Land of Rain, somewhere in a mine.
Obito threw the mask on the stone for the third time.
"Not important?" he roared, his voice bouncing around in the cave, "Black Zetsu, did you just say it wasn't important?"
Black Zetsu half rose from the ground and did not answer the call.
"Seven years! I controlled Yagura for seven years! Kirigakure's funds, ninja tools, intelligence network, and a whole Ninja Blade Unit--" Obito's one eye glowed red in the shadow, "Now it's all gone! It's all been taken over by something called Kirisame Ryo!"
"And the information I received three days ago was that the situation is temporarily stable."
Black Zetsu The black half of the face moved slightly.
"Kuga."
"Yes, Kuga." Obito sneered, "I raised him for six years before I died, and he finally sent me the message 'The condition is temporarily stable'."
"He should have been arrested." Black Zetsu said.
"I know he was caught!" Obito punched the stone wall, "The problem is - the other party caught him, didn't kill him, stayed offline, and in turn used him to send me fake news."
The cave became quiet.
"This is not what the Avengers do." Obito's voice suddenly lowered and slowed down, "If the Avengers would kill Kuga directly, they would directly burn the entire Kirigakure."
"The other party is sure that we will leave at this time, and that we will not go back after seeing the word 'temporarily stable'..."
Black Zetsu remains silent.
"Genji's Legacy Faction." Obito read these four words, and suddenly laughed again, and the laugh was ugly, "How can an old man who has been dead for so many years count that I am looking for Nagato at Land of Rain today?"
"... It doesn't make sense."
Black Zetsu finally spoke, "Maybe what Genji left behind is not just one person. Maybe it's a whole set of things. People, money, a list, and a group of children who are willing to die for him. Those who are left behind just need to carry out the plan."
"It doesn't take a genius to execute."
Obito stared at Black Zetsu for a long time.
"Maybe."
He picked up the mask and put it back on his face.
"Kirisame Ryo."
"I remember this name."
Black Zetsu watched his back disappear into the rain, his yellow eyes motionless in the darkness.
Genji...
When that old guy died, Black Zetsu was actually present. But what Black Zetsu saw, there should be only one Gonbei beside him, and there was no such Kirisame Ryo at all.
So when did Kirisame Ryo join Genji's Faction?
It was thinking as it slowly sank back into the ground.
Land of Fire, Konoha, Hokage's Office.
Tsunade put his feet on the table, holding a scroll in his hand, and frowned more and more.
"Kirigakure Is this... crazy?"
"Sister, put your feet down, Shizune is watching from the door." Senju Chen sat on the sofa opposite, peeling the oranges for her and placing them one by one on the plate.
Tsunade threw the scroll on the table, "Little Chen, Kirigakure, what do you think of this news?"
"Well..."
"Huh?" Tsunade glared at him, "The shadow of one of the five major villages is dead, and you just say 'huh'?"
"Sister, you know better than me what level of existence Karatachi Yagura has been in Shinobi World in recent years." Senju Chen pushed the plate over, "Kirigakure's Iron-Blooded Policy, the ninjas in my village cut each other, and the graduation exam was to kill classmates. If something happens to this kind of village, it's not an accident, it's sooner or later."
Tsunade grabbed a piece of orange and stuffed it into his mouth, closing his eyes with soreness.
"... Where did you buy these oranges?"
"Given by Food Is Heaven."
"It tastes good. Our restaurant is getting bigger and bigger." Tsunade smacked his lips and took the scroll back, "The point is not that Mizukage is dead. The point is the person who succeeded him."
"Kirisame Ryo."
"Yes, Kirisame Ryo." Tsunade poked at the three words on the scroll with his finger, "Intelligence Division searched for two days and found out what the heck. This person had a name on the Kirigakure Ninja Academy's file twenty years ago, Chunin Ninja Exams had a name, and then suddenly a few years ago he rose to the top from within High Tower."
"The intervening twelve years were completely blank, as if Kirigakure had been unknown."
The previous Kirisame Ryo was indeed ordinary and useless, but in the past few years, your brother and I have become the number one!
But Senju Chen couldn't tell the master directly, so he could only tentatively say, "I guess it's hidden."
"Well, he must have been secretly trained under Genji in the past few years." Tsunade rolled up the scroll, leaned back in his chair, and let out a long breath, "An old man who has been dead for many years has set up such a big scheme. I'm sorry. More than hundreds of Kekkei Genkai orphans hid seven Ninja Blades and buried one person in High Tower. Once it broke out, the entire Kirigakure changed its appearance within a few days."
"Little Chen, what do you think this is?"
After listening to Tsunade's words, Senju Chen didn't know where to complain.
"So... very patient?"
Tsunade glanced at him.
"That's it?"
"What does sister think this is?"
"I think this person is terrible. I'm not talking about Genji, but this Kirisame Ryo." Tsunade leaned forward and lowered his voice, "When I read this information, I was sweating all the time on my back."
"Why?"
"Because every step he made was very clean." Tsunade counted one finger at a time, "Don't move for five years. Then go to High Tower to get the power, and take out Mizukage's cronies one by one." "Accidental death'. Then on the same day, fighting started in the thirty-seventh place, all communications were cut off. Then he went into the forbidden area to kill Mizukage, and revealed that Mizukage was a puppet in front of Assassination Squad."
"Finally..."
She stopped.
"In the end, he did not directly take the throne." Tsunade said, "He pushed it once. The whole village knelt down to beg him, but he said 'I am not suitable'. He only accepted the second time, and it was only 'temporary'."
"Little Chen, do you know this skill?"
"Understood." Senju Chen said, "This way he is not a usurper, but was pushed up."
"Hey!" Tsunade stared at Senju Chen and smiled, "You understand so quickly?"
Senju Chen smiled and put the last piece of orange on the plate.
"Sister, were you promoted to the position of Hokage by someone, or were you snatched by yourself?"
Tsunade choked for a moment, then glared at Senju Chen fiercely.
"... I was brought up by you."
"So sister, you understand this and so do I."
Tsunade looked at him, suddenly laughed, and reached out to rub his hair.
"You boy."
"Sister, hair."
"Okay, okay." Tsunade took back his hand and sighed, "What bothers me the most is Council of Elders. Teacher Hiruzen said that he would take the initiative to send a mission to recognize the new Mizukage, Koharu the old woman said to wait and see, and Shikaku guy said both sides were reasonable, and then no one said anything."
"What do you think, sister?"
"I want to send someone." Tsunade tapped his fingers on the table, "Blood Mist is useless, and Kirigakure won't be able to stand up for at least many years. It's not a loss to reach out now. And -"
She paused.
"And what this Kirisame Ryo is doing seems quite comfortable to me."
Senju Chen raised his eyes. "Oh?"
"The first thing he did when he came to power was to abolish Blood Mist Policy. The second thing was to abolish the death-match graduation system. The latter included compensation for the survivors of the slaughtered families." Tsunade said with something in his voice, "He has Assassination Squad and more than hundreds of Avengers in his hands. He can kill anyone he wants. But he kept six elders and wanted to bring them to the trial stand for the whole village to listen."
"He's not out for revenge."
"He wants to set the rules."
Senju Chen lowered his head and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand. Senju Chen felt a little embarrassed by Tsunade.
"Sister, you think too highly of him."
"How to say?"
"Maybe he just... thinks it's more useful that way."
Tsunade was stunned for a moment, then laughed and scolded, "You kid, your mouth is getting more and more vicious."
She threw the scroll into the drawer, stood up and stretched.
"Forget it, no matter he is a saint or a hero, we are separated by a sea anyway. I will just mention it on Council of Elders tomorrow about sending a mission."
"Little Chen."
"Huh?"
"You think, how tolerant a person must be to lie beside his enemy for five years and say 'Yes, sir' in front of his enemy Tenten?"
Senju Chen stood in the shadow of the door frame and thought for two seconds.
"Probably, it's not difficult."
"Not difficult?"
"If he knew he would win in the end."
"Hahaha, you are right. As long as you firmly believe that you can win in the end, it doesn't matter if it takes another five years."
Tsunade glanced at Senju Chen, laughed, turned around and left.