Kenichi's Visit

The small building that housed the Scroll of Seals was one of Konoha's greatest treasures. It held countless Ninjutsu and Forbidden Techniques, a legacy more valuable than all the classified information in the Hokage Building.

Fugaku's Mangekyo Sharingan swept across the surrounding buildings. Figures hid in every corner. Anyone who wanted to enter and read the scrolls needed the Hokage's permission, but in Fugaku's view, Konoha had yet to discover the Scroll of Seals' true value.

By learning the Flying Thunder God Technique from it, Minato Namikaze had become the Yellow Flash, striking fear into Kumogakure's AB brothers and making Iwagakure think twice about facing him.

Orochimaru had studied the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and other material within it, then developed Living Corpse Reincarnation, which let him change bodies and remain forever young.

Kabuto Yakushi had refined Orochimaru's Impure World Reincarnation. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, he had dealt the Allied Forces devastating losses and become a force no one could ignore.

Now, many of the Forbidden Techniques inside were gathering dust, and Konoha was gradually forgetting their value. They probably would not shine again until more than a decade later, when the Fourth Hokage burst onto the scene and mastered Flying Thunder God.

For now, the future Fourth Hokage was just a child who had not even entered the Ninja Academy.

Fugaku quietly withdrew. Once Pangolin dug its way to his bedroom, he would have to bring it here to learn the route so it would not dig to the wrong place.

As dawn broke, his three disciples assembled at the appointed time. Fugaku nodded. "Your performance on this assessment mission did not satisfy me. For a Ninja, the slightest carelessness in battle can cost you your life.

"The traps laid by those Kirigakure Ninja were not complicated,