"The scenery here is really rare! I didn't expect that the place where you live would be so spectacular!"
As soon as Giyuu and Tsunade appeared among the skulls of Ten Thousand Snakes, they felt a surging sound wave coming like the hot summer wind, pressing their clothes tightly against their skin.
Xingshourou was facing away from the two of them, taking advantage of the moonlight to stand behind the sharp teeth on the snake's snout and look around.
Although it was already dark in the Whirlpool Country further east, the other party's dazzling hair, like a blazing flame, showed its presence that could not be ignored.
Just as Huobi was about to remind him that a guest had arrived, Xingshou turned around with some emotion. Two lantern-like eyes flickered in the dim space, like burning stars in the endless universe.
"Doctor Tsunade, we haven't seen each other for three years and seven months!"
Xingjulang walked towards the two of them with his head held high, making a sound of wind.
The live snake also used mucus to activate the luminous substance inside the snake's skull, slightly illuminating the surrounding environment.
Facing the "light", Anjuro's eyes stayed on Tsunade's young face, grinning lively, but without any offense.
"I am really happy to see that your complexion is much better than before! No matter when a person unties the knot in his heart, it is a gratifying thing!"
Words like "I feel happy from the bottom of my heart", when spoken by others, will inevitably sound a bit irritating and flattering.
But Anjurou's seemingly innate generosity and frankness gave Tsunade the illusion of being praised by her elders.
What's more, Anjurou's praise and exclamation were different from Sasuke's praise of Shizune. They contained genuine concern, which made Tsunade feel like she had returned to her childhood surrounded by her family.
When she grew up, she rarely heard such compliments without any purpose.
【As expected of Anjuro.】
Giyuu noticed the subtle changes in Tsunade's expression, and it was indeed much more effective than the compliments he had given Tsunade before.
And he noticed that when he met Tsunade, he only said "Long time no see", but Anjuro told the specific time when he didn't meet, so that even he could feel the subtle difference between the two.
【I learned something new again.】
Yiyong planned to write this down as soon as he got home, maybe it could be used later.
He can even draw inferences from one example and get the time accurate to hours, minutes or even seconds, and maybe the effect will be even better.
On the other side, Anjuro was still chatting with Tsunade and talking about a past incident.
"About a year ago, one of my clones went to the Kingdom of Iron, where I heard about your treatment for the great swordsman Mr. Mifune!
"I originally wanted to wait a while and get together with you and Dr. Shizune, but the chakra of the clone is limited after all, so I had to give up in the end!
"Since then, although I have heard a lot about you, I have always been far away from you! I never expected that we would meet here today, and I really want to thank you!"
"It's just a coincidence." The living snake seemed to smile shyly.
"The Kingdom of Iron?" Tsunade raised her eyebrows after hearing Anjuro's words, and suddenly remembered what happened at that time.
"Wait a minute, that basket of rare medicinal materials that someone placed at the gate of the castle tower to treat Mifune, could it be..."
"I heard that the great swordsman was also a righteous hero, so I just tried my best. Anyway, it's just looking for something, so it's not a lot of trouble for me!"
Although Anjuro did not deny it, he brushed aside what he had done.
[But the medicinal materials can only be obtained by traveling to the mountains of neighboring countries.]
Tsunade was speechless for a while, but she also had a rough estimate of Anjuro's speed.
Then, Anjuro walked inside and came to the small table and low stool woven with wood and rattan in the middle of the skulls of ten thousand snakes.
The table and stools were specially made of wood for the butterfly ninja to eat when he came over at noon, and were preserved by the living dragon.
"Doctor Tsunade, Giyu, let's sit down and talk! Please."
After the three of them sat down, Tsunade immediately felt that the pendant on her chest seemed to vibrate slightly.
But when she looked down, there was no movement on the pendant, as if nothing had happened.
【Illusion?】
"So, Doctor Tsunade..."
When Anjuro was about to get down to business, the lively person on the side suddenly corrected him: "Anjuro, Tsunade-sama will be the new Hokage in a few days."
Then she emphasized: "She also said that she would often ask me to go out and help."
"Is that so? This is another thing worth celebrating! It seems that my title has to be changed too!"
Xingjulang's eyebrows relaxed, and then he looked at Yiyong aside: "So, we are here today, what exactly are we going to discuss?"
"The thing is like this..."
Giyuu summed it up in two sentences, and then expressed his thoughts without any concealment: "Although you have always had a high opinion of her, she is now the Hokage, which is equivalent to being a third generation and a Shimuradan at the same time.
Hiding the work of two people.
"As a shadow of a village, I have a rather narrow stance on everything I do. If I tell her the specific reasons, it may lead to some unpredictable consequences.
"But if I don't tell her, I will have to use other means to rob it. Although it will definitely succeed, it will affect the situation of my people in the village to some extent, so I can't do that."
Tsunade:"……"
To be honest, Anjuro and Giyuu have one thing in common, which is "sincerity".
But the effects these two kinds of sincerity bring to others are completely different.
She glanced sideways at Giyuu, [Does he think that he is invincible after defeating Orochimaru and the second grandfather who may not even be half as good as he was in his heyday?]
This is not a random guess.
When Tsunade thought about it, even if Orochimaru used an elite Jonin like Kakashi as materials to resurrect the Second Hokage, he would only be able to achieve half of this level at most.
Moreover, since Purgatory Anjuro is also here, could Orochimaru's death be the result of the two of them joining forces?
"Yiyong's worries are not unreasonable."
Anjuro's words made Tsunade's heart sink slightly. She shouldn't have felt this way.
For some reason, not being trusted by Anjuro actually gave her a slight sense of frustration, just like when she secretly went to the casino with Senju Hashirama when she was a child, and when she came home she saw Senju Tobirama's disappointed and speechless expression.
Same.
However, this sense of frustration disappeared with Anjuro's next words.
"But I also believe that Tsunade-sama is definitely not like Danzo Orochimaru!
"Just like the medical ninja system of the five major countries, it was successfully established with her help and guidance to overcome each other's differences; those basic medical ninjutsu were also developed because of the travels of Tsunade-sama and Dr. Shizune over the years.
It slowly spread to the surrounding small countries, allowing countless people to survive who should have died!"
Anjuro stared at Tsunade, his eyes seemed to be filled with infinite hope.
"So, judging from what Tsunade-sama has always done, the meaning of a precious and dazzling thing like life in Tsunade-sama's eyes is very different from that of most Kage! At least, this about human experiments
In part, we can tell her the seriousness of the problem without reservation, and I believe she will not refuse to help."
"Human experiments?"
Thinking of all the experimental records of Orochimaru and the roots that Giyuu had, Tsunade immediately understood something: "That bastard Orochimaru, didn't he do anything he shouldn't have done in the Kingdom of Water?"
"You guessed it right!"
Anjuro nodded and introduced: "According to records, Orochimaru has four bases in the Kingdom of Water, one large, three small, and four. Over the years, he has secretly arrested no less than 700 men, women, and children in the Kingdom of Water, more than half of them.
Already died in his experiment!
"Giyu is asking you for the information and data of Nebe and Orochimaru in order to save those victims who are still alive and reverse the experiments they suffered."
"Hmph, you're meddling in other people's business again. It's really your style..."
[Bringing an Uchiha with him is simply unbelievable. This kind of appeal... No wonder the old man feels so sorry for leaving Konoha. 】
Tsunade frowned and pondered for a while: "What kind of experiments are you talking about?"
"A small number are transplants of organs from different species, but in this case we already have a solution and the victims are recovering."
"The most difficult thing at the moment is the transplantation of curse seals, wood escape cells and various blood inheritance limits. In order to keep it secret, Orochimaru did not leave a copy of the records in the base -"
"That's my problem."
Yiyong bowed his head in shame and interrupted: "I didn't expect this at the time.
"Because I was worried that his remaining cells might have the ability to be resurrected, I burned him directly to ashes without having a chance to examine his body. He probably hid the data in his body, or someone
In the body of the psychic snake clan."
[Resurrection by remaining cells?]
Tsunade glanced at Giyuu a little strangely, "Are you overestimating that bastard too?"
Strange to say.
On the one hand, this kid is so gentle that he is willing to risk the life and death of some strangers together with Anjuro.
But on the other hand, he showed no mercy to the enemies he recognized. Whether it was those thunder ninjas or Orochimaru, Giyuu acted very ruthlessly.
"How can I blame you?!"
Anjuro patted Giyong on the shoulder and comforted him: "No one can think so carefully about something like this! There is absolutely no need to blame yourself for such a thing! You have done your best!"
"I see."
Tsunade did not express her inner thoughts, but recalled: "After Orochimaru defected, I went back to the village once because of similar things.
"But among so many experimental subjects who were implanted with the curse seal, only Anko Mitarai survived. And her survival did not depend on me, but on her own tolerance to the curse seal.
"As for the wood escape experiment, it is completely uncontrollable.
"Let me put it simply, even I can't do things like reversing the Wood Release and Curse Seal experiments; unless Orochimaru himself is still alive and willing to cooperate with me, there may be a slight possibility.
"If I hand something over to you, not only will it be of no use, but there will also be a risk of it being leaked and taken away."
Seeing that Giyuu seemed to want to retort, Tsunade explained first: "I know that you defeated Orochimaru and you think you are very strong.
"But your true form is not in the Kingdom of Water now. If I hand over the experimental records to Anjuro, but those guys in Kirigakure who have no taboos know about it, Anjuro will be put in danger.
"Based on my personal understanding of Gouju Yagura, if he knew about this kind of thing, he would never let go of this opportunity."
As she said that, she frowned and looked at Anjuro with a hint of admonishment: "I also know that you have learned the Vajra Blockade. But that guy from Yagura is the perfect Jinchūriki of the Three-Tails. Once he completely lets go, he will never be an Orochi.
An opportunistic guy like Maru can compare..."
"Gotachibana Yagura, has been killed by Orochimaru." Giyuu interrupted.
In fact, because Yagura was controlled from the beginning to the end of the scene, he couldn't even use the tailed beast transformation.
Tsunade was stunned for a moment, and then her expression became more serious than ever: "What did you say?"
【Are you kidding?】
The last time the Third Kazekage was killed, the balance of the countries was suddenly broken, and it immediately turned into a ninja war.
Although Tsunade always knew that Orochimaru did whatever he wanted, she didn't expect that he would be so crazy.
"when did it happen?"
"Not long before I killed Orochimaru."
"Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing earlier?!"
Yiyong said confidently: "No one asked me."
"You guy..." Tsunade was so angry that she didn't expect that she would take over Konoha under such circumstances.
With the death of the shadow of a village and the jinchūriki, the balance of the five great nations will be affected again——
Hey, wait a minute.
The Kingdom of Water lost one of its jinchūriki, Kage Kane.
The Earth Kingdom lost thousands of people to Uchiha Shisui and lost one Jinchūriki.
There are not many ninjas in the Kingdom of Thunder. Thirty jounin died in the hands of Uchiha Giyu, and their cutting-edge power was also seriously damaged.
As for the Kingdom of Wind, it is poor and weak and cannot even take on a few decent missions. It is continuing to move forward on a downhill road.
Although dozens of Anbu in Konoha have lost their combat effectiveness, they can recover within a month or two.
Calculated in this way, all countries have suffered varying degrees of losses, and Konoha has suffered the least losses.
Once she figured this out, Tsunade didn't panic so much.
Tsunade asked: "Who else did you tell about Yagura's death?"
Yiyong thought for a while and replied: "Among the ninjas of the five major countries, you are the only one."
Paine and the "angels" of the Rain Kingdom are not within this scope.
"About this matter, you'd better not tell anyone else, lest another careerist decides to take advantage of it... I don't want to be so busy as soon as I take this position."
Tsunade pondered for a while, "Although I don't know how Orochimaru did it, now that your biggest threat in the Kingdom of Water is gone, I'm not so worried about the data being stolen."
"That would be perfect."
Anjuro stood up and bowed to Tsunade very solemnly: "On behalf of all the victims on the hospital bed and in the culture tanks, I thank you for your generosity! I will definitely use my life to protect the safety of these records!"
Tsunade waved her hand: "Considering that Orochimaru's experiments are probably supported by Danzo, I can only make some symbolic compensation for them.
"However, I think you should not have any hope. I know that you once helped at Konoha Hospital, but with your little knowledge of medical ninjutsu, you can't reverse the curse seal and wood escape experiments.
It’s different from a fool’s dream.”
"Our researchers have dealt with more difficult things before, and I believe there will be good news soon."
Xingjuro was full of confidence in the Butterfly Ren who almost "cured" Wuhan, "However, your suggestions are also very pertinent, and we will be mentally prepared for failure! But in any case, this is better than doing nothing."
Much better, don’t you think?”
Considering that Anjuro used his body to absorb the toxin of black sansho fish when he last met in Kawanogoku, Tsunade knew that it would be useless to persuade her, so she could only agree: "That's it. After I go back, I will call someone immediately
Collect the materials and bring them in as soon as possible."
Then she paused and said, "Okay, now that we've talked about the experimental data, what about the disposal power of the root ninja? Who are the specific people?"
Although she knew that Anjuro and Giyuu were unlikely to do anything dark, she still planned to ask clearly.
Anjuro looked at Giyuu, after all, he had almost no understanding of the roots.
"Mainly Aburame Takegen and Aburame Ryoma." Giyuu gave the answer.
"Aburame Ryoma was reattached to your severed hand and is now receiving treatment in the hospital. As for Aburame Ryoma, he is still in the Uchiha clan. But if Uchiha is willing to accept the agreement, the root's
Those prisoners will also return to the village."
Tsunade tapped her fingers on the wooden table, "However, I heard that these two people are not responsible for the root experiment, and the information they know is very limited. Apart from the ability to control bugs, they have nothing in common... So, you guys
Are you trying to exploit the female clan’s secret method of controlling insects?”
Thinking of this, she shook her head without hesitation.
"If that's the case, I can't agree to it. I can't just betray the foundation of a family in the village, no matter what the reason is."
Isn't the reason why the Ninja clan unified into the Ninja Village to prevent others from prying into this secret?
Giyuu raised his eyebrows: "But Konoha wasn't the Byakugan who planned to betray the Hyuga clan before..."
After returning home, he had already heard about it from his family.
"That was because the old man lost his mind. When I knew it, it had already happened!"
Judging from the expression on Tsunade's face, she was obviously very disgusted by this matter, "But now I am the Hokage of Konoha."
Yiyong corrected him again: "There are still several days before he takes office."
"You little brat——"
"Please be patient! The matter is not serious enough!"
Seeing that the two seemed to be quarreling, Anjuro quickly interrupted: "Tsunade-sama, what we need is not the secret technique of controlling parasitic worms, but the control of insects such as bees, moths and mosquitoes to pollinate plants.
Technology, this should not involve the foundation of the Aburame clan!"
"Pollination?" Tsunade frowned slightly and understood immediately: "You want to cultivate crops?"
In this world where various technologies are booming, but agriculture is still stuck in the Middle Ages, anything related to food can be said to be the most sensitive topic.
You know, in the vast ninja world, only the Land of Fire and the Land of Grass can be self-sufficient in food, and can occasionally export it to other countries.
In most other areas, there are no suitable planting conditions, and hunger is also the most common cause of death.
"There are similar plans."
Xingshoulang nodded: "But for more specific situations, I have promised not to tell others, so please forgive me!"
"It's food and it's about reversing Orochimaru's experiment. There are too many things you two want to do."
Tsunade's gaze shifted back and forth between the faces of Giyuu and Anjuro: "I've made it clear. I don't want to agree to this because what you plan to do will touch the sensitivities of many countries.
"If you have the power of the First Hokage or Madara Uchiha, no one can stop you from doing these things.
"But at your current age, if you get involved in strife between countries, I'm afraid you will be shattered into pieces if you are not careful."
She has not officially taken the position of Hokage, and she does not say this from the position of Hokage.
To be honest, over the years, even Jiraiya, the most sympathetic of the three, has never done what these two children wanted to do.
From a ninja's point of view, if they continue to grow, by the time they reach their peak period around the age of twenty, no one will be able to stop them from doing anything.
But they chose this time.
"We are not two people, nor are we three, but many people who have discovered that they have the ability and are willing to change the world!"
Anjuro responded to Tsunade's concerns with great determination, "When we achieve certain results, more people will join us!"
"It seems you didn't listen to what I said at all."
Tsunade waved her hand and looked at Giyuu: "It is impossible to give you the 'disposal power' of Aburame Ryoma and Aburame's roots."
Just when Giyuu thought the situation would turn into "the butterfly ninja suddenly decided to go to Konoha himself", Tsunade changed the subject: "But I can lend them two to you for a period of time on loan."
.How long do you estimate it will take?”
"Three years!" Anjuro said, twice as long as the Butterfly Ninja expected to cultivate suitable crops.
And by that time, the secret of the Rain Kingdom will no longer be considered a secret.
"That's it. Anyway, even if they stay in Konoha, what awaits them is about one or two years of imprisonment and interrogation."
Tsunade glanced at Wan She's skull, "However, those two people didn't sign a psychic contract with the living snake, so they can't get here."
Yiyong replied: "When I leave Konoha, I will take them with me."
[It seems that we are no longer in the Kingdom of Water...]
The final problem was resolved peacefully, and Anjuro thanked Tsunade profusely and talked a lot about her and Shizune's experiences during the trip.
After about ten minutes, Tsunade stood up: "It's almost time, I have to go back. The Fifth Hokage suddenly disappeared before he took office. I don't want to leave such a trail to those old guys."
"Then Tsunade-sama, we will see you another day!"
Just before he was about to leave, Anjuro suddenly remembered something: "By the way, I promised Sasuke to go back on the 57th anniversary of the founding of Konoha Village! That day the movie Princess of the Storm happened to be released, we can bring it
Do you want to go with Naruto?"
This time, when it came to Konoha's core and most important tailed beasts and jinchūriki, Tsunade's answer was not so refreshing.
Seeing that Tsunade seemed a little confused, Anjuro immediately apologized: "I'm sorry, if you have any concerns, please treat me as..."
"Can."
Tsunade finally nodded, "But I have to bring one of Naruto's elders with me."
"Are you talking about the Third Hokage?!" Considering Naruto's identity, Anjuro didn't find it strange.
"No, a younger generation." Tsunade clenched her fists, as if remembering something unpleasant, "Of course, he is just a smelly old man with no sense of shame."
