A New Dream Fulfiller

The transfer of power had never been gentle.

Utatane Koharu felt this deeply, so she had chosen her successor early on.

She chose Himeji because Utatane Koharu liked her very much and hoped this Hyuga girl could help Chen smoothly take control of the village.

Koharu had always liked Himeji, but correspondingly, she did not like Mikoto or Kushina very much.

But then again, who didn't have some backing these days?

Tsunade liked Kushina very much, while Mikoto was Orochimaru's disciple, and he liked Mikoto even more.

All three of them had powerful backers, and none were people Chen could afford to provoke.

Even after becoming the Fourth Hokage, he could only sigh. Society, society... I can't afford to mess with it!

As Utatane Koharu's little follower, Himeji smoothly entered the village's core center of power, but Chen did not appoint Mikoto to any such position.

After becoming the Fourth Hokage, he naturally would not spend too much time managing clan affairs. All of that would be left to Mikoto.

As for Kushina...

She simply had no interest in any of this.

She had said she wanted to become Hokage when she was young, but that had merely been a way to draw everyone's attention.

Kushina had never truly wanted to become Hokage.

Although she was uninterested in village affairs, she was quite interested in being a teacher.

With Chen becoming the Fourth Mizukage and a series of personnel changes taking place, at least three or four squads would have no one to lead them and could only be left unattended.

Take Kakashi's group, for example. Chen could not possibly keep taking them on missions himself.

So Kushina volunteered to take over.

Little Fox was not especially enthusiastic about nurturing Konoha's young sprouts. In her words, she was