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"Hiruzen, leave Hanekawa to me!"
Shimura Danzo said straight to the point with a serious face, his visible eye narrowed in suspicion, "He is too dangerous; he might be a spy from the Hidden Cloud Village."
"He is not."
Sarutobi Hiruzen tapped his pipe, a plume of smoke curling upwards as he said calmly.
"Don't forget that Kushina was almost kidnapped by the Hidden Cloud Village."
Shimura Danzo snorted, his voice laced with the bitterness of past events, and reminded, "Hanekawa is an orphan adopted by Nono, and he should have joined the Root."
"Are you teaching me how to do things?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen narrowed his eyes slightly, a subtle shift in his demeanor hinting at the authority he held as Hokage, and said, "You have to understand that the orphanage is Konoha's orphanage, not the Root's orphanage."
Shimura Danzo was visibly annoyed when he heard this, his jaw tightening, and couldn't help but say, "Hiruzen, you—"
"Are you trying to say that I'll regret it?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen interrupted his chant, his tone firm and unwavering, and said, "I will not regret it."
Danzo Shimura was momentarily silenced, a flicker of frustration crossing his face.
'Damn Hiruzen, is this also part of your plan?' he thought, his inner monologue a whirlwind of resentment. Should I congratulate you? Have you learned how to answer quickly? These are all my words!'
He also wanted to have a chance to say, 'I am the Hokage,' but he knew he couldn't.
Bang!
Danzo rushed out in a rage, the force of his exit echoing in the room.
He took a few steps, then suddenly turned around, his face still flushed with anger, and said, "Hiruzen, you're going to regret this."
After saying this, he felt slightly better, a small release of his pent-up frustration.
"…"
Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at the empty gate, a sigh escaping his lips as he shook his head.
Being an advisor to the Hokage is like this: you only need to say your suggestion, and the final result ultimately lies with him, the Hokage.
He mused, his thoughts drifting to the complexities of his position, but as the Hokage, you need to consider a lot.
Sarutobi Hiruzen called out to his ever-present ANBU guard, "Ask someone to change the door, and put the money on Danzo's account."
Sarutobi Hiruzen lowered his head and looked at Hanekawa's information on the table.
Hanekawa: male, six years old, a war orphan, adopted by a medical ninja, Yakushi Nono.
When being examined by the ninjas of the Yamanaka clan, he unleashed a terrifying mental force. (TN: Yin chakra.)
After investigation, it was found that it was not because of any type of ninjutsu that was planted in advance that was triggered, but a problem of the abundance of raw Yin chakra and spiritual power.
Although he has not received any training, his spiritual power is several times stronger than that of his peers.
"Nono is Danzo's subordinate; we can't let him remain in an orphanage under his influence," Sarutobi Hiruzen said thoughtfully, connecting the dots.
'Yin release represents spiritual power,' he considered, his mind drawing on his vast knowledge of ninjutsu, such as the secret techniques of the Yamanaka clan and the Nara clan and the Sharingan.
But the secret techniques of shinobi clans have never been passed on to outsiders, especially not to those with unknown origins.
Hiruzen's heart moving slightly as an idea formed.
Yuhi Shinku is a civilian jonin who is proficient in genjutsu and is also an instructor who guides chunin and genin, which is very suitable, especially considering the potential danger of his untrained Yin chakra.
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Hanekawa suddenly opened his eyes and felt pain all over his body, as if he had been through a rigorous physical training session or as if he had been subjected to a powerful genjutsu.
He looked at the unfamiliar ceiling, looked around subconsciously, and couldn't help revealing a confused expression.
'What's going on? Is this still my room?' He wondered, his mind trying to grasp his surroundings.
'Where are my Toosaka Rin, Celestine, Tsunade, and Tifa figures?'
When he was still disoriented, something suddenly and forcefully penetrated him, and countless memories began to flash back.
He was reborn in another world, or rather, awakened the memories of his past life.
'Good news,' he thought, piecing together the fragments of his past and present; he was now in Konoha Village.
Hanekawa has watched "Naruto".
In the extremely chaotic ninja world, Konoha Village is relatively safe. You just need to be careful and wait for the cheating Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke to save the world; maybe you can survive until the end.
Bad news, he realized with a growing sense of dread; he is a spy from the Hidden Cloud Village.
Hanekawa was born in the Hidden Cloud Village; because of his extraordinary intelligence, he was chosen as a spy and sent to Konoha Village to collect intelligence.
Soon, he faced the first hurdle, which was inspection.
In Konoha Village, the secret jutsu of the Yamanaka clan can retrieve information from corpses, let alone living people.
But he fainted during the examination.
When Hanekawa thought of this, he couldn't help but sweat profusely and felt uneasy.
Is he exposed? He worried, remembering the potential consequences. He does not want to end up in Konoha T&I.
At this moment, several lines of text appeared in his sight.
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[The system is loading.]
[You have loaded the Ninja Entry System.]
[If you meet certain conditions, you can obtain the corresponding entries; some special entries can be deduced and synthesized into high-level entries.]
[The entries are divided into E, D, C, B, A, and S levels; there are three major categories: Ninjutsu, Ninja Tools, and Talent.]
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"Um?"
Hanekawa couldn't help but widen his eyes, a glimmer of hope appearing in his heart.
'Has my cheat finally arrived?' he thought, realizing the potential this system held. As a ninja with no bloodline, no secret skills, and no ninja clan, it is difficult for him to make any progress in the ninja world without some kind of advantage.
Now there is finally hope. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but hum softly.
Hanekawa studied the system and found it to be extremely simple, with only one entry panel that displayed the entries he had currently obtained.
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[A-level talent entry: Spy.]
[Trigger condition: Newbie gift pack.]
[Effect: When others explore your mind (like with Yamanaka Clan techniques), your memory will be falsified, presenting a false narrative.]
[Note: Cannot be synthesized.]
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Very good.
A classic beginner's gift pack, especially useful given his current predicament.
Hanekawa couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Now he didn't have to worry about the Yamanaka clan's mind-probing jutsus, which were a common method of interrogation in Konoha.
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[C-level talent entry: Innate full soul.]
[Trigger condition: Fusion of the souls of two lives.]
[Effect: Yin Release talent is increased by 100% on the original basis. ]
[Note: Cannot be synthesized.]
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Why is the innate full soul power not awakened? Blue Silver… Oh no, it's Wood Release? Hanekawa thought, momentarily distracted by memories of another world. He quickly refocused. (TN: Blue siver is a reference to Douluo Dalu's Blue siver grass.)
Hanekawa fell silent.
Yin Release is very difficult to master, even for those with natural aptitude.
He doesn't have a Sharingan, a Kekkei Genkai known for its powerful genjutsu abilities, and he's not from the Yamanaka or Nara clan, clans known for their spiritual and shadow manipulation techniques, respectively.
Is he going to learn genjutsu? He wondered.
But let's not talk about a genjutsu specialist, he mused, considering the difficulty.
Kurenai Yuhi, a renowned genjutsu specialist, has studied genjutsu for her whole life, but she is still overshadowed by the Uchiha clan, who can perform powerful genjutsu simply by activating their Sharingan.
'Now that things have come to this, let's eat first.'
Hanekawa felt a strong sense of hunger.
He suddenly showed a regretful expression.
"Fuck! My holy sword!"
Hanekawa remembered that before he traveled through time, he stayed up late to play a game, an online game with a dueling arena.
He had patted his head in frustration due to a loss and then found himself in this new world. As a result, a lifetime passed in the blink of an eye.
He didn't know what his condition was in his previous life. If he was missing, his phone would definitely have been hacked to locate him.
Just thinking about it made his eyes flush with a mix of frustration and loss.
The sound of a door opening was heard.
He subconsciously raised his eyes and looked at the girl who had just come in.
It is not accurate to call her a girl; she is a young girl, a loli.
The most noticeable thing about her is that she has a pair of striking ruby-like eyes.
He couldn't help but look puzzled.
'Who is this? Where is this?'
It was definitely not the orphanage. He had vague impressions of the children in the orphanage, and this girl was not among them.
But this is a good thing for him, he realized.
The medical-nin Nono, who manages the orphanage, is a subordinate of Danzo Shimura, the leader of the secretive Root organization.
'If I get targeted by Danzo,' he thought with a shiver, knowing Danzo's ruthless methods and twisted interpretation of the Will of Fire, you will be deeply infused with the Will of the Root and will not be able to escape the fate of being a tool.
"Are you awake?"
Yuhi Kurenai said with a gentle smile on her face, "I am Yuhi Kurenai."
"Hanekawa."
Looking at the beautiful loli's smile, Hanekawa couldn't help but relax slightly.
'It's actually Kurenai Yuhi,' he realized, recognizing her. In the original work, she married Asuma Sarutobi and eventually became a widow.
"Can you walk?"
Kurenai paused and said, "I'll take you to see my father, and he will explain everything to you."
"I can walk."
Hanekawa got out of bed, thinking silently in his mind.
'Yuhi Kurenai's father is Yuhi Shinku.'
He thought, confirming his memory.
At least he was not a subordinate of Danzo Shimura.
As a genjutsu jonin, the one who could most likely give him orders was the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen.
The reason why it was Sarutobi Hiruzen and not Namikaze Minato was because Kurenai Yuhi was too young, placing the current timeline before Minato's tenure as Hokage.
'Although Sarutobi Hiruzen has caused a lot of controversy,' he thought, remembering the complexities of Hiruzen's character, compared to Shimura Danzo, he can be described as kind-hearted.
'At least he won't put a cursed seal on me,' he thought with a shudder, referring to Danzo's tongue-restricting curse seal, a fuinjutsu used to silence his subordinates.
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