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With his current strength,
he wouldn't easily approach Naruto.
After all, it wasn't just Anbu observing Naruto, even Danzo's Root was watching from the shadows. If he approached rashly, it would be…
Thinking about this, Shinji didn't linger any longer, but left directly.
After all, now wasn't the right time to approach Naruto.
"It's you, Shopkeeper Shinji." Just as Shinji was about to leave, a cold voice suddenly came from behind him.
He looked back, white hair, dead fish eyes, and the same iconic mask.
"Kakashi, what are you doing here? Are you… protecting Naruto?" Shinji smiled lightly at Kakashi.
He knew very well why Kakashi was here.
"You know something?" Kakashi frowned, he knew about Naruto's identity.
The same color hair as his master, Minato Namikaze, and the outline of his face.
At first glance, Kakashi knew Naruto's identity.
"The Third Hokage assigned you this job, right? How's it going?" Shinji smiled, not answering Kakashi's question, but pointing to the Leaf Maternity Hospital.
"You also know Naruto… is…" Kakashi looked away, surprised again by Shinji's source of information.
"You mean, your teacher's son? He's the son of a Leaf hero, but his current treatment… tsk tsk tsk." Shinji looked at the Leaf Maternity Hospital with a complex expression, then sighed and prepared to leave.
"Do you have any solutions?"
"What do you mean? The Sharingan? Or Naruto?" Shinji stopped, but didn't turn around.
"Both."
"Then that's two transactions, Mr. Kakashi Hatake." Shinji finally turned to face Kakashi.
"Okay, count them as two."
"Then… the pleasant transaction time is over, let's go back." After saying that, Shinji directly placed his hand on Kakashi's shoulder, and the next moment, the two of them suddenly disappeared from the street.
As if they had never been there.
"This is… space-time ninjutsu?" Kakashi only felt the scene in front of him change, then he appeared in the All-Purpose Shop.
This incredible ninjutsu made him think of his teacher, Minato Namikaze's unique Flying Thunder God Technique.
Although the Flying Thunder God Technique was created by the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, it was Minato Namikaze who brought it to a higher level.
Besides, the Flying Thunder God Technique wasn't easy to master.
This could be seen from the fact that only two people in the entire ninja world had mastered it, Senju Tobirama and Minato Namikaze.
Even Sarutobi Hiruzen, known as the Professor of Ninjutsu, couldn't learn it. This was enough to show the difficulty of this technique.
But now, Kakashi discovered that the owner of the All-Purpose Shop, Shinji, could also use this space-time ninjutsu similar to the Flying Thunder God Technique.
"This isn't the Flying Thunder God Technique, it's just a small technique." Shinji seemed to see Kakashi's astonishment.
He couldn't help but explain.
At the same time, he looked at the prompt in the system.
[Function 1: As a spawn point, the host can directly return to the shop once a day (unlimited distance, cannot be blocked, can bring people), current count: 0/1]
Sure enough, the count had become 0.
"Come, have some tea." Shinji, as usual, brewed a pot of hot tea for every customer who came.
Of course, this led to the tea leaves he had taken from Tsunade running out soon.
This wasn't good news.
"Thank you." Looking at the teacup in front of him, still steaming, Kakashi thanked him.
"You're welcome, you're my guest." Shinji didn't mind, he just put the teacup aside.
"So, now you can ask properly, Shopkeeper Shinji, how do you know all this?" Kakashi's only remaining dead fish eye stared at Shinji.
"You mean about Naruto."
"Yes."
"That shouldn't be hard to figure out, blonde hair, the last name is Uzumaki, and… your master's wife, isn't her name Uzumaki Kushina?" Shinji looked at Kakashi with a smirk.
"Is that the only reason?"
"Of course not, but… Kushina's due date… shouldn't be a secret in the village, right?" Shinji tapped the tea table with his fingers, making a tapping sound.
"..." Kakashi fell silent, the only sound in the All-Purpose Shop was Shinji tapping on the table.
"Actually, you should know in your heart who is responsible for Naruto's current situation." Shinji looked at Kakashi, a hint of amusement in his eyes.
"..." Kakashi didn't say anything, but two names appeared in his mind.
Sarutobi Hiruzen! Shimura Danzo!
Known as the embodiment of the Leaf's light and darkness.
Besides, the rumors that Naruto was the Nine-Tailed Fox were really making Kakashi's heart ache.
After all… that was his teacher's son.
The son of a hero, and as the vessel of the Nine-Tailed Fox,
he was the greatest weapon to stop the Nine-Tailed Fox's rampage.
After all, not many people's bodies could withstand the Nine-Tailed Fox's violent chakra.
But…
Why treat Naruto like this?
Why?
Was everything he had been upholding all along wrong?
He hadn't been able to protect anyone.
The White Fang of the Leaf, Obito, Rin Nohara, Minato Namikaze, Kushina.
Familiar faces kept flashing through his mind.
Now even… Naruto…
"Since you can't protect Naruto openly, then become the most powerful force to protect him in secret." Shinji said this to Kakashi, who was already filled with self-doubt.
"In secret?" Kakashi raised his head and looked at Shinji, his eyes full of hesitation.
"Yes, when you have free time, why don't you take a walk around the Leaf, it will make me feel more at ease. You can try it too." Shinji smiled, Kakashi was a very lonely person.
Just like the origin of Kakashi's name.
A scarecrow in a paddy field, meaning he guards the paddy field like a scarecrow.
But, scarecrows are lonely.
"Take a walk?" Kakashi savored Shinji's words, a hint of an idea appeared, but he couldn't grasp it.
"Yes, take a walk, look at the world more, and think more about your own existence. If you want Naruto to live a better life, Kakashi, there are some things you shouldn't avoid."
Shinji saw that the tea in Kakashi's cup was a bit cold, so he added some more.
"I understand, I…" Kakashi hadn't yet grasped the meaning of Shinji's words.
"Good."
"..." Kakashi widened his dead fish eyes and looked at Shinji, when did I understand?????
"Next, let's talk about your Sharingan, how about it, have you found a solution?" Shinji didn't pay attention to Kakashi's surprise, but continued to speak on his own.
"I haven't found a suitable sealing technique yet, and it also needs to be able to be unsealed at any time, this is a bit…" Speaking of this, Kakashi was a bit troubled.
He wasn't incapable of sealing techniques, but ordinary sealing techniques couldn't seal the Mangekyō Sharingan at all, and powerful sealing techniques didn't have the ability to be unsealed in real time.
This was really making Kakashi a bit troubled.
"Have you considered… the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique?" Shinji looked at Kakashi's deliberately covered eye and asked.
"The Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique?" Kakashi's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
He wasn't unfamiliar with this seal.
On the contrary, he was very familiar with it.
Because it was his master's wife, Uzumaki Kushina's family secret technique.
It belonged to the legacy of the extinct Uzumaki clan.
It was also an advanced version of the Four Symbols Sealing Technique.
It was used by Minato Namikaze to seal the Nine-Tailed Fox in Naruto's body.
"If it's the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique, it should be able to seal your Sharingan, after all… it's something that can even seal the Nine-Tailed Fox."
Shinji looked at Kakashi's thoughtful expression, he didn't know if Kakashi knew the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique, but he had already given him a solution.
"How do you know that the Nine-Tailed Fox in Naruto's body was sealed with the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique?"
Kakashi was increasingly convinced that Shinji in front of him was simply unfathomable.
He not only possessed space-time ninjutsu similar to Minato Namikaze's, but he also seemed to know a lot about this ninja world.
This was very intriguing.
"Someone who has lived too long can only visit their past comrades and past scenery in their memories, of course, that includes knowledge."
[Ding!]
[Speak a Zhongli quote, proficiency increases by 0.1%]
[Current role-playing progress: 6.5%]
Seeing the system prompt, Shinji was a little happier.
He hadn't been idle these past two days, relying on his actions or quotes as Zhongli, his role-playing progress had quietly increased by 0.5%.
"Cough, cough, if it's the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique, I can think of three places where it might be." Shinji coughed twice, retracting his slightly happy gaze.
"Three places?" Kakashi was a bit surprised.
"Yes, the first is the Seal Book kept by the Hokage, it might have a record of the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique." Shinji said with a smile.
The Seal Book…
Kakashi was a bit troubled, he knew about the existence of the Seal Book, but generally speaking, unless you had completed several high-level missions, you rarely had the opportunity to view the Seal Book.
After all, even he hadn't viewed the techniques recorded in the Seal Book.
"What about the second?"
"The second would be more convenient for you, your master's wife, Kushina. Her legacy of documents and scrolls might have records of the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique. You can go through them when you have time."
Kakashi fell silent for a moment, in fact, Minato Namikaze and Kushina's inheritance was taken away on the second day after the Nine-Tailed Fox incident, leaving only a small house behind.
Kakashi knew who had done this.
"The third would be to leave the village."
"Leave the village?"
"East of the Leaf, you know there's an island there, right?" Shinji looked at Kakashi, a hint of reminiscence in his eyes.
"East… is that the Land of Whirlpools?" Kakashi pondered for a moment, he had heard of that place before, the extinct country, the Land of Whirlpools.
It was his master's wife, Uzumaki Kushina's homeland.
"Yes, that's the place. You can go there and take a look. Generally speaking… the bottom of the ancestral hall is a great place to hide things." Shinji didn't reveal too much.
After all, this was a plot that didn't appear in the main story, revealing too much would be a giveaway.
"I'm increasingly convinced that you, Shopkeeper Shinji, are definitely not an ordinary person." A hint of caution flashed in Kakashi's eyes.
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