"Kakashi-sensei? Isn't today a holiday? What's going on?" Waking up early in the morning, Haryu saw Kakashi-sensei sitting on the tree opposite his house, reading a book, and he knew at a glance that Kakashi was looking for him.
"Your holiday is over, come with me." Kakashi said half-jokingly, not lifting his head.
"I graduated?" Haryu saw the problem at a glance. The ninja academy wouldn't start early, they always maintained a consistent start and holiday schedule. And Kakashi clearly said "you", so Haryu deduced it.
"Yo, not bad. Let's go, to the Hokage's office." Kakashi propped himself up with one hand, leaped down from the tree, put away the book in his hand, and slowly walked towards Haryu.
"Okay. Do I need to bring anything?" Haryu was a little nervous, after all, this was the first time he was going to see Minato alone, even though he was a good friend's father, the identity of the Fourth Hokage couldn't be ignored.
"No. Today is just for you to report, you shouldn't have any missions yet, right? I'll introduce you to a few people later." Kakashi said, turning around and heading towards the Hokage's office without looking back, and Haryu, seeing this, suppressed his surprise and followed closely behind.
"Hokage-sama." Kakashi gently knocked on the door and said respectfully. He wouldn't directly call Minato sensei when there were outsiders.
"Come in."
Kakashi received the instructions and pushed open the door. Inside, besides Minato and the Hokage's assistant, Nara Shikamaru, there were two people Haryu had never seen before, both wearing strange red animal masks.
"Hokage-sama." Haryu bowed slightly to Minato, and then didn't say anything more. After all, he had never seen the attire of these two mysterious people. Silence at this moment was definitely not a bad thing.
"Haryu, do you know why I called you here?" Minato asked with a smile.
"I know. Kakashi-sensei told me." After saying this, he saw Kakashi on the side winking at Minato, naturally, he wanted Minato to know that Haryu had guessed it himself.
"That's good. Have you ever heard of the Anbu?" Minato nodded slightly, understanding Kakashi's gesture, and then asked.
"Anbu? No. So these two are…" Haryu had indeed never heard of the Anbu, the existence of this department was unknown to ordinary people, and the things they dealt with were usually very dangerous or things that couldn't be brought to light. The Third Hokage hadn't mentioned it to Haryu either.
"Alright. The Anbu is a special unit that guards Konoha from the shadows. They are all personally selected elites by me, and they are directly under my command. These two, the taller one is the current Anbu captain, and the other is the captain of one of the Anbu squads."
"So, Hokage-sama, do you want me to join this organization called Anbu?" Haryu realized the intention and blurted out. He couldn't really accept this information. Suddenly, he was going to graduate and join a kind of underground organization he had never heard of, anyone would be reluctant, wouldn't they?
"That's right. Everyone has witnessed your strength, after yesterday's discussion among the higher-ups, I decided to recruit you into the Anbu. The Anbu is the most suitable department for you. There are many jutsu stored here, and you can customize your tools, and there are also high-risk missions, which are more suitable for you to train your personal abilities. With your current level, it's naturally not suitable for you to be a genin and solve those D-rank missions." Minato explained patiently, he had anticipated Haryu's reluctance. After all, children like to be with their friends, and now Haryu was going to act alone.
"Also, you can train your character in real combat, only with strength can you have the opportunity to receive this kind of training. What do you think? Do you want to continue school or join the Anbu?" Although Minato really hoped he would join the Anbu, he had to be polite to this seed sent by the Otsutsuki clan. Who knows if the Otsutsuki clan had sent someone to monitor him?
Haryu lowered his head and thought for a moment, but he didn't look up to answer. "Anbu, I've really never heard of it, but since it's directly under the Hokage, it should be fine. But these members are all wearing masks, it must be a cold-blooded organization, right? I don't know if I'll like it." He thought carefully, but he didn't come to a conclusion.
"Hokage-sama, please allow me to take off my mask." At this moment, the squad captain made this request. This was usually taboo in the Anbu, but Minato agreed.
The squad captain's hand slowly reached out to the mask, pressed on both sides, and then slowly pulled it away. Haryu stared nervously at the squad captain, a little excited to see the person behind the mask, but also a little nervous. "He's clearly trying to win me over, it's not easy to refuse like this."
The mask was taken off.
"It's you!" Haryu was shocked. He didn't expect the squad captain to be Uchiha Itachi, Sasuke's brother.
"Shhh, don't tell my little brother, okay." Itachi still smiled gently, whispering a warning to Haryu. Naturally, for this kind of work, the fewer people who knew, the better. Maybe that's why they all wore masks.
"Then… okay, I'll join." Haryu was a little stunned, then he agreed to the request.
"Oh! Itachi, someone finally broke your record! He's only eight years old!" Hearing that Haryu had agreed, Kakashi behind him started dancing excitedly.
"It's okay, it's a good thing to have a genius in the younger generation, there's no need to be jealous. Right, Kakashi-taicho?" Itachi still smiled, but Kakashi seemed a little sarcastic. Yeah, Itachi had broken Kakashi's record for being the youngest to enter the Anbu, and when Kakashi was still the Anbu captain, whenever he wanted to discipline Itachi, Itachi would use his age as an excuse, which really annoyed Kakashi.
"Haha, Kakashi-senpai also gets a taste of his own medicine, I've seen it. By the way, my codename is Yamato, I'm the Anbu captain. Pleased to meet you." The Anbu captain laughed a little awkwardly when he heard this.
"Oh? Tenzo, how long has it been since you've been disciplined? I think you're…" Kakashi, seeing that Yamato was also joining in, casually threatened him.
"Alright, alright, you guys take Haryu to take a look at the Anbu base. Take good care of him." Minato saw that the three of them were having such a lively reunion, so he issued a dismissal order.
"Yes, yes. Haryu, let's go!" Kakashi took the lead and led Haryu out of the Hokage's office.
"The Anbu isn't as cold-blooded as it seems. At least these people aren't. I'll observe them when I have missions, for now, I'll just treat it as a change of place to train well. Whew!" Haryu adjusted his attitude and followed Kakashi towards the Anbu base.
"Hey, so the Anbu base is in this forest?" Haryu looked at the forest, thinking to himself. He was very familiar with this place, when he was a child, he would run around all over Konoha to exercise, and this was his favorite place to go, no one would disturb him here. And in the depths of this dense forest, a bunker-like building lay on the surface, quiet, safe, and hidden. "The Anbu really chose a good location." Haryu couldn't help but admire.
"Yes. Konoha's Anbu has never been discovered since its inception, people in the village don't know unless they have authorization, and they can't find this base either. There are barriers all around, ordinary people or ninjas without authorization who enter this barrier will only fall into an illusion, and they will be discovered by the sensing unit." Yamato proudly introduced his Anbu base, this base, famous for its impregnability, was also perfectly guarded by him.
"Captain, what's inside the base?" Haryu's point of curiosity was naturally not the appearance or location, but the contents.
"Kakashi-senpai wouldn't have told you anything, would he? As the former Anbu captain, he's so lazy, he doesn't even know how to reveal this kind of information to his students…"
"Hey, hey, Tenzo! If you have something to say, say it, don't talk nonsense." Kakashi, holding "Make Out Paradise" in his hand, walked in front, not looking back as he warned Yamato.
"Senpai, I told you, that's not my name..."
"Alright, alright, tell Haryu quickly, Tenzo."
"Okay, okay, Haryu. Inside the Anbu base, there's an independent training space, a testing space, and a learning space. The training space is mainly for Anbu members to conduct collective training, the content is usually taijutsu. The testing space is opened periodically, used to assess the level of Anbu members, and thus determine their titles. The learning space is generally used for people who need to learn jutsu. The rooms are surrounded by barriers, no jutsu can be broken from the inside." Yamato had been bullied by Kakashi for several years, and now he had finally risen to the top, he made a little joke, but Kakashi immediately seized on his weakness.
"Captain Yamato is so humble." Itachi followed slowly at the back, even though he was carrying a short sword and wearing an iron Anbu uniform, the murderous aura was completely covered by his gentle smile.
"You… Haryu, I'll take you to get your uniform and the standard-issue sword, and most importantly, the mask. Of course, if you don't want a sword, you can customize your tools. But it takes a little longer." Yamato, seeing that he had been rebuffed on both sides, turned back and spoke to Haryu.
"Okay, I'd rather use a weapon I created myself. I'll give the blueprint to the blacksmith." Since he was young, Haryu had envied a certain weapon, and this weapon only existed in his mind, he felt like he had seen it before, and he had even drawn the blueprint completely according to his memory. But in all of Konoha, he couldn't find any trace of this weapon.
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