Early October.
Irori, who attended the funeral on behalf of Yayoi, returned from a visit to Konoha smoothly.
When she came back, she saw Yayoi's slightly resentful eyes.
"Master Yayoi, do I have anything on me?"
Irori looked down at his clothes, then raised his head and looked at Yayoi, seemingly confused as to why Yayoi looked at him like this.
"Oh, it's okay, Irori just come back."
Yayoi withdrew his resentful gaze.
There was also Komurasaki's snickering voice coming from the side, as well as Yaya's tearful and extremely distressed eyes.
After all, after Irori left during this period, Yayoi was really busy.
During the day, I often use Shadow Clone Technique to shoulder multiple tasks, including handling government affairs, practicing, and going to the laboratory. At night, I also have to satisfy the women of Inner Court who are like wolves and tigers.
Especially Hisana, this fierce miko who was born evil, relied on him to ask for help, and asked him to go there every night to learn the sacred Sealing Jutsu.
As a result, he was almost pickled by Sealing Jutsu for a while.
"Sir Yayoi, regarding the situation of Konoha, I have roughly understood it according to your instructions..."
Irori began to report the internal situation of Konoha to Yayoi.
Focus on reporting on the conflicts between the new Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Uchiha and other families.
This is the inevitable result. A new Hokage with serious lack of qualifications and abilities, just relying on the legacy of his predecessor Hokage, wants to easily become Hokage and be able to issue orders to the entire village and make everyone obey them. Think about it and know that it is impossible.
Yayoi listened quietly to Irori's report, nodding from time to time, and occasionally interjecting to ask questions to understand some of the details.
"This new Hokage seems to have a very clear mind and knows what the most important thing is for Konoha at this time."
Finally, Yayoi made this judgment on the current behavior of the new Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Facing the major ninja clans who wanted to decentralize power, Hiruzen Sarutobi delayed as long as he could, and focused all his energy on restoring the village's production and stabilizing the people's hearts. This is very rare.
In this situation, if Hiruzen Sarutobi makes the slightest mistake, the cost of managing Konoha will skyrocket, and his status as Hokage will be shaken.
Although he is still very young, Hiruzen Sarutobi clearly knows what his foundation as Hokage is.
It can only be said that successor, who was selected by Tobirama, has demonstrated superhuman calmness and wisdom in matters of right and wrong.
"He is indeed an excellent ninja. But when I left, Uchiha Clan over there was dancing very hard. I'm afraid it won't be long before Uchiha will take action."
Irori does not deny this, but no matter how good he is, he cannot make up for his lack of strength.
This is the biggest shortcoming of Hiruzen Sarutobi at present. It does not have convincing enough strength, which is very fatal in the world of ninjas.
"... a bunch of stupid guys, don't pay attention to them."
Yayoi was sorting through the documents in front of him, not optimistic about Konoha Uchiha's next actions.
According to Irori's report, Uchiha Clan vigorously promoted his sacrifice and achievements in the war in order to seize Hokage's position. It can only be said that he has some brains, but not much.
Sacrifice, achievement?
It can be said that once this kind of thing is publicized, Uchiha will offend the entire Konoha ninja clan.
Moreover, coupled with the problems left over from the past history, the mess left by Madara Uchiha has not been cleaned up yet, and they want to seek the position of Hokage...
The more Uchiha Clan forces Hiruzen Sarutobi, the more other ninjas will become Hiruzen Sarutobi's backing.
For a while, Yayoi didn't know whether Uchiha Clan of Konoha was Hiruzen Sarutobi's enemy or a friendly force.
Their approach will only accelerate Hiruzen Sarutobi's centralization of power and make Hiruzen Sarutobi's power more stable.
If he hadn't known the truth, Yayoi would have thought that Uchiha Clan of Konoha was actually Hiruzen Sarutobi's hidden ally.
Thinking of this, Yayoi couldn't help but shook his head, with disappointment in his eyes.
I thought that the Uchiha Clan of Konoha after the war would bring more conflicts to Konoha and significantly slow down the development speed of Konoha. Now it seems that he overestimated the ability of the Uchiha Clan over there.
If this family does not repair the relationship with the other Konoha families in time, I am afraid that the future will end...
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The war is over, but not completely over.
The wars between the major powers have indeed stopped, but local conflicts still exist.
In addition, conflicts between small countries have become more and more intense due to the loss of effective constraints.
For example, Yugakure and Frost Village, even if the Great Ninja Village completely withdraws from the battlefield and no longer provides any assistance, they are still fighting.
And in order to regain their strength, they began to plunder smaller and weaker countries, especially those surrounding countries that did not have the protection of ninja villages, which became delicious fat in their eyes.
Of course, the most intense battle is the battlefield between Land of Rain Amegakure and Land of Grass Kusagakure.
The cause of the matter is that after Konoha and Hidden Sand Village withdrew from the Land of Rain battlefield, the domestic Amegakure forces were extremely weak. Even the leader was murdered by unknown persons during the war, making the group leaderless.
Because of this, various Amegakure factions began to compete for power, hoping to use this to promote their own people and win the throne of Rain Ninja leader.
Under such a torn apart situation, Kusagakure did not miss this opportunity of God's help and directly dispatched 500 people with the name Jonin to enter Land of Rain.
Due to the split of Amegakure's forces, there was no unified voice, and there was another faction that became the leading party. Kusagakure's ninja troops were unstoppable and entered Land of Rain without any resistance, burning, killing, and looting.
They were not only robbing people like crazy to regain blood, but they were also frantically venting their inner humiliation.
The reason is that in the previous war, Iwagakure sent a thousand ninja troops into Land of Grass for military exercises.
However, in the name of the exercise, they actually plundered Land of Grass's resources and then dumped Land of Earth's products to Land of Grass.
Kusagakure and Land of Grass showed no resistance to this. Instead, they were extremely obedient and packaged domestic resources to Iwagakure. Domestic nobles and businessmen also fully accepted the goods dumped by Land of Earth, praising the conscience of Land of Earth.
In order to repay the conscience of Iwagakure and Land of Earth, Kusagakure decided to bring his conscience to Land of Rain and Amegakure, who were almost torn apart after the war.
They want to vent all the humiliation and anger they received from Iwagakure on Land of Rain.
...Land of Rain In the leaden sky, the rain pattered, as if the whole country was howling in sadness.
Under the torrential rain, dozens of Grass Ninjas were pushing the loading pallets, which were piled with various packaged materials, and were traveling on the muddy road without any hindrance.
Among the piled materials, many women and children in ragged clothes and numb expressions were tied up.
And behind these Grass Ninjas, there was a village burning in the rain.
There were no living people in the village, the useless old people, and the rebellious adult men were all buried in the fire. The air was filled with the smell of burnt meat. Only the women and children were well preserved.
These women and children can be used to trade with some businessmen engaged in special professions in exchange for a lot of money and materials.
They had just finished plundering all the supplies in the village, and they looked very proud and proud with smiles on their faces.
In a few words, they began to look forward to the next Land of Rain gathering place and how many things they could grab.
"Speaking of which, why don't we just keep some of these women? Speaking of which, I don't have a wife yet."
Some Grass Ninja stared at some women like hungry wolves.
"Idiot, these are important commodities. Especially the original ones inside. If they are even damaged, the value will be greatly reduced."
Grass Ninja Captain snorted coldly and reminded the people below not to think about what they have or not.
Some Grass Ninja who had some ideas had to give up some of their thoughts, thinking that after returning home, they could find a local custom shop to solve their physical problems.
As the country was torn apart, some special industries and evil forces sprung up like mushrooms after rain in the Land of Rain, blooming everywhere.
Even Daimyo and the nobles had no intention of governing the country and were discussing running away and taking refuge in other countries.
It can be said that Land of Rain is only one step away from collapse.
"To be honest, the weather in this country is really bad. It rains all day long. It's too troublesome to change clothes. I have to use Fire Release to dry clothes quickly."
Some Grass Ninja couldn't help but complain.
The other Grass Ninja also echoed, obviously they are not used to Land of Rain's abnormal weather.
If it wasn't profitable, they really wouldn't want to stay in a place with continuous heavy rains like this.
"Stop talking nonsense and transport your things back quickly. If you are discovered by Amegakure's patrol force, you will be in trouble."
Grass Ninja captain urged.
"Hey, didn't you say that all Amegakure ninjas surrendered?"
A Grass Ninja asked in confusion.
"Only some are cooperating with us, but there are also some hard-core resisters who are still fiercely resisting."
Grass Ninja captain answered.
The other Grass Ninja were a little surprised to hear that Rain Ninja was resisting, but they didn't take it to heart.
Amegakure has been reduced to this point. Even if there are ninjas who want to resist, it is impossible to threaten them.
As ninjas from small countries, they are very aware of the power of ninjas from small countries.
Of course, except for their neighbor Land of Night.
If the target of this attack is changed to Land of Night, Land of Grass will take the shape of Land of Night in less than three days.
"Captain, I think--"
A Grass Ninja didn't know what he was thinking of and wanted to make suggestions.
However, before he finished speaking, his voice stopped abruptly.
With a pop, the head rolled to the ground, and the mud-covered face still maintained the gesture of speaking.
The other Grass Ninja were stunned and shocked by this sudden scene.
They didn't see anything, and their companion's head rolled to the ground.
But their reaction was not slow. They quickly pulled out the Kunai from the ninja bag, and some assumed the Hand Seals pose, ready to release the Ninjutsu at any time.
"Who is it? Get out of here--"
Captain Grass Ninja asked loudly, his sharp eyes swept around, holding Ninja Blade in his right hand, looking for traces of the enemy.
Then, he noticed something and suddenly looked up at the sky.
Amidst the dense raindrops pouring down, a figure fell from the sky.
Her long, light yellow hair was flying in the air, and her face was covered with a weird gas mask, revealing a pair of black eyes without any emotion.
The weapon in his hand is a sickle connected to an iron chain, like a messenger of death coming to the world.
Poof!
The scythe fell together with the figure, flashing a bright light in the air, and cut Captain Grass Ninja in half neatly, blood and internal organs sprayed out.
"Ahhhhhh!"
"Damn it! He killed the captain!"
"Kill him!"
Seeing the captain being beheaded, the Grass Ninjas yelled wildly, and while roaring, tears flowed out. It was not anger, but fear and despair.
Because the captain Grass Ninja who was killed instantly was the only Jonin in their team.
But just as they were about to make a move, the earth suddenly shook.
Rumble.
Rumble.
Something is about to break out of the ground.
Grass Ninja They lowered their heads and looked down. Before they could identify what it was, they saw a bottomless darkness, followed by squeezing and contraction, and the bones and flesh suffered unparalleled pain.
They were swallowed by something.
There is no doubt that this is a huge Summoning Beast.
The tan skin is covered with irregular bumps, and the feet are flexible to move on Rain Fields.
As the giant beast ran, it knocked all the nearby Grass Ninja away, or crushed them beneath them and turned them into pulp.
At the same time, slimy licking, the crisp sound of broken bones, and screams and wails that never stopped breathing came from the mouth of this Summoning Beast.
Blood and human body residue leaked out from the corners of Summoning Beast's mouth.