Konoha, Year 20.
In a dense jungle, a group of people were catching their breath, clearly having just finished a battle.
Tobirama Senju looked at his disciples, each one disheveled and battered. Their clothes were torn, and a few were injured.
He, who was wise his whole life, had been foolish for a moment! To be ambushed at the negotiation table after the Ninja World War had ended!
And damn you, Raikage, how do you manage your subordinates? You don't even know when they're plotting a coup?
No matter how difficult it is to manage ninja, they can't be harder to manage than those hereditary lunatics in the Uchiha clan, and yet I had them all under my thumb!
What a bunch of brutes, not an ounce of intelligence.
But there was no point in scolding the Raikage now, after all, he himself had been killed by those two treacherous Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
Tobirama Senju felt the chakra within him. More than half remained. With his Flying Thunder God Technique, returning to the village alone wouldn't be a problem, but he had a group of dead weight with him.
Considering the current situation, it was time to make a decision. Tobirama Senju closed his eyes and pondered for a long time: should he save himself or his disciples?
"In this situation, to escape, someone needs to draw away Kinkaku and Ginkaku's elite troops, but the outcome for that person..."
Tobirama Senju's expression was grim. He didn't finish his sentence, as the outcome was obvious – a one-way ticket to death.
Silence greeted his words. No one spoke, as no one wanted to be the one to die.
A few seconds later, Hiruzen Sarutobi spoke with determination, "I'll do it!"
Tobirama Senju looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi, a slight curve appearing at the corner of his lips beneath his serious expression.
At this moment, Danzō was like a startled cat. The moment of hesitation had already revealed the gap between him and Hiruzen Sarutobi.
"I am the Hokage, so I will be the decoy. All of you are the future inheritors of the Will of Fire who will protect the village."
Tobirama Senju's words caused a huge stir. Everyone present immediately tried to dissuade him. Trading Tobirama Senju's life for theirs; their lives were too precious.
Danzō, in particular, stopped trembling and stepped forward directly, wanting to be the decoy and die in place of Tobirama.
However, there wasn't enough time for Danzō to put on a show. Tobirama's few critical words instantly suppressed Danzō, and then he said to Hiruzen Sarutobi, "Monkey, protect those who admire the village and trust you, and then train them to become people you can entrust the next era to."
"Starting tomorrow, you are the Hokage!"
"Monkey, Konoha is in your hands."
At this moment, in Konoha.
Uchiha Clan Compound.
In a room, a young man clasped his hands together, muttering.
"Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Jade Emperor, Jesus..."
"It's time to show yourselves. Bless me with a gold draw this time."
"Today is a good day. The Second Hokage, Tobirama, is negotiating with the Raikage. If nothing unexpected happens, he should be dead. I can't get a white draw on such a festive day."
Uchiha Nan looked at the large roulette wheel before him, hoping that this month's lottery would bring him a surprise.
As a transmigrator, this roulette wheel was Uchiha Nan's trump card for survival in the dangerous world of Naruto.
Aside from the beginner's gift package at the start, which gave him three one-day trial coupons for the Mangekyo Sharingan, the rest was the roulette draw.
There was a fixed draw once a month, and completing tasks posted by the roulette wheel could increase the number of draws.
The roulette wheel's prize pool was varied. Based on his exploration over the past decade, it was divided into five types: white, green, red, orange, and gold.
White corresponded to daily life items, such as clothes, shoes, stools, milk, and so on.
Green corresponded to ninja tools, such as kunai, shuriken, explosive tags, and the like.
Red represented ninjutsu, with all sorts of ninjutsu available, from forbidden jutsu to ordinary shadow clones.
Orange represented kekkei genkai, such as the Byakugan, Wood Release, Ice Release, Magnet Release, Lava Release, and so on.
The gold prize pool contained the top-tier treasures of the Naruto world: Mangekyo Sharingan, Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Sage Body, perfect Sage Mode, Chakra Fruit.
After sixteen years of transmigration, Uchiha Nan's draws were consistently in the white and green categories. Getting a red was as joyous as celebrating the new year, and he had only gotten an orange once. As for gold, Uchiha Nan didn't even dare to dream about it.
"Ding-dong, welcome host to the lottery!"
Uchiha Nan clicked the draw button, and a crisp sound rang out. The massive roulette wheel lit up, and the needle spun. There were over a thousand grids, with white occupying a large portion. Green was interspersed among the white, red dotted the roulette wheel like red dots, orange was scarce, and gold only occupied one or two grids. If you didn't look closely, you couldn't even see them.
"Gold, gold!"
"Give me gold!!!"
Uchiha Nan's eyes turned red. His Three-Tomoe Sharingan stared intently at the spinning needle, his fists clenched so tightly that his fingers turned slightly white.
"Damn it, green!"
"Three explosive tags."
Uchiha Nan sighed. It was as he expected; it was either white or green.
An explosive tag is an explosive tag. An explosive tag is quite expensive. Selling it for money would be good, Uchiha Nan consoled himself.
Getting a gold drop relies on my own luck, and there's no chance with that. Uchiha Nan believes he doesn't have the luck of an "European Emperor" either. It's better to rely on oneself.
Uchiha Nan clicked on the mission interface of the roulette, which displayed a long-term mission that had been available since the day Uchiha Nan officially became a ninja.
Mission: Become the Hokage of Konoha.
Reward: One chance at a gold-tier roulette draw.
Now was the perfect time to complete this long-term mission.
Born during the time Tobirama Senju was Hokage, becoming Hokage through legitimate means was utterly impossible.
Become Tobirama Senju's disciple, then be recognized by Tobirama Senju, and finally be appointed Hokage by Tobirama Senju?
He was an Uchiha. The clan crest on his clothes, the magatama in his eyes – just seeing them would remind Tobirama Senju of that old man, Uchiha Madara. Uchiha Madara was insane.
Every Uchiha who awakened the Sharingan had psychological issues.
Including Uchiha Nan himself. He had been practicing killing ninjutsu since childhood.
He graduated and became a ninja at six, then went on missions, wielding kunai to attack people. He did it so smoothly, how could he not have psychological issues?
Those who awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan were like butterflies emerging from their cocoons, becoming truly deranged. If an Uchiha were to become Hokage, who knew if one day an Uchiha would become truly insane, have a sudden idea, and lead Konoha down a path of no return.
If someone told Tobirama Senju that the Uchiha were plotting an earth-shattering plan, a plan to save the world and maintain peace in the Ninja World, and had developed an unprecedented ninjutsu that could hang all the ninjas in the world on trees to have sweet dreams, thus achieving unprecedented peace for the Ninja World.
Then Tobirama Senju would definitely seriously consider what that person said and quickly investigate the Uchiha thoroughly.
After all, the Uchiha really might do something like that. Who knows, they were all insane.
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