As a veteran ninja, Jiraiya naturally had his own plans. He asked Naruto just to see what kind of heart this kid has besides his super combat power.

The answer given by Naruto surprised him a little: "Capture alive? No, the Fourth Kazekage will definitely die in the battle."

"Oh?" Jiraiya immediately became interested, because Naruto seemed to have a cruelty beyond his imagination. He thought Naruto would teach the Fourth Kazekage a lesson and let him go.

"What is the reason for your thinking so? I'm very curious."

"The reason is also very simple. People who have killed us and really put it into action cannot be kept. Letting such people continue to live in the world is to plant a time bomb for the people we care about."

In terms of personal grudges, Naruto's attitude has always been generous. As long as the other party does not want to kill him out of malice, he will generally spare the other party's life. If he encounters a more respectable opponent, he will try his best to help the other party.

However, once the problem involves relatives and friends, Naruto's methods will be much more cruel.

The Sand Village did have a murderous intention towards Konoha. Naruto naturally could not retaliate against the entire Sand Village. He was not a murderer and knew that he could not vent his anger on ordinary people. However, the Sand Ninjas who came to participate in the Konoha collapse plan, as well as the Fourth Kazekage, should not think of leaving alive.

The purpose of these people coming to Konoha was to kill people. Their butcher knives were aimed at Naruto and the relatives and friends of all friends. Naruto would never forgive such people.

If you want to kill me, come if you have the ability. I just need an opponent. But if you want to kill my relatives and friends, then tomorrow's sun, one of you and I will definitely not see it.

When he talked with Orochimaru that day, he was discussing this matter.

The Fourth Kazekage must die in Konoha, but if the person who did it was the Third Hokage or Jiraiya, the impact would always be bad. If it was Orochimaru, a theoretical ally, who did it, no one could say anything.

The Fourth Kazekage was blind and did not find the right ally, so he was plotted against. Who can he blame?

After listening to Naruto's statement, Jiraiya said, whether it was a compliment or criticism, "You are so cruel."

As a ninja, Jiraiya thought it was good for Naruto to think this way. Those who are soft-hearted in the ninja industry will eventually kill themselves or their relatives and friends.

What made Jiraiya even happier was that Naruto clearly limited the responsibility and hatred to the Fourth Kazekage and Sand Ninja who came to Konoha to perform the mission, and did not have any idea of ​​venting his anger on ordinary people, which was consistent with Jiraiya's style of doing things.

When Jiraiya participated in the Second Ninja World War in the Hidden Rain Village, he met three children who became orphans because of the war. At that time, the three ninjas had expressed different views on this.

Jiraiya and Tsunade felt more or less guilty because it was Konoha that caused so many orphans in the Hidden Rain Village, but they handled it differently.

Tsunade gave them some food, and then she didn't want to care about it anymore. As a ninja, she had already given her kindness to the maximum extent. If she saw it, she would be a good person once, and if she didn't see it, she would pretend that it didn't exist. This was Tsunade's attitude at the time.

Jiraiya was different. He wanted to do more on this basis to atone for his sins.

He wanted to teach these children ninjutsu so that they could survive, and let them inherit their ninjutsu in the future and help others more.

Orochimaru sneered at Jiraiya's behavior. He made a sharp comment on Jiraiya's behavior at the time, saying that this war was provoked by our Konoha. As Konoha's senior ninjas, how many people have we killed in the Hidden Rain Village, and how many orphans and widows have we created? Why are you pretending to be a good person here now?

Our Konoha ninjas have killed his parents. It is not a bad thing for you to send him to reunite with his parents.

It is already inhumane for a big country to bully a small country. The three of us even participated in the war initiated by Konoha. You still can't bring yourself to kill three children? If you knew it was wrong from the beginning, you shouldn't have been here in the first place.

Jiraiya actually had no way to refute what Orochimaru said at the time, because what Orochimaru said was the truth. If he was really so kind, why did he come here?

However, Jiraiya always felt that the world should not be like this, and people should not pick up knives and kill each other. This world has been constantly creating orphans and widows on a large scale for hundreds of years, and even killing whole families. Is there no way to change it?

He wanted to try to do something to change the world, but he seemed to have failed.

Jiraiya sadly discovered that he was not the one who could change the world, so he had been looking for such a person over the years, a person with strong enough ability and a kind heart, hoping to rely on this person's power to change the world where this person kills people.

Chapter 80 The rise and fall of the imperial country depends on this one move!

In the Sand Village

Maki, who was under the influence of hypnosis, completely forgot what happened in Kikyo Castle. From his perspective, he successfully completed the information exchange with Kabuto there, and successfully returned to the village to complete the intelligence report.

Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro from his team had already arrived, and at this moment, the three of them had finished their rest.

Maki entered the Kazekage office hall and handed the plan to the Fourth Kazekage Rasa.

Rasa took a quick look and smiled: "The old man Sarutobi Hiruzen is still as cautious as before."

It turned out that Kabuto's intelligence book detailed Konoha's defense. At the juncture of the Chunin Exam, the Third Hokage sent most of the Anbu to protect various areas of the village. He was probably afraid that someone would take the opportunity to cause trouble. After all, there would be a large number of outsiders in the village during the Chunin Exam.

In addition, the invitation letter from the Third Hokage also detailed the travel permission of the Sand Village during this exam.

In addition to the Fourth Kazekage, only 5 guards and sedan bearers, and 5 medical staff, including Rasa, a total of 11 people can enter and leave Konoha, and they must make detailed identity certificates.

Therefore, the Fourth Kazekage laughed and sighed that he was so cautious. This was how he conducted every Chunin Exam over the years. He really managed Konoha like an iron barrel.

Unfortunately, the Third Hokage would never have thought that their ally, the Sand Village, would actually betray him, and even he, the Fourth Kazekage, would suddenly attack him at a critical moment.

After completing the handover with the Kazekage, Maki quickly came to the resting place of the three-person team to mobilize them before the war.

As expected, Temari, as the older sister, took the lead in expressing her dissatisfaction that had been hidden in her heart: "Teacher Maki, I don't understand why you have to do this? The alliance between us and Konoha took a lot of time, many people died, and we went through so much hardship to form. Why should we abandon it so easily?"

"I knew you would ask this." Maki sat down in front of the three people helplessly, with a helpless expression on his face.

"If I hadn't had to, I wouldn't want to go to war with Konoha, nor would I want to go there to kill people, and I wouldn't want to put you three into that kind of mission. You three are my most proud students. Even a jonin like me might not be able to protect myself when carrying out such an S-level mission, let alone you?"

"What a pity, we ninjas are just tools of war."

Maki first appealed to their emotions, and then explained to Shoumari: "Although we are allies, this alliance treaty is now a threat to us."

"You are still genin, so you don't know some of the situations. There is no one else here, so I will talk to you, teacher." Maki looked around and said to the three of them after confirming that there was no one around: "The daimyo of our Wind Country is a foolish fellow."

"He actually thinks that since we have the alliance with Konoha, we can ask Konoha Village for help even if we encounter problems, so there is no need for the Sand Village to spend so much military expenses, so he keeps cutting the budget for our Sand Village."

"You should have noticed that Lord Kazekage has dark circles under his eyes now, and he goes out more and more often to use the Gold Dust Technique to increase funds for the village."

"Gold is not necessarily available everywhere, and he may need several days to find enough gold or precious metals."

There is one thing that Maki didn't say, that is, the gold found by the Fourth Kazekage can't actually be sold for money.

Most of the gold is left underground in the Sand Village and stored at all times.

This is of course not for the Kazekage's own expenses, but he needs to ensure that he can call on a large amount of gold dust at any time to perform the Gold Dust Technique to restrain Shukaku.

The five major ninja villages all have their own tailed beasts, and the Sand Village is no exception. They have the one-tailed Shukaku. Although Shukaku seems to be the weakest among the tailed beasts in terms of the number of tails, in fact, the strength of the tailed beasts is not determined by the number of tails. Shukaku's combat effectiveness in the desert will increase significantly, and the Sand Village is very strong in using Shukaku to fight a defensive battle.

But there are also disadvantages, that is, the level of sealing techniques in the Sand Village is very low.

Konoha Village has the support of the Uzumaki clan, and the sealing technique is extremely powerful. The Nine-tailed is stuffed in the stomach of the Jinchūriki and basically has no room for trouble. It can only pay the rent honestly. Only when the Jinchūriki himself has problems, the Nine-tailed may take the opportunity to do something.

The sealing technique of the Sand Village is particularly rubbish. It can only be said that it can barely seal the one-tailed Shukaku. As the one-tailed Jinchūriki, Gaara, he can't even sleep, because once he falls asleep, the power of the seal weakens, and Shukaku may break out of his body.

Historically, the Sand Village has faced Shukaku's rampage many times, especially during the tenure of the Fourth Kazekage Rasa, when Shukaku went berserk more than once.

In the desert terrain, Shukaku's combat power soared, but Rasa had a way to subdue it, that is the gold sand technique.

Shukaku's combat method is to control sand, and Rasa can control gold sand, mixing heavier gold sand into sand. The sand mixed with gold sand will be firmly locked, greatly weakening Shukaku's combat power.

Therefore, Rasa always stores a large amount of gold sand under the ground of the Sand Village to ensure that he can call out gold sand at any time to suppress Shukaku when Shukaku goes berserk.

However, this also leads to the economic conditions of the Sand Village never improving, because there is a lot of gold that cannot be used.

On this basis, the daimyo of the Wind Country cut the funding of the Sand Village, which made Rasa unbearable.

He has arranged a plan to replace the daimyo, and will start to implement it when the Konoha collapse plan is over-regardless of whether he succeeds or not.

Although the daimyo is nominally the highest leader of the country, in the final analysis, they are just ordinary people. The relationship between them and the shadow of the ninja village is a cooperative relationship. The daimyo is responsible for managing the country composed of ordinary people and providing blood transfusions to the ninja village, while the ninja village is responsible for military force and also helps the country and ordinary people solve many problems by entrusting tasks.

Since the daimyo's brain is broken, let's replace him with someone who is not broken.

It is of course against the rules to do it directly, but the last thing a ninja lacks is means.

As a high-ranking official in the village, Maki witnessed how much effort the Fourth Kazekage Rasa had put into the village, and he also deeply understood that although the Konoha Collapse Plan was an act of betrayal of allies, only if this plan succeeded could the Wind Country and the Sand Village change their current situation.

The current Wind Country is too dependent on the various supports of the Fire Country, to the extent that everyone began to think about "what should we do if the support stops one day".

From an outsider's perspective, Konoha is a competent ally because it has supplies to give you, and the Wind Country and the Sand Village themselves admit this.

But the Sand Village does not want to rely on others' charity to survive, it wants to give it a try and exchange a bicycle for a motorcycle.

To a certain extent, the Konoha Collapse Plan is a classic gamble like "the rise and fall of the imperial country depends on this one move".

Chapter 81 Digging a pit

The Sand Village has already started a gamble, and Konoha has already started digging a pit.

Jiraiya revealed all the information he had gathered to the Third Hokage. The Third Hokage was furious at first, but after pacing back and forth in the room, he hesitated: "Jiraiya, do we really want to kill the Kazekage in Konoha?"

After hearing about the plan to collapse Konoha, the Third Hokage was indeed very angry at first. At that moment, he seemed to have become the Third Hokage who was called the Ninja Hero in his middle age.

But slowly, he began to sigh and hesitate.

He was not out of mercy. The other party had done so much, how could he still care about the other party's life?

It's just that if the Fourth Kazekage was killed in Konoha, the impact might be very bad.

Bah  The Third Hokage is one of the few people in this village who has experienced the three Ninja World Wars completely.

During the First Ninja World War, he was not yet a Hokage. At that time, he served as a guard beside the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama. He fought with the Hokage from the beginning of the war to the end of the war. The Second Hokage died in the Battle of Kinkaku and Ginkaku. He took over as the Third Hokage. During this period, he had seen too many lives and deaths, and many of his partners and relatives fell in that war.

However, he was still very young at that time, and he was full of momentum and ruthlessness. The cruelty of the First Ninja World War made him accumulate hatred in his heart. So when the Second Ninja World War began more than ten years later, the Third Hokage did not hesitate to take action.

Konoha Village fought fiercely with Iwagakure Village, Sand Village and the local Rain Village in the Land of Rain.

This time, there were also heavy casualties, and even the situation where the Konoha ninjas were almost annihilated on the battlefield, such as the battle in which Jiraiya and the other two won the title of the Three Ninjas. The half-god Salamander Hanzo killed all the Konoha ninjas present with poison, leaving only Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru still supporting.

Ten years later, the Third Ninja World War began. The Third Hokage no longer had the same ruthlessness as before. His strength did not decline, nor did his ambition. He had gradually realized that the continuous wars were a huge disaster for Konoha. There were more and more orphans without parents in the country, and they could not continue to fight like this.

So, after the Third Ninja World War, everyone began to think that Sarutobi Hiruzen had become weak and began to avoid war. Later, he even handed over the position of Hokage and let the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze take the position.

In fact, to this day, the Third Hokage still has the same ruthlessness in his heart. The moment he heard about Konoha's collapse plan, what he thought of in his mind was to let the Fourth Kazekage die, and the murderous aura burst out unconsciously.

However, to this day, more than ten years have passed since the Third Ninja World War, and all countries have recovered a lot of vitality, and they are also beginning to move.

At this time, Konoha killed the shadow of the Sand Ninja. Even if it was a legitimate defensive counterattack, it was hard to guarantee that the Sand Ninja would not go crazy and start a new battle.

Once the Sand Ninja and Konoha go to war, it is very likely to cause a chain reaction. The surrounding Rock Village, Cloud Village, and Mist Village are likely to come and join in, because they have also coveted Konoha's land for a long time.

How many people will die at that time, and what kind of destruction Konoha will experience, the Third Hokage really dare not think.

So, he hesitated, and he even had to seek answers from his disciples.

Jiraiya looked at the white-haired teacher in front of him, and couldn't help feeling a little sad. The teacher who was once called a ninja hero would hesitate at this time.

"Teacher, the Kazekage must die. Others can be negotiated to let go, but the Kazekage can't. He is too ambitious."

Jiraiya has been engaged in intelligence work outside for many years, so he naturally knows the ambition of the Fourth Kazekage Rasa.

The Wind Country did cut the funding of the Sand Ninja Village, but the supply of daily necessities did not decrease at all, so the living standards of the Sand Ninja Village would not decline because of this.

But Rasa still went to the desert to pan for gold and exchanged a lot of gold for money.

The problem is, after spending so much money, the people's livelihood in Sand Village has not improved much, so where did he spend the money?

When Jiraiya returned to the village this time, he wanted to remind the Third Hokage that Rasa was very ambitious and he should be more cautious.

But now Jiraiya is no longer so worried, because he has seen the future of Konoha Village.

As long as Naruto is given enough time to grow, his strength will definitely be far beyond the level of Kage, and he will become an invincible ninja like the first generation Hokage. By then, no one in the world will dare to invade Konoha, and the ninja world can at least usher in 50 years of peace.

50 years, that's enough for several generations to enjoy the life with their parents.

Thinking of this, Jiraiya decided to trick his old friend.

"Teacher, this so-called Konoha collapse plan was jointly formulated by the Sound Village and the Sand Village, which means that Orochimaru must have participated in it."

"Yeah, do we have to fight him to the death at that time?"

"No, what I mean is... we can arrange it in advance, make things more secretive, and then... put the blame on Orochimaru." Jiraiya made a gesture of wiping his neck, "Let the two of us work together to defeat the Fourth Kazekage and Orochimaru. With Orochimaru's temper, he will definitely find a way to escape. Then we will kill the Fourth Kazekage and pretend that it was Orochimaru's work."

"Jiraiya, is it really okay to trick him like this?"

"He has formulated the Konoha collapse plan, why are you still caring about him? Besides, if he doesn't take the blame, then Konoha will have to take it. If I have to choose between the two, I will definitely choose Konoha." Jiraiya's eyes are firm.

"Well... let's do it." The Third Hokage nodded helplessly.

Jiraiya is confident that he can defeat Orochimaru and the Fourth Kazekage, because his own strength is not inferior to, or even slightly stronger than, these two, and he has a killer, that is, the Sage Mode.

He has practiced in Myoboku Mountain for many years and has already mastered the Sage Mode. If he has the opportunity to prepare in advance, he will be much stronger than these two when he activates the Sage Mode, not to mention that there is the Third Hokage to support him.

At worst, he still has Naruto as a killer.

The Sage Technique Spiral Air Control Bullet released by Naruto that night really shocked Jiraiya. The power of that thing can completely pose a fatal threat to the Kage-level strongman, not to mention that Naruto can actually control that thing to automatically search for the enemy.

As long as Naruto hits one, the Fourth Kazekage will definitely die.

At this time, Naruto is also preparing for the Chunin Exam in a month and the Sand Ninja Collapse Plan.

He closed his eyes, entered the Sage Mode, and then formed seals with his hands, using the Shadow Clone Technique to create dozens of Shadow Clone.

Then, a spiral energy bomb condensed in the palm of each shadow clone's hand and was thrown out almost at the same time, swirling in the air like a swarm of flying insects.

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