Hundred Years of Hokage

Chapter 47

Strength...a bit strong.

Even Hatake Kakashi couldn't help but sweat a little on his forehead. This was the first time he saw someone commenting on Jiraiya like this.

Uchiha Sasuke raised his head and glanced at Jiraiya. He nodded and said, "Does even Naruto think he is a powerful ninja?"

Jiraiya glanced at him sideways: "..."

Little guy, there's something wrong with your judgment standard. At least it should be based on your mentoring Jonin Kakashi Hatake, right?
Because of Jiraiya's arrival, Team [-] gained some confidence.

When Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura's injuries improved, they replenished all the supplies and ninja tools and prepared to return to Konoha.

According to Hatake Kakashi's judgment, in order to avoid encountering the enemy, Team [-] will enter the Fire Country from the junction of Tian Country and Yu Country, and run from north to south towards Konoha.

Shimura Danzo cannot command all ANBU, he can only order the root ninjas who were once loyal to him. In order to ensure sufficient combat power to encircle and suppress Team [-], he will most likely still be encircling and suppressing Team [-] in the east of Konoha. It is impossible to imagine that Team [-] will come from the north. Entry.

If we go by common sense, Kakashi's guess is correct.

After Team [-] arrived at the border of Tian Country, Kakashi Hatake was still taking a geography class: "Tian Country is adjacent to the Country of Fire and the Country of Tang. It is also a small and rich country, so it often faces attacks by wandering ninjas. .”

"But last year, the Daimyo of Tiannokuni recruited some ninjas and established a ninja village, Otogakure, which is good at attacking with sound."

"After the establishment of Otogakure Village, in order to avoid the invasion of Takigakure Village and Kusagakure Village, we reached a friendly agreement with Konoha and took shelter under Konoha's protection."

Haruno Sakura smiled and said, "It sounds like this Yinyin Village should be a very friendly village to us!"

"Well, so to speak."

Hatake Kakashi nodded and said softly: "The Kusagakure, Takigakure and Otogakure villages around the Country of Fire are all our allies of Konoha. They should also send people for this joint chunin exam. join."

The Chunin Examination was an arms race on another level.

After the Ninja World War, in order to obtain more tasks, the Ninja Village of the small country could only pass the Chuunin Exam to promote force and win the confidence of the client.

The establishment of Otogakure Village was too short. If you want to survive the struggle with other small countries, you must show your strength. The Chunin Exam is undoubtedly an important way.

Just after the seventh squad left this area, a white snake suddenly appeared in the grass, watching the seventh squad leave, and quickly crawled towards the interior of Tian Zhiguo.

Tianzhiguo, Yinyin Village.

In a room in the center of the village, a man with long black hair was groping for the documents in his hand. Suddenly he saw a white snake crawling onto his desk and sticking out its tongue at him: "Hiss, hiss..."

"The ninja squad led by Hatake Kakashi... and... Jiraiya."

The man seemed to understand what White Snake said, lowering his head and smiling gloomily: "It's really getting more and more lively!"

After finishing speaking, he leaned over and took down a scroll, wrote a few lines on it with a pen, placed it in front of the white snake, and watched it swallow the scroll in one gulp.

The man lowered his eyes: "Go and take this information back to Konoha and give it to Kabuto. He knows what he should do."

"ssssssssssssssssss..."

The white snake stuck out its tongue and quickly slipped out.

A ninja standing outside the door came in, and Shen Shenghui reported: "Master Orochimaru, there is news from Sunagakure Village. The Fourth Kazekage has agreed to our request, but he wants to see you. .”

"Oh?"

The man sneered, nodded and said, "Then tell him that we will meet in the Land of Fire during the Chunin Exams!"

"Yes!"

at the same time.

Inside Konoha Village.

Due to Maruboshi Kosuke's caution, he deceived those root ninjas. After returning to Konoha under the pretense of a mission to the Country of Waves, he immediately reported the trouble of the attack on Team [-] to Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"Kakashi also asked me to pass a word to Hokage-sama." Kosuke Maruyoshi looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi, scratched his head and said, "Tenzo, what he said is the enemy's intelligence."

"Tianzang?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes darkened. Tenzo was the codename of a ninja in the ANBU, and he was also the survivor of Orochimaru and Danzo Shimura's human experiment that successfully started the Wood Release Blood Succession.

A few years ago, he personally snatched the Wooden ninja from Danzo and stuffed the Wooden ninja into the ANBU. His codename was Tenzo.

Sarutobi Hiruzen poked his pipe and opened a top-secret mission book. After finding Tenzo's itinerary, he suddenly raised his head and said: "That little guy just returned to the village not long ago, and I also I summoned him specially..."

As a Hokage, he understands the symbolic meaning of the Wooden Blood Successor very well. Hiruzen Sarutobi pays no less attention to the growth of Wooden ninjas than Shimura Danzo.

Every time Tianzang returns from completing a mission, he will meet him in his free time. Even Tianzang's teammates are his confidants so that he can monitor his every move at any time.

If there is really any change in Tenzo, Sarutobi Hiruzen will definitely receive the news earlier.

"Gu Jie, you go back first!"

Hiruzaru Sarutobi waved his hand distractedly, picked up Kosuke Maruyoshi's mission report, his face was startled slightly, and he said in a low voice: "Wait, although you only completed a C-level mission, but From this point of view, this is a mission with difficulty no less than S level!"

"is it?"

Maruhoshi Kosuke replied with a smile.

Sarutobi Hiruzen put down the mission report and picked up his pipe: "Although I have been limited to low-level missions because of my status as a genin, you actually want to do more for the village, right?"

Kosuke Maruhoshi shook his arm and said with a smile still: "Just by moving my muscles, I realized that I am already old..."

"Gusuke."

The Third Hokage lowered his head and said softly: "You also saw those little guys, right? The young buds on the branches are growing. A new era is coming. Do you still stubbornly stick to your original vow?"

This year's ninja school has produced many outstanding ninjas. The new generation of geniuses from all major ninja clans have graduated. It is the time when Konoha is rejuvenated.

However, Sarutobi Hiruzen has a hidden worry. Konoha is at its most vulnerable now. Before those young people grow up and inherit the responsibilities of their fathers, someone must provide them with shelter and a healthy environment for their growth.

"Lord Hokage."

Maruboshi Kosuke turned around and was about to leave the Hokage's office. When he heard Sarutobi Hiruzen's words, he grabbed the door handle tightly and his expression gradually became solemn: "Isn't that what I am doing now?"

After saying that, Kosuke opened the door and left the Hokage's office.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi watched his back and left, and softly ordered: "Help me get the task book for all Anbe ninjas after the seventh squad leaves Konoha."

"Yes, Hokage-sama!"

"Wait, take those mission notes with you..." Sarutobi Hiruzen pondered for a while, puffed on his pipe and said, "Come out with me."

Kakashi has always been very measured. Since he knows that the dirty nature of Anbu and Genbu cannot be noticed by ordinary ninjas in the village, he means something.

The code name of Tenzo, if it does not refer directly to Tenzo, then it refers to those former root ninjas who joined the ANBU.

It is self-evident who they are loyal to.

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　　You may say: Mr. Orochimaru, I need a commission, a task.Yes, as you said, the money entrusted is so important.

　　But I want to tell you, there is one thing in this world that is more important than money, and that is freedom!That is dignity!
　　As long as there are swirling forehead protectors wandering around the Land of Fire, our dignity will not exist!As long as those Konoha ninjas are still tyrannizing in our land, our dignity will not exist!
　　As long as we small countries can only succumb to size on the map of the ninja world, our dignity will not exist!
　　As long as those powerful ninjas laugh contemptuously when the name Otogakure is mentioned in a chat, our dignity will not exist!

　　What we need is not a commission!But a living space!The living space of a sound ninja!This living space is not achieved by begging and protesting, but by chakra and ninjutsu!

　　————Excerpted from "Orochimaru's Speech"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)