Chapter 111: Haku's Dream! The Furious Merchant "Gato"

Whitebeard's words left Kakashi speechless

Because he thought about it and found that it seemed to be true.

If Whitebeard wants Naruto, Karin, and Haku to join Konohagakure Village Ninja School, would anyone in the high ranks of Konohagakure dare to refuse?

If they refuse, it will definitely cause big trouble.

Whitebeard's terrifying strength is not fake!

But the problem is.....

Thinking of some friction and contradictions between Whitebeard and Konohagakure Village, Kakashi feels that this trip back to Konohagakure Village may not be as "calm" as in Kirigakure Village

Speaking of which...

Whitebeard is a wanted pirate!

Carrying a staggering bounty of 100 Million, how dare he go anywhere? Because of his invincible strength?

If Whitebeard, who has a bounty of 100 Million, goes to Konohagakure.

Isn't that equivalent to a bandit brazenly breaking into a military base, completely ignoring the armed personnel inside?

Kakashi thinks this analogy is very vivid.

"I hope those high-ranking officials don't fantasize about unrealistic things." Kakashi could only sigh, his words were relatively euphemistic.

The real meaning is....I hope the high-ranking officials of Konohagakure will grow a brain and not provoke a man they shouldn't provoke.

Then, Kakashi looked at Shisui.

"Will it be more troublesome for you to return to Konohagakure openly?" Kakashi knew that Shisui had been hunted down by the Root"

At that time, he almost lost his life.

Shisui, whose injuries have completely healed, smiled and said, "I want to return to Konohagakure Village to do something."

Saying this, Shisui touched his only remaining eye.

"I found.....there are some things that I can't complete with my own power. The people in the village don't trust me, and the clansmen in the Uchiha clan don't trust me either."

He murmured, "I want to choose a suitable person to inherit my will and let him do what I can't finish."

"....." Kakashi looked deeply at Shisui.

But he didn't say much.

"Konohagakure Village....." Uzumaki Fuushi looked at the road ahead. 

As a survivor of the Uzumaki clan, Uzumaki Fuushi's view of Konohagakure is more biased towards not liking Konohagakure.

Even saying that, the Uzumaki clan that survived that war of extermination would not have a good impression of Konohagakure.

Many people say that Konohagakure was actually involved in the war of extermination of the Whirlpool Country.

It's just that Konohagakure didn't put it on the surface.

Whether it's like this or not, Uzumaki Fuushi is not very clear. She only knows that Konohagakure, as an ally of Whirlpool Village, did not send any reinforcements during the war.

After the war of extermination...

Konohagakure coincidentally arrived late. However, Uzumaki Fuushi also has to admit that the education level of Konohagakure Village is very high. Letting her daughter Karin enter the ninja school may be a wise choice.

"Mom, what kind of place is a ninja academy?"

Karin's understanding of "ninja academy" is infinitely close to zero

After all, there is no regular ninja school in Kusagakure Village.

Kusagakure Village, a small ninja village, is a whole grass-roots team. Asking them to build a very well-equipped ninja school is undoubtedly difficult for them.

"It's a place that can make Karin become more powerful!"

Uzumaki Fuushi smiled gently and said, "Karin also wants to become very powerful, and then better help Pops, right?"

"Yes, yes!!" Karin nodded hurriedly, like a chick pecking at rice.

Uzumaki Fuushi said, "The things you learn in ninja academy can help Pops a lot!"

After saying this, she looked at Haku, who was silent next to her.

Uzumaki Fuushi is like an older sister in a family.

She asked softly, "Haku, is this your first time leaving the Land of Water?"

"Um....." Haku nodded slightly.

"Do you not want to leave here?" Uzumaki Fuushi asked curiously.

Haku looked back at the gate of Kirigakure.

Recalling all the things he had experienced in the Land of Water, Haku shook his head and replied in a low voice, "The only thing I can't bear to leave in the whole Land of Water is Zabuza, whose injuries I don't know how they're recovering. I don't miss anything else about the Land of Water, neither the people nor some things."

Nine-year-old Haku has experienced too much.

His tone is far more mature than his peers, making people think he is not just nine years old, but at least seventeen or eighteen.

"Is it that man called Momochi Zabuza?" Uzumaki Fuushi smiled, "I remember, he is your lifesaver, right?"

"Yes." Haku said, "Even if Zabuza no longer needs me, I will not forget this kindness."

"Maybe, you should know to look forward."

Uzumaki Fuushi suggested, "For example, what do you want to do? What is your goal? What do you want to become now? Just like Naruto, he wants to become the Hokage of Konohagakure village, so he wants to return to Konohagakure village, he wants to enter ninja school."

"And you? Haku?" Uzumaki Fuushi continued, "You don't have to answer me in such a hurry, people must have dreams, everyone has something they look forward to."

Haku was about to say "I don't have a dream", but he swallowed his words.

Uzumaki Fuushi's words made Haku fall into deep thought.

His own dream...

Goal...

What kind of person does he want to become?

Unconsciously, everyone's eyes were focused on Haku, but Haku seemed unaware.

He was still thinking.

After a while, 

Haku looked down at his own palm, a cold chill swirling in his palm, this is his Kekkei Genkai.

Haku hesitated for a moment before saying, "I... want to become a tool that Pops is most reluctant to give up.

Thud....

As soon as he finished speaking, Haku suddenly felt a slight pain in his forehead.

He found out that it was Uzumaki Fuushi who had flicked his forehead.

"Idiot!" Uzumaki Fuushi laughed, "Pops once told me... everyone has their own goals and dreams, a person should not be born to be a tool. Don't say your dream in a way that pleases others!"

In Haku, she saw her own shadow.

She had said similar things in the past.

Then, she was scolded by Pops, and suddenly woke up.

Uzumaki Fuushi understood Haku's thoughts very well.

Haku cherished this rare family affection too much, he instinctively tried to cater to others in order to maintain this relationship, and said a dream that was not entirely his own.

If Whitebeard' speak.....

So twisted!

So naggy!

"Follow your heart, Haku!" Uzumaki_Fuushi advised, "Before you met Momochi Zabuza, before you met Pops, before you met us, you must have had some thoughts, right? Think back to your original thoughts."

"Original... thoughts..."

Haku seemed thoughtful.

Memories were gradually being stirred up.

..."Haku, Mommy is going to tell you a little secret! Look... this is the power of Mommy's bloodline. When summer comes, Haku can have free shaved ice every day. But this is a little secret between Haku and Mommy, Haku can't tell anyone, not even Daddy."

..."Haku! Hide quickly! Your dad found out that I'm a Kekkei Genkai user, he... might have gone to find someone to kill me. I love your dad very much, we fell in love when we were teenagers, I suddenly don't want to resist."

..."Die! You woman who brings disaster, how could I marry such a disaster like you? Aren't you a Kekkei Genkai user? Aren't you very powerful? You actually died under an ordinary knife? Hmph, it seems that Kekkei Genkai are nothing great!

...Right, I almost forgot, there's also a little disaster who shouldn't have been born! That little disaster has half of your bloodline, he will definitely bring disaster to the village, to me!"

..."No! Don't! Haku, I'm your dad, I'm your biological father.

Ah! You can't kill me, if you kill me, you'll become an orphan! Haku!"

..."Get lost! Where did this stinky beggar kid come from? Want to beg for food, go somewhere else, hmph!"

..."My name is Momochi Zabuza, what's your name? Kid?"

..."Haku, be my son!"

In Haku's mind, the repeated scenes and voices made him unconsciously tearful.

Crystal clear tears slid down his cheeks.

They dripped onto the back of his foot.

"I... I don't want to be discriminated against anymore because of the 'special' thing in my body." Haku's voice was a bit choked, but also somewhat resolute: "I know, in this world, there are many people like me."

"When I was wandering, I once thought that if one day I could become a very powerful person, I would take in many children like me who are discriminated against by others..."

Haku's voice became clearer and clearer.

The choked tone gradually disappeared.

"I know what I want to do now, I also know what my dream is, what my goal is. I want to make the ninja world stop discriminating against people like me, I want them to recognize me. I'm the same as them, there's nothing worth being discriminated against!"

Haku took a deep breath, his tone became extremely firm, and continued: "I also want to take in and protect other people who are discriminated against like Pops and Zabuza. "

"I... I also want to protect the family I want to protect! I want the Whitebeard Pirate Crew, this big family, never be separated!"

After saying the deepest words in his heart.

Haku couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

As if a huge stone in his heart had finally disappeared.

It wasn't until now that Haku came to his senses.

He looked around in surprise.

He found that everyone was looking at him.

"No, sorry." Haku's face, as cute as a girl's, turned red, and he said weakly with his head down, "Is my dream a bit too fanciful?"

"Gurarararararara! That's quite an ambition and goal!" Whitebeard's hearty laughter rang out: "Stupid son, it's not easy to eliminate others' prejudices against you! But... you are worthy of being my son!"

"You have to have such a dream, you have to have such ambition!" Whitebeard grinned and said, "Let me teach you how to achieve this!"

Haku, who had been bowing his head, couldn't help but look up.

A pair of big eyes covered with a layer of mist widened a bit: "Pops, do you know how to do it?"

Whitebeard's smile remained, and he spoke the essence: "When you become strong enough to make them fear, to make them respect, the entire ninja world will no longer discriminate against you!

That's the logic of a pirate.

It's simple.

It's brutal.

It's practical.

"Become so strong that people fear and respect you." Haku was stunned, the stunned Haku knew what Pops meant.

Haku thought about it and found that Whitebeard's theory was very brutal.

But it's exceptionally reasonable.

Irrefutable.

The begging and crying of his father before his death surged into his heart, Haku clearly remembered the day he awakened his Kekkei Genkai… he killed his father and the villagers who had killed his mother.

They went from initial discrimination and disgust, even mercilessly killing, to begging and crying in the end.

It only took a few minutes.

"Become strong…"

"Power…"

The expression in Haku's eyes became clearer.

Finally, he made up his mind completely.

"Pops!" Haku was unprecedentedly serious, "I want to become strong! I want to become very strong! So that no one in the ninja world will discriminate against my bloodline, and no one will dare to hurt my family!"

"Gurarararararara!" Whitebeard's hearty laughter echoed through the sky, even shaking off many leaves from the surrounding trees, "That's the ambition! That's my son!"

For his sons' more positive ambitions.

Whitebeard never suppresses them.

Even going to support them vigorously.

He will respect the sons' ambition

Unless it's some abnormal ambitions.

Like a certain Blackbeard.

"Pops, what is your dream?"

Haku suddenly asked curiously.

Haku, who had just joined the Whitebeard Pirates family not long ago, he really didn't know what Whitebeard Pops' dream was.

"To escort my stupid sons' dreams! Foolish son!" Whitebeard gave Haku a flick, the force was much smaller than the one given to Naruto.

Whitebeard reminisced, "Then, find the way back. Take my stupid sons and find my other stupid sons in the sea! Gurararararara! When the two groups of my stupid sons come together, the new Whitebeard Pirates and the old Whitebeard Pirates merge, it must be very interesting!"

"Finally, take you to my hometown." Whitebeard laughed, "That's a paradise, at least for me, it's a paradise."

This is not the first time for Whitebeard to reveal his true feelings.

In his eyes, there is nothing wrong with saying it.

"In that case… then I have to add one more goal."

Haku held his head and said seriously, "I want to help Pops, to complete your dream!"

"You stupid son, you're really surprising! Gurararararara!"

Whitebeard laughed heartily.

On the other side

Shisui said with a sigh, "Kakashi-senpai, I'm afraid no one in the entire ninja world doesn't envy this big family, right?"

Kakashi turned his head to look at Shisui.

The expression on Shisui's face couldn't be concealed at all.

He saw the look of "envy" on Shisui's face.

He also saw memories and melancholy.

Kakashi didn't refute Shisui, but agreed, "The repeated wars in the ninja world have caused many people to lose their loved ones. I heard that there are already hundreds, close to a thousand children in the orphanage of Konohagakure..."

"For those who have lost their parents, who wouldn't want to join this family? There's no deceit, no manipulation, just like the utopian family mentioned in 'Icha Icha Paradise'."

At this point, 

Kakashi fell silent.

He didn't say anymore.

....

A few days passed.

Since the Moby Dick of the Whitebeard Pirates hadn't been built yet, Whitebeard and the others planned to go to the Gato shipyard again.

They planned to "borrow" a large ship that could sail from the shipyard, and at the same time "borrow" a few sailors who could sail.

When Whitebeard and the others were about to reach the shipyard.

A luxurious large ship slowly docked at the dock of the shipyard, such a large ship looked expensive at first glance.

The temporary person in charge of the Gato shipyard, who replaced the original manager, changed his face when he saw this luxurious large ship.

"This is... Gato's ship!!"

This temporary person in charge recognized whose ship it was at a glance.

Sure enough.

When a rope ladder was lowered from the ship, a very short middle-aged man walked down angrily, surrounded by a large group of strong swordsmen.

Each of the swordsmen in the large group was robust.

Their faces were full of fierce aura.

In terms of physical fitness, they were no less than the more mediocre lower ninjas, the difference with the lower ninjas was that they didn't know Ninjutsu.

Among them, the short man named Gato!

"Where are my things? My powder? My arms? My brats? Where have they all gone?" Gato got off the ship and started questioning angrily, "More than a month! Business has been suspended for more than a month! Who can explain to me what's going on?"

"Do you know how much money I've lost because business has been suspended for more than a month? How many partners have I lost? I've earned several hundred million less! Damn it! More than twenty partners have said they won't cooperate anymore!"

"I received a telegram directly from my big client in the Land of Rice Fields, they no longer want to buy 'missing children' from us! Less is just losing money!"

After venting like a roar.

Gato adjusted his tie.

He looked up at the temporary person in charge in front of him.

His eyebrows couldn't help but frown.

"Hey! Who are you?" Gato felt this person was very unfamiliar: "Where did Tomonori Aomizu go? Where did that guy roll off to?!"

The temporary person in charge lowered his head and said shockingly, " Gato-sama, Tomonori Aomizu has been dead for over a month."

'Hmph, this waste caused me to lose... huh?'

Gato was taken aback: "Dead?!!"

"Tomonori Aomizu is... definitely dead." The temporary person in charge wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Recently, some 'small situations' have occurred in the shipyard. And under certain pressures, these shady businesses have all been abolished."

"The powder was all thrown into the sea, all the arms were destroyed, all the 'missing kid' were let go." The temporary person in charge continued: "Basically, these things happened."

"What?" Gato's eyes under his sunglasses widened: "You bastard, what are you talking about?!"

His anger surged again.

Gato gritted his teeth: "Damn it! That was the business of my shipyard, That used to make big money! Why didn't you tell me earlier? What's the use of your telegrams? What's the use of you bunch of wastes?"

The temporary person in charge took a deep breath.

He made a choice to take sides.

"Gato-sama, now that things have come to this, I'll tell you the truth!" The temporary person in charge said: "Let me correct you, this is no longer your shipyard."

He pointed in a direction.

"Gato-sama, do you see that flag? That's the pirate flag of the Whitebeard Pirates! More than a month ago, this place has become the property of the Whitebeard Pirates."

"We are loyal to Whitebeard-sama. Not Gato-sama. At present, the entire shipyard is building a 'Moby Dick' for Whitebeard-sama."

"Because the shipyard has nothing to do with you anymore, everything that happened here, we didn't tell you. After all... there's no need to do that."

"I think I've made myself clear enough, right?"

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