time since I last saw you."

Being called that, Kakashi looked confused.

Hatake Soshige is his father's name.

He looks very similar to his father, so it is understandable that some people mistake him for his father.

But it was very strange that the question came from the mouth of a child who looked to be twelve or thirteen years old, and he still looked very familiar.

Aoki looked at Kakashi and said strangely: "Speaking of which, why are you still so young?"

He wasn't so clumsy as to admit his mistake, but he said it deliberately out of fun, and also to pave the way for what would follow.

The young man with watermelon hair approached Kakashi: "Kakashi, do you know this guy?"

Kakashi shook his head: "I don't know him at all. Didn't you hear what he called me?"

After saying that, he looked at Itachi with a questioning look in his eyes.

Perhaps Uncle Aoki mistakenly recognized Kakashi as Kakashi's father. Itachi was helpless that such a funny thing would happen. He introduced:

"Uchiha Aokiji...the elder of my clan."

The young man with watermelon hair looked at Qing Zhi's childish face, with a confused look on his face: "Elder? Are you kidding me?"

Itachi probably knew what Kai was thinking, and explained further: "Don't look at him like this, but he is actually several years older than my father."

"Uchiha Aokiji...?"

Kakashi was quite familiar with this name, and he matched it slightly in his mind. He didn't know if he didn't search, but he was shocked when he searched: "Wait a minute, you said this is... that person?"

Itachi nodded: "Yes."

Kakashi suddenly understood what was going on. No wonder the white-haired boy in front of him mistook him for his father.

But hasn’t he been dead for many years?

And why do you look so young...

There was a mystery in Kakashi's mind.

Qing Pheasant said strangely: "Shu Mao, you have been acting strange since just now..."

Itachi explained from the side: "Uncle Qing Pheasant, this is not White Fang, he is White Fang's son..."

"White Fang's son?"

"Yes."

A sudden realization dawned on Qing Pheasant's face: "Oh, no wonder..."

Kakashi said in surprise: "This is really surprising."

Qing Pheasant asked: "Where is your father?"

When this question was mentioned, Kakashi looked a little sad, but he quickly cheered up: "Father, I have been gone for many years..."

Qing Pheasant apologized: "I'm sorry..."

"Please do not mind."

"It's true that things are different and people are different..."

Qing Pheasant looked into the distance, his voice filled with emotion.

Kakashi asked curiously: "What happened to Aokiji...senpai over the years..."

Qing Pheasant lowered his head and remained silent...

Seeing that he didn't want to mention it, Kakashi wised up and stopped asking, said sorry, and then left with Kai.

His relationship with Itachi was, at best, just a superior-subordinate relationship. Meeting and greeting each other was not bad.

As for the reappearance of Qing Pheasant, the village's top management will make the decision, and it's not his turn to worry about it.

Itachi kept his expression and glanced at them, thinking that their every move was probably being monitored by someone now.

These ANBU were disguised as pedestrians, and even he would be hard-pressed to detect them among them.

"Speaking of which, are Jiraiya and Orochimaru okay?"

Probably after seeing what happened to Su Mao, Qing Zhi said with emotion: "I hope the two of them will not follow in the footsteps of Su Mao, otherwise I will be very sad."

"Jiraiya-sama is currently traveling and rarely returns to the village. As for Orochimaru..."

A change in title represents a change in attitude and stance.

This was the information Itachi revealed to Aokiji.

I believe that it is impossible for the other party's sensitivity not to detect it.

Aoki quickly captured this message: "It seems we need to find a place to have a good chat."

"Um."

"Where should we go..." Qingzhi pondered for a moment and had the answer: "Yes... come with me."

Itachi followed without much thought, but when he arrived at his destination, he was very surprised.

This is the cliff where he used to stay with Shisui.

"I didn't expect this place to exist. In the past, I often imagined the future of the village with my lover here."

Aokiji's words stimulated Itachi's memories of staying with Shisui in the past. For a moment, he was moved by the scene, lowered his head and closed his eyes, his eyes dim.

"What's wrong?"

A hint of aware intelligence flashed across Qingzhi's eyes.

"It's nothing..." Itachi hesitated and quickly put away his sadness to prevent the other party from seeing it.

In the past, he and Shisui enjoyed the future of the village here.

The inner canthus of Qingzhi narrowed slightly: "Now you can talk to me about Orochimaru."

Itachi slowly said: "Orochimaru... defected."

Qingzhi pretended to widen his eyes: "Defection?"

Itachi said while observing the other person's expression: "Yes."

Qingzhi frowned and asked, "Why did he defect?"

Itachi realized that Aokiji was calmer than expected, and responded: "It seems that he was doing human experiments, and even experimented on his fellow villagers... He was discovered by the Third Hokage, and then defected."

Qing Pheasant fell into silence for a while.

Itachi asked: "Uncle Qingji, what are you going to do?"

"I want to bring Orochimaru back to the village..." Qingzhi closed his eyes for a while, his voice was firm.

Itachi was worried: "Orochimaru killed his companions, and even if he reluctantly brought them back, the village might not be able to explain them to him."

"It doesn't matter, I will take action."

"..."

"And when it comes to harming your comrades, the higher-ups are the least qualified to say such things."

Qing Pheasant twitched the corner of his mouth and said disdainfully.

Itachi looked down the cliff, and couldn't help but think of Shisui who committed suicide by jumping off the cliff, and slightly clenched his fists.

Danzo...