Chapter 224 Tsunade escapes
"Minato-kun, according to your report just now, there was a two-day blank period in between. What were you doing during that time?"
In the Hokage's office, Hyuga Hiashi asked Namikaze Minato with a serious face. In terms of official business, most of the tasks are now arranged by him as the assistant of the Hokage. In terms of personal affairs, the Hyuga clan is also following Orochimaru's footsteps. If there were no unmarried women of marriageable age in the clan, he would have wanted to marry with Nawaki.
The Hyuga clan does not reject women marrying out. One or two women marrying out will not have much impact on the Hyuga clan. Many years ago, there were cases of women from the main family marrying out. If it is not a union within the same clan, the bloodline of the Hyuga clan will continue to dilute and eventually they will not be able to open their Byakugan.
Namikaze Minato said apologetically, "I caught a cold, so I took two days off before heading to the Land of Lightning. I'm really sorry."
"Minato-kun, how can you ask us to do that?"
Hyuga Hiashi said with a gloomy face, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Orochimaru who was standing beside him,
"Forget it, Hiashi. After all, the attack of the Fourth Raikage on the village was an accident. The mission did not require Minato-kun to rush to the Land of Lightning immediately. It was just a coincidence."
Orochimaru said with a smile. His comforting words did not make Namikaze Minato relax, but instead gave him a bad feeling.
Just as Namikaze Minato thought, Orochimaru's next words directly made him lose the right to choose.
"Minato-kun, forget the previous two missions. There are both understandable reasons and unexpected factors. However, if there is another accident in the next mission, I will consider retiring your ninja."
After Orochimaru finished speaking, Hyuga Hiashi also took out a long-term S-level mission and handed it to Namikaze Minato.
Hunt down the Root and the leader Danzo.
This mission was not only undertaken by Minato Namikaze alone, but also by ten other elite teams and Anbu ninjas, which was considered a benefit for some of the elite jonin teams; Anbu ninjas provided information and cooperated with the blockade, and Konoha ninjas also represented justice, and most of the root ninjas would not necessarily attack Konoha ninjas.
However, Minato Namikaze's mission was more difficult. His target was Danzo, and if he failed to complete it, Orochimaru would really consider letting Minato Namikaze withdraw from the ranks of ninjas.
At that time, not only would he have to place various seals in his head, but he would also have to live under surveillance in the future. If there was anything wrong, he would be placed in a seal, interrogated, or imprisoned.
This was not Orochimaru's self-destruction of the village's combat power. A person who could not use the golden flash, who was holding back everywhere, and even secretly opposed the Hokage, now Orochimaru only needed an excuse for Minato Namikaze. It
was okay to fail in the pursuit of Jiraiya, after all, they were a master-disciple relationship, and this was a mission Orochimaru deliberately gave to Minato Namikaze.
The failure of the mission to monitor and search for information about the Eight-Tails was an accident and understandable, but if the pursuit of Danzo failed, it would be enough for the interrogation team to take action against Minato Namikaze.
Danzo had already clearly betrayed the village. If other jonin teams had achieved results but Minato Namikaze had not made any progress and wasted the information provided by the Anbu, then Orochimaru would take action against Minato Namikaze, and the others would not be able to persuade him.
"I understand, Lord Hokage,"
Minato Namikaze sighed in his heart, and then took on this mission. This was really his last chance.
After leaving the Hokage building,
Minato Namikaze felt that this village was very unfamiliar. Although he had lived here since he was a child, there were fewer and fewer things in Konoha that he could care about. Now, even the position of Hokage, he gradually felt that he didn't care. Moreover,
the girl he had always liked since he was a child was now someone else's wife and had given birth to a child.
Bang.
A puppy suddenly bumped into Minato Namikaze, but after the dog ran away, Minato Namikaze frowned slightly and left directly with the instant body technique.
When they reached a remote forest outside the village, Minato Namikaze said, "Come out, Kakashi, no one is following me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Kakashi came out of the woods, followed by a psychic dog. This psychic dog has been kept at home, and only the Minato team can recognize the psychic dog of the Hatake family.
Kakashi hesitated for a while and said, "I'm sorry, Minato teacher, I can only contact you in this way. I voted for the last Hokage election."
Minato Namikaze waved his hand to interrupt, and then smiled and said, "There's no need to mention this matter again, Kakashi, I believe you must have your own considerations and reasons, not to mention that you have sent me intelligence several times since then."
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Kakashi was silent for a while, and still said, "Because Obito's grandmother, she is alone, so I need a sum of money for her to live well. I didn't expect that not long after Lin gave the money to Obito's grandmother, she died."
It was not because of death, but because White Zetsu thought that Obito had fallen into Uchiha Madara's lies at that time, and he also made money, so he found an opportunity to take back the clone.
Namikaze Minato nodded after hearing this. He also knew that Obito was a close friend to Kakashi. "I see, Kakashi, you did a good job. This is the Will of Fire."
"I didn't have much ability at the time, and it just happened that I encountered this incident, so I could only... But I'm still sorry to Minato-sensei for making a choice that went against my heart." Kakashi spoke, then took out a scroll and threw it to Minato Namikaze.
"I can't reveal the secrets of the Anbu, but these are all I collected myself, which should be helpful to Minato-sensei. But I can only do so much, Minato-sensei."
Minato Namikaze opened the scroll, and his eyes condensed after seeing the content on it. He was instantly surprised, and then said to Kakashi gratefully: "That's enough, thank you, Kakashi."
Minato Namikaze never knew the information on the scroll before. Fortunately, there was the information provided by Kakashi today, otherwise if he acted rashly, he might really suffer a big loss.
However, after this, Kakashi might not pass on information to him anymore. This kind of thing is very dangerous, and Kakashi is now the captain of the Anbu; Kakashi and Uchiha Shisui can become the captain of the Anbu at this age in the whole Konoha.
Hokage's office.
After Tsunade came, her expression was always very serious. With a bang, she slammed her hands on the desk in front of Orochimaru.
"Orochimaru, do you have any long-term missions away from the village? Give me one."
"No, don't even think about it."
Orochimaru refused without even listening to Tsunade's words: "Tsunade, you promised me not long ago that you would stay in Konoha, why are you leaving the village all of a sudden?" How
could it be compared to now? There was a man-eating beast in the village!
Tsunade felt very aggrieved. She did a stupid thing after getting drunk, and she also did something to let down Kushina. In short, she could not stay in Konoha anymore, she had to go out.
"The situation is different now, Orochimaru, I must take a long-term mission away from the village."
Orochimaru sighed helplessly and said, "Even if you say so, there are very few long-term missions outside the village now, except for investigating the Kirigakure, the Cloud Ninja and hunting down the Anbu. Do you want to take three missions? This is very important to the village and cannot be delayed
. Also, what about the training of Rope Tree after he comes back? Don't you want him to practice the Sage Mode of the Wet Bone Forest?"
Tsunade felt very aggrieved after hearing what Orochimaru said, but these things were all planned by her in advance, but now
"Rope Tree can ask the slug for advice himself, or let the slug summon me to the Wet Bone Forest, but I must leave Konoha recently. I have my reasons, please, Orochimaru!"
After that, Tsunade was ready to grab Orochimaru's collar, ready to use the feelings between teammates and force to force Orochimaru to agree to her request.
"Stop, this is my shadow clone. Forget it, I'll assign you a task, but it's at most B-level, and you should arrange your work before you leave."
Orochimaru waved his hand to stop Tsunade. His shadow clone couldn't withstand a slap from Tsunade, and he also tried to find out that Tsunade's leaving the village was not because of Jiraiya or other things, but probably just a sudden idea in the past two days.
But she has been looking for a chance to ask Kahn at Kushina's house these two days.
Tsunade nodded gratefully and said, "B-level is enough, thank you Orochimaru, I will arrange my work before leaving the village. By the way, can you give me the task reward of Rope Tree in advance?"
Orochimaru sighed after hearing this and said to Tsunade, "I'll lend you some, don't think about Rope Tree."
He suddenly felt that Rope Tree should be his brother, Orochimaru, because Tsunade often advanced Rope Tree's task reward, causing him, the disciple, to quietly beg several times.
After giving Tsunade one million ryo, Orochimaru found another patrol and defense mission near the capital of the Land of Fire, to prevent the Root members from taking risks and attacking the important officials of the Land of Fire.
Most of them were Chunin teams, but Orochimaru knew that Danzo didn't have the guts to do so, so this mission was mostly distributed to the teams in the village as welfare. Anyway,
since he became the Fourth Hokage, Konoha's funding has doubled compared to before, and Orochimaru's research funding is independent of the outside world, mostly supported by Kahn.
Using money to appease ninjas and get support was Kahn's suggestion to Orochimaru. Anyway, ninjas still have to spend money after they have money. 70% of Konoha's stores are Kahn's industries, and the money will go back to his pocket after going around. The
civilian ninjas or the ninjas who rely on Orochimaru got well-paid and safe tasks, and some time-consuming and dangerous tasks were all assigned to the ninjas such as Ino-Shika-Chou and Sarutobi. In the long run, the ninjas who rely on Ino-Shika-Chou will not be able to stand this situation.
In addition, the media mouthpiece of Ninja Weekly, unless the Ino-Shika-Chou families rebel collectively, they can only be like the frog in the warm water, with the flesh cut off by a blunt knife.