After leaving the command camp, Jiraiya and Minato came to a river next to the camp.

As a camp, it is most basic to be close to water, not only for the source of living water, but also to prevent water leakage to a certain extent. After all, not every ninja can escape from water.

"Jiraiya-sensei, are you really not going to find Toneri? You don't know how dangerous our situation was at that time. If he hadn't insisted on letting me leave, I definitely wouldn't have left.

If something happens to him, I'm afraid this is something I will never be able to forgive myself for the rest of my life."

There was even a trace of pleading on Minato's face. For a person like him to show such an expression, it was undoubtedly from his heart.

Jiraiya gently patted his shoulder again and looked at the slowly flowing river.

"Minato, have more confidence in your companions. Although I don't know this guy Toneri very well, I think that with his strength and character, since he dares to let you go, he must have absolute confidence and certainty.

He feels a bit like my friend Orochimaru, lacking Orochimaru's coldness but equally cunning.

You have to believe him.

Moreover, although I don't like Danzo very much, what he said still makes sense.

The situation here is currently unstable, and the situation in Wuyin Village and Yunyin Village has not yet been clarified. You are our indispensable and important combat force and cannot leave easily."

Only then did Minato realize that his teacher seemed to have been seized of power?

"Teacher, the Third Generation, he..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Jiraiya, who waved his hand indifferently.

"I know better than you what kind of character and behavior Danzo is. Since he is dispatched, the teacher must have compromised. The power of the root is an indispensable force for Konoha, but Danzo's control of the root. It is so strong that even the teacher's orders may not be as effective as his words.

A situation has been formed where the tail cannot be lost. Many things are no longer completely under his control. Especially in this situation where Konoha is in a very weak position, the strength of any one person is very important. The execution ability of the root ninja and Strength is the most important thing.

This sudden change in Kirigakure Village must have caused the old man to make a lot of changes.

But in the final analysis, Danzo is ultimately for Konoha, this is certain, otherwise the teacher would not have given him command."

With Jiraiya's ability, he can see many things in Konoha very clearly, but in some cases, he can't say more, and he doesn't want to say too much.

But if you really want to look at it, he may not be much inferior to Orochimaru.

"Hokage-sama...isn't he the supreme leader of Konoha? Everything is under his control?" Jiraiya's words made Minato feel that something was beyond his understanding.

Naruto, isn't it the existence that Konoha says is the best?

Isn't Konoha monolithic?

Why does it sound like from my teacher's mouth that there is some kind of game between several high-level officials in Konoha?

Minato is indeed smart, both in terms of ninjutsu and life.

But after all the calculations, he was only a teenager at this time, and after becoming a Jonin, he was taken away from Konoha by Jiraiya, so he didn't know much about many things.

After all, he was born as a civilian, and his initial goal was just to learn ninjutsu and improve his strength.

After having some strength and being able to contact some of Konoha's top brass, he was taken away by Jiraiya.

Moreover, before he left, Sarutobi Hiruzen was Shinobu in his eyes.

During the time when he was away, the death of Hatake Sakumo gave Sarutobi Hiruzen a great stimulus, and he gradually began to become cautious in doing things.

Looking at Minato with a puzzled face, Jiraiya felt more or less helpless.

This was not a glorious thing for Konoha, but he knew that his outstanding disciple Namikaze Minato would have to know sooner or later.

His ideal is to become Hokage!

"Minato... in the future... the old man may make some choices that are difficult for you to understand, but those are definitely the best choices from his perspective.

Sometimes, when people get older, they become sentimental, and they are no longer as decisive in many things as they were when they were young.

But you just need to believe that no matter what decision he makes, his starting point must be good and it must be for Konoha."

Jiraiya looked after his disciples with sincere words, as if he was entrusting one of his elders, his elderly father.

To Jiraiya, who was born as a commoner, Hiruzen Sarutobi was indeed like his father.

It's just that now that my father is old, he can't understand many of his decisions.

Listening to Jiraiya's words, Minato didn't understand why he said these things, but he was smart and vaguely understood that this was a kind of care for him from Jiraiya, or a vaccination.

"Yes! Teacher, don't worry, I can definitely understand Hokage-sama!" Minato nodded firmly.

Everyone has an idol when they were young, and Minato's idol was Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Hokage.

Jiraiya knew that Minato answered because he didn't know the inside story, but that was enough.

Compared to Orochimaru's disciple Toneri, Minato seems to be less scheming and less sophisticated.

But it is precisely because of his character that he is so respected.

"You will come into contact with many things slowly. If there is something you can't figure out at once, you can ask your good friend Sheren."

"Okay! Toneri is indeed much smarter. He seems to be able to see through the essence of many things at once!"

When it came to Toneri, Minato's eyes suddenly lit up, and his words and eyes were full of admiration.

"That boy, his mind and city are much better than yours..." Jiraiya said with a smile.

To be honest, even from the perspective of his teacher Minato Namikaze, he still believed that Toneri was more suitable to become Hokage than Minato.

Putting aside the level of strength, in terms of scheming and palace, Toneri is like a little fox, while Minato is like his nickname, a little sun.

From now on, Jiraiya sees that the position of Hokage requires not only extraordinary strength, decisive decision-making ability and judgment, but also the scheming and government.

Of course, just thinking about it, after all, the most likely candidate for the position of Hokage is their generation.

He, Orochimaru and Tsunade are the most likely, and among the three of them, Orochimaru is the most likely.

Whether in terms of strength or ability, Orochimaru is very suitable in Jiraiya's opinion, but on the contrary, he himself is very unsuitable to become Hokage.

As for Minato and his generation, they are right after Orochimaru.

As Orochimaru's only current disciple, Toneri is undoubtedly the best candidate.

So, for now, many people actually have the same thoughts as Jiraiya.

After Sarutobi Hiruzen resigned, Orochimaru took over. With Orochimaru's character, he would not sit on the Hokage position for a long time. After that, his disciple Toneri came.

On the contrary, it seems that the possibility of his disciple Minato Namikaze is not high.

However, in this third ninja war, the position of Hokage is definitely not interchangeable. As for who the next Hokage will be, we will have to wait until the end of this war to know.

The current military exploits appear to be very important.

Danzo, who has always been obsessed with the position of Hokage, in Jiraiya's opinion, is just here to compete with the young people for war glory.

In short, anyone who knows Danzo will not have a good impression of him.

The two of them looked at the flowing river in silence for a long time. The anger, confusion, dissatisfaction and other emotions in their hearts at first seemed to have all left together with the water in the river.

"teacher..."

"Um?"

"You really don't care about sacrificing others?"

"...Don't worry about him!"

...

...

In a deep mountain and old forest in the Kingdom of Thunder.

"Ah sneeze——"

Toneri rubbed his nose gently and looked at the temporary laboratory he had just created in the shortest time. While his face was full of relief, he muttered: "Who is it? Who is scolding all day long?

I? I don’t know which old Yinbi it is, Danzo?”

Sometimes, the mysterious sixth sense is so effective. Although Danzo is not scolded by it, it has a lot to do with Danzo.

However, it was clear that there were more important things in front of him at this time.

He nodded with satisfaction and formed a seal with his hands.

"Psychic art!"

Bang——

A cat appeared in front of him, not Xiaolan's ones, but a cat with different functions.

Because he wanted to create a cat psychic race, Shiren also began to cultivate cats with different strengths and functions in a planned way.

Cats like Little Blue, Little Silver, and Little Five are fighting cats, and because the chakra in their bodies is tailed beast chakra, it can also be called natural energy, so their status is higher than all other cats.

Very special among cats.

It's a bit like special existences like Fukasaku and Shima from Mt. Myoboku, and Erbi is like a Toad Sage existence to them.

In addition to fighting psychic cats like them, there are many cats with other development directions. For example, the cat that appeared in front of him at this time seemed to be about the size of a cheetah. It lowered its head respectfully.

Stand in front of others.

You can see that it is carrying something like a bamboo tube on its back, which is built high, like a small house.
To be continued...