Konoha, Year 20.
In a dense jungle, a group of people were catching their breath, clearly having just finished a fierce battle.
Tobirama Senju looked at his disciples, all disheveled, their clothes tattered, and several of them injured.
He, who was wise his whole life, had made a foolish mistake! To be ambushed at the negotiation table after the Ninja World War had ended!
And damn the Raikage, how did he manage his subordinates? He didn't know anything about a coup brewing beneath him?
Even if his own ninjas were difficult to control, they couldn't be as difficult as those hereditary lunatics from the Uchiha clan. Yet, I had them completely under my thumb!
They were truly a bunch of brutish simpletons, lacking any intelligence.
But it was useless to curse the Raikage now, as he himself had been killed by those two rebellious traitors, 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 would be no problem, but he had a bunch 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, one person must draw away Kinkaku and Ginkaku's elite troops, but the outcome for that person..."
Tobirama Senju's expression was grave. He didn't finish his sentence, as the outcome was obvious: a dead end.
Silence followed his words. No one spoke, as no one wanted to sacrifice themselves.
A few seconds later, Hiruzen Sarutobi spoke, his voice filled with resolve:
"I'll go!"
Tobirama Senju looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi, and beneath his serious expression, a slight curve appeared at the corner of his mouth.
At this moment, Danzo 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 bait. You are all the future inheritors of the Will of Fire, who will protect the village."
Tobirama Senju's words caused a huge stir. Everyone present pleaded with him to reconsider. Trading Tobirama Senju's life for theirs? Their lives were too precious for that.
Especially Danzo, whose hands and legs stopped trembling. He immediately stepped forward, wanting to be the bait and die in Tobirama Senju's place.
However, there wasn't much time for Danzo to put on a show. Tobirama Senju's few critical words instantly suppressed Danzo, and then he said to Hiruzen Sarutobi:
"Monkey, protect those who admire the village and trust you, and train them to be the ones who can be entrusted with the next era."
"Starting tomorrow, you will be the Hokage!"
"Monkey, Konoha is in your hands."
At this moment, in Konoha.
Uchiha Clan Compound
Inside the room, the young man clasped his hands together, muttering incantations.
"Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Jade Emperor, Jesus."
"It's time to show your divine power, bless me to draw a gold prize 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 draw white again on such a joyous occasion."
Uchiha Nan looked at the large turntable before him, anticipating a surprise from this month's draw.
As a transmigrator, this turntable was Uchiha Nan's trump card for survival in the dangerous world of Naruto.
Aside from the beginner's gift package upon arrival, which gave him three Mangekyo Sharingan experience coupons, each lasting one day, the rest was the turntable lottery.
There was a fixed draw once a month, and completing tasks issued by the turntable could increase the number of draws.
The turntable's prize pool was vast and varied. Based on his explorations over the past decade, the prizes were divided into five types: white, green, red, orange, and gold.
White corresponded to daily necessities, like clothes, shoes, stools, and milk.
Green corresponded to ninja tools, like kunai, shuriken, and exploding tags.
Red represented Ninjutsu, encompassing all kinds, from forbidden techniques to ordinary Shadow Clones.
Orange represented Kekkei Genkai, such as Byakugan, Wood Release, Ice Release, Magnet Release, Lava Release, and so on.
The gold prize pool contained the highest-tier treasures of the Naruto world: Mangekyo Sharingan, Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Sage Body, perfect Sage Mode, and Chakra Fruit.
Having transmigrated for sixteen years, Uchiha Nan's draws usually hovered between white and green. Drawing a red was as joyous as a festival, he had only drawn orange once, and gold was something Uchiha Nan didn't even dare to dream of.
"Ding-dong, welcome host to draw!"
Uchiha Nan clicked the draw button, and a crisp sound rang out. The massive turntable lit up, and the needle spun. There were over a thousand grids in total, with white occupying a large portion, green interspersed among the white, red dotted among the red like red points, orange was very few, and gold only occupied one or two grids. If you didn't look closely, you couldn't even see them.
"Gold, draw gold!"
"Give me gold!!!"
Uchiha Nan's eyes turned red. His three-tomoe Sharingan stared intently at the spinning needle, his fist clenched so tightly that his fingers turned slightly white.
"Damn it, green!"
"Three Exploding Tags."
Uchiha Nan sighed. It was as he expected, always white or green.
Exploding tags were fine. An exploding tag was quite expensive, and selling them for money would be good, Uchiha Nan consoled himself.
There's no chance of getting gold through luck alone. Uchiha Nan didn't think he had the fate of an Emperor of Luck, so he had to rely on himself.
Uchiha Nan clicked on the task interface released by the turntable. It displayed a long-term mission, a mission released by the turntable from the day Uchiha Nan officially became a ninja.
Mission: Become the Hokage of Konoha.
Reward: One turntable gold reward lottery chance.
Now was the best opportunity to complete this long-term mission.
Born during the time Tobirama Senju was Hokage, it was impossible to become Hokage through formal channels.
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 emblem on his clothes, the tomoe in his eyes, just looking at them would remind Tobirama Senju of Madara Uchiha, that old man. Madara Uchiha was a lunatic.
Every member of the Uchiha clan who awakened the Sharingan had psychological problems.
Including Uchiha Nan himself. He had been practicing killing ninjutsu since he was young.
He graduated and became a ninja at six years old, then went on missions, wielding kunai to chop people. He was disturbingly good at it. How could he not have some psychological problems?
Those who awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan were even more so, breaking cocoon to become a butterfly, becoming lunatics. If an Uchiha were to truly become Hokage, who knew if one day an Uchiha would produce a real lunatic, who would suddenly have a brilliant idea and lead Konoha down a path of no return.
If someone told Tobirama Senju that the Uchiha were plotting a shocking plan, that to save the world and maintain ninja world peace, they 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 consider what that person said seriously and quickly investigate the Uchiha thoroughly.
After all, the Uchiha might really do something like that. Who knew, they were all lunatics.
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