"Lord Hokage, we have discovered something ahead!"
Under the moonlit night, a call came from behind Gu Sheng, who was speeding away, "There are two chakra fluctuations a hundred meters ahead. They are Kushina and Minato."
Hinata Hiashi's voice was filled with joy. He and Minato were also good friends. In other words, Minato had a lot of friends in the Hokage Building.
Gu Sheng continued to move forward without looking back, "There are no pursuers behind them!"
"Not found yet!"
Hinata Hizu's words reassured Komori a little. It seemed that the plot was still the same as before. Minato single-handedly defeated the elite ninja team of Kumogakure Village and successfully rescued Kushina.
"Whoosh~"
A figure sprang out from the dense forest, swept through the air and overlapped with the shadow of the moon. The radiant fourth generation Hokage successfully seduced the girl and returned.
"Hokage-sama!"
Namikaze Minato came to Komori, and Meidaiko immediately went up to pick up the unconscious Kushina. Minato bowed on one knee and handed Komori a forehead protector.
"Cloud Hidden Village!"
Gu Sheng's face was calm after taking it. As expected, it was the team from Yunyin Village.
"You did a good job this time. Return to the team and go back!"
Gu Sheng encouraged Minato a few words, and then gave instructions to the searching ninja.
"Pa~~"
Amidst the explosion, a fire cloud floated in the sky, which was clearly visible within ten kilometers around. As the fire clouds rose into the sky, the ninjas who went out to search breathed a sigh of relief. They were extremely happy that the mission was completed.
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In the Hokage Building conference hall, every big shot who is at least a Jounin of Konoha has taken his seat. The sparse ninjas occupy less than one-third of the seats. Most of Konoha's high-level forces are on the battlefields of all parties!
"Hokage-sama!"
Gu Sheng pushed the door open, and all the ninjas present, including the three advisors, stood up to greet him. After five years in charge of Konoha, Gu Sheng had established his own prestige in the village, at least in the eyes of these people in front of him.
His majesty is not inferior to that of Sarutobi Hiruzen, and not many people would call him Acting Hokage.
"Everyone, please take a seat!"
Gu Sheng looked around, and most of his eyes fell on the three consultant elders, or Danzo to be precise. After looking at him for a long time, he found no flaws. He didn't say much and arranged for everyone to sit down.
"Everyone should be clear about what happened today. Kushina Uzumaki, the candidate for the Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki, was kidnapped. This was a targeted conspiracy, and the person who carried it out was Kumogakure from the Kingdom of Thunder."
"Hokage, you said this was done by Kumogakure. What evidence do you have? Don't think it's a conspiracy from other ninja villages!"
Danzo was particularly active today and was the first to jump out to express different opinions.
"The intelligence department has identified Kumogakure's forehead protector and the guy who kidnapped Kushina as the elites of Kumogakure Village."
Gu Sheng took out a bunch of Kumogakure's forehead protectors, but Danzo's expression remained unchanged.
"Things are in trouble."
Mito Kadoyan frowned for a while, glanced at Gu Sheng and then pretended to be dumb.
Gu Sheng gave the keynote instructions for this meeting, "The move by Yunyin Village is obviously a test of Konoha. We cannot sit still and wait for death."
"The Hokage means to launch a war against the Kingdom of Thunder."
After turning to bed, Koharu hesitated and said: "It's not that I want to play devil's advocate, but the current situation in Konoha makes it impossible to fight on multiple fronts!
Most of Konoha's power was dragged into the Kingdom of Wind. If the one-tailed Jinchūriki is not resolved, the war will not stop.
Now our plan is going smoothly. A lot of the Suna Ninja's vitality has been consumed. It is said that the Kingdom of Wind has further lowered the number of years for ninjas to graduate. Now even ten-year-old ninjas have entered the battlefield. If they persist for another two years, they will be defeated.
undoubtedly.
In this case, launching a war against Kumogakure is not a good thing. It does not mean that it cannot be fought and won, but the casualties may be huge.
There are only two options I can think of here. Either notify Hiruzen on the front line and mobilize elites to come back to join the war. This will give the Country of Wind a chance to breathe and allow them to persist longer. Once it is detrimental to the war in the Country of Thunder, Konoha will
Will be very passive.
Another option is to directly transfer the ninjas from the headquarters, but although the ninjas from the headquarters have gone through three years of experience, the ninjas in the Kingdom of Thunder are all veterans, and our people are afraid~~"
Koharu said something very vague when he went to bed. In fact, the young ninjas from Konoha headquarters were afraid that they would not be able to defeat those veterans of the Land of Thunder.
In fact, this is not surprising. According to the 31st year of Konoha when Komori returned to the village to reform, the first batch of graduates are only seventeen or eighteen years old now, and many of them have already set foot on the battlefield of the Kingdom of Wind.
There is blood. Today's ninjas in Konoha's headquarters cannot win at all if they don't compare with the strength of the top brass.
"The battlefield in the Kingdom of Wind will take at least two to three years. During this period, it is best not to mess around without permission."
Danzo said calmly: "I understand the discomfort of the Hokage and everyone, but the mission of the elders is to assist the Hokage in governing Konoha, and it is also the responsibility to prevent the Hokage from being impulsive.
Therefore, my idea is to temporarily stabilize Yunyin through negotiation, and if anything happens, I will wait until the war against the Kingdom of Wind is over."
"This is also the opinion of the elders."
After Mito Monobu added this sentence, the atmosphere in the venue suddenly changed.
The advisory board of elders was a feature of Hiruzen Sarutobi's reign. When the second generation of Hokage died young, the position of Hokage was uncertain. Qualified candidates competed fiercely for it, including today's
Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, and root leader and first advisor Shimura Danzo.
After Hiruzen Sarutobi succeeded to the throne of Hokage, an advisory board of elders formed by former Hokage team members headed by Danzo Shimura, Koharu Koharu and Mito Kaden took over power step by step from the original members of the Konoha ninja clan, thus forming
A new top level of power.
After taking over the supreme power, the power of the Council of Advisors and Elders expanded rapidly, and it seemed that they were turning against the guest and suppressing Hokage. There are different opinions on the huge power given by Hiruzen Sarutobi to the Council of Elders, but the general view is that it was because of Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo
An agreement between them.
Sarutobi Hiruzen used his power in exchange for the support of Danzo and other former competitors, allowing him to successfully become Hokage. However, due to various reasons, he was unable to lose his power and lost a lot of power that originally belonged to Hokage.
During the reign of the First and Second Generations, although there were advisers and elders, they could only advise the Hokage and did not interfere with the Hokage's decision-making power. This is very different from Danzo's current elders' system.
The Konoha Council of Elders had repeatedly asked Hiruzen Sarutobi to compromise, which was impossible for the first and second generations.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, the so-called strongest Hokage in history, is actually the least powerful Hokage in history (only comparing the first three generations). I have to say that this is an irony.
In the future, after Sarutobi Hiruzen abdicated, he joined the Elder Council and suppressed Danzo to become the first advisor. This method was also used to suppress the Elder Council's intention to help Minato.