The Only Effective Path to Strength / Konoha Isn't the Only One Capturing Tailed Beasts

Seeing Bi nodding incessantly, Uchiha Shingen found himself at a loss for words.

This person's personality seems too similar to that of Uchiha Tekka.

"Tekka." Uchiha Shingen looked at his close friend beside him, "I'm entrusting the probationary period to you. You must follow the rules, but you can't deliberately make things difficult for others."

Uchiha Tekka: "???"

After a brief moment of doubt, he became excited.

He's finally here! His first solo mission as the Kage Guard!

Overjoyed, Uchiha Tekka's gaze towards Bee also became fervent.

As for Bi, after feeling the burning gaze of the Kage Guard beside him, he began to consider something.

He felt it necessary to tell the Fifth Hokage that he had no interest in men.

But...

"Lord Hokage, please rest assured, I will definitely cooperate fully with this brother!"

No, no, it's too early now. Let's wait until he's made some contributions before we can discuss replacing him.

Chapter Thirty-Five: The Only Effective Path to Becoming Stronger

Having dealt with two Jinchūriki Uchiha Tekka, Uchiha Shingen was in a good mood.

Because Tekka is a good friend after work, but a nuisance during work hours.

The position of Kage Guard is actually quite awkward.

A powerful ninja organization is often led by a leader with exceptional personal combat skills, a fact particularly evident in the Five Great Ninja Villages.

Among the five great ninja villages, Konohagakure (Hidden Leaf Village) is the most typical example, being the stronghold of the boss.

Take the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, who grew up in the same era as the previous Hokage, resulting in a significant difference in his status, as an example. Although his title as the strongest Hokage became a joke due to changes in his character settings on Blue Star, in this world, Sarutobi Hiruzen in his prime, while not a god, was truly a monster.

From the very beginning, the Kage Guard were not meant to protect the Hokage.

To put it bluntly, in terms of authority, they are merely the Hokage's firewall, serving as an early warning system when the Hokage is slacking off.

In practice, it became an excellent tool for the Hokage to arrange relationships with their cronies.

After all, having the experience of being Kage Guard makes it much easier for the Hokage to assign positions.

When Uchiha Shingen recruited Uchiha Tekka and Uchiha Inabi to serve Kage Guard, it was essentially the same idea.

In Uchiha Shingen's view, having Uchiha Tekka monitor a former Cloud Ninja was the perfect use of his talents, and the most suitable assignment could be.

If someone can withstand the grinding of Tekka, it means they genuinely want to join Leaf Village and aren't just dabbling.

If you can't handle it, you can quit halfway through and pull out the Eight-Tails; that would be perfectly legitimate.

It wasn't that he underestimated Uchiha Tekka; there really weren't many outsiders who could get along well with Uchiha Tekka.

Well, he has finally discovered the correct way to use Uchiha Tekka, congratulations!

This is just the beginning. Now that the collection of the Tailed Beasts has begun, it will not be abandoned halfway. He believes that Uchiha Tekka is an extremely serious and responsible man who will definitely play an irreplaceable role in this plan.

As for Fu, she was a proper guest, Uchiha Shingen entrusted her to the Uzumaki Clan for hospitality.

Even the Hokage is human, so he's bound to have biases, but he can't make it so obvious.

Even though the second brother looked down on the Uchiha Clan back then, he still knew to open the door for the Uchiha Clan to make extra money.

After asking all irrelevant people to leave, Uchiha Shingen sat down again and began to read the documents in peace.

The usual routine: the secretarial department has already categorized all the documents for him; all he needs to do is create Shadow Clone and review the documents in different categories.

Not only because he was physically strong and could carry the load, but more importantly, Uchiha Shingen had adopted a tiered review system, so there weren't as many documents left for him.

During Namikaze Minato's era, the Hokage had to review more documents than any other generation. As a result, the Yellow Flash preferred to work overtime rather than use Shadow Clone to review documents. There was no other way; he didn't have a team at the beginning and had to centralize authority. Even when he did have one later, the scale was limited and still not enough for him to fully delegate authority.

The Hokage, being from a ninja clan, would have some advantage in this regard.

In less than half an hour, Uchiha Shingen's main body had finished reviewing the documents he had accumulated.

"Inabi, please take this opportunity to deliver these documents to the budget office."

Uchiha Shingen gathered the documents and handed them to Uchiha Inabi, who was standing to the side.

Although they were the ones who caused a ruckus in the streets back then, Uchiha Inabi's personality was probably the most stable among them, and he was quite good at his office work.

Even Uchiha Shingen couldn't guarantee he could control his temper every time; he still had a flaw in this area, which was masked by his exceptional strength—after all, once he lost his temper, the opponent was most likely dead.

But Uchiha Inabi was different; he could truly suppress his temper.

Of course, Uchiha Inabi claimed that he had to train hard because his companions were generally short-tempered, so Uchiha Shingen thought that he must be talking about Uchiha Tekka and had nothing to do with him.

Uchiha Inabi took the documents and left, while the other Shadow Clone continued to review them.

Ninja villages are not dedicated administrative institutions. For the Hokage, the truly important matters are financial operations and various military activities.

When Uchiha Shingen Hokage, he simply delegated all miscellaneous matters, except for personnel matters, to a few advisors through a process of entrustment and authorization.

That's insane! Why does the Hokage have to Hokage every single little thing? What's the point of having such a large advisory team?

As for the various internal squabbles, that has even less to do with him as Hokage; that's the job of the assistant Hokage and advisors.

And speaking of shadow assistants...

A new Hokage is needed to assist him!

Uchiha Shingen stood up and instantly teleported to the rooftop.

Give your eyes a rest.

Standing on the edge of the rooftop, Uchiha Shingen gazed at the street scene, which was completely different from what it had been ten years ago. He couldn't help but recall some things.

Back then, every morning when he woke up, he could only see the outline of the Hokage Rock.

As a result, he now sleeps under the Hokage Rock Tenten, and his face is covered in smears.

This is really bad.

The arrival of Fu and Bi means that all four Tailed Beasts he now possesses Chakra from have gathered in Hidden Leaf Village, and it's time to add new members to his Chakra pool.

This encounter with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki made him realize his shortcomings quite clearly.

The gap between me and that level is still too large.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki needs to be polished; what would happen if a stronger, fully-fledged Ōtsutsuki Clan came along?

We can't rely on Kaguya Otsutsuki for everything, or Kaguya Otsutsuki will become a problem.

Although Kaguya Otsutsuki enjoys watching anime and eating various snacks now, she is still a "carnivore".

Whether she becomes the boss depends on the value she places on the Ninja World.

This time it was alright, otherwise Kaguya Otsutsuki would probably have unleashed her ultimate attack.

Using the Chakra of the Nine Tailed Beasts as an external condition to further enhance the Sage Body is an unshakeable path, and it is also the only fastest way for Uchiha Shingen to become stronger.

The Hokage's room shouldn't take up too much of his time.

Routine work hours must be minimized as much as possible.

Just then, the Shadow Clone's feedback arrived.

Uchiha Shingen took out his pocket watch and checked the time—don't misunderstand, he wasn't keeping track of time; he was checking the meeting time.

Ten more minutes to slack off.

The Hokage's job consists of reviewing documents, attending meetings, and fighting. As for the time each takes up... just look at Namikaze Minato to find out.

Learning from past mistakes, Uchiha Shingen decided to become an unconventional Hokage.

The Hokage's life is so miserable, Namikaze Minato is enough.

However, he felt that Namikaze Minato was actually quite suitable to be the Hokage's assistant.

Chapter Thirty-Six: It's Not Just Leaf Village Capturing Tailed Beasts

Can the selection of the Hokage's assistant be manipulated? Of course.

The premise is that the arrangement is well-intentioned. For example, if the candidate is the universally loved and admired Fourth Hokage, then there will be no problem at all.

If Namikaze Minato had actively run for Hokage's assistant, he would probably have had a smoother Hokage than when he actually ran for Hokage.

Uchiha Shingen was a decent human being; he didn't immediately bring Namikaze Minato back to work, since Minato had already retired internally.

However, the Fourth Hokage of Leaf Village is really too oblivious; he seems to genuinely believe he's retired.

This week alone, I've missed three meetings. Except for the last one, which was somewhat understandable, the first two were definitely intentional attempts to avoid them.

Shouldn't we strike hard? Give him a full-on attack package?

Having made up his mind, Uchiha Shingen happily went to the meeting right on time.

While Uchiha Shingen was quietly preparing to launch his plan to fill the gaps in his Shadow Support system, far away on the southwestern coast of the Land of Tea, a Tailed Beasts also completed its resurrection.

Hagoromo Otsutsuki of Sage of Six Paths, is the Ōtsutsuki Clan who brought the greatest changes to this world.

He was not only the founder of the Chakra training system, but also forced nine big guys into the natural ecosystem of this world.

In the beginning, the Tailed Beasts never actually had the chance to experience what it felt like to be killed.

After the deaths of Indra and Ashura, the power of humanity plummeted. Their offspring were initially not numerous, and their individual strength was limited, insufficient to kill wild Tailed Beasts.

The Senju of the Forest and Uchiha Clan, who later became dominant figures in the Ninja World, grew up during the Warring States period.

The experience of the Tailed Beasts dying suddenly also began in the Warring States period.

Isobu was the first to die suddenly during the Kunimura period.

Its appearance is that of a turtle covered in thorns with three tails. To be honest, its appearance is not very friendly, and no one would find it cute. They would only think of it as a very violent and ferocious monster.

However, Isobu is a Tailed Beasts with an overly docile temperament.

No, it should be described as a Tailed Beasts that loves to sleep.

The Nine Tailed Beasts all have completely different personalities, and it's perfectly normal for the Isobu to enjoy sleeping.

However, as the number of strong humans gradually increased, it became difficult for the Isobu to maintain this hobby.

For example, right now.

Terumi Mei, the Fifth Mizukage of Kirigakure, had been waiting here for a long time.

The current Five Kage have three fifth-generation leaders.

However, almost no one in the Ninja World compares the three Fifth Hokage, and the reasons for this are well known.

However, compared to the Hokage next door, Terumi Mei, the Fifth Hokage, does have something in common—she was also forced into the role.

Karatachi Yagura's death was too sudden.

The Fourth Shinobi World War was a very contradictory matter for Kirigakure.

On the one hand, they successfully eliminated internal instability and resources were no longer scarce; on the other hand, the cost was too high.

They lost a skilled Mizukage and two Tailed Beasts.

The Jinchūriki of the Six-Tails was terrified by the Fifth Hokage's power and fled the battlefield.

This is different from before. There are a lot of people in the Hidden Mist Village who left because they were dissatisfied with the policies of the Bloody Mist Village, so it is still possible to discuss the matter.

But to simply run away on the battlefield is simply unacceptable.

Terumi Mei Fifth Mizukage, she immediately declared Utakata a missing-nin and dispatched numerous ANBU to search for the whereabouts of the Isobu.

Persistence pays off. Having searched before, the Mist Ninja were familiar with the procedures and successfully detected the Chakra reaction indicating the impending revival of the Tailed Beasts in the waters off the Land of Tea.

Therefore, the first person Isobu resurrection was Terumi Mei.

"Isobu, come back with me." Terumi Mei looked at the giant tortoise in front of her, her tone very firm.

For Kirigakure, they can lose Saiken, but they cannot lose Isobu.

But from Isobu's perspective, it's not that simple.

Kirigakure cannot cultivate Jinchūriki of Tailed Beasts.

Isobu wasn't preoccupied with thoughts of how to kill the Jinchūriki; his love of sleeping contributed the majority of his urges.