Capítulo 117: Chapter 117 + 118
The next day.
"Master Tsunade, why did you become like this again?" Shizune looked at Tsunade, who had turned into a single ponytail and looked like a girl, and said in amazement.
You know, the reason why "Master Tsunade" became like this before was to avoid debt collection. But now they are going to meet that young man named Bai Ye, it is completely unnecessary.
"What do you know? The other party is a guy of unknown origin. If I go to see the other party in my original form, he will definitely know that I am the Fifth Hokage of Konoha Village. So how can we find out the news from the other party?" Tsunade said with a pointing tone.
"Okay, okay, Master Tsunade understands best." Shizune shook her head helplessly. As a secretary, it's better not to question her boss, who is still a big-chested, but narrow-minded, upright woman.
"By the way, Master Tsunade, even if we pass by like this, we won't be able to ask anything at all, right?" Shizune continued to ask.
You must know that even the stupidest spy cannot easily reveal his details. So, in Shizune's view, this trip is doomed to be useless.
"It's not us, it's me, so you don't have to go, and we don't need to find out the other party's details, as long as we know the other party's attitude towards Konoha." Having said this, Tsunade's expression became much more serious.
What happened recently made her very busy, and she didn't have much energy to take care of other things. After all, the enemy Konoha is facing now is the Akatsuki organization that makes the entire ninja world fear. As Konoha, who owns Nine Tails Jinchūriki, a battle with Akatsuki is inevitable.
So, if Bai Ye has no malice towards Konoha, even if the source is unknown, Tsunade will choose to give up investigating Bai Ye's specific news. Even if there is a chance, it would be even better to pull Bai Ye into Konoha's camp and fight against the Akatsuki organization together. With the strength shown by that man at that time, it is definitely far from being comparable to ordinary ninjas.
It's just that Tsunade also knows that this idea is basically impossible. Now that the ninja faces the Akatsuki organization, everyone is in danger, wishing that they have nothing to do with it, how could they easily stand on the opposite side of the Akatsuki organization?
By the way, speaking of the Akatsuki organization, Jiraiya went to the Land of Rain to inquire about news, why hasn't he come back yet? Thinking of this, Tsunade frowned slightly, feeling a sense of uneasiness in her heart.
"Master Tsunade, I received the information that the other party has come out of the hotel and is eating ramen at Uncle Ichiraku's." Shizune's voice sounded, interrupting Tsunade's thoughts.
Ramen? This guy is really carefree. Tsunade complained slightly in her heart.
"By the way, Master Tsunade, do you really not need me to go? If the other party has thoughts about you, then you are in danger," Shizune asked worriedly.
Although this appearance of Tsunade has lost its original biggest advantage, it still looks very pure and lovely. So if the other party really has unruly intentions, she will be in danger.
Tsunade rolled her eyes, "What strength do you have, and what strength do I have, do you have no idea? Give me back the danger."
"No, your task now is to finish processing the documents on my desk." After speaking, Tsunade turned and left.
Shizune was left petrified in place again.
"The ramen here is really good!" Bai Ye finished a bowl of ramen quickly and looked at Ichiraku.
It can only be said that it is Naruto's favorite ramen, and it tastes really good. After experiencing the devastation of Pain's Planetary Devastation, the fact that the Ichiraku ramen restaurant could reopen as if nothing happened is quite miraculous.
"Oh, as long as you like it," Uncle Ichiraku said with a smile. "By the way, I don't think I've seen you in Konoha before. Where did you come from?" Uncle Ichiraku asked curiously.
Bai Ye didn't expect that Tsunade's intelligence organization was so backward that even the owner of a ramen restaurant was inquiring about news. "Me? I came from a faraway place. The reason I came to Konoha was to see what the village established by two former ninja legends looked like. Now it seems that this is a very nice place."
Bai Ye's words clearly indicated he had no malicious intent towards Konoha. Indeed, Konoha had nothing that warranted his direct intervention. Nine Tails? Compared to JiuTomoe Rinnegan, Tenseigan, and the fruit of the sacred tree, it was insignificant. It couldn't arouse Bai Ye's interest at all.
Uncle Ichiraku understood the meaning behind Bai Ye's words, but he remained cautious. After all, who knew if this person from outside was telling the truth? "I'm full, thanks for the hospitality," Bai Ye said as he stood up from the chair and left Ichiraku's ramen shop. He felt a familiar figure approaching.
As for who that familiar figure was, it could only be described as someone with a remarkable characteristic and an interesting nickname, the legendary big fat sheep. Yes, quite fat.
With a touch of amusement, Bai Ye walked slowly, left Konoha Village, and came to a secluded woods outside the village. After so many days of rest, it was time to implement his plan. Bai Ye stood under a big tree, thinking to himself.
"Hi, big brother, what a coincidence, I saw you again," a surprised voice sounded behind Bai Ye. Bai Ye rolled his eyes, thinking how could this place be found by coincidence? But he didn't expose Tsunade's lie and turned around. After clearly seeing Tsunade's appearance, he pretended to be surprised and said, "It's really a coincidence, little sister. What's the matter with you coming to Konoha?"
"Me? I'm originally from Konoha Village, but big brother doesn't seem to be. Is there any particular reason you're here?" Seeing that Tsunade not only looked youthful but also spoke in a girlish tone, Bai Ye found it peculiar. Tsunade must be in her fifties by now, but this youthfulness was... unusual.
Shaking his head, Bai Ye understood the underlying inquiry in Tsunade's words and spoke directly. "I came to Konoha to tell you some news about Jiraiya."
"What did you say!" Tsunade's tone changed upon hearing Bai Ye's words. Her youthful appearance reverted to her original look, and she stared at Bai Ye intently. Bai Ye observed Tsunade and sighed, thinking she was indeed a renowned figure in the Blue Star Jōnin world in his past life, living up to her reputation. However, as someone who appeared in his twenties but was older than Tsunade, Bai Ye wasn't particularly affected.
"What did you say about Jiraiya!?"
Take the 'off the shelf' ones. Naturally, it refers to the existing forces in front of us. There is no need for Bai Ye to spend time, nor does he need to cultivate carefully. For example, currently, Tsunade is the Fifth Hokage. If it were Tsunade close to the period three years ago, Bai Ye would not have such thoughts.
But right now, Tsunade has nearly three years of experience as Hokage. Plus, Bai Ye consulted Tsunade's memory. Overall conclusion: In addition to "sometimes" like drinking, sleeping, sneaking, plus gambling and owing a lot of gambling debts, Tsunade is a good candidate.
After all, placed in Konoha, a village that relies entirely on "peers" to stand out, whether it's the dead Third Generation, or Danzo who is always coveting power, or the big families who are arguing for a little bit of power, you couldn't really find any suitable candidates because there is really nothing to choose from.
"Brother, judging by your appearance, you shouldn't be from Konoha, right? This outfit and that weapon, could it be a warrior from the 'Iron Country'?" In the shopping street, an uncle peddler suddenly raised his head and looked at Bai Ye and asked with a smile.
"Is this... the person Tsunade asked Shizune to send?" Bai Ye didn't answer directly. Instead, he felt that the breath fluctuations in the uncle ninja in front of him were not even as good as the Anbu ninjas scattered in Konoha who were in charge of monitoring. Bai Ye felt disturbed in his heart. Tsunade, this Hokage, seems to have no one under her who can be trusted.
But think about it too. Except for Shizune, who is a secretary and a part-time advisor and disciple, plus Kakashi, the Nara family counts as half. And the fact that there is a high probability of death in Pain's hands is also natural. Tsunade, Hokage, basically only has so many trustworthy people around her.
After all, even if you exclude Danzo and Anbu who are always coveting to seize Konoha's power, on the one hand, in the eyes of Hokage's senior veterans, Tsunade's status as Hokage is nothing more than that. Since she took office, she has been questioned constantly and has never stopped. Even though she has tried her best to establish a good relationship with other villages during negotiating activities and usually goes to Konoha's medical system to treat injured Konoha Shinobi patients from time to time. If not, it is also impossible for Danzo to easily obtain the support of Konoha's senior management later and act as the agent Hokage. He even went to participate in the "Five Kage Talks" as an agent of Hokage. But Tsunade is in a stressful situation right now. For Bai Ye, it couldn't be better.
At the same time, in Konoha Village, in a secret base, this is where the "roots" of the leaves are located. Roots are not the same as Anbu. If Anbu's task is to protect the entire Konoha Village and accept the leadership of the current Hokage, the root mission is the most shady assassination mission and only accepts the leadership of Danzo. It can be said that the root is Danzo's private power zone.
At this time, a man with a bandaged head and only one eye exposed stood in front of the table with a gloomy expression, as if he was thinking about something. This man is none other than Shimura Danzō. Recently, Danzo has been in a very bad mood, or rather, since Tsunade became Hokage, he has never been in a good mood. In Danzo's view, after the death of the Third Generation, according to his seniority, it should be his turn to become Hokage, but he did not expect Tsunade to become Hokage in the end. This made him very angry. In his opinion, the current Konoha, only he has the qualification to become Hokage.
"This old guy from the Third Generation, thanks to me for helping him so much," Danzo said in his heart. If the Third Generation could recommend him to be Hokage before his death, no one would dare to object. "No, we must find a way to solve Tsunade."
Danzo is not obsessed with Hokage's position. Moreover, if Tsunade is not resolved, at Tsunade's age, when Tsunade retires from the position of Hokage, I'm afraid he will die of old age. At that time, Hokage had nothing to do with him. However, Tsunade's strength is not weak, and it is not easy for him to get rid of Tsunade. He may even be discovered as the one who did it. In that case, let alone being a Hokage, he will be lucky if he is not wanted. So, he has to think of a way.
"Master Danzo." At this moment, a figure slowly emerged from the shadows. This is a ninja at the root.
"What's wrong?" Danzo withdrew his thoughts and said.
"Our base in the south of Konoha was destroyed, and all the ninjas in it were killed, and the Sharingan and first-generation cells used for experiments disappeared."
"What?" Danzo was furious after hearing this. Those Sharingan and first-generation cells were all collected by him through hard work. He didn't expect all of them to disappear. But soon, Danzo calmed down and asked, "Have you found out who did it?"
"No," Genbu Ninja said. "But according to my observation, that person should be very strong. Our people basically died without any resistance, and there are only sporadic traces of ninjutsu around, which shows that most of them were killed before they could unleash ninjutsu."
Hearing the words of his subordinates, Danzo narrowed his eyes and kept thinking in his heart. The ninjas at the root were personally cultivated by him, and everyone's strength was not weak, but they found it difficult to release ninjutsu. This was enough to illustrate the strength of the opponent.
"Could it be someone from the Akatsuki organization?" Danzo shook his head, denying the idea. After all, the people from the Akatsuki organization have been catching tailed beasts recently, and it is impossible for them to have the energy to destroy his laboratory.
"Or other ninja villages? It's impossible, except for the internal members of 'root', it should be impossible to leak the news to other villages."
After thinking for a while, Danzo couldn't figure out who it was. "Forget it, I'll go see it myself. He dares to do something to my things; this guy is really looking for death," Danzo said with a grim look.
"By the way, Master Danzo, the Fifth Hokage seems to be secretly investigating someone recently," the root ninja continued.
"Oh." Danzo became interested, "Who is it?"
Recently, he had been trying his best to get Tsunade to step down, so he had placed a lot of his own people around her.
"I'm not sure. It's said to be a black-haired, black-eyed young man with a knife on his waist, and he's very powerful. It's just that he doesn't know which village's ninja he is from. That's why the Fifth Hokage sent people to investigate."
"Very strong?" Danzo pondered for a while, and suddenly his expression changed, as if he had thought of something. "Did this guy do it? Hmph, I hope it's not you, otherwise I won't let you go." Danzo snorted coldly and continued, "You guys stay by Tsunade's side and let me know if there is any news."
"Understood, my lord," Anbu ninja nodded, and then his figure slowly disappeared.
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At the same time, in the Hokage building, Tsunade was sitting on the Hokage chair, dealing with various chores. Looking at the mountains of documents, Tsunade had a headache.
What she hated the most was dealing with these things, and it was for this reason that she had refused to be Hokage. But she didn't expect that she still wouldn't escape in the end.
"Master Tsunade," Shizune walked in. Seeing Shizune, Tsunade's eyes lit up. She stood up quickly and then pushed Shizune onto the Hokage chair. "Shizune, I'll leave these to you."
"Master Tsunade!" Looking at the document in front of her, Shizune's tone was very helpless. This was not the first time.
Shaking her head, Shizune stood up and said, "Master Tsunade, I'm here to report important news to you."
"Oh, what's the news?" Tsunade said indifferently. In her opinion, any news was not as important as dealing with this pile of documents.
"It's about the young man you were talking about."
"What? Did you find out about that person?" Hearing Shizune's words, Tsunade's expression became much more serious.
There was no way a strong man of unknown depth suddenly appearing in the Land of Fire couldn't catch her attention.
"Yes, according to the information, the young man is called Bai Ye, and he is currently living in a hotel in Konoha Village."
"In Konoha!" This news made Tsunade completely furious. If he'd just appeared in the Land of Fire, it could still be said to be passing by, but coming to Konoha at this time, he must have some purpose.
But Tsunade thought about it and felt something was wrong. If the other party really had some ulterior motive, it was impossible for people to easily notice his whereabouts.
"Is the other party acting strange?" Tsunade asked.
"No, that person hasn't come out since he checked into the hotel yesterday. He's just been looking around the village until today," Shizune said, a little curious at the same time. She felt that Master Tsunade seemed to be paying special attention to that young man named Bai Ye. Could it be that Tsunade-sama had fallen in love with that guy?
Well, it's really possible. After all, she had seen the portrait of the other party, and he was indeed very handsome. It's just that the other party seems to be in his twenties, and Master Tsunade... Uh, no, age is not a problem, as long as you truly love each other.
Hearing Shizune's words, Tsunade felt more and more that the other party had some ulterior motive. However, the opponent's strength was very strong, and it was true that they had not done anything to harm Konoha, so it was not easy to accuse him.
"Shizune, we'll go see him tomorrow, and I'll leave this pile of documents to you," Tsunade spoke and left the Hokage building directly.
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