The treaty had also had a tremendous impact in Konoha. Inside the Hokage Building, Namikaze Minato and Sarutobi Hiruzen exchanged bewildered looks.
"This kid Yuzhen sure has made a pretty big splash, hasn't he?" Minato remarked, his expression strange.
There was no helping it. Anyone who saw the treaty being established would be shocked.
So this was possible!
The treaty's terms—bleeding the loser dry with a dull blade—had opened their eyes!
"Made a big splash?" Sarutobi Hiruzen exhaled a puff of smoke and said with a flourish, "Konoha has always led the way in shaping the systems of the shinobi village era. This treaty is just another example. Don't worry about it!"
To him, a witness to the founding of the shinobi villages, the Ninja Academy, and Anbu, Uchiha Yuzhen's maneuver was perfectly normal!
It was just another instance of leading the Ninja World!
It was a pity,
that it wasn't the Hokage leading the way!
Still, when Sarutobi Hiruzen thought about how this achievement made Uchiha Yuzhen's becoming the next Hokage all but certain,
the only question was when he would take over. That depended on when Minato no longer wanted to be Hokage.
Thinking of this, Sarutobi Hiruzen shot the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato, an exasperated glance!
As an old fox,
he had long since noticed...
Ever since the boy at home, Naruto Uzumaki, had started growing up, Minato's focus had shifted more and more toward his family.
Whenever he decided his family mattered more, that Kushina and Naruto mattered more,
he would simply cast off the burden of being Hokage. To Sarutobi Hiruzen, that seemed perfectly plausible!
After all,
Minato's reputation as Konoha's biggest lovesick fool had been impossible to hide since his days at the Ninja Academy.
And the reason he had wanted to become Hokage