Chapter 26: The Precursor of the Fourth Ninja World War
Naruto didn't care about how Orochimaru persuaded Beilihu to succeed.
For him, as long as Beilihu is willing to surrender and serve himself, this is enough.
Naruto took the scroll handed over by Beiruhu and did not open it on the spot.
He is patient and won't be unable to wait for even this little time.
Now that Beiruhu has surrendered, Naruto's expression softened a lot and he smiled: "Since you have returned to Konoha, then come with me to meet the Fifth Hokage."
After all, the other party's identity is considered a traitorous ninja. The purpose of taking him to see Tsunade is to clear his identity as a traitorous ninja.
Otherwise, even if Naruto himself, as the Hokage's assistant, secretly contacts the traitorous ninja, it can be regarded as an act of betrayal in terms of procedures.
Naruto took Beiruhu to the Hokage building. When he approached the Hokage's office, his steps slowed down: "By the way, about Orochimaru..."
"I know. I haven't seen Orochimaru for a long time since I left Konoha." Beiruhu responded quickly in this regard and completed the supplement before Naruto spoke.
Naruto nodded with satisfaction, took a few steps forward, and knocked on the door of the Hokage's office.
"Please come in." Tsunade's angry voice came from the door.
The door was pushed open, and Tsunade put down her pen and raised her head from the pile of official documents. A familiar figure appeared in front of her: "Bilihu?"
The expression on Tsunade's face was very surprised, and her focus was also very special: "Decades have passed, but I didn't expect that you would still be the same."
It's also special. Except for Jiraiya, the Sannin and Beiruhu back then were all masters at maintaining their appearance. Orochimaru changed his body every few years; Tsunade relied on Yin seals to maintain her youth.
while Beiruhu relied on the "Onigaura Technique" to devour other ninjas and maintain his youthful appearance.
There is only one person, Jiraiya, who is growing old silently.
"Isn't it the same for you, Tsunade?" Bei Liuhu replied: "Does your current youthful appearance match your age?"
Tsunade did not answer Beiruhu, but turned to Naruto and asked: "Did you bring him here?"
According to the normal procedure, as a defecting ninja who had previously attacked the ninjas patrolling the border of the Land of Fire, Beiruhu should be directly put into the custody of the [Anbu]. After all the information is tortured, he will be punished.
The minimum punishment should be to be imprisoned in [Impulse City] until death!
"He is willing to return to Konoha. Considering that his mind is still of some use, I am here to ask for amnesty on his behalf." Naruto stated his purpose.
It's not impossible for ninjas who have defected to return to the village. But they certainly cannot return in an honest way.
Otherwise, it is easy to set a bad example to other ninjas.
Regarding this point, Naruto naturally took it into consideration: "Bilihu will stay at the roots and will not stay in the village."
Hearing Naruto's move, Tsunade nodded without hesitation out of trust in him: "Okay, I agree."
Seeing Tsunade agreeing so easily, Beiruhu couldn't help but look sideways at Naruto.
He knew the temperament of his former companion Tsunade, and being able to agree so quickly showed that Tsunade had great trust in Naruto.
"It seems that the plan to separate the two people is difficult to achieve." Bi Liuhu thought in his heart.
In the previous conversation with Orochimaru, he changed his attitude at the last moment and chose to live. Perhaps Beiruhu didn't even realize that the desire for life in his heart was far beyond his imagination.
He was unwilling to give in! His dream of great achievements had just begun, and it ended like this?
His subconscious mind convinced him: survive first, then pretend to be a defector to gain trust. When the time is right, it will not be too late to turn against him.
Although Naruto didn't know about Beilihu's little thoughts, he could guess a little bit. But he didn't care.
When you enter the root area, you have to lie down if it's a tiger, and you have to coil up if it's a dragon.
After taking a look at all the things in the root base one by one, and then being severely beaten by Sasuke, Yakushi Kabuto and others, sooner or later Beilihu will be completely subdued.
Gu Sui
Naruto was about to retreat, but Tsunade suddenly called him.
"I have something I want to talk to you about, please stay for a while." Tsunade said.
At the same time, she ordered Shizune: "Go and take Bei Liuhu down."
When Shizune and the two left, only Naruto and Tsunade were left in the huge Hokage's office.
Tsunade pulled out a report from the pile of papers and handed it to Naruto.
"This is a report from the ANBU ninja. Recently, all the genin in the ninja school in Hidden Cloud Village have graduated early. What do you think?" Tsunade asked.
This is a big deal.
The last time this happened was during the Great Ninja War.
Only then, when each village has lost too many ninjas due to the continuous wars, will the students in the ninja schools graduate early and send them to the battlefield.
Kakashi is a typical example. He graduated from ninja school when he was five years old.
"It seems that Cloud Hidden Village is about to take big action." Naruto said while receiving the report.
"I am also worried about this problem. With Kumogakure's size, other ninja villages are not worthy of their treatment..." After Tsunade said this, she leaned back and couldn't help but sigh.
tone.
She has been deeply influenced by her grandfather Senju Hashirama since she was a child, and she has always been peace-loving in her heart.
In addition, in the past ninja wars, I had seen all kinds of tragedies, and I was even more resistant to the upcoming war.
Following Tsunade's train of thought, Naruto continued: "That's right. The only ones worthy of Kumogakure's treatment are our Konoha family."
"Furthermore, I judge that Kumogakure and Iwagakure have probably reached an agreement. At least it is a short-term peace agreement."
"Otherwise Kumogakure would not dare to attack Konoha directly."
The reason why Naruto judged this point was also very simple. Because Kumogakure went out to attack Konoha, it would inevitably lead to a void in the rear.
If you don't negotiate good terms with Iwagakure, you are simply actively calling on the other party to "take advantage of your illness and kill you."
"We must stop this war!" Tsunade's tone was a little harder.
"I want to visit Yunyin to see if this crisis can be resolved through negotiation."
At this point, Tsunade finally put forward her idea.
"I want you and Sasuke to come with me." Tsunade stared at Naruto with her big eyes: "With the strength of the two of you, you should be able to intimidate Kumogakure!"
Of course, Tsunade would not expect to maintain a fragile peace by weakening her own side.
Being born in the war years, she was not so stupid.
She wants to copy the legend of her grandfather, Senju Hashirama, and then 'create' a "ninja god" to suppress everyone with absolute force to achieve peace.
Of course, this proposal would not be rejected by Naruto.
"I agree. But the time can be delayed later." Naruto said.
Before solving Kumogakure's problem, he must first solve Kirigakure's three-tailed problem.
Tsunade nodded in agreement.
Kumogakure Village will not start a war soon. After all, if the newly graduated genin are directly thrown into the battlefield, the losses will definitely be huge.
A series of C-level missions must be released to give these peacetime genin a taste of blood through bandits, water bandits, ronin samurai, and the like.