An Advanced Conspiracy Against Transmigrators

After the Graduation Exam results were announced, there was nothing left for Hagoromo and the others to do at the academy, so everyone went home to their families.

However, before Hagoromo returned home, he still had to see Kai home after injuring him. Although Kai repeatedly insisted that he was fine, Hagoromo still felt somewhat guilty.

The Hagoromo Clan residence lay on Konoha's outskirts. Just one block away was the famed Uchiha Special District, which enjoyed extraterritorial privileges within Konoha. Honestly, having a bunch of red-eyed troublemakers as neighbors made Hagoromo somewhat cautious. After all, he had quite a few secrets of his own.

During the day, Konoha did not feel much like a village at war. But at night, one could sense the tense atmosphere enveloping it. There were few pedestrians on the streets, while teams of ninja patrolled both openly and in secret, carrying out orders to defend the village.

Hagoromo looked up. At this point, there were still only three faces on the Hokage Rock: the First, Second, and Third Hokage. The Third Hokage could barely be considered in his prime, while the Fourth Hokage was still active across battlefield after battlefield under the name Yellow Flash, intimidating both allies and enemies alike.

Hagoromo soon returned home. This had originally been the Kamishiraishi family residence, but now only Hagoromo remained. Still, he had long since grown used to it.

He had no impression or concept of Naruto's cramped little apartment. If he had something to compare it to, he would have understood that his own residence could absolutely be called protagonist treatment compared to Naruto's.

Because both his parents had died, Hagoromo had been raised by Konoha's childcare institutions until he was five. After that, Konoha gave orphans like him a portion of living expenses, and they had to become independent. At seven, Hagoromo entered the Ninja Academy.

Three years had now passed, and he was already ten years old. In his original world, sending a ten-year-old child to war would have been a joke. But in the world of Naruto, this was what was called reality. There were plenty of underage children active on the battlefield. Even Konoha, which was relatively more humane in its administration, had no choice but to send these freshly graduated students to war. Though Konoha was a powerful nation, it was inevitably besieged on all sides, and insufficient manpower had been the norm in every war.

As Hagoromo considered the current state of the war, he pushed open his front door and began preparing dinner with practiced ease. At that moment, he had no idea that a conspiracy targeting him was brewing among Konoha's higher-ups.

Ahem, don't panic. The author did not write conspiracy theories. That description was a little exaggerated; keep reading and you'll understand what was really going on.

Back in the day, Konoha had a notorious, impossible-to-handle little demon king. She had three hobbies: gambling, gambling, and gambling. And she was terrible at it, practically losing every time she gambled. Normally, someone like that, who corrupted public morals, would surely have been dealt with by the police or the city management authorities. But because of her special status, basically no one dared provoke her. She could burn the Third Hokage's beard whenever she pleased... Yes, she was the First Hokage's granddaughter, the Third Hokage's disciple, a princess of both the Senju and Konoha. Her name was Tsunade.

Later, Tsunade finally grew up. Though she still loved gambling, she eventually became sensible and stopped causing trouble. The great village of Konoha finally returned to peace... did it? As if. How could that be possible?

Tsunade-hime had grown up and graduated from her troublemaking days; there was no question about that. The problem was that not long afterward, Demon King Number Two descended upon Konoha. Though Demon King Number Two did not have a background as outrageous as Tsunade's, almost no one dared provoke her either. Moreover, her destructive power and level of mischief surpassed Tsunade's in every way... That's right, her name was Kushina Uzumaki, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, known to all as the Red Hot Habanero.

Right now was the time when the Red Hot Habanero was at her hottest. Whenever she went out, she practically had the words "Nobody mess with me" written across her forehead. Even those red-eyed Uchiha rabbits got beaten up whenever she felt like it.

There was no helping it. She herself was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki; her boyfriend was practically unbeatable in a one-on-one fight in the ninja world and feared no group battle either; her boyfriend's teacher was Jiraiya, one of the Three Ninja; and she herself was close to Tsunade... Put it this way: in theory, she could burn the Hokage's beard too.

It was wartime, yet Kushina still refused to settle down, often causing disturbances around the village. Sometimes those disturbances were harmless, while at other times they gave the Hokage a splitting headache... But as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Kushina had to remain in the village under the Hokage's protection. She could not take a single step beyond the range of Konoha's barrier. Yet her mild hyperactivity had not been cured, so how could she possibly behave herself? More specifically, she had repeatedly applied to go to the front lines. Naturally, that could not be allowed, so she had also tried sneaking away. Fortunately, the Hokage caught and brought her back every time.

If she went to the front lines, then Minato Namikaze, one of Konoha's pillars and the Yellow Flash, along with one of the Three Ninja, would not be able to do anything else. Protecting Kushina would become their entire job.

The Hokage laid out the facts and reasoned with Kushina like a middle-aged housewife, over and over again, but the Red Hot Habanero continued doing things her own way. So Lord Hokage began assigning her work, giving her something proper to do.

Of course, that still was not enough. She also needed a fun, durable toy.

And the Hokage had to carefully pick out that toy for her.

Minato Namikaze had a disciple named Kakashi. Despite his young age, he was already extremely strong and exceptionally gifted. This had once made Kushina very jealous, because she had always wanted to experience being someone's teacher. But with Minato as a precedent, she did not want her own disciple to lose to Minato's disciple. Therefore, the quality of this disciple had to be high—at the very least, he could not be inferior to Kakashi.

This worried the Hokage so much his hair turned white. Were geniuses like Kakashi really that easy to find?

During this period, he had been searching the Ninja Academy for a suitable candidate, and gradually, he discovered a particularly interesting student.

Take a guess: who was this clever, talented, and fairly capable person? Which lucky fellow would receive the important mission of playing with Kushina?

Well, this candidate really was not easy to guess.

Our protagonist still had no idea that his fate had already been arranged. He was busy planning what to bring to the battlefield, how to kill enemies there, and how to protect himself.

He never would have imagined that while all his fellow graduates rushed off to the battlefield, he, who considered himself fairly competent in actual combat, would not even get the chance to go to war in the short term. He could only stay in Konoha obediently.

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