Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 573 Kakashi and Karin

The news that Kakashi brought back a girl certainly wouldn't cause any earth-shattering shock in Konoha's inner city.

To the people of Konoha's inner city, Kakashi was merely an unfamiliar ninja.

But for those familiar with Kakashi, the fact that he brought a girl back to the village was enough to make people's imaginations run wild.

When Kakashi was walking with the girl on the streets of Konoha Village's inner city, Naruto was the first one to jump out.

"Kakashi-sensei! It's really true... I never expected that you, Kakashi-sensei, an old bachelor, would bring a girl back to the village?"

It's not surprising that kids speak without thinking.

Moreover, the news that Kakashi brought a woman back to the village was indeed quite shocking.

Kakashi looked at Naruto with a twitching mouth, then calmly said, "Naruto, I heard about you training with Jiraiya-sama."

But you really don't need to imitate Jiraiya-sama's behavior; it's incredibly annoying, you know?

Kakashi approached Naruto with a dangerous look on his face.

Although the Second and Third Shinobi World Wars did not occur in this world because of Yua's existence, so Kakashi's left eye was not blinded and Obito did not give his own eye to Kakashi, this did not stop Kakashi, the repressed pervert, from going out wearing a mask just like in the original story.

Seeing Kakashi approaching with a dangerous look on his face while wearing a mask, Naruto immediately backed down.

Although he felt he wasn't wrong, Kakashi-sensei had always been seen as a perpetual bachelor in the eyes of Team 7.

The woman following behind Kakashi saw this and gently raised her hand to cover the corners of her mouth that were turning up.

At first glance, this woman seemed very intellectual.

Of course, Kakashi, who was already quite familiar with the other party, was unlikely to be fooled by their superficial gestures.

The woman's name was Hana Rin, and she was a female ninja from the Key Village of the Lock Country.

When I was a child, I came to Konoha Village a few times to do business with my clansmen from my village.

When Karin was a child, she ran away to play and encountered a rampaging wild boar. Kakashi saved her in the midst of the danger.

Thus, the story of a hero rescuing a damsel in distress and the development of feelings between them naturally unfolded.

Unfortunately, the two were not from the same world. The girl and young Kakashi did not spend much time together. After a short time together, the girl returned to her village.

Although he would occasionally join the village's teams to do business or take on missions in Konoha, he basically had no more interaction with Kakashi.

After all, Kakashi is a genius among geniuses.

A genius ninja who went straight into the Anbu after graduating at the age of 12.

Originally, their life trajectories should have been two straight lines that never intersected, or rather, two lines that once met at a point and then gradually drifted apart.

However, nothing is absolute. Recently, the ninja world has been in turmoil, and the development of events has gradually exceeded everyone's expectations. Karin has also had the opportunity to contact Kakashi again.

Here's the thing.

There are two related ninja factions within Key Village. The ninjas of the two factions are fighting tooth and nail for control of Key Village. Karin belongs to one of them.

Last year, the ninjas of Karin's faction successfully defeated the ninjas of another faction and drove them out of Key Village. However, these people were resentful and, to put it simply, they were not convinced and wanted to get their revenge.

So they simply came to Konoha, falsely claiming they needed a Konoha Jonin for a protection mission.

The person who took on this mission was someone who couldn't stand being pressured to get married at the time. Naruto had Jiraiya to teach him, Hinata was training at home, Sasuke had his older brother to teach him, and Kakashi didn't have the responsibility of being a teacher, so he decided to take on a mission to relax.

Then, unlucky Kakashi received this mission.

As they approached Key Village, Kakashi learned the full extent of the situation.

At that moment, he didn't want to continue the mission. After all, Yuya had emphasized countless times that the lives of ninjas were the most important thing. If there was any concealment in the mission, the Konoha ninjas had the right to refuse to continue the mission, just walk away, and the deposit would not be refunded.

Kakashi originally didn't want to continue.

However, the person who issued the task said: "Our internal situation is indeed quite chaotic, but your task is to protect the target. We don't need you to get involved in the infighting in our village. You just need to protect that person according to the original requirements of the task. The rest is our business. Is this different from the task requirements?"

Kakashi thought about it for a moment and realized that this made sense.

So he stayed, not getting involved in their infighting, but just watching the show from the sidelines. And let me tell you, he thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle.

Some people might ask, "Key Village, a place I've never even heard of, could such a small force have internal strife?"

It can only be said that people who think this way are superficial.

As the saying goes, "A small temple has a strong demonic wind, and shallow water has many turtles."

The size of a power is not necessarily related to whether there is internal strife.

Even a small company has its internal struggles, let alone a ninja village in a small country.

Kakashi thoroughly enjoyed watching the drama unfold, and at that moment, Karin also learned of Kakashi's existence.

Karin naturally admires Kakashi, the man who saved her when she was a child.

However, the difference in their social status is too great now, so Hualing doesn't dare to ask for too much, especially since...

Kakashi seems to have no recollection of her at all.

So Karin didn't acknowledge Kakashi at all at this point and continued to fulfill her duties.

So how did things turn out this way?

Hmm... It's related to Yuya.

Oh, that doesn't mean Yuya is intentionally targeting this small country.

However, at the end of last year, Yua chose to get rid of these troublesome individuals in order to expel the Konoha ninja clan and prevent power struggles within the village.

Then the Sarutobi clan was killed, the Sarutobi clan went to war with the Land of Kuma, and conquered the Land of Kuma...

For You Ya, this incident may seem like just a topic of conversation after dinner.

However, its impact on the entire ninja world is enormous.

A clan sends a few people to work for the Kage of the Five Great Ninja Villages, while the rest of the clan members go out to cause trouble. If they succeed, they can directly control a small country. If they fail, the Five Great Ninja Villages will cover for them. What is this?

This is a risk-free and highly profitable business for a family!

What? Attacking a small ninja village might result in deaths?

Do you think I'd be afraid of such a large family like mine?

In short, the families of the other five great ninja villages saw this and wanted to learn from it as well.

Thus, the Locked Country came under scrutiny.

The Key Village, which was already embroiled in internal strife, suddenly collapsed.

We never imagined that our tiny temple would be targeted.

As a result, the ninjas of Key Village, who were already extremely weak due to internal strife, had no choice but to accept the threat and control of a ninja clan from Cloud Village.

Well, there's no need to fight now; the territory and profits have all been snatched away by others.

Hua Ling naturally no longer needed to carry out those internal power struggle missions.

Karin originally did not want to acknowledge Kakashi as her father.

She was already prepared to leave the village and wander outside.

She no longer wanted to stay in Key Village.

She never had much affection for her village to begin with, and now she has even less.

Anyway, she's a ninja, so she won't starve.

However, as she was about to leave, Kakashi said her name and offered her his blessing.

Karin was surprised; she hadn't told Kakashi her name.

At least……

No, not after I grew up.

Kakashi stated that he has not forgotten anything about Karin from his childhood.