"Hokage, what are you doing?"
Onoki's dissatisfied voice sounded.
The five Kage were sitting together.
However, Funan was heard to breathe in, sigh, be angry, and look helpless.
Several people were a little confused.
Furthermore, the relations between them were not so good.
"Me?" Funan asked in disbelief.
"Nonsense!" Onoki didn't like Funan anyway, and his words were naturally thorny: "Can't you even see who I'm talking to?"
"I'm sighing for you, Tsuchikage-sama!"
"For me?" Onoki sneered. "What do I have that you need to sigh about?"
Onoki looked at his granddaughter, causing her to straighten her body with pride.
In less than ten years, she will become the new Tsuchikage.
"Tsuchikage-sama, there are some things I really don't want to say, but I can't bear it." Funan sighed as he looked at Onoki. "Look, Miss Kurotsuchi is so beautiful."
Onoki's eyebrows jumped.
This bastard won't have any bad ideas, right?
How could they not know the hobbies of the Hokage Uchiha!
But not in my dreams! Kurotsuchi is my granddaughter!
Onoki replied coldly: "My granddaughter, of course she's beautiful!"
"But you, on the other hand, are very ugly." Funan said with great sorrow: "Do you really think someone as ugly as you could have such a beautiful granddaughter? Have you never doubted it? Tsuchikage, you are not doing your duty!"
The jaws of the people present were about to drop.
"Wait a minute!" Funan exclaimed, just as Onoki was about to explode in fury. Suddenly, Funan clapped her hands and pointed at Kitsuchi, who was standing next to Kurotsuchi. "Tsuchikage-sama, look at your height, your weight, your appearance, and now look at your son. Have you really not questioned anything? In my opinion, as a grandfather, as a father, as a son, one must always maintain a deep suspicion."
"Uchiha Funan!!!"
The Tsuchikage yelled angrily and stood up suddenly.
[Crack!]
"Ugh!"
Onoki's eyes widened. The fury that had been driving him vanished in an instant.
His small body was shaking, about to fall.
Raikage and the others couldn't help but have the corners of their lips twitch.
Funan laughed and said. "Tsuchikage-sama, your waist is really fragile! Impressive!"
"Come on, come on! Why don't you hit me? Hit me if you can!"
"That's enough!" The Raikage intervened, waving his hand. "Kurotsuchi, Kitsuchi, quickly, help Tsuchikage-sama to his seat!"
"Oh!"
Father and daughter finally reacted.
The Raikage looked at Funan and said with coldness in his voice: "Hokage-sama, this is too much!"
"Too much?" Funan said blankly. "I just told the truth. Is that too much? Raikage-sama, look carefully, observe carefully. Are you really not curious about this family?"
Funan pointed at Kitsuchi and Kurotsuchi, then launched another comment straight to Raikage's heart.
"Children always resemble their parents. Oh, and by the way, I remember that your father is still in Onoki's lab. Why don't you retrieve his head and compare it to yours, see if they resemble each other?"
"At most, after the comparison, we can give it back. We are generous, we do not take things that do not belong to us."
"I assure you that our people are trustworthy."
The ground beneath the Raikage's feet began to crack.
Mei and Pakura couldn't contain the twitch in their lips.
Yashiro and others were sweating and laughing secretly.
"Uchiha Funan!" The Raikage stared at Funan and suddenly said: "In fact, I have always wanted to ask, are you really qualified to sit here?"
"What does Raikage mean?"
Yashiro stood up and said dissatisfiedly: "Don't you think that the Hokage of Konoha is not qualified to sit here? Then, who among you is qualified?"
"The Hokage is indeed qualified." The Raikage said indifferently: "But, is Uchiha Funan really the Hokage?"
In an instant, the place became silent.
Yashiro's forehead began to break out in cold sweat.
"I think so too!" Onoki said calmly. "Uchiha Funan, if you are not the Hokage, then please don't sit here. There is a place for you next to Pakura."
"Of course..." A smile gradually appeared on Onoki's face, but in that smile, there was deep malice. "But if you insist on sitting here, we won't say anything more."
This time, many eyes were on Funan.
Funan smiled and said, "I did not get the title from the daimyo, but..."
Facing the attacks from the Raikage and the Tsuchikage, Funan began to fight back.
"If the daimyo does not agree with the Kage of a village, is he qualified to become the Kage? Or will he be asked to abdicate? Can you tell me the answer?"
After this sentence was said, the place became even quieter.
Even the violent Raikage and the cunning Tsuchikage could not have thought that Funan would give such an answer.
Nominally, the five great shinobi villages obey their respective Daimyo, but in reality, they are completely independent.
All Kage are appointed either directly by the previous Kage or by election within the village.
Funan turned her gaze towards the Raikage and the Tsuchikage, and smiling said to them: "You two are the Raikage and Tsuchikage. If your daimyo does not agree with you, will you abdicate?"
The two felt depressed.
The Raikage said in a deep voice: "There won't be such a day..."
"Hypothesis, I'm talking about hypothesis!" Funan said with a smile: "If you two don't even want to hypothesize, then just ignore what I said. Just like what Tsuchikage-sama said just now, I won't force you."
The Raikage and Tsuchikage looked at each other and cursed in their minds.
"It seems that it is difficult for you to make a choice." Funan smiled slightly and said: "In that case, let me answer you."
"I will answer what you asked me a moment ago."
Funan still had a smile on his face, his eyes swept across the audience, and he said softly: "I am the Hokage, the Hokage nominated by Konoha, and this position was also won by my fists."
He reached out, took the kanji for 'Fire' from the chair and played with it in his hands calmly, saying: "I am the Hokage, and if anyone wants to deny me that title, they will have to defeat me. Other than that, no one has the right to question my position as Hokage."
"This is my answer."
The other Kage fell silent.
Pakura looked at Funan with a strange look in his eyes.
Terumi Mei's eyes lit up.
"You two." Funan looked at the Raikage and Tsuchikage, smiled and pointed to the seat below them, before saying: "I will continue to sit here, because I earned this seat with my fists. If anyone wants me to get up, let them say so with their fists."
"Besides, any righteousness, any reason, any rule, will not work with me."
"This is my answer, are you satisfied?"
Funan's voice was very calm, but unusually firm.
The Raikage looked strange, and said: "Uchiha Funan, do you understand what you just said?"
Konoha belongs to the Daimyo.
The Hokage obeys the Daimyo.
What Funan just said implies a break, an independence of Konoha from the Land of Fire, without the need for the Daimyo's approval.
This is a betrayal!
However, both the Raikage and the Tsuchikage felt something strange in their hearts.
"I understand too well." Funan said with a smile: "So, can we start the Chunin Exam?"
"Of course!" The Raikage and Tsuchikage looked at each other.
Funan's words will definitely spread.
Funan's words will surely spread.
How will the Daimyo of the Land of Fire react?
No matter how, for the Raikage and Tsuchikage, they are the victors.
But for Funan, that is of no importance at all.
Daimyo?
Haha!
It has been four years since Funan became the Hokage of Konoha. During this time, the village has developed its own system of operation.
Even without the Daimyo's subsidies, the village continues to function normally.
The power of Funan's direct line, the Uchiha clan, has increased rapidly in these four years.
Funan has taken extreme measures, using various fruits to create a batch of medicines that enhance eye power. In addition, he has invested a great deal of resources into the Uchiha.
As a result, the number of Jonin and Tokubetsu Jonin within the Uchiha clan has skyrocketed.
In addition, a large number of civilian shinobi were won over by him.
If Funan were to proclaim his opposition to the Daimyo right now, although there would be many dissatisfied people and opponents, he would also have a large number of followers.
Therefore, Funan is not afraid of the Daimyo knowing what he said today.
Moreover, the Daimyo's financial support for Konoha ended three years ago.
The two sides only have a certain degree of interaction. In fact, they have long been two parties that do not interfere with each other.
Only some nobles come to Konoha from time to time to jump around.
Especially the Daimyo's wife, who once came to Konoha and demanded that the Hokage send a Jonin to find her dog.
In fact, these people have been dancing on the edge of death.
Any day Funan is feeling bad, there could be blood.
[Bang!]
With a muffled sound, the Chunin assessment begins!
Funan came back to his senses and looked carefully. A Konoha shinobi and a Kumogakure shinobi came out.
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